National Geographic (American TV channel)

In the United States, under leadership of its president Tim T. Kelly,{{cite news |last1=Stilson |first1=Janet |title=Speeding Up the Growth Curve |url=https://archive.org/details/multichannel-news-international-may-2000/page/n17/mode/2up |work=Multichannel News International |publisher=Cahners |date=1 May 2000 |page=18}} the National Geographic Channel launched on January 7, 2001,{{cite news |title=Doctoring the Health Channel |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/01-OCR/BC-2001-01-08-OCR-Page-0027.pdf#search=%22national%20geographic%22 |access-date=8 August 2021 |work=Broadcasting & Cable |date=January 8, 2001 |page=12}} as a joint venture of National Geographic Television & Film and Fox Cable Networks. National Geographic provides programming expertise and the Fox Networks Group provides its expertise on distribution, marketing, and advertising sales.

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The '90s: The Last Great Decade, a documentary series narrated by Rob Lowe, pulled in 1.10 million viewers, and was the second highest-rated July telecast in the National Geographic Channel rating history. The 2000s: A New Reality, also narrated by Lowe, premiered on July 12, 2015.{{cite web | title=Nat Geo Channel The 2000s, Rob Lowe Narrates the Naughties| publisher=HollywoodDailyStar.com| author=Gabrielle Pantera | url=http://www.hollywooddailystar.com/?p=4077| access-date=July 12, 2015 }}

On November 14, 2016, National Geographic Channel changed its name to simply National Geographic to drop the "Channel" from its name.

On December 14, 2017, in a deal, the Walt Disney Company announced it would buy the majority of 21st Century Fox. Disney would assume control of Fox's controlling stake in the National Geographic partnership thereafter.{{cite press release |url=https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/walt-disney-company-acquire-twenty-first-century-fox-inc-spinoff-certain-businesses-52-4-billion-stock-2/ |title=The Walt Disney Company To Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc., After Spinoff Of Certain Businesses, For $52.4 Billion In Stock |publisher=The Walt Disney Company |date=December 14, 2017 |access-date=December 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214141817/https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/walt-disney-company-acquire-twenty-first-century-fox-inc-spinoff-certain-businesses-52-4-billion-stock-2/ |archive-date=December 14, 2017 |url-status=live |df=mdy-all }} Following the acquisition, National Geographic and its sister channels were folded into Walt Disney Television, with the president of the National Geographic Partners reporting directly to the Walt Disney Television chairman.{{cite news |last1=Andreeva |first1=Nellie |title=Disney Unveils Top TV Executive Structure Post Fox Acquisition: Peter Rice, Dana Walden, John Landgraf, Gary Knell Joining |url=https://deadline.com/2018/10/disney-top-tv-executive-structure-fox-acquisition-peter-rice-dana-walden-john-landgraf-1202473566/ |access-date=October 9, 2018 |work=Deadline |date=October 8, 2018}} Disney officially closed the deal on March 20, 2019, having then added Nat Geo into its portfolio of networks.

On September 15, 2023, Byron Allen made a $10B bid to buy ABC, FX & National Geographic as Bob Iger claimed it 'may not be core' to Disney.{{Cite web |last1=Hayes |first1=Dade |last2=Goldsmith |first2=Jill |date=2023-09-15 |title=Disney Fielding Interest In ABC And Other Linear TV Assets From Byron Allen And Nexstar; Media Giant Calls Reports Of Sale Talks "Unfounded," But Will Consider "Strategic Options" – Update |url=https://deadline.com/2023/09/disney-says-abc-station-sale-talks-unfounded-but-keeps-strategic-options-open-1235547332/ |access-date=2023-12-06 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}} On November 29, 2023, Iger announced he was no longer interested in selling Disney's linear TV assets, effectively rejecting Bryon Allen's offer.{{cite web | url=https://fortune.com/2023/11/29/disney-bob-iger-keep-tv-stations-abc-fx/ | title=Disney's Bob Iger does a 360 on possibly selling ABC and FX and now says he'll keep the TV stations }}

{{main|List of National Geographic original programming}}

National Geographic Channel's TV series, in alphabetical order:

