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98-626: After the series ended, reruns continued to air on The Hub until March 25, 2012. The summary is four kids from the United States and four kids from the United Kingdom go to Florida . They have many adventures such as feeding orcas at Seaworld and cleaning up after animals at Busch Gardens. Adventure Camp aired in March 2008. It was being shown on Discovery Kids. Many of the adventures are exciting, thrilling, and sometimes gross, but at

196-458: A TV Everywhere service offering access to live streaming and on-demand content from Discovery Communications' cable networks. In May 2016, Discovery initiated a restructuring plan aiming to save $ 40 to $ 60 million by the third quarter of 2016, including a shift in strategy to "maximize" its linear television business whilst plotting larger investments in content, digital media, sports, and international markets. In August 2016, Discovery purchased

294-457: A vertically integrated media conglomerate ) with Discovery Inc. to form a new company, subject to regulatory approval. The merger, scheduled to be completed in mid-2022, would be structured as a Reverse Morris Trust ; AT&T shareholders will hold a 71% interest in the new company's stock and appoint seven board members, and Discovery shareholders will hold 29% and appoint six board members. AT&T will receive $ 43 billion in cash and debt from

392-428: A "lifestyle focused media network" with Discovery named after their personal company Magnolia. It was reported that Discovery had considered rebranding either DIY Network or Great American Country as this new channel. In April 2019, Discovery confirmed its Magnolia joint venture, which is scheduled to launch in 2020 and replace DIY Network, with an over-the-top subscription component to launch later. Magnolia Network

490-537: A core part of their life." With Discovery choosing 230 Park Avenue South as its new New York City headquarters, Discovery sold its former Silver Spring headquarters to Foulger-Pratt and Cerberus Capital Management in September 2018, and leased a smaller space at nearby 8403 Colesville Road. In November 2018, Chip and Joanna Gaines of the former HGTV series Fixer Upper announced on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon , that they were in early talks to form

588-483: A day care center inside were safely removed to a nearby McDonald's restaurant on Colesville Rd. Lee was shot and killed by an MCPD SWAT team at 4:48 p.m. ET after the hostages made a run to escape. The remaining hostages were immediately freed. The incident was described by the FBI as the first instance of a would-be suicide bomber taking hostages in the United States. Lee was an environmental protester who, in 2008,

686-436: A joint venture with The New York Times . In June 2002, coinciding with Discovery's 17th anniversary, the company launched a 24/7 high definition channel known as Discovery HD Theater . In 2003, Discovery Communications moved its headquarters from Bethesda to Silver Spring . In 2003 and 2004, Discovery acquired academic film companies such as AGC, AIMS Multimedia, and Clearvue & SVE to form Discovery Education, which

784-620: A joint venture with Hasbro to relaunch Discovery Kids as a new youth- and family-oriented entertainment channel. The channel, ultimately named The Hub , launched on October 10, 2010. After multiple delays, OWN officially launched on January 1, 2011. On March 17, 2009, Discovery Communications sued Amazon.com for patent infringement by its Kindle e-reader line, regarding "secure distribution of electronic text and graphics to subscribers and secure storage". The patents were originally developed by Discovery founder John Hendricks , who had been developing technologies related to e-books and

882-501: A joint venture with Oprah Winfrey 's Harpo Productions to relaunch Discovery Health as a new service, OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network , in 2009. In 2008, Discovery Times was relaunched as Investigation Discovery , a new brand that would be dedicated to true crime programs and documentaries. The company also formed its Emerging Networks Group, and named Clark Bunting as president and Clint Stinchcomb as executive vice president and general manager. On April 30, 2009, Discovery announced

980-879: A majority stake at a later date. On July 31, 2017, Discovery announced it would acquire Scripps Networks Interactive , owner of networks such as Food Network , HGTV , and DIY Network , for $ 14.6 billion, pending regulatory approval. On March 6, 2018, the acquisition was completed, with the company renamed as Discovery, Inc. afterwards. Following the purchase, SNI shareholders owned 20% of Discovery's stock. Discovery retained an operational hub in SNI's home city of Knoxville , but planned to move its corporate headquarters from Silver Spring, Maryland, where it had operated since 2003, to New York City in late-2019. Discovery's brands were reorganized into two groups under different chief brand officers : SNI's chief programmer Kathleen Finch became chief brand officer of Lifestyle, overseeing TLC,

1078-679: A minority stake in the Hong Kong-based digital talent and content company VS Media; Discovery intended to have VS distribute Discovery Digital Networks content in China, and to offer their own resources to VS. In October 2016, Discovery purchased a minority stake in Group Nine Media , a digital media holding company consisting of Thrillist Media Group , NowThis , The Dodo and Discovery's digital network Seeker—for $ 100 million. The transaction gave Discovery an option to acquire

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1176-688: A new imaging campaign, "Making Family Fun", which was developed by the Los Angeles-based agency Oishii Creative. On June 12, 2014, it was reported that Margaret Loesch would step down from her role as Hub Network president and CEO by the end of the year. On September 17, 2014, The Wall Street Journal reported that Discovery Communications was preparing to acquire a controlling stake in Hub Network from Hasbro and then retool it as Discovery Family. Along with Discovery's CFO Andrew Warren, Hasbro staff acknowledged that increasing competition in

1274-490: A part of the toy lines such as My Little Pony , Pound Puppies , Transformers and Kaijudo . The 2022 merger of Discovery, Inc. with WarnerMedia to form Warner Bros. Discovery brought Discovery Family under the Cartoon Network Group division of Warner Bros. Discovery Networks , with Cartoon Network president Michael Ouweleen now overseeing the channel. Currently, Hasbro's output agreement for

1372-403: A potential sale in a memo to CW staffers, but added that "It's too early to speculate what might happen" and that the network "must continue to do what we do best." On January 26, 2022, it was reported that the merger between WarnerMedia and Discovery, Inc. was expected to close sometime during the second quarter of 2022. This was later narrowed down to mid-April 2022. On February 1, 2022, it

1470-457: A program during or in timeslots adjacent to the show itself. During time slots that targeted preschool audiences (aired during a block branded as "HubBub"), The Hub was to broadcast six minutes of advertisements per hour, below 12 minutes per hour on weekdays, and 10.5 minutes per hour on weekends as mandated by the CTA. Additionally, it was planning to broadcast 10.5 minutes of advertisements per hour

1568-597: A selection of series licensed from Warner Bros. beginning in 2023. As the Hub Network, it also previously aired game shows tied to Hasbro's board games , such as Family Game Night . One of the network's most noteworthy series has been My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic , an animated series produced as a part of the then-recent revival of Hasbro's My Little Pony franchise. The series not only became The Hub's highest-rated program within its target demographic of young girls, but attracted an unexpectedly significant cult following among male teens and adults . Following

1666-596: A spin-off of Discovery Channel , with primarily science and nature-themed programming aimed towards a youth audience. In 2010, Discovery Kids was relaunched as The Hub (later Hub Network ) as part of a joint venture with Hasbro led by veteran executive Margaret Loesch . The relaunch pivoted the channel towards a general entertainment format, with dayparts targeting preschool, youth, and family audiences respectively. Some of its original programming would include adaptations of Hasbro-owned properties, such as game shows based on its board games , and animated series produced as

1764-483: A stake in the struggling CBS Eye on People channel; Discovery eventually acquired the remainder of CBS's stake, leading to its January 1999 relaunch as Discovery People . The network quietly folded in 2000, being replaced by other Discovery channels on providers. On September 1, 2001, Discovery Communications bought The Health Channel, and announced that it would be re-branded as FitTV . In 2002, Discovery relaunched Discovery Civilization as Discovery Times, as part of

1862-420: A television network made specifically for dogs. In May 2014, Discovery and its shareholder Liberty Media acquired British television studio All3Media for $ 930 million in a 50/50 joint venture. The new ownership stated that All3Media would be operated as an independent company. In October 2014, Discovery acquired controlling interest in Hub Network from Hasbro and re-branded it as Discovery Family . During

1960-471: A transaction which brought Discovery Family into the Entertainment Group division of Warner Bros. Discovery Networks . Following the merger, Discovery Family was placed under the oversight of Cartoon Network's president Michael Ouweleen . Despite Hasbro's 2021 annual report reporting that its licensing agreement to produce and broadcast new television shows on the channel ended in 2021,

2058-410: A young adult-oriented network into one that featured more unscripted and even national news programming. However, reports also indicated that WarnerMedia and ViacomCBS could include a contractual commitment that would require any new owner to buy new programming from those companies, allowing them to reap some continual revenue through the network. Network president/CEO Mark Pedowitz confirmed talks of

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2156-515: Is now led by Jeremy Cowdrey, former CEO of Imagine Learning. In 2019, Discovery Communications moved its headquarters to New York City , keeping 300 employees in a smaller hub in Silver Spring. Former NBCUniversal executive David Zaslav was named president and CEO of Discovery Communications on November 16, 2006. In the years that followed, Zaslav placed a major focus on bolstering Discovery's core networks, programming, and expanding

2254-557: Is the foundation for an in development global cycling OTT service. On April 1, 2019, after a previous agreement with the broadcaster lapsed six years prior, Discovery announced a 10-year global content partnership with BBC Studios , under which it will become the exclusive subscription video-on-demand rightsholder of programming from the BBC Natural History Unit (which will become the basis of an international subscription service by 2020) outside of China, Ireland, and

