FYI is a USA television channel.
Before July 2014, FYI was known as Bio and before that as The Biography Channel. FYI is a lifestyle television channel geared to an upscale, younger audience with how-to programs such as home improvement, cooking shows and reality TV.
The Biography Channel was launched on January 1, 1999 and focused on biographical shows about celebrities and historical figures. It also aired programs previously seen on A&E including Murder, She Wrote and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The name of the channel was changed to Bio in 2007, although The Biography Channel brand was still used as a subheading within the channel logo and for other network business.
This television channel is owned by A+E Networks.
Mailing address: 235 E. 45th Street, New York, NY 10017
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I recently viewed a segment on Biography about Tina Turner. Not only was the
information, including dates, events, and people inaccurate, but the footage was "created". Having been close to Ike and Tina Turner, it was offensive that neither of their own autobiographies were adhered to with regard to basic information about their lives. Some of the commentary was, in fact, inflammatory toward both Tina Turner and her deceased ex-husband, Ike. This is lazy media at its best. If I cannot trust this channel to provide basic information about a...
-- December 17, 2010 -- From a biography of Virginia O'Hanlon, the little girl
who wrote a letter to The Sun newspaper in search of the truth about Santa Claus, as it appears on Biography.com:
"The letter read: "Dear Editor, I am 8 years old. Some of my friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says 'If you see it in the Sun it's so.' Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus?" The newspaper published her letter and its reply to her query on September 21, 1897. Because the newspaper had a policy of keeping its editorials anonymous, Francis...
William Shatner Interviews D.C. Sniper for New Series on Biography Channel
-- The New York Times reported on July 29, 2010:
"In an interview to be televised Thursday night, one of the D.C. snipers, Lee Boyd Malvo, said he and the other convicted gunman, John Muhammad, had co-conspirators.
“There were supposed to be three to four snipers with silenced weapons,” he told William Shatner in a phone interview from prison.
Wait. William Shatner?
Yes, it was Mr. Shatner, the “Star Trek”...
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