The Odyssey Channel was a documentary channel that was previously available on
Optus Vision
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 media ...
in Australia. It was one of the few channels on
pay TV
Pay television, also known as subscription television, premium television or, when referring to an individual service, a premium channel, refers to subscription-based television services, usually provided by multichannel television providers, b ...
in Australia that had a large amount of Australian content available.
Due to the CSA (Content Sharing Agreement) between Optus and
Foxtel, it was closed in 2004. Foxtel would not allow it on their platform due to it competing with their license of the
Discovery Channel brand, and Optus decided it could no longer fund it.
Programming
The programming covered eight genres:
*Issues
*History
*People and Places
*Science and Technology
*Popular Culture
*Nature
*Arts and Entertainment
*Lifestyle
*''
NOVA''
Some content shown on the channel was sourced from the American and Canadian television network
Home & Garden Television
HGTV (an initialism for Home & Garden Television) is an American pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. The network primarily broadcasts reality programming related to home improvement and real estate. As of February 2015, ap ...
(HGTV).
External links
Official Odyssey website (2004 – prior to the channel's closure)
References
Defunct television channels in Australia
Television channels and stations established in 1997
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2004
English-language television stations in Australia
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