Back Нешънъл Джиографик Уайлд Bulgarian National Geographic Wild Spanish نشنال جئوگرافیک وایلد Persian National Geographic Wild French नैट जियो वाइल्ड Hindi Nat Geo Wild Croatian National Geographic Wild Hungarian National Geographic Wild ID National Geographic Wild (Italia) Italian ナショジオ ワイルド Japanese
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| Country | Hong Kong India Singapore United Kingdom United States United Arab Emirates Egypt |
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| Broadcast area | Asia Europe United States Middle East & Africa |
| Headquarters | Washington, D.C. |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English Spanish Arabic Hindi Tamil Telugu |
| Picture format | International: 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 480i/576i for the SDTV feed) United States: 720p HDTV (downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | National Geographic Partners (Disney Entertainment) |
| Sister channels | |
| History | |
| Launched | 21 August 2006 (Asia) 1 March 2007 (Europe, Middle East & Africa) 9 September 2008 (France) 14 October 2007 (Italy) 31 July 2009 (India) July 2009 (Romania) 1 November 2009 (Latin America) 15 November 2009 (Australia) 29 March 2010 (United States) 30 August 2010 (Malaysia) 9 September 2011 (Turkey) 1 October 2011 (Japan) 4 October 2011 (Spain) 7 May 2012 (Canada) |
| Replaced | Adventure One (UK) Fox Reality Channel (United States) |
| Closed | January 31, 2021 (Japan) March 1, 2021 (SD feed, Malaysia) September 23, 2021 (Transvision feed, Indonesia) October 1, 2021 (Biznet Home feed, Indonesia) March 31, 2022 (Latin America) October 1, 2022 (Italy and Russia & Belarus) February 1, 2023 (Malaysia) 28 February 2023 (Allente, (Scandinavia)) April 1, 2023 (Australia and New Zealand & Vietnam)[1] |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Nex Parabola (Indonesia) | Channel 202 |
| evotv (Croatia) | Channel 108 |
| Digita (Finland) | Channel 84 (SD) |
| Streaming media | |
| Service(s) | YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV, FuboTV, Vidgo, Sling TV |
National Geographic Wild (shortened as Nat Geo Wild and abbreviated NGW) is a global pay television network owned by National Geographic Partners, a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (73%) and the National Geographic Society (27%).[2] The channel primarily focuses on wildlife and natural history non-fiction programming. It is a sister network to National Geographic TV.
The channel first launched in Hong Kong on 1 January 2006.[3] It later launched in the United Kingdom, Turkey, Ireland, Romania, India, Vietnam, and Poland replacing the now defunct Adventure One. The channel remains the world's first bilingual wildlife service, available in English and Cantonese in the Hong Kong market as well as Tagalog in The Philippines. It launched in Latin America on 1 November 2009 as a high definition channel. In 2010, it launched in the United States.
As of February 2015, approximately 57,891,000 American households (49.7% of households with television) receive Nat Geo Wild.[4]
- ^ "FOX FUNNY, NAT GEO and NAT GEO WILD channels to be removed from FOXTEL and FETCH platforms". TV Blackbox. 26 January 2023.
- ^ Littleton, Cynthia (March 19, 2019). "Disney Closes $71 Billion 21st Century Fox Deal". Variety. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
- ^ "National Geographic Channels International launches new channel - Nat Geo Wild" (Press release). National Geographic Channels (International). August 10, 2006. Archived from the original on April 25, 2012. Retrieved February 8, 2010.
- ^ Seidman, Robert (February 22, 2015). "List of how many homes each cable network is in as of February 2015". TV by the Numbers. Zap2it. Archived from the original on February 23, 2015. Retrieved March 14, 2015.