TLC (TV network)

TLC

Country	United States
Broadcast area	United States Canada
Headquarters	Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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
Parent	Warner Bros. Discovery Networks
Sister channels	List Adult Swim American Heroes Channel Animal Planet Boomerang Cartoon Network Cartoonito Cinemax CNN Cooking Channel The CW Destination America Discovery Channel Discovery Familia Discovery Family Discovery Life Food Network HBO HGTV Investigation Discovery Magnolia Network Oprah Winfrey Network Science Channel TBS TNT Travel Channel TruTV Turner Classic Movies
History
Launched	October 1980; 43 years ago (1980-10)
Former names	ACSN – The Learning Channel (1980–1983) The Learning Channel (1984–1998)
Links
Website	www.tlc.com
Availability
Streaming media
Affiliated Streaming Service	Max
Service(s)	Philo, Sling TV, YouTube TV, FuboTV, Hulu + Live TV, Vidgo

TLC is an American cable television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. First established in 1980 as The Learning Channel, it initially focused on educational and instructional programming. By the late 1990s, after an acquisition by the owners of Discovery Channel earlier in the decade, the network began to pivot towards reality television programming—predominantly focusing on programming involving lifestyles and personal stories—to the point that the previous name with "The Learning Channel" spelled out was phased out in favor of its initialism.

As of November 2023^[update], TLC is available to approximately 71,000,000 pay television households in the United States-down from its 2011 peak of 100,000,000 households.^[1]