Discovery Kids was a UK and Ireland pay television channel targeted towards a child audience. Initially launched in February 2000 exclusively on ONdigital (later ITV Digital) alongside its timesharing service Discovery Wings, it was soon expanded to other platforms such as Sky Digital and Virgin Media. The channel was closed with Discovery Wings on 28 February 2007 to make way for Discovery Turbo, which took over both the daytime and evening slots.
History
On 22 December 1999, it was announced that two new Discovery networks – Discovery Kids and Discovery Wings, would launch exclusively on ONdigital on 1 February 2000. Both channels would replace and take over the timesharing space occupied by Carlton Kids and Carlton World.[1]
On 12 October 2001, it was announced that the main Discovery Channel would launch on ITV Digital on 17 October, with Discovery announcing that it would fully replace both Kids and Wings on that platform on 18 November.[2]