1 April – Discovery Channel Europe launches. UK viewers could only receive the channel from Intelsat satellites at 27.5° West.
1990
No events.
1991
No events.
1992
March – TLC launches.
1993
22 July – Discovery, but not TLC, starts broadcasting on the Astra satellite.
1 September – Discovery becomes a pay channel when they join the newly formed Sky Multichannels package. It broadcasts on the platform for eight hours each day, timesharing transponder space with CMT Europe.
1994
TLC launches on Astra and timeshares with Discovery, broadcasting daily from 9am until 4pm. Discovery extends its broadcast hours by two hours and is now on air between 4pm and 2am.
1995
No events.
1996
No events.
1997
April – TLC is relaunched as Discovery Home & Leisure.[1]
Animal Planet launches, broadcasting from midday until midnight.
1998
1 October – The launch of Sky Digital sees the launch of new channels from Discovery - Discovery Civilisation, Discovery Sci-Trek, Discovery Travel & Adventure and Discovery Channel +1 - and the currently on air channels expand broadcasting hours and are now on air for 18 hours a day on digital platforms, beginning at 8am.[2]
1999
No events.
2000s[]
2000
1 February – Discovery Wings and Discovery Kids launch. They are created for the OnDigital platform. Discovery Kids broadcasts during the day with Wings taking over for the evening and are initially exclusive to OnDigital.
May – Animal Planet +1 and Discovery Home & Leisure +1 launch.
18 November – Discovery Wings and Discovery Kids are replaced on ITV Digital by the Discovery Channel. Kids and Wings continue as full time channels on other platforms.
The closure of Sky's analogue service sees Discovery ending its part-time analogue transmissions.
2002
No events.
2003
April – Discovery Science replaces Discovery Sci-Trek.
Discovery Home & Health and Discovery Real Time replace Discovery Health and Discovery Home & Leisure respectively, the former expanding into a female-orientated lifestyle channel.
Discovery Home & Health +1 launches.
22 August – Discovery Real Time Extra launches.
2006
22 May – Discovery HD launches.
2007
1 March – Discovery Turbo replaces Discovery Wings and Discovery Kids.[3]
25 June – Discovery Channel +1.5 launches.
November – Discovery Knowledge replaces Discovery Civilisation and the schedule expands to also cover programming on engineering, crime and technology.
30 September – QUEST launches. It is the first non-Discover-branded channel to launch in the UK and is established as a free-to-air showcase of programming from across the Discovery channel portfolio.
November –
DMAX +1.5 closes.
QUEST +1 launch.
2010s[]
2010
15 October – QUEST begins broadcasting a 24-hour schedule on all platforms except Freeview.
7 November – Discovery History and Discovery History +1 replace Discovery Knowledge and Discovery Knowledge +1.[6]
2011
30 June – QUEST begins broadcasting a 24-hour schedule on Freeview after Gems TV, with whom QUEST had shared apace, acquired a 24-hour Freeview stream.
21 July – Quest broadcasts sport for the first time when it shows live football in the form of the 2014 Schalke 04 Cup - a pre-season tournament.[8]
2015
No events.
2016
No events.
2017
15 March – Quest Red launches.
2018
March – Following Discovery, Inc.'s purchase of Scripps Networks Interactive, Discovery adds three lifestyle channels to its portfolio - Food Network, HGTV and Travel Channel. The acquisition also sees Discovery taking a 50% stake in UKTV.[9]
2019
16 January – DMAX becomes a feee-to-air channel and launches on Freeview and Freesat.
1 April – Discovery Inc. announces that it will acquire BBC Studios' stakes in Good Food, Home and Really, while BBC Studios will acquire Discovery's stakes in the seven remaining UKTV networks for £173 million.[10]
11 June – Discovery Inc. takes full control of Good Food, Home and Really.
12 September – The Food Network replaces Good Food.[11]
