Discovery Kids was a Canadian

Canada

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 English language

English language

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 category 2

Category 2 specialty channel

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 digital cable

Digital cable

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 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 Corus Entertainment

Corus Entertainment

Corus Entertainment Inc. is a publicly traded Canadian media and entertainment conglomerate.Corus is a leading Canadian specialty television and radio producer, with additional assets in pay television, advertising services, television broadcasting, children's book publishing and children's...

 and 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...

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Discovery Kids aired informative and entertaining programming for children with an emphasis on real-life adventures, nature, technology, science and wildlife from all over the world.

Closure

In September 2009, Corus confirmed it would shut down Discovery Kids. The channel was replaced on most service providers on November 2 with Nickelodeon Canada

Nickelodeon (Canada)

Nickelodeon is a Canadian English language Category B specialty channel based on the U.S. cable network Nickelodeon. It is wholly owned by Corus Entertainment, with its name licensed from MTV Networks International, a division of Viacom....

, which however, operates under a licence originally intended for a "YTV OneWorld" network. Because it operates under a separate licence, cable and satellite companies that carried Discovery Kids would not automatically receive the new channel unless they negotiated for carriage.

Noted series

• Adventure Camp
  Adventure Camp
  Adventure Camp is a television program currently being shown on the Discovery Kids Channel and to be shown on its replacement, The Hub. The show takes place at Sea World Orlando and Busch Gardens Tampa. It is based upon the real life camps of Sea World/Busch Gardens Adventure Camps...
  
  
• Bindi the Jungle Girl
  Bindi the Jungle Girl (TV series)
  Bindi the Jungle Girl is an Australian children's television nature documentary series, presented by Bindi Irwin, the daughter of Steve and Terri Irwin. The series is produced and shot in Queensland by The Best Picture Show Company for Discovery Kids and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...
  
  
• Cyberchase
  Cyberchase
  Cyberchase is an American educational television series for children age 6-12, that teaches children discrete mathematics. The show airs on Public Broadcasting Service and PBS Kids GO! in the United States. Seasons one through five were produced by Thirteen/WNET New York and Nelvana...
  
  
• Endurance
  Endurance (TV series)
  Endurance is an American reality television children's program, currently shown on the Discovery Kids cable network in the United States and also on networks in other countries. The show's format is somewhat similar to the CBS television series Survivor, though with a teenaged cast...
  
  
• Ghost Trackers
  Ghost Trackers
  Ghost Trackers is a children's reality show on HBO that was previously aired on Discovery Kids Canada, & YTV.-Show summary:Middle-school age contestants compete for the title of "top tracker" by investigating supposedly haunted places armed with "ghost tracking technology." Previously hidden...
  
  
• Grossology
  Grossology (TV series)
  Grossology is a Canadian animated television series produced by Nelvana, and based loosely on the non-fictional children’s book series of the same name by Sylvia Branzei. It debuted on the YTV network in Canada on September 29, 2006, and was first shown on Discovery Kids in the United States on...
  
  
• Martin Mystery
  Martin Mystery
  Martin Mystery may refer to:*Martin Mystère, an Italian comic book published in the U.S. as Martin Mystery*Martin Mystery, a television animation series inspired by the comic character...
  
  
• The Magic School Bus
  The Magic School Bus
  The Magic School Bus is a series of children's books about science written by author Joanna Cole. They feature the antics of Ms. Valerie Frizzle, an elementary school teacher, and her class, who board a magical school bus which takes them on field trips to impossible locations such as the solar...
  
  
• Popular Mechanics For Kids
  Popular Mechanics for Kids
  Popular Mechanics for Kids was a Canadian children's television series based on Popular Mechanics magazine. It was notable for starting the careers of both Elisha Cuthbert and Jay Baruchel. The show's purpose was to teach children how things work...
  
  
• Schoolhouse Rock!
  Schoolhouse Rock!
  Schoolhouse Rock! is an American interstitial programming series of animated musical educational short films that aired during the Saturday morning children's programming on the U.S. television network ABC. The topics covered included grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and civics...
  
  
• Timeblazers
• Trading Spaces: Boys vs. Girls
  Trading Spaces: Boys vs. Girls
  Trading Spaces: Boys vs. Girls is a 2003 reality television series spin-off of the home redecorating series, Trading Spaces, hosted by Diane Mizota. During the fourth season, Chuck Cureau hosted seven episodes until the show ended in 2005...
  
  
• Uh Oh!
• My Brand New Life
• Mystery Hunters
  Mystery Hunters
  Mystery Hunters is a Canadian Documentary television series aimed at a Young audience. It aired on YTV in Canada and on Discovery Kids in the United States. It was also dubbed in Japanese and aired in Japan on NHK....
  
  
• Sci-Q
• Aquateam
• Willa's Wild Life
  Willa's Wild Life
  Willa's Wild Life is an animated television series that first aired on ABC2 in 2008, then on Qubo and Nickelodeon Canada in 2009. The show is based on Dan Yaccarino's book An Octopus Followed Me Home. It is about a 9 year old girl named Willa who has some very unusual pets...
  
  
• Girlz TV
• Canadian Geography For Kids
• The Future is Wild
  The Future is Wild
  The Future Is Wild was a 2002 seven-part documentary television miniseries. Based on research and interviews with several scientists, the miniseries shows how life could evolve in the future if Homo sapiens became extinct; the Discovery Channel broadcast changed this outlook by stating the human...
  
  
• Truth or Scare
  Truth or Scare
  Truth or Scare is a television series on the Discovery Kids network. The show aired from October 25, 2001 to January 1, 2003. Each episode was 30 minutes long with commercials....
  
  
• Very Odd Jobs
• Prank Patrol
  Prank Patrol
  Prank Patrol is a children's television series currently airing on YTV. Each week, Andy and a team of "ninjas" help kids pull off pranks on an unsuspecting victim...
  
  
• Spy Academy

See also

• Discovery Kids
  Discovery Kids
  Discovery Kids is an American website owned by Discovery Communications, Inc. created for children. Until October 10, 2010, it was an American digital cable specialty channel, owned by Discovery Communications with television programming for education of children. It was launched in October 1996...
  
   (U.S.)
• Discovery Kids
  Discovery Kids (UK)
  Discovery Kids was a British educational children's channel. The channel initially began broadcasting exclusively on the On Digital service time sharing with Discovery Wings; the channel eventually became available on other digital platforms such as Sky Digital, and Virgin Media.Discovery Kids and...
  
  (UK)