Global InformationDiscovery Channel information
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| Country | United States |
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| Broadcast area | Nationwide |
| Headquarters | 230 Park Avenue South New York City[1] |
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| Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 480i letterbox for the SDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Warner Bros. Discovery |
| Parent | Warner Bros. Discovery Networks |
| Sister channels | Sister channels |
| History | |
| Launched | June 17, 1985[2] |
| Former names | The Discovery Channel (1985–1995) |
| Links | |
| Website | discovery.com |
Discovery Channel, known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery, is an American cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, a publicly traded company run by CEO David Zaslav. As of June 2012[update], Discovery Channel was the third most widely distributed subscription channel in the United States, behind now-sibling channel TBS and The Weather Channel;[3] it is available in 409 million households worldwide, through its U.S. flagship channel and its various owned or licensed television channels internationally.[4]
It initially provided documentary television programming focused primarily on popular science, technology, and history, but by the 2010s had expanded into reality television and pseudo-scientific entertainment.[5][6][7]
As of September 2018[update], Discovery Channel is available to approximately 88,589,000 pay television households in the United States.[8]
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