Animal Planet Nordic is a television channel broadcasting nature-related documentaries to the Nordic countries.
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 (formerly ''NTV Pluss'') 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 encryp ...
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Animal Planet Nordic has been replaced by the pan-European feed.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 Animal Planet, which broadcasts to several countries in Europe, UK, Africa and the Middle East.
The channel is broadcast in English, Czech, Hungarian and formerly Russian. The HD feed also carries a Tu ...
show three air times depending on the country you live in. The Eastern European time zone is marked with "Suomi" for Finnish viewers.
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''
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Meerkat Manor
''Meerkat Manor'' is a British television programme produced by Oxford Scientific Films that premiered in September 2005. Originally broadcast on Animal Planet International for four series, until its cancellation in August 2008, the program ...
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Monkey Life
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Natural World
''Natural World'' is a strand of British wildlife documentary programmes broadcast on BBC Two and BBC Two HD and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history series. It is the longest-running documentary in its genre on British televis ...
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Orangutan Island
''Orangutan Island'' is an American documentary television series, in the style of the earlier series ''Meerkat Manor'', that blends more traditional documentary filming with dramatic narration. The series was produced by NHNZ with creator Judit ...
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*''The Planet's Funniest Animals''
*''Untamed & Uncut''
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Wildlife SOS
Wildlife SOS (WSOS) is a conservation non-profit organisation in India, established in 1995 with the primary objective of rescuing and rehabilitating wildlife in distress, and preserving India's natural heritage. It is currently one of the large ...
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Wild Europe''
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Up Close and Dangerous
''Up Close and Dangerous'' is a half-hour series, produced by NHNZ Ltd. and aired on Animal Planet, profiling each episode three wildlife photographers and their dangerous encounters in filming wild animals.
An example episode ("Elephant Seals, P ...
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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
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