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Discovery Channel is an American cable TV network, based in Silver Spring, Maryland, that has a variety of science programming, particularly documentaries and nature shows. Discovery Channel went on the air in 1985 and is owned by Discovery Communications, which also owns TLC (The Learning Channel), Animal Planet, The Travel Channel, The Science Channel (formerly Discovery Science), BBC America (operated in association with the BBC), The Military Channel (formerly Discovery Wings), and FitTV (formerly The Health Network prior to its purchase by Discovery from Fox). The Discovery Channel has added programming like American Chopper, MythBusters, and Monster Garage that widens their initial scope.

Discovery Channel also has a multiplex of digital channels: Discovery Times (operated in association with The New York Times), Discovery Health, Discovery Home, Discovery Kids, and Discovery HD Theater (a high-definition TV channel).

Discovery Channel Radio is a channel on both of the major United States satellite radio services: XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio. The programming consists of audio versions of popular programs from its multitude of TV channels.

In a number of countries Discovery channels are available on digital satellite platforms with multiple language soundtracks or subtitles (like Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Danish, Greek, Polish, Hungarian, and Romanian). For example, subscribers of Cyfra+ in Poland, at an extra $2 per month, can now switch between four Discovery channels with two language soundtracks: the original English or the native Polish soundtrack. In Bulgaria, Discovery has since 2001–2002 been displayed with Bulgarian subtitles by all cable providers.

Canadian viewers receive similar English-language programming to the channel that American viewers watch, but with content modified to suit the audience. Most notably, Discovery Channel Canada carries the daily science news show Daily Planet, originally @discovery.ca, the first of its kind. Occasionally, several segments on similar topics are taken from various episodes and put together into one-hour specials, which occasionally get broadcasted on the original Discovery Channel.

Shortly before the 2004 Tour de France, the Discovery Channel company announced it would become the primary sponsor of the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team starting in 2005, featuring seven-time champion Lance Armstrong.

The Discovery Channel (in the USA) is now also available in a Spanish-language version.

Diversity

Discovery Communicatons was named one of the 100 Best Companies for Working Mothers in 2004 by Working Mothers magazine. Discovery communications also has a theatrical production arm,Discovery Docs which produces documentaries for theatrical releases

Censored

Conspiracy of Silence is a 56 minute documentary film detailing an alleged Lawrence "Larry" King child sex scandal that involved many children from Nebraska institution, Boys Town. The organized child sex parties implicated the Reagan and Bush White House during the 1980s. King was the ringleader of the sex ring which had links to other fellow political conservatives in Washington D.C. including Republican lobbyist Craig Spence, Sen. Elizabeth Dole's staff, along with members of the financial elite of Nebraska.

The documentary was produced over the course of ten months by British corporation Yorkshire Television for broadcast in the US on May 3, 1994 on the Discovery Channel. However, threats from Congress of more restrictive television legislation resulted in the documentary never being aired. Most copies of the finished product were destroyed by parties unknown, but a mostly completed work print of the documentary was sent anonymously to former State Senator Nebraska attorney John DeCamp a year after all copies were supposedly destroyed.

See also

• List of Discovery Channel programs
• Discovery Channel Canada
• Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team

External links

• Discovery Channel website
• Discovery Channel Canada
• Discovery Channel Asia
• Discovery Channel Europe

• Discovery Channel
• Mexico television networks
• TV channels with British versions
• United States television networks