After realizing this, the team set to work in getting the National Geographic Channel launched in the United States. By January 2001, the producers had everything they needed to launch it. Thanks to a collective effort between National Geographic Television & Film and Fox Cable Networks, the new channel was born and they expected it [...]

The Flight that Fought Back and Deadliest Catch were smash hits for the channel throughout 2006. In fact, they were probably the main reason that The Discovery Channel managed to pick up a huge seven Emmy Award nominations. Moving forward to 2007, the channel focused on bringing something new to viewers. They introduced Dirty Jobs [...]

The National Geographic Channel is a subscription based television channel, widely known by many viewers. In commercial terms, the name is usually shortened to Nat Geo for ease. It is a channel that screens mainly non-fiction programs that have been carefully planned and researched and then produced by the National Geographic Society. The main reason [...]

When the channel was first produced, they were only able to offer 156,000 households access to the channel. This was on the basis of producing 12 hours of content per day, which would be from 3pm-3am. Whilst around 75% of the content was new to all Americans, this was not enough. Even 100% of the [...]

The Discovery Channel is a well known satellite and cable television channel, originally designed for viewing in America. It was originally developed by the Discovery Communications Corporation and the founder was John Hendricks, who created in for American TV. The channel is certainly not a small operation, with shares being traded publicly on a daily [...]