Animal Planet (European TV channel)
The Pan-European Animal Planet is a feed of Animal Planet, which broadcasts to several countries in Europe, UK, Africa and the Middle East.
| Country | United Kingdom |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Armenia, Azerbaijan, Albania, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, Middle East, Africa |
| Network | Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA |
| Headquarters | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | English |
| Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed) |
| Timeshift service | Animal Planet +1 (UK) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Warner Bros. Discovery International |
| Sister channels | Discovery Channel Discovery HD Discovery Home & Health Discovery Historia Discovery History Discovery MAX Discovery Science Discovery Shed Discovery Travel & Living Europe Discovery Turbo Discovery World Investigation Discovery DMAX Germany, Austria, Switzerland & Liechtenstein DMAX United Kingdom & Ireland Quest Real Time Italy TLC Netherlands TLC Poland TLC UK and Ireland |
| History | |
| Launched | 1997 |
| Closed | March 9, 2022 (Russia) |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| evotv (Croatia) | Channel 112 |
| Zuku TV (Kenya) | Channel 416 |
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, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Greek, 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.
- Animal Planet (Dutch TV channel) for The Netherlands and Flanders.
- Animal Planet (German TV channel) for Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein and the German-speaking part of Switzerland.
- Animal Planet (Polish TV channel)
- Animal Planet Russia
- Animal Planet Turkey
- Animal Planet (British TV channel) for the UK & Ireland
Ukraine, CIS and the Baltic countries still get the pan-European feed in Russian and English.