Discovery Life

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Discovery Life
Discovery Life logo.svg
Launched February 1, 2011; 13 years ago (2011-02-01)
Owned by Discovery Communications
Picture format 1080i (HDTV)
480i (SDTV)
Headquarters Elizabeth, New Jersey
Formerly called Discovery Fit & Health (2011–15)
Replaced Discovery Health Channel
FitTV
Sister channel(s) Discovery Channel
TLC
Animal Planet
Discovery Family
Science
Investigation Discovery
American Heroes Channel
Destination America
Velocity
Discovery en Español
Discovery Familia
Website www.discoverylife.com
Availability
Satellite
DirecTV Channel 261
Cable
Verizon FiOS Channel 161
IPTV
AT&T U-verse Channel 466
Frontier Vantage Channel 466 (Northeast), 468 (Durham)
Southern Fibernet 1403 (HD)
403 (SD)

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

File:Discovery Fit & Health logo.png
Discovery Health & Fit logo

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

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