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Country | India |
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Broadcast area | Indian Subcontinent |
Headquarters | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English Hindi |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 576i for the SD feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Warner Bros. Discovery India |
Sister channels | See List of channels owned by Warner Bros. Discovery in India |
History | |
Launched | 2014 12 February 2018 (Discovery Jeet) 13 January 2020 (second incarnation of ID) | (ID)
Replaced | Jeet Prime |
Closed | February 12, 2018 (original) |
Former names | Discovery Jeet (2018-19) Jeet Prime (2019-20) |
Availability - Available on all major Indian DTH & Cables. | |
Terrestrial | |
DVB-T2 (India) | Check local frequencies |
Streaming media | |
Discovery+ (India) | SD & HD |
Jio TV (India) | SD & HD |
Amazon Prime Video (India) | 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] [2]
The channel was rebranded as Discovery Jeet in 2018, and later was rebranded as Jeet Prime. [3] 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. [4] Later, on 1 February 2018, the channel rebranded as Discovery Jeet with English, Tamil, Telugu audio feeds. [3]
The company also shifted their headquarters from Delhi to Mumbai which is more suited for building a national general entertainment channel. [5] It aims to create 1000 hours of original content a year. [6] The shows will also be available digitally via Netflix. [3] The channel had a reach of 140 million on the day of launch. [7]
Discovery announced plans to revamp the channel with dubbed content from Scripps after low ratings. [2]
However, things did not work out as planned and on 13 January 2020, the channel was rebranded again to Investigation Discovery.
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