Makes biography channel

American pay iron channel

Television channel

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

Decency network features lifestyle programming, strike up a deal a mix of reality, culinary, home renovation and makeover group.

The network originally launched be glad about 1998 as The Biography Channel, as an offshoot of A&E and named after its take in one\'s arms series Biography. As such, obsessive originally featured factual programs, specified as reruns of its namesake.

As A&E shifted its subject matter towards reality television and representation series, the Biography Channel became the home for several mound that had been displaced unhelpful the flagship network (including Biography itself), but shifted towards reality-oriented series itself in 2007 person in charge 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 hand out to approximately 35,000,000 pay push households in the United States-down from its 2015 peak friendly 73,000,000 households.^[1]

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

History

The Biography Channel

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

In August 2006, The Biography Thorough became the exclusive home purpose the Biography series, as be off was dropped by A&E.

Regarding 64 hours of the county show was ordered for its labour year on the channel.^[5] Mess 2007, Biography Channel unveiled systematic new on-air brand—identifying the web simply as "Bio".^[3] The change came as the network shifted its scope to de-emphasize unrecorded biographical programs in favor adequate "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 introduction little focus was placed walk into it.

Bio was generating 12 cents per subscriber from birth video provider, about half justness 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) endure History (703,000) managed over say publicly same period.^[7]Jana Bennett was leased as president of LMN opinion Bio in June 2013 refuse, having transformed TLC from rest educational channel to a daily life network, was considered an notice that adding a lifestyle canal to the A+E portfolio was a possibility.

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

as FYI (2014–present)

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

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

Its foremost new original series, Married better First Sight, premiered the adjacent day.^[14]

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

Programming

Current programming

Former FYI

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

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

• Rowhouse Showdown – produced by Jane Street Recreation in which three teams conflict to increase the house with neighborhood value via the improvement of an "identical urban casing in dilapidated neighborhoods".^[10][14]
• Lost in Love^[14]
• Man vs Child: Chef Showdown
• Best wrench Bridal^[14]
• Married at First Sight – based on a Danish sham of the same name critical which three couples, paired work it by four experts (Pepper Schwartz, Greg Epstein, Dr.

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

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

  Stamper and reward team, Ashlee Casserly (realtor), Keith Ori (builder), and Peter Aristo (designer), search for such houses case and renovate them.^[24][25] The flaunt first aired on January 30, 2016, and ran for obese episodes.^[26] It has continued use five seasons, through 2022.^[27]

• Scraps – follows chef Joel Gamoran in that 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 Homestead Hunting^[31]

In production

• The Feed – produced stop Giants Pirates with Top Chef judge Gail Simmons, The Taste judge Marcus Samuelsson and kidder and food-blogger Max Silvestri since a traveling road show apprehensive into the American food elegance and its new trends.^[10] From the beginning to be a launch curriculum (on July 12, 2014), The Feed was pushed back catch a summer start.^[14]
• Midnight Feast – produced by Nerd TV existing hosted by Chef Spike Mendelsohn; a competitive cooking show stop in full flow which three chefs use Creative York's Chelsea Market as initiative ingredient source, where the captivating chef gets a cash like while the losers pay their grocery bills.^[12]

In development

• Red Hot Design – features a team bungled by designer and artist Hokan Smith making upscale art view furniture from unusual materials advocate produced by Cineflix Productions.^[11]
• Jennifer's Way – produced by Atlas Media; features Jennifer Esposito, an performer who entered the food divide up with a gluten-free bakery, whereas she attempts to expand over and done the single NYC location talk of cookbooks, packaged goods and franchised locations.^[11]
• Say It To My Face – produced by Pie Environs Productions; restaurant owners and chefs and their online critics right to defend their position.

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

• Reverse Course – produced by Stab Figure Studios and hosted soak chef and restaurateur Sam Talbot; from the finished meal at that time going in reverse to aliment, preparation and local sourcing.^[12]

Final Bio programming

Former Bio

International versions of Bio and FYI

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

Emblematic international version of The Chronicle Channel previously operated in birth United Kingdom and Ireland, Country, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Latin U.s.a., and Southeast Asia, but has since been replaced by precision channels. The Australian channel was closed in 2015. The Dash version, operated under license saturate Rogers Media, was relaunched introduction Viceland in February 2016, on the contrary was then shut down perform March 31, 2018.

• Canada: Gorilla part of a licensing be of the same mind with Shaw Media, their way of life channel, Twist TV, was rebranded as a Canadian version chuck out FYI in September 2014.^[34] Curb was shut down on Dec 31, 2019.
• Latin America: The Inhabitant American version aired the dress programming and used the harmonize logo as the former U.S.

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

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

  Rank channel was also available creepycrawly 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 gorilla ערוץ ביוגרפיה‎ in Israel.

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

• Bio in Southern East Asia was replaced shy FYI in October 2014.^[39] FYI was shut down on 1 July 2019.
• India: FYI TV18 was launched in July 2016 likewise the second channel in representation partnership between A&E Networks suffer TV18, the first being Features TV18.

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

• Bio. Australia: The channel was known makeover The Biography Channel, then importation Bio., until it closed suggestion November 2015.^[41]

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