Discovery Channel (Canadian TV channel)
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Ownership | |
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Owner | CTV Specialty Television, Inc. (Bell Media-ESPN Inc. (80% and managing partner) Warner Bros. Discovery (20%) |
Sister channels | Animal Planet Canal D Discovery Science Discovery Velocity Investigation Discovery |
History | |
Launched | January 1, 1995 |
Links | |
Website | Discovery Channel Canada |
Discovery Channel (often referred to as simply Discovery) is a
Launched on January 1, 1995 by NetStar Communications, this channel is devoted to nature, adventure, science and technology programming. The channel is headquartered at
.History
Licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in 1994, Discovery Channel launched on January 1, 1995 under the ownership of NetStar Communications Inc.
On March 24, 2000, the CRTC approved a proposal by CTV Inc. to acquire voting interest in NetStar Communications Inc. CTV renamed the company CTV Speciality Television Inc.
A
.On June 17, 2011, Bell Media announced that it would launch, for a second time, an HD simulcast feed of Discovery Channel; this feed was launched on August 18, 2011.[2]
In November 2015, Bell Media announced Discovery Channel Canada's first original scripted drama, the Jason Momoa-fronted Frontier, chronicling the North American fur trade. The series was picked up internationally by Netflix.[3]
Programming
In addition to shows acquired from its
Unusual for any Discovery Channel network across the world, after the 2015 retirement of CRTC genre protection rules which mandated that it predominantly air factual programming,[5] the channel added second-run fictional series with a loose connection to STEM concepts in 2018, including The Big Bang Theory, Bones and CSI: NY.
Original series (aired both past and present)
- Against All Odds
- Acorn the Nature Nut
- Aerospace
- Airshow
- Alien Mysteries
- Beastly Countdown
- Beyond Invention
- Birth of a Sports Car
- Bitchin' Rides
- Blood, Sweat & Tools
- Blueprint for Disaster
- BBQ Pit Wars
- Breaking Point
- Break It Down
- Building the Biggest
- Building the Ultimate (UK: Fivecoproduction)
- Canadian Geographic Presents
- Canada's Greatest Know-It-All
- Canada's Worst Driver
- Canada's Worst Handyman
- Cold Water Cowboys
- Cash Cab
- Combat School
- Connections
- Creepy Canada
- A Cut Above[6]
- Daily Planet (formerly @discovery.ca) (cancelled in 2018 as the result of Bell Media layoffs)
- Dangerous Flights
- Doctor*Ology
- Don't Drive Here
- Eco-Challenge
- Exhibit A: Secrets of Forensic Science
- Factory Made
- Fat N' Furious: Rolling Thunder
- Flightpath
- Fool's Gold
- Forensic Factor
- Frontier
- Frontiers of Construction
- Great Canadian Parks[7]
- Guinea Pig
- Highway Thru Hell
- High Tech Rednecks
- Wag TVcoproduction)
- How It's Made
- Insectia
- I Shouldn't Be Alive
- Jacked!
- Jade Fever
- Jetstream
- Junk Raiders
- Junk Raiders 2
- Last Car Standing
- Licence to Drill
- Licence to Drill: Louisiana
- Manufactured
- Mayday
- Mega Builders
- MegaSpeed
- Mega World
- Mean Machines (UK IWC Media coproduction)
- Mean Green Machines
- The Mightiest
- Mighty Planes
- Mighty Ships
- Mighty Trains
- Naked Science (UK Pioneer Productions coproduction)
- Nature of the Beast
- Never Ever Do This At Home
- On the Run
- Out in the Cold
- Patent Bending
- Pyros
- Qubit
- Risk Takers
- Rocket Science
- Sci Q
- Science To Go
- Star Racer
- Superships
- The Body Machine
- The Exodus Decoded
- The Sex Files
- The World's Strangest UFO Stories
- Ultimate Cars (UK IWC Media coproduction)
- Ultimate
- Vegas Rat Rods
- White Hot Winter
- What's That About?
- You Asked For It
See also
- Discovery Channel (US)
- Science Channel (US)
References
- ^ Over-the-Air Transmitters Now Broadcasting CTV High-Definition Signals in Toronto and Vancouver CTV 2005-08-17
- ^ Discovery Channel and Bell Media Factual Networks Announce Fall 2011 "Must See" Highlights CNW 2011-06-17
- ^ "Netflix Picks Up Canadian Period Action Series 'Frontier' Starring Jason Momoa". Deadline. 16 November 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2016.
- ^ "Bell Media cancels shows 'Daily Planet' and 'Innerspace,' lays off 17 positions". The London Free Press. 2018-05-24. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
- ^ Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (March 12, 2015). "Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2015-86". Retrieved May 12, 2018. (paragraph 254)
- ^ David, Greg (July 24, 2022). "Discovery reveals the 12 carvers competing in the all-new series A Cut Above, beginning August 8". TV, eh. Retrieved July 29, 2022 – via Bell Media.
- ^ "Untitled Document". Archived from the original on 2012-04-15. Retrieved 2006-02-17.