Discovery Life
| Headquarters | Elizabeth, New Jersey |
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| Ownership | |
| Owner | Discovery Communications |
Discovery Life Channel, formerly Discovery Fit & Health, is an American digital cable and satellite ADC television network that is owned by Discovery Communications. The channel's programming focus is dedicated to various life events. Launched on February 1, 2011, it is the result of the merger of Discovery Health Channel and FitTV and features programs formerly found on both channels.
As of February 2015, approximately 46,696,000 American households (40.1% of households with television) receive Discovery Life.[1]
History
Discovery Communications shut down the original Discovery Health Channel at 11:59 pm ET on December 31, 2010, and used its old channel space a minute later to launch the Oprah Winfrey Network, a new network under the auspices of former talk show host Oprah Winfrey. Its old shows soon began airing on FitTV.
On January 17, 2011, Discovery Communications announced that FitTV and the intellectual property of the Discovery Health Channel would be merged and renamed as Discovery Fit & Health on February 1, 2011, using FitTV's old channel space.[2][3] Gradually the fitness-oriented programs carried over from FitTV were phased out in favor of more docudrama-style programming.
Re-brand
Discovery Communications rebranded the channel as Discovery Life on January 15, 2015.
In Poland the channel was launched on February 1, 2015 in lieu of Animal Planet. The HD version of Animal Planet remained unchanged and is still available on digital platforms and on cable.
Programming
Current
- 50 Ways to Kill Your Mother
- Addicted
- Baby Week
- Bizarre ER
- Body Bizarre
- Boston Med
- Critically Real
- Diagnose Me
- Diagnosis: Dead or Alive
- Discovery Life Presents
- Dr. G: Medical Examiner
- Emergency 24/7
- Exposed: My Naked Truth
- Facing Trauma with Dr. Andrew A. Jacono
- Hoarding: Behind Closed Doors
- I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant
- I'm Pregnant and...
- My Mom Is Obsessed
- Mystery Diagnosis
- New Girls on the Block
- NY ER
- Outrageous Births: Tales from the Crib
- Psych Week
- Secret Sex Lives: Swingers
- Secretly Pregnant
- Sex Sent Me to the ER
- Sex-a-thon
- Shocking Family Secrets
- Sin City ER
- Sydney ER
- The Day I Almost Died
- The Girl with Half a Face, The Mistress
- Trauma: Seconds to Live
- Untold Stories of the ER
- Vegas ER
- World's Worst Mom[4][5]
References
- ^ Seidman, Robert (February 22, 2015). "List of how many homes each cable network is in as of February 2015". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved March 14, 2015.
- ^ Gorman, Bill (January 17, 2011). "Discovery Communications to Unveil Discovery Fit & Health on February 1, 2011". TV By the Numbers. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
- ^ "Discovery To Launch New Health, Fitness Channel". TV News Check. January 17, 2011. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
- ^ "Discovery Fit & Health Programming". Discovery Channel Website. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
- ^ "TV Shows". Discovery Life Website. Retrieved September 18, 2015.
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