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{{#badges:FTD}}'''Discovery Communications, Inc.''' (DCI) describes itself as "the world's #1 nonfiction media company reaching more than 1.8 billion cumulative subscribers in 218 countries and territories."<ref name="about">Discovery Communications, [http://corporate.discovery.com/our-company/overview/ "Company Overview"], organization website, accessed February 20, 2013.</ref> Discovery Communications is publicly traded entity. The company started as a single channel in 1985, the Discovery Channel.<ref name="glance">[http://corporate-media.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/pdf/q3-2012-at-a-glance.pdf "Discovery at a Glance"], ''Discovery Communications'', Accessed Feb. 15, 2013.</ref>

Discovery Communications posted $4.235 billion in total revenues in 2011.<ref>Discovery Communications "[http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9NDYxMDYwfENoaWxkSUQ9NDg5Mjk3fFR5cGU9MQ==&t=1 2011 Annual Report"], organizational website, accessed February 13, 2013</ref> CNN Money ranked Discovery Communications as the 7th fast-growing company in the country in 2012.<ref>CNN Money, [http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortunefastestgrowing/2011/snapshots/7.html 100 fastest growing businesses], Accessed 2/11/2013.</ref>  ==Ties to Pete Peterson's "Fix the Debt"== The [[Portal:Fix the Debt|Campaign to Fix the Debt]] is the latest incarnation of a decades-long effort by former Nixon man turned Wall Street billionaire [[Pete Peterson]] to slash earned benefit programs such as [[Social Security]] and [[Medicare]] under the guise of fixing the nation's "debt problem." This article is part of the Center for Media and Democracy's investigation of Pete Peterson's Campaign to "Fix the Debt." '''Please visit our main SourceWatch page on [[Portal:Fix the Debt|Fix the Debt]].''' {{about_FTD}}