Discovery Kids (Australia)

Discovery Kids (stylised as Discovery K!ds) was an Australian subscription television channel, aimed at 2-6 year olds screening factual and educational programming. The channel launched on Foxtel on 3 November 2014.

The channel replaced Discovery Home & Health, whose select programming moved to TLC.

The channel ceased operations on 1 February 2020, after which the channel space created in 2007 by Discovery Home & Health ceased to exist. No reason was given to why it ceased.

Why has it closed?
As stated above, the reason for this is not known.

Although it is believed that due to being exclusively on Foxtel and not on the other Australian providers, it had little audience.

Like the case of DKids in the Arab countries, it is likely that this closure was just a simple mistake made by Discovery, which would explain why they never explained the reasons why they shut down it in Australia.

Some believe it was due to the expiration of a Discovery contract with Foxtel, since it was exclusive to said satellite provider and was not available for others.

Probability of returning
The closure of Discovery Kids feeds in Southeast Asia, Australia and MENA is making the brand disappear little by little, currently, there are still feeds from Latin America, Brazil and India. What made the brand still exist as a channel.

Relaunching Discovery Kids in the Australia and Arab world would be more likely than relaunching it in the US, UK, Canada and Southeast Asia as both feeds had no replacement unlike those feeds which did.