Discovery Channel (French TV channel)
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Discovery Channel is a French pay television channel that was launched on 1 September 2004. Until then, France had been the only region in Western Europe not reached by the Discovery Channel. It initially reached 3.2 million subscribers via the CanalSat platform.[2] On 31 March 2009, the channel adopted the original American version of the channel,
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Country | United Kingdom[1] |
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Broadcast area | France Switzerland Monaco Belgium Morocco Lebanon Tunisia Mauritius Madagascar Sub-Saharan Africa New Caledonia |
Programming | |
Language(s) | French |
Picture format | 16:9 1080i (HDTV) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA |
Sister channels | Discovery Science France Discovery Investigation |
History | |
Launched | 1 August 2004; 19 years ago (2004-08-01) |
Links | |
Website | discoverychannel.fr |
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The channel faces competition from other documentary channels such as Planète+ and National Geographic.
In December 2016, Altice acquired an exclusivity agreement with NBCUniversal and Discovery Networks.[3][4] Discovery Channel and Science were removed from Canal on 17 January 2017, and French versions of Investigation Discovery and Discovery Family were launched exclusively on SFR.[5]