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Discovery

Discovery, Inc. ($DISCA) is a multi-national operator of pay television networks based in the United States. The company operates 19 channels in the United States, including the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, the Science Channel, the Cooking Channel, Destination America, TLC, HGTV, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) and MotorTrend. Internationally, the company operates global variants of its stateside networks as well as DMAX (Germany), EuroSports 1 and EuroSport 2 (Europe), Quest (United Kingdom) and 9Rush (Australia).