Discovery Channel is a French pay television channel that was launched on 1 September 2004. Until then, France had been the only region in Western Europe not reached by the Discovery Channel. It initially reached 3.2 million subscribers via the CanalSat platform.[2] On 31 March 2009, the channel adopted the original American version of the channel.
Country | United Kingdom[1] |
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Broadcast area | France Switzerland Monaco Belgium Morocco Lebanon Tunisia Mauritius Madagascar Sub-Saharan Africa New Caledonia |
Programming | |
Language(s) | French |
Picture format | 16:9 1080i (HDTV) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA |
Sister channels | Cartoon Network Cartoonito TCM Cinéma Warner TV TLC Warner TV Next Discovery Investigation Boomerang |
History | |
Launched | 1 August 2004 |
Links | |
Website | discoverychannel.fr |
The channel faces competition from other documentary channels such as Planète+ and National Geographic.
In December 2016, Altice acquired an exclusivity agreement with NBCUniversal and Discovery Networks.[3][4] Discovery Channel and Science were removed from Canal on 17 January 2017, and French versions of Investigation Discovery and Discovery Family were launched exclusively on SFR.[5]
Programs are mostly taken from the United Kingdom and the United States and include:
- American Chopper
- Biker Build-Off (Duels de bikers)
- Building the Future (Construire l'avenir)
- Eyewitness (Temoin sur le vif)
- How Do They Do It? (Comment ça marche ?)
- Long Way Round (L'echappee belle)
- Megastructures (Mega constructions)
- MythBusters (Myth busters)
- Really Big Things (Monstres Mecaniques)
- Smash Lab (Crash Lab)
- Time Warp
- Top Gear
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