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Biography Channel

FYI
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Launched January 1, 1999; 18 years ago (1999-01-01) (as The Biography Channel)
July 7, 2014; 2 years ago (2014-07-07) (relaunch; as FYI)
Owned by A&E Networks
(Hearst Corporation (50%)
Disney–ABC Television Group (50%))
Picture format 720p (HDTV)
Downgraded to letterboxed 480i for SDTV feed
Slogan For Your Inspiration
Country United States
Language English
Broadcast area United States
Canada
Southeast Asia
Hong Kong
Taiwan
Headquarters Newark, New Jersey
Formerly called The Biography Channel (1999–2014)
Sister channel(s) LMN
Website fyi.tv
Availability
Satellite
Dish Network 119 (HD/SD)
DirecTV 266 (HD/SD)
1266 (VOD)
C-Band - H2H/4DTV AMC 18 - Channel 201
Cable
Verizon FiOS 629
129 (SD)
Available on many other U.S. cable systems Consult your local cable provider for channel availability
IPTV
AT&T U-verse 1272
272 (SD)
Southern Fibernet 1215
215 (SD)
Streaming media
Sling TV Internet Protocol television

FYI (an abbreviation for "For Your Information", stylized as fyi,) is an American digital cable and satellite channel that is owned by A&E Networks, a cable network joint venture between the Disney–ABC Television Group subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company and the Hearst Corporation (each own 50%). The network features lifestyle programming, with a mix of reality, culinary, home renovation and makeover series.

The network originally launched in 1999 as The Biography Channel—an offshoot of the A&E television series Biography. As such, it originally featured factual programs, such as reruns of its namesake. As A&E shifted its focus towards reality and drama series, Biography Channel became the home for several series that had been displaced by the network (including Biography itself), but shifted towards reality-oriented series itself in 2007 with a re-brand as simply Bio.

As of February 2015, the channel was available to approximately 70,932,000 pay television households (60.9% of households with at least one television set) in the United States.

The channel was launched on January 1, 1999 as The Biography Channel. A&E Television Networks (now A+E Networks, and operated as a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company, the Hearst Corporation and NBC at the time) conceived the channel as an offshoot of the long-running A&E profile series Biography. In addition to airing biographical shows, the network aired fictional, non-biographical programs that were previously seen on A&E, including Murder, She Wrote and Sherlock Holmes; the scripted programming was dropped from the channel in 2007.


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