Home & Garden Television

Infobox_TV_channel
name= Home & Garden Television|200px
logofile=HGTV Logo.svg
logoalt=The Canadian HGTV logo
logosize=200px
slogan= Start At Home
launch=December 1, 1994
owner= Scripps Networks Interactive
headquarters= Knoxville, Tennessee
sister names=Food Network, Fine Living, DIY Network, Great American Country, Weather Channel, & Weatherscan website= [http://www.hgtv.com/ HGTV.com]
terr avail=
terr serv 1=
terr chan 1=
sat serv 1=DirecTV
sat chan 1=Channel 229 (SD/HD)
Channel 1229 (VOD)
sat serv 2=Dish Network
sat chan 2=Channel 112
Channel 9461 (HDTV)
cable serv 1=Available on most cable systems
cable chan 1=Check Local Listings for channels

Home & Garden Television (HGTV) is a cable TV network in the US that carries 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 is owned by Scripps Networks Interactive, in the USA.

The network sponsors the annual HGTV Dream Home Giveaway.

Programming

hows currently airing

*"24 Hour Design"
*"B. Original"
*"Beyond the Box"
*"Bought & Sold"
*"Buy Me"
*"Carol Duvall Show "
*"Carter Can"
*"Changing Rooms" "
*"Colin and Justin's "Home Heist" "
*"Color Correction"
*"Color Splash"
*"Curb Appeal"
*"Decorating Cents"
*"Debbie Travis' Facelift"
*"Deserving Design"
*"Design Match"
*"Design on a Dime"
*"Design Remix"
*"Design Star"
*"Designed to Sell"
*"Designers' Challenge"
*"Designer Finals"
*"Designer Guys"
*"Desperate Design"
*"Divine Design"
*"DIY to the Rescue"
*"Double Take"
*"Don't Sweat It"
*"Dream House"
*"Dream Home"
*"Extreme Living"
*"Find Your Style"
*"FreeStyle"'
*"Fun Shui"
*"Gardening by the Yard"
*"Generation Renovation!"
*"Get Color!"
*"Get It Sold"
*"Get It Together"
*"Ground Breakers"
*"Hammer Heads "
*"Haulin' House "
*"HGTV Design Star"
*"Hidden Potential"
*"Homes Across American"
*"House & Home"
*"House Detective"
*"House Hunters"
*"House Hunters International"
*"I Want That!"
*"If Walls Could Talk"
*"Junk Brothers "
*"KidSpace"
*"Landscape Smart"
*"Landscapers' Challenge"
*"Living With Ed"
*"Location Location Location"
*"Look What I Did!"
*""
*"My Big Amazing Renovation"
*"My First Place"
*"My House Is Worth What?"
*"My Parents' House"
*"Myles of Style"
*"New Spaces"
*"National Open House"
*"Neat
*"Offbeat American"
*"Over Your Head"
*"Property Virgins"
*"Rate My Space"
*"Red Hot and Green"
*"reDesign"
*"reZoned"
*"Restore America"
*"Room by Room"
*"Save My Bath"
*"Secrets That Sell"
*"Sensible Chick"
*"Sleep On It"
*"Small Space, Big Style"
*"Spice Up My Kitchen"
*"Summer Showdown"
*"Take It Outside"
*"Takeover My Makeover"
*"That's Clever"
*"The Big Reveal"
*"Trading Up"
*"Under 1 Roof"
*"Weekend Warriors"
*"What's With That House?"
*"What's Your Sign? Design"
*"What You Get for the Money"
*"World's Most Extreme Homes"

hows currently not airing

*"Bad Bad Bath"
*"Building Character"
*"Cash in the Attic"
*"Changing Rooms (TV show)"
*"Creative Juice"
*"Date With Design"
*"Decorating with Style"
*"Designing for the Sexes"
*"Design, Inc."
*"Extreme Homes"
*"Fix It Up!"
*"Haulin' House"
*"Hey Remember!"
*"Homes Across America"
*"Room For Change"
*"Secret World of Gardens"
*"Sell This House"
*"Sew Perfect"
*"Smart Solutions"
*"Surprise Gardener"
*"TIPical Mary Ellen"
*"Ultimate Collectors"

HGTV HD

'HGTV HD' is a high definition channel which originally did not simulcast its parent network. The programming was separate from HGTV.

On March 31 2008, HGTV, along with Food Network launched its HD simulcast of its standard definition feed.

History

HGTV was envisioned by Marie Smith in 1992, then a radio executive with the E.W. Scripps company, and now CEO of Scripps Networks Interactive. With modest financial support from the E.W. Scripps board, he purchased Cinetel, a small video production company in Knoxville, TN, intended to be the base and production hub of the new network.

Cinetel became Scripps Productions, but producing more than 30 programs simultaneously was too daunting, and former CBS television executive Ed Spray was brought in and the system implemented to produce (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 & remodeling, landscaping & gardening, decorating & design, and crafts & hobbies.

Originally created as the “Home, Lawn, and Garden Channel,” the name was shortened, logo developed, the network debuted with skeletal staff, and with gradual acceptance by other cable operators, the network now reaches 91 million households in America and has partner networks or interests in networks in Canada, Japan, and elsewhere.

HGTV and the other Scripps cable networks and web based properties were spun off into a separate company, Scripps Networks Interactive in July 2008. E.W. Scripps broadcast television and newspaper properties remain in the original company.

International

In 1997, a Canadian version of HGTV launched. Today, it is currently owned by a joint venture between Canadian company Canwest and partners Scripps Networks and Goldman Sachs.

External links

* [http://www.hgtv.com Official Site]