Country | Australia |
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Broadcast area | Australia |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English |
Picture format | 576i (16:9 SDTV) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific |
Sister channels | Discovery Channel Animal Planet Discovery Science Discovery Turbo TLC |
History | |
Launched | 3 November 2014 |
Replaced | Discovery Home & Health |
Closed | 1 February 2020 |
Links | |
Website | www www |
Availability (at time of closure) | |
Streaming media | |
Foxtel Go | Channel 718 |
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The channel replaced Discovery Home & Health, whose select programming moved to TLC. [1]
The channel ceased operations on 1 February 2020, after which the channel space created in 2007 by Discovery Home & Health ceased to exist. No reason was given to why it ceased.
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