"Discovery Channel Ident History" made by TR3X PR0DÚCTÍ0NS, 24/06/2023.
Discovery Channel (known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery) is an American cable channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. John Hendricks founded the channel and its parent company, Cable Educational Network Inc., in 1982. Several investors, like the BBC, Allen and Company and Venture America, fundraised the start-up capital to launch the network. The Discovery Channel began broadcasting on 17th June 1985, and it broadcast for twelve hours (from 3pm to 3am) to around 156,000 households. In its early years, about seventy-five percent of its program content had never been broadcast on U.S. television before. The second logo depicts a circle, which usually took the form of a rising sun in motion graphics, or an animated version of the Vitruvian Man. Discovery Communications currently offers twenty-nine network brands in thirty-three languages, and the channel has expanded its reach to most parts of the world, such as Europe, Latin America, southeast Asia, etc. As of June 2012, Discovery Channel was the third most widely distributed subscription channel in the United States, behind now-sibling channel TBS and The Weather Channel.
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