Discovery Science is a

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network, operated by

Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA is a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. The subsidiary is responsible for managing the collection of their cable and satellite networks around the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions. History WarnerMedia ...

, it targets several

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an countries' television markets. It primarily features programming in the fields of

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and

science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence ...

. The channel originally launched as Discovery Sci-Trek. Its programming is mainly in

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and locally

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or dubbed. It is available through numerous subscription services across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In some countries the advertisement and the announcements between programs are localized.

History

The channel launched in the UK & Ireland as the Discovery Sci-Trek on 1 October 1998, later followed by other European countries, with the channel rebranding itself as the ''Discovery Science Channel'' on 1 April 2003. Later on, the name was shortened to just 'Discovery Science'. A 1-hour timeshift channel of Discovery Science launched in the UK and

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on Monday 21 April 2008 on Sky 549, which replaced a placeholder 90-minute timeshift of

Discovery Channel Discovery Channel (known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery) is an American cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav. , Discovery Chan ...

, known as Discovery +1.5. On 24 January 2013, Discovery channels returned on

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in France. In December 2016, Altice acquired an exclusivity agreement with

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and Discovery Networks. Discovery Channel, Discovery Science and Investigation Discovery were removed from

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on 17 January 2017. The channel (along with

) 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.

Programming

*'' Beyond Tomorrow'' *''Building the Ultimate'' *''

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'' *''

Extreme Engineering ''Extreme Engineering'' is a documentary television series that aired on the Discovery Channel and the Science Channel. The program featured futuristic and ongoing engineering projects. After ending of season 3 it airs under the ''Build It Bi ...

'' *''

Food Factory ''Food Factory'' is a Canadian television series produced by Cineflix airing in that country on the Food Network, and in the United States on National Geographic, Quest, and FYI. The show features the industrial production lines of major food c ...

'' *''

How It's Made ''How It's Made'' (''Comment c'est fait'' in French) is a Canadian documentary television series that premiered on January 6, 2001, on the Discovery Channel in Canada and the Science Channel in the United States. The program is produced in th ...

'' *''

How Do They Do It? ''How Do They Do It?'' is a television series produced by Wag TV for Discovery Channel. Each programme explores how 2 or 3 ordinary objects are made and used. The show's slogan is "Behind the ordinary is the extraordinary." The series is broa ...

'' *''How Machines Work'' *''Invention Nation'' *''Nextworld'' *''Pasik'' *'' Race to Mars'' *''Raging Planet'' *''

Rough Science Parameters ''Rough Science'' is a British documentary reality television series made by the BBC in collaboration with the Open University. Six series were made between 2000 and 2005. It was broadcast in prime time on BBC Two and is considered so ...

'' *''Ten Ways'' *''The Big Experiment'' *'' Through the Wormhole'' *''Understanding'' *''Universe'' (narrated by

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) *''

The Gadget Show ''The Gadget Show'' (currently known as ''The Gadget Show: Better Tech, Better Life'') is a British television series which focuses on consumer technology. The show, which is broadcast on Channel 5, is currently presented by Ortis Deley, Geo ...

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 has followed its United States counterpart

The Science Channel Science Channel (often simply branded as Science; abbreviated to SCI) is an American pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The channel features programming focusing on science related to wilderness survival, engineering, m ...

, 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 : Channel 135 *

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: Channel 111 * Citycable : Channel 81 * DELTA : Channel 352 * Kabel Noord : Channel 255 *

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: Channel 41 * Stichting Kabelnet Veendam : Channel 76 * UPC : Channel 377 * UPC : Channel 308 * UPC : Channel 179 , Channel 479 and Channel 679 *

Virgin Media Virgin Media is a British telecommunications company which provides telephone, television and internet services in the United Kingdom. Its headquarters are at Green Park in Reading, England. It is owned by Virgin Media O2, a 50:50 joint ventu ...

: Channel 211 *

: Channel 252 and Channel 260 (+1) *

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: Channel 77 *

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: Channel 202

IPTV

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: Channel 336 * eir Vision : Channel 525 *

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: Channel 83 *

Tele2 Tele2 AB is a Swedish telecommunications operator headquartered in the Kista Science City, Stockholm, Sweden. It is a major telephone operator in Sweden, Russia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Tele2 also has a 25% share in T-Mobile Netherland ...

: Channel 207 *

T-Mobile T-Mobile is the brand name used by some of the mobile communications subsidiaries of the German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom AG in the Czech Republic ( T-Mobile Czech Republic), Poland ( T-Mobile Polska), the United States (T-Mobil ...

: Channel 64 *

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: Channel 307

Online

* Virgin TV Anywhere
VirginMediaTV.ie
* Virgin TV Anywhere
VirginMedia.com
* Ziggo GO
ZiggoGO.tv

Satellite

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: Channel 127 * OSN : Channel 504 *

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: Channel 77 * Sky : Channel 405 * Sky : Channel 167 and Channel 267 (+1) * Sky : Channel 167 and Channel 267 (+1) *

StarSat StarSat (formerly TopTV until 31 October 2013) is a South African direct broadcast satellite television service that began broadcasting on 1 May 2010. StarSat is operated by On Digital Media, who were granted a pay-TV license by ICASA in Septemb ...

: Channel 663 *Zuku TV (Kenya): Channel 415 (replacing

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) moving to Channel 421 *

References

External links

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Science Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence ...

Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA

History

Programming

Logos

Availability

Cable

IPTV

Online

Satellite

See also

References

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