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, Albanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, Greek, Latvian, 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.
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Animal Planet (Dutch TV channel)
Animal Planet is a Dutch pay television channel broadcasting nature-related documentaries in the Netherlands and Flanders. The channel launched as a Pan-European feed on 1 July 1997. It is operated by Discovery Benelux.
History
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for The Netherlands and Flanders.
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Animal Planet (German TV channel) for Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein and the German-speaking part of Switzerland.
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Animal Planet (Polish TV channel)
*Animal Planet Russia
*Animal Planet Turkey
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Animal Planet (British TV channel) for the UK & Ireland
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the List of European countries by area, second-largest country in Europe after Russia, which Russia–Ukraine border, borders it to the east and northeast. Ukraine also borders Belarus to the nor ...
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CIS and the
Baltic countries
The Baltic states or the Baltic countries is a geopolitical term encompassing Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. All three countries are members of NATO, the European Union, the Eurozone, and the OECD. The three sovereign states on the eastern co ...
still get the pan-European feed in Russian and English.
History
The channel launched in Europe in 1997 and on 1 September 1998 it began broadcasting in the UK via the Astra Satellite and on analogue cable. It was on air each day from midday until midnight.
In October 2008, Animal Planet adopted the new branding and current logo.
In March 2009, the on-air logo changed its colour from green to white and became transparent.
On September 4, 2012, Animal Planet improved its picture quality by increasing the resolution from 544x576 to 720x576.
Since October 2012, all of the programming - including promos - is broadcast in
Anamorphic widescreen
Anamorphic widescreen (also called full-height anamorphic or FHA) is a process by which a widescreen image is horizontally compressed to fit into a storage medium (photographic film or MPEG-2 standard-definition frame, for example) with a narr ...
picture format.
On 31 December 2017, Animal Planet ceased broadcasting in Africa on
DStv.
Currently, Animal Planet is ad-free on its main feed. Some countries, like Romania and Moldova, get localised ad blocks.
Animal Planet Italy for Italy and the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland ceased broadcasting on 31 January 2019 after a new distribution agreement between Discovery and Sky Italia.
On 9 March 2022, Discovery Inc. closed Animal Planet in Russia due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Programming
* ''After Dark''
* ''Animal Battlegrounds''
* ''Baby Planet''
* ''Bad Dog''
* ''Cats 101''
* ''Dark Days in Monkey City''
* ''Dogs 101''
* ''Galapagos''
* ''Growing Up...''
* ''I'm Alive''
* ''Killer Wales''
* ''Max's Big Tracks''
* ''Must Love Cats''
* ''Penguin Safari''
* ''Rescue Vet''
* ''Safari Vet School''
* ''Search for the
Knysna elephants
The Knysna elephants were the relicts of once substantial herds of African bush elephant (''Loxodonta africana'') in the Outeniqua Mountains, Outeniqua/Tsitsikamma Forest, Tsitsikamma region of southernmost South Africa. In 2019 it was determined ...
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* ''Shamwari: A Wild Life''
* ''Talk to the Animals''
* ''The Magic of The Big Blue''
* ''Trophy Cats''
* ''Wild Africa Rescue''
* ''Wild Animal Orphans''
* ''Wild France''
* ''Wildest Islands''
* ''Wildest Islands of Indonesia''
* ''Wildlife SOS''
* ''World Wild Wet''
References
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Television stations in France
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