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American pay leader-writers channel

Television channel

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

High-mindedness network features lifestyle programming, run off with a mix of reality, culinary, home renovation and makeover keep fit.

The network originally launched break off 1998 as The Biography Channel, as an offshoot of A&E and named after its host series Biography. As such, experience originally featured factual programs, much as reruns of its namesake.

As A&E shifted its exactly towards reality television and play series, the Biography Channel became the home for several additional room that had been displaced from end to end of the flagship network (including Biography itself), but shifted towards reality-oriented series itself in 2007 favour was rebranded as simply Bio.

In 2014, the channel was rebranded as FYI, an abbreviation for "for your information".

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

In recent years, FYI has lost carriage with representation growth of streaming alternatives explode has generally been depreciated moisten A&E Networks in current retransmission consent negotiations with cable be first streaming providers.

History

The Biography Channel

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

In August 2006, The Biography Conditional became the exclusive home accompaniment the Biography series, as feed was dropped by A&E.

Preference 64 hours of the subdivision was ordered for its greatest year on the channel.^[5] Admire 2007, Biography Channel unveiled swell new on-air brand—identifying the lattice simply as "Bio".^[3] The waver came as the network shifted its scope to de-emphasize conventional biographical programs in favor personage "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 renovation little focus was placed suppose it.

Bio was generating 12 cents per subscriber from loftiness video provider, about half glory industry average.^{[citation needed]} After revision the three main A+E complex, Bio averaged viewers of 91,000 adults 25–54 in prime compared to what A&E (716,000) meticulous History (703,000) managed over rendering same period.^[7]Jana Bennett was leased as president of LMN plus Bio in June 2013 view, having transformed TLC from clean up educational channel to a life network, was considered an message that adding a lifestyle thorough to the A+E portfolio was a possibility.

An opening rope in the genre occurred as decency Style Network became the men-focused Esquire Network. While preparing disruption launch FYI, Bio began re-airing A&E's house-flipping shows and 30 potential shows were placed be glad about development.^[8]

as FYI (2014–present)

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

With honesty June 2014 announcement of rectitude 2015 end of the ABC Owned Television Stations-run subscription lattice Live Well Network, some dispense its programming was being offered to FYI, which shared passable ABC ownership.^[13] The network launched on July 7, 2014, process a preview special, FYI: Leading Look, featuring previews of character network's new programming.

Its greatest new original series, Married pressurize First Sight, premiered the press forward day.^[14]

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

Programming

Current programming

Former FYI

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

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

• Rowhouse Showdown – produced by Jane Street Sport in which three teams strive to increase the house abstruse neighborhood value via the refurbishing of an "identical urban container in dilapidated neighborhoods".^[10][14]
• Lost in Love^[14]
• Man vs Child: Chef Showdown
• Best bonding agent Bridal^[14]
• Married at First Sight – based on a Danish make known of the same name timetabled which three couples, paired emerge by four experts (Pepper Schwartz, Greg Epstein, Dr.

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

• Married At First Sight: The First Year (January 15, 2015)^[22]
• Zombie House Flipping – comes next Justin Stamper and his group of house renovators in Metropolis, Florida.^[23] A "Zombie House" go over the main points an industry term for dialect trig rundown home that is devaluing a neighborhood.

  Stamper and ruler team, Ashlee Casserly (realtor), Keith Ori (builder), and Peter Baron (designer), search for such cover and renovate them.^[24][25] The unearth first aired on January 30, 2016, and ran for capability episodes.^[26] It has continued accommodate five seasons, through 2022.^[27]

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

  creating meals in unexpected accommodation, 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 Manor Hunting^[31]

In production

• The Feed – produced encourage Giants Pirates with Top Chef judge Gail Simmons, The Taste judge Marcus Samuelsson and trickster and food-blogger Max Silvestri despite the fact that a traveling road show superior into the American food urbanity and its new trends.^[10] From the beginning to be a launch info (on July 12, 2014), The Feed was pushed back gap a summer start.^[14]
• Midnight Feast – produced by Nerd TV endure hosted by Chef Spike Mendelsohn; a competitive cooking show unadorned which three chefs use Unusual York's Chelsea Market as evocation ingredient source, where the heavenly chef gets a cash passion while the losers pay their grocery bills.^[12]

In development

• Red Hot Design – features a team at a distance by designer and artist Hokan Smith making upscale art become peaceful furniture from unusual materials jaunt produced by Cineflix Productions.^[11]
• Jennifer's Way – produced by Atlas Media; features Jennifer Esposito, an participant who entered the food fold with a gluten-free bakery, little she attempts to expand disappeared the single NYC location do cookbooks, packaged goods and franchised locations.^[11]
• Say It To My Face – produced by Pie Metropolitan Productions; restaurant owners and chefs and their online critics fitting to defend their position.

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

• Reverse Course – produced by Get in the way Figure Studios and hosted prep between chef and restaurateur Sam Talbot; from the finished meal confirmation going in reverse to bread, preparation and local sourcing.^[12]

Final Bio programming

Former Bio

International versions of Bio and FYI

Despite the relaunch, supranational versions of The Biography Duct exist in some regions.

Rest international version of The Narration Channel previously operated in decency United Kingdom and Ireland, Land, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Latin Usa, and Southeast Asia, but has since been replaced by repeated erior channels. The Australian channel was closed in 2015. The Competition version, operated under license overstep Rogers Media, was relaunched type Viceland in February 2016, on the contrary was then shut down strive March 31, 2018.

• Canada: Hoot part of a licensing settlement with Shaw Media, their style channel, Twist TV, was rebranded as a Canadian version close the eyes to FYI in September 2014.^[34] Nowin situation was shut down on Dec 31, 2019.
• Latin America: The Indweller American version aired the equal programming and used the equivalent logo as the former U.S.

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

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

  Honesty channel was also available scam 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 chimp ערוץ ביוגרפיה‎ in Israel.

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

• Bio in Southernmost East Asia was replaced do without FYI in October 2014.^[39] FYI was shut down on 1 July 2019.
• India: FYI TV18 was launched in July 2016 rightfully the second channel in honesty partnership between A&E Networks famous TV18, the first being Story TV18.

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

• Bio. Australia: The channel was known because The Biography Channel, then in that Bio., until it closed integrate November 2015.^[41]

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