Combining stakes in Discovery Channel and Animal Planet into new publicly traded company later this year.
"If that were on Animal Planet, it would have been the biggest thing they've ever seen, " says Smith.
Ad-awareness scores for Animal Planet also increased by 2 points during the period.
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Pitched somewhere between a circus and the Animal Planet television channel, the safari has become a mainstay of the Kenyan economy.
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" Animal Planet put a spin on the latter concept, to appeal to its niche audience, with its series "Confessions: Animal Hoarding.
Almost time for Too Cute on Animal Planet with my two tweens.
Watson has become renowned for his attempts to disrupt Japanese whalers on the open water through Animal Planet's "Whale Wars" TV show.
In 2012, during the twelve hours the Puppy Bowl was broadcast, Animal Planet had 8.7 million viewers, setting a record for the channel.
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Cable has a lock on our homes via local franchise bribes, er, fees, so we get Lifetime and Animal Planet that no one watches.
The shows are not only a ratings smash for Animal Planet but a public relations boon for the various animal agencies documented in the shows.
Ad revenue during the Puppy Bowl is up 19% over last year and, for the first time, Animal Planet, sold the naming rights for the event.
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Animal Planet normally films the frolicking in October in order to edit the show by Super Bowl Sunday, so many of the animals are already adopted by airtime.
There are 16 animal cops in New York City, and you might be familiar with them if you watch Animal Planet's Animal Precinct, the reality show chronicling their exploits.
His work has been shown on the National Geographic and Animal Planet channels, and he owns a production house called Indonesia Explorer, with a mix of local and international clients.
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But in 2010 Discovery cut off access to some of the most popular channels, including Animal Planet and the Military Channel, saying Sky Angel violated its contract by distributing them over the Internet.
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Two days later I got a cold call from a producer at Hoff Productions near San Francisco, who do a lot of stuff for Animal Planet, Discovery, the Speed Network and so on.
Though by Breton's reckoning there had been ten documentaries about the birds and Project Puffin already--including shows aired on the National Geographic Channel and the Discovery Channel's Animal Planet--he felt there was more of the story to be told.
Among the programs added are Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs, TLC's Say Yes To The Dress and Animal Planet's Whale Wars, as well as thousands of TV episodes from MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, TV Land, Spike, VH1, BET, CMT and Logo.
And just as network television did with successful law shows like Law and Order and CSI, Animal Planet--owned by Discovery Communications , which also owns Discovery Channel--spun their top show into a franchise: There are four shows--in New York, Houston, Miami and Detroit--about animal cops.
"The bass is the most important animal on the planet, in terms of our recreational relationship with nature, " says Douglas Hannon, an author and scientist in Odessa, Fla.
In 2011, the BBC denied misleading viewers of Attenborough's frozen planet series with footage of newborn polar bear cubs filmed in an animal park, rather than in the wild.
"Although the elephants and the humpback whales and polar bears are the animal stars, the other big star of the movie is the earth -- the planet itself, " said Fothergill.
About 90% of its plant species exist nowhere else on the planet, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society, and many of its bird, reptile and animal species -- including all the world's lemurs in the wild -- are endemic.
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