Animal Planet (European TV channel)

Animal Planet
CountryUnited Kingdom
Broadcast areaArmenia, Azerbaijan, Albania, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, Middle East, Africa
NetworkWarner Bros. Discovery EMEA
HeadquartersAmsterdam, Netherlands
Programming
Language(s)English
Picture format1080i HDTV
(downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
Timeshift serviceAnimal Planet +1 (UK)
Ownership
OwnerWarner Bros. Discovery International
Sister channelsDiscovery Channel
Discovery HD
Discovery Home & Health
Discovery Historia
Discovery History
Discovery MAX
Discovery Science
Discovery Shed
Discovery Travel & Living Europe
Discovery Turbo
Discovery World
Investigation Discovery
DMAX Germany, Austria, Switzerland & Liechtenstein
DMAX United Kingdom & Ireland
Quest
Real Time Italy
TLC Netherlands
TLC Poland
TLC UK and Ireland
History
Launched1997; 27 years ago (1997)
ClosedMarch 9, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-03-09) (Russia)
Availability
Terrestrial
evotv (Croatia)Channel 112
Zuku TV (Kenya)Channel 416

The Pan-European Animal Planet is a feed of the U.S. channel of the same name, which broadcasts to several countries in Europe, UK, Africa and the Middle East.

The channel is broadcast in English, Czech, Hungarian and Russian. The HD feed also carries a Turkish audio track. Turkey has its own SD feed. The channel also carries DVB subtitle tracks in Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Greek, Macedonian, Norwegian, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian and Swedish.

There used to be a separate feed for Romania, but the channel closed down in 2013.

Many regions in Europe that previously received the pan-European version of the channel, now receive a localised version.

Ukraine, CIS and the Baltic countries still get the pan-European feed in Russian and English.