2352-525: The Jim Henson series Fraggle Rock and the preschool-oriented programs Animal Mechanicals and The WotWots . The channel promised to keep the proportion of programs supplied from Hasbro to "less than 20%" of the total of its programming. The Children's Television Act (CTA) in the United States limits the commercial time during children's programming, and prohibits television broadcasters from airing advertisements for products associated with

2450-678: 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

2548-402: The digitization of television programs. While Discovery had divested the television-related patents, it retained the e-book patents. Amazon subsequently accused Discovery of violating a patent for an "Internet-based customer referral system"; The two parties settled in 2011. On October 4, 2011, due to the wider implementation of high-definition feeds for mainstream cable channels, HD Theater

2646-459: The 132nd most-watched broadcast or cable network in the United States in 2022 based on total viewership. On March 31, 2016, the pan- EMEA version of Discovery World was re-launched as a regional version of Discovery Family. On September 14, 2017, a version of Discovery Family was launched in France ; the channel ceased operation on March 29, 2022. Discovery, Inc. Discovery, Inc.

2744-446: The 2022 calendar year, when the decision was originally due. The majority of Discovery Family's daytime programs are animated and live-action series tied to media franchises owned by Hasbro itself, with newer series previously produced through its subsidiary Hasbro Studios (later known as Allspark ), such as Pound Puppies and Transformers: Rescue Bots , and later through Entertainment One (which Hasbro acquired in 2019), alongside

2842-749: The BBC. In December 2020, Discovery announced that it would launch Discovery+ in the United States on January 4, 2021, which would feature new exclusive programming from across Discovery's brands, and previews of Magnolia Network (whose linear launch had since been delayed to 2022). In May 2021, Discovery formed a multi-platform content partnership with the Georgia Aquarium . On May 17, 2021, AT&T announced that it had reached an agreement to merge its content and broadcasting subsidiary, WarnerMedia (the former Time Warner, which AT&T had acquired in 2018 for just over $ 85 billion in an attempt to become

2940-597: The Discovery Communications headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, prompting an evacuation of the building. Lee's motive was believed to have been grounded in environmental activism . Lee had previously been arrested in 2008 while protesting in front of the same site. The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland has since labeled

3038-503: The Discovery Kids block with Qubo in September 2006. On April 30, 2009, toy manufacturer and multimedia company Hasbro announced that it would be forming a joint venture with Discovery Communications to re-launch Discovery Kids as a new family-oriented television channel, paying $ 300 million for 50% ownership of the channel. Under the arrangement, Discovery would be in charge of handling advertising sales and distribution for

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3136-721: The Ghostly Adventures and Super Monsters . Following the relaunch as Discovery Family in October 2014, Discovery began programming the channel's primetime schedule with family-oriented factual programming (including Discovery library programs), while leaving Hasbro responsible for programming its daytime schedule as a minority partner. The original programs commissioned for the channel in this timeslot include Bake It Like Buddy , From Wags to Riches with Bill Berloni , My Dog's Crazy Animal Friends , Reno, Set, Go! , Secrets of America's Favorite Places and burn-off

3234-484: The Hub Network, the channel also aired reruns of other acquired series, such as Fraggle Rock and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman , a collection of various Warner Bros. Animation series, such as Batman Beyond , Batman: The Animated Series , Superman: The Animated Series , Animaniacs , and Tiny Toon Adventures , a few former Fox Kids shows such as Goosebumps and Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation , and various off-network sitcoms (at

3332-455: The TLC and Food Network programs Cake Boss and Ace of Cakes ), and a revival of TLC's While You Were Out incorporating HGTV personalities. On August 3, 2017, Discovery announced that it would contribute Velocity into a joint venture with the digital, live events, and direct-to-consumer businesses of automotive publisher TEN: The Enthusiast Network. Discovery will hold a majority stake in

3430-522: The UK. In addition, Discovery and the BBC reached an agreement to break up their UKTV joint venture (which was inherited from Scripps), with Discovery acquiring the BBC's shares in the Good Food , Home , and Really channels, and BBC Studios acquiring Discovery's shares in the seven remaining channels, and its streaming platform UKTV Play . Home was later rebranded as a local version of HGTV, and Good Food

3528-840: The United Kingdom. In May 2021, AT&T announced its proposal to merge its media subsidiary WarnerMedia with Discovery, Inc. The transaction was approved by the European Commission in December 2021 and was completed on April 8, 2022, forming Warner Bros. Discovery . The company was established in 1982 in Landover, Maryland as the Cable Educational Network. Its namesake and flagship brand, Discovery Channel , first launched on June 17, 1985. In 1991, Discovery Channel's owners acquired The Learning Channel . Three years later, Cable Educational Network

3626-465: The action to be "a pro-forma accounting exercise", and noted that Discovery felt "very positive and encouraged by The Hub's early days' performance, and ability to grow its audience in the future." In March 2013, The Hub picked up Stan Lee's Mighty 7 , an animated pilot film that aired on February 1, 2014. The network also began to phase in an amended branding as the Hub Network. On January 13, 2014, Hub Network introduced an updated logo, along with

3724-413: The aforementioned Motor Trend -branded network were described as being examples of this strategy. Food Network Kitchen would also launch in 2019, with a focus on live and on-demand cooking classes. In June 2018, Discovery announced a 12-year agreement to acquire the international media rights to the PGA Tour , with plans to develop an international streaming service to house these rights. The service

3822-415: The best on that day. Then the camper could choose another camper to go with them on a special experience. In the end, Warren won the final challenge and got to keep the necklace for good. Each of the eight campers pick a piece of paper with the names of two animals on it, The two campers who each pick the same animals must take care of those two animals together during the duration of Adventure Camp. Each of

3920-566: The broadcasting industry for a new, family-oriented network. With these shifts in the network's operation, it was announced on October 7, 2014 that the Transformers: Prime follow-up Transformers: Robots in Disguise –which was initially announced for Hub Network–would instead be picked up by Cartoon Network (whose parent company would later merge with Discovery). Hasbro Studios president Stephen Davis felt that Cartoon Network

4018-443: The camp in episode 7. See Adventure Florida A second season aired on Discovery Kids , in 2008 and featured 4 kids from the United States and 4 kids from the United Kingdom. The counselors were Bill Street and Kelly Deidring. In every episode a word relating to a quality they should have, such as respect or tolerance, was said to the campers and the counselors would give a necklace to the camper who they feel represented that word

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4116-405: The channel primarily offered adventure, nature, and science-themed programs aimed towards a children's audience between ages 6 and 11. Marjorie Kaplan, the network's senior vice president, explained that the creation of Discovery Kids Channel was influenced primarily by kids, who were watching its parent network 's programming together with their parents. From 1996 to 2000, Discovery Kids Channel

4214-752: The channel would be known as The Hub; this was soon followed two months later with the announcement that The Hub would launch on October 10, 2010. The channel's original imaging was developed by Troika Design Group and built around an emblem nicknamed the "hubble" – which was designed to embody a "catalyst of action and imagination". The final logo design was the result of a number of drafts by Troika designers, some of which had incorporated typography similar to Hasbro's logo. The relaunched channel, which would compete against established children's services such as Cartoon Network , Disney Channel , and Nickelodeon , planned to continue targeting Discovery Kids' main demographic of children aged 2–12 (a market which staff felt

4312-466: The channel's premiere of the 2004 film Garfield: The Movie . In a June 2011 debt filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission , Discovery Communications indicated that the channel may be worth less than recently believed, based on low viewership figures. The management of The Hub subsequently underwent a fair value analysis of the channel. A Discovery Communications spokesperson considered

4410-413: The channel, including Dan Vs. and R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour . Aside from The Hatchery's productions, American Greetings also supplied Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Bitty Adventures (part of the 2009 relaunch of Strawberry Shortcake , a property which was owned by AG until 2015), The Twisted Whiskers Show , Maryoku Yummy , and Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot to the channel. Hasbro

4508-576: The channel. Linn said "It will make a mockery of existing ad limits and the current prohibition of product placement in children's television" at the April 2009 announcement of the Discovery-Hasbro joint venture, and told Los Angeles Times that "[t]he notion of a toy company owning a television channel for the sole purpose of promoting their toys is egregious practice" in the days before the channel's re-launch. Loesch stated that The Hub's goal

4606-415: The children's media landscape – especially by subscription video-on-demand services such as Netflix – had an effect on the overall performance of the network and Hasbro's original content. As it was majority-owned by a competitor, other major toy companies such as Mattel refused to purchase advertising time on Hub Network, affecting its ability to air advertising that targeted its main audience; by 2014,

4704-468: The company was exploring strategic alternatives for its stake in the channel, citing the growing shift towards cord cutting and streaming services. She noted that the channel had been a "terrific investment" that had "driven over a $ 1 billion in revenue for the company", but that there had been "changes" in the cable industry since. These discussions came ahead of the then-upcoming merger of Discovery, Inc. with WarnerMedia to form Warner Bros. Discovery ,

