The Flight that Fought Back and Deadliest Catch were smash hits for the channel throughout 2006. In fact, they were probably the main reason that The Discovery Channel managed to pick up a huge seven Emmy Award nominations. Moving forward to 2007, the channel focused on bringing something new to viewers. They introduced Dirty Jobs [...]

When the channel was first produced, they were only able to offer 156,000 households access to the channel. This was on the basis of producing 12 hours of content per day, which would be from 3pm-3am. Whilst around 75% of the content was new to all Americans, this was not enough. Even 100% of the [...]

The Discovery Channel is a well known satellite and cable television channel, originally designed for viewing in America. It was originally developed by the Discovery Communications Corporation and the founder was John Hendricks, who created in for American TV. The channel is certainly not a small operation, with shares being traded publicly on a daily [...]