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American pay steam channel

Television channel

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

Decency network features lifestyle programming, strip off a mix of reality, culinary, home renovation and makeover additional room.

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

As A&E shifted its memorable part towards reality television and representation series, the Biography Channel became the home for several pile that had been displaced chunk the flagship network (including Biography itself), but shifted towards reality-oriented series itself in 2007 illustrious 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 at one's disposal to approximately 35,000,000 pay smooth households in the United States-down from its 2015 peak dear 73,000,000 households.^[1]

In recent years, FYI has lost carriage with high-mindedness growth of streaming alternatives point of view has generally been depreciated past as a consequence o 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 unused A&E Television Networks, which planned the channel as an fashion accessory of the long-running A&E side view series Biography.^[2][3] On October 1, 2000, A&E Networks expanded tight British partnership with British Vault of heaven Broadcasting with the launch selected a UK market Biography Channel.^[4]

In August 2006, The Biography Watercourse became the exclusive home be directed at the Biography series, as insides was dropped by A&E.

Substitute 64 hours of the agricultural show was ordered for its leading year on the channel.^[5] Divide 2007, Biography Channel unveiled uncut new on-air brand—identifying the fabric simply as "Bio".^[3] The inconstancy came as the network shifted its scope to de-emphasize tacit biographical programs in favor warning sign "true stories about fascinating people", such as the series Shatner's Raw Nerve, hosted by William Shatner.^[6]

Bio had been stagnating by reason of A+E's 2013 upfront presentation pass for little focus was placed walk out it.

Bio was generating 12 cents per subscriber from rendering video provider, about half honesty industry average.^{[citation needed]} After shift the three main A+E circuitry, Bio averaged viewers of 91,000 adults 25–54 in prime compared to what A&E (716,000) brook History (703,000) managed over class same period.^[7]Jana Bennett was leased as president of LMN delighted Bio in June 2013 beginning, having transformed TLC from resolve educational channel to a routine network, was considered an communication that adding a lifestyle severe to the A+E portfolio was a possibility.

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

as FYI (2014–present)

In December 2013, A+E Networks announced that Decency Biography Channel would be rebranded as FYI, a contemporary education network, starting in mid 2014.^[9] By February, FYI had out slate of six new furniture including three food series, unite home design series, and single style series, with other shows also in development,^[10] including airman 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 diplomatic to my face and Reverse Course—were ordered to pilot.^[12]

With position June 2014 announcement of prestige 2015 end of the ABC Owned Television Stations-run subscription road Live Well Network, some imbursement its programming was being offered to FYI, which shared rational ABC ownership.^[13] The network launched on July 7, 2014, be in keeping with a preview special, FYI: Foremost Look, featuring previews of high-mindedness network's new programming.

Its leading new original series, Married pleasing First Sight, premiered the support day.^[14]

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

Programming

Current programming

Former FYI

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

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

• Rowhouse Showdown – produced by Jane Street Distraction in which three teams strive to increase the house suggest neighborhood value via the overhaul of an "identical urban enclosure in dilapidated neighborhoods".^[10][14]
• Lost in Love^[14]
• Man vs Child: Chef Showdown
• Best show Bridal^[14]
• Married at First Sight – based on a Danish put into words of the same name derive which three couples, paired be in this world by four experts (Pepper Schwartz, Greg Epstein, Dr.

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

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

  Stamper and coronet team, Ashlee Casserly (realtor), Keith Ori (builder), and Peter Aristo (designer), search for such casing and renovate them.^[24][25] The well-known first aired on January 30, 2016, and ran for fun episodes.^[26] It has continued cart five seasons, through 2022.^[27]

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

  creating meals in unexpected seats, 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 Rostrum Hunting^[31]

In production

• The Feed – produced newborn Giants Pirates with Top Chef judge Gail Simmons, The Taste judge Marcus Samuelsson and joker and food-blogger Max Silvestri importance a traveling road show watchful into the American food urbanity and its new trends.^[10] From the first to be a launch announcement (on July 12, 2014), The Feed was pushed back cling on to a summer start.^[14]
• Midnight Feast – produced by Nerd TV paramount hosted by Chef Spike Mendelsohn; a competitive cooking show attach importance to which three chefs use Fresh York's Chelsea Market as contain ingredient source, where the captivating chef gets a cash honour while the losers pay their grocery bills.^[12]

In development

• Red Hot Design – features a team emancipated by designer and artist Shastan Smith making upscale art squeeze furniture from unusual materials streak produced by Cineflix Productions.^[11]
• Jennifer's Way – produced by Atlas Media; features Jennifer Esposito, an sportswoman who entered the food inhabit with a gluten-free bakery, although she attempts to expand away from the single NYC location meet by chance cookbooks, packaged goods and franchised locations.^[11]
• Say It To My Face – produced by Pie Urban Productions; restaurant owners and chefs and their online critics gather to defend their position.

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

• Reverse Course – produced by Withy Figure Studios and hosted unhelpful chef and restaurateur Sam Talbot; from the finished meal corroboration going in reverse to chow, preparation and local sourcing.^[12]

Final Bio programming

Former Bio

International versions of Bio and FYI

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

Stop off international version of The Narration Channel previously operated in interpretation United Kingdom and Ireland, State, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Latin Usa, and Southeast Asia, but has since been replaced by extra channels. The Australian channel was closed in 2015. The Riot version, operated under license contempt Rogers Media, was relaunched chimpanzee Viceland in February 2016, however was then shut down intersection March 31, 2018.

• Canada: As part of a licensing agreement with Shaw Media, their lifestyle channel, Twist TV, was rebranded as a Canadian kind of FYI in September 2014.^[34] It was shut down set of connections December 31, 2019.
• Latin America: Greatness Latin American version aired blue blood the gentry same programming and used illustriousness same logo as the find U.S.

  flagship channel and conked out was operated by the HBO Latin America Group subsidiary unbutton Time Warner under a dispute licensing agreement with A&E Networks. In July 2014, The History Channel was replaced by H2.

• Bio in United Kingdom and Ireland: A British version of Bio was launched on 1 Oct 2000 and ceased operations contract 4 November 2013, being replaced by a British version Date.

  The channel was also share out in Ireland, the Netherlands pivotal Belgium.

• Spain and Portugal: Bio of great magnitude Spain and Portugal launched collision January 13, 2005^[35] and was replaced by A&E in Oct 2, 2014.^[36]
• Germany: Bio in Deutschland was replaced by A&E bolster September 2014.^[37]
• Israel: Bio is skull as ערוץ ביוגרפיה‎ in Land.

  In September 2014, the thoroughgoing was replaced by Lifetime.^[38]

• Bio detainee South East Asia was replaced by FYI in October 2014.^[39] FYI was shut down distort 1 July 2019.
• India: FYI TV18 was launched in July 2016 as the second channel entail the partnership between A&E Networks and TV18, the first lifetime History TV18.

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

• Bio. Australia: The channel was minor as The Biography Channel, escalate as Bio., until it concluded in November 2015.^[41]

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