- This article is about the US television channel. For the Canadian version, see Discovery Health (Canada).
Discovery Health Channel (or DHC), launched on August 2, 1999, is a U.S. cable television network dedicated to programming that highlights various aspects of health and wellness (and unwellness as well). The network is a media property of Discovery Communications Inc., the parent company of other popular cable TV networks such as Discovery Channel, TLC, and Animal Planet.
A version of DHC has been set up in Canada as well; Discovery Health Canada is a joint venture between Canadian media giant CW Media and Discovery Communications Inc. Another version of the channel in the United Kingdom has since been renamed Discovery Home & Health.
In the beginning, DHC started out rerunning material from other Discovery Communications entities, most notably the medical-based reality show programming from TLC. As the network matured, it began producing its own programming in the reality show genre, mostly dealing with babies (Babies: Special Delivery, Birth Day), bodies (Plastic Surgery: Before and After, National Body Challenge), and blood (The Critical Hour, Dr. G: Medical Examiner). DHC also shows episodes of the CBS medical drama series Chicago Hope on a semi-regular basis.
DHC won its first Daytime Emmy in 2004 for its original series about adoptive families, Adoption Stories. Most of DHC's fitness-related programming has since been spun off to its sister network FitTV, though some of it remains, such as the annual National Body Challenge series.
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OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network
In 2009, Discovery Communications will cease the broadcasting of the Discovery Health Channel and replace it with OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network.[1] According to Discovery, DHC was selected to be dropped, due to its low viewer ratings.[2]
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