Launched 26 January 1999 | Founded 1999 | |
Audience share 0.04%0.02% (+1) (September 2015 (2015-09), BARB) Formerly called Discovery Civilisation (1999-2007)Discovery Knowledge (2007-2010) Sister channel(s) Animal PlanetDiscovery ChannelDiscovery HDDiscovery Home & HealthDiscovery ScienceDiscovery ShedDiscovery TurboDMAXInvestigation DiscoveryQuestTLC Owned by Discovery Networks Northern Europe | ||
Discovery History is a channel with programming about history from Discovery Networks Western Europe.
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History
The channel was initially known as the Discovery Civilization Channel, later dropping 'Channel' from the name, and was devoted to documentaries regarding history and civilizations, 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 and Yesterday had begun showing more reality and scripted programming, respectively.
In February 2013, A+E Networks, who operate History, lost a High Court battle to stop Discovery from using the Discovery History brand in the UK.