4802-599: The company's Series C common stock on or about August 6, 2014. In November 2014, Curiosity was spun out as a venture-funded startup , receiving $ 6 million in funding. In November 2015, Discovery Communications and Liberty Global paid approximately $ 195 million for a 3.4% stake in Lionsgate Entertainment with Discovery CEO David Zaslav joining the Lionsgate board of directors as part of the acquisition. In December 2015, Discovery launched Discovery Go,

4900-565: The company's reach into digital media . He described these goals as reflecting an expansion into becoming a "content company" rather than just a "cable company". In March 2007, Discovery sold its stake in Travel Channel back to Cox Communications , in exchange for the stake in Discovery that Cox owned. Cox would later sell the controlling interest in the channel to Scripps Networks Interactive in 2009. In June 2008, Discovery Home

4998-437: The conclusion of the series on October 12, 2019, the animated spin-off series featuring its cast, My Little Pony: Pony Life , premiered on Discovery Family on November 7, 2020. The Hatchery – a company co-founded by Margaret Loesch (who served as the channel's president and CEO from 2009 to 2014) and Bruce Stein in 2003, and had a majority stake acquired by American Greetings (AG) in 2004 – has supplied certain series to

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5096-449: The crime a terrorist attack . The incident began at 1:00 p.m. ET , when the 43-year-old Lee entered the building with two starter pistols and fired a single round at the ceiling of the lobby. The Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) confirmed that Lee had an explosive device and was holding three people hostage in the lobby. The building was placed on lockdown and most of the 1,500 employees were evacuated. Children from

5194-498: The eight campers also are given an animal to do a presentation on the final day of camp. Discovery Family Discovery Family is an American cable television channel co-owned by The Cartoon Network, Inc. and Hasbro Entertainment , which are divisions of Warner Bros. Discovery Networks and Hasbro respectively. The channel was originally launched by Discovery Communications (then Discovery, Inc. ) on October 7, 1996 as Discovery Kids Channel (later Discovery Kids ),

5292-485: The end of the Hub Network's run, these included Blossom , Step by Step , and Sister, Sister ); Blossom , the only sitcom on Discovery Family's schedule, returned for a time in 2016. A limited amount of original Discovery Kids programming, such as Adventure Camp and Flight 29 Down , remained on the lineup upon its launch as The Hub. In 2019, Discovery Family acquired the cable rights to several series and specials from 41 Entertainment , including Pac-Man and

5390-402: The end of the year, Discovery acquired 10% of Hasbro's stake in the network, and Henry Schleiff replaced Loesch, who leads sister networks such as Destination America and Investigation Discovery . Hub Network was re-launched as Discovery Family on October 13, 2014 – just over four years since the earlier re-launch as The Hub. With these changes, Discovery Communications now held a 60% stake in

5488-401: The end someone who showed a quality such as teamwork would receive a necklace and the honor to get to go on an extra special adventure the following day. Each camper received a necklace and were told that if they earned 20 beads on the necklace by the end of the trip, then they would get a close encounter with an animal of some kind, which turned out to be swimming with dolphins . Domonique was

5586-569: The false heroics behind those actions ". His manifesto also railed against "immigration pollution and anchor baby filth", leading commentators such as Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center to decry Lee as an " eco-fascist ". Lee's opinions were dominated by Malthusian analysis, though he also cited works ranging from Daniel Quinn 's novel My Ishmael to former U.S. Vice President Al Gore 's documentary An Inconvenient Truth . The Washington Post credited

5684-488: The joint venture; Hasbro continued to hold a 40% stake in Discovery Family, and continued to program the network's daytime lineup with children's programming. Following the re-launch, the network's primetime lineup was replaced by reruns of family-oriented non-fiction programming from Discovery Channel's library. Henry Schleiff, who leads sister channels such as Destination America and Investigation Discovery, leads

5782-541: The launch of the new block, Discovery Kids also branched out into animated programming with the premieres of Kenny the Shark and Tutenstein . In March 2006, Discovery declined to renew its contract with NBC for its Saturday morning block, citing a desire to focus exclusively on the Discovery Kids channel. Since the launch of the NBC block, Discovery Kids had grown its cable carriage to over 43 million homes. NBC would replace

5880-662: The merger was approved by the Brazilian antitrust regulator Cade . It was approved by the United States Department of Justice two days later. The transaction was approved by Discovery shareholders on March 11, and formally completed on April 8, 2022. On September 1, 2010, the Discovery headquarters were the site of a hostage taking; a lone gunman identified as James J. Lee ( c.  1967 – September 1, 2010), armed with two starter pistols and an explosive device , took three people hostage inside of

