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DISCOVERY HEALTH FAST FACTS
- As a dual media brand, Discovery Health Channel and Discovery Health Online combine the strengths of television and the Internet to provide a trustworthy and comprehensive service for our audience.
- Discovery Health aims to provide the highest quality factual health information and entertainment in the UK for people who have an interest in and appetite for health-related stories, issues and information.
- The goal is to facilitate the information pathway between consumers and healthcare professionals, and provide the common sense perspective and real life experiences necessary to personalise health issues. Discovery Health is not prescriptive, but enabling, compelling and entertaining.
- Discovery Health broadcasts a combination of fresh material; acquired, co-produced and original. Daytime programming focuses on personal health and wellbeing. Primetime delivers factual series and one-off specials about great medical discoveries, the future of medicine and compelling human stories.
- Discovery Health's first commissioned series Home Health Show, with natural health expert Ros Widdowson, airs in March 2001, and Eighties singer Toyah Willcox presents Beyond Medicine in April 2001.
Subscribers
Discovery Health is currently broadcast to 10.3 million individuals in the UK, from 6am until midnight, on Sky Digital, channel 196.
Online
Discovery Health Online is accessed through www.discoveryhealth.co.uk, and features comprehensive programme information, TV listings and highlights, as well as supporting editorial information on key series, and the latest health news and fact sheets.
Ratings
Launched in July 2000 as the latest of Discovery s ten European channels, Discovery Health is now the third most watched channel in Discovery Network Europe s UK portfolio, behind Discovery Channel and Discovery Home and Leisure, amongst adults in Sky digital homes.
Partnerships
Via off-screen relationships, and on-screen / online content, the Discovery Health dual media brand will be at the forefront of the current national initiative to empower the individual, working alongside current public policy on health issues. Discovery Health has partnerships with leading independent health organisations and third parties, notably the Doctor Patient Partnership.
Discovery Health also works with a number of independent health experts and associations, including Breast Cancer Care, the Digestive Disorders Foundation and Health Unlimited, and has established an Advisory Board of healthcare professionals to guide and inspire the editorial content, both on TV and online.