DISCOVERY TIMES

The 'Discovery Times Channel' is a digital cable channel that was a joint venture of Discovery Communications and The New York Times. The channel is now solely owned by Discovery Communications. The channel has approximately 39 million subscribers.[1]

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History

Beginning around 1995, the New York Times began a spinoff of sorts to its traditional print format called The New York Times Electronic Media Company. The purpose of this new venture was to develop new products and alternate distribution channels for The New York Times. Over the next several years, the new company's television unit (New York Times Television) began developing several series for predominantly cable networks such as TLC, The Discovery Channel, CNN, and Showtime. Non cable networks also picked up programming such as ABC, and PBS in the United States.
The channel launched in 1996 as a joint venture between CBS and Discovery Communications, with each company owning half of the channel. The channel was called CBS Eye On People and featured news and human interest stories from CBS News. After two years, CBS sold its share to Discovery Communications, who accordingly renamed it "Discovery People". At the time, Discovery had begun to roll out its suite of themed digital channels (Discovery Home & Leisure, Discovery Wings, Discovery Science and Discovery Kids were the others). Discovery People accordingly rebranded as "Discovery Civilization" a year later.
In 2002, New York Times Television and Discovery Communications announced a joint venture to run the channel. Later in that same year, the channel was rebranded as "Discovery Times Channel".
In April 2006, the New York Times sold its stake in Discovery Times back to Discovery Communications ending its ownership in the channel.[2]

See Also

★ List of DirecTV channels

★ List of Dish Network channels

★ Discovery Channel

★ Discovery Civilisation

★ Discovery Civilization Channel

★ Discovery Communications

★ Discovery Home

★ Discovery Kids

★ Discovery en Español

★ Discovery HD Theater

★ New York Times

External links

★ Official Site

★ The New York Times in Television - Contains a complete chronological history of the New York Times Television events, and a list of New York Times Television's series'.