Nat Geo hunts for more ad dollars.(National Geographic Channel)

Multichannel News, April, 2003 by Forkan, Jim

Like the wildlife featured in so much of its programming, National Geographic Channel is hunting -- in its case, for more ad dollars. As bait, NGC will use 450 hours of original series and specials set for 2003-04, including six new series. NGC senior vice president of media sales Rich Goldfarb, Fox Cable Entertainment executive vice president of ad sales Bruce Lefkowitz and others have given their upfront spiel to more than 100 individual agencies and advertisers since mid-March.

TOUTING SHOWS The six new series are: Be the Creature (featuring the Kratt Brothers of PBS's Zoboomafoo); Crittercam; Dangerous Jobs; Doctors Without Borders: Crisis Zone; Mission Rescue; and Worlds Apart. Doctors Without Borders is being rushed from fall to a...

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