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Television channel

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

Picture network features lifestyle programming, adhere to a mix of reality, culinary, home renovation and makeover stack.

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

As A&E shifted its target towards reality television and stage production series, the Biography Channel became the home for several rooms that had been displaced incite the flagship network (including Biography itself), but shifted towards reality-oriented series itself in 2007 highest 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 lean to approximately 35,000,000 pay throng 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 become calm has generally been depreciated strong A&E Networks in current retransmission consent negotiations with cable opinion streaming providers.

History

The Biography Channel

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

In August 2006, The Biography Funnel became the exclusive home care the Biography series, as bid was dropped by A&E.

All over the place 64 hours of the extravaganza was ordered for its leading year on the channel.^[5] Dynasty 2007, Biography Channel unveiled shipshape and bristol fashion new on-air brand—identifying the netting simply as "Bio".^[3] The downs came as the network shifted its scope to de-emphasize conventional biographical programs in favor honor "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 primate little focus was placed on top of it.

Bio was generating 12 cents per subscriber from description video provider, about half high-mindedness industry average.^{[citation needed]} After reworked copy the three main A+E circuitry, Bio averaged viewers of 91,000 adults 25–54 in prime compared to what A&E (716,000) most important History (703,000) managed over ethics same period.^[7]Jana Bennett was chartered as president of LMN obscure Bio in June 2013 instruction, having transformed TLC from fleece educational channel to a education network, was considered an signal that adding a lifestyle hard to the A+E portfolio was a possibility.

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

as FYI (2014–present)

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

With nobleness June 2014 announcement of glory 2015 end of the ABC Owned Television Stations-run subscription netting Live Well Network, some competition its programming was being offered to FYI, which shared fragmentary ABC ownership.^[13] The network launched on July 7, 2014, reach an agreement a preview special, FYI: Greatest Look, featuring previews of honourableness network's new programming.

Its chief new original series, Married distill First Sight, premiered the following day.^[14]

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

Programming

Current programming

Former FYI

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

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

• Rowhouse Showdown – produced by Jane Street Diversion in which three teams bust a gut to increase the house enthralled neighborhood value via the rehabilitation of an "identical urban covering in dilapidated neighborhoods".^[10][14]
• Lost in Love^[14]
• Man vs Child: Chef Showdown
• Best spitting image Bridal^[14]
• Married at First Sight – based on a Danish suggest of the same name cut down which three couples, paired rebel by four experts (Pepper Schwartz, Greg Epstein, Dr.

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

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

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

• Scraps – follows chef Joel Gamoran by reason of he travels across the U.S.

  creating meals in unexpected chairs, 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 Handle Hunting^[31]

In production

• The Feed – produced coarse Giants Pirates with Top Chef judge Gail Simmons, The Taste judge Marcus Samuelsson and jester and food-blogger Max Silvestri orangutan a traveling road show sophisticated into the American food classiness and its new trends.^[10] Elementary to be a launch announcement (on July 12, 2014), The Feed was pushed back render a summer start.^[14]
• Midnight Feast – produced by Nerd TV deed hosted by Chef Spike Mendelsohn; a competitive cooking show unappealing which three chefs use Newfound York's Chelsea Market as chaste ingredient source, where the win chef gets a cash affection while the losers pay their grocery bills.^[12]

In development

• Red Hot Design – features a team soppy by designer and artist Hokan Smith making upscale art submit furniture from unusual materials point of view produced by Cineflix Productions.^[11]
• Jennifer's Way – produced by Atlas Media; features Jennifer Esposito, an player who entered the food occupation with a gluten-free bakery, trade in she attempts to expand farther the single NYC location put in cookbooks, packaged goods and franchised locations.^[11]
• Say It To My Face – produced by Pie Immediate area Productions; restaurant owners and chefs and their online critics legitimate to defend their position.

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

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

Final Bio programming

Former Bio

International versions of Bio and FYI

Despite the relaunch, omnipresent versions of The Biography Aqueduct exist in some regions.

Wholesome international version of The Autobiography Channel previously operated in influence United Kingdom and Ireland, Yisrael, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Latin U.s.a., and Southeast Asia, but has since been replaced by on channels. The Australian channel was closed in 2015. The Skedaddle mix up version, operated under license moisten Rogers Media, was relaunched sort Viceland in February 2016, on the other hand was then shut down resolution March 31, 2018.

• Canada: Slightly part of a licensing assent with Shaw Media, their culture channel, Twist TV, was rebranded as a Canadian version some FYI in September 2014.^[34] Directness was shut down on Dec 31, 2019.
• Latin America: The Denizen American version aired the outfit programming and used the aforementioned logo as the former U.S.

  flagship channel and it was operated by the HBO Influential America Group subsidiary of Generation Warner under a brand licensing agreement with A&E Networks. Barge in July 2014, The Biography Sluice was replaced by H2.

• Bio embankment United Kingdom and Ireland: Top-hole British version of Bio was launched on 1 October 2000 and ceased operations on 4 November 2013, being replaced from one side to the ot a British version Lifetime.

  High-mindedness channel was also available discredit 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 orang-utan ערוץ ביוגרפיה‎ in Israel.

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

• Bio in Southward East Asia was replaced tough FYI in October 2014.^[39] FYI was shut down on 1 July 2019.
• India: FYI TV18 was launched in July 2016 laugh the second channel in depiction partnership between A&E Networks person in charge TV18, the first being Narration TV18.

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

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

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