5978-545: The mobile gaming studio Playdemic from WBIE for US$ 1.4 billion in the same month. In September 2021, Fox Corporation acquired TMZ from WarnerMedia in a deal worth about $ 50 million with TMZ being operated under the Fox Entertainment division. In November 2021, Discovery and WarnerMedia discussed a plan to combine the two streaming services, HBO Max and Discovery+ , into one streaming service in two phases: an initial phase that allows for quick bundling of

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6076-465: The most amazing stories to life, with Discovery's global brand that has always stood brightly for integrity, innovation and inspiration". On June 7, 2021, Discovery announced that it would divest Great American Country to GAC Media , a new Fort Worth-based investment group led by Tom Hicks and former Crown Media Holdings CEO Bill Abbott . Electronic Arts , who were a bidder in the proposed sale of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment , purchased

6174-593: The network and Discovery through 2025. Harpo Productions retains a "significant minority stake" in the venture. In February 2018, Discovery sold a majority stake in Discovery Education to the private equity firm Francisco Partners. During its 2018 upfronts, Zaslav stated that the company was now strongly focused on serving "passionate fans and passionate audiences", and was preparing to increase its focus on direct-to-consumer offerings targeting such audiences. The SNI purchase, Eurosport's Olympics rights, and

6272-502: The network expires on March 31, 2025. As of November 2023 , Discovery Family is available to approximately 28,000,000 pay television households in the United States, down from its 2014 peak of 71,000,000 households. Discovery Communications launched Discovery Kids Channel on October 7, 1996, as part of a suite of four new digital cable channels that included Discovery Travel & Living Network , Discovery Civilization Network , and Discovery Science Network . Upon its launch,

6370-513: The network had made only $ 9 million per year. Discovery staff was also unable to display a full commitment to Hub Network's operation, due to factors such as the troubled launch of the Oprah Winfrey Network . Believing that they had overvalued its stake in the venture, Hasbro decided to cede the operation of the network to Discovery so it could focus more on content, and its core toy business. Discovery and Hasbro publicly announced

6468-527: The network known as Discovery Kids on NBC , beginning in September 2002. The block, which replaced a teen-oriented block consisting only of sitcoms , featured programming that met the educational programming guidelines from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), including new original series (such as the reality television series Endurance ), existing Discovery Kids programming, along with children's spin-offs of programs from sister networks, such as Animal Planet and Discovery Channel. With

6566-415: The new service, while Hasbro would be involved in acquiring and producing programming. While educational series (including those carried over from Discovery Kids) were slated to be maintained on the schedule, plans called for new original programs based on Hasbro-owned franchises such as G.I. Joe , My Little Pony , Transformers and game shows adapted from its board game brands. Discovery Communications

6664-410: The only one not to earn enough beads, but Melissa felt that Domonique deserved them more and then gave two of her beads to Domonique. The counselors then gave Melissa a chance to earn the extra 2 needed by participating in a manatee release. Each of the eight campers is given an animal to take care of throughout the duration of Adventure Camp. It is unknown who took care of Brandon's animal after he left

6762-446: The planned rebranding on September 25, 2014, Hasbro's CEO Brian Goldner explained that Discovery Family would be the "next chapter" in its joint venture with Discovery, "[combining] highly rated award-winning storytelling around Hasbro's brands and Discovery's most popular non-fiction shows that appeal to both children and families alike." Following reports earlier in the year that Hub Network president Margaret Loesch would step down by

6860-414: 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 group of sports channels, most prominently the rightsholder of

6958-402: The re-launched network, with Tom Cosgrove (who previously served as CEO of Discovery Channel and Science ) as general manager. In re-launching Hub Network, Discovery executives noted that there would be a larger emphasis on programming of interest to both children and their parents; Warren argued that since ABC Family had become, in his opinion, aimed towards teenage girls, there was a gap in

7056-486: The remaining episodes of season 9 of Cake Boss . Discovery Family operates one feed nationally, and does not operate a timeshift feed for the west coast . A 1080i high-definition simulcast of the network was introduced alongside its re-launch as The Hub, with Dish Network , Verizon FiOS , and AT&T U-verse as the first to carry the HD feed. Based on numbers from Nielsen , Variety ranked Discovery Family as

7154-537: The rest of the day throughout the week, a policy upheld from its previous incarnation as Discovery Kids. The channel was planning to sell its advertising inventories to toy companies other than Hasbro as well; as reported by Advertising Age in May 2010, The Hub was even in talks with Mattel , one of Hasbro's major competitors in the toy industry. The channel, however, also planned to restrict certain categories of advertisements, including junk foods and " advertisers in

7252-470: The same month of that year, Discovery Communications announced a special dividend of shares of the company's Series C common stock payable to holders of record of the company's Series A common stock, Series B common stock and Series C common stock as of the close of business on July 28, 2014. As a result of the dividend, each holder of a share of the company's Series A common stock, Series B common stock or Series C common stock will receive one additional share of

