Launched 20 July 1997 Founded 1998 | Picture format 576i 16:9 SDTV (PAL) | |
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Audience share UK:
0.07%
0.02% (+1) (September 2015 (2015-09), BARB) Language English
Dubbed: Bulgarian, Czech, French, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Russian and Turkish Broadcast area Europe, Middle East, Africa Headquarters London, UK
Warsaw, Poland Owned by Discovery Networks EMEA (Discovery Communications) TV shows Through the Wormhole, Sci Fi Science: Physics o, Dark Matters: Twisted B, Oddities, Stuck with Hackett | ||
Discovery Science is a TV network, a subsidiary of American Discovery Networks International, it targets several European countries' television markets. It primarily features programming in the fields of space, technology and science. The channel originally launched as Discovery Sci-Trek, which focused on science fiction. Its programming is mainly in English and locally subtitled or dubbed. It is available through numerous satellite, cable, terrestrial and IPTV distributors across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In some countries the advertisement and the announcements between programs are localized.
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History
The channel launched as the Discovery Sci-Trek Channel in 1998, initially focusing on science fiction programming.
A move away from this format to more general science programming came with the channel rebranding itself as the Discovery Science Channel on 1 April 2003. Later on, the name was shortened to just 'Discovery Science'.
A 1-hour timeshift channel of Discovery Science launched in the UK and Ireland on Monday 21 April 2008 on Sky 549, which replaced a 90-minute timeshift of Discovery Channel, known as Discovery +1.5.
Programming
Logos
Throughout its life as the Discovery Sci-Trek Channel, the channel used an image of the rings of Saturn as its logo and in idents. When relaunching as the Discovery Science Channel, it became a stylised molecule, with the Discovery Channel globe as one of its atoms.
Since then, the channel has followed its United States counterpart The Science Channel, currently known as 'Science', in logo trends. In March 2008, Discovery Science adopted a modified version of the periodic table logo used from 2007, and in 2012, the channel adopted the new 'Morph' logo introduced in 2011.