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Discovery, Inc.
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American multinational television company
Key facts
- Formerly
- Cable Educational Network Inc. (1982–1994), Discovery Communications, Inc. (1994–2018)
- Company type
- Public
- Traded as
- Nasdaq : DISCA (Series A) Nasdaq : DISCB (Series B) Nasdaq : DISCK (Series C)
- Industry
- Mass media
- Predecessors
- Discovery Holding Company , Scripps Networks Interactive
- Founded
- 1982 ; 44 years ago ( 1982 ) (Cable Educational Network) 1994 ; 32 years ago ( 1994 ) (Discovery Communications)
- Founder
- John Hendricks
- Defunct
- April 8, 2022 ; 4 years ago ( 2022-04-08 )
- Fate
- Merged with WarnerMedia
- Successor
- Warner Bros. Discovery
- Headquarters
- 230 Park Avenue South , New York City , New York , United States
- Area served
- Worldwide (previously in Russia until withdrawn in 2022, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine )
- Key people
- Robert Miron ( chairman ) Gunnar Widenfeds Chief financial officer (CFO) John C. Malone ( board member ) 2008-2025 David Zaslav ( president and CEO )
- Products
- Factual television
- Revenue
- US$ 10.671 billion (2020)
- Operating income
- US$2.515 billion (2020)
- Net income
- US$1.355 billion (2020)
- Total assets
- US$34.087 billion (2020)
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Company
WBD- Industry
- Cable & Other Pay Television Services
- Exchange
- Nasdaq
- State of incorporation
- DE
- Entity type
- operating
- Latest filing
- 8-K · 2026-06-04
- Jurisdiction
- US-DE
- Headquarters
- WILMINGTON, US
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company, Funder
- Founded
- 1985
- Location
- Silver Spring, United States
- Also known as
- The Discovery Channel
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.467314.3 · ISNI 0000 0001 2221 3961
Wikidata facts
- Employees
- 7000
- Official website
- www.discovery.com
- Image
- Discovery and buses in Silver Spring.jpg
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- inception
- 1994-00-00
- Commons category
- Warner Bros. Discovery
- social media followers
- 156976
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2022-04-08
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Discovery, Inc. was an American multinational mass media and factual television conglomerate based in New York City that was in operation from 1982 to April 8, 2022. It operated factual and lifestyle television brands like the namesake Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Science Channel and TLC. In 2018, the company acquired Scripps Networks Interactive, adding networks such as Food Network, HGTV and Travel Channel to its portfolio. Since the purchase, Discovery described itself as serving members of "passionate" audiences, and also placed a focus on streaming services built around its properties.
Discovery owned or had interests in local versions of its channel brands in international markets, in addition to its other major regional operations such as Eurosport (a pan-European sports channel brand, most prominently the rightsholder of the Olympic Games throughout most of Europe), GolfTV (an international golf-focused streaming service, which is the international digital rightsholder of the PGA Tour), Discovery Communications Nordic (which operates general-interest channels in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland), TVN Group in Poland, and a portfolio of various free-to-air channels in Germany, Italy, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.