Discovery Turbo

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Discovery Turbo
Discovery Turbo logo
Launched United Kingdom and Latin America
1 March 2007
Asia and Austrailia
2008
Owned by Discovery Networks Western Europe
Picture format 576i (16:9 SDTV)
Audience share 0.1% (November 2012, BARB)
Replaced Discovery Wings
Discovery Kids
Sister channel(s) Discovery Channel

Discovery Turbo is a television channel devoted to programming about transport.

History

It launched on 1 March 2007, replacing Discovery Wings and Discovery Kids. [1]

The original logo. Still used in some countries.

It also launched in Asia and Austrailia in 2008, avaliable formerly on SelecTV until the closure of its English service in late 2010. [2][3]


Discovery Turbo MAX

Discovery Turbo MAX is an alternative channel in Australia. It launched on 15 November 2009. It also has a timeshift service called Discovery Turbo MAX +2.

External links

References

  1. "Discovery Goes Into Turbo Mode!". MediaWeek. 7 October 2008. 
  2. Addington, Tim (15 March 2007). "SelecTV adds five Discovery channels to platform". B&T Weekly. Retrieved 16 November 2010. 
  3. Chessell, James (20 August 2010). City Beat. "Bruce Gordon's SelecTV to make changes". The Australian. Retrieved 20 August 2010. 
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