Tag: Discovery
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Discovery Makes Family Friendly Content Free to Stream
Discovery, and its affiliate and distribution partners, is expanding its content offering, making select family friendly shows and specials free and without commercials on Discovery’s streaming GO apps and sites. The “Family Favorites” collection includes full seasons of series from Discovery’s collection of networks, including Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Animal Planet, Science Channel,…
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Discovery Hires Google Senior Director to Lead Streaming Strategy
Discovery has announced the hire of Google’s Neil Chugani to become its new Chief Financial Officer and Head of Strategy and Operations, Direct-to-Consumer. In the new role, Chugani will work closely with Peter Faricy, CEO, Global Direct-to-Consumer at Discovery and will lead the team responsible for the financial strategy of the rapidly growing direct-to-consumer business.…
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Discovery is Launching a New Streaming Service for Cord Cutters This Year
Today Discovery communications announced their 4th quarter earnings. According to The Hollywood Reporter Discovery announced that a new global video-on-demand streaming service would launch this year with Discovery and BBC content. Today Discovery’s CEO David Zaslav said that employee compensation will be tied to the success of its direct to consumer products in 2020. This seems…
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Chip and Joanna Gaines New TV Network is Coming to Sling TV, Philo, & FuboTV on October 4th
Today it was announced that Chip and Joanna Gaines are launching a new TV network with Discovery on October 4th, 2020. This new network will replace the DIY network meaning it will be available on Sling TV, Philo, & FuboTV. “Chip and Joanna Gaines have become trusted, household names since the debut of Fixer Upper and through…
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Discovery is Planning to Launch a Streaming Service Featuring All of Its Brands for Cord Cutters
This week, at a Citi investor conference, Discovery CEO David Zaslav said that while the company is doing well on cable and pay TV platforms, he’s well aware that in order to continue growing, the company needs to expand. “If we want to win in the long-term – and we have this great IP that…
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OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network is Now Available on YouTube TV
Earlier this year we learned that OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network would be coming to YouTube TV by the end of 2019. And true to reports, OWN is now officially live as part of YouTube TV’s core line up, nationwide. “Fifteen years ago, I wrote in my journal that one day I would create a television…
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AT&T TV NOW Adds The Discovery Owned Great American Country Channel to Its Lineup
Today AT&T quietly added the Discovery Networks-owned Great American Country channel to the AT&T TV NOW lineup. It looks like Great American Country has been added to all AT&T TV NOW packages. With Great American Country, you will find programs like Flea Market Flip, Maine Cabin Masters, Building Alaska, Hawaii life, Log Cabin Living, and more.…
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Discovery Plans Further Expand Into Streaming With New Streaming Services Coming in 2020
Today Discovery announced its 3rd quarter 2019 earnings. During the earnings call, Discovery executives announced that they plan to continue to move into streaming to build off their current success, not just inside the United States but around the world. Discovery didn’t make any announcements about their streaming plans but did say they will be…
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Discovery is Launching a Streaming Service With Polish Pay-TV Company
Discovery and Polish pay-TV company Cyfrowy Polsat are partnering to launch a new streaming service. According to Deadline, the service which has no name yet will house programming from Polsat and TVN which is owned by Discovery, as well as generate its own original content. “This new venture fits squarely into our international strategy and…
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Discovery Plans to Launch Additional Streaming Services Based On Discovery Networks
Today Discovery’s Senior Vice President and General Manager of Direct to Consumer Tyler Whitworth sat down with FierceVideo to talk about their new Food Network streaming service. During the interview, FierceVideo asked Mr. Whitworth if Discovery was working on new streaming services for the future. Mr. Whitworth replied saying: “Yeah, the Eurosport Player runs off…