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Mike Rowe’s 2005 to 2012 reality show Dirty Jobs was terrific, both entertaining and informative, educational without being annoying. On that and the CNN show that followed, Somebody’s Gotta Do It, Mike was an affable host who put the spotlight on the people he was profiling (rather than making it all about himself).

...

Ever since Jeff Probst dropped a Target-branded crate on Survivor contestants 20 years ago, I’ve been very used to product integration on reality TV shows. Target, Budweiser, and other company’s sponsorship literally made :{Survivor:(style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-weight:700"):}: possible.

...the he other episode I had access to, “How A Mousetrap Can Cure Your Hangover,” does not have that explicit a message at its conclusion. (It ends with an outtake of Mike laughing.) But its credits—like the other episodes—include this:

:{Special Thanks

}:Energy Citizens

Thanks to Our Sponsors

American Petroleum Institute

Distribution Contractors Association

The Distribution Contractors Association’s mission statement says “working together to deliver superior value to the natural gas and the underground utility industry.”

Energy Citizens, which is fighting for oil pipelines and against efforts to end our dependence on gasoline, says it is “paid for by the American Petroleum Institute,” and the API says it “represents all segments of America’s oil and natural gas industry.”

The American Petroleum Industry is currently being sued by the state of Minnesota, which says API is among the “parties who have profited from avoiding the consequences and costs of dealing with global warming and its physical, environmental, social, and economic consequences,” and wants it to pay for “those impacts, rather than Minnesota taxpayers, residents, or broader segments of the public.” API is also being sued by Hoboken, New Jersey, which said Big Oil has been “actively lying about the detrimental effects of their products when in fact their own research indicated otherwise, all in order to generate multibillion dollar profits by producing, marketing, and selling vast quantities of fossil fuels.”

The Climate Investigations Center reported that “API was one of the first trade associations to orchestrate behind-the-scenes climate change denial campaigns. As early as the 1950’s and 1960’s, API worked todownplay the threat of smog to human health in Los Angeles by hiring their own scientists that would disparage leading smog control scientists, while promoting the idea that pollution controls would be too costly.”

...

Earlier last year, Mike Rowe was one of the speakers at an API event, where he and others “discussed the state of the energy workforce and the need for sensible policymaking on trade and infrastructure.” API’s press release quotes him: “Energy is always in the room…Every single American is relying on it.”

...but every single American is also being affected by a “coordinated cover-up of climate risks [that] stretches back decades and rivals that of big tobacco companies.”

And we’re being affected by climate change right now. NASA’s “The Effects of Climate Change” outlines “impacts that are currently visible throughout the U.S. and will continue to affect these regions,” including “decreased water availability,” “risks to infrastructure,” “increasing wildfire, insect outbreaks and tree diseases [that] are causing widespread die-off,” “reduced agricultural yields” and “health impacts in cities due to heat.”

Emily Atkin, whose reporting on the climate crisis has taught me so much, wrote this:

Every year, the oil and gas industry spends hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising to convince the public they’re good faith partners in the fight against climate change.

… Oil companies and trade groups run such ads claiming they’re “part of the solution” while investing trillions of dollars into extracting more fossil fuels that, if burned, will undoubtedly send the livable world into chaos. They run ads claiming they’re “on it” while spending millions funding the spread of climate denial and disinformation.

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On its web site, Discovery—now a massive, worldwide company, not just a single cable network—outlines its commitments to “being purposeful and doing the right thing.” That includes its commitments to the planet: “we seek to protect the planet and ensure there will always be stories to tell. We acknowledge that climate change is a real threat to our world and business and Discovery is committed to curbing our own impact on the environment.”

in 2018, @Discovery

CEO David Zaslav wrote to investors: "Nowhere is our mission to protect and preserve the natural world reflected more prominently than in our content."

Now Discovery wants you to pay to watch a show sponsored by the oil industry.

https://www.alternet.org/2022/02/john-malone-land-map/

February 19, 2022

John Malone told CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/2021/11/18/john-malone-says-warnermedia-discovery-getting-rid-of-cnn-would-be-the-cowards-way-out.html... John Malone?

