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Europe, Middle East and Africa

 

Overview:

  • Managing Director is Arthur Bastings
  • Launched in 1989, Discovery Networks EMEA is headquartered in London and has offices in Amsterdam, Bucharest, Budapest, Copenhagen, Helsinki, London, Madrid, Milan, Munich, Oslo, Stockholm and Warsaw
  • 13 brands - 115 countries/territories[i] - 28 languages[ii] - 42 network feeds

 

Brands:

  1. Discovery Channel
  2. Animal Planet
  3. TLC
  4. DMAX
  5. Discovery Science
  6. Discovery Travel & Living
  7. Discovery World
  8. Discovery Real Time
  9. Discovery HD Showcase
  10. Discovery Turbo
  11. Discovery Historia
  12. Animal Planet HD
  13. ID: Investigation Discovery

 

230 million cumulative subscribers:

  • § Discovery Channel

65 million

  • § Animal Planet

49 million

  • § DMAX

32.5 million[1]

  • § Discovery Science

22 million

  • § Discovery Travel & Living

20.5 million

  • § Discovery World

17 million

  • § Discovery Real Time

4.5 million

  • § Discovery HD Showcase

11 million

  • § ID: Investigation Discovery

5 million

  • § Discovery Turbo

1 million

  • § Discovery Historia

750,000

 

  • ü The following launches represent the continued expansion of Discovery's EMEA footprint:
  • o First European launch of TLC in Norway (March 2010)
  • o ID Investigation Discovery launched in Ukraine, Estonia and Latvia (July 2009) and in Croatia, Serbia & Montenegro and Bosnia Herzegovina (August 2009)
  • o Animal Planet HD launched in Turkey (August 2009) and Poland (September 2009)
  • o Discovery HD launched in Estonia (July 2009)
  • o Discovery HD Simulcast launched in Italy - June 2009
  • o Animal Planet launched in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - June 2009
  • o Discovery Networks Central Europe assumed 100% ownership of Discovery Historia Channel - May 2009
  • o Discovery HD launched in Greece - May 2009
  • o Discovery Travel & Living launched in Serbia - May 2009
  • o ID: Investigation Discovery launched in Poland, Romania, Hungary, Greece, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Montenegro - April/May 2009
  • o Animal Planet HD in Scandinavia - February 2009

 

 

[1] Technical Household Reach in Germany

 

[i] Europe - 47: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Holy See (Vatican City), Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia & Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine

 

Middle East/North Africa - 19: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

 

Sub-Saharan Africa - 49: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Cote d'Ivoire, Dem. Rep. of Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rep. of Congo, Reunion, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania (includes Zanzibar), Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

 

[ii] Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Flemish, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (European), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (Castilian), Swedish, Turkish