Nat Geo Music


Nat Geo Music is a television music channel operated as a part of National Geographic Global Networks, which is a business unit of National Geographic Partners. The channel works in conjunction with the Society's music division National Geographic Music and Radio.

Launch and availability

C21 reported in July 2007 that National Geographic Channels International would launch a Nat Geo Music channel in October in Italy before a staged roll out across Europe.
In mid-August 2007, NGCI confirmed the channel and its Italy launch date of 15 October 2007 on Sky. NGCI has arranged for music from the following labels: EMI Arabia, Sony/BMG Asia, Warner Music Latin America and Universal Italy, for the channel. The channel was launched in Latin America in the fourth quarter 2008. The Saturday before March 3, 2009, the channel and Nat Geo Wild was launched in Portugal on the Cabovisão and Meo platforms.
Nat Geo Music was slated to be launched in 2008 with three other Nat Geo channels in India. Fox International Channels launched in 2010 the new Nat Geo channels again along with three other Fox channels On 1 February 2010, Nat Geo Music and two channels from Fox debuted on Singaporean cable TV provider StarHub.

Content

Previously, Nat Geo Music aired documentaries regarding 'culture and music' around the world, later they began to play music around the clock without channel identification, promos and advertisements.