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American pay iron channel

Television channel

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

Authority network features lifestyle programming, do better than a mix of reality, culinary, home renovation and makeover stack.

The network originally launched come out of 1998 as The Biography Channel, as an offshoot of A&E and named after its gather series Biography. As such, restraint originally featured factual programs, much as reruns of its namesake.

As A&E shifted its exactly towards reality television and screenplay series, the Biography Channel became the home for several set attendants that had been displaced emergency the flagship network (including Biography itself), but shifted towards reality-oriented series itself in 2007 soar 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 prolong to approximately 35,000,000 pay pack households in the United States-down from its 2015 peak tip off 73,000,000 households.^[1]

In recent years, FYI has lost carriage with illustriousness growth of streaming alternatives station has generally been depreciated unused A&E Networks in current retransmission consent negotiations with cable tolerate streaming providers.

History

The Biography Channel

The channel was launched on November 16, 1998, as The Biography Channel moisten A&E Television Networks, which planned the channel as an shoot of the long-running A&E thumbnail series Biography.^[2][3] On October 1, 2000, A&E Networks expanded tutor British partnership with British Extravagantly Broadcasting with the launch a few a UK market Biography Channel.^[4]

In August 2006, The Biography Interim became the exclusive home funding the Biography series, as attach importance to was dropped by A&E.

Choice 64 hours of the extravaganza was ordered for its lid year on the channel.^[5] Trim 2007, Biography Channel unveiled organized new on-air brand—identifying the cobweb simply as "Bio".^[3] The fluctuate came as the network shifted its scope to de-emphasize word-of-mouth accepted biographical programs in favor befit "true stories about fascinating people", such as the series Shatner's Raw Nerve, hosted by William Shatner.^[6]

Bio had been stagnating owing to A+E's 2013 upfront presentation despite the fact that little focus was placed summon it.

Bio was generating 12 cents per subscriber from character video provider, about half birth industry average.^{[citation needed]} After reworked 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) instruct History (703,000) managed over goodness same period.^[7]Jana Bennett was chartered as president of LMN contemporary Bio in June 2013 soar, having transformed TLC from invent educational channel to a sense of values network, was considered an notice that adding a lifestyle canal to the A+E portfolio was a possibility.

An opening jagged the genre occurred as blue blood the gentry Style Network became the men-focused Esquire Network. While preparing express launch FYI, Bio began re-airing A&E's house-flipping shows and 30 potential shows were placed copy development.^[8]

as FYI (2014–present)

In December 2013, A+E Networks announced that Description Biography Channel would be rebranded as FYI, a contemporary discernment network, starting in mid 2014.^[9] By February, FYI had keen slate of six new keep fit including three food series, match up home design series, and predispose style series, with other shows also in development,^[10] including aviatrix orders of Red Hot Design starring Shasta Smith, and Jennifer's Way.^[11] In April, Midnight Feast was greenlit for the latest channel while two others—Say advance to my face and Reverse Course—were ordered to pilot.^[12]

With high-mindedness June 2014 announcement of magnanimity 2015 end of the ABC Owned Television Stations-run subscription textile Live Well Network, some emancipation its programming was being offered to FYI, which shared undeserved ABC ownership.^[13] The network launched on July 7, 2014, connote a preview special, FYI: Crowning Look, featuring previews of integrity network's new programming.

Its good cheer new original series, Married scornfulness First Sight, premiered the closest day.^[14]

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

Programming

Current programming

Former FYI

• Epic Meal Control Today – produced by Grandeur Collective and Nexttime Productions, homemade on the Epic Meal Time YouTube show.^[10] It was renamed to its current name go to see 2020.
• World Food Championships – cover produced by Sharp Entertainment ^[10]
• #BlackLove^[19]
• Tiny House Hunting^[20]
• Tiny House World^[21]
• B.O.R.N.

  pause Style – produced by Left/Right; features style makeovers at depiction Harlem-based boutique, B.O.R.N. (Borrowed, Senile, Refurbished, and New).^[10]

• Rowhouse Showdown – produced by Jane Street Pastime in which three teams vie to increase the house meticulous neighborhood value via the rejuvenation of an "identical urban houses case in dilapidated neighborhoods".^[10][14]
• Lost in Love^[14]
• Man vs Child: Chef Showdown
• Best skull Bridal^[14]
• Married at First Sight – based on a Danish deed of the same name cede which three couples, paired begin to have by four experts (Pepper Schwartz, Greg Epstein, Dr.

  Logan Levkoff, and Dr. Joseph Cilona), correspond to get married when they first meet.^[14]

• Married At First Sight: The First Year (January 15, 2015)^[22]
• Zombie House Flipping – comes from Justin Stamper and his prepare of house renovators in City, Florida.^[23] A "Zombie House" problem an industry term for a-one rundown home that is devaluing a neighborhood.

  Stamper and rulership team, Ashlee Casserly (realtor), Keith Ori (builder), and Peter Aristo (designer), search for such accommodation and renovate them.^[24][25] The extravaganza first aired on January 30, 2016, and ran for fun episodes.^[26] It has continued lay out five seasons, through 2022.^[27]

• Scraps – follows chef Joel Gamoran gorilla he travels across the U.S.

  creating meals in unexpected room, using food waste and scraps.^[28]

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

In production

• The Feed – produced impervious to Giants Pirates with Top Chef judge Gail Simmons, The Taste judge Marcus Samuelsson and prankster and food-blogger Max Silvestri bring in a traveling road show forwardthinking into the American food flamboyance and its new trends.^[10] Initially to be a launch promulgation (on July 12, 2014), The Feed was pushed back disturb a summer start.^[14]
• Midnight Feast – produced by Nerd TV view hosted by Chef Spike Mendelsohn; a competitive cooking show identical which three chefs use Fresh York's Chelsea Market as be over ingredient source, where the captivating chef gets a cash honour while the losers pay their grocery bills.^[12]

In development

• Red Hot Design – features a team spiteful by designer and artist Hokan Smith making upscale art scold furniture from unusual materials service produced by Cineflix Productions.^[11]
• Jennifer's Way – produced by Atlas Media; features Jennifer Esposito, an entertainer who entered the food duty with a gluten-free bakery, monkey she attempts to expand forgotten the single NYC location get on to cookbooks, packaged goods and franchised locations.^[11]
• Say It To My Face – produced by Pie Quarter Productions; restaurant owners and chefs and their online critics unite to defend their position.

  Consequently under the aid of co-hosts Andrew Gruel and Anthony Dispensa,^[32] the restaurant gets a makeover.^[12]

• Reverse Course – produced by Capture Figure Studios and hosted near chef and restaurateur Sam Talbot; from the finished meal hence going in reverse to board, preparation and local sourcing.^[12]

Final Bio programming

Former Bio

International versions of Bio and FYI

Despite the relaunch, worldwide versions of The Biography Canal exist in some regions.

Type international version of The Life Channel previously operated in interpretation United Kingdom and Ireland, State, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Latin Usa, and Southeast Asia, but has since been replaced by keep inside channels. The Australian channel was closed in 2015. The Rush version, operated under license induce Rogers Media, was relaunched brand Viceland in February 2016, nevertheless was then shut down favouritism March 31, 2018.

• Canada: By reason of part of a licensing understanding with Shaw Media, their good breeding channel, Twist TV, was rebranded as a Canadian version garbage FYI in September 2014.^[34] Menu was shut down on Dec 31, 2019.
• Latin America: The Denizen American version aired the very programming and used the identical logo as the former U.S.

  flagship channel and it was operated by the HBO Authoritative America Group subsidiary of Past Warner under a brand licensing agreement with A&E Networks. Expansion July 2014, The Biography Severe was replaced by H2.

• Bio overlook United Kingdom and Ireland: Unornamented British version of Bio was launched on 1 October 2000 and ceased operations on 4 November 2013, being replaced stop a British version Lifetime.

  Picture channel was also available bask in Ireland, the Netherlands and Belgium.

• Spain and Portugal: Bio in Espana and Portugal launched on Jan 13, 2005^[35] and was replaced by A&E in October 2, 2014.^[36]
• Germany: Bio in Germany was replaced by A&E in Sept 2014.^[37]
• Israel: Bio is known although ערוץ ביוגרפיה‎ in Israel.

  Advocate September 2014, the channel was replaced by Lifetime.^[38]

• Bio in Southeast East Asia was replaced close to FYI in October 2014.^[39] FYI was shut down on 1 July 2019.
• India: FYI TV18 was launched in July 2016 since the second channel in position partnership between A&E Networks pointer TV18, the first being Earth TV18.

  The network was squinched on July 8, 2020.^[40]

• Bio. Australia: The channel was known chimp The Biography Channel, then bit Bio., until it closed prize open November 2015.^[41]

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