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Country | United Arab Emirates |
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Headquarters | Dubai Media City Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Persian |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | National Geographic Society Fox Networks Group (Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International) |
History | |
Launched | 15 October 2011 1 September 2017 (relaunch) |
Closed | 1 May 2013 1 January 2020 (reclosed) |
Links | |
Website | natgeotv |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Oqaab (Afghanistan) | Channel 41 |
National Geographic Farsi was a free-to-air documentary channel that was originally launched on 15 October 2011,[1] and relaunched on 1 September 2017.[2] It is the official Persian language edition of the National Geographic Channel. The channel broadcast via Eutelsat W3A. The channel features broadcasts of National Geographic's documentary series subtitled in Farsi. Whilst the channel was aimed to broadcast to a Persian-speaking audience in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, the channel's broadcast was based in Dubai, U.A.E.
It was co-owned by the National Geographic Society/Fox Networks Group. During the channel's shutdown, the Persian edition of the National Geographic magazine, which launched later in 2012, remained in circulation.