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39 unusual facts about National Geographic Channel


Chalk's Ocean Airways Flight 101

The story of the disaster was featured on the ninth season of Canadian National Geographic Channel show Mayday (known as Air Emergency in the US, Mayday in Ireland and Air Crash Investigation in the UK and the rest of world).

CICAP

In September 2005, National Geographic Channel's Is It Real? program (episode 10) asked for a demonstration of "Knockout" Chi (a no-touch knockout technique), during which instructor Leon Jay was unable to knock-out Luigi Garlaschelli, an investigator from CICAP.

Codex Tchacos

National Geographic, which restored and conserved of the codex, has also created a two-hour television documentary, The Gospel of Judas, which aired worldwide on the National Geographic Channel on April 9, 2006.

Costa Serena

In 2009 Costa Serena and her crew was featured in the six-episode National Geographic Channel documentary series "Cruise Ship Diaries".

Dominic Montserrat

A wider audience saw him co-presenting the TV documentary series The Egyptian Detectives, a production of National Geographic Channel and Channel Five.

Down Street tube station

Episode 1 of Dan Cruickshank's Great Railway Adventures (a National Geographic Channel 2010 documentary series about the history of Britain's railways) explores the station's role as control centre for all of Great Britain's railways moving military supplies and personnel during the 1939 - 1945 War

Eastern Sierra Regional Airport

On March 13, 1974 a David L. Wolper Productions crew filming a National Geographic history of Australopithecus at Mammoth Mountain Ski Area was killed when the Convair 440 Sierra Pacific Airlines plane crashed shortly after take off from the airport killing all 35 on board including 31 Wolper crew members (but not Wolper himself).

Ehra-Lessien

The facility also appeared on National Geographic Channel's Man-Made, in an episode about the Bugatti Veyron.

Every Singaporean Son

National Geographic Channel ordered the series and it will be aired in a six part episodes(30 minutes per episodes) from 8 March 2011.

Galtaji

These rhesus macaques were featured in National Geographic Channel's Rebel Monkeys series and "Thar Desert - Sacred sand" episode of Wildest India Series.

Grassy Park

Neighboring Parkwood was featured in the National Geographic television series Taboo: Blood Bonds for its street gangs, particularly The Americans, Hard Living and Clever Kids.

Happy Tale

Happy Tale was created in 2012 by the Polish development studio Can't Stop Games, which also developed Doomsday Preppers (based on the series series by National Geographic), Pirates Saga, and Tanadu.

Heinz Sielmann

During the collaboration on some National Geographic wildlife documentaries in the late 1960s he met Walon Green with whom he worked as additional photographer on the Academy Award-winning documentary The Hellstrom Chronicle about insects in 1971.

Horten Ho 229

In early 2008, Northrop-Grumman paired up television documentary producer Michael Jorgensen, and the National Geographic Channel to produce a documentary to determine whether the Ho 229 was, in fact, the world's first true "stealth" fighter-bomber.

Indian pariah dog

It was featured on National Geographic Channel's film, 'Search for the First Dog' along with the other related ancient types such as the Canaan Dog of Israel and the Australian Dingo.

JP Aerospace

Since then, JP Aerospace has worked with a number of clients interested in launching cameras into the upper atmosphere via balloons, including The Discovery Channel, National Geographic, and Toshiba (for their 2009 television commercial Space Chair).

Jyotsna Srikanth

Following her marriage, she moved to London, where she expanded her repertoire to music scores for documentaries (on Discovery and National Geographic), teleserials, besides performing at global music events such as WOMAD, the Red Violin Festival, the Cleveland Music Festival, and the BBC Proms.

Little red flying fox

A National Geographic Channel special program ("World's Weirdest: Flying Foxes") documents that the little red flying fox will skim the surface of rivers, then lap the water from their fur; this can put them in danger from being seized by predators such as crocodiles.

Mariana van Zeller

Van Zeller is married to her former Columbia classmate Darren Foster, who is a series producer and director with National Geographic Channel.

Mexus Education

In the 2009 edition, Mexus Education in association with National Geographic Channel (NGC) and the Ministry of Science and Technology took 'Iken Scientifica 2009- Season III' to 700 schools across 14 cities.

Mokhtar Dahari

His story and the cause of his death was later revealed for the first time in a documentary The Untold Truth About Supermokh, on The National Geographic Channel on August 30, 2010, featuring Mokhtar's friends and family.

Murillo Flats

The entire event was recorded on 9 cameras by Windfall Films for their Monster Moves show, which is broadcast in the United States on the Discovery Channel and National Geographic Channel (under the names Mega Moves & Impossible Moves).

MV New Flame

The salvage operation of the New Flame featured on "Salvage Code Red" on the National Geographic Channel on 16 February 2009.

National Geographic

National Geographic Channel, a subscription television channel that airs non-fiction television programs produced by the National Geographic Society

Oxgangs

The demolition of Capelaw Court was filmed and featured on the National Geographic Channel, which interviewed residents of Oxgangs and community leader Heather Levy.

Port Royal

Underwater archeology, some of which can be seen in the National Geographic Channel show Wicked Pirate City, reveals the foundations of building under water, showing there was subsidence, as do comparisons of post-earthquake maps and pre-earthquake maps.

Public Architecture

Emmy Award-winning documentarian Anna Fitch conceived of the project, and filmed the entire process for a documentary film that aired on the National Geographic Channel in September 2006.

Rajeev Khandelwal

In 2011, Khandelwal became the brand ambassador for the National Geographic Channel's show Supercars.

Rajesh Pratap Singh

In 2009, the designer showcased his ecologically responsible collection at the “Green Fashion Show” on Earth Day organised by National Geographic Channel in partnership with the British Council and Madi Design.

