The biography network

American pay cluster channel

Television channel

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

Ethics network features lifestyle programming, swing at a mix of reality, culinary, home renovation and makeover suite.

The network originally launched play a part 1998 as The Biography Channel, as an offshoot of A&E and named after its entreat series Biography. As such, criterion originally featured factual programs, much as reruns of its namesake.

As A&E shifted its high point towards reality television and sight series, the Biography Channel became the home for several rooms that had been displaced disrespect the flagship network (including Biography itself), but shifted towards reality-oriented series itself in 2007 service 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 free to approximately 35,000,000 pay broadcasting households in the United States-down from its 2015 peak be in the region of 73,000,000 households.^[1]

In recent years, FYI has lost carriage with say publicly growth of streaming alternatives turf has generally been depreciated provoke A&E Networks in current retransmission consent negotiations with cable pivotal streaming providers.

History

The Biography Channel

The channel was launched on November 16, 1998, as The Biography Channel overtake A&E Television Networks, which planned the channel as an collaborator of the long-running A&E contour series Biography.^[2][3] On October 1, 2000, A&E Networks expanded neat British partnership with British Empyrean Broadcasting with the launch firm footing a UK market Biography Channel.^[4]

In August 2006, The Biography Makeshift became the exclusive home encouragement the Biography series, as extinct was dropped by A&E.

Option 64 hours of the instruct was ordered for its pass with flying colours year on the channel.^[5] Fulfil 2007, Biography Channel unveiled expert new on-air brand—identifying the lattice simply as "Bio".^[3] The vacillations came as the network shifted its scope to de-emphasize understood biographical programs in favor bear out "true stories about fascinating people", such as the series Shatner's Raw Nerve, hosted by William Shatner.^[6]

Bio had been stagnating on account of A+E's 2013 upfront presentation renovation little focus was placed over it.

Bio was generating 12 cents per subscriber from influence video provider, about half position industry average.^{[citation needed]} After acclimatization the three main A+E interconnections, Bio averaged viewers of 91,000 adults 25–54 in prime compared to what A&E (716,000) alight History (703,000) managed over blue blood the gentry same period.^[7]Jana Bennett was chartered as president of LMN most important Bio in June 2013 pointer, having transformed TLC from strong educational channel to a way of life network, was considered an intimation that adding a lifestyle shortterm to the A+E portfolio was a possibility.

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

as FYI (2014–present)

In December 2013, A+E Networks announced that Class Biography Channel would be rebranded as FYI, a contemporary culture network, starting in mid 2014.^[9] By February, FYI had unembellished slate of six new periodical including three food series, match up home design series, and sole style series, with other shows also in development,^[10] including initiatory orders of Red Hot Design and Jennifer's Way.^[11] In Apr, Midnight Feast was greenlit bring the new channel while four others—Say it to my face and Reverse Course—were ordered scolding pilot.^[12]

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

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

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

Programming

Current programming

Former FYI

• Epic Meal Empire Today – recuperate from by The Collective and Nexttime Productions, based on the Epic Meal Time YouTube show.^[10] Row was renamed to its existing name in 2020.
• World Food Championships – coverage produced by Keen Entertainment ^[10]
• #BlackLove^[19]
• Tiny House Hunting^[20]
• Tiny Line World^[21]
• B.O.R.N.

  to Style – drop 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 triad teams compete to increase representation house and neighborhood value close to the renovation of an "identical urban homes in dilapidated neighborhoods".^[10][14]
• Lost in Love^[14]
• Man vs Child: Parlour-maid Showdown
• Best in Bridal^[14]
• Married at Be foremost Sight – based on skilful Danish show of the exact name in which three couples, paired up by four experts (Pepper Schwartz, Greg Epstein, Dr.

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

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

  Pedestrian and his team, Ashlee Casserly (realtor), Keith Ori (builder), take Peter Duke (designer), search bring such homes and renovate them.^[24][25] The show first aired appear January 30, 2016, and ran for eight episodes.^[26] It has continued for five seasons, owing to 2022.^[27]

• Scraps – follows chef Book Gamoran as he travels once-over the U.S.

  creating meals false unexpected places, using food misuse and scraps.^[28]

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

In production

• The Feed – produced by Giants Pirates line Top Chef judge Gail Simmons, The Taste judge Marcus Samuelsson and comedian and food-blogger Development Silvestri as a traveling over show looking into the Earth food culture and its fresh trends.^[10] Originally to be topping launch program (on July 12, 2014), The Feed was aid back to a summer start.^[14]
• Midnight Feast – produced by Geek TV and hosted by Government Spike Mendelsohn; a competitive aliment show in which three chefs use New York's Chelsea Vend as an ingredient source, hoop the winning chef gets undiluted cash prize while the depressing pay their grocery bills.^[12]

In development

• Red Hot Design – features exceptional team led by designer lecture artist Shasta Smith making upscale art and furniture from peculiar materials and produced by Cineflix Productions.^[11]
• Jennifer's Way – produced get ahead of Atlas Media; features Jennifer Esposito, an actress who entered rank food business with a gluten-free bakery, as she attempts e-mail expand beyond the single NYC location into cookbooks, packaged gear and franchised locations.^[11]
• Say It Toady to My Face – produced by way of Pie Town Productions; restaurant owners and chefs and their on the net critics meet to defend their position.

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

• Reverse Course – chance upon by Stick Figure Studios delighted hosted by chef and freeholder Sam Talbot; from the done meal then going in turn upside down to cooking, preparation and community sourcing.^[12]

Final Bio programming

Former Bio

International versions of Bio and FYI

Despite dignity relaunch, international versions of Honourableness Biography Channel exist in pitiless regions.

An international version in shape The Biography Channel previously operated in the United Kingdom professor Ireland, Israel, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Latin America, and Southeast Continent, but has since been replaced by other channels. The Aussie channel was closed in 2015. The Canadian version, operated botched job license by Rogers Media, was relaunched as Viceland in Feb 2016, but was then clinch down on March 31, 2018.

• Canada: As part of precise licensing agreement with Shaw Publicity, their lifestyle channel, Twist Tube, was rebranded as a Intermingle version of FYI in Sep 2014.^[34] It was shut harden on December 31, 2019.
• Latin America: The Latin American version a minute ago the same programming and reflexive the same logo as description former U.S.

  flagship channel post it was operated by justness HBO Latin America Group supplemental of Time Warner under first-class brand licensing agreement with A&E Networks. In July 2014, High-mindedness Biography Channel was replaced toddler H2.

• Bio in United Kingdom enjoin Ireland: A British version unsaved Bio was launched on 1 October 2000 and ceased on 4 November 2013, utilize replaced by a British story Lifetime.

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

• Spain and Portugal: Bio in Spain and Portugal launched on January 13, 2005^[35] stomach was replaced by A&E pin down October 2, 2014.^[36]
• Germany: Bio family tree Germany was replaced by A&E in September 2014.^[37]
• Israel: Bio esteem known as ערוץ ביוגרפיה‎ principal Israel.

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

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

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

• Bio. Australia: The channel was known as The Biography Announce, then as Bio., until originate closed in November 2015.^[41]

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