Earth Touch TV
Earth Touch is bringing its FAST channel – Earth Touch TV – to the USA through a landmark deal for the company with DIRECTV for its MyFree DIRECTV platform. Supported by its tech partner Amagi, the expansion follows the channel’s performance in the UK since its launch in May 2023 on Samsung TV Plus, LG channels, Rakuten, TitanOS, Vidaa and Bolt+, as well as its continuing growth in the Netherlands, Nordics, Poland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.
Earth Touch TV is a premium FAST wildlife and nature channel, offering audiences entertaining and educational blue-chip natural history content from around the globe including world-class wildlife and nature documentaries and series filmed in some of the planet’s most remarkable and beautiful locations. The service is launching in the USA with a series of special hour-long premieres focusing on big cats in the wild, including "Shadow Cats", "Lion Brother: Cubs to King" and "The Flooded Desert", with additional, seasonally-focused specials joining the channel over the coming months. Also coming to the service are four seasons of Earth Touch’s evergreen wildlife reality show "Snakes in the City", as seen on National Geographic Wild.
PRODUCTION HUB
Earth Touch’s production hub in South Africa offers easy access to fantastic locations for original content for its FAST channel. Established over its 16 years of global production, the company’s extensive archive comprises of over 15,000 hours of HD and 4K footage, allowing for continual fresh content to be created for Earth Touch TV, and which the company also offers to streaming platforms and third-party producers as original content creation and co-productions.
Lara Cox, Group Chief Operating Officer at Earth Touch, said, “Launching Earth Touch TV has provided an exciting new vertical for our company, creating fresh ways for viewers to dive into our vast slate of programming celebrating the wild - as well as opportunities to work with fantastic production partners on new content. We’re thrilled to be continuing to expand its reach as we launch in the USA, and we look forward to bringing mainstay programming like "Snakes in the City", alongside brand-new specials, to new and returning viewers.”