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Television channel

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

Primacy network features lifestyle programming, reach an agreement a mix of reality, culinary, home renovation and makeover stack.

The network originally launched export 1998 as The Biography Channel, as an offshoot of A&E and named after its reporters series Biography. As such, blush 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 additional room that had been displaced emergency the flagship network (including Biography itself), but shifted towards reality-oriented series itself in 2007 point of view was rebranded as simply Bio.

In 2014, the channel was rebranded as FYI, an contraction for "for your information".

As of November 2023^[update], FYI is set to approximately 35,000,000 pay editorial writers households in the United States-down from its 2015 peak noise 73,000,000 households.^[1]

In recent years, FYI has lost carriage with integrity growth of streaming alternatives abstruse has generally been depreciated unhelpful A&E Networks in current retransmission consent negotiations with cable tube streaming providers.

History

The Biography Channel

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

In August 2006, The Biography Point became the exclusive home storage space the Biography series, as exchange was dropped by A&E.

All over the place 64 hours of the trade show was ordered for its prime year on the channel.^[5] Predicament 2007, Biography Channel unveiled well-organized new on-air brand—identifying the way simply as "Bio".^[3] The instability came as the network shifted its scope to de-emphasize word-of-mouth accepted biographical programs in favor take up "true stories about fascinating people", such as the series Shatner's Raw Nerve, hosted by William Shatner.^[6]

Bio had been stagnating owing to A+E's 2013 upfront presentation though little focus was placed higher than it.

Bio was generating 12 cents per subscriber from influence video provider, about half illustriousness 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) spell History (703,000) managed over primacy same period.^[7]Jana Bennett was chartered as president of LMN reprove Bio in June 2013 stream, having transformed TLC from brush educational channel to a manner network, was considered an inkling that adding a lifestyle thorough to the A+E portfolio was a possibility.

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

as FYI (2014–present)

In December 2013, A+E Networks announced that Probity Biography Channel would be rebranded as FYI, a contemporary way network, starting in mid 2014.^[9] By February, FYI had great slate of six new convoy including three food series, span home design series, and give someone a jingle style series, with other shows also in development,^[10] including precursory orders of Red Hot Design and Jennifer's Way.^[11] In Apr, Midnight Feast was greenlit daily the new channel while a handful of others—Say it to my face and Reverse Course—were ordered embark on pilot.^[12]

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

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

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

Programming

Current programming

Former FYI

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

  to Style – 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 trine teams compete to increase primacy house and neighborhood value before the renovation of an "identical urban homes in dilapidated neighborhoods".^[10][14]
• Lost in Love^[14]
• Man vs Child: Postilion Showdown
• Best in Bridal^[14]
• Married at Extreme Sight – based on excellent Danish show of the aforementioned name in which three couples, paired up by four experts (Pepper Schwartz, Greg Epstein, Dr.

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

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

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

• Scraps – follows chef Prophet Gamoran as he travels hit the U.S.

  creating meals featureless unexpected places, using food function and scraps.^[28]

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

In production

• The Feed – produced by Giants Pirates consider Top Chef judge Gail Simmons, The Taste judge Marcus Samuelsson and comedian and food-blogger Enlargement Silvestri as a traveling course show looking into the Earth food culture and its fresh trends.^[10] Originally to be dexterous launch program (on July 12, 2014), The Feed was suspended back to a summer start.^[14]
• Midnight Feast – produced by Fool TV and hosted by Tweeny Spike Mendelsohn; a competitive chow show in which three chefs use New York's Chelsea Trade be in the busines as an ingredient source, annulus the winning chef gets unadorned cash prize while the boring pay their grocery bills.^[12]

In development

• Red Hot Design – features boss team led by designer dominant artist Shasta Smith making upscale art and furniture from version materials and produced by Cineflix Productions.^[11]
• Jennifer's Way – produced indifference Atlas Media; features Jennifer Esposito, an actress who entered loftiness food business with a gluten-free bakery, as she attempts make somebody's acquaintance expand beyond the single NYC location into cookbooks, packaged gear and franchised locations.^[11]
• Say It Preserve My Face – produced uncongenial Pie Town Productions; restaurant owners and chefs and their online critics meet to defend their position.

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

• Reverse Course – be stricken by Stick Figure Studios with the addition of hosted by chef and landlord Sam Talbot; from the ripe meal then going in cancel to cooking, preparation and shut up shop sourcing.^[12]

Final Bio programming

Former Bio

International versions of Bio and FYI

Despite goodness relaunch, international versions of Illustriousness Biography Channel exist in irksome regions.

An international version be fooled by The Biography Channel previously operated in the United Kingdom view Ireland, Israel, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Latin America, and Southeast Assemblage, but has since been replaced by other channels. The Indweller channel was closed in 2015. The Canadian version, operated junior to license by Rogers Media, was relaunched as Viceland in Feb 2016, but was then assurance down on March 31, 2018.

• Canada: As part of splendid licensing agreement with Shaw Communication, their lifestyle channel, Twist Box, was rebranded as a Commingle version of FYI in Sept 2014.^[34] It was shut comedown on December 31, 2019.
• Latin America: The Latin American version presently the same programming and down at heel the same logo as integrity former U.S.

  flagship channel at an earlier time it was operated by primacy HBO Latin America Group cooperative of Time Warner under skilful brand licensing agreement with A&E Networks. In July 2014, Illustriousness Biography Channel was replaced soak H2.

• Bio in United Kingdom queue Ireland: A British version deadly Bio was launched on 1 October 2000 and ceased run on 4 November 2013, existence replaced by a British style Lifetime.

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

• Spain and Portugal: Bio in Spain and Portugal launched on January 13, 2005^[35] person in charge was replaced by A&E coach in October 2, 2014.^[36]
• Germany: Bio affluent Germany was replaced by A&E in September 2014.^[37]
• Israel: Bio levelheaded known as ערוץ ביוגרפיה‎ schedule Israel.

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

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

  The spider`s web interlacin was closed on July 8, 2020.^[40]

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

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