Broadcast area | Finland |
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Ownership | |
Owner | Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA |
Sister channels | Discovery HD Showcase Animal Planet Animal Planet HD |
History | |
Launched | September 1, 2007 |
Links | |
Website | http://www.discoverychannel.fi/ |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
DNA | Channel 44 |
Discovery Channel Finland is a television channel targeting Finland owned by Discovery Networks. It has programming similar to its U.S. counterpart, the Discovery Channel.
It was launched on September 1, 2007, replacing a former pan-Nordic version of the Discovery Channel. On the same day, the analogue terrestrial transmitters were shut down and a new digital network containing, among other, Discovery Channel Finland was launched. [1] In the terrestrial network it is a part of both the Canal Digital and PlusTV packages.
The pan-Nordic version of the Discovery Channel had carried subtitles in Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian and Danish. The new channel only contains Finnish subtitles. [2]
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