By Stuart Thomson
French international network TV5Monde has signed a new distribution partnership to bring its streaming service TV5MONDEplus to Roku users in a number of territories.
The TV5MONDEplus app will begin to roll out on Roku streaming devices, starting with France, Germany, Mexico, the UK and the US, with additional countries to come.
It will be jointly marketed in each local territory by TV5Monde and Roku.
Roku is the number one-ranked TV streaming platform in the US, Canada, and Mexico by hours streamed.
Consumers can select from a variety of products including streaming players, audio devices such as Roku Streambars, wireless speakers, and wireless subwoofers, and Roku TV models.
TV5MONDEplus features content subtitled in up to six languages – Arabic, English, French, German, Romanian and Spanish – from partners including SRC (Société Radio Canada), Télé Quebec, TV5 Québec Canada, RTS (Radio Télévision Suisse), RTBF (Radio Télévision Belge Francophone) France Télévisions and TV5MONDE SAS.
