Discovery Science is a Canadian

Canada

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 English language

English language

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 Category B specialty channel

Specialty channel

A specialty channel can be a commercial broadcasting or non-commercial television channel which consists of television programming focused on a single genre, subject or targeted television market at a specific demographic....

 owned by CTV Speciality Television Inc. (Bell Media 80%/ESPN

ESPN

Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, commonly known as ESPN, is an American global cable television network focusing on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports talk shows, and other original programming....

 20%) in partnership with Discovery Communications

Discovery Communications

Discovery Communications, Inc. is an American global media and entertainment company. The company started as a single channel in 1985, The Discovery Channel. Today, DCI has global operations offering 28 network entertainment brands on more than 100 channels in more than 180 countries in 39...

 airing science-related programming.

History

Discovery Science was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on December 14, 2000 as Discovery Civilization Channel. The application was granted to CTV Inc., later to be transferred to its subsidiary, CTV Specialty Television Inc., in which ESPN owns a 20% interest. The channel was originally described in regulatory documents as "a national English-language Category 2 specialty television service dedicated to bringing the diverse people and cultures of the world to Canadian viewers. The service will be dedicated to exploring and understanding the roots of human development and learning from other cultures and traditions."

The channel launched on August 15, 2001 as Discovery Civilization Channel, with programming devoted to human civilization and history. The channel was originally intended to be a Canadian version of an American channel of the same name, which was later reformatted and renamed Discovery Times, and later became Investigation Discovery.

On June 4, 2010 CTVglobemedia announced that Discovery Civilization Channel would be rebranded as Discovery Science on September 27, 2010, focusing on science-related programming.

Discovery Science HD

On June 17, 2011 Bell Media announced that it will launch Discovery Science HD, a high definition

High-definition television

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 (HD) simulcast of the standard definition

Standard-definition television

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 feed, by the end of 2011.

Noted series

• Build It Bigger
  Extreme Engineering
  Extreme Engineering is a documentary television series that airs on the Discovery Channel and the Science Channel. The program features futuristic and ongoing engineering projects. As of April 2011, the show is airing its ninth season. Danny Forster first hosted the series in season 4 and has been...
  
  
• Daily Planet
  Daily Planet (TV series)
  Daily Planet is a television program on Discovery Channel Canada which features daily news, discussion and commentary on the scientific aspects of current events and discoveries. The show first aired as @discovery.ca in 1995. It was renamed to Daily Planet in 2002. The show relaunched with in high...
  
  
• How Do They Do It?
  How Do They Do It?
  How Do They Do It? is a television series produced by Wag TV for Discovery Channel. Each programme explores how 2 or 3 ordinary objects are made and used...
  
  
• How It's Made
  How It's Made
  How It's Made is a documentary television series that premiered in 2001 on Science in the U.S., and Discovery Channel Canada in Canada. The program is produced in the Canadian province of Quebec by Productions MAJ, Inc...
  
  
• Meteorite Men
• Monsters Inside Me
  Monsters Inside Me
  Monsters Inside Me is a television documentary series about parasites that live on or, in many cases, inside the human body.-Summary:Each episode has dramatizations that show illnesses caused by parasitic infection. Once the parasites have been identified, their life cycles are illustrated...
  
  
• Popular Science's Future Of...
• Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible
  Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible
  Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible is an American documentary television series on Science which first aired in the United States on December 1, 2009. The series is hosted by theoretical physicist Michio Kaku and is based on his book Physics of the Impossible. In each episode, Dr...
  
  
• Sci-Trek
• Science of the Movies

• Note: series list is current as of September 2010.

International distribution

• Jamaica
  Jamaica
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   - distributed on Flow Cable systems.
• Bahamas - distributed on Cable Bahamas systems.
• Trinidad & Tobago - distributed on Flow Cable systems.
• Brazil
  Brazil
  Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
  
   - distributed on NET Serviços de Comunicação systems.
• Chile
  Chile
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   - distributed on VTR Digital Cable systems.
• Mexico
  Mexico
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  - distributed on Cablevision