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NEWS ABOUT: Discovery Channel

Discovery Channel stories: 9 news summaries
NIKKI FINKE

 Oprah Sets Date for 
 Cable Launch, 
 Show Move 

Discovery Channel to media mogul: 'Move it or lose it'

Nov 5, 09 1:50 PM CST
(Newser) - The long-awaited launch of Oprah's cable network is set for early 2011, and her syndicated talk show will move to the new Oprah Winfrey Network—and from Chicago to Los Angeles. The switch from Discovery Health Channel to OWN was originally set for mid-2009, and Discovery threatened to rescind the... More »

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entertainment • television • CBS • ABC • Oprah Winfrey • Discovery Channel • Discovery Communications • Oprah Winfrey Network • syndication

(Newser) - Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the Discovery Channel, Shark Week is back. The channel's wildly popular annual look at the predators returns next week with six new documentaries, including a look at the deadly 1916 shark attacks off New Jersey that inspired Jaws. Channel... More »

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television • shark • Discovery Channel • marine life • shark attack • shark population

Hasbro, Discovery Join
to Launch Kids Channel

Toy maker plans to use kids network to promote merchandise

May 1, 09 12:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hasbro and Discovery have struck a deal to revitalize the flagging Discovery Kids Network, the Los Angeles Times reports. Hasbro, manufacturer of Transformers and GI Joe, will buy a 50% stake in Discovery Kids for $300 million. The company plans to emphasize merchandise based on programming on the network, which... More »

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entertainment • consumer • merchandise • Transformers • Hasbro • watchdog • Discovery Channel • consumer advocacy


 Ferrell Tests 
 His Mettle on 
 Man Vs. Wild 

Man vs. Wild appearance will air in June

Apr 16, 09 7:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Will Ferrell fans can watch the funnyman eat reindeer eyeballs, drink his own urine, and rappel down frozen waterfalls in a June episode of Man vs. Wild. Ferrell joined host Bear Grylls in Sweden—where the pair also improvised snow shoes and foraged for food—to tape the popular Discovery... More »

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television • reality TV • Discovery Channel • Will Ferrell • movie tie-ins

(Newser) - US viewers see ESPN and the Discovery Channel as the most indispensable cable networks, Multichannel News reports. A poll by Solutions Research Group asked 1,200 TV viewers which channels they thought of as “must keep.” The results:
  • The top four spots went to the big networks.
... More »

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television • ESPN • HBO • network • CNN • Fox • Discovery Channel • broadcasting

 World's Heaviest Groom Weds 

Half-ton man goes to wedding on flatbed

Oct 27, 08 2:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - The world's heaviest man was married yesterday in a bizarre wedding ceremony in Mexico that required a crane to transport him to him to the nuptials. Manuel Uribe, 47, was driven to the ceremony on the back of a flatbed truck, decorated in white, still resting in the bed he... More »

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wedding • Discovery Channel • Manuel Uribe • Claudia Solis • Guinness World Record

 Explosive Mentos-
 Coke Secret Uncapped 

What causes the YouTube phenom

Jun 16, 08 6:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - You've seen it on hit YouTube videos, but now young researchers have unlocked the secret of the volcanic reaction that occurs when Mentos are dropped into Diet Coke, ABC News reports. Students at Appalachian State University say the rough, dimply surface of the sinking candy disrupts the water molecules in... More »

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Discovery Channel • New Scientist • MythBusters • Coca-Cola • Diet Coke • Tonya Coffey • Appalachian State University • gum arabic

tv review

 Planet Green a
 'Waste of Energy' 

New network turns Earth into "lifestyle accessory"

Jun 12, 08 6:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Our era of eco-chic has borne bitter fruit: Watching the new cable network Planet Green is “an unforgivable waste of energy,” writes Troy Patterson in Slate. The Discovery Channel spinoff reduces environmentalism to a status symbol and bludgeons the viewer with inane condescension. “Eco-tainment” is king, with... More »

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television • environment • environmentalism • Discovery Channel • Planet Green • Adrien Grenier

Lance’s Team Bites the Dust

Biking outfit loses sponsorship amid
doping scandals

Aug 10, 07 11:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Lance Armstrong’s former cycling team is shutting down after failing to find a new corporate sponsor. The Discovery Channel squad would normally have no trouble staying afloat after one of its riders won the Tour de France this summer, the New York Times reports. But  doping scandals have... More »

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drug use • Tour de France • doping • Discovery Channel • Lance Armstrong • bicycling • Ivan Basso • scandal

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