Nat Geo People
International TV channel
Nat Geo People (short for National Geographic People) is an international pay television channel owned by National Geographic Partners, a joint venture between the Walt Disney Company (73%) and the National Geographic Society (27%). Targeted at female audiences, with programming focusing on people and cultures, the channel is available in 50 countries in both linear and non-linear formats.
History
The channel originally launched in the United Kingdom on 1 November 1999 as Adventure One Channel by the NGC-UK Partnership, a joint venture between the National Geographic Society and British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB). The channel was later launched by National Geographic across Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australasia, and was rebranded in 2003 to simply Adventure One (A1).
On 7 December 2006, it was announced that the channel would be replaced in the United Kingdom by Nat Geo Wild from 1 March 2007. The channel was replaced as planned, and was also replaced in most European territories as well. On 2 April 2007, National Geographic announced the launch of National Geographic Adventure, which replaced Adventure One in Asia, Africa, Australasia, and Italy, and as a block in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America. It was officially relaunched on 1 May 2007. Under its new name, the channel retained its focus on a younger audience, providing programming based around outdoor adventure, travel, and stories that involve people having fun while exploring the world. Nat Geo Adventure is also a global adventure travel video and photography portal, which launched worldwide in 2009.
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