Discovery Science is a
pay television
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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
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, it targets several
Europe
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an countries' television markets. It primarily features programming in the fields of
space
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,
technology
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and
science
Science is a systematic endeavor that Scientific method, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of Testability, testable explanations and predictions about the universe.
Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...
. The channel originally launched as Discovery Sci-Trek. Its programming is mainly in
English
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* English people
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Peoples, culture, and language
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** English national ide ...
and locally
subtitled 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
Ireland
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on Monday 21 April 2008 on
Sky
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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
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in France. In December 2016,
Altice acquired an exclusivity agreement with
NBCUniversal
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NBCUniversal is primaril ...
and Discovery Networks. Discovery Channel, Discovery Science and Investigation Discovery were removed from
Canal+
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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.
Programming
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Beyond Tomorrow''
*''Building the Ultimate''
*''
Burn Notice''
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Extreme Engineering
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Food Factory
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How It's Made
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How Do They Do It?
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*''How Machines Work''
*''Invention Nation''
*''Nextworld''
*''Pasik''
*''
Race to Mars''
*''Raging Planet''
*''
Rough Science
Parameters
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*''Ten Ways''
*''The Big Experiment''
*''
Through the Wormhole
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*''Understanding''
*''Universe'' (narrated by
John Hurt
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)
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The Gadget Show
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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, manu ...
, 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
*
Caiway
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: Channel 111
* Citycable : Channel 81
*
DELTA
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Delta may also ...
: Channel 352
*
Kabel Noord : Channel 255
*
SFR
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: Channel 41
* Stichting Kabelnet Veendam : Channel 76
*
UPC : Channel 377
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UPC : Channel 308
*
UPC : Channel 179 , Channel 479 and Channel 679
*
Virgin Media
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: Channel 211
*
Virgin Media
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: Channel 252 and Channel 260 (+1)
*
WightFibre : Channel 77
*
Ziggo
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History
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: Channel 202
IPTV
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BT TV
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: Channel 336
*
eir Vision
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: Channel 525
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KPN
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History Un ...
: Channel 83
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Tele2
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: Channel 207
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T-Mobile
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: Channel 64
*
Vodafone
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, Vod ...
: Channel 307
Online
* Virgin TV Anywhere
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Satellite
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Cyfrowy Polsat : Channel 127
*
OSN : Channel 504
*
Platforma Canal+
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: Channel 77
*
Sky
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In the field of astronomy, ...
: Channel 405
*
Sky
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In the field of astronomy, ...
: Channel 167 and Channel 267 (+1)
*
Sky
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In the field of astronomy, ...
: Channel 167 and Channel 267 (+1)
*
StarSat : Channel 663
*Zuku TV (Kenya): Channel 415 (replacing
History
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) moving to Channel 421
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See also
*
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, man ...
References
External links
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Europe
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Television channels in Belgium
Television stations in Denmark
Television channels in Flanders
Television channels in the Netherlands
Television channels in North Macedonia
Television channels and stations established in 1998
Science
Science is a systematic endeavor that Scientific method, builds and organizes knowledge in the form of Testability, testable explanations and predictions about the universe.
Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earli ...
Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA