Motor Trend (TV network)

Motor Trend

Country	United States
Headquarters	El Segundo, California
Programming
Language(s)	English
Picture format	1080i HDTV
Ownership
Owner	TNT Sports
Parent	Motor Trend Group
Sister channels	List Adult Swim American Heroes Channel Animal Planet Boomerang Cartoon Network Cartoonito Cinemax CNN Cooking Channel Destination America Discovery Channel Discovery en Español Discovery Family Discovery Familia Discovery Life Food Network HBO HGTV HLN Investigation Discovery Magnolia Network MLB Network NBA TV Oprah Winfrey Network Science Channel TBS TLC TNT Travel Channel TruTV Turner Classic Movies
History
Launched	June 17, 2002; 22 years ago (2002-06-17)
Former names	Discovery HD Theater (2002–2007) HD Theater (2007–2011) Velocity (2011–2018)
Links
Website	watch.motortrend.com
Availability
Streaming media
Affiliated Streaming Service	Max
Service(s)	FuboTV, Philo, Hulu with Live TV, Sling TV, YouTube TV, DirecTV Stream, Vidgo

Motor Trend is an American automotive television network owned by Motor Trend Group, a subsidiary of the TNT Sports division of Warner Bros. Discovery. It primarily broadcasts automotive-themed programming, including motorsports events.

It was originally founded in 2002 as Discovery HD Theater (later HD Theater), the first 24/7 high-definition basic cable network. It featured high-definition programming from its other channels. Redundant after the introduction of high-definition simulcasts for Discovery's networks, it re-launched by Robert Scanlon, Dan Russell, Shaan Akbar, Douglas Lerner, Nicole Tong, David Lee and Kelly Mahoney in 2011 as Velocity—an "upscale male" network primarily featuring automotive programming. Following Discovery's acquisition of a majority stake in the magazine's publisher, it was announced that Velocity would rebrand as Motor Trend on November 23, 2018, as a brand extension of the automotive magazine Motor Trend.

As of November 2023^[update], MT is available to approximately 65,000,000 pay television households in the United States-down from its 2017 peak of 74,000,000 households.^[1]