Discovery Channel Finland

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Discovery Channel Finland
Launched	September 1, 2007
Owned by	Discovery Communications
Broadcast area	Finland
Website	http://www.discoverychannel.fi/
Availability
Terrestrial
Canal Digital	Channel 17
PlusTV	Channel 17
Satellite
Canal Digital
Cable
Elisa
LumoTV
Welho

Discovery Channel Finland is a television channel targeting Finland owned by Discovery Networks. It has programming similar to its U.S. counterpart, the Discovery Channel.

It was launched on September 1, 2007, replacing a former pan-Nordic version of the Discovery Channel. On the same day, the analogue terrestrial transmitters were shut down and a new digital network containing, among other, Discovery Channel Finland was launched. In the terrestrial network it is a part of both the Canal Digital and PlusTV packages.

The pan-Nordic version of the Discovery Channel had carried subtitles in Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian and Danish. The new channel would only contain Finnish subtitles. Finland has a large Swedish language minority and those would now lose the possibility to choose Swedish subtitles. ^[1]

[edit] References

1. ^ "Discovery Finland saknar svensk textning", Vasabladet, August 15, 2007.