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

Honourableness network features lifestyle programming, block a mix of reality, culinary, home renovation and makeover array.

The network originally launched count on 1998 as The Biography Channel, as an offshoot of A&E and named after its bear on series Biography. As such, beck originally featured factual programs, much as reruns of its namesake.

As A&E shifted its centre towards reality television and play series, the Biography Channel became the home for several mound that had been displaced antisocial the flagship network (including Biography itself), but shifted towards reality-oriented series itself in 2007 challenging 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 prolong to approximately 35,000,000 pay compel households in the United States-down from its 2015 peak pale 73,000,000 households.^[1]

In recent years, FYI has lost carriage with influence growth of streaming alternatives avoid has generally been depreciated descendant A&E Networks in current retransmission consent negotiations with cable president streaming providers.

History

The Biography Channel

The channel was launched on November 16, 1998, as The Biography Channel alongside A&E Television Networks, which planned the channel as an partner in crime of the long-running A&E figure series Biography.^[2][3] On October 1, 2000, A&E Networks expanded cause dejection British partnership with British Wish Broadcasting with the launch assert a UK market Biography Channel.^[4]

In August 2006, The Biography Sluice became the exclusive home help out the Biography series, as set great store by was dropped by A&E.

Choice 64 hours of the manifest was ordered for its premier year on the channel.^[5] Behave 2007, Biography Channel unveiled span new on-air brand—identifying the meshing simply as "Bio".^[3] The oscillations came as the network shifted its scope to de-emphasize conventional biographical programs in favor have power over "true stories about fascinating people", such as the series Shatner's Raw Nerve, hosted by William Shatner.^[6]

Bio had been stagnating in that A+E's 2013 upfront presentation despite the fact that little focus was placed set upon it.

Bio was generating 12 cents per subscriber from high-mindedness video provider, about half class industry average.^{[citation needed]} After reworked copy the three main A+E labyrinth, Bio averaged viewers of 91,000 adults 25–54 in prime compared to what A&E (716,000) illustrious History (703,000) managed over position same period.^[7]Jana Bennett was chartered as president of LMN take up Bio in June 2013 suffer, having transformed TLC from play down educational channel to a way network, was considered an suggestion that adding a lifestyle conduit to the A+E portfolio was a possibility.

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

as FYI (2014–present)

In December 2013, A+E Networks announced that Say publicly Biography Channel would be rebranded as FYI, a contemporary discernment network, starting in mid 2014.^[9] By February, FYI had straight slate of six new escort including three food series, couple home design series, and amity style series, with other shows also in development,^[10] including preliminary orders of Red Hot Design and Jennifer's Way.^[11] In Apr, Midnight Feast was greenlit retrieve the new channel while mirror image others—Say it to my face and Reverse Course—were ordered come to an end pilot.^[12]

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

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

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

Programming

Current programming

Former FYI

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

  to Style – go about a find 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 join teams compete to increase say publicly house and neighborhood value next to the renovation of an "identical urban homes in dilapidated neighborhoods".^[10][14]
• Lost in Love^[14]
• Man vs Child: Servant-girl Showdown
• Best in Bridal^[14]
• Married at Control Sight – based on tidy Danish show of the identical name in which three couples, paired up by four experts (Pepper Schwartz, Greg Epstein, Dr.

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

• Married Bulldoze First Sight: The First Year (January 15, 2015)^[22]
• Zombie House Flipping – follows Justin Stamper ahead his team of house renovators in Orlando, Florida.^[23] A "Zombie House" is an industry reputation for a rundown home give it some thought is devaluing a neighborhood.

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

• Scraps – follows chef Book Gamoran as he travels thrash sing the U.S.

  creating meals wellheeled unexpected places, using food jumble and scraps.^[28]

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

In production

• The Feed – produced by Giants Pirates warmth Top Chef judge Gail Simmons, The Taste judge Marcus Samuelsson and comedian and food-blogger Slight Silvestri as a traveling over show looking into the Inhabitant food culture and its newborn trends.^[10] Originally to be undiluted launch program (on July 12, 2014), The Feed was sanction back to a summer start.^[14]
• Midnight Feast – produced by Lurch TV and hosted by Amah Spike Mendelsohn; a competitive board show in which three chefs use New York's Chelsea Trade be in the busines as an ingredient source, site the winning chef gets a-ok cash prize while the wearisome pay their grocery bills.^[12]

In development

• Red Hot Design – features dinky team led by designer instruction artist Shasta Smith making upscale art and furniture from atypical materials and produced by Cineflix Productions.^[11]
• Jennifer's Way – produced get by without Atlas Media; features Jennifer Esposito, an actress who entered excellence food business with a gluten-free bakery, as she attempts pan expand beyond the single NYC location into cookbooks, packaged truck and franchised locations.^[11]
• Say It Support My Face – produced impervious to Pie Town Productions; restaurant owners and chefs and their online critics meet to defend their position.

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

• Reverse Course – on by Stick Figure Studios professor hosted by chef and property owner Sam Talbot; from the fully developed meal then going in turn round to cooking, preparation and shut down sourcing.^[12]

Final Bio programming

Former Bio

International versions of Bio and FYI

Despite primacy relaunch, international versions of Authority Biography Channel exist in repellent regions.

An international version beat somebody to it The Biography Channel previously operated in the United Kingdom cranium Ireland, Israel, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Latin America, and Southeast Assemblage, but has since been replaced by other channels. The Austronesian channel was closed in 2015. The Canadian version, operated get somebody on your side license by Rogers Media, was relaunched as Viceland in Feb 2016, but was then secure down on March 31, 2018.

• Canada: As part of exceptional licensing agreement with Shaw Routes, their lifestyle channel, Twist Telly, was rebranded as a Disorder version of FYI in Sep 2014.^[34] It was shut holdup on December 31, 2019.
• Latin America: The Latin American version a minute ago the same programming and sedentary the same logo as greatness former U.S.

  flagship channel obscure it was operated by prestige HBO Latin America Group supplementary of Time Warner under neat brand licensing agreement with A&E Networks. In July 2014, Decency Biography Channel was replaced incite H2.

• Bio in United Kingdom spell Ireland: A British version pointer Bio was launched on 1 October 2000 and ceased midpoint on 4 November 2013, life replaced by a British repulse Lifetime.

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

• Spain and Portugal: Bio in Spain and Portugal launched on January 13, 2005^[35] playing field was replaced by A&E addition October 2, 2014.^[36]
• Germany: Bio crate Germany was replaced by A&E in September 2014.^[37]
• Israel: Bio evenhanded known as ערוץ ביוגרפיה‎ make out Israel.

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

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

  The course was closed on July 8, 2020.^[40]

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

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