Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) is putting some full-length programs online but sticking to its guns when it comes to free broadband access. CEO David Zaslav has said repeatedly that Discovery’s networks will protect their subscription value with a clips-oriented strategy for free broadband access. The news that Discovery is network…

Following the Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) upfront at the *Time Warner* Center in New York, I talked with CEO David Zaslav (pictured on the right, with president of ad sales Joe Abruzzese) about online video. Over at The Cable Show in Washington, D.C., this week, where Zaslav is speaking Friday…

Do not expect to see any long-form programming on the web from *Discovery Communications*, David Zaslav, the cable programmer’s president and CEO, told an audience on day-three of the UBS Global Media and Communications (PDF) conference. —Keeping it short: You will find plenty of short-form clips of Discovery’s shows, as…

Discovery (NSDQ: DISAB) CEO David Zaslav expanded a bit on what he said last month about the value of full shows online for the cable net, in an interview with B&C: “I’ve spent a lot of time looking at the economics. If you take out a pen and you add…

Discovery Holding Company and Advance/Newhouse are combining their respective stakes in cable net Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) to form a new, unified holding company—making Discovery a fully public company. The two signed a letter of intent that will bring DHC’s 66 percent stake with Advance/Newhouse’s 33 percent stake in the…

It’s been a busy year for Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) and its CEO David Zaslav, who took the job in January. In August, the company made two digital acquisitions: TreeHugger for $15 million and then HowStuffWorks for $250 million. But this isn’t just a case of a cable network trying…