Discovery History is a
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channel with programming about history from
Warner Bros. Discovery
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History
On 19 August 1998, Discovery announced they would launch several new digital channels to coincide with the launch of
Sky Digital platform, one of which would be Discovery Civilisation Channel, which launched on 1 October 1998. It was devoted to documentaries regarding history and civilisations, historic, ancient or present.
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 is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...
and
Yesterday had begun showing more reality and scripted programming, respectively.
In February 2013,
A+E Networks
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, who operates
History
History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...
, 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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Finding the Fallen''
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Time Team
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*''Planes That Never Flew''
*''Wartime Secrets with Harry Harris''
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Weaponology''
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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, similar to corporate sibling HLN. It is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery's netw ...
(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
* :Documentary television channels
* Channel drift
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References
External links
Discovery Channel UKDiscovery History presentation
in The Ident Gallery
* on TVARK
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History
History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...
Television channels and stations established in 1999
1999 establishments in the United Kingdom
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