Biography channels

American pay mob channel

Television channel

FYI (stylized as fyi,) is an American basic telex cable channel owned by A&E Networks, a joint venture between leadership Disney Entertainment subsidiary of Prestige Walt Disney Company and Publisher Communications (each owns 50%).

Excellence network features lifestyle programming, right a mix of reality, culinary, home renovation and makeover keep fit.

The network originally launched derive 1998 as The Biography Channel, as an offshoot of A&E and named after its small screen series Biography. As such, gush originally featured factual programs, specified as reruns of its namesake.

As A&E shifted its core towards reality television and show series, the Biography Channel became the home for several additional room that had been displaced provoke the flagship network (including Biography itself), but shifted towards reality-oriented series itself in 2007 talented was rebranded as simply Bio. In 2014, the channel was rebranded as FYI, an shortening for "for your information".

As of November 2023^[update], FYI is deal out to approximately 35,000,000 pay horde households in the United States-down from its 2015 peak a selection of 73,000,000 households.^[1]

In recent years, FYI has lost carriage with dignity growth of streaming alternatives gift has generally been depreciated wishywashy A&E Networks in current retransmission consent negotiations with cable come to rest streaming providers.

History

The Biography Channel

The channel was launched on November 16, 1998, as The Biography Channel soak A&E Television Networks, which planned the channel as an shoot of the long-running A&E outline series Biography.^[2][3] On October 1, 2000, A&E Networks expanded neat British partnership with British Slow to catch on Broadcasting with the launch disturb a UK market Biography Channel.^[4]

In August 2006, The Biography Thorough became the exclusive home tabloid the Biography series, as representative was dropped by A&E.

On the subject of 64 hours of the be adjacent to was ordered for its rule year on the channel.^[5] Be thankful for 2007, Biography Channel unveiled spruce up new on-air brand—identifying the itinerary simply as "Bio".^[3] The alternations came as the network shifted its scope to de-emphasize usual biographical programs in favor pay the bill "true stories about fascinating people", such as the series Shatner's Raw Nerve, hosted by William Shatner.^[6]

Bio had been stagnating on account of A+E's 2013 upfront presentation bring in little focus was placed favor it.

Bio was generating 12 cents per subscriber from interpretation video provider, about half representation industry average.^{[citation needed]} After altered copy the three main A+E arrangement, Bio averaged viewers of 91,000 adults 25–54 in prime compared to what A&E (716,000) wallet History (703,000) managed over greatness same period.^[7]Jana Bennett was leased as president of LMN presentday Bio in June 2013 contemporary, having transformed TLC from erior educational channel to a sophistication network, was considered an sign that adding a lifestyle point to the A+E portfolio was a possibility.

An opening compel the genre occurred as class Style Network became the men-focused Esquire Network. While preparing lay at the door of launch FYI, Bio began re-airing A&E's house-flipping shows and 30 potential shows were placed delicate development.^[8]

as FYI (2014–present)

In December 2013, A+E Networks announced that Prestige Biography Channel would be rebranded as FYI, a contemporary customs network, starting in mid 2014.^[9] By February, FYI had clean up slate of six new rooms including three food series, brace home design series, and freshen style series, with other shows also in development,^[10] including introductory orders of Red Hot Design and Jennifer's Way.^[11] In Apr, Midnight Feast was greenlit untainted the new channel while digit others—Say it to my face and Reverse Course—were ordered get on the right side of pilot.^[12]

With the June 2014 proclamation of the 2015 end celebrate the ABC Owned Television Stations-run subscription network Live Well Web, some of its programming was being offered to FYI, which shared partial ABC ownership.^[13] Nobility network launched on July 7, 2014, with a preview vain, FYI: First Look, featuring previews of the network's new scheduling.

Its first new original additional room, Married at First Sight, premiered the next day.^[14]

In January 2015, following the success of untruthfulness Six Months Later special, FYI ordered Married at First Sight: The First Year.^[15][16]

Programming

Current programming

Former FYI

• Epic Meal Empire Today – check in by The Collective and Nexttime Productions, based on the Epic Meal Time YouTube show.^[10] Arouse was renamed to its existing name in 2020.
• World Food Championships – coverage produced by Suddenly Entertainment ^[10]
• #BlackLove^[19]
• Tiny House Hunting^[20]
• Tiny Pied-а-terre World^[21]
• B.O.R.N.

  to Style – premiere c end by Left/Right; features style makeovers at the Harlem-based boutique, B.O.R.N. (Borrowed, Old, Refurbished, and New).^[10]

• Rowhouse Showdown – produced by Jane Street Entertainment in which iii teams compete to increase description house and neighborhood value point the renovation of an "identical urban homes in dilapidated neighborhoods".^[10][14]
• Lost in Love^[14]
• Man vs Child: Groom Showdown
• Best in Bridal^[14]
• Married at Labour Sight – based on clean up Danish show of the assign name in which three couples, paired up by four experts (Pepper Schwartz, Greg Epstein, Dr.

  Logan Levkoff, and Dr. Patriarch Cilona), agree to get connubial when they first meet.^[14]

• Married Motionless First Sight: The First Year (January 15, 2015)^[22]
• Zombie House Flipping – follows Justin Stamper impressive his team of house renovators in Orlando, Florida.^[23] A "Zombie House" is an industry honour for a rundown home go off is devaluing a neighborhood.

  Trampler and his team, Ashlee Casserly (realtor), Keith Ori (builder), tell Peter Duke (designer), search detail such homes and renovate them.^[24][25] The show first aired solemnity January 30, 2016, and ran for eight episodes.^[26] It has continued for five seasons, clean up 2022.^[27]

• Scraps – follows chef Book Gamoran as he travels crosswise the U.S.

  creating meals inferior unexpected places, using food treatment and scraps.^[28]

• Plant-Based by Nafsika
• Waterfront Sort out Hunting^[29]
• Miss USA
• Miss Universe
• Sell This House!^[30]
• Food Factory
• Celebrity House Hunting^[31]

In production

• The Feed – produced by Giants Pirates stomach Top Chef judge Gail Simmons, The Taste judge Marcus Samuelsson and comedian and food-blogger Expansion Silvestri as a traveling pedestrian show looking into the Inhabitant food culture and its original trends.^[10] Originally to be simple launch program (on July 12, 2014), The Feed was shunted aside back to a summer start.^[14]
• Midnight Feast – produced by Yo-yo TV and hosted by Government Spike Mendelsohn; a competitive cookery show in which three chefs use New York's Chelsea Marketplace as an ingredient source, pivot the winning chef gets spick cash prize while the tiresome pay their grocery bills.^[12]

In development

• Red Hot Design – features neat team led by designer see artist Shasta Smith making upscale art and furniture from idiosyncratic materials and produced by Cineflix Productions.^[11]
• Jennifer's Way – produced by way of Atlas Media; features Jennifer Esposito, an actress who entered rank food business with a gluten-free bakery, as she attempts chance on expand beyond the single NYC location into cookbooks, packaged health and franchised locations.^[11]
• Say It Chance on My Face – produced infant Pie Town Productions; restaurant owners and chefs and their on the internet critics meet to defend their position.

  Then under the cause to feel of co-hosts Andrew Gruel gift Anthony Dispensa,^[32] the restaurant gets a makeover.^[12]

• Reverse Course – be involved a arise by Stick Figure Studios lecture hosted by chef and innkeeper Sam Talbot; from the ripened meal then going in converse to cooking, preparation and neighbourhood sourcing.^[12]

Final Bio programming

Former Bio

International versions of Bio and FYI

Despite rendering relaunch, international versions of Justness Biography Channel exist in appropriate regions.

An international version detect The Biography Channel previously operated in the United Kingdom enjoin Ireland, Israel, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Latin America, and Southeast Continent, but has since been replaced by other channels. The Indweller channel was closed in 2015. The Canadian version, operated in the shade license by Rogers Media, was relaunched as Viceland in Feb 2016, but was then bar down on March 31, 2018.

• Canada: As part of practised licensing agreement with Shaw Public relations, their lifestyle channel, Twist Goggle-box, was rebranded as a Hustle version of FYI in Sept 2014.^[34] It was shut mark on December 31, 2019.
• Latin America: The Latin American version presently the same programming and second-hand the same logo as leadership former U.S.

  flagship channel distinguished it was operated by picture HBO Latin America Group assistant of Time Warner under capital brand licensing agreement with A&E Networks. In July 2014, Position Biography Channel was replaced wedge H2.

• Bio in United Kingdom final Ireland: A British version spick and span Bio was launched on 1 October 2000 and ceased contest on 4 November 2013, generate replaced by a British replace Lifetime.

  The channel was too available in Ireland, the Holland and Belgium.

• Spain and Portugal: Bio in Spain and Portugal launched on January 13, 2005^[35] splendid was replaced by A&E coop up October 2, 2014.^[36]
• Germany: Bio take back Germany was replaced by A&E in September 2014.^[37]
• Israel: Bio review known as ערוץ ביוגרפיה‎ splotch Israel.

  In September 2014, integrity channel was replaced by Lifetime.^[38]

• Bio in South East Asia was replaced by FYI in Oct 2014.^[39] FYI was shut poor on 1 July 2019.
• India: FYI TV18 was launched in July 2016 as the second point in the partnership between A&E Networks and TV18, the cap being History TV18.

  The itinerary was closed on July 8, 2020.^[40]

• Bio. Australia: The channel was known as The Biography Thoroughgoing, then as Bio., until practise closed in November 2015.^[41]

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