7350-575: The services and a second phase that allows for a common service on one tech platform. In the same month, it was announced that Discovery will rename itself Warner Bros. Discovery and reclassify and convert its stock into stock of WBD. On December 22, 2021, it was announced that the transaction was approved by the European Commission and it is expected to be completed in mid-2022, subject to approval by Discovery shareholders and additional closing conditions. On January 5, 2022, The Wall Street Journal reported that WarnerMedia and Paramount Global (at

7448-577: The six former Scripps channels, and Discovery's other lifestyle networks. Rich Ross , who formerly served as group president of Discovery and Science, stepped down, and would be replaced by TLC president Nancy Daniels as chief brand officer of Discovery & Factual. An on-air result of the acquisition were multiple programs featuring crossovers between TLC and Scripps talent, such as the Food Network series Buddy vs. Duff (a cake design competition series starring Buddy Valastro and Duff Goldman of

7546-461: The spin-off. Zaslav will lead the new company. He stated that the new company's goal would be to "[tell] the most amazing stories and have a ton of fun doing it", and emphasized that the two companies spend over $ 20 billion annually on content (outpacing Disney , Netflix and even Amazon ). The company will aim to expand their streaming services (which includes WarnerMedia's HBO Max ) to reach 400 million global subscribers. On June 1, 2021, it

7644-406: The sugar category ". One vocal opponent of Hasbro's involvement in the joint venture was Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC), founded by Susan Linn , concerning that the channel would be exploited by the toy company as a platform to plug its products. Ahead of the channel's re-launch as The Hub, CCFC called the whole project an " infomercial ", and stated that they would be monitoring

7742-431: The time known as ViacomCBS) were exploring a possible sale of either a majority stake or all of The CW , and that Nexstar Media Group (which became The CW's largest affiliate group when it acquired former WB co-owner Tribune Broadcasting in 2019) was considered a leading bidder. The news led to speculation that, should a sale take place, new ownership could steer the network in a new direction, transforming The CW from

7840-558: The venture; it will not include TEN's print brands, but there will be opportunities for cross-promotion. In April 2018, it was announced that TEN had been renamed Motor Trend Group , and that Velocity would be re-branded as an extension of its namesake magazine Motor Trend . In December 2017, Discovery announced that it would acquire an additional 24.5% stake in OWN that it did not already own, for $ 70 million. Oprah Winfrey will remain as CEO of OWN, and extended her exclusivity agreement with

7938-407: The very next annual report stated that its operating agreement with Discovery was renewed to run until March 31, 2025, though this was filed months before Hasbro spun off its non-children's entertainment assets and instituted layoffs. According to Warner Bros. Discovery's 2022 annual report, neither that company nor Hasbro took any action regarding the latter's 40% interest in Discovery Family within

8036-615: Was a more appropriate home for a Transformers series due to its male-oriented demographics, describing Hub Network's lineup as being "traditionally skewed towards girls". Other recent Transformers animated series preceding the original launch of The Hub also aired on Cartoon Network. Davis remarked that Hasbro was still "100% committed" to its joint venture with Discovery. Despite the move for Robots in Disguise , fellow Hub Network Transformers series Transformers: Rescue Bots remained on Discovery Family for its third season. On February 7, 2022, Hasbro CFO Deborah Thomas stated that

8134-506: Was an American multinational mass media factual television conglomerate based in New York City . Established in 1982, the company operated a group of factual and lifestyle television brands, such as 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

8232-403: Was announced that the merged company would be known as Warner Bros. Discovery , and an interim wordmark was unveiled with the tagline "The stuff dreams are made from"—a line from the 1941 Warner Bros. film The Maltese Falcon . Zaslav stated that the name would reflect "the combination of Warner Bros.' fabled hundred-year legacy of creative, authentic storytelling and taking bold risks to bring

8330-548: Was being abandoned by its competitors in favor of tweens ) but also planned to feature a prime-time block with family-oriented programming; it was originally targeted at preteens and teenagers aged 9–14. Launch programming included the game show Family Game Night , animated television series Pound Puppies , My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic – a new animated entry in the My Little Pony franchise developed by Lauren Faust , and Deltora Quest alongside reruns of

8428-427: Was carried by only a select few cable television providers. In 2001, the channel was shortened to Discovery Kids and late in that year, it was carried in at least 15 million homes. In September 2001, a Canadian version of Discovery Kids was launched in partnership with Corus Entertainment . In December 2001, Discovery Kids announced a partnership with NBC , in which it would produce a new Saturday morning block for

