Focus is an Italian free television channel operated by Mediaset and owned by

MFE - MediaForEurope MFE - MediaForEurope N.V. (formerly Mediaset S.p.A., then Mediaset N.V.) is a Dutch-domiciled Italian-based media and communications company specialising primarily in free-to-air and pay-TV production and distribution on multiple platforms, as well ...

. Focusing on a mixture of factual and entertainment programming, the network deals with topics of natural sciences,

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and history, in partnership with the homonymous magazine.

History

Switchover Media management (2012–2013)

The channel appears at midnight on July 13, 2012 in the form of a promotional sign, replacing Doc-U: broadcasts officially begin at 8:00 on July 28. The birth of this channel is a license agreement between

Switchover Media Switchover Media (SOM) was an Italian broadcaster of television channels. The company first operated as a subsidiary of Netherlands-based broadcaster Jetix Europe to being purchased out by its management and rebranding to Switchover Media in June ...

and Gruner+Jahr/

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, editors of the magazine ''

Focus Focus, or its plural form foci may refer to: Arts * Focus or Focus Festival, former name of the Adelaide Fringe arts festival in South Australia Film *''Focus'', a 1962 TV film starring James Whitmore * ''Focus'' (2001 film), a 2001 film based ...

''.

Discovery Italia management (2013–2018)

With the takeover of Switchover Media, on January 14, 2013 the channel goes to Discovery Italia as well as the other channels published by the same company. Among the effects of this passage are the more popular programs broadcast by other group channels such as ''

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'' and ''

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''. From September 15, 2013 the channel will renew its logo and graphics, while from April 9, 2014 it will land on the platform

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on channel 418. Focus Mondadori logo

From January 29, 2015 the channel logo will pass to the top left, being surrounded by a red rectangle with the writing in white and the title of the program will be added to the top right only when it airs, from February 6 of same year, the

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logo is added, the same also applies to the other free channels. From July 23 of the same year, he also joined the platform

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on channel 56.

Mediaset management (from 2018)

After the end of the agreement between Discovery Italia and

, on 29 April 2018, Focus ended under the Discovery management and it was replaced by

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on channel 56, a channel dedicated to engines. In addition, the programs of the old Discovery branded Focus move to DMAX. On 14 May 2018, the channel was relaunched on channel 35 under the management of Mediaset, with the various promos and previews, instead of

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(which moved to number 120 and subsequently to 66) and the next day also returns to

at number 60. The new Mediaset Focus officially started on May 17 at 9.15 pm with the documentary '' Un anno nello spazio'' and from January 2, 2019 it became available again also within the platform

to channel 414.

Programming

* ''Aerei da combattimento'' * ''Exoplanets'' * ''

Deadly 60 ''Deadly...'' is a strand of British wildlife documentary programming aimed principally at children and young people, which is broadcast on CBBC on BBC One and Two and on the CBBC Channel. It is presented by Steve Backshall, with Naomi Wilkinson ...

'' * ''Deadly 60 on a mission'' * ''Un anno nello spazio'' * ''Undiscovered vistas'' * ''When Vacations Attack'' * ''A German Life'' * ''

Master Engineering Master or masters may refer to: Ranks or titles * Ascended master, a term used in the Theosophical religious tradition to refer to spiritually enlightened beings who in past incarnations were ordinary humans * Grandmaster (chess), National Maste ...

'' * '' Mayday'' * ''

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'' * '' Viaggiatori: Uno sguardo sul mondo'' * ''

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References

External links

* {{Portal bar, Television, Italy Mediaset television channels Former Warner Bros. Discovery subsidiaries Italian-language television stations Television channels and stations established in 2012