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• Abandoned
• Access 360° World Heritage
• Air Crash Investigation
• Alaska State Troopers
• American Chainsaw
• American Colony: Meet the Hutterites
• American Genius
• American Gypsies
• American Weed
• America's Lost Treasures
• Amish: Out of Order
• Ancient Secrets
• Apocalypse 101{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2716082/|title=Apocalypse 101|via=www.imdb.com}}
• Are You Tougher Than a Boy Scout?
• Banged Up Abroad
• Battleground Afghanistan
• Beast Hunter
• Bid & Destroy
• Big, Bigger, Biggest
• The Big Picture with Kal Penn
• Bizarre Dinosaurs
• Borderforce USA: The Bridges
• The Boonies
• Border Wars
• Brain Games
• Breakout
• Building Wild{{Cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2903156/|title=Building Wild|via=www.imdb.com}}
• Cesar 911
• Chasing UFOs
• Construction Zone
• Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
• Crowd Control
• Diggers
• Dino Autopsy
• Dino Death Match
• Dino Death Trap
• Dinosaurs Decoded
• Do Or Die
• Do Or Die: The Animals
• Dogs with Jobs
• Doomsday Castle
• Doomsday Preppers
• Drugged
• Drugs, Inc.
• Drain the Oceans
• Duck Quacks Don't Echo
• Eat: The Story of Food
• Europe From Above
• Expedition Wild Week
• Explorer
• Eyewitness War
• Family Beef
• Family Guns
• Forecast: Disaster
• Genius
• Going Ape
• Hacking The System
• Hard Time
• Hell on the Highway
• Highway Thru Hell
• The Hot Zone
• Inside the American Mob
• Inside Combat Rescue
• Inside: Secret America
• Inside: Thirumala Tirupathi
• Kentucky Justice
• Lawless Oceans
• The Legend of Mick Dodge
• Let it Ride
• Life After Dinosaurs
• Life Below Zero
• Life Hacker
• The Link
• Live Free or Die
• Locked Up Abroad
• Lords of War
• Mars
• Megastructures
• Meltdown
• Mountain Movers
• Mudcats
• The Numbers Game
• Origins: The Journey of Humankind
• One World: Together at Home
• One Strange Rock
• Phobia
• Polygamy, USA
• Port Protection
• "Primal Survivor"
• Race to the Center of the Earth
• Remote Survival
• Richard Hammond's Engineering Connections
• Rocket City Rednecks
• Scam City
• Science of Stupid
• Seconds from Disaster
• Sky Monsters
• Snake Salvation
• Southern Justice
• StarTalk
• Street Genius
• The Story of God with Morgan Freeman
• The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman
• Supercars
• SharkFest
• SuperCroc
• Taboo
• To Catch a Smuggler
• The '80s: The Decade that Made Us
• The '90s: The Last Great Decade?
  (also entitled The '90s: The Decade that Connected Us)
• The 2000s: The Decade We Saw It All
• The Truth Behind
• T-Rex Autopsy
• T-Rex Walks
• Ultimate Airport Dubai
• Ultimate Dino Survivor
• Ultimate Factories
• Ultimate Survival Alaska
• When Crocs Ate Dinosaurs
• Wicked Tuna
• Wicked Tuna: Outer Banks
• Wild Amazon
• Wild Justice
• Wild Russia
• Witness: Disaster
• WW2 Hell Under the sea
• You Can't Lick Your Elbow
• Yukon Gold
• Yukon River Run{{div col end}}

The National Geographic Channel's signature theme fanfare music, which is played at the beginning of many of the channel's television programs, was composed by Elmer Bernstein. It was originally written in 1964 for the Society's television specials, which were broadcast on CBS, ABC, PBS and NBC from 1964 until the early 2000s.

The United States 720p high definition simulcast of the National Geographic Channel launched in January 2006. It is available on all major cable and satellite providers.

{{Main|Nat Geo Wild}}

Nat Geo Wild (stylized as Nat Geo WILD or abbreviated as NGW) is a cable/satellite TV channel focused on animal-related programs. It is a sister network to National Geographic Channel and it is the latest channel to be jointly launched by the National Geographic Society and Fox Cable Networks. It was launched in United States on March 29, 2010, focusing primarily on wildlife and natural history programming.

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Nat Geo Mundo is broadcast in American Spanish, and was launched in 2011.{{cite news|title=National Geographic Launches Nat Geo Mundo, New Network For Multi-Generational And Bicultural U.S. Latinos|url=http://www.cesarsway.com/news/appearances/National-Geographic-Launches-Nat-Geo-Mundo|access-date=July 6, 2011|date=April 4, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110701201441/http://www.cesarsway.com/news/appearances/National-Geographic-Launches-Nat-Geo-Mundo|archive-date=July 1, 2011|df=mdy-all}} It shares programming with the Nat Geo Channel available in Hispanic American countries. The channel is fully-owned by the National Geographic Society with no involvement from Disney General Entertainment Content.

Nat Geo TV is an application for smartphones and tablet computers, along with Windows 10. It allows subscribers of participating pay television providers (such as Spectrum and Comcast Xfinity) numerous viewing options, including individual episodes of National Geographic and Nat Geo Wild's original series and documentaries (which are made available live). On August 23, 2024, Disney began notifying its carriage partners it would discontinue the mobile and digital media player apps for Nat Geo TV, along with DisneyNOW, Freeform, FXNow and ABC, effective September 23. TV Everywhere content would still be available via their respective websites in order to funnel viewers towards Disney+ and Hulu.{{Cite web|last=Bouma|first=Luke|title=Disney is Shutting Down Disney, Freeform, FXNow, & National Geographic Channel Apps|url=https://cordcuttersnews.com/disney-is-shutting-down-disney-freeform-fxnow-national-geographic-channel-apps/|access-date=2024-08-24|date=2024-08-24|website=Cord Cutters News|language=en-US}}

Archaeologists have protested that National Geographic shows such as Diggers and Nazi War Diggers promote the looting and destruction of archaeological sites by promoting the work of metal detecting souvenir hunters and collectable dealers.{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/archaeologist_n_1315867|title=Two Popular TV Shows Under Fire From Archaeologists|date=March 2, 2012|website=HuffPost}} In 2013 the National Geographic Channel set off a firestorm of controversy with its reality show Diggers. Professional archaeologists from the Society for Historical Archaeology, the largest scholarly group concerned with the archaeology of the modern world (A.D. 1400–present), roundly criticized the network for promoting the theft of cultural materials on public and private land.{{cite web|title=National Geographic's Diggers: is it better?|url=https://sha.org/blog/2013/02/national-geographics-diggers-is-it-better/|website=Society for Historical Archaeology|date=February 2013 |access-date=13 July 2016}}

The show Nazi War Diggers was accused of showing unscientific and disrespectful handling of human remains. A promotional quote from a military relic dealer, "I feel that by selling things that are Nazi-related and for lots of money, I am preserving things that museums don't want to deal with," was removed from the channel's website in March 2014. National Geographic expressed regret for how the series was presented by its own website but maintained that many of the accusations against the series were based on misinformation.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/29/arts/television/tv-series-is-criticized-in-handling-of-deceased.html|title=TV Series Is Criticized in Handling of Deceased|first=Tom|last=Mashberg|work=The New York Times |date=March 28, 2014|via=NYTimes.com}} The show was repackaged, amid controversy, as Battlefield Recovery for air during 2016 on Channel 5 in the UK.{{Cite web|date=2016-01-08|title=Channel 5 accused of supporting 'grave-robbing' over TV show Battlefield Recovery|url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jan/08/channel-5-accused-of-supporting-grave-robbing-over-tv-show-battlefield-recovery|access-date=2021-01-07|website=the Guardian|language=en}}

• List of documentary television channels
• List of National Geographic documentary films
• List of programs broadcast by National Geographic Channel
• National Geographic Abu Dhabi
• National Geographic (Asia)
• National Geographic (Australia and New Zealand)
• National Geographic (Canadian TV channel)
• National Geographic (France)
• National Geographic (Germany)
• National Geographic (Greece)
• National Geographic (India)
• National Geographic (Netherlands)
• National Geographic (South Korea)
• National Geographic (UK and Ireland)
• National Geographic (Latin America)
• National Geographic Farsi
• Nat Geo People

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• [https://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/ National Geographic U.S.A.]
• [http://www.nationalgeographicla.com/ National Geographic Latin America]
• [https://www.natgeotv.com/uk National Geographic UK]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20100507100520/http://natgeotv.com/ru National Geographic Russia]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20101115203354/http://natgeotv.com/in National Geographic India]
• [https://geographyscout.com/ National Geographic Australia]
• [https://www.natgeotv.com/nl National Geographic Netherlands]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20111015223427/http://natgeotv.com/farsi/ National Geographic Iran] {{in lang|fa}}

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