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| Country | Hong Kong India Singapore Spain United Kingdom United States United Arab Emirates Egypt |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Asia Europe America Africa Oceania |
| Headquarters | Washington, D.C. |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English Spanish Arabic Hindi Tamil Telugu Marathi |
| Picture format | International: 1080i HDTV 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 and International) Fox Reality Channel (United States) Fox Life (Japan) |
| 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, Russia & Belarus) February 1, 2023 (Malaysia) 28 February 2023 (Allente, (Scandinavia)) April 1, 2023 (Australia & New Zealand) [1] September 30, 2023 at 11:59:59pm Hong Kong Time (Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Korea and Taiwan) |
| Replaced by | Love Nature (Malaysia) Hits Now (Cignal, Philippines) Terra (Russia) |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Nex Parabola (Indonesia) | Channel 202 |
| evotv (Croatia) | Channel 108 |
| Digita (Finland) | Channel 84 (SD) |
| GOtv (Sub-Saharan Africa) | Channel 51 |
| DStv (Sub-Saharan Africa) | Channel 182 |
| AzamTV (East Africa) | Channel 184 |
| StarTimes (Africa) | Channel 221 |
| Zuku TV (Kenya) | Channel 415 |
| Sky (UK and Ireland) | Channel 165 Channel 841 (HD) |
| Virgin Media (UK) | Channel 182 (HD) |
| Streaming media | |
| Service(s) | YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV, FuboTV, Vidgo, Sling TV |
| Sky Go (UK) | Watch live (UK and Ireland, and Europe only) |
| Airtel digital TV HD (India) | Channel 434 (Dolby Atmos) |
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 November 2023[update], Nat Geo Wild is available to approximately 36,000,000 pay television households in the United States-down from its 2019 peak of 61,000,000 households.[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.
- ^ "U.S. cable network households (universe), 1990 – 2023". wrestlenomics.com. May 14, 2024. Retrieved July 28, 2019.