Discovery Channel Finland is a television channel targeting Finland owned by
Discovery Networks
Discovery, Inc. was an American multinational mass media factual television conglomerate based in New York City. Established in 1985, the company operated a group of factual and lifestyle television brands, such as the namesake Discovery Channel ...
. It has programming similar to its U.S. counterpart, the
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 ...
.
It was launched on September 1, 2007, replacing a former pan-Nordic version of the Discovery Channel. On the same day, the analogue terrestrial transmitters were shut down and a new digital network containing, among other, Discovery Channel Finland was launched. In the terrestrial network it is a part of both the
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 operator ...
and
PlusTV
PlusTV was a Finland, Finnish Digital data, digital Terrestrial television, terrestrial television distributor owned by Finland, Finnish telecommunications company DNA Oy, DNA. It is one of two pay television distributors in the Finnish terrestrial ...
packages.
The pan-Nordic version of the Discovery Channel had carried subtitles in Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian and Danish. The new channel only contains Finnish subtitles.
References
{{Finnish television channels
Discovery Channel
Television channels in Finland
Television channels and stations established in 2007
Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA