Cooking Channel is an American basic cable channel owned by and spin-off of Food Network. Both are owned by Television Food Network, G.P., a joint venture and general partnership between Warner Bros. Discovery Global Linear Networks (69%) and Nexstar Media Group (31%). The channel airs programming related to food and cooking. Cooking Channel is available via traditional cable television as well as Discovery+ since January 2021.
As of November 2023, Cooking Channel is available to approximately 34,000,000 pay television households in the United States-down from its 2016 peak of 66,000,000 households. Along with American Heroes Channel, Destination America, Discovery Family, Discovery Life, and Science Channel, Cooking Channel is among the less prevalent networks of Warner Bros. Discovery.[1]
In recent years, Cooking Channel has lost carriage with the growth of streaming alternatives including its parent company's HBO Max