Country | India |
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Broadcast area | India Bangladesh [1] Nepal Sri Lanka Pakistan Maldives |
Network | JioStar |
Programming | |
Language(s) | |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to letterboxed 576i for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | National Geographic Partners (Disney Entertainment) |
Sister channels | National Geographic Wild (Indian TV channel) JioStar Channels |
History | |
Launched | 1 July 1998 |
Links | |
Website | www |
National Geographic (also known as Nat Geo) is an Indian pay television channel owned by JioStar. a wholly owned by JioStar. 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).
A HD version of the channel, National Geographic HD was launched on 20 February 2010 .
The channel broadcast the following shows: [2]
Channel | Logo | SD/HD Availability | Notes |
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National Geographic | SD+HD | ||
Nat Geo Wild |
Channel | Logo | SD/HD Availability | Defunct | Notes |
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Adventure One | SD | 2007 | ||
Nat Geo Adventure | SD+HD | 2014 | ||
Nat Geo People | 2019 | |||
Nat Geo Music | ||||
Nat Geo Tamil | 2020 |
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