National Geographic (Indian TV channel)

For the Southeast Asian network, see National Geographic (Asia). For the international feeds of National Geographic Channel, see National Geographic Channel (disambiguation).

National Geographic (also known as Nat Geo) is an Indian pay television channel owned by the National Geographic Global Networks unit of Disney Entertainment and National Geographic Partners, a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (73%) and the National Geographic Society (27%). The distribution and broadcasting within the Indian market is now managed under the JioStar, a joint venture between Viacom18 and Disney India. It mainly telecasts features non-fiction, documentaries involving nature, science, culture, and history, produced by the original American network It was broadcast in seven languages (English, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Tamil and Bengali).^[2][3][4][5]

National Geographic

Country	India
Broadcast area	India Bangladesh[1] Nepal Sri Lanka Pakistan Maldives
Network	JioStar
Programming
Language(s)	English Hindi Kannada Malayalam Telugu Tamil Bengali
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to letterboxed 576i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	The Walt Disney Company (73%) and the National Geographic Society (27%) Operated by JioStar in India
Sister channels	National Geographic Wild (Indian TV channel) JioStar Channels
History
Launched	1 July 1998
Links
Website	www.natgeotv.com/in

A HD version of the channel, National Geographic HD was launched on 20 February 2010 .

Shows

The channel broadcast the following shows:^[6]

• Air Crash Investigation
• Gordon Ramsay Uncharted
• Gourmet goes tribal
• Banged Up Abroad
• India's Mega Kitchens
• Airport Security Colombia
• Airport security Madrid
• India's Jungle Heroes
• India's Incredible Rescue Ops
• Primal Survivor: Mighty Mekong
• Airport Security Rome
• Snakes SOS : Goa's wildest
• Land of the Giants: Wild fish
• Airport security Peru
• Primal Survivor
• Snake in the city
• Airport Security Brazil
• Airport Security First class
• Europe from Above
• Wicked Tuna
• Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks

• Taboo
• Brain Games
• Do or Die
• Do or Die: The Animals
• World's Weirdest
• Genius: Picasso
• Animals Gone Wild
• Animal Fight Club
• Deadly Game
• Ultimate Animal Countdown
• Animal Fight Club
• Dirty Rotten Survival
• Science of Stupid
• Combat Zone
• Mega Factories
• China Revealed
• Chain of Command
• Battle of the Beasts
• Monkey Thieves
• Investigates
• Extreme Flight

Channels

On air channels

NG Wild

NG Wild (also known as Nat Geo Wild) is an Indian pay television channel primarily focuses on wildlife and natural history non-fiction programming. It is a sister network to National Geographic Channel India.^[7]

Dissolved channels

Channel	Logo	SD/HD Availability	Defunct	Notes
Adventure One		SD	2007
Nat Geo Adventure		SD+HD	2014
Nat Geo People			2019
Nat Geo Music
Nat Geo Tamil			2020