Europe, Middle East, and Africa In 1985,
Ted Turner would launch a European division in London, England, which reached across the Middle East and African regional feeds, Around the same time
Discovery Channel would launch in April in Europe. In mid-2007, Discovery Networks Europe would be split into two various branches around Europe. On 27 November 2012, Discovery announced it would acquire
Dubai-based broadcaster Takhayal Entertainment, which owns
MENA lifestyle channel
Fatafeat. This acquisition was then completed. On 21 December 2012, Discovery announced it had acquired a 20% stake in the pan-European sports broadcaster
Eurosport from
TF1 Group for €170 million (US$221.6 million). On 21 January 2014, Discovery acquired an additional 51% share to gain controlling interest, and subsequently acquired the remainder for €491 million in July 2015 to receive sole ownership. In June 2015, Discovery acquired pan-European rights to the
Olympic Games from 2018 through 2024, excluding Russia, on all platforms, in a €1.3 billion deal. Discovery will primarily broadcast the Games on local outlets (including Eurosport), but will sub-license coverage to over-the-air broadcasters in each region. Through its purchase of SNI, Discovery added the Polish broadcaster
TVN Group to its European portfolio, which SNI had acquired in 2015 from
ITI Group and
Canal+ Group., as well as the
UKTV joint venture with
BBC Worldwide (later
BBC Studios). In August 2016, Discovery renewed its distribution deals in 12 countries with shareholder
Liberty Global. On 31 January 2017, after nearly facing a
carriage dispute, Discovery renewed its distribution deals in Germany and the United Kingdom with
Sky plc. In November 2016, Discovery partnered with the streaming media company
BAMTech to create a joint venture to serve Europe. In May 2017, ProSiebenSat.1 Media and Discovery announced a joint venture to create a German
over-the-top content service, built upon its existing 7TV service. In August 2017, Discovery announced that it would acquire the remaining 51.06% of Green Content, the operator of the Polish DTT channel
Metro, from
Agora SA for PLN19,000,000 under a share buyback agreement. On 3 July 2020, Discovery agreed to acquire the German free-to-air station
Tele 5 from
Leonine Holding. In December 2020, the Discovery-backed
GB News received a licence from
Ofcom to broadcast on their service on various British platforms, such as
Freeview, in 2021. GB News was set up by Andrew Cole and Mark Schneider from Liberty Global. In March 2021, Discovery was made available to beIN Media Group subscribers in the Middle East and North Africa. The two organizations have worked together since 2016, but this is the first time that Discovery Channel itself has been made available. In 2022, Discovery merged with WarnerMedia, forming Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA, with the new entity being responsible for the assets in Europe, Middle East, and Africa. In December 2024, Warner Bros. Discovery has begun the process of selling the
TVN Group - its Polish unit which is a part of
TVN Warner Bros. Discovery. Ultimately, on 14 April 2025, WBD decided to keep the TVN unit.
Latin America In June 2016, Discovery acquired a 27.5% stake in Bethia Comunicaciones S.A., a division of Chilean conglomerate Bethia that owns Red Televisiva Megavisión S.A., a company which in turn owns both the private television network
Mega and a 70% stake in the
anime-,
Korean drama- and
K-pop-focused cable television channel
ETC (which is co-owned with its creator, who is businessman and television executive Hernán Schmidt Fuentes). As a result, Bethia acquired 72.5% of the company. Redknot, a joint venture with Canadian animation studio
Nelvana, launched on 12 February 2019. In 2022, Discovery merged with WarnerMedia, forming Warner Bros. Discovery Latin America, with the new entity being responsible for the assets in Latin America and Brazil.
Asia-Pacific As part of its acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive in 2018, Discovery added
Asian Food Network (which SNI had acquired from the co-founders Hian Goh and Maria Brown in 2013) to its Asian portfolio. On 7 September 2020,
MediaWorks New Zealand Limited announced that Discovery would be purchasing the television arm of their business including
Three,
Bravo,
The Edge TV,
Breeze TV, streaming service ThreeNow, and current affairs service
Newshub. MediaWorks said in a statement that the transaction was subject to "a number of pre-completion approvals" but was expected to completed by the end of the year. . The sale was finalized in December 2020, with the new entity being rebranded as
Discovery New Zealand. On 27 April 2021, Discovery Inc. confirmed that it would be restructuring its business operations in Australia and New Zealand with the goal of incorporating Three, Bravo and Newshub into a single trans-Tasman organization. Discovery also announced that this new trans-Tasman organization would be headed by two general managers, the
Sydney–based Rebecca Kent and Glen Kyne in Auckland. Discovery had also separately acquired MediaWorks' TopTV operations in 2019. In mid-May 2021, Newshub closed its
Dunedin office as part of a restructuring of Discovery's business operations in Australia and New Zealand. Following the closure of the Dunedin newsroom, the network's South Island operations will consist of its
Christchurch–based bureau and freelancers. In April 2022, WarnerMedia Entertainment Networks Asia Pacific merged with Discovery Asia-Pacific and consequently been announced that
Discovery+ which currently available in India and the Philippines would be merged with
HBO Go which available in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asian countries, that carried several content from HBO Max, to form simply
Max on 19 November 2024. In late July 2025, Warner Bros. Discovery announced it would sell its New Zealand assets to local television network
Sky Network Television, effective 1 August 2025. Sky also confirmed that Discovery NZ would be rebranded as
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