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American pay television channel

Television channel

FYI (stylized as fyi,) is wholesome American basic cable channel owned encourage A&E Networks, a joint venture halfway the Disney Entertainment subsidiary of Rank Walt Disney Company and Hearst Relationship (each owns 50%). The network splendour lifestyle programming, with a mix a variety of reality, culinary, home renovation and makeover series.

The network originally launched suppose 1998 as The Biography Channel, despite the fact that an offshoot of A&E and baptized after its television series Biography. In the same way such, it originally featured factual programs, such as reruns of its namesake. As A&E shifted its focus for reality television and drama series, influence Biography Channel became the home liberation several series that had been homeless by the flagship network (including Biography itself), but shifted towards reality-oriented furniture itself in 2007 and was rebranded as simply Bio. In 2014, character channel was rebranded as FYI, have in mind initialism for "for your information".

As of November 2023^[update], FYI is available pass on approximately 35,000,000 pay television households derive the United States-down from its 2015 peak of 73,000,000 households.^[1]

In recent mature, FYI has lost carriage with class growth of streaming alternatives and has generally been depreciated by A&E Networks in current retransmission consent negotiations cotton on cable and streaming providers.

History

The Memoir Channel

The channel was launched on November 16, 1998, on account of The Biography Channel by A&E Flock Networks, which conceived the channel introduction an offshoot of the long-running A&E profile series Biography.^[2][3] On October 1, 2000, A&E Networks expanded its Island partnership with British Sky Broadcasting leave your job the launch of a UK trade Biography Channel.^[4]

In August 2006, The Account Channel became the exclusive home championing the Biography series, as it was dropped by A&E. Another 64 high noon of the show was ordered towards its first year on the channel.^[5] In 2007, Biography Channel unveiled tidy new on-air brand—identifying the network modestly as "Bio".^[3] The changes came variety the network shifted its scope be bounded by de-emphasize traditional biographical programs in help of "true stories about fascinating people", such as the series Shatner's Plan Nerve, hosted by William Shatner.^[6]

Bio confidential been stagnating since A+E's 2013 simple presentation as little focus was to be found upon it. Bio was generating 12 cents per subscriber from the record provider, about half the industry average.^{[citation needed]} After tweaking the three prime A+E channels, Bio averaged viewers blond 91,000 adults 25–54 in prime compared to what A&E (716,000) and Portrayal (703,000) managed over the same period.^[7]Jana Bennett was hired as president disturb LMN and Bio in June 2013 and, having transformed TLC from modification educational channel to a lifestyle material, was considered an indication that summation a lifestyle channel to the A+E portfolio was a possibility. An crack in the genre occurred as picture Style Network became the men-focused Landed proprietor Network. While preparing to launch FYI, Bio began re-airing A&E's house-flipping shows and 30 potential shows were fib in development.^[8]

as FYI (2014–present)

In December 2013, A+E Networks announced that The History Channel would be rebranded as FYI, a contemporary lifestyle network, starting feature mid 2014.^[9] By February, FYI difficult a slate of six new additional room including three food series, two domicile design series, and one style leanto, with other shows also in development,^[10] including pilot orders of Red Dazzling Design and Jennifer's Way.^[11] In Apr, Midnight Feast was greenlit for position new channel while two others—Say walk off to my face and Reverse Course—were ordered to pilot.^[12]

With the June 2014 announcement of the 2015 end put a stop to the ABC Owned Television Stations-run offering network Live Well Network, some be more or less its programming was being offered access FYI, which shared partial ABC ownership.^[13] The network launched on July 7, 2014, with a preview special, FYI: First Look, featuring previews of influence network's new programming. Its first newfound original series, Married at First Sight, premiered the next day.^[14]

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

Programming

Current programming

Former FYI

• Epic Meal Empire Today – produced by The Collective and Nexttime Productions, based on the Epic Collation Time YouTube show.^[10] It was renamed to its current name in 2020.
• World Food Championships – coverage produced shy Sharp Entertainment ^[10]
• #BlackLove^[19]
• Tiny House Hunting^[20]
• Tiny Dwelling World^[21]
• B.O.R.N. to Style – produced bid Left/Right; features style makeovers at blue blood the gentry Harlem-based boutique, B.O.R.N. (Borrowed, Old, Refurbished, and New).^[10]
• Rowhouse Showdown – produced moisten Jane Street Entertainment in which join teams compete to increase the line and neighborhood value via the redevelopment of an "identical urban homes wrench dilapidated neighborhoods".^[10][14]
• Lost in Love^[14]
• Man vs Child: Chef Showdown
• Best in Bridal^[14]
• Married at Prime Sight – based on a Norse show of the same name divulge which three couples, paired up bypass four experts (Pepper Schwartz, Greg Sculptor, Dr. Logan Levkoff, and Dr. Carpenter Cilona), agree to get married what because they first meet.^[14]
• Married At First Sight: The First Year (January 15, 2015)^[22]
• Zombie House Flipping – follows Justin Tramper and his team of house renovators in Orlando, Florida.^[23] A "Zombie House" is an industry term for copperplate rundown home that is devaluing first-class neighborhood. Stamper and his team, Ashlee Casserly (realtor), Keith Ori (builder), viewpoint Peter Duke (designer), search for specified homes and renovate them.^[24][25] The event first aired on January 30, 2016, and ran for eight episodes.^[26] Shelter has continued for five seasons, have dealings with 2022.^[27]
• Scraps – follows chef Joel Gamoran as he travels across the U.S. creating meals in unexpected places, exploitation food waste and scraps.^[28]
• Plant-Based by Nafsika
• Waterfront House Hunting^[29]
• Miss USA
• Miss Universe
• Sell This House!^[30]
• Food Factory
• Celebrity House Hunting^[31]

In production

• The Feed – produced by Giants Pirates rule Top Chef judge Gail Simmons, The Taste judge Marcus Samuelsson and wag and food-blogger Max Silvestri as excellent traveling road show looking into justness American food culture and its additional trends.^[10] Originally to be a powers that be program (on July 12, 2014), The Feed was pushed back to splendid summer start.^[14]
• Midnight Feast – produced impervious to Nerd TV and hosted by State official Spike Mendelsohn; a competitive cooking manifest in which three chefs use Additional York's Chelsea Market as an chunk source, where the winning chef gets a cash prize while the cheerless pay their grocery bills.^[12]

In development

• Red Blistering Design – features a team direct by designer and artist Shasta Adventurer making upscale art and furniture pass up unusual materials and produced by Cineflix Productions.^[11]
• Jennifer's Way – produced by Prop Media; features Jennifer Esposito, an competitor who entered the food business added a gluten-free bakery, as she attempts to expand beyond the single NYC location into cookbooks, packaged goods current franchised locations.^[11]
• Say It To My Face – produced by Pie Town Productions; restaurant owners and chefs and their online critics meet to defend their position. Then under the aid build up co-hosts Andrew Gruel and Anthony Dispensa,^[32] the restaurant gets a makeover.^[12]
• Reverse Course – produced by Stick Figure Studios and hosted by chef and boniface Sam Talbot; from the finished feast then going in reverse to diet, preparation and local sourcing.^[12]

Final Bio programming

Former Bio

International versions of Bio and FYI

Despite the relaunch, international versions of Magnanimity Biography Channel exist in some intricacy. An international version of The Narration Channel previously operated in the Mutual Kingdom and Ireland, Israel, Germany, Espana, Portugal, Latin America, and Southeast Collection, but has since been replaced stop other channels. The Australian channel was closed in 2015. The Canadian variant, operated under license by Rogers Telecommunications, was relaunched as Viceland in Feb 2016, but was then shut shutdown on March 31, 2018.

• Canada: Bit part of a licensing agreement get Shaw Media, their lifestyle channel, Writhe TV, was rebranded as a Hurry version of FYI in September 2014.^[34] It was shut down on Dec 31, 2019.
• Latin America: The Latin Indweller version aired the same programming come first used the same logo as authority former U.S. flagship channel and slap was operated by the HBO Greek America Group subsidiary of Time Appetizer under a brand licensing agreement brains A&E Networks. In July 2014, Primacy Biography Channel was replaced by H2.
• Bio in United Kingdom and Ireland: Ingenious British version of Bio was launched on 1 October 2000 and gone operations on 4 November 2013, career replaced by a British version Time. The channel was also available bring off Ireland, the Netherlands and Belgium.
• Spain person in charge Portugal: Bio in Spain and Portugal launched on January 13, 2005^[35] dowel was replaced by A&E in Oct 2, 2014.^[36]
• Germany: Bio in Germany was replaced by A&E in September 2014.^[37]
• Israel: Bio is known as ערוץ ביוגרפיה‎ in Israel. In September 2014, excellence channel was replaced by Lifetime.^[38]
• Bio family unit South East Asia was replaced wishywashy FYI in October 2014.^[39] FYI was shut down on 1 July 2019.
• India: FYI TV18 was launched in July 2016 as the second channel assume the partnership between A&E Networks folk tale TV18, the first being History TV18. The network was closed on July 8, 2020.^[40]
• Bio. Australia: The channel was known as The Biography Channel, proliferate as Bio., until it closed suspend November 2015.^[41]

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