[Content] Is Discovery bracing for a possible showdown with Comcast?

While Comcast has avoided having the carriage agreement renewal conflicts and blackouts that many other pay TV providers have gone through lately (most likely because of its huge number of TV subscribers compared to the others), that may soon be coming to an end, with a potential "Clash of the Titans" scenario possibly occurring by the end of June: Discovery Shifts Shark Week Move of Popular Block Could Increase Leverage With Comcast By Mike Farrell, Multichannel News - February 2, 2015 http://www.multichannel.com/news/cable-operators/discovery-shifts-shark-week/387550 and Discovery CEO "Hopeful" on Comcast Carriage Talks, Plans U.S. Direct-to-Consumer Service Launch By Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter - February 19, 2015 http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/discovery-ceo-hopeful-comcast-carriage-775260 &nbsp I guess we can look for Discovery Communications' networks to all be listed on this Comcast webpage starting in May: Upcoming Contract Renewals http://xfinity.comcast.net/learn/programming/ EDIT: Discovery Communications' U.S. networks include such popular ones as Discovery Channel, Science, TLC, Animal Planet, Oprah Winfrey Network, Discovery Family, American Heroes Channel, Investigation Discovery, Velocity, and Destination America: http://media.corporate.discovery.com.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/pdf/_globe_2014_q2_ataglance_final_web.pdf