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Discovery Channel

American basic cable and satellite television channel
Organization television_station Q43404

Facts

12 properties

Identity

Instance of
television station, cable channel[4]
Official website
dsc.discovery.com[9]
Native label
Discovery Channel[10]

Status and dates

Inception
June 17, 1985[8]

Location

Headquarters location
Silver Spring[7]
Country
United States[3]

People

Founder
John Hendricks[5]

Relations

Owned by
Warner Bros. Discovery[6]
Member of
JournalList[2]
Owner of
Investigation Discovery (Latin America), Discovery Space[11][12]
More facts +2
Language used
English[13]
Social media followers
5.1M (3.7M–9.3M, n=9)[14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22]
🏷️ Also known as
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🔖 Identifiers · 20
Domain name
dsc.discovery.com
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Discovery-Channel
Facebook username
Discovery
Fandom article ID
youtube:Discovery
Freebase ID
/m/0kc8y
Harper's tag
discovery-channel
Instagram username
discovery
Lex ID
Discovery_Channel
MusicBrainz label ID
9d48e1ef-1d25-42a2-8449-d7021d5cb6e4
Namuwiki ID
디스커버리 채널
Open Library ID
OL2770422A
Quora topic ID
Discovery-Channel
Show all 20 identifiers +8
Reddit topic ID
discovery_channel
TMDB company ID
6790
Threads username
discovery
Topic's main category
Category:Discovery Channel
Weibo user ID
discoverychina
X (Twitter) username
discovery
YouTube channel ID
UCcP6Vtkc2DtQ0IV9r_x6pCQ
Zhihu topic ID
19565533

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🔗 Connections
← Original broadcaster 57
MythBusters, Man vs. Wild, Mayday, Deadliest Catch, Dirty Jobs, The Future Is Wild, American Chopper, Brainiac: Science Abuse +49 more
← Production company 7
Grizzly Man, Earth, Encounters at the End of the World, River Monsters, Deadly Women, The Life of Mammals, I Love the World
Employees / affiliates 6
Grant Imahara, Edd China, David Zaslav, Oskar of Prussia, Reed Timmer, Mila Turajlić
← Distributed by 3
Dinosaur Planet, Expedition: Bismarck, Curiosity
Owned entities 2
Investigation Discovery, Discovery Space
Country 1
United States
Founder 1
John Hendricks
Headquarters location 1
Silver Spring
Instance of 1
television station
Language used 1
English
Named after 1
Lowell Discovery Telescope
Owned by 1
Warner Bros. Discovery
Owner of 1
Discovery Space
Owns / has subsidiaries 1
Discovery, Inc.
Topic's main category 1
Category:Discovery Channel
← Category combines topics 1
Category:Discovery Channel original programming
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Discovery Channel
← Operator 1
2012 Boeing 727 crash experiment
← Publisher 1
Evolution: The Game of Intelligent Life
← Sponsor 1
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Summary

Discovery Channel is a television station[1].

Body

Brands and Namesakes

Things named for Discovery Channel include Lowell Discovery Telescope[23], a Ritchey–Chrétien telescope[24], in United States[25].

Why It Matters

Entities named for it include Lowell Discovery Telescope[23], a Ritchey–Chrétien telescope[24], in United States[25].

Related Entities

Discovery, Inc. Explorer's Log Grant Imahara Man vs. Wild MythBusters United States Warner Bros. Discovery

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [2] ↑ . journallist.net. journallist.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  20. [21] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [24] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 17w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-07-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Aliases → —
    Harper's tag → discovery-channel
    Topic's main category → Category:Discovery Channel
    Website → —
    + 17 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: discovery-channel, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289919827|discovery channel (#289919827)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Har"
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