Discovery Communications

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Discovery Communications, Inc.
Tip	Kamu (NASDAQ: DISCA), NASDAQ: DISCB), NASDAQ: DISCK)
Kuruluş	1985 (Bethesda, Maryland)
Yer	Silver Spring, MD
Önemli kişiler	David Zaslav (CEO) John S. Hendricks (Kurucu & Başkan)
Alan	Yayıncılık & Kablo TV
Ürün	Medya Holding Şirketi
Ana sayfası	[5]

Discovery Communications, Inc. (DCI) (NASDAQ: DISCA), NASDAQ: DISCB), NASDAQ: DISCK) bir Amerikan küresel medya ve eğlence şirketi. Şirket 1985'de tek bir kanal olarak başladı, Discovery Channel. Bugün ise DCI'in dünya üzerinde 170 ülkede, 33 dilde, 1.5 milyar katılımcısı ile 100'ün üzerinde kanalı ve 29 eğlence markası var. Discovery Communications Silver Spring, MD'da kuruldu. Şirket sloganı: "The number-one nonfiction media company.(çeviri:Uydurmasız bir numaralı medya şirketi.)"

DCI both produces original programming and acquires content from producers worldwide. Bu uydurmasız programcılık DCI'in Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Discovery Health Channel, Discovery Travel & Living Channel ve dijital kanallar ailesini de kapsayan 28 eğlence markasının sayesinde sunuldu. Aynı zamanda DCI BBC Amerika ve BBC World'ü de Birleşik Devletler'in uydu ve kablo operatörlerine taşıdı.

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Discovery Communications headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland

Yönetim

Judith A. McHale NBC Universal yöneticisi David Zaslav'in 16 Kasım 2006'da yerini devralana kadarki başkanı ve en yetkili kişisiydi. [6]

Ocak 2007'da Zaslav üst düzey yöneticilerinin yeniden yapılandırılması emrini verdi. Yöneticilerden ayrılanların arasında: Discovery Networks U.S.A.'in eski başkanı Billy Campbell, Discovery Networks International'ın eski başkanı Dawn McCall, Animal Planet'ın eski başanı ve genel müdürü Maureen Smith ve TLC'nin eski başkan ve genel müdürü David Abraham da vardır.

Zaslav, Discovery Networks International'ın başkan ve CEO'luğu için Greg Ricca'la anlaştı. Mark Hollinger'ı küresel işletmele ve operasyonlar başkanlığına, Marjorie Kaplan'ı Animal Planet Media ve Discovery Kids Media'nın başkanlığı ile genel müdürlüğüne, ve Jane Root'u Discovery Channel ile Science Channel'ın prexy genel müdürlüğüne yükseltti. [7]

Sahibi

18 Eylül 2008 öncesinde DCI'in sahipliği üç hissedardan oluşuyordu:

• Discovery Holding Company
• Advance Publications ile bağlı olan Advance/Newhouse Communications[8]
• John S. Hendricks, Şirketin kurucusu ve başkanı.

13 Aralık 2007'de Discovery Holding Company bir yeniden yapılanmayı planladığını bildirdi. Planın içinde Discovery Holding Ascent Media işletmesinin alt işletmesi olmak istiyordu ve geri kalan işletmeler işletmeler ise (Discovery Communications, LLC ve Advance/Newhouse Communications) yeni bir holding şirketi olarak birleşmek istiyorlardı.[9]. Yeniden yapılanma 17 Kasım 2008'de tamamlandı. Yeni Discovery Communications, Inc. şuanda tamamen kamu şirketi ve NASDAQ borsası üzerinden ticareti yapılmaktadır.

Bölünme

DCI işletmelerini dört grupta işletiyordu: Discovery Networks U.S., Discovery Networks International, Discovery Commerce ve Discovery Education.

Discovery Networks U.S.

Discovery Networks U.S. 12 İngilizce kanlı, 3 İspanyolca kanalı işletiyor[10]. According to SEC filings, the division "also operates web sites related to its channel businesses and various other new media businesses, including a video-on-demand offering distributed by various cable operators." All of the channels are in the process of being overhauled and "made over".[11] Many channels already have new logos such as the Science Channel, and Animal Planet to follow in February 2008. [12]

The division's channels include:

Channel	Launch Date	US Households	HD Simulcast	Notes
Discovery Channel	1985	98 million	Yes
TLC	1972	97 million	Yes	acquired by Discovery Communications in May 1991
Animal Planet	1996	95 million	Yes
Discovery Health Channel	1999	69 million	late 2009	will be relaunched as OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network in late 2010, a 50-50 joint venture with Harpo Productions
Discovery Kids	1996	61 million	No
Science Channel	1996	55 million	Yes
Investigation Discovery	1996	52 million	No	Formerly Discovery Times, Discovery Civilization, Discovery People, and CBS Eye on People
Military Channel	2005	52 million	No
Planet Green	1998	51 million	Yes	Formerly Discovery Home and Discovery Home and Leisure
FitTV	2003	35 million	No	Formerly America's Health Network
HD Theater	2002	18 million	N/A	Broadcasts in HD 24 hours per day
Discovery en Español	1998	8 million	No	Spanish-language version of the Discovery Channel
Discovery Familia	2007	1 million	No

