National Geographic India

National Geographic India (also known as Nat Geo India) is an Indian pay television channel owned by the National Geographic Global Networks unit of Disney Entertainment and National Geographic Partners, a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (73%) and the National Geographic Society (27%). The distribution and broadcasting within the Indian market is now managed under the JioStar, a joint venture between Viacom18 and Disney India. It mainly telecasts non-fiction, documentaries involving nature, science, culture, and history, produced by the original American network It broadcasts in seven languages (English, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil and Bengali). A HD version of the channel, National Geographic HD was launched on 20 February 2010.