“I would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing,” the media billionaire Malone told CNBC (11/18/21) in November.

“I do believe good journalism could have a role in the future portfolio that Discovery/TimeWarner’s going to represent,” he went on.

In the interview with CNBC‘s David Faber, Malone also said:

Fox News, in my opinion, has followed an interesting trajectory of trying to have news news, I mean some actual journalism, embedded in a program schedule of all opinions.

Brian Flood of right-wing Fox News (11/19/21) said of Malone’s CNBC declaration:

Liberty Media chairman John Malone, who sits on the Discovery, Inc. board of directors, wants to see left-wing CNN revert back to nonpartisan journalism following the completion of a merger that would put the liberal network under the Discovery channel.

More than a board member

Malone, in fact, is more than a Discovery board member; he’s its chair and largest shareholder. CNN, started by Ted Turner and now owned by AT&T, is part of an $85 billion acquisition by Discovery, expected to be finalized this year.

Malone’s links to politics include being an active supporter—he’s currently a board member—of the Cato Institute, the Washington-based libertarian think tank that espouses the privatization of numerous US government agencies and programs, including Social Security and the Postal Service.

His Liberty Media empire was among the big contributors to Donald Trump’s 2017 inauguration festivities in Washington, DC, with personal and corporate contributions adding up to $1 million.

However, in 2019, in another interview with Faber on CNBC (11/21/19), Malone said:

Look, I think a lot of things Trump has tried to do—identifying problems and trying to solve them—has been great…. I just don’t think he’s the right guy to do it. Half the people that he’s hired and thrown under the bus are now trying to kill him. I mean, what kind of thing is that?

Malone then said he would vote for former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg for president in 2020.

No ‘coward’s way out’

Newsmax

Brian Freeman of right-wing Newsmax (11/21/21) said:

CNN will be the key news property in the merged company, one that will be dominated by entertainment programming. There had been rumors that CNN might be spun off or sold, but Malone indicated [in the CNBC interview] that’s not likely.

Malone, Freeman said, described such a move as a “coward’s way out.”

Freeman asserted that “Malone has cause to worry about the left-wing network,” because

CNN’s ratings have collapsed over 50% in the past year and may be suffering from a credibility gap with viewers…. Last March, a Hill/HarrisX poll found that 47% of registered voters believe CNN holds a liberal bias in reporting.

(In the same poll, 48% of respondents said they believed Fox had a conservative bias—but who’s counting?)

Steve Straub of the right-wing website the Federalist Papers (11/22/21) said of Malone’s CNBC comments:

CNN’s soon-to-be new owner just made a startling admission, one that has been obviously apparent to us and many others for some time, that the so-called news network has no actual journalists.

‘The most powerful man you’ve never heard of’

Gentleman’s Journal called Malone “one of the most powerful, yet unknown, individuals in America.”

“John Malone… Meet the Most Powerful Man That You’ve Never Heard Of,” was a heading of a 2018 piece on the website of the British-based Gentleman’s Journal. Malone owns

services and TV channels you’ve most likely used or watched…yet the name John Malone still draws a sea of blank faces…. One of the most powerful, yet unknown, individuals in America…as Liberty Media’s chairman and largest stakeholder, John Malone is one of the world’s most influential media magnates.

In addition to being part-owner of the Atlanta Braves, the website noted,

he currently owns more land in America than anyone else: 2.2 million acresto be precise…. Malone has a net worth of around $9.22 billion, and thanks to his buccaneering role in media deals and land ownership, he’s been nicknamed the “Cable Cowboy.”

The article related how Malone, born in Connecticut, has a Ph.D. in operations research from Johns Hopkins University, and

joined the worldwide management consulting firm McKinsey & Company in 1968. However, fatigued from the constant traveling his job required, he left after five years to join General Instrument; while at GI, he ran Jerrold—a subsidiary which produces minicomputers for the cable TV industry—and was eventually offered the role of CEO of Tele-Communications, Inc… [which] only had 400,000 subscribers and owed creditors $132 million…. Malone was only 29 at the time.

Within 17 years of snapping up smaller operators and acquiring minority stakes in other channels,TCI, under the management of Malone, had accumulated 8.5 million subscribers and grew into the second largest cable company after Time Warner. Because of his business deals in the byzantine world of cable TV, Malone was compared to “Darth Vader” by former US Vice President Al Gore….

At the helm of Liberty Media, the young American changed the organization from just providing cable services to actually owning the networks broadcast on its infrastructure, including the Discovery Channel, QVC and Virgin Media.

‘CNN could face a reset’

Variety (2/8/22) says former CNN president Jeff Zucker (left) “pushed CNN to be blunt and unstinting in its efforts to hold feet to the fire,” while Discovery‘s David Zaslav (right) is “behind the scenes a relentless operator.”

The headline last week in Variety (2/8/22): “CNN Could Face a Reset Under Discovery Control.” The article by Brian Steinberg spoke of how under its recently resigned president, Jeff Zucker, “CNN became more swashbuckling, more colorful…”

But Discovery is “a media company that tries to maintain a quieter corporate demeanor.” Zucker

changed the culture of the news outlet, shoving it into more direct competition with Fox News Channel and MSNBC…. Will Discovery change the recipe? There are signs that executives at the company see Zucker’s departure as an opportunity for a reset at CNN.

The piece spoke of those who “argue Zucker’s strategies have been good for CNN—and for people who have been helped by its aggressive accountability journalism in Washington.” The article concluded:

Executives charged with leading CNN in the wake of Zucker’s exit have vowed to staffers in internal meetings that his vision for the network will remain intact, but chances are Discovery will dim Zucker’s flash.

That would not be good news.

The future of democracy in the United States is at stake amid the polarization and deadlock of the political process in Washington. Media are increasingly under the control of right-wing zealots like Rupert Murdoch and those behind Newsmax, etc., who are poisoning communications.

Critically needed now is an independent, honest, credible press providing, yes, aggressive accountability journalism—a light to enable people to find their way out of this mess. Instead, the nation’s oldest cable news channel will soon be under the control of someone who appears to want it to follow the “interesting trajectory” of Fox News.

aug 2020

CuriosityStream, the nonfiction streaming company headed by Discovery Channel founder John Hendricks, is going public through a reverse merger with a firm set up to execute just such a roll-up deal.

CuriosityStream is combining with Software Acquisition Group Inc., a special purpose acquisition company that raised about $150 million in November 2019. The merger is valued at $331 million, with the new entity carrying an equity value of approximately $512 million, according to the companies.

Technically, Software Acquisition Group is acquiring CuriosityStream (and the new company will adopt the CuriosityStream name). Following the deal closing, Hendricks will remain chairman as well as the combined company’s largest shareholder.

Launched in 2015, CuriosityStream says it now has more than 13 million paying subscribers worldwide for the service, which offers an array of 3,100-plus titles including original docuseries, films and specials spanning science, nature, history, technology, society and lifestyle.

“CuriosityStream has the unique advantage of being a ‘pure play’ streaming media service that is not burdened with legacy linear TV assets in cable and broadcasting,” said Hendricks, founder and chairman of CuriosityStream. “We are excited to now have access to the public capital markets to support our growth plans and to over-deliver on our mission to provide content that informs, enchants and inspires.”

The boards of CuriosityStream and Software Acquisition Group have unanimously approved the proposed deal, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2020. The transaction is subject to usual closing conditions, including regulatory approvals and approval by the shareholders of Software Acquisition Group.

When the deal closes, CuriosityStream’s common stock will be listed on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol “CURI.”

Existing CuriosityStream shareholders, which include Hendricks,Blum Capital Ventures and TimesSquareCapital Management, will contribute all of their equity into the combined company. The reverse-merger deal will put a maximum $180 million of cash on CuriosityStream’s balance sheet — and the new company will have zero debt, according to the parties. The cash will include a $25 million private investment in public equity (PIPE) tranche with shares priced at $10 each; the PIPE investment will include “significant commitments” from existing investors in CuriosityStream, Software Acquisition Group insiders and existing investors and new institutional investors.

CuriosityStream will continue to operate under the current management team led by president/CEO Clint Stinchcomb, formerly head of Discovery’s digital networks.

Software Acquisition Group is a “blank check company,” formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination with one or more businesses. The company is led by chairman/CEO Jonathan Huberman and VP of acquisitions Mike Nikzad and members of the board include Andrew Nikou, Stephanie Davis, Peter Diamandis, Steven Guggenheimer and Matt Olton.

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David M. Zaslav (born January 15, 1960)^[1] is the president and chief executive officer of Discovery Inc., a position he has held since January 2007.^[2][3]

Under his leadership, Discovery began trading as a public company in 2008, became a Fortune 500 company in 2014, and acquired Scripps Networks Interactive, in 2018.^[4]

Most recently, Discovery entered into an agreement with AT&T to combine WarnerMedia's entertainment assets with Discovery's nonfiction and international entertainment and sports business. The proposed combined company, to be called Warner Bros. Discovery, will be run by Zaslav. He was previously an executive at NBCUniversal.^[2][5]

Early life and education

Zaslav was born to a Polish and Ukrainian Jewish family ^[6][7][8][9] in Brooklyn, New York.^[10] At the age of 8, he moved to Rockland County (NY) where he graduated from Ramapo High School.^[11][12] He was captain of the varsity tennis team.^[13]

Zaslav earned a bachelor of science degree from Binghamton University.

Following this, he graduated from Boston University School of Law with a JD with honors in 1985 and started his career as an attorney with LeBoeuf, Lamb, Lieby and MacRae in New York.^[14]

Career

NBC Universal

Zaslav joined NBC in 1989.^[15] As president of Cable and Domestic TV and New Media Distribution, he oversaw content distribution to all forms of TV, negotiated for cable and satellite carriage of NBC Universal networks and forged media partnerships.^[16][17]

His responsibilities extended to Bravo, CNBC World, SCI FI, ShopNBC, Sleuth, Telemundo, Telemundo Puerto Rico, mun2, Trio, Universal HD, USA Network, NBC Weather Plus and the Olympics on cable.

Zaslav also oversaw NBC Universal's interests in A&E, The History Channel, The Biography Channel, National Geographic International, the Sundance Channel and TiVo.^[18][19]

Discovery Inc.

Zaslav became CEO of Discovery Communications in January 2007.^[20] Zaslav instigated a shift in strategy by the company, aiming to see itself as a "content company" rather than a "cable company" by bolstering its main networks (such as its namesake Discovery Channel) as multi-platform brands.^[21] As CEO, Zaslav oversaw the development and launch of new networks such as Planet Green (later rebranded as Destination America),^[22] The Hub,^[23][24] Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN),^[25] Velocity,^[26][27] and Investigation Discovery,^[28] as well as the company's 2018 acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive,^[29] expansion of its digital education operations,^[30] and current emphasis on streaming services.^[31]

In May 2021, it was announced that Zaslav would serve as CEO of a proposed merger of Discovery with a spin-out of AT&T's WarnerMedia.^[32][33] Zaslav's executive compensation package includes an annual salary of $3 million with an annual $22 million bonus. In his contract extension, Zaslav also received stock options valued at $190 million.^[34][35][36]

Boards and other activities

Zaslav serves on the boards of Sirius XM., Lionsgate,^[37] the NCTA, The Cable Center, Center for Communication, Grupo Televisa, Partnership for New York City, Syracuse University, and USC Shoah Foundation.^[38] He also is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Paley Center for Media and the Mt. Sinai Medical Center.^[39] He is chair of the Auschwitz: The Past Is Present Committee which promotes awareness of the Holocaust.^[7][8][40] In 2012, he received the Steven J. Ross Humanitarian Award from the UJA-Federation of New York^[41] which honors people of vision, energy and sustained achievement in the entertainment, media and communications industries.^[42]

In 2014, Zaslav was awarded the Fred Dressler Leadership Award by Syracuse University's S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.^[38][14]

David Zaslav was awarded the Susan Newhouse & SI Newhouse Award of Hope for his support of the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration (AFTD) in September 2016.^[43]

In 2017, Zaslav was inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame.^[44]

In 2018, Zaslav received the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award.^[45]

Personal life

Zaslav lives in New York City with his wife Pam and the couple has three children.^[38][46]

References

Destination America is an American cable television owned by Discovery, Inc. The network carries programming focused on the culture of the United States—including food, lifestyles, and travel.

The network first launched in 1996 as Discovery Travel & Living Network, as part of a suite of four digital cable networks the company launched that year. From its launch until 2008, the network primarily focused upon home improvement, cooking, and leisure-themed programs. In 2008, the channel re-launched as Planet Green, which carried a focus on environmentalism and sustainable living; Discovery spent $50 million on developing programming for the channel. Planet Green was ultimately considered a failure; by 2010, the channel had begun to populate schedule with reruns of Discovery library programming that had little to with ecology.

In May 2012, the channel re-launched as Destination America, which originally featured programming focused on American culture; the channel's format was similar to Travel Channel, and also featured Discovery-owned library programs that had previously aired on Travel Channel prior to its divestment of the channel.

By 2017, Destination America had rebranded as a channel focusing on paranormal topics and investigations. This format ended following Discovery's acquisition of Travel Channel's then-present owner Scripps Networks Interactive.in 2018, when Travel Channel itself was rebranded with a similar paranormal format, and Destination America returned to its previous format using both companies' libraries.

As of February 2015, approximately 57,238,000 American households (49.2% of households with television) receive Destination America.^[1]

History

The space was originally used for one of the four digital cable networks launched by Discovery Communications in 1996. The new networks were first announced in November 1994, with a launch planned for Spring 1995. At the time, the network had the working title Living and was described as "a home repair network".^[2] The launch was delayed, and the channel made its debut in October 1996, originally known as Discovery Travel & Living and offering programming including do-it-yourself projects, cooking, interior design and landscaping, and party planning.

By 1998, it had settled on the name Discovery Home & Leisure, but the "Leisure" part of the name was dropped on March 29, 2004, when the channel became Discovery Home. Much of the travel-related programming was dropped in the process to provide more focus on home improvement and cooking.^[3]

Planet Green

Planet Green logo used from June 4, 2008, to May 25, 2012

:{In April 2007, during its :(style="background-color:#ffffff;"):}:upfronts, Discovery announced that Discovery Home would re-launch in 2008 as a new channel focused on environmentalism and sustainable living. The channel itself was announced as part of a $50 million corporate initiative known as "Planet Green", undertaken under Discovery's new CEO David Zaslav, which would include the production of programming on other Discovery channels (such as the Discovery Channel series Ten Ways to Save the Planet) that appeal to these themes, an "innovation conference", and making its headquarters**carbon neutral**.

Zaslav stated that Discovery Home had been economically sound, but wasn't "serving this higher purpose".^[4][5] On August 1, 2007, Discovery announced its acquisition of TreeHugger, a blog focusing on sustainable living. The site was to be positioned as a digital companion to the new channel.^[6][7]

In October 2007, Discovery hired veteran producer Andy Friendly as a consultant for Planet Green's programming, and to executive produce a series for the channel.^[5] The new series, Supper Club, was announced in January 2008, and would be hosted by Tom Bergeron (whom Friendly had helped cast as host for the 1998 syndicated version of Hollywood Squares).^[8]

Further programming details were announced in Discovery's April 2008 upfronts, including specials hosted by NBC News correspondent Tom Brokaw, Battleground Earth with Ludacris and Tommy Lee, Emeril Green, Hollywood Green with Maria Menounos, and the Bill Nye-hosted Stuff Happens, among other series. It was announced that the network would launch on June 4, 2008, and that a "sneak peek" of the network's programming would become available via video on demand on April 17. Later that month, Planet Green ordered Focus Earth, a weekly environmental newsmagazine produced by ABC News and hosted by Bob Woodruff.^[9][10]

Planet Green was one of the two highly anticipated Discovery network re-launches spearheaded by Zaslav, the other being the Oprah Winfrey Network—a relaunch of Discovery Health that was ultimately delayed to January 2011.^[11][12]

Despite high expectations, the network's launch was unsuccessful;^[13] Mark Hemingway argued that the majority of its programs involved either home renovations or "self-righteous" celebrities, and contained an "unwritten subtext" that "environmentalism is pretty much a luxury item". Although he singled out the more science-oriented Focus Earth and Stuff Happens as being relatively better programs (noting that the former was "informative and shockingly fair to business interests"), he felt that most of its programs "[tended] to have the entertainment value of watching soy-based, fume-free, organic-compound paint dry. And I haven't even mentioned that the channel seems dedicated to airing three hours per day of Emeril Green, the chef's new cooking show, which despite a few feints at 'buying local' is indistinguishable from much of what's already on the Food Network."^[14]

In March 2010, Planet Green's programming was broadened to include non-ecology themed shows, such as The Fabulous Beekman Boys; despite this broadened focus, in February 2011, Discovery Communications executives were acknowledging the channel's failure. Zaslav stated in a conference call with investors that Discovery "can probably do something else with that that would be more meaningful."^[13] Shortly thereafter the channel had abandoned its theme, rerunning programs from other Discovery Communications channels and featuring programming blocks such as "Paranormal Fridays". Discovery announced a probable rebranding of the channel by the start of the summer of 2012.^[13]

Destination America

Destination America logo used from May 26, 2012, to March 15, 2015

On April 4, 2012, Discovery announced through the early release of an article in USA Today that Planet Green would be re-branded as Destination America, a network focusing primarily on cuisine, natural history, and travel programming, appealing primarily towards Middle America. The launch lineup also featured programs that had previously aired on Travel Channel before its sale to Cox Communications. The channel was originally expected to have a Memorial Day launch on May 28, 2012.^[15][16]

In 2015, the network began to experiment with professional wrestling by picking up TNA programming (which had recently been dropped by Spike), including its flagship weekly program Impact Wrestling. Later that year, the network also announced that it had signed a 26-week television deal for Ring of Honor's weekly show, Ring of Honor Wrestling, which would begin on June 3, 2015.^[17] Impact moved to Pop in January 2016.^[18]

The network also began to increase its focus on programs dealing with paranormal topics and investigations; on October 30, 2015, it aired Exorcism Live—a live special broadcast from the St. Louis site of the exorcism of Roland Doe, featuring the cast of Ghost Asylum and Chip Coffey.^[19] The March 4, 2016 premiere of Paranormal Lockdown was among the highest-rated series premieres in the channel's history, which prompted further growth in the channel's focus on paranormal series. Destination America underwent a rebranding in 2017, with on-air presentation carrying a darker and "uneasy" atmosphere (including a signature "glitch" effect) to reflect its change in programming direction.^[20]

Discovery's 2018 acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive brought Travel Channel back under its ownership; a rebranding of Travel Channel in October 2018 repositioned the network to focus more on paranormal programming.^[21] Since then, Destination America's schedule has largely shifted back towards its original format, while also adding reruns of Travel Channel programs that had been displaced by its own shifts in format.

Programming

Planet Green

Planet Green programming included ecologically themed shows built around celebrities including Ed Begley Jr., Emeril Lagasse, Adrian Grenier, Leonardo DiCaprio, Ludacris, Tommy Lee, Tom Bergeron, SuChin Pak, Maria Menounos, Bob Woodruff, and Discovery Channel producer Tom Golden. In addition, celebrities gave 'green' tips within network bumpers that transitioned into and out of commercial breaks. The channel was programmed in eight-hour blocks, which repeated three times per day until April 2010. Lacking separate satellite feeds for the East and West coasts of the United States, prime-time programs ran from 8 p.m. to 11 p.m. Eastern Time and were then repeated.^[22]

Shows previously seen on Planet Green include:

30 Days ^4
A Haunting ^1
Airplane Repo
Blue Planet: Seas of Life ^1
Blood Sweat and T-Shirts
Born Dealers
Coastwatch
Conviction Kitchen
Cool Fuel
Dean Of Invention
Dresscue Me
Emeril Green
The Fabulous Beekman Boys
Famous, Rich and Homeless
Fast Forward
Future Food
G Word
Go for the Green
Gutted
In Search Of Perfection
L.A. Ink ^3
Living With Ed
Lobster Wars ^1
Lost Tapes ^2
Operation Wild
Planet Mechanics
Prehistoric¹
Renovation Nation
Storm Chasers ^1
Stuff Happens (TV series)
Total Wrecklamation
Treehugger TV
Wa$ted! ^3
Whale Wars ^2
What Sank Titanic? ^1

^1 originally shown on Discovery Channel² originally shown on Animal Planet³ originally shown on TLC⁴ originally shown on FX

Former programming

A Haunting
Alaska Monsters
Alaska Wildlife Troopers
Alien Mysteries
Aliens on the Moon
American Factory
American Loggers ^1
Amish Haunting
Armageddon Arsenals
Auction Kings
Babe Winkelman's Outdoor Secrets
BBQ Pitmasters: Father vs. Son
Bill Dance Outdoors
Buying Alaska
Buying Hawaii
Buying the Beach
Cheating Vegas
Destroyed in Seconds ^1
Disney's Animal Kingdom
Disney Cruise Line: Behind the Magic
Disneyland Resort: Behind the Scenes
Epic Homes
Epic Log Homes
Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files
Fast Food Mania
Flip That House
Food Factory
Ghosts in my House^[23]
Ghosts of Shepherdstown
Ghost Stalkers
Hauntings and Horrors
Hidden in America
TNA: Impact Wrestling
Impact Wrestling: Unlocked
Last Call Food Brawl
Mega Engineering
Mighty Ships
Mountain Monsters (moved to Travel Channel)^[24]
Project Afterlife
Railroad Alaska
Ring of Honor Wrestling
Road Trip Masters
Swamp Loggers
UFOs Over Earth
Ultimate Walt Disney World
United States of Bacon
Walt Disney World Resort: Behind the Scenes
Alaska Haunting: Dead of Winter
Alaska Monsters: Bigfoot Edition
Alaska: The Last Frontier
America: Facts vs. Fiction
America's Most Haunted Asylum
Amish Haunting
Babies, Babies, Babies
BBQ Pit Wars
BBQ Pitmasters
Beach Hunters
Big Beach Builds
Buying Alaska
Buying Hawaii
Buying the Bayou
Buying Rockies
Buying the Yukon
Carnival Eats
Chopped Junior
Crikey! It's the Irwins ^2
Evil Things
Exorcism: Live!
Expedition Unknown
Extreme Homes
Ghost Asylum
Ghost Brothers
Ghosts of Shepherdstown
Haunted Case Files
Haunted Towns
Helltown
Hooked on the Palm Beaches
House Hunters Family
How the Universe Works ^1
Incredible Inventions
Kids Baking Championship
Killing Bigfoot
Kindred Spirits
Lakefront Bargain Hunt
Little People, Big World ^3
Log Cabin Living
Maine Cabin Masters
Man, Fire, Food
Man vs. Bear
Man's Greatest Food
Monsters and Mysteries in America
Monsters and Mysteries Unsolved
Moonshiners ^1
Mountain Monsters
MythBusters Jr.
On Location
OutDaughtered
Paranormal Lockdown
Paranormal Lockdown UK
Passport to the Palm Beaches
Pool Kings
Project Afterlife
Railroad Alaska
Steak Out with Kix Brooks
Swamp Loggers ^1
The Demon Files
The Exorcist File: Haunted Boy
The Haunted: Death Rises
The Scott Martin Challenge
The Treehouse Guys
The World's Strangest UFO Stories
The Zoo ^2
These Woods are Haunted
Tiny House Big Living
Tiny Luxury
Too Cute ^2
UFOs: The Untold Stories
UFOs: Uncovering the Truth
What History Forgot
When Ghosts Attack
Wild Food
Xtreme Waterparks