Discovery Channel was launched on 1 September 1997 on the pay-television platforms TELE+ Digitale and Stream TV and has been exclusive to Sky Italia since its launch in 2003.

The present Discovery Channel logo was adopted on 9 April 2019.

[1][2] A high-definition simulcast of Discovery Channel started on 20 July 2009.

[3] It was the first channel from Discovery EMEA to be simulcasted in both SD and HD.

While from November 1 2023, the timeshift +1 version of the channel switches to numbering 408.