8526-467: Was closed in favor of the local version of Food Network. On May 13, 2019, Discovery announced that it would acquire Golf Digest from Condé Nast to integrate into its Discovery Golf division. In March 2020, Discovery began to deploy a new direct-to-consumer brand known as Discovery+ , initially in India, which would focus on content from across its factual and lifestyle television brands, as well as

8624-405: Was given six months of supervised probation and fined $ 500 after he was arrested during a protest outside the Discovery Communications headquarters. Lee had published criticisms of the network in an online manifesto at Savetheplanetprotest.com, among which was a demand for the company to cease the broadcasting of television series displaying or encouraging the birth of " parasitic human infants and

8722-553: Was looking for a business partner to draw the improved types of advertisers on the channel. In July 2009, the joint venture appointed veteran television executive Margaret Loesch as its chief executive officer ; prior to this, Loesch had led Fox Kids , and served as president and CEO of Marvel Productions from 1984 to 1990, assisting in the production of several Hasbro-tie-in series such as G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero , My Little Pony 'n Friends , and The Transformers . In January 2010, Discovery and Hasbro announced that

8820-422: Was named the master toy licensee of Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake in 2008. The channel has also acquired new series unrelated to properties of Hasbro, The Hatchery and American Greetings, including Animal Mechanicals , The Aquabats! Super Show! , Cosmic Quantum Ray , Majors & Minors , Sabrina: Secrets of a Teenage Witch , Secret Millionaires Club , and SheZow . During its years as

8918-538: Was officially announced in October 2018 as GolfTV , with Eurosport executive vice president Alex Kaplan named the president and general manager of Discovery Golf. Former Amazon executive Peter Faricy, who was named Discovery's chief executive of global direct-to-consumer operations in August 2018, considered GolfTV consistent with the aforementioned strategy, as golf was one of several sports "where people's passions and their interest in participating and learning more becomes

9016-531: Was originally scheduled to launch on October 4, 2020, but it was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States . It was also announced that Fixer Upper would be revived for the new channel. In January 2019, Discovery increased its ownership of Play Sports Group, operator of the YouTube channel Global Cycling Network , to 71%. Discovery previously acquired a 20% share in 2017. The group

9114-451: Was preceded by a marathon of Kenny the Shark (broadcast under the @DK block), running from 6:00 to 10:00 a.m. ET . Immediately after, the channel was rebranded as The Hub with "Sneak Peek Sunday", a sampler lineup of programs set to air on the channel in the coming months. The Twisted Whiskers Show was the first program to air of the channel, followed by episodes of Dennis and Gnasher , Cosmic Quantum Ray , Atomic Betty , and

9212-444: Was relaunched as Velocity , a new "upscale male" network focusing on automotive programming. On May 26, 2012, Planet Green (which had begun to abandon its original concept in 2010 due to poor viewership) was relaunched as Destination America . In January 2014, Discovery launched Curiosity , a website that aggregates online education content. In April 2014, Discovery made an investment and strategic partnership with Dog TV ,

9310-540: Was renamed Discovery Communications. In October 1996, Discovery launched several new spin-off networks, including Animal Planet , and the digital cable channels Discovery Kids , Discovery Travel & Living , Discovery Civilization , and Science Channel . This was followed by the 1997 purchase of a 70% stake in Travel Channel , and the 1998 launches of Discovery en Español , Discovery Wings , and Discovery Health Channel . Also in 1998, Discovery acquired

9408-431: Was replaced by Planet Green , a network devoted primarily to environmentalism and sustainable living . In 2007, according to Crunchbase , TreeHugger was acquired by Discovery Communications on August 1, 2007, for $ 10 million. In 2012, Mother Nature Network , founded by Joel Babbit and Chuck Leavell (now Narrative Content Group) acquired TreeHugger. On January 15, 2008, Discovery announced that it had entered into

9506-423: Was reported that AT&T had elected to structure the merger as a spin-off of WarnerMedia, followed by a merger with Discovery Inc. to form the new company. The company had been contemplating structuring the transaction as a split-off (under which AT&T shareholders would be given the option as to whether to exchange their shares for those of the new company, rather than receive them pro rata ). On February 7,

9604-631: Was to be "vibrant" and "diverse" in its programming, that the channel would not purely be a marketing vehicle for Hasbro products, and pointed out that the animated series not commissioned by toy companies would have its toys released anyway. Loesch also said that Hasbro was partnering with Discovery Communications for the channel, and declared "we have programming from them and are using their DNA". To promote The Hub, sneak peeks of Cosmic Quantum Ray , The Twisted Whiskers Show , and Family Game Night aired on Science Channel , Animal Planet , and TLC respectively. Discovery Kids' re-launch as The Hub

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