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Discovery History Launched 26 January 1999 Owned by Discovery Networks Western Europe Picture format 16:9, 576i (SDTV) Audience share 0.1%
0.0% (+1) (June 2011, BARB)Formerly called Discovery Civilisation (1999-2007)
Discovery Knowledge (2007-2010)Sister channel(s) Animal Planet
Discovery Channel
Discovery HD
Discovery Home & Health
Discovery Real Time
Discovery Science
Discovery Shed
Discovery Travel & Living
Discovery Turbo
DMAX
Investigation Discovery
QuestTimeshift service Discovery History +1 Website www.yourdiscovery.com/web/discovery-history/ Availability Satellite Sky Channel 522
Channel 557 (+1)Cable Virgin Media Channel 217 UPC Ireland Channel 212 Smallworld Cable Channel 522 Discovery History is a channel with programming about history from Discovery Networks Europe.
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History
The channel was initially known as Discovery Civilisation and was devoted to documentaries regarding history and civilizations, historic, ancient or present. On 1 November 2007, Discovery Civilisations was re-branded as Discovery Knowledge,[1] by Heavenly.[2] The channel focused on history, natural history, engineering and crime
Discovery Knowledge +1 launched on Sky, Channel 551, on 30 June 2008. It moved to channel 557 on 20 January 2009 to make way for the launch of Investigation Discovery.
On 7 November 2010, Discovery Knowledge was rebranded as Discovery History.[3] This takes the channel's focus back to becoming "the only UK channel dedicated to factual history", to counter the fact that its competitors History and Yesterday began showing more reality and scripted programming, respectively.
Programming
- Industrial Revelations
- Finding the Fallen
- Time Team
- Planes That Never Flew
- Wartime Secrets with Harry Harris
- Weaponology
- World War 1 in Colour
- Unsolved History
See also
- Investigation Discovery (US)
- Discovery World (TV channel)
- List of channels on Virgin TV
- List of channels on Sky
- List of documentary television channels
References
- ^ "Discovery launches Knowledge channel". Digital Spy. 20 September 2007. http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcasting/a76030/discovery-launches-knowledge-channel.html.
- ^ "Discovery Knowledge". Heavenly. http://www.heavenly.co.uk/brand-development-work/discovery-knowledge. Retrieved 8 November 2010.
- ^ "Discovery to launch dedicated history channel". Media Week. 7 October 2010. http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/news/1033505/Discovery-launch-dedicated-history-channel/.
External links
- Discovery History
- Discovery History presentation in The Ident Gallery
- Discovery Knowledge presentation on TVARK
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