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Market Cap:$4.2B
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$2.3B
- Public
- US
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Discovery Communications (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK) is the world?s number one nonfiction media company reaching more than 1.5 billion cumulative subscribers in 170 countries. Discovery empowers people to explore their world and satisfy their curiosity through 100-plus worldwide networks, led by Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Science Channel, Planet Green, Investigation Discovery and HD Theater, as well as leading consumer and educational products and services, and a diversified portfolio of digital media services including HowStuffWorks.com.
President & CEO
Judith McHaleNumber of Employees 5,000
Contact Information
1 Discovery Pl
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910-3354
(240) 662-0000
Peer Companies
NAICS Code : 517510
Recent Events
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Discovery Launching Major Science Initiative
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Discovery Communications to Launch New Multimedia, Multi-Year Science Initiative, 'Be The Future,' Supporting Obama Administration...
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Oprah's Exit: Winners and Losers
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Investigation Discovery Launches In-Depth Documentary Strand, ID INVESTIGATES, the...
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People on the Move - Tuesday, Nov 17, 2009
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Discovery.com Launches Standalone News Site
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Discovery Communications Launches DiscoveryNews.com, a New Website Dedicated to In-Depth Coverage of the World of...
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Discovery Launches Science and Tech News Website
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Discovery Communications launches science news Web site
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Crave Entertainment and Discovery Communications to Develop Man vs. Wild and Deadliest Catch Video Games
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Tentpoles play into Hasbro sales
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Hasbro profit up 9% on films, cost cuts
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Discovery Communications Q3 profits fall 29%
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FME Signs American Chopper, Miami Ink, LA Ink and Others
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Discovery Provides Second Exec to Oprah's OWN
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Discovery aims to enter China with Baidu partnership
Strategy Eye
- 2009-07-27
Discovery Communications is partnering with Chinese search engine Baidu in an attempt to enter the Chinese market. The joint venture will take the form of a science website, with Discovery providing stories, photographs and video clips about subjects such as science, archaeology and history. Baidu will translate and host...
Toymaker Hasbro buys into TV with Discovery
Strategy Eye
- 2009-04-29
Toymaker Hasbro is paying USD300m to join a joint venture with Discovery Communications, which will revamp and replace Discovery's existing Discovery Kids TV channel. The new venture, which has yet to be named, will pool Hasbro's popular brands such as My Little Pony and Transformers with Discovery Kids shows...
Discovery Communications: Resilience Speaks to the Strength of Cable
Seeking Alpha
- 2008-11-11
Julia Boorstin submits: Discovery Communications DISCA reported better than expected third quarter results on Friday. Based on these numbers, the newly public cable TV company that owns its eponymous Discovery Channel, as well as Animal Planet, TLC and the new Oprah Channel is off to a strong start (it...
Discovery: Acquirer or Target?
BNET
- 2008-09-19
Discovery Communications, the company behind the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet, picked quite the week to go public. Even so, as the financial crisis wreaks havoc on the markets, the company's execs are enthusiastically promoting plans for growth -- CEO David Zaslav told the WSJ subscription required that he'd "take...
Don Baer Appointed to Senior Level Posts at Penn, Schoen and Berland and Burson-Marsteller
- 2007-11-05
Veteran Media Industry and Former White House Communications Director to Be Chairman of Penn Schoen and Berland and Vice Chairman of Burson-Marsteller WASHINGTON -- Penn, Schoen and Berland, a market research and strategic communications consultancy, and Burson-Marsteller, a leading global public relations and public affairs firm, today announced that...
Operators, Networks Walk The Green Walk (Broadcasting and Cable)
- 2007-08-13
Operators, programmers and their corporate parents aren't just talking the green talk. Companies know that environmental commitment has to begin at home, so recycling programs are being stepped up, compact fluorescent light bulbs are being changed, computers are being shut off at night, and both sides of the paper are...
Liberty trims DCI results. (Finance).(Liberty Media Corp. adjusts Discovery Communications Inc. year 2001 cash flow results)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- 2002-04-08
Liberty Media Corp. last week said it would reduce 2001 cash flow results for Discovery Communications Inc. by $132 million, applying new accounting standards required by the Financial Accounting Standards Board. In an April 3 press release, ...
Discovery to Produce U.S. Parks-Related Fare.(with television specials and service announcements)(Brief Article)
- 2000-11-06
Discovery Communications Inc., expanding on its existing partnership with the National Park Service, will produce several annual television specials and public-service announcements related to the nation's parks, as well as films for visitor centers. Under the three-year agreement, DCI and the...