Discovery Networks International

Discovery Networks International, or Discovery international networks offers "a portfolio of channels, led by Discovery Channel and Animal Planet, that are distributed in virtually every pay-television market in the world." The division offers over 100 separate feeds in 35 languages with "channel feeds customized according to language needs and advertising sales opportunities."[13]

DCI owns most channels offered by Discovery Networks International, with the exception of:

• (1) the international Animal Planet channels, which are "generally 50-50 joint ventures with the BBC"[14]
• (2) People+Arts, which "operates in Latin America and Iberia as a 50-50 joint venture with the BBC"
• (3) several channels in Japan and Canada, which "operate as joint ventures with strategically important local partners."

"As with the U.S. networks division, the international networks operate web sites and other new media businesses."

On January 10, 2006, the Discovery Networks International announced[15] a joint-venture with Spiegel TV and DCTF to provide global free-to-air television to more than 20 million households in Germany and neighboring countries.

Discovery International Channels include [16]:

• Asia/Pacific: Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Discovery Travel & Living, Discovery Home & Health, Discovery Science, Discovery Turbo, Discovery HD

• Turkiye: Discovery Channel,Discovery HD Showcase, Animal Planet, Animal Planet HD, Discovery Science, Discovery World, Investigation Discovery

• Europe, Middle East, and Africa: Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, DMAX, Discovery Science, Discovery World, Discovery Travel & Living, Discovery Real Time, People+Arts, Discovery Geschichte, Discovery Turbo, Discovery Historia, Discovery HD

• Latin America: Discovery Channel, Discovery Kids, People+Arts, Animal Planet, Discovery Home & Health, Discovery Travel & Living, Discovery Civilization, Discovery Science, Discovery Turbo

• United Kingdom and Ireland: Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, DMAX, Discovery Real Time, Discovery Shed, Discovery Knowledge, Discovery Science, Discovery Home & Health, Discovery Turbo, Discovery Travel & Living, Discovery HD

• Canada: Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Discovery Civilization Channel, Discovery Health, Discovery Kids, Discovery HD

Discovery Commerce

Discovery Commerce operates a catalog and electronic commerce business (located at shopping.discovery.com[17]) offering lifestyle, health, science and education-oriented products, as well as products specifically related to programming on Discovery's networks. In addition, the e-commerce site serves as a licensing business that licenses Discovery trademarks and intellectual property to third parties for the purpose of creating and selling retail merchandise. The Discovery shopping website offers products similar to those previously sold in the Discovery Channel retail stores. Recently the Discovery Channel retail stores were closed, however, the products are still available online.

Discovery Education

Discovery Education is a division which offers "streaming educational video material into schools via the internet." Discovery Education operates unitedstreaming, a "leading educational broadband streaming service in the United States." In April of 2006, Discovery Education acquired a premier assessment company, ThinkLink Learning, which is based in Nashville, Tennessee. Now called Discovery Education Assessments, the program is designed to help students improve on state standardized tests.

Discovery Education also sells DVD, VHS, CD-ROM, and Multimedia kits with the same content.

Other products include COSMEO -an online homework subscription help site, Discovery Health Connection, Discovery Science Connection and they recently purchased other video streaming companies.

They have two free services. One is their website, Discovery School and the other is a teacher community, the Discovery Educator Network, commonly referred to as the DEN.

Other interests

On October 15, 2007, Discovery Communications completed their purchase of HowStuffWorks for US$250 million. The company later chose to use the name HowStuffWorks as the title of a television series on Discovery Channel. The series, which focuses on commodities, premiered in November 2008 and is similar in style and content to other "how it works" programs like Modern Marvels.

On March 17, 2009, Discovery revealed that it owned the rights to several patents related to e-books, in announcing a patent infringement lawsuit against Amazon.com, maker of the Kindle e-book reading device. The patents were originally developed by the company's founder John Hendricks; the specific patent in question in the suit was applied for in 1999 but issued in late 2007.

Controversy

Visual effects artists who worked for the now bankrupt Meteor Studios, a company established by Discovery Communications of Virginia and Evergreen Films of Pacific Palisades, have not been paid fully for their work on Journey to the Center of the Earth. Maryland-based Discovery VP and spokesperson Katie Wolfgang has stated that Discovery holds a "passive non-controlling interest" in Meteor, and that "matters related to the management of Meteor Studios, its employees and operations were handled by Meteor Studios' principals."

Competitors

• National Geographic Channel
• PBS
• History Channel

Referanslar

• SEC filings are by the Discovery Holding Company [18].

Ayrıca bakınız

• Antenna Audio, acquired in 2006
• National Geographic Society
• A&E Television Networks

Dış bağlantılar

• Official Site