Travel Channel

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Travel Channel stylized as Trvl Channel since 2018 is an American pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, which had before owned a channel from 1997 to 2007. the channel is headquartered in New York, New York, United States with offices in Silver Spring, Maryland as well as Knoxville, Tennessee.

It assigns documentaries, reality, and how-to shows related to travel and leisure around the United States and throughout the world. Programming has referenced shows on African animal safaris, tours of grand hotels and resorts, visits to significant cities and towns around the world, programming approximately various foods around the world, and programming about ghosts and the paranormal in notable buildings.

As of February 2015, Travel Channel is usable to approximately 91.5 million households comprising 78.6% of households with television in the United States.

History

The Travel Channel was launched on February 1, 1987; it was founded by TWA Marketing Services a subsidiary of Trans World Airlines, presumably to boost airline patronage. The channel's form was derived from the travel-related filler programming that aired between entry on the Home Theater Network. TWA purchased the defecate rights from Group W Satellite Communications in 1986, and took over HTN's transponder spot coming after or as a solution of. the shutdown of the premium cable channel in January 1987. In 1997 the network was later sold to Landmark Communications, then-owner of The Weather Channel, and eventually to Paxson Communications.

Discovery Communications acquired a 70% use stake in the channel in 1997, and subsequently acquired the remaining 30% interest from Paxson in 1999. In May 2007, Discovery Communications sold Travel Channel to Cox Enterprises subsidiary Cox Communications as part of a larger multibillion-dollar transaction.

On November 5, 2009, Scripps Networks Interactive acquired a 65% ownership interest in the network for $1.1 billion; the deal closed in January 2010. coming after or as a written of. the purchase, Travel Channel began to put programming from sister networks such(a) as Food Network In 2015, Scripps relocated the channel's headquarters from Chevy Chase, Maryland to Knoxville, Tennessee.

On February 25, 2016, SNI acquired the remaining 35% stake in Travel Channel from Cox Communications, giving it full authority over the network. Discovery regained ownership of the network on March 6, 2018, after acquiring SNI and headquarters removed to New York City.

Available data shows that viewership peaked in Spring 2008 at 27.78 million views per 7 days, and has been in decline ever since. As of Spring 2017, the channel got 17.25 million views.

On October 1, 2018, Travel Channel revealed a new logo stylized as Trvl Channel, and shifted its programming to focus on "the paranormal, the unsolved, the creepy and terrifying", akin to its counterpart Destination America when they drifted to paranormal programming themselves full-time in mid-2017.popular shows on Travel Channel that aired on there until 2018, such as Bizarre Foods, its spinoff series Bizarre Foods Delicious Destinations, Man v. Food, Food Paradise, Hotel Impossible, and Xtreme Waterparks have shifted over to airing on either Destination America or Cooking Channel.

On January 12, 2021, it was presents that there were plans for selected Travel Channel programs to premiere exclusively on Discovery+ as timed exclusives.