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| Country | Italy |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Italy San Marino Vatican City Switzerland |
| Programming | |
| Languages | Italian, Original |
| Picture format | 1080iHDTV |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA |
| Sister channels | Nove DMAX Food Network Frisbee Giallo HGTV K2 Motor Trend Real Time |
| History | |
| Launched | 1 September 1997; 28 years ago (1997-09-01) |
| Replaced | Warner TV (Italian version) |
| Closed | 1 July 2025; 4 months ago (2025-07-01)(+1 timeshift version) |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Digital terrestrial television | Channel 37 |
| Tivùsat | Channel 37 |
| Streaming media | |
| Discovery+ | Discovery Channel HD |
Discovery is an Italian television channel, owned byWarner Bros. Discovery Italia.
Discovery Channel was launched on 1 September 1997 on the pay-television platforms TELE+ Digitale andStream TV and has been exclusive toSky Italia since its launch in 2003. With the launch of Sky Italia, Discovery quickly branched out by launching the additional channelsDiscovery Travel & Adventure,Discovery Science andDiscovery Civilisation Channel, followed byAnimal Planet andDiscovery Real Time in 2005.
The present Discovery Channel logo was adopted on 9 April 2019.
A timeshifted version of the channel, called Discovery Channel +1, started on 10 November 2008.[1][2]
A high-definition simulcast of Discovery Channel started on 20 July 2009.[3] It was the first channel fromDiscovery EMEA to be simulcasted in both SD and HD.
The sisters channelsDiscovery World,Discovery Travel & Living andAnimal Planet respectively closed on 1 March 2016 (Discovery World; 11 August 2008, as Discovery Civilisation Channel) and 1 February 2019 (Discovery T&L and Animal Planet).
From 1 July 2021, the channel moved to channel 405 on Sky.
From 1 November 2023, the channel moved to channel 407 on Sky.
While from 1 November 2023, the timeshift +1 version of the channel moves to channel 408.
Discovery Channel closed on Sky on 1 July 2025, due to Warner Bros. Discovery declining to renew its contract with Sky Italia, causing the permanent shut down of its timeshift variant. As a result, the channel became exclusive to the Italian version ofDiscovery+, but it was announced that the channel would become available onfree-to-airterrestrial television sometime during the fall.[4]
It was later announced that Discovery Channel would replace the Italian version ofWarner TV onfree-to-airItalian terrestrial television on 5 October 2025, on channel 37, and started broadcasting at 6:00 AM with the programMatto da pescare[5]
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