Animal Planet Nordic is a television channel broadcasting nature-related documentaries to the Nordic countries.
History
Animal Planet was launched in the Nordic region in 1997. In 2001, the channel received a license to broadcast in
the digital terrestrial network in Sweden. By 2008, the channel had regularly been one of the twenty most watched channels in Sweden for a few years. From 2007, the channel is also broadcast terrestrially in Norway via the
RiksTV
RiksTV is the distributor of pay television in the Norwegian digital terrestrial television network.
Except for NRK1, NRK2, NRK3/ NRK Super and the NRK radio channels, all broadcasts in the Norwegian DTT network are encrypted. The channels t ...
package.
For its first ten years in existence, the channel used a logo with a globe and an elephant which was also used by its sister channels. On 1 October 2008 the channel switched a new logo, which had previously been adopted by
Animal Planet in the United States.
A high-definition version of the channel, called ''Animal Planet HD'', was launched on 3 February 2009. That made the Nordic region the first region to get a high-definition version of Animal Planet after the United States. The high-definition channel used to have a separate schedule in order to broadcast only high-definition programmes.
Animal Planet Nordic has been replaced by the pan-European feed. The commercials on
Animal Planet Europe
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 ...
show three air times depending on the country you live in. The Eastern European time zone is marked with "Suomi" for Finnish viewers.
Programs
Programs shown on the channel include:
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Animal Cops: Houston''
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Animal Cops: Philadelphia''
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Animal Cops: Phoenix''
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Animal Crackers
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Big Cat Diary
''Big Cat Diary'', also known as ''Big Cat Week'' or ''Big Cat Live'', is a long-running nature documentary series on BBC television which followed the lives of African big cats in Kenya's Maasai Mara. The first series, broadcast on BBC One in 1 ...
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Meerkat Manor''
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Monkey Life''
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Natural World''
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Orangutan Island
''Orangutan Island'' is an American documentary film, documentary television series, in the style of the earlier series ''Meerkat Manor'', that blends more traditional documentary filming with Dramatic programming, dramatic narration. The series ...
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*''The Planet's Funniest Animals''
*''Untamed & Uncut''
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Wildlife SOS''
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Wild Europe''
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Up Close and Dangerous''
References
{{Swedish television channels
Pan-Nordic television channels
Television stations in Denmark
Television channels in Norway
Television channels in Sweden
Television channels and stations established in 1997
Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA