Editing Discovery Channel (section)

==Non-television ventures==

===Pro Cycling Team===
{{main|Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team}}
Shortly before the 2004 [[Tour de France]], Discovery Channel announced it would become the primary sponsor of a professional bicycling team starting in 2005, featuring the then-seven-time [[Tour de France]] winner [[Lance Armstrong]], whose wins were voided after he was proven to have cheated via doping. After the 2007 victory with the Spaniard [[Alberto Contador]], Discovery Channel discontinued the cycling sponsorship.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/10/sports/othersports/10cycling.html|title=Discovery to End Sponsorship of Team|last=Wyatt|first=Edward|date=February 10, 2007|work=The New York Times|access-date=October 9, 2017|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=October 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010104455/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/10/sports/othersports/10cycling.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/discovery-channel-to-end-sponsorship/|title=Discovery Channel to end sponsorship|work=Cyclingnews.com|access-date=October 9, 2017|language=en-gb|archive-date=October 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010032221/http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/discovery-channel-to-end-sponsorship/|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Store===
{{About|the US chain of stores|the former gadget store chain in the United Kingdom|The Discovery Store}}

The Discovery Channel stores first opened in 1995. By 1997, the chain had 17 US and 1 UK stores. At that time, the chain was building a flagship store in Washington, DC, with three levels themed to various environments—sea and underground, land and outer space, aviation and science—to be opened in February 1998, with another flagship store in San Francisco to be opened in November 1998.<ref>{{cite news|last1=White|first1=George|title=New Theme Player|url=http://articles.latimes.com/1997/sep/16/business/fi-32873/2|work=Los Angeles Times|date=September 16, 1997|page=2|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170208035821/http://articles.latimes.com/1997/sep/16/business/fi-32873/2|archive-date=February 8, 2017|access-date=February 7, 2017}}</ref>

On May 17, 2007, Discovery Communications announced it would close its standalone and mall-based stores. Hudson Group will continue to operate the Discovery Channel Airport Stores, and the website remains in operation.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://money.cnn.com/2007/05/17/news/companies/discovery/?postversion=2007051717|work=CNN|title=Discovery shuttering 103 locations|date=May 17, 2007|access-date=May 1, 2010|archive-date=June 14, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100614011220/http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/17/news/companies/discovery/?postversion=2007051717|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Telescope===
{{main|Lowell Discovery Telescope}}
Discovery Channel funded the construction of the [[Lowell Discovery Telescope]], in partnership with [[Lowell Observatory]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bu.edu/cas/boston-university-joins-discovery-channel-telescope-partners-for-celebration-of-%E2%80%9Cfirst-light%E2%80%9D/|title=Boston University Joins Discovery Channel Telescope Partners for Celebration of "First Light" {{!}} Arts & Sciences|website=www.bu.edu|language=en|access-date=October 9, 2017|archive-date=October 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010004700/http://www.bu.edu/cas/boston-university-joins-discovery-channel-telescope-partners-for-celebration-of-%E2%80%9Cfirst-light%E2%80%9D/|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Website===
Discovery.com is the Discovery Channel's official website, which primarily provides information on the channel's programming and additional content, including articles, tied to those shows.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Shows |url=https://www.discovery.com/shows |access-date=2023-10-27 |website=Discovery |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=TV Schedule |url=https://www.discovery.com/shows/tv-schedule |access-date=2023-10-27 |website=Discovery |language=en |archive-date=October 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231027145537/https://www.discovery.com/shows/tv-schedule |url-status=live }}</ref>