Planète+ Thalassa was a French TV channel, owned by

Canal+ Group Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flow und ...

France Télévisions France Télévisions (; stylized since 2018 as ) is the French national public television broadcaster. It is a state-owned company formed from the integration of the public television channels France 2 (formerly Antenne 2) and France 3 (form ...

. It is part of Planète+ channels. The channel has stopped on 1 January 2016 after that France Télévisions and the CANAL+ Group agreed to close the channel.

History

On 15 September 1999 the channel was launched with the name of Planète 2. On July 2002,

and

signed a contract for the launch of a TV channel, showing programs based upon the famous French program

Thalassa Thalassa (; grc-gre, Θάλασσα, Thálassa, sea; Attic Greek: , ''Thálatta'') was the general word for 'sea' and for its divine female personification in Greek mythology. The word may have been of Pre-Greek origin. Mythology According t ...

, which has been broadcast on

France 3 France 3 () is a French free-to-air public television channel and part of the France Télévisions group, which also includes France 2, France 4, France 5 and France Info. It is made up of a network of regional television services provi ...

since 1975 . This new channel replaced Planète 2 on 1 November 2002. Because of the addition of + letter on Canal+'s thematic channels, Planète Thalassa became Planète+ Thalassa on 17 May 2011 as well as the other Planète + channels. The channel closed his gates on the 1st day of 2016. It is because of the Découverte (Discovery) thematic too strong that

CANAL+ Canals or artificial waterways are waterways or engineered channels built for drainage management (e.g. flood control and irrigation) or for conveyancing water transport vehicles (e.g. water taxi). They carry free, calm surface flo ...

decided together to close the channel. The CANALSAT (now known as CANAL) subscribers can still watch the other Planète + channels from channel 80 to 83. Television stations in France Defunct television channels in France MultiThématiques Television channels and stations established in 1999 Television channels and stations disestablished in 2016 1999 establishments in France {{france-tv-station-stub