| Discovery Channel | |
| Picture Format: | 16:9 1080i (HDTV) |
| Owner: | Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA |
| Country: | United Kingdom[1] |
| Language: | French |
| Area: | France Switzerland Monaco Belgium Morocco Lebanon Tunisia Mauritius Madagascar Sub-Saharan Africa New Caledonia |
| Sister Channels: | Cartoon Network Cartoonito TCM Cinéma Warner TV TLC Warner TV Next Discovery Investigation Boomerang |
| Website: | discoverychannel.fr |
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.
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]
Programs are mostly taken from the United Kingdom and the United States and include: