The Biography Channel

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Launched	January 1, 1999
Owned by	A&E Television Networks (Hearst Corporation (50%), Disney-ABC Television Group (50%))
Picture format	720p (HDTV) 480i (SDTV)
Slogan	True Story
Broadcast area	USA, Canada, U.K., Southeast Asia
Headquarters	Newark, New Jersey, United States
Sister channel(s)	A&E History H2 Lifetime Lifetime Movie Network Lifetime Real Women Military History
Website	www.Biography.com
Availability
Satellite
DISH Network	119 (HD/SD)
DirecTV	266 (HD/SD)
C-Band - H2H/4DTV	AMC 18 - Channel 201
Cable
Available on many cable systems	Check Local Listings for channels
Verizon FiOS	629 (HD) 129 (SD)

The Biography Channel (abbreviated bio.) is an American digital cable television channel owned by A&E and based on the television series of the same name. Biography Channel began programming in 1999. In addition to biographical shows, the network has been airing fictional, non-biographical programming previously seen on A&E, including Murder, She Wrote and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, though this practice ended in 2007.

As of August 2006, the Biography Channel became the exclusive home for the Biography series, which was also dropped by A&E. On Monday, July 16, 2007, the Biography Channel unveiled a new logo, a new tagline ("True Story") and revamped its on-air look and feel. Although the channel will refer to itself as Bio in much of its branding, the Biography Channel name is still in use as a subheading within the channel logo and for other network business.

International services

Local versions of the channel also airs in the following countries:

• Australia: Bio.
• United Kingdom/Ireland: Bio. (UK)
• Canada: The Biography Channel (Canada)
• Pan-Asia: Bio. (South East Asia)

Local and regional versions are also seen in Israel, Italy, Germany and Latin America. The Latin American version airs the same programming and has the same logo from the U.S. version. It is controlled by Time Warner's HBO Latin America Group under the license of A&E Networks.

Programming

Current

• Affairs Gone Wrong
• Aftermath with William Shatner
• American Gangster
• BIO Classroom
• Bad Husbands
• Bag of Bones
• BioChannel Special
• Biography
• Breaking the Magician's Code
• Celebrity Close Calls
• Celebrity Ghost Stories
• Celebrity House Hunting
• Celebrity Nightmares Decoded
• City Confidential
• Cold Case Files
• Cursed
• Dead Men Talking
• Deadly Alibi
• Deadly Cults
• Deadly Paradise
• Demon Spawn
• Dog The Bounty Hunter
• Gangsters: America's Most Evil
• Ghost Inside My Child
• Ghostly Encounters
• Haunted Encounters: Face to Face
• Haunted History
• I Killed My BFF
• I Solved a Murder
• I Survived
• I Survived Beyond and Back
• Inside Story
• Intervention
• It Was Him or Me
• Killer Instinct
• Killer Kids
• Killer Profile
• Mobsters
• Mothers Who Kill
• My Ghost Story
• My Little Terror
• Notorious
• Outlaw Bikers
• Panic 911
• Paranormal State
• Prisoners Out of Control
• Psychic Investigators
• Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal
• Shatner's Raw Nerve
• The Family That Slays Together
• The First 48
• The Haunting Of
• The uneXplained
• Twisted Fate
• Women Behind Bars
• Women on Death Row

Former Programming

• Airline
• Billy the Exterminator
• Case Crackers
• Crime Stories
• Enigma
• Flightmares
• Gene Simmons Family Jewels
• In the Mind of...
• Midsomer Murders
• Mysteries of the Bible
• Ripley's Believe it or Not
• Screen Goddesses
• The Chris Isaak Hour
• The Inside Story
• Urban Legends

Logos

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  Original logo used from January 1, 1999 until 2001.

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  Biography Channel logo used from 2001 until July 16, 2007.

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  Current logo since July 16, 2007.

External links

• Official Biography Channel website
• The Biography Channel Australia
• The Biography Channel Canada
• The Biography Channel Germany
• The Biography Channel Israel
• The Biography Channel UK
• The Biography Channel Asia