Happy Friday! This has been a news-filled week! Aside from our announcement about Laura Ling and Sony PlayStation®Vue, we shared the news earlier this week that Curiosity.com has spun-off from Discovery Communications. In other big – er, tall – news, Yao Ming will be on Animal Planet next Tuesday in Saving Africa’s Giants with Yao Ming. (And if you haven’t read his AMA on Reddit yet, it’s worth checking out…
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Introducing Curiosity.com: A Message from Gabe Vehovsky
Today’s guest blog post is from Gabe Vehovsky, Executive Vice President of Strategy & Emerging Businesses, upon the launch of Curiosity.com. For more information, you can read the press release and Vehovsky’s interview with VentureBeat. It’s hard to believe that it was more than six years ago that I joined Discovery Communications, through the acquisition of HowStuffWorks.com. In the final days of closing that deal, I remember sitting around a boardroom table with Discovery leadership talking…
Curiosity Debuts with Special Cross-Network Simulcast Tonight
When Discovery Channel first hit the air in June 1985, our Founder and Chairman, John Hendricks, had a simple mission: satisfying our curiosity about the world around us through nonfiction television. Over the years, Discovery has grown to include over 130 networks in over 210 countries around the world, and today the company launches the first episode of Curiosity — the company’s largest multi-platform initiative to date. Curiosity is a…
Meet the Man Behind Discovery & Our Curiosity
This Sunday, August 7, at 8pm ET/PT, Discovery Channel will debut the first installment of Discovery Communications most ambitious multi-platform project ever: Curiosity. Tackling some of the biggest questions of our time as a part of Discovery’s mission to satisfy curiosity about the world around us, Curiosity was envisioned by our Founder and Chairman, John Hendricks. A cornerstone of the project, beyond the television series with big questions and big…
Are We Too Connected? Curiosity.com Tackles That & More
Last week, Discovery launched the first phase of the multi-year, cross-platform Curiosity initiative — Curiosity.com. The online platform brings together great minds (our Curiosity Luminaries) and burning questions and results in an enriching experience that builds upon our company’s heritage and mission. Each week, the site’s “wonderwall” homepage will feature three new Luminaries covering a range of topics. Today, you’ll find Webby Awards founder and filmmaker Tiffany Shlain front and…