Real Time (TV channel)
Country | Italy[1] |
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Broadcast area | Sub-Saharan Africa (in English) |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Italian English (African version only) |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV |
Ownership | |
Owner | Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA |
Sister channels | (Warner Bros. Discovery Italy) Nove DMAX Food Network Frisbee Giallo HGTV K2 Motor Trend Warner TV (Warner Bros. Discovery Africa) Discovery Channel Animal Planet TLC Eurosport 1 Eurosport 2 Discovery Family Investigation Discovery Travel Channel Food Network |
History | |
Launched | 1 October 2005 |
Closed | 1 December 2020; (+1 channel) |
Former names | Discovery Real Time (2005–2010) |
Links | |
Website | realtimetv.it |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Digital | Channel 31 (HD) |
GOtv (Sub-Saharan Africa) | Channel 12 (African version) |
DStv (Sub-Saharan Africa) | Channel 155 (African version) |
Zuku TV (Kenya) | Channel 102 (African version) |
Streaming media | |
Discovery+ | Real Time HD (Italian version) |
Real Time (Discovery Real Time until 31 August 2010) is an Italian television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA.
The channel launched on 1 October 2005, becoming the sixth Discovery network to launch in Italy. It showed lifestyle programmes targeting a female upper-class audience of 25- to 44-year-olds. It features both foreign programmes and Italian programmes produced for the channel.[2][3]
On 7 April 2009 the channel adopted a new logo and a new look. This look had previously been adopted by Discovery Real Time France.[4]
After becoming the most viewed non-fiction entertainment channel on the Sky Italia platform, on 1 September 2010, it changed its name to "Real Time", and became available both on digital terrestrial and via free-to-air satellite, also joining the Tivùsat platform.
On 8 November 2010 the +1 version of the channel began, and from 1 February 2012 it also broadcasts in high definition.
On 13 March 2019 the SD version on the satellite definitively closed.
From 9 April Real Time, together with the other free channels of the group, became available also in HD streaming on the Dplay platform.
From 1 March 2019, on Tivùsat, the "HD" and "+1" versions replace the SD version, therefore they become visible to LCN 31 and 131 respectively.
On 1 December 2020 Real Time +1 was discontinued.
The channel broadcasts both foreign programmes and a few original Italian productions. Most acquired programmes were originally produced for the American TLC or the British Channel 4.
Original programs
[edit]- Cerco casa disperatamente
- Chef a domicilio
- Clio Make Up
- Com'è fatto con Barbara
- Cortesie per gli ospiti
- Cortesie per gli ospiti New York
- Cucina con Ale
- Cuoco gentiluomo
- Diario di un chirurgo
- Dimmi di sì
- Donne mortali
- Fuori menù
- Guardaroba perfetto
- Il re del cioccolato
- Il boss delle cerimonie
- Life Shock
- L'eleganza del maschio
- L'ost
- Ma come ti vesti?!
- Mamma mia
- Matrimonio all'italiana
- Merry Christmas con Csaba
- Non solo magre
- Paint Your Life
- Reparto maternità
- Se balli ti sposo
- Shopping night
- Stelle e padelle
- Torte in corso con Renato
- Tutto in un Weekend
- Vendo casa disperatamente
- Wedding Planners
- Shopping Night
- Zenzero
Imported programs
[edit]- 24 ore in sala parto
- 290 chili, vergine
- Abito da damigella cercasi
- Abito da sposa: Beverly Hills (Brides of Beverly Hills)
- Abito da sposa cercasi
- Abito da sposa cercasi XXL
- Adolescenti XXL (Too Fat for 15)
- Basta: io o il cane
- Bimbi fatti in casa
- Cher: Mia figlia cambia sesso (Becoming Chaz)
- Chirurgia XXL
- Cucina con Buddy (Kitchen Boss)
- Emozioni in vitro
- Fantasmi
- Gite gastronomiche
- Il cibo ti fa bella Australia
- Il giardiniere
- Il mio grosso grasso matrimonio gypsy (My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding)
- Io e la mia ossessione (My Strange Addiction)
- I peggiori cuochi d'America
- Jo Frost: SOS genitori (Supernanny)
- L'aggiustatutto a domicilio
- La fabbrica del cioccolato
- Little Miss America (Toddlers & Tiaras)
- Mad Fashion
- Malattie imbarazzanti (Embarrassing Bodies)
- Malattie imbarazzanti XXL
- Malattie misteriose
- Mamme che amano troppo
- Million Dollar Decorators
- Mob Wives
- Monster House
- My Shocking Body
- Non sapevo di essere incinta
- Obiettivo peso forma
- Party Mamas
- Pazzi per la spesa (Extreme Couponing)
- Quattro matrimoni (Four Weddings)
- School Mum Makeover
- Sepolti in casa (Hoarding: Buried Alive)
- Storia di un bebè (A conception story)
- Tabatha mani di forbice (Tabatha Takes Over)
- Torte da record
- Transgender e incinta
- Vita al pronto soccorso (24 Hours in A&E )
- Cucina con Buddy (Kitchen Boss)
- Cucine da incubo USA (Kitchen Nightmares)
- Cucine da incubo (Kitchen Nightmares)
- Extreme Makeover: Diet Edition (Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition)
- Fashion Star
- Grassi contro magri (Supersize vs Superskinny)
- Grassi contro magri teenager
- Il boss delle torte (Cake Boss)
- Il boss delle torte: la sfida (Next Great Baker)
- Top Chef Masters (Top Chef Masters)
- Top chef:solo dessert (Top Chef: Just Desserts)
- Top Gear
Presenters
[edit]African version
[edit]In 2018, An English version which took its content from TLC alongside other Discovery brands with the same styling as the Italian version was also made available in South Africa from 3 September through MultiChoice's DStv and a year later across Africa. The channel is also available to StarTimes and Canal+ Afrique within the region.[5] Real Time is now on Zuku TV channel 102 replacing Fine Living on channel 710 in January 2021.
References
[edit]- ^ "License Details for Discovery Real Time (Italy)". Archived from the original on January 17, 2011.
- ^ "Arriva Discovery Real Time, e parla alle donne". Pubblicità Italia. September 15, 2005.
- ^ "Il lancio di Discovery Real Time". Millecanali. October 2005. Archived from the original on December 24, 2005.
- ^ "Nuovo look per Discovery Real Time". Pubblicità Italia. March 26, 2009.
- ^ "What to expect from Discovery's new Real Time channel | Real Time | TVSA".
External links
[edit]- Official Websites: realtimetv.it (in Italian)
- Real Time channel on YouTube