| Investigation Discovery Europe | |
|---|---|
| Launched | January - April 2009 |
| Owned by | Discovery Networks EMEA |
| Picture format | 16:9, 576i (SDTV) |
| Language | English, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Russian... |
| Broadcast area | Europe |
| Replaced | Discovery Travel & Living +1 |
| Sister channel(s) | Animal Planet Discovery Channel Discovery HD Discovery History Discovery Home & Health Discovery Real Time Discovery Science Discovery Shed Discovery Travel & Living Discovery Turbo DMAX Quest |
| Website | Investigation Discovery |
| Availability | |
| Satellite | |
| Sky | Channel 551 |
| Cyfra+ | |
| D-smart | |
| Digi TV | |
| N | Channel 136 |
| NTV Plus | |
| Total TV | |
| T-Home | |
| Cable | |
| UPC Ireland | Channel 504 |
| YouSee (Denmark) | Channel 149 |
| Investigation Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Launched | 20 January 2009 |
| Owned by | Discovery Networks UK |
| Audience share | 0.1% (June 2011, BARB) |
Investigation Discovery (abbreviated as ID.) is a cable television channel available in several European nations. It competes in the same genre as Crime & Investigation Network which is also available in some European nations such as the UK and Turkey. The ID. channel features crime programming, including "missing persons and murder inquiries, cold cases and historical crime," as well as documentaries on forensic investigations. One such program is Deadly Women, an investigative series in which former FBI agent and profiler Candice DeLong looks at female killers throughout history.
The channel was first made available in in the United Kingdom and the Ireland. The channel launched in Poland, Romania, Hungary and Greece in April 2009.[1][2]
This was followed by launched in Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro in May, 2009. On June 28, 2009, the channel replaced nTalk on the Polish platform N.[3][4] On July 15, it replaced TVN Lingua on Cyfra+.[5] On July 4, it replaced Discovery Travel & Living Europe on Ziggo.
In August 2009, ID. came to the Baltic states when it launched on the Latvian Lattelecom platform.[6] In September 2009 it was announced that the channel would be added to RCS/RDS's offerings.[7]
In April 2010 the channel was scheduled to launch in the Scandinavian countries starting in Sweden. Not later than 2011, it was also available in Belgium and the Netherlands as well as the U.S., United Kingdom and Ireland.[8]
Investigation Discovery became available on cable television in the United States in January, 2008.[9]
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