Discovery

Discovery is one of the most popular, highly viewed channels and extremely resourceful among all the other Media Brands.

A part of the Discovery Communications, Discovery or Discovery Channel as it is better known is a popular channel on the Television aired via satellite and cable. Discovery has a record of being viewed in 431 million homes across 170 countries and other territories and is aired in 33 languages.

The channel is based mostly on factual and documentary kind of programs. Discovery packages its shows and other feature presentations in either the form of stories or researches to make them more appealing to their viewers. At times comparison can be made between their shows and reality shows.

Highly informative and knowledgeable, the Discovery takes on any interesting subject under the sun. Some of these subjects include science, natural history, animal life, anthropology, geography, forensics and cultural diasporas. Another special feature about this channel is the coverage of current events. Discovery is basically the flagship channel started off by Discovery Communications.

Discovery was founded by John Hendricks and was launched in the year 1985 on the 17th day of June. Discovery is owned by Discovery Communications Inc and is headquartered in Silver Spring in Maryland in USA.

Over the years, Discovery has branched into several sister channels that focus on specific subjects, which are popular too. They are 29 in all. Some of these allied projects of Discovery are listed below:

• TLC
• Animal Planet
• Discovery Health Channel
• Travel Channel
• Discovery Times
• Discovery Kids
• The Science Channel
• Discovery Home
• Military Channel
• Discovery Wings
• Discovery Civilization
• Discovery Real Time