Nat Geo Kids

Nat Geo Kids was a Latin American pay television channel targeting children, owned by Disney Channels Worldwide and National Geographic Partners, a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company and National Geographic Society.

The channel was originally launched on 8 April 1996 as Utilísima Satelital, but it was rebranded on 4 November 2013 as MundoFox; many of Utilísima's programs were moved to Fox Life Latin America. On 1 July 2017, the channel was again rebranded as Nat Geo Kids. Its Brazilian counterpart was launched on 4 October 2017.

In January 10, 2022, it was announced that Nat Geo Kids will shut down on March 31 along with the Latin American versions of Disney XD, Nat Geo Wild, Star Life & FXM.

It along with Nat Geo Wild will always be the only channels that broke the language barrier.

Why has it closed?

 * Lack of advertisements: Due to the merger of the Latin American and Brazilian feeds on June 1, 2021, they no longer broadcast ads since Brazilian ads cannot be broadcast in Latin American countries as well as Latin American ads cannot be broadcast in Brazil. It hurts the channel as they can't generate revenue without ads.
 * Lack of new original series: In 2021, only one new original series, Doggy World, has premiered. And the few that are broadcast are only repeated. On June 1, 2021, original series such as Opa Popa Dupa and Nat Geo Lab were removed, which harms the channel.
 * Similarity with Disney Junior: The channel is more of the same as Disney Junior, so it would not make sense to maintain two children's channels at the same time. The only difference with Disney Junior is that it is for children up to 11 years old and its programming has many Canadian series.
 * Few premieres of new episodes: Due to Disney's carelessness, the new episodes of Let's Go Luna! from November 2021 were never released.
 * Focus on Disney+: Although very few Nat Geo channels have been affected by this massive closure of Disney channels internationally, except for two, Nat Geo Wild and Nat Geo People, the latter merged with Nat Geo Asia. With the closure of Nat Geo Kids, it is already on the list of channels affected by Disney+. If you still want to see their programming on television, fortunately they transferred it to Disney Junior, for Brazilians, they will be able to see it with the Disney Channel morning block.

Probability of returning
Although, Nat Geo Kids was a good competitor to Discovery Kids in the region, bringing never-before-seen series to Latin America like Jamie's Got Tentacles. His downhill came in 2020 due to the removal of his star series, Jamie's Got Tentacles. In addition, the channel broke the language barrier on June 1, 2021 along with Nat Geo Wild.

Despite this, the channel will be remembered for it. As for its future return, it's likely that the channel will be relaunched when Disney admits its mistakes or Bob Chapek leaves the company and his successor CEO takes over.

This closure along with the closure of Nat Geo Kids Abu Dhabi, have finally caused the extinction of the Nat Geo Kids brand as a channel.