On 14 November 1992, Planète Câble became available by satellite as part of the 4 initial basic channels of the CanalSatellite bouquet.

[2] The channel was exported in Poland on 4 December 1996, and in Italy and Germany in 1997[3] (in Spain, Canal+ created Documanía in 1993).

[5][6] Its authorization delivered on 10 June 2003 was cancelled by a Conseil d'État's decision on 20 October 2004, on the grounds that Lagardère Active and Groupe Canal+ jointly controlled Lagardère Thématiques and multiThématiques, whereas a single group is only entitled to hold a maximum of seven national DTT authorisations, and five at the time of the deliberations.

[7] Both groups divested their cross-shareholdings in January 2005 while Planète reapplied in December 2004 and got its terrestrial licence back.

[12] In 2014, the pay DTT channels Planète+, LCI and Paris Première auditioned to be allowed to become free, but they were all refused in June.

The CSA asserted against Planète+ that ‘maintaining the current method of financing would not lead to the disappearance of this service, either in the short or medium term’ (unlike LCI) and that a move to free DTT would have ‘affected RMC Découverte’ and its offering being 'too close to the channels of the France Télévisions group or the Arte service'.

[21] In December 1997, its first sister channel Planète Forum was launched at a time of strong competition with TPS which had Odyssée.

On 13 November 2013, Planète+ Justice and Planète+ No Limit became respectively Planète+ CI and Planète+ A&E in association with American programme publisher A&E Networks.