Discovery Home & Health (British and Irish TV channel)
British and Irish television satellite and cable channel From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
British and Irish television satellite and cable channel From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Discovery Home & Health was a British and Irish television satellite and cable channel. It was launched on 1 July 2000 as part of the Discovery Channel's bouquet of channels, as Discovery Health, following a similar format to the American channel of the same name.
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| Programming | |
|---|---|
| Picture format | 576i 16:9 SDTV |
| Timeshift service | Discovery Home & Health +1 |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Discovery, Inc. |
| Sister channels | Animal Planet Discovery Channel Discovery History Discovery Science Discovery Shed Discovery Turbo DMAX Food Network HGTV Investigation Discovery Quest Quest Red Really TLC |
| History | |
| Launched | 1 July 2000 |
| Closed | 6 January 2021 |
| Replaced by | Content shifted to Discovery+ |
| Former names | Discovery Health (2000–2005) |
It was rebranded on 7 May 2005 to its current name, and relaunched as a female oriented lifestyle channel. This coincided with the relaunch of Discovery Home & Leisure as Discovery Real Time, a male oriented channel.[1] In the same month, a timeshift service - Discovery Home & Health +1, began test operations on Sky[2] and fully launched on the 23rd.[3]
On 30 April 2013, Discovery Home & Health received a new look, following the closure of Discovery Real Time and Discovery Travel & Living, and began broadcasting in widescreen, the last of Discovery's UK channels to do so. Some programming from the closed channels was transferred over to Home & Health. At the same time the channels also moved into Real Time's old EPG slots on Sky and did so on Virgin Media on 7 May 2013.[4]
The network was superseded by the streaming platform Discovery+, which effectively carries all of its content, and it was discontinued with immediate effect on 6 January 2021, the same fate which befell Discovery Shed.[5]
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