Odisseia or Canal Odisseia is a
Portuguese
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* anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal
** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods
** Portuguese language, a Romance language
*** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language
** Portu ...
basic cable
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and
satellite television
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channel that features
documentaries
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. It is the oldest and one of the most notable of the genre in Portugal and, for most of its history, it was a single Iberian channel for Portugal and Spain with feeds in Portuguese to Portugal in a list of notable channels owned by Multicanal (currently
AMC Networks International Iberia), including some of the oldest and most popular cable channels such as
Canal Hollywood and
Canal Panda
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. It split into two sister channels, and the Portuguese version became available in Portuguese-speaking Africa where it also gained notability.
Canal Odisseia, literally translating as Odyssey Channel, features various documentaries by the
BBC,
Granada Television
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, European, American and local productions, dedicated to nature, science, people and arts. It competes with other widely available cable channels, the
Discovery Channel
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and
National Geographic Channel
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.
{{Portuguese television stations
Portuguese-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 1996
Television stations in Portugal