Discovery Times

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Discovery Times
Launched	1998 as Discovery Civilization Channel, 2002 in its present form.
Owned by	Discovery Communications, Inc.
Sister channel(s)	Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Discovery Health Channel, Travel Channel, TLC, Discovery Kids, The Science Channel, Discovery Home, Military Channel, Discovery en Español, Discovery HD Theater
Website	Official Site
Availability
Satellite
DirecTV	Channel 285
Dish Network	Channel 192
Cable
Verizon FiOS	Channel 93
Comcast	Channels Vary
Time Warner Cable	Channels Vary
Charter	Channels Vary
Cox Cable	Channels Vary
IO Digital Cable (Cablevision)	Channel 171
Bright House Networks	Channels Vary

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]

[edit] 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.

In 1998, Discovery Civilization was rolled out as part of Discovery's digital cable suite (there are other networks in the suite, all of which still exist, and all with the exception of Discovery Kids, have all been renamed.)

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 "The 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]

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[edit] 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'.

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