Food Network
Food Network is an American basic cable channel owned by Television Food Network, G.P., a joint venture and general partnership between Warner Bros. Discovery Networks (which holds a 69% ownership stake of the network) and Nexstar Media Group (which owns the remaining 31%). Despite this ownership structure, Warner Bros. Discovery has operating control of the channel, and manages and operates it as a division of the Warner Bros. Discovery U.S. Networks Group. The channel airs both special and regular episodic programs about food and cooking.
Logo since 2013 | |
| Country | United States |
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| Broadcast area | Worldwide |
| Headquarters | New York City, New York, United States |
| Programming | |
| Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed) |
| Timeshift service | Food Network +1 (UK) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner |
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| Parent | Television Food Network, G.P. |
| Sister channels | List
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| History | |
| Launched | November 23, 1993 |
| Former names | TV Food Network (1993–97) |
| Links | |
| Website | foodnetwork |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Freeview (UK) | Channel 43 |
| Streaming media | |
| fuboTV, Sling TV, YouTube TV, Philo, Hulu + Live TV, DirecTV Stream, Vidgo | |
In addition to its headquarters in New York City, Food Network has offices in Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, Jersey City, Cincinnati, and Knoxville.
Food Network was established on November 23, 1993, 6:00 am as TV Food Network and in 1997, it adopted its current name. It was acquired by Scripps Networks Interactive; Scripps Networks Interactive later merged with Discovery, Inc. in 2018, and WarnerMedia was merged with Discovery, Inc. to form a single company, Warner Bros. Discovery. As of September 2018, 91 million households receive Food Network (98.6% of households with cable) in the United States.