Discovery World is a former
Europe
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an
pay television
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channel which featured programming in the fields of
travel
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,
culture
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and
history
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. It used to be a
pan-European
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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
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* English people
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and
subtitled
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in
Dutch
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* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
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.
History
In Europe the channel started as ''Discovery Civilisation'', also called ''Discovery Civilisation Channel'', in the
UK the 1 October 1998, alongside the Sky Digital's launch and later followed by other European countries. Discovery Civilisation focused on history-related programmes. On 1 November 2007, it was re-branded as Discovery Knowledge in the UK. On 18 April 2008 Discovery Civilisation changed its name into ''Discovery World'' across Europe and extended its programme lineup to also include programmes about culture, crime and "mysterious phenomena".
In 2013, the channel got replaced by
Discovery Turbo Xtra in Central and Eastern Europe. On 31 March 2016, the channel got replaced by
Discovery Family
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The channel was originally launched by Discovery Communications on October 7, 1996 as Discovery Kids, a spin-off of Discov ...
in Africa and the Middle East. The network has closed down in
Italy
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,
Portugal
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and
Scandinavia
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.
Discovery World, along with
Fine Living closed on 31 December 2020, when it last aired in the
Netherlands
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Belgium
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.
See also
*
Discovery World HD
References
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