Discovery History is a
British channel with programming about history from
Warner Bros. Discovery
Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (WBD) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at 230 Park Avenue South in New York City. It was formed after the spin-off of WarnerMedia by AT&T, and its merger with Di ...
.
History
The channel was initially known as the Discovery Civilisation Channel, later dropping 'Channel' from the name, and was devoted to documentaries regarding history and civilizations, historic, ancient or present, launched on Sky Digital on 1 October 1998. On 1 November 2007, Discovery Civilisation was re-branded as Discovery Knowledge, by
Heavenly. The new channel was still focused on history and natural history, but the schedule now included programming on engineering, crime and technology.
After just over three years, on 7 November 2010, Discovery Knowledge was rebranded as Discovery History. The idea behind this rebranding was to take the channel's focus back to becoming "the only UK channel dedicated to factual history", to counter the fact that its competitors
History
History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...
and
Yesterday had begun showing more reality and scripted programming, respectively.
In February 2013,
A+E Networks
A&E Networks (stylized as A+E NETWORKS) is an American multinational broadcasting company that is a 50–50 joint venture between Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company through its General Entertainment Content division. The company o ...
, who operate History, lost a
High Court battle to stop Discovery from using the Discovery History brand in the UK.
Programming
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Industrial Revelations''
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Time Team
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*''Planes That Never Flew''
*''Wartime Secrets with Harry Harris''
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Weaponology
''Weaponology'' is a documentary television series that premiered on November 6, 2007 on the Discovery Channel. The program also airs on the Military Channel (now American Heroes Channel). The documentary series was narrated by John Schwab.
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World War 1 in Colour''
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Unsolved History''
*'' Tanks!''
*'' Aircraft Stories''
*'' The Tower''
*'' Killzone''
*'' Century of Warfare''
See also
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Investigation Discovery
Investigation Discovery (stylized and branded on-air as ID since 2008) is an American multinational pay television network dedicated to true crime documentaries owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. As of February 2015, approximately 86 million Amer ...
(US)
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Discovery World
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List of documentary television channels
This is a list of documentary channels, including channels that have been affected by " channel drift". It also contains channels accused of a biased point of view.
List
See also
* Channel drift
References
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References
External links
Discovery Channel UKDiscovery History presentation
in The Ident Gallery
on TVARK
History
History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...
Television channels and stations established in 1999
1999 establishments in the United Kingdom
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