Home & Garden Television
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| Home & Garden Television | |
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| The Canadian HGTV logo | |
| Launched | December 1, 1994 |
| Owned by | Scripps Networks Interactive |
| Slogan | Start At Home |
| Headquarters | Knoxville, Tennessee |
| Sister channel(s) | Food Network, Fine Living Network (FLN), DIY Network & Great American Country |
| Website | HGTV.com |
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| Satellite | |
| DirecTV | Channel 229 (SD/HD) Channel 1229 (VOD) |
| Dish Network | Channel 112 Channel 9461 (HDTV) |
| Bell TV | Channel 600 |
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| Available on most cable systems | Check Local Listings for channels |
Home & Garden Television (HGTV), a cable-television network operating in the United States of America, broadcasts a variety of home- and garden-improvement, maintenance, renovation, craft and remodeling shows.
Like its sister networks (DIY Network, Fine Living, Food Network and Great American Country), HGTV belongs to Scripps Networks Interactive of Cincinnati.
The network sponsors the annual HGTV Dream Home Giveaway.
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[edit] Programming
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[edit] Shows currently airing
- 24 Hour Design
- A Gardener's Diary
- B. Original
- Bang for Your Buck
- Beyond the Box
- Bought & Sold
- Buy Me
- Carol Duvall Show
- Carter Can
- Cash In the Attic
- Colin and Justin's "Home Heist"
- Color Correction
- Color Splash
- Colour Confidential
- Craft Lab
- Creative Juice
- Curb Appeal
- Dear Genevieve
- Decorating Cents
- Deserving Design
- Design on a Dime
- Design Remix
- Design Star
- Designed to Sell
- Designers' Challenge
- Desperate to Buy
- Divine Design
- Don't Sweat It
- Double Take
- Dream House
- Extreme Living
- For Rent
- FreeStyle'
- Fun Shui
- Gardening by the Yard
- Generation Renovation!
- Get Color!
- Get It Sold
- Get It Together
- Get Out, Way Out
- Good Buy, Bad Buy
- Ground Breakers
- Hammer Heads
- Haulin' House
- HGTV Design Star
- HGTV Dream Home
- Hidden Potential
- Holmes on Homes
- House Detective
- House Hunters
- House Hunters International
- If Walls Could Talk
- Income Property
- Junk Brothers
- KidSpace
- Knitty Gritty
- Landscape Smart
- Landscapers' Challenge
- Leader of the Pack
- Look What I Did!
- Man Land
- Mission: Organization
- My Big Amazing Renovation
- My First Place
- My House Is Worth What?
- My Parents' House
- Myles of Style
- New Spaces
- National Open House
- Over Your Head
- Outer Spaces
- Property Virgins
- Pure Design
- Rate My Space
- Real Estate Intervention
- Rebecca's Garden
- Red Hot and Green
- reDesign
- Renovation Realities
- reZoned
- Restore America
- Rip & Renew
- Save My Bath
- Scrapbooking
- Secrets That Sell
- Sensible Chic
- Small Space, Big Style
- Spice Up My Kitchen
- Summer Showdown
- Superscapes
- Sweat Equity
- That's Clever
- The Big Reveal
- The Stagers
- The Unsellables
- Uncommon Threads
- Weekend Warriors
- What's With That House?
- What You Get for the Money
- World's Most Extreme Homes
- Yard Crashers
[edit] Shows currently not airing
- Appraisal Fair
- Appraise It!
- At The Auction
- Bad Bad Bath
- Before and After
- Building Character
- Changing Rooms (TV show)
- Collectibles Coast To Coast
- Collector Inspector
- Country Style
- Date With Design
- Debbie Travis' Facelift
- Debbie Travis' Painted House
- Decorating with Style
- Designing for the Sexes
- Design, Inc.
- Design Match
- Designer Finals
- Designer Guys
- Desperate Design
- Dream Builders
- Extreme Homes
- Find Your Style
- Fix It Up!
- Going Home
- Haulin' House
- Hey Remember!
- Home To Go
- Homes Across America
- House & Home
- I Want That!
- Kitchen Crimes
- Kitty Bartholomew: You're Home!
- Living With Ed
- Location Location Location
- Modern Masters
- Neat
- Offbeat America
- Room by Room
- Room For Change
- Secret World of Gardens
- Sell This House
- Sew Perfect
- Sleep On It
- Smart Solutions
- Surprise Gardener
- Take It Outside
- Takeover My Makeover
- The Good Life
- The Property Shop
- This Small Space
- TIPical Mary Ellen
- Trading Up
- Treasure Makers
- Ultimate Collectors
- Under 1 Roof
- Urban Outsiders
- What's Your Sign? Design
[edit] HGTV HD
HGTV HD, a 1080i high-definition channel, originally did not simulcast its parent network, but featured programming separate from HGTV.
On March 31, 2008, HGTV, along with Food Network launched its HD simulcast of its standard definition feed. Standard definition programs are stretched to fill the screen rather than presented in their original 4:3 aspect ratio.
[edit] History
Kenneth W. Lowe (then a radio executive with The E.W. Scripps Company and subsequently CEO of Scripps Networks Interactive) envisioned HGTV in 1992. With modest financial support from the E.W. Scripps board he purchased Cinetel, a small video-production company in Knoxville, TN, as the base and production hub of the new network.
Cinetel became Scripps Productions, but producing more than 30 programs simultaneously proved daunting. The organization brought in former CBS television executive Ed Spray and implemented a system implemented of producing (nearly all) programming through independent production houses around the US. Burton Jablin, as VP of Programming, set the tone and oversaw the production of early series. About 90% of the network was original at launch, with 10% licensed and re-run of Canadian, PBS, or other sources.
Using local Scripps cable franchises (since divested), the FCC's "must carry" provisions of Scripps medium market television stations and other small television operators to gain cable carriage, the network launched in 1994. The major programming themes, unchanged since the beginning, were home building and remodeling, landscaping and gardening, decorating and design, and crafts and hobbies.
The channel originally started as the "Home, Lawn, and Garden Channel". The name was shortened and a logo developed. The network debuted with skeletal staff, but with gradual acceptance by other cable operators it now reaches 94 million households in the United States and has partner networks or interests in networks in Canada, Japan, and elsewhere.
E.W. Scripps spun off HGTV and the other Scripps cable networks and web-based properties into a separate company, Scripps Networks Interactive, in July 2008. E.W. Scripps broadcast television and newspaper properties remain in the original company.
[edit] International
In 1997, a Canadian version of HGTV launched. It subsequently became a joint venture between Canadian company Canwest and partners Scripps Networks and Goldman Sachs.
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