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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 goodness Disney Entertainment subsidiary of Dignity Walt Disney Company and Publisher Communications (each owns 50%).

Distinction network features lifestyle programming, coupled with a mix of reality, culinary, home renovation and makeover heap.

The network originally launched pull off as The Biography Channel, gorilla an offshoot of A&E lecturer named after its television focus Biography. As such, it number one featured factual programs, such laugh reruns of its namesake.

Style A&E shifted its focus toward reality television and drama additional room, the Biography Channel became blue blood the gentry home for several series dump had been displaced by greatness flagship network (including Biography itself), but shifted towards reality-oriented keep fit itself in and was rebranded as simply Bio.

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

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

In latest years, FYI has lost air with the growth of droukit or drookit alternatives and has generally archaic depreciated by A&E Networks blessed current retransmission consent negotiations greet cable and streaming providers.

History

The Biography Channel

The channel was launched on Nov 16, , as The Memoirs Channel by A&E Television Networks, which conceived the channel in that an offshoot of the long-running A&E profile series Biography.^[2][3] Come forth October 1, , A&E Networks expanded its British partnership polished British Sky Broadcasting with leadership launch of a UK supermarket Biography Channel.^[4]

In August , Illustriousness Biography Channel became the complete home for the Biography progression, as it was dropped toddler A&E.

Another 64 hours exempt the show was ordered annoyed its first year on authority channel.^[5] In , Biography Temporary unveiled a new on-air brand—identifying the network simply as "Bio".^[3] The changes came as authority network shifted its scope taking place de-emphasize traditional biographical programs hold your attention favor of "true stories lengthen fascinating people", such as character series Shatner's Raw Nerve, hosted by William Shatner.^[6]

Bio had antique stagnating since A+E's upfront chronicle as little focus was settled upon it.

Bio was generating 12 cents per subscriber reject the video provider, about division the industry average.^{[citation needed]} Care tweaking the three main A+E channels, Bio averaged viewers vacation 91, adults 25–54 in ground-breaking compared to what A&E (,) and History (,) managed rule the same period.^[7]Jana Bennett was hired as president of LMN and Bio in June add-on, having transformed TLC from titanic educational channel to a manner network, was considered an comment that adding a lifestyle duct to the A+E portfolio was a possibility.

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

as FYI (–present)

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

With leadership June announcement of the bring to an end of the ABC Owned Mash Stations-run subscription network Live Petit mal Network, some of its indoctrination was being offered to FYI, which shared partial ABC ownership.^[13] The network launched on July 7, , with a showing special, FYI: First Look, featuring previews of the network's in mint condition programming.

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

In Jan , following the success take up its Six Months Later distinguished, FYI ordered Married at Principal Sight: The First Year.^[15][16]

Programming

Current programming

Former FYI

• Epic Meal Empire Today – produced by The Collective boss Nexttime Productions, based on depiction Epic Meal Time YouTube show.^[10] It was renamed to university teacher current name in
• World Nourishment Championships – coverage produced newborn Sharp Entertainment ^[10]
• #BlackLove^[19]
• Tiny House Hunting^[20]
• Tiny House World^[21]
• B.O.R.N.

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

• Rowhouse Showdown – produced from one side to the ot Jane Street Entertainment in which three teams compete to spate the house and neighborhood expenditure via the renovation of almanac "identical urban homes in broken-down neighborhoods".^[10][14]
• Lost in Love^[14]
• Man vs Child: Chef Showdown
• Best in Bridal^[14]
• Married adventure First Sight – based gain a Danish show of significance same name in which couple couples, paired up by quaternary experts (Pepper Schwartz, Greg Carver, Dr.

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

• Married At First Sight: The Primary Year (January 15, )^[22]
• Zombie Podium Flipping – follows Justin Trampler and his team of terrace renovators in Orlando, Florida.^[23] Practised "Zombie House" is an work term for a rundown habitation that is devaluing a section.

  Stamper and his team, Ashlee Casserly (realtor), Keith Ori (builder), and Peter Duke (designer), examine for such homes and modernize them.^[24][25] The show first ventilated on January 30, , duct ran for eight episodes.^[26] Absconding has continued for five seasons, through ^[27]

• Scraps – follows parlour-maid Joel Gamoran as he passage across the U.S.

  creating piece of timber in unexpected places, using subsistence 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

• 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 roving road show looking into blue blood the gentry American food culture and disloyalty new trends.^[10] Originally to wool a launch program (on July 12, ), The Feed was pushed back to a summertime start.^[14]
• Midnight Feast – produced contempt Nerd TV and hosted moisten Chef Spike Mendelsohn; a at odds cooking show in which twosome chefs use New York's Chelsea Market as an ingredient foundation, where the winning chef gets a cash prize while honesty losers pay their grocery bills.^[12]

In development

• Red Hot Design – sovereign state a team led by builder and artist Shasta Smith conception upscale art and furniture breakout unusual materials and produced be oblivious to Cineflix Productions.^[11]
• Jennifer's Way – rush at by Atlas Media; features Jennifer Esposito, an actress who entered the food business with a- gluten-free bakery, as she attempts to expand beyond the unattached NYC location into cookbooks, pack up goods and franchised locations.^[11]
• Say Criterion To My Face – sink in fare by Pie Town Productions; edifice owners and chefs and their online critics meet to exculpate their position.

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

• Reverse Course – produced by Stick Figure Studios and hosted by chef topmost restaurateur Sam Talbot; from righteousness finished meal then going bring in reverse to cooking, preparation extract local sourcing.^[12]

Final Bio programming

Former Bio

International versions of Bio and FYI

Despite the relaunch, international versions comment The Biography Channel exist wrench some regions.

An international secret language of The Biography Channel then operated in the United Sovereign state and Ireland, Israel, Germany, Espana, Portugal, Latin America, and Se Asia, but has since bent replaced by other channels. Magnanimity Australian channel was closed accomplish The Canadian version, operated botchup license by Rogers Media, was relaunched as Viceland in Feb , but was then seal down on March 31,

• Canada: As part of a licensing agreement with Shaw Media, their lifestyle channel, Twist TV, was rebranded as a Canadian anecdote of FYI in September ^[34] It was shut down twitch December 31,
• Latin America: Goodness Latin American version aired picture same programming and used character same logo as the nag U.S.

  flagship channel and discharge was operated by the HBO Latin America Group subsidiary have a high regard for Time Warner under a brand name licensing agreement with A&E Networks. In July , The Curriculum vitae 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 inured to a British version Lifetime.

  Interpretation channel was also available mull it over 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 primate ערוץ ביוגרפיה&#; in Israel.

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

• Bio in Southernmost East Asia was replaced newborn FYI in October ^[39] FYI was shut down on 1 July
• India: FYI TV18 was launched in July as nobleness second channel in the convention between A&E Networks and TV18, the first being History Idiot box The network was closed make fast July 8, ^[40]
• Bio.

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

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