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Home and Garden Television

HGTV
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Launched December 1, 1994; 22 years ago (1994-12-01)
Owned by Scripps Networks Interactive
Picture format 1080i (HDTV)
Downgraded to letterboxed 480i for SDTV feed
Slogan Home Starts Here
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
Availability
Satellite
DirecTV 229
Dish Network 112
9461 (HD)
C-BandH2H/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.


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