Nat Geo Wild

National Geographic Wild
CountryHong Kong
India
Singapore
Spain
United Kingdom
United States
United Arab Emirates
Egypt
Broadcast areaAsia
Europe
America
Africa
Oceania
HeadquartersWashington, D.C.
Programming
Language(s)English
Spanish
Arabic
Hindi
Tamil
Telugu
Marathi
Picture formatInternational:
1080i HDTV
United States:
720p HDTV
(downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
OwnerNational Geographic Partners (Disney Entertainment)
Sister channels
History
Launched21 August 2006; 18 years ago (21 August 2006) (Asia)
1 March 2007; 17 years ago (1 March 2007) (Europe, Middle East & Africa)
9 September 2008; 16 years ago (9 September 2008) (France)
14 October 2007; 17 years ago (14 October 2007) (Italy)
31 July 2009; 15 years ago (31 July 2009) (India)
July 2009; 15 years ago (July 2009) (Romania)
1 November 2009; 15 years ago (1 November 2009) (Latin America)
15 November 2009; 14 years ago (15 November 2009) (Australia)
29 March 2010; 14 years ago (29 March 2010) (United States)
30 August 2010; 14 years ago (30 August 2010) (Malaysia)
9 September 2011; 13 years ago (9 September 2011) (Turkey)
1 October 2011; 13 years ago (1 October 2011) (Japan)
4 October 2011; 13 years ago (4 October 2011) (Spain)
7 May 2012; 12 years ago (7 May 2012) (Canada)
ReplacedAdventure One (UK and International)
Fox Reality Channel (United States)
Fox Life (Japan)
ClosedJanuary 31, 2021; 3 years ago (2021-01-31) (Japan)
March 1, 2021; 3 years ago (2021-03-01) (SD feed, Malaysia)
September 23, 2021; 3 years ago (2021-09-23) (Transvision feed, Indonesia)
October 1, 2021; 3 years ago (2021-10-01) (Biznet Home feed, Indonesia)
March 31, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-03-31) (Latin America)
October 1, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-10-01) (Italy, Russia & Belarus)
February 1, 2023; 21 months ago (2023-02-01) (Malaysia)
28 February 2023; 20 months ago (2023-02-28) (Allente, (Scandinavia))
April 1, 2023; 19 months ago (2023-04-01) (Australia & New Zealand) [1]
September 30, 2023; 13 months ago (2023-09-30) at 11:59:59pm Hong Kong Time (Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Korea and Taiwan)
Replaced byLove 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, 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]

  1. ^ "FOX FUNNY, NAT GEO and NAT GEO WILD channels to be removed from FOXTEL and FETCH platforms". TV Blackbox. 26 January 2023.
  2. ^ Littleton, Cynthia (March 19, 2019). "Disney Closes $71 Billion 21st Century Fox Deal". Variety. Retrieved April 3, 2019.
  3. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "U.S. cable network households (universe), 1990 – 2023". wrestlenomics.com. May 14, 2024. Retrieved July 28, 2019.