The channel is broadcast from the United Kingdom and holds an Ofcom licence.

The channel was registered as "Discovery Channel Europe" until August 2006, when it changed its name to "Discovery (Central & Eastern Europe inc.

[1] Later it changed back to Discovery Channel (Europe).

[2] Discovery Channel (Europe) was launched from the UK in 1989.

Eventually it split into different channels for different markets: Some of the countries that still receive the European version are Iceland, Ukraine, Israel, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Cyprus, Greece, Malta and Sub-Sahara Africa.