Discovery Channel is a French channel that was launched on 1 September 2004. Until then, France had been the only region in Western Europe not reached by the Discovery Channel. It initially reached 3.2 million subscribers via the CanalSat platform.[2] On 31 March 2009, the channel adopted the also known as a US channel.
The channel faces competition from other documentary channels such as Planète+ and National Geographic.
In December 2016, Altice acquired an exclusivity agreement with NBCUniversal and Discovery Networks.[3][4] Discovery Channel and Science were removed from Canal on 17 January 2017, and French versions of Investigation Discovery and Discovery Family were launched exclusively on SFR.[5]
Programs are mostly taken from the United Kingdom and the United States and include: