Who is the owner of Discovery

Discovery, a publicly traded company with David Zaslav as its CEO, is owned by Warner Brothers Discovery. Founded by John Hendricks in 1982, the Discovery Channel and its original parent company, Cable Educational Network Inc., had early investors such as BBC, Allen Company, and Venture America, raising $5 million in start-up funding. The channel began broadcasting on June 17, 1985, focusing on educational programming with cultural and wildlife documentaries, as well as science and history specials. In the early 2000s, the channel shifted its focus to reach a broader audience by developing more reality-based series. Today, the Discovery Channel is the third most widely distributed subscription channel in the United States, available to an estimated 88,598,000 pay television households in 2018.