Discovery Kids was a British and Irish

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channel. The channel initially began broadcasting exclusively on the On Digital service time sharing with Discovery Wings, an aviation-focused channel similarly created initially as an On Digital exclusive. The channel eventually became available on other digital platforms such as Sky Digital, and

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. Discovery Kids and Discovery Wings were both closed down at midnight on 28 February 2007, to be replaced by

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the following day. Discovery Kids was replaced with an online broadband video service called Discovery Kids On Demand, not updated since the closure of the TV channel. Some of Discovery Kids' previous programmes like ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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'' were later shown on DMAX during the mornings. It was owned by Discovery UK.

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