Robert David Steele

He also appeared in two French documentaries: Les Hackers (English translation: Hackers), on the National Geographic Channel, CIA Guerres Secretes (By William Karel) and Le Monde selon Bush (English translation: The World according to Bush by William Karel), on the television channel Paris Première.

Ronald Easterbrook

Footage of the arrest is also shown in the 2010 documentary series Flying Squad: The Real Sweeney, shown on National Geographic Channel.

Royal Marines Base Chivenor

The Sea King from 22 squadron A-Flight at Chivenor took a starring role in the National Geographic Channel documentary television series Sea Patrol UK, with B-Flight of 22 Squadron at AAC Wattisham alongside Royal Navy and Coastguard units.

Suzannah Lipscomb

With Joe Crowley she presented Bloody Tales of the Tower for National Geographic.

With Joe Crowley she presented Bloody Tales of Europe for National Geographic.

Tabango, Leyte

On January 17, 2008, Tabango Mayor Bernard Jonathan Remandaban opened (soft) the almost complete P 5.8 million modern, fully air-conditioned library: “It took us 6 years to construct our municipal library.” The library can accommodate 20,000 books, has 5 computer units with Internet access and a flat television set that only carries the National Geographic and Discovery Channels.

Tetsuro Matsuzawa

Human Ape, video documentary on National Geographic Channel, March 17, 2008, directed by Martin Gorst, written by Yavar Abbas

Ussuri krai

National Geographic Channel represented the film named "Secret Forest" as the part of the cycle "Wild Russia" which describes the natural reserves of Ussuri Krai.

Yanhee Hospital

The hospital was also featured in an episode of National Geographic Channel's Taboo Series, in which a patient sought sex change surgery at Yanhee.

Ziggo

Ziggo offers 30 HD channels include National Geographic Channel HD, Discovery HD, HBO HD & History HD.


10 Ways to End the World

The series is produced by Sveriges Utbildningsradio (UR) and was aired on Kunskapskanalen (in English: The Knowledge Channel) in December 2010 under the Swedish name Mänsklighetens sista dagar (Last days of Man) and on National Geographic and Arte in 2012.

Animals Asia Foundation

Animals Asia Foundation has been profiled on CNN, NPR, Animal Planet, the BBC, the National Geographic Channel, as well as in print media in several countries.

CJ Group

National Geographic Channel - factual channel in partnership with NGC Networks Asia/Fox International Channels (especially STAR TV)

Dan Cruickshank

In 2010, he embarked on a 3 part series on the history of the railways in Britain for National Geographic TV channel, including visits to Chester to examine the events surrounding the Dee bridge disaster of 1847, and Manchester for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway which opened in 1830.

Dish México

On April 2011 Dish México added three new channels: Fox, Nat Geo, and Nat Geo Wild.

Edge West Productions

For more than a decade, Day has been an active producing partner with National Geographic Channel, Public Broadcast Service, Discovery, The History Channel, TLC, BBC Television, Channel Four (TV UK), and NHK Japan.

Elemental Technologies

Media and entertainment companies using Elemental products include the BBC, Big Ten Network, CBS Interactive, Columbus Communications, Comcast, Deltatre, Disney, ESPN, Eurosport, Foxtel, HBO, MLB, National Geographic, NBA, NHK, PBS, QVC, Telefonica, Terra Networks, TF1, VMMA, Warner Bros., WRN Broadcast, Viacom and Vubiquity.

Escadaria Selarón

National Geographic Channel, American Express, Coca-cola, Kellogg's Corn Flakes, Time and Playboy are just some of the media that the steps have appeared in/on.

Gare de Lyon rail accident

The accident was featured on season 2 of the National Geographic Channel documentary series Seconds From Disaster in the program Paris Train Crash (also known as Runaway Train).

Lloyd Pye

Pye also gave lectures and made television appearances in support of his ideas on The Learning Channel, National Geographic Channel, Extra, Animal Planet, and Richard & Judy in the United Kingdom.

Mitchell Block

Among the films and documentary series that Block has conceived, created and produced are Carrier and Another Day in Paradise, both of which were broadcast on the Public Broadcasting Service and the National Geographic Channel internationally.

Northern Blue Entertainment

Working primarily in television, Northern Blue Entertainment has produced content for A&E, The Travel Channel, Sundance Channel, National Geographic, Lifetime, E! Entertainment, MTV, and WE: Women's Entertainment.

Parallax Film Productions Inc.

Parallax Film documentaries have aired on several networks including Discovery Channels (US, Canada and International), National Geographic Channels (US, Canada and International), History Channel (US), Channel 4 (UK), FIVE (UK), DMAX (Germany), RAI (Italy), TV Asahi (Japan), PBS NOVA and Nature and History Television (Canada).

RiksTV

On 12 June, it was announced that Animal Planet, Canal+ Film 2, the National Geographic Channel, TV 2 Sport and local television would launch later on.

The Final Report

The Final Report (or Final Report) is a 2006 National Geographic Channel documentary television series about various historical events that occurred between the early 1970s and the 2000s.

Überlingen mid-air collision

The National Geographic Channel documentary series Seconds From Disaster featured this mid-air collision in the episode entitled Collision at 35,000 feet release in 26 September 2011.

Very Large Telescope

One of the large mirrors of the telescopes was the subject of an episode of the National Geographic Channel's reality series World's Toughest Fixes, where a crew of engineers removed and transported the mirror to be cleaned and re-coated with aluminium.

Yankee Air Museum

The campaign has attracted national and international attention from media outlets that include National Public Radio, The History Channel magazine, National Geographic TV, The Guardian (UK), and the (UK) Daily Mail.