HGTV
| HGTV | |
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HGTV logo as of 2015
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| Launched | December 1, 1994 |
| Owned by | Scripps Networks Interactive |
| Picture format |
1080i (HDTV) Downgraded to letterboxed 480i for SDTV feed |
| Slogan | Home Starts Here |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Broadcast area | National |
| Headquarters | Knoxville, Tennessee |
| Formerly called | Home, Lawn, and Garden Channel (1994) |
| Sister channel(s) |
Cooking Channel DIY Network Food Network Great American Country Travel Channel |
| Website | HGTV.com |
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Availability
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| Satellite | |
| DirecTV | 229 |
| Dish Network | 112 9461 (HD) |
| C-Band – H2H/4DTV | AMC 18 – Channel 207 (East) |
| Cable | |
| AT&T U-verse | 1450 450 (SD) |
| Verizon FiOS | 665 165 (SD) |
| Channel 112 (HD) | |
| Streaming media | |
| PlayStation Vue | Internet Protocol television |
| Sling TV | Internet Protocol television |
| DirecTV Now | Internet Protocol television |
HGTV (an initialism for Home & Garden Television) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by Scripps Networks Interactive. HGTV broadcasts a variety of how-to shows with a focus on home improvement, gardening, crafts, and remodeling. The channel is headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee. The channel sponsors the annual HGTV Dream Home and HGTV Smart Home giveaways.
As of February 2015, approximately 95,628,000 American households (82.2% of households with television) receive HGTV. In 2016, HGTV overtook CNN as the third most-watched cable channel in the United States, behind Fox News Channel and ESPN.
Kenneth W. Lowe (then a radio executive with The E.W. Scripps Company and, subsequently, the chief executive officer of Scripps Networks Interactive) envisioned the concept of HGTV in 1992. With modest financial support from the E.W. Scripps corporate board, he purchased Cinetel, a small video production company in Knoxville, as the base and production hub of the new network. Lowe cofounded the channel with Susan Packard.
Cinetel became Scripps Productions, but producing more than 30 programs simultaneously proved daunting. The organization brought in former CBS television executive Ed Spray, who implemented a system of producing (nearly all) programming through independent production houses around the United States. Burton Jablin, as Vice President of Programming, set the tone and oversaw the production of the early series. About 90 percent of the channel's programming consisted of original productions at launch, with ten percent licensed and rerun from Canadian channels, PBS, and other sources.
Using local Scripps cable franchises (which have since been divested), the Federal Communications Commission "must carry" provisions of Scripps medium-market television stations, and other small television operators to gain cable carriage, the channel launched on December 1, 1994. The major programming themes, unchanged since the beginning, were home building and remodeling, landscaping and gardening, decorating and design, and crafts and hobbies.
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