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Discovery Channel

American basic cable and satellite television channel

Fact-Checks

23 results
Jan 24, 2026
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Arsenal discovered in the basement of Rene good

There is no evidence in the supplied reporting that an "arsenal" (weapons cache) was discovered in the basement of anyone named Rene or Renée; the sources instead point to three distinct uses of the w...

Jan 23, 2026
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Who are GB News’s major investors and what influence do they exert on editorial decisions?

was capitalised at launch by a coalition led by Legatum, and , with later buyouts concentrating ownership around Legatum and Marshall . Investors publicly insist they do not interfere editorially , ye...

Nov 18, 2025
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Were any inmates who escaped Alcatraz ever confirmed to have survived?

No source in the provided set documents a definitive, law‑enforced confirmation that any Alcatraz escapee survived to freedom; major reference works and the FBI say the fate remains unresolved . Over ...

Jan 25, 2026

Larry Ellison

Lawrence “Larry” J. Ellison is the co‑founder of , long‑time CEO (1977–2014) and today its executive chairman and chief technology officer, whose pragmatic rise from an adopted infant to one of the pl...

Dec 16, 2025

How do gb news funding sources compare to other uk broadcasters in transparency?

GB News has received repeated large injections from named private backers — notably a £41m rescue from Paul Marshall’s All Perspectives in 2024 — and lists some investors on its website, but independe...

Nov 30, 2025

Who are the individual shareholders and corporate investors backing GB News and what are their ownership stakes?

GB News is held through the parent All Perspectives Ltd and is principally backed by Sir Paul Marshall (personal investor) and the Dubai-linked Legatum/Legatum Ventures group; reporting says Marshall ...

Nov 20, 2025

What ownership and funding structures influence GB News' editorial stance?

GB News is owned through the holding company All Perspectives Ltd, whose main backers include Sir Paul Marshall and the Dubai-based investment group Legatum; initial major investors also included Disc...

Dec 10, 2025

Which major US media corporations own the most national TV networks and cable news channels?

Comcast (through NBCUniversal) and The Walt Disney Company are consistently identified among the largest U.S. media conglomerates and therefore own the greatest number of national broadcast and cable ...

Dec 8, 2025

What major layoffs or restructuring has CNN experienced since 2020 and why?

Since 2020 CNN has gone through at least three major waves of cuts and restructuring tied to executive change, the failed CNN+ streaming push, and a renewed pivot to digital under CEO Mark Thompson — ...

Dec 7, 2025

Which major US media mergers have closed since 2020 and who owns the resulting companies?

Major U.S. media transactions since 2020 that are repeatedly cited in the reporting include: AT&T’s 2018–2022 divestiture and spinoff of WarnerMedia into a merged company with Discovery (closing April...

Nov 12, 2025

What are the ownership structures of Comcast, Disney, Warner Bros. Discovery, and News Corp?

Comcast, The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros. Discovery, and News Corp are all publicly traded media conglomerates, but their : Comcast features concentrated voting control tied to its founding famil...

Dec 6, 2025

How does GB News’ funding model (advertising, subscriptions, investor support) affect its newsroom independence?

GB News survives on a mix of investor injections, advertising and growing digital/subscription receipts — but remains loss-making and dependent on backers: total losses exceed £100m and owners (notabl...

Dec 22, 2025

HOw care crop circles made?

Crop circles are overwhelmingly documented as human-made formations produced with simple tools and planning rather than mysterious forces, a conclusion reflected in mainstream summaries and how-to dem...

Dec 8, 2025

Who currently owns CNN and what is Warner Bros. Discovery's stake in it?

CNN is today owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD); WBD has announced a planned corporate split that will place CNN and other cable networks into a separate publicly traded company called Discovery Gl...

Jan 18, 2026

How has CNN’s editorial approach changed since the WarnerMedia–Discovery merger according to internal reporting?

Since the WarnerMedia–Discovery merger, internal reporting portrays CNN as operating in prolonged managerial and strategic limbo with measurable shifts toward digital products and cost-consciousness r...

Dec 13, 2025

Does the internet have weight

Physicists and science writers say the “internet” can be given a physical weight only by choosing a definition and a calculation method: using the mass of electrons that store bits yields vanishingly ...

Dec 8, 2025

Have there been any scientific expeditions to find Bigfoot?

Televised and amateur-led field expeditions searching for Bigfoot are common and increasingly use modern scientific tools — drones, thermal imaging, DNA sampling and data algorithms — as shown by prog...

Feb 6, 2026

the enstien files eating photo number

The query as written—“”—is ambiguous and appears to conflate two different cultural threads: the famous Albert and recent viral claims about images in the document releases; none of the reporting prov...

Feb 4, 2026

any information on John Malone

is an American billionaire, longtime media executive and major private who made his fortune building and rearranging cable and media businesses, and who now controls complex Liberty-branded holding co...

Jan 31, 2026

What are the Puppy Bowl’s viewership trends and how do networks monetize counterprogramming?

The has become a reliable Sunday counterprogram with a recent uptick: the 2025 telecast averaged 12.8 million viewers across , , , , and discovery+, a roughly 2% improvement from 2024’s 12.6 million ,...