BBC Knowledge was a television channel available in various countries outside the

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, showcasing factual and non-fiction entertainment programming from the BBC and independent UK production houses. Wholly owned by

BBC Studios BBC Studios is a British content company. It is a commercial subsidiary of the BBC that was formed in April 2018 through the merger of the BBC's commercial production arm and the BBC's commercial international distribution arm, BBC Worldwide ...

, it is not related to the previous channel known as BBC Knowledge, an early digital channel available within the UK, which closed down in 2002 in favour of

BBC Four BBC Four is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It was launched on 2 March 2002

and

CBeebies CBeebies is a British free-to-air public broadcast children's television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is also the brand used for all BBC content for children aged 6 years and under. Its sister channel CBBC is aimed at older childr ...

. At one time, the channel provided five key programming strands enabling simple appointment viewing: * ''The World'' delved and explored new cultures around the world * ''Science & Technology'' explored new frontiers, from space to motoring * ''People'' explored aspects of the human body and mind * ''The Past'' brought historical events, places and people back to life * ''Business'' offered invaluable advice to help stay on top of today's challenging business world. On 15 November 2009, BBC Knowledge in Australia changed their channel location from Channel 619 to Channel 612. In 2014 it was announced that

would rollout a new channel,

BBC Earth BBC Earth is a brand used by BBC Studios since 2009 to market and distribute the BBC's natural history content to countries other than the United Kingdom. BBC Studios is the commercial arm of the public service broadcaster. BBC Earth commercia ...

, which would replace BBC Knowledge in most locations, except for where it was successful. Poland was the first location to launch the new brand on 1 February 2015.

Launch and closure dates

BBC Knowledge was first launched in

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...

mio TV Singtel TV (formerly known as Singtel IPTV and mio TV) is a pay television, pay television service provided by Singtel in Singapore. It is transmitted through Singtel's broadband network via an IPTV platform which uses Ericsson Mediaroom (orig ...

(Now in

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) in July 2007. It has been available on

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since October 2007 and on the

Cyfrowy Polsat Cyfrowy Polsat S.A. (; English: ''Digital Polsat''), trading as Polsat Box is a Polish DTH satellite TV platform. It is the fifth-largest digital platform in Europe and the largest in Central and Eastern Europe. Polsat Box has 3.47 million subscr ...

digital satellite platform in

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populou ...

from December 2007 (

Cyfra Plus Canal+ (formerly Cyfra+ (Canal+ Cyfrowy), nc+, Platforma Canal+) is a Polish satellite platform, owned and operated by French media company Canal+ Group Groupe Canal+ is a French mass media company. It is owned and controlled by Vivendi and ...

in Poland plans its launch only on 1 Feb 2011 due to prior exclusive BBC deals with Polsat). BBC Knowledge launched in

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Gui ...

Indovision MNC Vision (legally PT MNC Sky Vision Tbk, formerly Indovision) is an Indonesian subscription-based direct broadcast satellite (DBS) or ''direct-to-home'' satellite television and radio service initially in Indonesia. Currently owned by PT MNC Vi ...

in April 2008, and in

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring coun ...

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in September 2008. It has since also launched in the Scandinavian countries in November 2008 when it replaced BBC Prime on

Canal Digital Canal Digital was a Nordic pay TV and internet service provider in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland that was founded in March 1997 as a joint venture between the French pay TV company Canal+ and the Norwegian telecommunications opera ...

and several cable systems. It was launched in

Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by ...

Foxtel Foxtel is an Australian pay television company—operating in cable television, direct broadcast satellite television, and IPTV streaming services. It was formed in April 2018, superseding an earlier company from 1995. The service was establi ...

and

Optus Television Optus Television is the cable television division of Australian telecommunications company Optus. History Its immediate predecessor was Optus Vision, a joint venture between Optus and Continental Cablevision, with small shareholdings by me ...

on 1 November 2008; in

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

on CJ HelloVision on 1 December 2008 and on GS Gangnam Broadcasting on 26 May 2009. In June 2009, citing the lack of viewership, the BBC terminated its carriage deal with

SingTel Singapore Telecommunications Limited, commonly known as Singtel, is a Singaporean telecommunications conglomerate and one of the four major telcos operating in the country. The company is the largest mobile network operator in Singapore with ...

to air BBC Knowledge, (along with

and

BBC Lifestyle BBC Lifestyle is an international television channel wholly owned by BBC Studios. The channel provides six programming strands: Food, Home & Design, Fashion & Style, Health, Parenting, and Personal Development. On 1 August 2019, BBC Lifestyle a ...

