The Biography Channel was launched in 1998 as an offshoot of A&E and named after its television series Biography. In 2007, the channel was rebranded as Bio, an initialism for "for your information" In 2014, the network was re-branded as FYI, a contemporary lifestyle network. FYI is available to approximately 35,000,000 pay television households in the United States.
last aired January 6th, 2013