Animal Planet
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Animal Planet, launched in 1996, is a cable and satellite television network co-owned 80% by Discovery Communications, Inc. (parent company of Discovery Channel, TLC, Discovery Health Channel, and The Travel Channel) and 20% by the BBC Worldwide. The channel is dedicated to programming that highlights the relationship between humans and animals.
On January 1, 1997, Animal Planet's distribution grew as a result of Discovery Communications buying the channel space of WOR EMI Service, a national feed of New York's WWOR that was implimented in the light of the SyndEx laws enforced by the FCC.
It is available throughout the United States, and in over 70 countries around the world.
Country-specific versions of the channel have been created in Canada, India, and other countries.
Programs
- Adoption Tales
- Amazing Animal Videos
- Animal Cops Detroit
- Animal Cops Houston
- Animal Cops San Francisco
- Animal Face-Off
- Animal Icons
- Animal Miracles
- Animal Planet Heroes: Phoenix
- Animal Planet ZOOventure
- Animal Precinct
- The Ape Crusaders
- Austin Stevens: Snakemaster
- Barking Mad
- Breed All About It
- Call of the Wild
- Chasing Nature
- The Crocodile Hunter (hosted by Steve Irwin)
- Emergency Vets
- Good Dog U.
- Growing Up...
- The Jeff Corwin Experience
- Judge Wapner's Animal Court
- K-9 to 5
- The Little Zoo That Could
- Miami Animal Police
- The Most Extreme
- Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom
- The Planet's Funniest Animals
- The Pet Psychic
- Pet Star
- A Pet Story
- Petsburgh USA
- The Snake Buster (hosted by Bruce George)
- That's My Baby
- Venom ER
- Who Gets the Dog?
- Wild Rescues
- Wildlife Journal