Discovery Channel (French TV channel)
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. On 31 March 2009, the channel adopted the new Discovery Channel logo and look.
| Country | United Kingdom |
|---|---|
| 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 | Discovery Science France Discovery Investigation |
| 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. 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.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.