Country | United Kingdom |
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Broadcast area | |
Headquarters | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Programming | |
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Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV 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 |
Closed | 9 March 2022 5 January 2024 (Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Middle East, Africa, and Turkey) 26 February 2024 (France) | (Russia)
Replaced by | TLC (France) |
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Discovery Science is a pay television network, operated by Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA. It targets several European countries' television markets. 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.[1][2][3][4] However, the channel continues to broadcast in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Poland, the Nordic region and the Netherlands.