ABOUT THE REGISTRANTS
Discovery, Inc.
Discovery is a global media company that
provides content across multiple distribution platforms, including linear platforms such as
pay-television
(pay-TV),
free-to-air
and broadcast television, authenticated GO applications, digital distribution arrangements and content licensing arrangements. As one of the worlds largest
pay-TV
programmers, we provide original and purchased content and live events to approximately 4 billion cumulative subscribers and viewers worldwide through networks that we wholly or partially own. We
distribute customized content in the U.S. and over 220 other countries and territories in nearly 50 languages. Our global portfolio of networks includes prominent nonfiction television brands such as Discovery Channel, our most widely distributed
global brand, TLC, Animal Planet, Investigation Discovery, Science Channel, and MotorTrend (previously known as Velocity domestically and currently known as Turbo internationally). As a result of the acquisition of Scripps Networks, we also added a
portfolio of networks that include Food Network, HGTV, Travel Channel, and TVN, a Polish media company. Our portfolio also includes Eurosport, a leading sports entertainment provider and broadcaster of the Olympic Games across Europe, as well as
Discovery Kids, a leading childrens entertainment brand in Latin America. We participate in joint ventures including Group Nine Media, a digital media holding company home to top digital brands including NowThis News, the Dodo, Thrillist, and
Seeker. We operate production studios, and prior to the sale of our Education Business on April 30, 2018, we sold curriculum-based education products and services
Discoverys objectives are to invest in high-quality content for our networks and brands to build viewership, optimize distribution revenue, capture
advertising sales, and create or reposition branded channels and business to sustain long-term growth and occupy a desired content niche with strong consumer appeal. Our strategy is to maximize the distribution, ratings and profit potential of each
of our branded networks. In addition to growing distribution and advertising revenues for our branded networks, we have extended content distribution across new platforms, including brand-aligned websites, online streaming, mobile devices, video on
demand and broadband channels, which provide promotional platforms for our television content and serve as additional outlets for advertising and distribution revenue. Audience ratings are a key driver in generating advertising revenue and creating
demand on the part of cable television operators,
direct-to-home
(DTH) satellite operators, telecommunication service providers, and other content
distributors who deliver our content to their customers.
Our content spans genres including survival, exploration, sports, general entertainment, home,
food and travel, heroes, adventure, crime and investigation, health and kids. We have an extensive library of content and own most rights to our content and footage, which enables us to leverage our library to quickly launch brands and services into
new markets and on new platforms. Our content can be
re-edited
and updated in a cost-effective manner to provide topical versions of subject matter that can be utilized around the world on a variety of
platforms.
Although Discovery utilizes certain brands and content globally, we classify our operations in two reportable segments: U.S. Networks,
consisting principally of domestic television networks and digital content services, and International Networks, consisting primarily of international television networks and digital content services. In addition, Education and Other consists
principally of a production studio, and prior to the sale of the Education Business on April 30, 2018, also included curriculum-based product and service offerings. Our segment presentation aligns with our management structure and the financial
information management uses to make decisions about operating matters, such as the allocation of resources and business performance assessments.
Discovery has three series of common stock, Series A, Series B and Series C, which trade on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbols DISCA, DISCB and
DISCK, respectively. Its principal executive offices are located at 8403 Colesville Road, Silver Spring, MD 20190, and the telephone number is
(240) 662-2000.
We became a public company on September 17, 2008 in connection with Discovery Holding Company (DHC) and Advance/Newhouse Programming
Partnership (Advance/Newhouse) combining their respective ownership
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