Travel Channel
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Country | United States |
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Broadcast area | Nationwide |
Headquarters | New York, New York, U.S.[1] |
Programming | |
Language(s) | English |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Parent | Warner Bros. Discovery |
Sister channels | List
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History | |
Launched | February 8, 1987; 37 years ago (1987-02-08) |
Replaced | Home Theater Network |
Former names | The Travel Channel (1987–1997) |
Links | |
Website | www |
Availability | |
Streaming media | |
Service(s) | Philo, Sling TV, Hulu With Live TV, FuboTV, Vidgo, DirecTV Stream |
Travel Channel (stylized as Trvl Channel since 2018) is an American pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, which had previously owned the channel from 1997 to 2007. The channel is headquartered in Manhattan, with offices in Silver Spring, Maryland and Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.
It features documentaries, reality, and how-to shows related to travel and leisure around the United States and throughout the world. Programming has included shows on African animal safaris, tours of grand hotels and resorts, visits to significant cities and towns around the world, programming about various foods around the world, and programming about ghosts and the paranormal in notable buildings.
As of February 2015[update], Travel Channel is available to approximately 91.5 million households (comprising 78.6% of households with television) in the United States.[2]