Discovery World (European TV channel)

Discovery World is a European pay television channel which features programming in the fields of travel, culture and history. Discovery World offers a mix of history, culture, real-life stories, investigation, mystery shows, factual series and documentaries. Its programming is mainly in English and locally subtitled. In some countries the advertisements and announcements between programs are localized.

Discovery World
Launched1 October 1998 (1998-10-01)
NetworkDiscovery EMEA
Owned byDiscovery, Inc.
Picture format576i 16:9 SDTV
LanguageEnglish
Broadcast area

Previously:
HeadquartersAmsterdam, Netherlands
Formerly calledDiscovery Civilisation Channel (1998-2008)
Replaced by
Sister channel(s)
Availability
Cable
Ziggo NetherlandsChannel 203
Caiway NetherlandsChannel 112
Kabel Noord NetherlandsChannel 254
CAI Harderwijk NetherlandsChannel 134
Stichting Kabelnet Veendam NetherlandsChannel 75
IPTV
KPN NetherlandsChannel 84
T-Mobile NetherlandsChannel 63
Tele2 NetherlandsChannel 206
Streaming media
Ziggo GO NetherlandsZiggoGO.tv (Europe only)

History

In Europe the channel started as Discovery Civilisation, also called Discovery Civilisation Channel, in the UK the 1 October 1998, alongside the Sky Digital's launch and later followed by other European countries.[1] Discovery Civilisation focused on history-related programs. On 18 April 2008 the channel changed its name into Discovery World and extended its program lineup to also include programs about culture, crime and "mysterious phenomena".[2][3][4]

In 2013, the channel got replaced by Discovery Turbo Xtra in Central and Eastern Europe. On 31 March 2016, the channel got replaced by Discovery Family in Africa and the Middle East.[5] The network has closed down in Italy,[6] Portugal[7] and Scandinavia.[8]

Programming
gollark: This is a possible possibility, yes.
gollark: which could possibly be cool.
gollark: In my `writing_ideas` notes which will probably never be written I have> The world is a simulation, and a very buggy one. You can phase through walls if you walk through them at just the right angle wearing certain colors of T-shirt. Why is the clothing tear resistance code tied into collision detection? Why does it care about color? Nobody knows; it's filled with bizarre legacy code. Occasionally someone finds a really exploitable issue, runs off to certain regions of the world to “test things”, and disappears. Perhaps they manage to escape into reality somehow. Perhaps they're somehow “hired” by the admins to patch further issues. Perhaps they're just deleted to preserve stability.
gollark: (*Ra*, *Off to be the Wizard*, *Wizard's Bane*, and I can't remember any more right now)
gollark: It just needs to be sufficiently unfathomable and complex that most people won't do it.

References
  1. "Which TV channels were on sky digital at launch ?". Digital Spy Forums. January 2, 2011.
  2. "DNI Fast Facts: EMEA" (PDF). Discovery Communications. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-26. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
  3. "Kanalbyte hos Discovery". Resumé. April 18, 2008. Archived from the original on December 25, 2008.
  4. Jan-Hein Visser (April 17, 2008). "Discovery Civilisation wordt Discovery World". Totaal TV.
  5. "DStv replaces Discovery World with Discovery Family". Telecompaper. March 28, 2016.
  6. "Change Log Discovery World Italia". KingOfSat.net. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  7. "Change Log Discovery World Portugal". KingOfSat.net. Retrieved 22 September 2019.
  8. "Change Log Discovery World Nordic". KingOfSat.net. Retrieved 22 September 2019.

See also
  • Discovery World HD
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