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Decision Makers
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| Judith McHale | President & CEO |
| John Ford | President and General Manager, Military Channel and Discovery Times Channel |
| Barbara Bennett | Senior Executive Vice President & CFO |
| Diane Duggan | CIO & Senior Vice President |
| Kelly Day | Chief Operating Officer, Digital Media & Commerce Division |
| Donald A. Baer | Executive Vice President, Strategy & Development |
| Mark Hollinger | Senior Executive Vice President, Corp Operations & General Counsel |
| Mona Abutaleb | Executive Vice President, New Media & Network Services |
| Pandit Wright | Senior Executive Vice President, HR & Admin |
| Scott McGraw | Executive Vice President, Advertising Sales |
| Alexa Verveer | Senior Vice President, Public Policy & Govt Relations |
| Annie Howell | Senior Vice President, Communications |
| Ben Price | Senior Vice President |
| David Leavy | Senior Vice President, Corp Affairs & Communications |
| Evan Sternschein | Senior Vice President |
| Andrew Snyder | Vice President |
| Dina Roman | Vice President & Manager, General Sales |
| Harold Morgenstern | Vice President, Sales |
| Joe Paglino | Vice President |
| John Barry | Vice President |
| Juan Carlos Gamboa | Vice President, Communications & Public Affairs |
| Lisa Fischer | Vice President |
| Marc Goodman | Vice President, Advertising Sales |
| Michelle Russo | Vice President, Corp Communications |
| Pepe Miller | Vice President, Midwest Region |
| Peter Lovering | Vice President, Production & Development |
| Rick Holzman | Vice President, Programming & Scheduling |
| Scott Felenstein | Vice President, Sales |
| Scott Kohn | Vice President, Sales |
| Alicia Levi | Director, Product Sales |
| Mary Rollins | Director, Advertising Sales |
| Charles B. Gingold | Senior Vice President & General Manager, Daytime Programming |
| Leslie Becker | Manager, Production |
| Melisa Rogers | Manager, Product Sales |
Board of Directors
| Name (plus bio) | Position |
|---|---|
| John S. Hendricks | Chairman & Founder |
| John C. Malone | Board of Directors |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | President & CEO | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | President and General Manager, Military Channel and Discovery Times Channel | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Senior Executive Vice President & CFO | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | CIO & Senior Vice President | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Chief Operating Officer, Digital Media & Commerce Division | Current |
| The Knot, Inc. | Vice President, E-Commerce | Former |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Executive Vice President, Strategy & Development | Current |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Senior Executive Vice President, Corp Operations & General Counsel | Current |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Executive Vice President, New Media & Network Services | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Senior Executive Vice President, HR & Admin | Current |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Executive Vice President, Advertising Sales | Current |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Senior Vice President, Public Policy & Govt Relations | Current |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Senior Vice President, Communications | Current |
| Discovery | Senior Vice President, Communications | Current |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Senior Vice President | Current |
| Discovery Networks, Inc. | Senior Vice President, Natl Advertising Sales | Former |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Senior Vice President, Corp Affairs & Communications | Current |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Senior Vice President | Current |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Vice President | Current |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Vice President & Manager, General Sales | Current |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Vice President, Sales | Current |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Vice President | Current |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Vice President | Current |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Vice President, Communications & Public Affairs | Current |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Vice President | Current |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Vice President, Advertising Sales | Current |
| Discovery Networks, Inc. | Director, Advertising Sales | Former |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Vice President, Corp Communications | Current |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Vice President, Midwest Region | Current |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Vice President, Production & Development | Current |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Vice President, Programming & Scheduling | Current |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Vice President, Sales | Current |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Vice President, Sales | Current |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Director, Product Sales | Current |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Director, Advertising Sales | Current |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Senior Vice President & General Manager, Daytime Programming | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Manager, Production | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Manager, Product Sales | Current |
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| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Chairman & Founder | Current |
| Organization | Position | Status |
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| Discovery Holding Company | Chairman & Chief Executive Officer | Current |
| The Leadership Success Institute | Current | |
| Infoisearch.Com | Current | |
| Liberty Media Group, Inc. | Chairman | Current |
| The DIRECTV Group, Inc. | Chairman | Current |
| Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. | Chairman Emeritus | Current |
| Liberty Global, Inc. | Chairman | Current |
| Liberty Media Corporation | Chairman | Current |
| UnitedGlobalCom, Inc. | Director | Current |
| Liberty Media International, Inc. | Director | Current |
| Car Rental Weekly | Board of Directors | Current |
| The Bank of New York Company, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Hotel Blogs | Board of Directors | Current |
| The Cato Institute and Co | Board of Directors | Current |
| Expedia, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| The Nature Conservancy | Board of Directors | Current |
| Discovery Communications, Inc. | Board of Directors | Current |
| Pars Times | Board of Directors | Current |
| Tele-Communications, Inc. | President & Chief Executive Officer | Former |
| Lgi International | Chief Executive Officer | Former |
| Lgi International | President | Former |
| General Instrument Corporation | Group Vice President | Former |
| Tele-Communications, Inc. | Chairman | Former |
| Lgi International | Chairman of The Board | Former |
| Liberty Media Group, Inc. | Director | Former |
| Liberty Global, Inc. | Board of Directors | Former |
| Liberty Media Corporation | Board of Directors | Former |
| The Johns Hopkins University | Ph.D., Operations Research | Former |
| The Johns Hopkins University | M.S., Industrial Management | Former |
| Yale University | B.S., Electrical Engineering & Economics | Former |
Executive News
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The online retail shake-out: GSI's Rubin
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Big online retailers crowd small firms out, says GSI's Rubin
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Discovery chief David Zaslav transforms television company
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Discovery E-Book Filing Raises Eyebrows: Md. Firm Mum on Patent Application
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Discovery E-Book Filing Raises Eyebrows
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Discovery Media Silent on 'E-Book' Patent File
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DirectTV deal may save Sirius XM Radio from bankruptcy
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Sirius hooks up iPhone to premium satellite radio
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Archive Top media execs wonder how Twitter will make money
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Clinton's World View
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David Rothkopf -- Hillary Clinton Redefining State Department and Her Own Role
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Starz Chief Clasen to Retire
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paidContent - Industry Moves: Starz CEO Clasen To Retire, Liberty Starts Search; Time To Split Company?
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Clasen Retiring as Starz CEO
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Starz CEO Clasen to retire
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Starz CEO Clasen to retire
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Loss widens at Ascent Media amid production slowdown
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Sirius XM raising $250M to repay Liberty Media
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Sirius XM Radio offers $250 mln notes to repay debt
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