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Animal Planet is an American cable TV specialty channel that launched on October 1, 1996. It is distributed by Discovery Communications.
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S. companies broke records last year, and so did pay for CEOs.The head of a typical public company made $9.6 million in 2011, according to an analysis by The Associated Press using data from Equilar, an executive pay research firm.That was up more than 6 percent from the previous year, and is the second year in a row of increases. The figure is also the highest since the AP began tracking executive compensation in 2006.Companies trimmed cash bonuses but handed out more in stock awards. For shareholder activists who have long decried CEO pay as exorbitant, that was a victory of sorts.That's because the stock awards are being tied more often to company performance. In those instances, CEOs can't cash in the shares right away: They have to meet goals first, like boosting profit to a certain level.The idea is to motivate CEOs to make sure a company does well and to tie their fortunes to the company's for the long term. For too long, activists say, CEOs have been richly rew...A flesh-eating parasite ate away at a man's face and back while he was vacationing in South America with his fiancé, according to the Discovery Channel. Adam Spence...
Production facilitator Jeff Rice, who worked for reality shows including the current season of "The Amazing Race," was found dead in his hotel room in Kampala, Ugand...
A man who railed against the Discovery Channel's environmental programming for years burst into the company's headquarters with at least one explosive device strappe...
A man known for protesting the Discovery Channel's environmental programming stormed the network's Maryland headquarters carrying a handgun on Wednesday, holding thr...
TV's Andy Levy has a water spillage problem
Lifestyle of the world's laziest animal
Thousands of movie-goers filled theaters across the country last weekend to see Mark Wahlberg's stirring portrayal of Micky Ward in "The Fighter."The film about the ...
Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, the American sentenced to death by the Iranian government, is linked to a small New York company specializing in video games that recreate real...
Annual event helps furry friends find homes
Some networks to offer 3-D programming
Is this new Google TV device from Logitech worth the price?
We've all done it. We've turned on the TV and made it into the electronic babysitter. Everyone seemed happy but who knows? No, I'm not talking about my kids, I'm tal...
As a kid growing up in a bad Brooklyn neighborhood, Mike Tyson was fascinated by the pigeons that flocked around his apartment building.The birds, considered a dirty...
By Jill SerjeantLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Long before Mike Tyson became a world champion heavyweight boxer, he threw his first punch over a pigeon.In fact, Tyson says,...
In the two-hour CGI Special "Mermaids: The Body Found," Animal Planet dives deep into the idea that mermaids may have been real, and, even better -- related to human...
Reality TV has officially reached the bottom of the barrel -- or should we say the pigeon coop.Mike Tyson may have thought he was showing the world his kinder, gentl...
James Jay Lee wasn't a stranger to the Discovery Channel employees he terrorized Wednesday with a gun and with what appeared to be makeshift bombs strapped to his ch...
6-year-old charged with sexual harassment
NEW YORK --U.S. cable networks want to pull the plug on Time Warner Cable's (TWC) new iPad app for watching live TV, the New York Post reported Thursday.A number of ...
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