National Geographic (Asian TV channel)
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National Geographic (Nat Geo Asia, formerly NBC Asia and National Geographic Channel and also commercially abbreviated and trademarked as Nat Geo or Nat Geo TV) is a pan-Asian subscription television channel owned by Disney Networks Group Asia Pacific (through NGC Network Asia, LLC). The channel featured non-fiction, factual programming involving nature, science, culture and history, produced by the National Geographic Society, just like History and Discovery Channel.
Broadcast area | Asia |
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Headquarters | Hong Kong |
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Language(s) | English Chinese Japanese |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV |
Ownership | |
Owner | NGC Network Asia, LLC (The Walt Disney Company) |
Sister channels | Nat Geo Wild |
History | |
Launched | January 1, 1994; 30 years ago (January 1, 1994) |
Closed |
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Replaced by | Techstorm (Unifi TV) Global Trekker (Astro) BBC Lifestyle (Cignal) BBC Earth (Taiwan) |
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Website | natgeotv |
It was launched on January 1, 1994, as NBC Asia. As of 2008, the Asian version of the U.S. network of the same name, was available in over 56 million homes. NGC Asia has had six different channels of feeds. The channel was closed in 2023–2024 as National Geographic libraries moved to the streaming platform Disney+.