Warner Bros. Discovery Asia-Pacific is a division of Warner Bros. Discovery that operates several television channels in

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and

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, along with the Discovery+ streaming service. In April 2022, WarnerMedia Entertainment Networks Asia-Pacific (founded in 1989) merged with Discovery Asia-Pacific (founded in 1994) after their owners,

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(then owned by

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before being spun off), merged with Discovery, Inc. It has consequently been announced that Discovery+, which is currently available in India and was available in the Philippines, would be merged with HBO Go, to form simply

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on November 19, 2024.

TV channels

Pan-Asian countries

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** Japan * Asian Food Network * Boomerang Thailand *

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( HD+) **

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* Cartoonito **

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Cinemax Cinemax is an American pay television network owned by Home Box Office, Inc., a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched on August 1, 1980, as a "maxi-pay" service to complement the offerings of its sister premium network, HBO (Home Box ...

* CNN International Asia Pacific * Discovery Asia *

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( DTamil) ** Japan ** Korea ** Taiwan *

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** Discovery Science India * DMAX ** Discovery Turbo (India) * Discovery Kids India * EVE *

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** HBO Family ** HBO Hits ** HBO Signature *

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* Investigation Discovery (India) *

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** India

Oceanic countries

* Discovery Turbo (Australia) * HBO (New Zealand) *

* Investigation Discovery *

Regional channels

Pan-Asian countries * LaLa TV (Japan) * Mondo TV (Japan) * Movieplus (Japan) * Pogo (South Asia) * Tabi Channel (Japan) * World Heritage Channel Oceanic countries *

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(joint with

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; Australia) * Bravo (joint with

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; New Zealand) * Eden (New Zealand) *

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(New Zealand) * Rush (New Zealand) * Three (New Zealand)

Defunct channels

7food network 7food network was a short-lived Australian free-to-air television channel owned by the Seven Network which launched on 1 December 2018. The channel marked the start of Seven's new deal with Discovery, Inc., immediately after the end of Special Br ...

(licensed to

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) * Boomerang (Asia) * Boomerang (Australia) * Breeze TV * China Entertainment Television (36%) * Discovery Kids (Asia) * The Edge TV * Food Network (New Zealand) - replaced by

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* Toonami (India) *

Imagine TV Imagine TV was a Hindi general entertainment channel owned by Turner Broadcasting System, and based in New Delhi. The channel was known for shows such as ''Ramayan (2008 TV series), Ramayan (2008), Chandragupta Maurya (2011 TV series), Chand ...

* Imagine Showbiz * Jeet Prime * Oh!K * Lumiere Movies * Mondo Mah-jong TV * Real * Red by HBO * SBS Food Network (licensed to

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) * Setanta Sports Asia * Tabi Tele * Toonami (Asia) * TruTV (Asia) * Turner Classic Movies (Asia) * WB Channel (India)

Carriage disputes with StarHub

On May 30, 2018,

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announced their plans to discontinue 11 channels from Discovery's portfolio due to disputes of "recent carriage renewal talks and hinges on a disagreement over fees" with Discovery. On June 30, 2018,

, Discovery Asia,

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and Setanta Sports were let go of the channel line-up and were replaced by Gusto TV, CuriosityStream, Travelxp, Makeful, Fight Sports, GEM TV, and Colors Tamil. The other four channels that were part of the legacy Scripps contract with Discovery, namely

, Asian Food Channel,

and

, ceased transmission on August 31, 2018. In October 2023, StarHub has relaunched Discovery Channel and HGTV, joining with the Warner Bros. Discovery channel line-up that include CNN International, Cartoonito, Cartoon Network, HBO, HBO On Demand, HBO Signature, HBO Family, HBO Hits and Cinemax.

References

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