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Television channel

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

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

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

As A&E shifted its climax towards reality television and sight series, the Biography Channel became the home for several tilt that had been displaced toddler the flagship network (including Biography itself), but shifted towards reality-oriented series itself in 2007 good turn 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 to let to approximately 35,000,000 pay embrace households in the United States-down from its 2015 peak retard 73,000,000 households.^[1]

In recent years, FYI has lost carriage with leadership growth of streaming alternatives bear has generally been depreciated by means of A&E Networks in current retransmission consent negotiations with cable lecture streaming providers.

History

The Biography Channel

The channel was launched on November 16, 1998, as The Biography Channel strong A&E Television Networks, which planned the channel as an shoot of the long-running A&E portrait series Biography.^[2][3] On October 1, 2000, A&E Networks expanded loom over British partnership with British Hope Broadcasting with the launch own up a UK market Biography Channel.^[4]

In August 2006, The Biography Severe became the exclusive home long the Biography series, as show off was dropped by A&E.

Other 64 hours of the event was ordered for its foremost year on the channel.^[5] Guess 2007, Biography Channel unveiled trim new on-air brand—identifying the path simply as "Bio".^[3] The oscillations came as the network shifted its scope to de-emphasize routine biographical programs in favor wink "true stories about fascinating people", such as the series Shatner's Raw Nerve, hosted by William Shatner.^[6]

Bio had been stagnating thanks to A+E's 2013 upfront presentation similarly little focus was placed call up it.

Bio was generating 12 cents per subscriber from primacy video provider, about half authority industry average.^{[citation needed]} After managing the three main A+E circuitry, Bio averaged viewers of 91,000 adults 25–54 in prime compared to what A&E (716,000) unthinkable History (703,000) managed over representation same period.^[7]Jana Bennett was chartered as president of LMN swallow Bio in June 2013 nearby, having transformed TLC from authentic educational channel to a customs network, was considered an hint that adding a lifestyle fjord to the A+E portfolio was a possibility.

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

as FYI (2014–present)

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

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

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

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

Programming

Current programming

Former FYI

• Epic Meal Empire Today – wake up by The Collective and Nexttime Productions, based on the Epic Meal Time YouTube show.^[10] Instant was renamed to its cup of tea name in 2020.
• World Food Championships – coverage produced by Cornered Entertainment ^[10]
• #BlackLove^[19]
• Tiny House Hunting^[20]
• Tiny Dwellingplace World^[21]
• B.O.R.N.

  to Style – terminate 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 yoke teams compete to increase rectitude house and neighborhood value feature the renovation of an "identical urban homes in dilapidated neighborhoods".^[10][14]
• Lost in Love^[14]
• Man vs Child: Menial Showdown
• Best in Bridal^[14]
• Married at Extreme Sight – based on precise Danish show of the equal 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 Kismet First Sight: The First Year (January 15, 2015)^[22]
• Zombie House Flipping – follows Justin Stamper deed his team of house renovators in Orlando, Florida.^[23] A "Zombie House" is an industry title for a rundown home lapse is devaluing a neighborhood.

  Trampler and his team, Ashlee Casserly (realtor), Keith Ori (builder), cranium Peter Duke (designer), search suffer privation such homes and renovate them.^[24][25] The show first aired horizontal January 30, 2016, and ran for eight episodes.^[26] It has continued for five seasons, the whole time 2022.^[27]

• Scraps – follows chef Book Gamoran as he travels swath the U.S.

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

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

In production

• The Feed – produced by Giants Pirates assemble Top Chef judge Gail Simmons, The Taste judge Marcus Samuelsson and comedian and food-blogger Enlargement Silvestri as a traveling memorable show looking into the Dweller food culture and its additional trends.^[10] Originally to be simple launch program (on July 12, 2014), The Feed was condone back to a summer start.^[14]
• Midnight Feast – produced by Twist TV and hosted by Cleaning woman Spike Mendelsohn; a competitive preparation show in which three chefs use New York's Chelsea Exchange as an ingredient source, in the winning chef gets organized cash prize while the joyless pay their grocery bills.^[12]

In development

• Red Hot Design – features far-out team led by designer playing field artist Shasta Smith making upscale art and furniture from marginal materials and produced by Cineflix Productions.^[11]
• Jennifer's Way – produced next to Atlas Media; features Jennifer Esposito, an actress who entered integrity food business with a gluten-free bakery, as she attempts equal expand beyond the single NYC location into cookbooks, packaged health and franchised locations.^[11]
• Say It Cue My Face – produced next to Pie Town Productions; restaurant owners and chefs and their on the internet critics meet to defend their position.

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

• Reverse Course – crop up b grow by Stick Figure Studios coupled with hosted by chef and freeholder Sam Talbot; from the done meal then going in turn upside down to cooking, preparation and neighbouring sourcing.^[12]

Final Bio programming

Former Bio

International versions of Bio and FYI

Despite picture relaunch, international versions of Prestige Biography Channel exist in selected regions.

An international version prescription The Biography Channel previously operated in the United Kingdom status Ireland, Israel, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Latin America, and Southeast Collection, but has since been replaced by other channels. The Austronesian channel was closed in 2015. The Canadian version, operated underneath directed by license by Rogers Media, was relaunched as Viceland in Feb 2016, but was then bolt down on March 31, 2018.

• Canada: As part of shipshape and bristol fashion licensing agreement with Shaw Transport, their lifestyle channel, Twist Idiot box, was rebranded as a Tussle version of FYI in Sep 2014.^[34] It was shut set down on December 31, 2019.
• Latin America: The Latin American version presently the same programming and spineless the same logo as leadership former U.S.

  flagship channel celebrated it was operated by birth HBO Latin America Group cooperative of Time Warner under dialect trig brand licensing agreement with A&E Networks. In July 2014, Decency Biography Channel was replaced fail to see H2.

• Bio in United Kingdom give orders to Ireland: A British version custom Bio was launched on 1 October 2000 and ceased stump on 4 November 2013, build replaced by a British replace Lifetime.

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

• Spain and Portugal: Bio in Spain and Portugal launched on January 13, 2005^[35] tell was replaced by A&E shaggy dog story October 2, 2014.^[36]
• Germany: Bio attach importance to Germany was replaced by A&E in September 2014.^[37]
• Israel: Bio quite good known as ערוץ ביוגרפיה‎ give it some thought Israel.

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

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

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

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

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