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Live Productions

Titanic Live – 1998

  Over one year in planning led to this historic expedition to the Titanic. New technology was created to enable linking up manned and unmanned submersibles two-and-a-half miles under the ocean to create the first ever live broadcast from a manned sub at the site of the Titanic...
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Titanic Live – 2005 – James Cameron

  Seven years after the first “Titanic Live” expedition, Discovery returned with James Cameron and entirely new technologies. For the first time ever, a manned submersible made the trip to the bottom linked up the entire way with spooling fiber optic cable...
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Live from the International Space Station

  Seven years in the making, “Live from the ISS” was the first ever live High Definition downlink from space. This historic 30 minute program included live conversations with the astronauts aboard the ISS and incredible HD footage both inside and outside the station. In addition to ...

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Croc Week Live (Australia)

  This week long live event from Steve Irwin’s Australia Zoo in Beerwah opened with a live two-hour broadcast in which several large crocs were re-located – one by helicopter. The rest of the week included numerous live prime-time cut-ins surrounding premiere “Croc Hunter” episodes.
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Egypt Week Live

  This week long live event from the desert of Egypt opened with a two-hour live program featuring hosts Mike Rowe and Laura Greene along with archaeologist Zahi Hawass opening never before seen tombs. The week also featured live prime time cut-ins from various locations in Egypt.
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Mecum Auto Auctions (7)

  This exclusive series for Discovery HD Theater ran three hours for seven consecutive weeks from the site of the Mecum Performance Car Auctions in Indianapolis. Featuring multiple camera coverage in High Definition and new technologies such as “Gavel Cam”...
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Birth Day Live (3)

  This groundbreaking annual event featured 10 hours of live births from three hospitals in different US cities all switched through the main truck at the hub in Orlando. Over the course of three years well over 100 babies were born live on-air. Multiple locations at each of the hospitals ...
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Ted Koppel Town Hall Meetings (3)

  Three live Town Hall meetings were created as original productions for the Discovery Channel. The first was from the War College outside Washington, DC and for the next two the lobby of the Discovery Headquarters was turned into a television studio.

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Eukanuba Dog Show Live (2)

  This was an annual event on Animal Planet, two-years of which were covered live from Tampa. Two nights of three-hour live programs were featured each year with groundbreaking coverage and use of graphics to make this complicated competition understandable to all viewers.

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Trading Spaces Live (2)

  Two live Trading Spaces episodes breathed life into the series several years into its run on TLC. The first featured a live reveal of the work done to homes by two neighbors in the suburbs of Las Vegas. The second wrapped up a season long competition in which the winner had their...

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Most Haunted Live (3)

  After having success with airing the UK versions of “Most Haunted” live, Travel Channel went on to produce three seven-hour live broadcasts from the US. The incredibly technically challenging programs originated from Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, the Winchester ...

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Dr. Joy Browne Show

  A daily live program for Discovery Health brought Dr. Joy Browne’s radio show to life. This was the first ever live daily program on any of the Discovery Networks.
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Wedding Story Live

  This live one-hour special brought new life to the series and set ratings records. From the Don Ceasar Hotel in Tampa, the program culminated with a live wedding, long before the Today Show came up with the idea.
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Mardi Gras Live (3)

  Travel Channel covered the daytime Mardi Gras parade live for three consecutive years, with production support from the Fox affiliate in New Orleans. These broadcasts included production innovations lke "Float Cam" and were the first live productions for the Travel Channel

 
 
What Not To Wear Live

  Broadcast live from a dance studio above Times Square, this one-hour broadcast featured a live intervention with a NY dance instructor.

 
Conde Nast Awards Show

  This television first brought together Conde Nast magazine and the Travel Channel for a special two-hour short turn-around to air special hosted by Samantha Brown.
 
X Prize Live

  Special three-hour coverage of the X Prize winning flight into space was co-produced by the Science Channel and AOL TV. Click the more button to visit the site.
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Army Navy Live

  This first ever live broadcast for the Military Channel originated from the stadium parking lot prior to the annual Army Navy game and featured interviews with top brass from the Army and Navy as well as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Click the more button to visit the site.
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