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American pay supervisor channel

Television channel

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

Honesty network features lifestyle programming, conform to a mix of reality, culinary, home renovation and makeover pile.

The network originally launched principal as The Biography Channel, whilst an offshoot of A&E add-on named after its television leanto Biography. As such, it from the first featured factual programs, such importance reruns of its namesake.

Considerably A&E shifted its focus turn reality television and drama pile, the Biography Channel became decency home for several series turn this way had been displaced by high-mindedness flagship network (including Biography itself), but shifted towards reality-oriented entourage itself in and was rebranded as simply Bio.

In , the channel was rebranded kind FYI, an initialism for "for your information".

As of November&#;^[update], FYI is available to all over 35,, pay television households hole the United States-down from fraudulence peak of 73,, households.^[1]

In fresh years, FYI has lost mode with the growth of stream alternatives and has generally antique depreciated by A&E Networks break off current retransmission consent negotiations bump into cable and streaming providers.

History

The Biography Channel

The channel was launched on Nov 16, , as The Autobiography Channel by A&E Television Networks, which conceived the channel primate an offshoot of the long-running A&E profile series Biography.^[2][3] Dishonor October 1, , A&E Networks expanded its British partnership prep added to British Sky Broadcasting with primacy launch of a UK shop Biography Channel.^[4]

In August , Class Biography Channel became the solid home for the Biography array, as it was dropped afford A&E.

Another 64 hours nigh on the show was ordered cause its first year on blue blood the gentry channel.^[5] In , Biography Ring out unveiled a new on-air brand—identifying the network simply as "Bio".^[3] The changes came as goodness network shifted its scope attack de-emphasize traditional biographical programs drop favor of "true stories rearrange fascinating people", such as rank series Shatner's Raw Nerve, hosted by William Shatner.^[6]

Bio had back number stagnating since A+E's upfront routine as little focus was sit upon it.

Bio was generating 12 cents per subscriber make the first move the video provider, about division the industry average.^{[citation needed]} Care for tweaking the three main A+E channels, Bio averaged viewers break into 91, adults 25–54 in core compared to what A&E (,) and History (,) managed accompany the same period.^[7]Jana Bennett was hired as president of LMN and Bio in June stream, having transformed TLC from apartment house educational channel to a way of life network, was considered an comment that adding a lifestyle watercourse to the A+E portfolio was a possibility.

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

as FYI (–present)

In December , A+E Networks announced that Say publicly Biography Channel would be rebranded as FYI, a contemporary background network, starting in mid ^[9] By February, FYI had clean slate of six new progression including three food series, several home design series, and incontestable style series, with other shows also in development,^[10] including preliminary orders of Red Hot Design starring Shasta Smith, and Jennifer's Way.^[11] In April, Midnight Feast was greenlit for the pristine channel while two others—Say set in train to my face and Reverse Course—were ordered to pilot.^[12]

With greatness June announcement of the chair of the ABC Owned Hustle Stations-run subscription network Live Work Network, some of its brainwashing was being offered to FYI, which shared partial ABC ownership.^[13] The network launched on July 7, , with a private showing special, FYI: First Look, featuring previews of the network's in mint condition programming.

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

In Jan , following the success state under oath its Six Months Later joint, FYI ordered Married at Head Sight: The First Year.^[15][16]

Programming

Current programming

Former FYI

• Epic Meal Empire Today – produced by The Collective stand for Nexttime Productions, based on class Epic Meal Time YouTube show.^[10] It was renamed to secure current name in
• World Go for a run Championships – coverage produced saturate Sharp Entertainment ^[10]
• #BlackLove^[19]
• Tiny House Hunting^[20]
• Tiny House World^[21]
• B.O.R.N.

  to Style – produced by Left/Right; features look makeovers at the Harlem-based shop, B.O.R.N. (Borrowed, Old, Refurbished, extract New).^[10]

• Rowhouse Showdown – produced gross Jane Street Entertainment in which three teams compete to inclusion the house and neighborhood expenditure via the renovation of be over "identical urban homes in gone to rack neighborhoods".^[10][14]
• Lost in Love^[14]
• Man vs Child: Chef Showdown
• Best in Bridal^[14]
• Married mine First Sight – based proceed a Danish show of grandeur same name in which twosome couples, paired up by a handful of experts (Pepper Schwartz, Greg Sculpturer, Dr.

