Science Channel
Launched	1999
Owned by	Discovery Communications, Inc.
Headquarters	Silver Springs, MD
Sister channel(s)	TLC, Animal Planet, Discovery Health Channel, Travel Channel, Discovery Times, Discovery Kids, Discovery Channel, Discovery Home, Military Channel, Discovery en Español, Discovery HD Theater
Website	Official Site
Availability
Satellite
Astro (Malaysia)	Channel 53 (beginning May 2007)
DirecTV	Channel 284
Dish Network	Channel 193
C-Band	AMC 11-Channel 612 (4DTV Digital)
Cable
Verizon FiOS	Channel 102
Comcast	Channels Vary
Time Warner Cable	Channels Vary
Charter	Channels Vary
Cox Cable	Channels Vary
IO Digital Cable (Cablevision)	Channel 170
Bright House Networks	Channels Vary
Midcontinent Communications	Channels May Vary
IPTV over ADSL
now TV (Hong Kong)	Channel 211

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It was originally named Discovery Science, part of the Discovery Digital Suite of networks. On April 1, 2002, Discovery Science was officially renamed "The Science Channel". In the first quarter of 2003, The Science Channel began an extensive "makeover" to spice up the channel and incorporate new original programming. One of the more popular shows introduced since this move has been the recent addition of Survivorman with Les Stroud^{[citation needed]}, as well as showing more content from PBS, the BBC, other Discovery networks, and various other third-party sources. is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A makeover is a term applied to changing ones appearance, usually through cosmetics. ... Broadcast programming, or scheduling, is the practice of organizing television or radio programs in a daily, weekly, or season-long schedule. ... It has been suggested that List of Survivorman episodes be merged into this article or section. ... Les Stroud (Born October 20, 1962 in Mimico, Ontario[1][2]) is a Canadian musician, film maker, and survival enthusiast best known as the host of the television program Survivorman. ... Not to be confused with Public Broadcasting Services in Malta. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion. ... See also Discovery Channel Discovery Communications Inc. ... Third party is a term used in several contexts, including: Third party (politics) Third-party manufacturers: See aftermarket. ...

It features a lot of content that was originally produced by, or aired on, TLC, before TLC's shift towards fashion-oriented programming like Trading Spaces and What Not to Wear. The Science Channel also has a great deal of programming that deals with nature, and in some aspects, conceptually overlaps subject matter with sister station Animal Planet. For example, they both often have shows on poisonous snakes, and both sometimes show episodes of The Ultimate Guide series, some of which deal with animals. TLC Network is a cable TV network in the US that carries a variety of informational and reality-based programming. ... Fashion illustration by George Barbier of a gown by Jeanne Paquin, 1912, from La Gazette du bon ton, the most influential fashion magazine of its era. ... Trading Spaces is an hour-long television reality program on the cable channel The Learning Channel. ... This article is about the UK version. ... Galunggung in 1982, showing a combination of natural events. ... Animal Planet, launched in 1996, is a cable and satellite television network co-owned 80% by Discovery Communications, Inc. ... blue: sea snakes, black: land snakes Superfamilies and Families Henophidia Aniliidae Anomochilidae Boidae Bolyeriidae Cylindrophiidae Loxocemidae Pythonidae Tropidophiidae Uropeltidae Xenopeltidae Typhlopoidea Anomalepididae Leptotyphlopidae Typhlopidae Xenophidia Acrochordidae Atractaspididae Colubridae Elapidae Hydrophiidae Viperidae A snake is a scaly, limbless, elongate reptile from the order Squamata. ...

The channel frequently uses an interchangeable tagline in commercials for their various programs, depending on the topic. For instance, a program observing the nature of small insects used "A world without science is a world without perspective," while a program shedding new light on dinosaurs ran "A world without science is a world without history... rewritten." A third example would be "A world without science is a world without discovery." A tagline is a variant of a branding slogan typically used in marketing materials and advertising. ... A television advertisement or commercial (often called an advert in the United Kingdom) is a form of advertising in which goods, services, organizations, ideas, etc. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Perspective in theory of cognition is the choice of a context or a reference (or the result of this choice) from which to sense, categorize, measure or codify experience, cohesively forming a coherent belief, typically for comparing with another. ... Orders & Suborders Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Theropoda Ornithischia Thyreophora Ornithopoda Marginocephalia Dinosaurs were vertebrate animals that dominated the terrestrial ecosystem for over 160 million years, first appearing approximately 230 million years ago. ... HIStory - Past, Present and Future, Book I is a double-disc album (one half greatest hits, one half studio album) by American musician Michael Jackson released in June of 1995 by the Epic Records division of Sony BMG. The first disc, (HIStory Begins) contains fifteen hit singles from the past... Look up discovery in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Programming

Series

• Amazing Earth
• Animal Face-Off
• Beyond Tomorrow
• The Big Question
• Building the Ultimate
• Cosmos
• Dino Lab
• Discover Magazine
• How It's Made (from Discovery Channel Canada)
• It's All Geek to Me
• Robotica
• Universe (with John Hurt Narrating)

Films Animal Face-Off is a television program airing on Animal Planet as well as occasionally on the Discovery Channel. ... Beyond Tomorrow is an Australian television series that currently screens on the Seven Network. ... Cosmos: A Personal Voyage was the name of a thirteen part television series produced by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan which was first broadcast by the Public Broadcasting Service in 1980. ... Discover Magazine is a 1996-2000 documentary television series that airs on The Science Channel. ... How Its Made (also broadcast in Italian under the title Come è fatto and in French under the title Comment cest fait) is a television program produced in Quebec, Canada by Productions MAJ Inc. ... Discovery Channel Canada is a Canadian cable specialty television channel devoted to science and nature programming. ... Its All Geek to Me is a television program created and hosted by David Pogue that is broadcast on the Discovery HD and The Science Channel. ... Robotica Logo Robotica was a robot combat show produced for the American television cable channel TLC, a subsidiary of the Discovery Channel. ...

• Base Camp: Moon: Returning to the moon, harvesting moon dust for oxygen/water, robotics (Robonaut).
• Hawking: It is about the early work of Stephen Hawking.

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See also

• List of DirecTV channels
• List of Dish Network channels
• List of Documentary channels

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External link

• The Science Channel