Animal Planet (European TV channel)

Animal Planet

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; 27 years ago (1997)
Closed	March 9, 2022; 2 years ago (2022-03-09) (Russia)
Availability
Terrestrial
evotv (Croatia)	Channel 112
Zuku TV (Kenya)	Channel 416

The Pan-European Animal Planet is a feed of the U.S. channel of the same name, which broadcasts to several countries in Europe, UK, Africa and the Middle East.

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.