Discovery Family

Discovery Family

Country	United States
Broadcast area	Nationwide
Programming
Language(s)	English Spanish (via SAP audio track)
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	Warner Bros. Discovery Networks
Parent	The Cartoon Network, Inc.
Key people	David Zaslav (president, Warner Bros. Discovery)
Sister channels	List Adult Swim Boomerang Cartoon Network Cartoonito Discovery Channel Discovery Familia HGTV Food Network Magnolia Network The CW TBS TNT ID Discovery Motor Trend TLC Science Destination America TruTV Animal Planet Cooking Channel HBO HBO Family
History
Launched	October 7, 1996; 28 years ago (1996-10-07)
Former names	Discovery Kids Channel (1996–2001) Discovery Kids (2001-2010) The Hub (2010–2013) Hub Network (2013–2014)
Links
Website	www.discovery.com/discovery-family-channel
Availability
Streaming media
Internet Protocol television	Hulu, Spectrum

Discovery Family (known on-air as Discovery Family Channel and abbreviated as DFC) is an American cable television channel owned by The Cartoon Network, Inc., a sub-division of the Warner Bros. Discovery Networks division of Warner Bros. Discovery.

The channel was originally launched by Discovery Communications (later Discovery, Inc.) on October 7, 1996 as Discovery Kids Channel (later Discovery Kids), a spin-off of Discovery Channel featuring science- and nature-themed programming aimed towards a youth audience. In 2010, Discovery Kids was relaunched as The Hub (later Hub Network) as part of a joint venture with Hasbro led by veteran executive Margaret Loesch. The relaunch pivoted the channel towards a general entertainment format, with dayparts targeting preschool, youth, and family audiences respectively. Some of The Hub's original programming included adaptations of Hasbro-owned properties, such as game shows based on its board games, and animated series produced as a part of toy lines such as My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Littlest Pet Shop, Pound Puppies, Transformers and Kaijudo.

After Loesch stepped down in 2014, Discovery acquired a larger stake in the Hub Network and rebranded it as Discovery Family; while Hasbro continued to program the channel's daytime lineup, its primetime lineup now features a mixture of series from Discovery's other networks. The 2022 merger of Discovery, Inc. with WarnerMedia to form Warner Bros. Discovery has brought Discovery Family under common ownership with Cartoon Network; Michael Ouweleen now oversees both channels.

As of November 2023^[update], Discovery Family is available to approximately 28 million pay television households in the United States — down from its peak of 71 million households in 2014.^[1] The channel (along with less-prevalent WBD networks such as American Heroes Channel, Boomerang, Cooking Channel, Destination America, Discovery Life, and Science Channel) has been depreciated in retransmission negotiations with cable and streaming providers.