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Valued by Wall Street at between $10 billion and $20 billion, Discovery is an impressive collection of assets with earnings expanding 20% or so annually and a prime position in fast-growing markets like China, India and Mexico. It also includes a growing roster of fledgling, niche networks available on...
If you've done any channel surfing over the past two decades, you've probably encountered Hendricks' pioneering brand of reality TV (he prefers the term real-world TV). Once an odd little documentary network making an occasional wave with shows like Shark Week, Hendricks' flagship Discovery Channel reaches 231...
To anyone who remembers the pre-cable heyday of National Geographic documentaries or Wild Kingdom (which now airs on Animal Planet) on broadcast TV, it may seem surprising that Discovery has so quietly become a cable powerhouse. That may just be a consequence of a 500-channel universe. But now...
Considering that the cable-TV industry is just emerging from an advertising slump and that only a few hundred thousand cable viewers tune in to HDTV, it's a risky bet. But it's the kind that Hendricks has always relished making. A laid-back, soft-spoken Southerner who first...
As a kid growing up in the shadow of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., Hendricks was as fascinated by the stars over his head as by the insects at his feet. After earning a degree in history, he became a university fund-raising consultant outside Washington...