Discovery History launched on 26 January 1999 as the Discovery Civilisation Channel, later dropping ‘Channel’ from the name, and was devoted to documentaries regarding history and civilizations, historic, ancient or present. On 1 November 2007, Discovery Civilisation was re-branded as Discovery Knowledge. The new channel was still focused on history and natural history, but the schedule now included programming on engineering, crime and technology. On 7 November 2010, Discovery Knowledge was rebranded as Discovery History. The idea behind this rebranding was to take the channel’s focus back to becoming “the only UK channel dedicated to factual history”, to counter the fact that its competitors History and Yesterday had begun showing more reality and scripted programming.
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Discovery Knowledge was rebranded to Discovery History on the 7th of November 2010. The idea behind this rebranding was to take the channel’s focus back to becoming “the only UK channel dedicated to factual history”, to counter the fact that its competitors History and Yesterday had begun showing more reality and scripted programming.
