Investigation Discovery | |
Launch Date: | (ID) (Discovery Jeet) (second incarnation of ID) |
Picture Format: | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 576i for the SD feed) |
Former Names: | Discovery Jeet (2018-19) Jeet Prime (2019-20) |
Replaced: | Jeet Prime |
Closed Date: | February 12, 2018 (original) |
Owner: | Warner Bros. Discovery India |
Headquarters: | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
Country: | India |
Area: | Indian Subcontinent |
Language: | English Hindi |
Sister Channels: | See List of channels owned by Warner Bros. Discovery in India |
Terr Serv 1: | DVB-T2 (India) |
Terr Chan 1: | Check local frequencies |
Availability Note: | - Available on all major Indian DTH & Cables. |
Online Serv 1: | Discovery+ (India) |
Online Chan 1: | SD & HD |
Online Serv 2: | Jio TV (India) |
Online Chan 2: | SD & HD |
Online Serv 3: | Amazon Prime Video (India) |
Online Chan 3: | SD & HD |
Investigation Discovery (abbreviated as ID) is an Indian multinational pay television network dedicated to true-crime documentaries owned by Warner Bros. Discovery broadcasting in English and Hindi. The channel was launched on 1 June 2014 then again relaunched in January 2020. The channel airs programming from its American counterpart and Scripps.[1]
The channel was rebranded as Discovery Jeet in 2018, and later was rebranded as Jeet Prime.[2] Due to poor ratings, the channel switched back as Investigation Discovery in 2020.
Investigation Discovery was launched in 2014 by Discovery Communications India as a Hindi-language entertainment channel.[3] Later, on 1 February 2018, the channel rebranded as Discovery Jeet with English, Tamil, Telugu audio feeds.
The company also shifted their headquarters from Delhi to Mumbai which is more suited for building a national general entertainment channel.[4] It aims to create 1000 hours of original content a year.[5] The shows will also be available digitally via Netflix. The channel had a reach of 140 million on the day of launch.[6]
Discovery announced plans to revamp the channel with dubbed content from Scripps after low ratings.[7]
However, things did not work out as planned and on 13 January 2020, the channel was rebranded again to Investigation Discovery.