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| Country | United Kingdom |
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| Headquarters | Amsterdam,Netherlands |
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| Picture format | 1080iHDTV (downscaled to16:9576i for theSDTV feed) |
| Timeshift service | Discovery Science +1 |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Warner Bros. Discovery |
| Parent | Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA |
| Sister channels | List
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| History | |
| Launched | 1 October 1998; 27 years ago (1998-10-01) |
| Closed | 9 March 2022; 3 years ago (2022-03-09) (Russia) 5 January 2024; 21 months ago (2024-01-05) (Central / Eastern Europe, Central Asia, MENA, Africa, and Turkey Excluding Poland) 26 February 2024; 19 months ago (2024-02-26) (France) |
| Replaced by | TLC (France) |
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Discovery Science is apay television network, operated byWarner Bros. Discovery EMEA. It targets severalEuropean countries' television markets. It primarily features programming in the fields ofspace,technology andscience. The channel originally launched asDiscovery Sci-Trek. Its programming is mainly inEnglish and locallysubtitled ordubbed. It is available through numerous subscription services across Europe. In some countries the advertisement and the announcements between programs are localized.
Discovery Science, alongsideDTX, ceased broadcasting in Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East on 5 January 2024. The channel started to be removed from the TV operators from 1 January 2024.[1][2][3][4] However, the channel continues to broadcast in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Poland, the Nordic region and the Netherlands.
On 19 August 1998, Discovery announced they would launch several new digital channels to coincide with the launch ofSky Digital platform, one of which would beDiscovery Sci-Trek, a UK version of theDiscovery Science Channel in the United States. However, despite early plans to launch it under the US name, the channel went on air as Discovery Sci-Trek on 1 October 1998.[5]
The channel later saw launches in other European countries, and eventually the channel rebranded as theDiscovery Science Channel on 1 April 2003.[6][7]
In April 2008, the channel's name was shortened to simplyDiscovery Science, which was followed by the launch of a one-hour timeshift service on 21 April 2008 in the United Kingdom, located onSky 549, which replaced a placeholder 90-minute timeshift ofDiscovery Channel, known asDiscovery +1.5.[8]
On 24 January 2013, Discovery channels returned onNumericable in France.[9] In December 2016,Altice acquired an exclusivity agreement withNBCUniversal and Discovery Networks.[10][11] Discovery Channel, Discovery Science and Investigation Discovery were removed fromCanal+ on 17 January 2017.[12] The channel (along withDiscovery Channel) had high shares (0,5% in 2014, 0,4% in 2016[13]) before have been removed from Canal+.[14]
On 9 March 2022, Discovery Inc. closed Discovery Science in Russia due toRussia's invasion of Ukraine.[15]
In February 2024, it was announced that the channel would be replaced byTLC in France from 26 February 2024.[16]
Throughout its life as the Discovery Sci-Trek Channel, the channel used an image of the rings of Saturn as its logo and in idents. When relaunching as the Discovery Science Channel, it became a stylised molecule, with the Discovery Channel globe as one of its atoms.
Since then, the channel had followed its United States counterpartThe Science Channel, currently known as 'Science', in logo trends. In March 2008, Discovery Science adopted a modified version of the periodic table logo used from 2007, and in 2012, the channel adopted the new 'Morph' logo introduced in 2011.
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