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 »
SEC Watch: Discovery Boosts Funding For Oprah Winfrey Network
By David Kaplan
Aug. 13, 2010, 6:03pm
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Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) will increase the funding for the Oprah Winfrey Network to $198 million from its previous promise of… Read More »
Discovery Promotes Digital Media Head Campbell
By David Kaplan
Jul. 27, 2010, 6:04pm
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Discovery Communications (NSDQ: DISCA) is giving corporate development exec Bruce Campbell some additional responsibilities as chief develop… Read More »
Discovery’s Cosgrove To Head Up New 3D TV Joint Venture
By Joseph Tartakoff
Jun. 8, 2010, 9:58pm
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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 »
Discovery Profits Rise As Ads, Distribution Revs Gain
By David Kaplan
Feb. 10, 2010, 6:29pm
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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 CEO Zaslav Hits Big Time; $34 Million Profit on Options
By Multichannel
Jan. 21, 2010, 8:35am
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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 »
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By David Kaplan
Apr. 3, 2009, 7:09am
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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 »
By James Quintana Pearce
Jan. 16, 2009, 1:55am
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Discovery Communications, which as well as the Discovery (NSDQ: DISAB) Channel runs TLC, Animal Planet, Science Channel, Planet Green, Inves… Read More »
By Tameka Kee
Jan. 8, 2009, 8:20am
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*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 »
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