With digital companies like YouTube and Yahoo making aggressive pitches for cable ad dollars, one of cable TV’s stalwart programmers, Discovery Communications, rendered a bold response Thursday, purchasing top digital program provider Revision3 for $30 million. Read more »
– Discovery Communications: Andrew Warren, former Liz Claiborne CFO and GE/NBC (NSDQ: CMCSA) Universal executive, joins as senior executive… Read more »
Christina Norman is out as CEO of OWN (NSDQ: DISCA), the Oprah Winfrey Network, the victim of dissatisfaction over poor ratings for one of t… Read more »
Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) will increase the funding for the Oprah Winfrey Network to $198 million from its previous promise of… Read more »
Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) is giving corporate development exec Bruce Campbell some additional responsibilities as chief develop… Read more »
Tom Cosgrove, a long-time Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) executive, will head up the new 24/7, 3D TV network the company is launchin… Read more »
In general, cable networks and operators have weathered the past year’s recession relatively well. After a small profit decline in Q3, Disco… Read more »
Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) CEO David Zaslav, coming off a year where the cable network outperformed most of its peers, reaped a… Read more »
In a rather complex transaction with multiple companies involved, a new healthcare site focused on Q&As called Sharecare has been launched,… Read more »
Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) is putting some full-length programs online but sticking to its guns when it comes to free broadband… Read more »
With display ads out of favor, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has been making a push to do more cross-platform ad sales, and the company has now lan… Read more »
Discovery (NSDQ: DISAB) Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) has added to Kelly Day’s responsibilities as COO of the commerce division by putting di… Read more »
Following the Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) upfront at the *Time Warner* Center in New York, I talked with CEO David Zaslav (pictur… Read more »
Turn away for a second and the damnedest things drop in your inbox: Discovery (NSDQ: DISAB) Communications (NSDQ: DISCA), home of Shark Week… Read more »
Discovery Communications, which as well as the Discovery (NSDQ: DISAB) Channel runs TLC, Animal Planet, Science Channel, Planet Green, Inves… Read more »
*Discovery* Communications gobbled up online reference site HowStuffWorks for $250 million back in late 2007, and network brass told us that… Read more »
Do not expect to see any long-form programming on the web from *Discovery Communications*, David Zaslav, the cable programmer’s president an… Read more »
The high-profile launch of “OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network” in late 2009 has attracted its share of speculation since it was announced earli… Read more »
What happened here? Two months ago I met Scott Sassa in our offices when he was all gaga over Uber.com’s chances. In those two months, it tu… Read more »
Cable ad revenue has been consistently solid this quarter, and Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) is continuing the trend… Revenue for… Read more »
As Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) gets set to trade as a standalone company, it has filed a detailed, preliminary proxy filing, expl… Read more »
This was announced in principle last December, and now the details have been worked out: Discovery Holdings and Advance/Newhouse are combini… Read more »
Last we knew, Scott Sassa, the former CEO of Friendster, had left his EIR position at Kleiner Perkins and taken over as the CEO of an obscur… Read more »
Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) has hired 24-year Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) veteran Kathleen Kayse as EVP of digital media sales. Kayse… Read more »
Updated below: In a curious deal, Oprah Winfrey and Discovery (NSDQ: DISAB) Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) have formed a new 50:50 joint ventu… Read more »
Discovery Holding Company and Advance/Newhouse are combining their respective stakes in cable net Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) to… Read more »
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 compa… Read more »