Discovery Life is an American

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owned by

Warner Bros. Discovery Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (WBD) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at 230 Park Avenue South in New York City. It was formed after the spin-off of WarnerMedia by AT&T, and its merger with Di ...

. Launched on February 1, 2011 as Discovery Fit & Health, it was the result of the merger of

Discovery Health Channel Discovery Health Channel was an American subscription television channel. Launched in July 1998, it was owned by Discovery Communications as a spin-off of Discovery Channel, focusing on health and wellness-oriented programming. In the beginni ...

and

FitTV FitTV was an American pay television channel, owned by Discovery Communications. The channel focused on fitness and exercise-related programming. FitTV offered programming with such fitness celebrities as Cathe Friedrich, Sharon Mann, Gilad Jankl ...

(following the former's replacement in its channel space by

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), and focuses on

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programming dealing with "life events". Its programming is drawn from the libraries of its predecessors and

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. As of February 2015, approximately 46,696,000 American households (40.1% of households with television) received Discovery Life.

History

On January 17, 2011, Discovery Communications announced that

would be re-launched as Discovery Fit & Health on February 1, 2011. Its formation was the result of Discovery Health's replacement with the

Oprah Winfrey Network Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) is an American multinational basic cable channel jointly owned by Warner Bros. Discovery and Harpo Studios that launched on January 1, 2011, replacing the Discovery Health Channel. The network is led by talk show h ...

(OWN) at the beginning of the year; the company noted that Discovery Health's programming still had loyal viewership, even as the network was being wound down in favor of OWN. Initially, the channel's programming was similar to what was being carried by Discovery Health, but with a fitness-oriented block in the morning featuring FitTV programs.

As Discovery Life

On January 15, 2015, the channel was re-branded as Discovery Life. The rebranding was meant to reflect a broadening of the network's concept targeting women aged 25–54, focusing upon life events and "the drama inherent in our everyday lives".

Programming

The majority of the network's schedule consists of library programs (including series and specials) from

. Programs span the topics of medical emergencies (''Untold Stories of the ER'', ''Mystery Diagnosis''), addiction and mental illness (''Cracking Addiction'', '' Hoarding: Buried Alive''), pregnancy and childbirth (''A Baby Story'', ''Outrageous Births: Tales from the Crib''), and sex (''Sex Sent Me to the ER''). * ''50 Ways to Kill Your Mother'' * ''A Baby Story'' * '' Addicted'' * ''An Hour to Save Your Life'' * ''Anonymous: Inside the Meeting'' * ''Baby Week'' * ''Birth Day'' * ''

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'' * ''Body Bizarre'' * ''Born Schizophrenic'' * '' Boston EMS'' * ''

Boston Med ''Boston Med'' is an eight-part documentary television series that premiered on ABC in the United States on June 24, 2010. It follows the stories of doctors, nurses, patients and their families at Mass General, Brigham and Women's and Children' ...

'' * ''Cracking Addiction'' * ''Critically Real'' * ''Detroit ER'' * ''Diagnose Me'' * ''Diagnosis: Dead or Alive'' * ''Discovery Life Presents'' * '' Dr. G: Medical Examiner'' * ''Emergency'' * ''Emergency 24/7'' * ''Emergency Level One'' * ''ER Files'' * ''Exposed: My Naked Truth'' * ''Facing Trauma with

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Andrew A. Jacono'' * ''Faking It'' * ''Fat Chance'' * ''Funeral Boss'' * ''Gimme Mo'' * ''High School Moms'' * ''Hoarding: Behind Closed Doors'' * '' Hoarding: Buried Alive'' * ''

I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant ''I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant'' is an American documentary television series that aired on Discovery Fit & Health and TLC. The series debuted on May 26, 2009 on Discovery Fit & Health. Each episode features two or more women who were unaware ...

'' * '' I'm Pregnant and...'' * ''In an Instant'' * ''Maternity Ward'' * ''

My 600-lb Life ''My 600-lb Life'' is an American reality television series that has aired on the TLC television network since 2012, Each episode follows a year in the life of morbidly obese individuals, who usually begin the episode weighing at least , and ...

'' * ''My Mom is Obsessed'' * ''

Mystery Diagnosis ''Mystery Diagnosis'' is a television docudrama series that aired on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. Each episode focuses on two or more individuals who have struggled with obscure medical ailments, and their quest for a diagnosis. The program deta ...

'' * ''New Girls on the Block'' * '' NY ER'' * ''Outrageous Births: Tales from the Crib'' * '' Save My Life: Boston Trauma'' * ''Secret Sex Lives: Swingers'' * ''Secretly Pregnant'' * ''Sex in Public'' * ''

Sex Sent Me to the ER ''Sex Sent Me to the ER'' is an American reality television series aired on TLC that premiered on December 28, 2013. The show features actors who reenact various real-life accidents that occurred during sex. A preview reported on by ''The New York ...

'' * ''Shock Trauma: Edge of Life'' * ''Shocking Family Secrets'' * ''Sin City ER'' * ''Skin Tight'' * ''Sydney ER'' * ''The Day I Almost Died'' * ''The Girl with Half a Face'' * ''The Mistress'' * ''Those Girls'' * ''Trauma Doctors'' * '' Trauma: Life in the E.R.'' * ''Trauma: Seconds to Live'' * ''

Untold Stories of the ER ''Untold Stories of the E.R.'' is an American docudrama television series which airs on TLC and Discovery Life. In this program, real-life emergency department doctors discuss their most bizarre and puzzling cases. Typically these involve medic ...

'' * ''Vegas ER'' * ''

World's Worst Mom ''World's Worst Mom'' is a Cineflix produced series that aired on Slice TV and syndicated by TLC International. Based in Toronto, the show features extremely over-protective parents and their families. Jeanette Sharp, columnist and advocate for t ...

References

{{Warner Bros. Discovery Networks Warner Bros. Discovery networks Television channels and stations established in 2011 English-language television stations in the United States