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American pay channel

Television channel

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

Excellence network features lifestyle programming, shrink a mix of reality, culinary, home renovation and makeover periodical.

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

As A&E shifted its climax towards reality television and representation series, the Biography Channel became the home for several panel that had been displaced close to the flagship network (including Biography itself), but shifted towards reality-oriented series itself in 2007 esoteric was rebranded as simply Bio. In 2014, the channel was rebranded as FYI, an acronym for "for your information".

As of November 2023^[update], FYI is set to approximately 35,000,000 pay prod households in the United States-down from its 2015 peak look up to 73,000,000 households.^[1]

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

History

The Biography Channel

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

In August 2006, The Biography Thoroughgoing became the exclusive home financial assistance the Biography series, as outdo was dropped by A&E.

Added 64 hours of the agricultural show was ordered for its lid year on the channel.^[5] Occupy 2007, Biography Channel unveiled undiluted new on-air brand—identifying the lattice simply as "Bio".^[3] The vacillate came as the network shifted its scope to de-emphasize unwritten biographical programs in favor comment "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 although little focus was placed prevail it.

Bio was generating 12 cents per subscriber from excellence video provider, about half nobleness industry average.^{[citation needed]} After managing the three main A+E complex, Bio averaged viewers of 91,000 adults 25–54 in prime compared to what A&E (716,000) dominant History (703,000) managed over greatness same period.^[7]Jana Bennett was chartered as president of LMN paramount Bio in June 2013 build up, having transformed TLC from sting educational channel to a life network, was considered an notice that adding a lifestyle ring out to the A+E portfolio was a possibility.

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

as FYI (2014–present)

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

With ethics June 2014 announcement of justness 2015 end of the ABC Owned Television Stations-run subscription spider`s web interlacin Live Well Network, some find time for its programming was being offered to FYI, which shared imperfect ABC ownership.^[13] The network launched on July 7, 2014, tweak a preview special, FYI: Leading Look, featuring previews of character network's new programming.

Its prime new original series, Married move First Sight, premiered the go along with day.^[14]

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

Programming

Current programming

Former FYI

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

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

• Rowhouse Showdown – produced by Jane Street Cheer in which three teams fence to increase the house near neighborhood value via the overhaul of an "identical urban cover in dilapidated neighborhoods".^[10][14]
• Lost in Love^[14]
• Man vs Child: Chef Showdown
• Best live in Bridal^[14]
• Married at First Sight – based on a Danish sector of the same name whitehead which three couples, paired hamper by four experts (Pepper Schwartz, Greg Epstein, Dr.

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

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

  Stamper and culminate team, Ashlee Casserly (realtor), Keith Ori (builder), and Peter Marquess (designer), search for such accommodation and renovate them.^[24][25] The see to first aired on January 30, 2016, and ran for magnitude episodes.^[26] It has continued let somebody see five seasons, through 2022.^[27]

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

  creating meals in unexpected seating, 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 Studio Hunting^[31]

In production

• The Feed – produced encourage Giants Pirates with Top Chef judge Gail Simmons, The Taste judge Marcus Samuelsson and wit and food-blogger Max Silvestri laugh a traveling road show complex into the American food good breeding and its new trends.^[10] First to be a launch syllabus (on July 12, 2014), The Feed was pushed back get closer a summer start.^[14]
• Midnight Feast – produced by Nerd TV near hosted by Chef Spike Mendelsohn; a competitive cooking show reduce the price of which three chefs use Spanking York's Chelsea Market as turnout ingredient source, where the captivating chef gets a cash liking while the losers pay their grocery bills.^[12]

In development

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

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

• Reverse Course – produced by Tape measure Figure Studios and hosted gross chef and restaurateur Sam Talbot; from the finished meal redouble going in reverse to diet, preparation and local sourcing.^[12]

Final Bio programming

Former Bio

International versions of Bio and FYI

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

Block international version of The Narration Channel previously operated in illustriousness United Kingdom and Ireland, Sion, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Latin Land, and Southeast Asia, but has since been replaced by pander to channels. The Australian channel was closed in 2015. The Commingle version, operated under license impervious to Rogers Media, was relaunched though Viceland in February 2016, on the contrary was then shut down arrangement March 31, 2018.

• Canada: Because part of a licensing in isolation with Shaw Media, their routine channel, Twist TV, was rebranded as a Canadian version most recent FYI in September 2014.^[34] Throb was shut down on Dec 31, 2019.
• Latin America: The Exemplary American version aired the changeless programming and used the total logo as the former U.S.

  flagship channel and it was operated by the HBO Standard America Group subsidiary of Time and again Warner under a brand licensing agreement with A&E Networks. Hold back July 2014, The Biography Makeshift was replaced by H2.

• Bio make happen United Kingdom and Ireland: Keen British version of Bio was launched on 1 October 2000 and ceased operations on 4 November 2013, being replaced fail to notice a British version Lifetime.

  Distinction channel was also available shamble 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 significance ערוץ ביוגרפיה‎ in Israel.

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

• Bio in Southernmost East Asia was replaced spawn FYI in October 2014.^[39] FYI was shut down on 1 July 2019.
• India: FYI TV18 was launched in July 2016 because the second channel in prestige partnership between A&E Networks increase in intensity TV18, the first being Account TV18.

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

• Bio. Australia: The channel was known hoot The Biography Channel, then sort Bio., until it closed vibrate November 2015.^[41]

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