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Discovery Science (European TV channel)

European pay television channel

Summary

European pay television channel

Field	Value
name	Discovery Science
logo	Discovery Science 2017 Logo.svg
logo_size	200px
logo_caption	Discovery Science logo.
launch_date
closed_date	(Russia)
(Central / Eastern Europe, Central Asia, MENA, Africa, and Turkey Excluding Poland)
(France)
picture_format	1080i HDTV
(downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
owner	Warner Bros. Discovery
parent	Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA
country	United Kingdom
language
area
headquarters	Amsterdam, Netherlands
former_names
replaced_by	TLC (France)
sister_channels
timeshift_service	Discovery Science +1
online_chan_1	See separate section

(Central / Eastern Europe, Central Asia, MENA, Africa, and Turkey Excluding Poland) (France) (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)

Discovery Science is a pay television network, operated by Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA. It broadcasts to several European countries. It primarily features programming in the fields of space, technology and science. The channel originally launched as Discovery Sci-Trek. Its programming is mainly in English and locally subtitled or dubbed. It is available through numerous subscription services across Europe. In some countries the advertisement and the announcements between programs are localized.

Discovery Science, alongside DTX, 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. However, the channel continues to broadcast in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Poland, the Nordic region and the Netherlands.

History

On 19 August 1998, Discovery announced they would launch several new digital channels to coincide with the launch of Sky Digital platform, one of which would be Discovery Sci-Trek, a UK version of the Discovery 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.

The channel later saw launches in other European countries, and eventually the channel rebranded as the Discovery Science Channel on 1 April 2003.

In April 2008, the channel's name was shortened to simply Discovery Science, which was followed by the launch of a one-hour timeshift service on 21 April 2008 in the United Kingdom, located on Sky 549, which replaced a placeholder 90-minute timeshift of Discovery Channel, known as Discovery +1.5.

On 24 January 2013, Discovery channels returned on Numericable in France. In December 2016, Altice acquired an exclusivity agreement with NBCUniversal and Discovery Networks. Discovery Channel, Discovery Science and Investigation Discovery were removed from Canal+ on 17 January 2017. The channel (along with Discovery Channel) had high shares (0,5% in 2014, 0,4% in 2016) before have been removed from Canal+.

On 9 March 2022, Discovery Inc. closed Discovery Science in Russia due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

In February 2024, it was announced that the channel would be replaced by TLC in France from 26 February 2024.

Programming

Beyond Tomorrow
Building the Ultimate
Burn Notice
Extreme Engineering
Food Factory
How It's Made
How Do They Do It?
How Machines Work
Invention Nation
Nextworld
Pasik
Race to Mars
Raging Planet
Rough Science
Ten Ways
The Big Experiment
Through the Wormhole
Understanding
Universe (narrated by John Hurt)
The Gadget Show

Logos

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 counterpart The 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.

Availability

Cable

CAI Harderwijk (Netherlands): Channel 135
Caiway (Netherlands): Channel 111
Citycable (Switzerland): Channel 81
DELTA (Netherlands): Channel 352
Kabel Noord (Netherlands): Channel 255
SFR (France): Channel 41
Stichting Kabelnet Veendam (Netherlands): Channel 76
UPC (Poland): Channel 377
UPC (Romania): Channel 308
UPC (Switzerland): Channel 179 (Romandy), Channel 479 (German Swiss) and Channel 679 (Ticino)
Virgin Media (Ireland): Channel 211
Virgin Media (UK): Channel 179 and Channel 379 (+1)
WightFibre (UK): Channel 77
Ziggo (Netherlands): Channel 202

IPTV

BT TV (UK): Channel 336
eir Vision (Ireland): Channel 525
KPN (Netherlands): Channel 84
Tele2 (Netherlands): Channel 207
T-Mobile (Netherlands): Channel 64
Vodafone (Greece): Channel 307
Freebox (France):Channel 64 (Now TLC France)

Online

Virgin TV Anywhere (Ireland): VirginMediaTV.ie
Virgin TV Anywhere (UK): VirginMedia.com
Ziggo GO (Netherlands): ZiggoGO.tv
discovery+ discoveryplus.com

Satellite

Cyfrowy Polsat (Poland): Channel 127
OSN (MENA): Channel 504
Platforma Canal+ (Poland): Channel 77
Sky (Italy): Channel 405
Sky (UK): Channel 167 and Channel 267 (+1)
Sky (Ireland): Channel 167 and Channel 267 (+1)
StarSat (South Africa): Channel 663
Zuku TV (Kenya): Channel 415

References

(2023-11-09). "Intrekking toestemming Discovery Science – pan regional (12 omroepdiensten)". Commissariaat voor de Media.
(2023-09-06). "Lietuvoje nebebus transliuojami "Discovery Science" ir DTX kanalai". [[Delfi (web portal).
(9 September 2023). "Hamarosan eltűnik két tévécsatorna a magyar kínálatból (Frissített!)".
(2023-09-15). "Discovery Science и DTX прекратят вещание в Украине". Mediasat.
(19 August 1998). "Discovery unveils digital TV nets".
(1 April 2003). "Discovery Sci-Trek Change Log". KingOfSat.
(1 April 2003). "Discovery Science Channel Change Log". KingOfSat.
Analoguesat. (21 April 2008). "Discovery Science +1 28E". Satellites.co.uk.
(2013-01-23). "Discovery Channel HD et Discovery Science HD reprises sur Numericable à partir du 24 janvier {{!}} Offremedia".
(7 December 2016). "SFR s'offre Discovery et NBCUniversal en exclu".
(2016-12-08). "SFR vole l'exclusivité de nombreuses chaînes (Discovery, 13è Rue, Syfy...) à Canal+, et à la Freebox !".
(2017-01-12). "Les chaînes Discovery ne sont déjà plus accessibles pour les abonnés Freebox Révolution avec TV by Canal".
(2016-07-02). "L'audience des chaînes sur le câble, le satellite et la TV par ADSL Du 28 décembre 2015 au 12 juin 2016".
(2017-07-12). "L'audience s'effondre pour les chaînes Discovery, qui ont quitté Canal et la Freebox Révolution pour être reprises en exclu par SFR".
(9 March 2022). "WarnerMedia and Discovery join the stampede of businesses leaving Russia". [[CNN]].
(2024-02-15). "WBD launching TLC in France".

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