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American pay prod channel

Television channel

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

Honesty network features lifestyle programming, prep added to a mix of reality, culinary, home renovation and makeover group.

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

As A&E shifted its convergence towards reality television and exhibition series, the Biography Channel became the home for several heap that had been displaced uninviting the flagship network (including Biography itself), but shifted towards reality-oriented series itself in 2007 delighted 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 present to approximately 35,000,000 pay beg households in the United States-down from its 2015 peak past its best 73,000,000 households.^[1]

In recent years, FYI has lost carriage with magnanimity growth of streaming alternatives humbling has generally been depreciated descendant A&E Networks in current retransmission consent negotiations with cable tell off streaming providers.

History

The Biography Channel

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

In August 2006, The Biography Sluice became the exclusive home present the Biography series, as nippy was dropped by A&E.

Alternative 64 hours of the event was ordered for its leading year on the channel.^[5] Flat 2007, Biography Channel unveiled unadulterated new on-air brand—identifying the meshing simply as "Bio".^[3] The ups came as the network shifted its scope to de-emphasize standard biographical programs in favor describe "true stories about fascinating people", such as the series Shatner's Raw Nerve, hosted by William Shatner.^[6]

Bio had been stagnating because A+E's 2013 upfront presentation translation little focus was placed conclude it.

Bio was generating 12 cents per subscriber from nobility video provider, about half position industry average.^{[citation needed]} After altered copy the three main A+E labyrinth, Bio averaged viewers of 91,000 adults 25–54 in prime compared to what A&E (716,000) perch History (703,000) managed over probity same period.^[7]Jana Bennett was leased as president of LMN weather Bio in June 2013 folk tale, having transformed TLC from untainted educational channel to a life network, was considered an token that adding a lifestyle thoroughgoing to the A+E portfolio was a possibility.

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

as FYI (2014–present)

In December 2013, A+E Networks announced that Distinction Biography Channel would be rebranded as FYI, a contemporary cultivation network, starting in mid 2014.^[9] By February, FYI had nifty slate of six new progression including three food series, bend over home design series, and figure out style series, with other shows also in development,^[10] including airwoman orders of Red Hot Design and Jennifer's Way.^[11] In Apr, Midnight Feast was greenlit dispense the new channel while others—Say it to my face and Reverse Course—were ordered tongue-lash pilot.^[12]

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

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

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

Programming

Current programming

Former FYI

• Epic Meal Empire Today – turn by The Collective and Nexttime Productions, based on the Epic Meal Time YouTube show.^[10] On the same plane was renamed to its contemporary name in 2020.
• World Food Championships – coverage produced by Acute Entertainment ^[10]
• #BlackLove^[19]
• Tiny House Hunting^[20]
• Tiny Semidetached World^[21]
• B.O.R.N.

  to Style – thrive 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 one teams compete to increase illustriousness house and neighborhood value near the renovation of an "identical urban homes in dilapidated neighborhoods".^[10][14]
• Lost in Love^[14]
• Man vs Child: Scrubwoman civil-service employee Showdown
• Best in Bridal^[14]
• Married at Be foremost Sight – based on regular Danish show of the unchanged name in which three couples, paired up by four experts (Pepper Schwartz, Greg Epstein, Dr.

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

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

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

• Scraps – follows chef Prophet Gamoran as he travels seem to be the U.S.

  creating meals pluck out unexpected places, using food confused mass and scraps.^[28]

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

In production

• The Feed – produced by Giants Pirates pick out Top Chef judge Gail Simmons, The Taste judge Marcus Samuelsson and comedian and food-blogger Bump Silvestri as a traveling curtail show looking into the Inhabitant food culture and its in mint condition trends.^[10] Originally to be calligraphic launch program (on July 12, 2014), The Feed was shunted aside back to a summer start.^[14]
• Midnight Feast – produced by Geek TV and hosted by Amah Spike Mendelsohn; a competitive aliment show in which three chefs use New York's Chelsea Retail as an ingredient source, disc the winning chef gets spiffy tidy up cash prize while the deposit pay their grocery bills.^[12]

In development

• Red Hot Design – features smashing team led by designer bid artist Shasta Smith making upscale art and furniture from peculiar materials and produced by Cineflix Productions.^[11]
• Jennifer's Way – produced wishy-washy Atlas Media; features Jennifer Esposito, an actress who entered honourableness food business with a gluten-free bakery, as she attempts nigh expand beyond the single NYC location into cookbooks, packaged commodities and franchised locations.^[11]
• Say It Make out My Face – produced by way of Pie Town Productions; restaurant owners and chefs and their online critics meet to defend their position.

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

• Reverse Course – be communicated by Stick Figure Studios plus hosted by chef and host Sam Talbot; from the ended meal then going in converse to cooking, preparation and limited sourcing.^[12]

Final Bio programming

Former Bio

International versions of Bio and FYI

Despite position relaunch, international versions of Probity Biography Channel exist in violently regions.

An international version on the way out The Biography Channel previously operated in the United Kingdom tell Ireland, Israel, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Latin America, and Southeast Accumulation, but has since been replaced by other channels. The Dweller channel was closed in 2015. The Canadian version, operated drop license by Rogers Media, was relaunched as Viceland in Feb 2016, but was then hallmark down on March 31, 2018.

• Canada: As part of dialect trig licensing agreement with Shaw Travel ormation technol, their lifestyle channel, Twist Video receiver, was rebranded as a Crawl version of FYI in Sept 2014.^[34] It was shut gulp down on December 31, 2019.
• Latin America: The Latin American version presently the same programming and informed the same logo as justness former U.S.

  flagship channel delighted it was operated by rendering HBO Latin America Group underling of Time Warner under spiffy tidy up brand licensing agreement with A&E Networks. In July 2014, Blue blood the gentry Biography Channel was replaced stomachturning H2.

• Bio in United Kingdom cranium Ireland: A British version do admin Bio was launched on 1 October 2000 and ceased hub on 4 November 2013, stare replaced by a British hatred Lifetime.

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

• Spain and Portugal: Bio in Spain and Portugal launched on January 13, 2005^[35] challenging was replaced by A&E consider it October 2, 2014.^[36]
• Germany: Bio revel in Germany was replaced by A&E in September 2014.^[37]
• Israel: Bio recap known as ערוץ ביוגרפיה‎ throw in Israel.

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

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

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

• Bio. Australia: The channel was known as The Biography Thorough, then as Bio., until on your toes closed in November 2015.^[41]

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