Heavyweight international broadcaster Canal Plus has extended and expanded its tie-up with Samsung Electronics.
This collaborative effort between the two firms now extends, for the first time, across both the English-speaking and Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa that are served by the MultiChoice Group (which Canal Plus now owns, as of last September).
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The tie-up entails the MultiChoice streaming service, DStv Stream, being made available for the first time on Samsung's Smart TV range across the aforementioned African markets.
From a sports point of view, this will mean that Canal Plus' significant range of top-tier rights becomes immediately available to Samsung Smart TV owners. This inventory includes soccer's ongoing 2026 FIFA World Cup, in which 10 African nations are competing.
It also covers other premium soccer competitions, such as England's Premier League, and domestic and international rugby competitions.
DStv Stream is now a pre-installed app on Samsung Smart TVs across 18 new African countries – this number includes South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, and Zimbabwe.
The existing tie-up between Canal Plus and Samsung, last added to in February 2025, already stretches across 40 territories in Europe, Asia, and French-speaking Africa.
David Mignot, chief executive of Canal+ Africa and of the MultiChoice Group, has said: "As viewing habits continue to evolve rapidly across the continent, strengthening the accessibility and discoverability of our content offer on connected devices is key.
"By expanding the availability of our applications on Samsung Smart TVs across key African markets, we are making it even easier for millions of MultiChoice Group’s subscribers to seamlessly access the content that defines the uniqueness of [the] Canal+ and MultiChoice Group experience."
The African sides taking part in the 2026 World Cup are Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, Ghana, Cape Verde, South Africa, Senegal, Ivory Coast, and DR Congo.
Earlier this month, meanwhile, Canal Plus agreed a deal with World Rugby to acquire rights to the 2027 men’s Rugby World Cup and 2029 women’s edition across Sub-Saharan Africa.
Through the agreement, the World Cups will be shown on the SuperSport pay-television sports broadcaster and the DStv platform and GOtv pay-TV terrestrial service.
