The Biography Channel
| FYI | |
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| Launched | January 1, 1999 (as The Biography Channel) July 7, 2014 (relaunch; as FYI) |
| Owned by |
A&E Networks (Hearst Corporation (50%) Disney–ABC Television Group (50%)) |
| Picture format |
1080i (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 |
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Availability
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| 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 | |
| fuboTV | OTT Subscription |
| Sling TV | OTT Subscription |
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", being 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 television and drama series, the 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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