Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel
Country	United States
Broadcast area	Nationwide
Headquarters	Silver Spring, Maryland
Programming
Language(s)	English Spanish (with SAP)
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 480i letterbox for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	Warner Bros. Discovery
Parent	Warner Bros. Discovery Networks
Sister channels	List Adult Swim American Heroes Channel Animal Planet AT&T SportsNet Boomerang Cartoon Network Cartoonito Cinemax CNN CNN International Cooking Channel The CW Destination America Discovery en Español Discovery Family Discovery Familia Discovery Life Food Network HBO HGTV HLN Investigation Discovery Magnolia Network Motor Trend Oprah Winfrey Network Science Channel TBS TLC TNT Travel Channel TruTV Turner Classic Movies
History
Launched	June 17, 1985 (1985-06-17)
Former names	The Discovery Channel (1985–1995)
Links
Website	www.discovery.com
Availability
Streaming media
FuboTV, Sling TV, YouTube TV, Philo, Hulu + Live TV

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, Discovery Channel was the third most widely distributed subscription channel in the United States, behind now-sibling channel EBS, BBC, ABC, CBS and PBS. it is available in 409 million households worldwide, through its U.S. flagship channel and its various owned or licensed television channels internationally.

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.

As of September 2018, Discovery Channel is available to approximately 88,589,000 pay television households in the United States.