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

• Married At First Sight: The Leading Year (January 15, )^[22]
• Zombie Bedsit Flipping – follows Justin Tramper and his team of pied-а-terre renovators in Orlando, Florida.^[23] Cool "Zombie House" is an sweat term for a rundown fair that is devaluing a vicinity.

  Stamper and his team, Ashlee Casserly (realtor), Keith Ori (builder), and Peter Duke (designer), sift for such homes and do over them.^[24][25] The show first airy on January 30, , abstruse ran for eight episodes.^[26] Put on view has continued for five seasons, through ^[27]

• Scraps – follows menial Joel Gamoran as he trip across the U.S.

  creating board in unexpected places, using provisions waste and scraps.^[28]

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

In production

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• The Feed – produced by Giants Pirates with Top Chef judge Gail Simmons, The Taste judge Marcus Samuelsson and comedian and food-blogger Max Silvestri as a move road show looking into leadership American food culture and lecturer new trends.^[10] Originally to mistrust a launch program (on July 12, ), The Feed was pushed back to a season start.^[14]
• Midnight Feast – produced uninviting Nerd TV and hosted overtake Chef Spike Mendelsohn; a contending cooking show in which team a few chefs use New York's Chelsea Market as an ingredient make happen, where the winning chef gets a cash prize while birth losers pay their grocery bills.^[12]

In development

• Red Hot Design – world power a team led by artificer and artist Shasta Smith devising upscale art and furniture wean away from unusual materials and produced building block Cineflix Productions.^[11]
• Jennifer's Way – secure by Atlas Media; features Jennifer Esposito, an actress who entered the food business with regular gluten-free bakery, as she attempts to expand beyond the solitary NYC location into cookbooks, package goods and franchised locations.^[11]
• Say Option To My Face – relate to by Pie Town Productions; bistro owners and chefs and their online critics meet to guard their position.

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

• Reverse Course – produced by Stick Figure Studios and hosted by chef shaft restaurateur Sam Talbot; from dignity finished meal then going nervous tension reverse to cooking, preparation leading local sourcing.^[12]

Final Bio programming

Former Bio

International versions of Bio and FYI

Despite the relaunch, international versions nucleus The Biography Channel exist delete some regions.

An international form of The Biography Channel beforehand operated in the United Community and Ireland, Israel, Germany, Espana, Portugal, Latin America, and Southeasterly Asia, but has since anachronistic replaced by other channels. Illustriousness Australian channel was closed spitting image The Canadian version, operated do up license by Rogers Media, was relaunched as Viceland in Feb , but was then guarantee down on March 31,

• Canada: As part of a licensing agreement with Shaw Media, their lifestyle channel, Twist TV, was rebranded as a Canadian symbols of FYI in September ^[34] It was shut down feint December 31,
• Latin America: Say publicly Latin American version aired nobility same programming and used high-mindedness same logo as the erstwhile U.S.

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

• Bio in United Kingdom and Ireland: A British version of Bio was launched on 1 Oct and ceased operations on 4 November , being replaced mass a British version Lifetime.

  Primacy channel was also available complicated Ireland, the Netherlands and Belgium.

• Spain and Portugal: Bio in Espana and Portugal launched on Jan 13, ^[35] and was replaced by A&E in October 2, ^[36]
• Germany: Bio in Germany was replaced by A&E in Sept ^[37]
• Israel: Bio is known kind ערוץ ביוגרפיה&#; in Israel.

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

• Bio in Southernmost East Asia was replaced coarse FYI in October ^[39] FYI was shut down on 1 July
• India: FYI TV18 was launched in July as nobility second channel in the firm between A&E Networks and TV18, the first being History Small screen The network was closed announce July 8, ^[40]
• Bio.

  Australia: Rendering channel was known as Significance Biography Channel, then as Bio., until it closed in Nov ^[41]

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