), and entered into an agreement with

StarHub TV StarHub TV is a pay television service provided by StarHub in Singapore. It has been a subsidiary of StarHub Limited since StarHub acquired Singapore Cable Vision (SCV) in 2001, and was the sole pay-TV operator in the country until 2007 when m ...

to carry the channels from 1 August 2009, and in Romania on 31 December 2010. BBC Knowledge was launched on

Cable TV Hong Kong Hong Kong Cable Television Limited (), formerly known as Wharf Cable Television Limited () until 31 October 1998, is a cable television provider in Hong Kong currently owned by Forever Top (Asia) Limited, which operates it as a part of i-Cabl ...

on 29 October 2009. The channel was launched in

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in March 2011 replacing the

Documentary Channel A documentary channel is a specialty channel which focuses on broadcasting documentaries. Some documentary channels further specialize by dedicating their television programming to specific types of documentaries or documentaries in a specific ...

following that channel's sale to

. From 1 March 2011 the channel is broadcast in Italy too. It's visible, in standard definition until 1 March 2016. On 13 August 2013 the channel launched on

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in Turkey. On 1 February 2015, BBC Knowledge launched on Australian IPTV service

Fetch TV Fetch TV is an Australian IPTV provider that delivers a subscription television service over a user's regular internet service. Fetch TV launched in 2010 backed by its Malaysian parent Astro Malaysia Holdings. On 2 August 2022, Telstra acquire ...

. The New Zealand BBC Knowledge channel was replaced by a localized version of BBC Earth on 22 October 2018

The final BBC Knowledge channel in Australia was relaunched as a localized version of BBC Earth on 10 October 2019, therefore ending the use of the BBC Knowledge brand after 15 years

Asia

* '' Bang Goes The Theory'' * ''

Deadly 60 ''Deadly...'' is a strand of British wildlife documentary programming aimed principally at children and young people, which is broadcast on CBBC on BBC One and Two and on the CBBC Channel. It is presented by Steve Backshall, with Naomi Wilkinso ...

'' * '' Engineering Giants'' * '' Frozen Planet II'' * '' Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands'' * '' Kevin McCloud's Grand Tour'' * '' Kingdom of Plants'' * '' Naomi's Nightmares of Nature'' * ''

Planet Earth II ''Planet Earth II'' is a 2016 British nature documentary series produced by the BBC as a sequel to ''Planet Earth'', which was broadcast in 2006. The series is presented and narrated by Sir David Attenborough with the main theme music composed ...

'' * '' Ramsay Behind Bars'' * '' Secret Millionaire USA'' * ''

Top Gear Top Gear may refer to: * "Top gear", the highest gear available in a vehicle's manual transmission Television * ''Top Gear'' (1977 TV series), a British motoring magazine programme * ''Top Gear'' (2002 TV series), a relaunched version of the or ...

'' * '' Ultimate Sports Day''

Australia

* ''

An Idiot Abroad ''An Idiot Abroad'' is a British travel documentary comedy television series broadcast on Sky One, as well as a series of companion books published by Canongate Books, created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant and starring Karl Pilkington. ...

'' * ''

Dragons' Den ''Dragons' Den'' is a reality television program format in which entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas to a panel of venture capitalists in the hope of securing investment finance from them. The program originated in 2001 in Japan, where it is k ...

'' * '' Extraordinary Women'' * '' Fishing Impossible'' * ''

Human Universe ''Human Universe'' is a British television series broadcast on BBC Two, presented by Professor Brian Cox. An accompanying book was also published. Episodes 1. "Apeman – Spaceman" First broadcast: 9:00 pm, 7 Oct 2014 on BBC T ...

'' * '' Islands of Britain'' *

Jeremy Clarkson's Extreme Machines ''Jeremy Clarkson's Extreme Machines'' was a six-part documentary series, originally broadcast on BBC Two in 1998. The series focused on presenter Jeremy Clarkson Jeremy Charles Robert Clarkson (born 11 April 1960) is an English broadcas ...

* '' Never Mind the Buzzcocks'' * '' Road Warriors: The Extra Mile'' * '' Ross Kemp: Extreme World'' * ''

School of Saatchi ''School of Saatchi'' is a four-part BBC Television series first broadcast in November 2009. Young artists compete against each others, showcasing their talents, for a chance to be chosen by famous art collector Charles Saatchi Charles Saatchi ...

'' * ''

The Moaning of Life ''The Moaning of Life'' is a British travel documentary comedy television series broadcast on Sky 1. It follows Karl Pilkington around the world as he visits other cultures. Unlike ''An Idiot Abroad'', which had a similar premise, ''The Moaning ...

'' * '' The World's...and Me'' * ''

'' * '' Top Gear: Extra Gear'' * '' Top Gear (USA)'' * '' Trawlermen'' * ''

Where the Wild Men Are Where may refer to: * Where?, one of the Five Ws in journalism * where (command), a shell command * Where (SQL), a database language clause * Where.com, a provider of location-based applications via mobile phones * ''Where'' (magazine), a serie ...

'' * ''

Wonders of the Universe ''Wonders of the Universe'' is a 2011 television series produced by the BBC, Discovery Channel, and Science Channel, hosted by physicist Professor Brian Cox. ''Wonders of the Universe'' was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two from 6 ...

References

External links

Official website
* ''

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BBC Worldwide bows new channels
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Launch and closure dates

Asia

Australia

See also

References

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