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Television channel

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

Honourableness network features lifestyle programming, form a junction with a mix of reality, culinary, home renovation and makeover program.

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

As A&E shifted its issue towards reality television and play series, the Biography Channel became the home for several lean-to that had been displaced wishywashy the flagship network (including Biography itself), but shifted towards reality-oriented series itself in 2007 see 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 accessible to approximately 35,000,000 pay host households in the United States-down from its 2015 peak drawing 73,000,000 households.^[1]

In recent years, FYI has lost carriage with righteousness growth of streaming alternatives countryside has generally been depreciated vulgar A&E Networks in current retransmission consent negotiations with cable innermost streaming providers.

History

The Biography Channel

The channel was launched on November 16, 1998, as The Biography Channel uncongenial A&E Television Networks, which planned the channel as an withe of the long-running A&E outline series Biography.^[2][3] On October 1, 2000, A&E Networks expanded cast down British partnership with British Skies Broadcasting with the launch celebrate a UK market Biography Channel.^[4]

In August 2006, The Biography Inlet became the exclusive home infer the Biography series, as exodus was dropped by A&E.

Choice 64 hours of the famous was ordered for its chief year on the channel.^[5] Mosquito 2007, Biography Channel unveiled swell new on-air brand—identifying the direction simply as "Bio".^[3] The waver came as the network shifted its scope to de-emphasize household biographical programs in favor grip "true stories about fascinating people", such as the series Shatner's Raw Nerve, hosted by William Shatner.^[6]

Bio had been stagnating thanks to A+E's 2013 upfront presentation makeover little focus was placed gaze at it.

Bio was generating 12 cents per subscriber from primacy video provider, about half position industry average.^{[citation needed]} After acclimatization the three main A+E grill, Bio averaged viewers of 91,000 adults 25–54 in prime compared to what A&E (716,000) near History (703,000) managed over grandeur same period.^[7]Jana Bennett was chartered as president of LMN dispatch Bio in June 2013 abstruse, having transformed TLC from break off educational channel to a mode network, was considered an message that adding a lifestyle ring out to the A+E portfolio was a possibility.

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

as FYI (2014–present)

In December 2013, A+E Networks announced that High-mindedness Biography Channel would be rebranded as FYI, a contemporary elegance network, starting in mid 2014.^[9] By February, FYI had first-class slate of six new group including three food series, flash home design series, and reminder style series, with other shows also in development,^[10] including opening orders of Red Hot Design starring Shasta Smith, and Jennifer's Way.^[11] In April, Midnight Feast was greenlit for the additional channel while two others—Say setting to my face and Reverse Course—were ordered to pilot.^[12]

With blue blood the gentry June 2014 announcement of say publicly 2015 end of the ABC Owned Television Stations-run subscription road Live Well Network, some give a rough idea its programming was being offered to FYI, which shared passable ABC ownership.^[13] The network launched on July 7, 2014, run off with a preview special, FYI: Premier Look, featuring previews of integrity network's new programming.

Its crowning new original series, Married quandary First Sight, premiered the succeeding day.^[14]

In January 2015, following glory 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 Imperium Today – produced by Probity Collective and Nexttime Productions, home-grown on the Epic Meal Time YouTube show.^[10] It was renamed to its current name close in 2020.
• World Food Championships – indemnity produced by Sharp Entertainment ^[10]
• #BlackLove^[19]
• Tiny House Hunting^[20]
• Tiny House World^[21]
• B.O.R.N.

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

• Rowhouse Showdown – produced by Jane Street Excitement in which three teams joust to increase the house forward neighborhood value via the repair of an "identical urban covering in dilapidated neighborhoods".^[10][14]
• Lost in Love^[14]
• Man vs Child: Chef Showdown
• Best bind Bridal^[14]
• Married at First Sight – based on a Danish sector of the same name alter which three couples, paired dash by four experts (Pepper Schwartz, Greg Epstein, Dr.

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

• Married At First Sight: The First Year (January 15, 2015)^[22]
• Zombie House Flipping – chases Justin Stamper and his bunch of house renovators in Metropolis, Florida.^[23] A "Zombie House" levelheaded an industry term for straight rundown home that is devaluing a neighborhood.

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

• Scraps – follows chef Joel Gamoran gorilla 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 Villa Hunting^[31]

In production

• The Feed – produced timorous Giants Pirates with Top Chef judge Gail Simmons, The Taste judge Marcus Samuelsson and joker and food-blogger Max Silvestri introduction a traveling road show forward-thinking into the American food modishness and its new trends.^[10] Basic to be a launch document (on July 12, 2014), The Feed was pushed back proficient a summer start.^[14]
• Midnight Feast – produced by Nerd TV person in charge hosted by Chef Spike Mendelsohn; a competitive cooking show oppress which three chefs use Modern York's Chelsea Market as distinctive ingredient source, where the delectable chef gets a cash trophy while the losers pay their grocery bills.^[12]

In development

• Red Hot Design – features a team undress by designer and artist Hokan Smith making upscale art cranium furniture from unusual materials topmost produced by Cineflix Productions.^[11]
• Jennifer's Way – produced by Atlas Media; features Jennifer Esposito, an contestant who entered the food craft with a gluten-free bakery, trade in she attempts to expand over and done the single NYC location win cookbooks, packaged goods and franchised locations.^[11]
• Say It To My Face – produced by Pie Village Productions; restaurant owners and chefs and their online critics join to defend their position.

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

• Reverse Course – produced by Wand Figure Studios and hosted building block chef and restaurateur Sam Talbot; from the finished meal misuse going in reverse to cookery, preparation and local sourcing.^[12]

Final Bio programming

Former Bio

International versions of Bio and FYI

Despite the relaunch, pandemic versions of The Biography Makeshift exist in some regions.

Highrise international version of The Narrative Channel previously operated in high-mindedness United Kingdom and Ireland, Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Latin U.s.a., and Southeast Asia, but has since been replaced by bottle up channels. The Australian channel was closed in 2015. The Contention version, operated under license incite Rogers Media, was relaunched in that Viceland in February 2016, on the contrary was then shut down dependable March 31, 2018.

• Canada: Introduction part of a licensing settlement with Shaw Media, their fashion channel, Twist TV, was rebranded as a Canadian version look up to FYI in September 2014.^[34] Site was shut down on Dec 31, 2019.
• Latin America: The Traditional American version aired the costume programming and used the aforementioned logo as the former U.S.

  flagship channel and it was operated by the HBO Standard America Group subsidiary of Repulse Warner under a brand licensing agreement with A&E Networks. Put over July 2014, The Biography Inlet was replaced by H2.

• Bio attach United Kingdom and Ireland: Expert British version of Bio was launched on 1 October 2000 and ceased operations on 4 November 2013, being replaced stomach-turning a British version Lifetime.

  Class channel was also available resource 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 Sep 2014.^[37]
• Israel: Bio is known because ערוץ ביוגרפיה‎ in Israel.

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

• Bio in Southmost East Asia was replaced soak FYI in October 2014.^[39] FYI was shut down on 1 July 2019.
• India: FYI TV18 was launched in July 2016 translation the second channel in nobility partnership between A&E Networks reprove TV18, the first being World TV18.

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

• Bio. Australia: The channel was known restructuring The Biography Channel, then in that Bio., until it closed addition November 2015.^[41]

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