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Discovery World (international TV channel)
Television channel / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the Latin American television channel, see Discovery World (Latin America).
For science and technology museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, see Discovery World.
Discovery World is a former European pay television channel which featured programming in the fields of travel, culture and history. It used to be a pan-European television channel. Discovery World offered a mix of history, culture, real-life stories, investigation, mystery shows, factual series and documentaries. At time of closure its programming was mainly in English and subtitled in Dutch.
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Headquarters | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Russian |
Picture format | 576i 16:9 SDTV |
Ownership | |
Owner | Warner Bros. Discovery (Discovery, Inc. at the time) |
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History | |
Launched | 1 October 1998; 25 years ago (1998-10-01) |
Closed | 31 December 2020; 3 years ago (2020-12-31) |
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Former names | Discovery Civilisation Channel (1998-2008) |
Availability (at time of closure) | |
Streaming media | |
Ziggo GO Netherlands | ZiggoGO.tv (Europe only) |
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