HGTV is a cable-television

Cable television

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 network operating in the United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 and Canada

Canada

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, broadcasting a variety of home

Home

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 and garden

Garden

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 improvement, maintenance, renovation, craft and remodeling shows. It is also a popular Home & Garden website

Website

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 (HGTV.com).

Like its sister networks (DIY Network

DIY Network

DIY Network is a channel owned by Scripps Networks Interactive that focuses on do it yourself projects at home.Television stations air local versions with local hosts with segments produced by the network. Branded DIY Network programming is also broadcast in Japan and the Philippines...

, Travel Channel

Travel Channel

The Travel Channel is a satellite and cable television channel that is headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland, US. It features documentaries and how-to shows related to travel and leisure around the United States and throughout the world. Programming has included shows in African animal safaris,...

, Cooking Channel

Cooking Channel

Cooking Channel is a television specialty channel that airs recurring programs about food and cooking, owned by Scripps Networks Interactive. It is a spinoff of Food Network, also owned by SNI, but focuses more on instructional shows rather than "reality style" and contest programming that Food...

, Food Network

Food Network

Food Network is a television specialty channel that airs both one-time and recurring programs about food and cooking. Scripps Networks Interactive owns 70 percent of the network, with Tribune Company controlling the remaining 30 percent....

 and Great American Country

Great American Country

Great American Country , is a Nashville, Tennessee-based country music cable television network.-History:The station launched December 31, 1995 and Garth Brooks' video "The Thunder Rolls" was the first video to air on GAC....

), HGTV belongs to Scripps Networks Interactive

Scripps Networks Interactive

Scripps Networks Interactive is an American media company formed on July 1, 2008 as a spin out of the E.W. Scripps Company. Since launching HGTV in 1994, Scripps has become a leader in lifestyle media, developing relevant content for television, the Internet satellite radio, books, magazines, and...

 of Cincinnati, Ohio. The network sponsors the annual HGTV Dream Home

HGTV Dream Home

The HGTV Dream Home is the American cable network Home & Garden Television's annual project house and sweepstakes, held since 1997. The sweepstakes commences with a January 1 television special showcasing the fully furnished, custom-built home valued in excess of one million dollars; viewers are...

 Giveaway.

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, Tennessee

Knoxville, Tennessee

Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, U.S.A., behind Memphis and Nashville, and is the county seat of Knox County. It is the largest city in East Tennessee, and the second-largest city in the Appalachia region...

, 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 who implemented a system 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 the early series. About 90% of the network was original at launch, with 10% licensed and re-run from Canadian, PBS, and 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. Later in late February - March 1, 2010, the logo has changed. The square with "G" in it is gone, the roof is larger and the "HGTV" letters are now set in Gotham Black

Gotham (typeface)

Gotham is a family of geometric sans-serif digital typefaces designed by American type designer Tobias Frere-Jones in 2000. Gotham's letterforms are inspired by a form of architectural signage that achieved popularity in the mid-twentieth century, and are especially popular throughout New York...

, with the other Gotham fonts being used around the network. The network debuted with a skeletal staff, but with gradual acceptance by other cable operators, it now reaches 94 million households in the United States and has either partner networks, or network interests, in Canada, Japan, and elsewhere. It is now referred to simply as 'HGTV', the full name of the channel is de-emphasized.

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.

Currently airing

• All American Handyman
  All American Handyman
  All American Handyman is a HGTV reality competition show between a group of handymen and women. The show is hosted by Mike Holmes and Scott McGillivray.-Episodes:Episode 1: Hello Contestants, Goodbye Contestants...
  
  
• Bang For Your Buck
• Battle on the Block
• Candice Tells All
• Carter Can
• Cash & Cari
• Cash in the Attic
• Color Splash
  Color Splash
  Color Splash is a television show on the U.S. cable network HGTV, hosted by David Bromstad.The series was created for Bromstad after winning season one of HGTV Design Star. It debuted March 19, 2007, on HGTV...
  
  
• Color Splash: Miami
• Curb Appeal
  Curb Appeal
  Curb Appeal is a half-hour TV series that has aired on HGTV in the United States from 2002 to the present, exploring how a house's outside "curb appeal" will be updated. Various hosts over the years , talk the viewer through the planned improvements...
  
  
• Curb Appeal: The Block
• Dear Genevieve
  Dear Genevieve
  Dear Genevieve is a television show on the U.S. cable network HGTV, hosted by Genevieve Gorder.The series debuted on January 2009, on HGTV. The show focuses on how Gorder designs a room or an area for a family, after they have written to the show asking for help.-Season 1:-Season 2:-Season...
  
  
• Designed to Sell
  Designed to Sell
  Designed to Sell is an HGTV American reality television show hosted by Clive Pearse, Shane Tallant, Michael Johnson, and Rachel Reenstra, and produced by Pie Town Productions and Edelman Productions . Each 30-minute episode focuses on the fixing up and renovation of a home that is about to go on...
  
  
• Design on a Dime
  Design on a Dime
  Design on a Dime is a decorating television series on HGTV. It features people who want their living space redesigned. The Design on a Dime team uses a $1,000 budget to remake a room...
  
  
• Dina's Party
• Disaster DIY
  Disaster DIY
  Disaster DIY is a show on HGTV Canada about "Do-It-Yourselfer"s who have failed at their own home renovations and are in desperate need of some on-the-job training. The host is Bryan Baeumler and it is directed by Craig Goodwill. The projects are located in the Greater Toronto Area...
  
  
• Divine Design
  Divine Design
  Divine Design is a Canadian interior design show produced by Fusion Television which airs on W Network in Canada and HGTV in the United States. It is broadcast on Thursdays, 9pm e/p and is hosted by Candice Olson, one of Canada's top designers...
  
  
• Don't Sweat It
  Don't Sweat It
  Don't Sweat It is an American home improvement show produced by Notional which airs on HGTV. It is broadcast on Saturdays, 10am e/p and is hosted by Steve Watson. On the show, Watson leads families on a series of 3 "high octane" home improvement projects over 2 days...
  
  
• For Rent
• Get It Sold
• Hammer Heads
• HGTV'd
• HGTV Design Star
  HGTV Design Star
  HGTV Design Star is an American reality competition show airing on the cable television network HGTV. It premiered July 23, 2006, and has been renewed for a sixth season.Clive Pearse served as host for Seasons 1-4...
  
  
• HGTV's Great Rooms with Meg Caswell
• The High/Low Project
• Holmes on Homes
  Holmes on Homes
  Holmes on Homes is a Canadian television series featuring general contractor Mike Holmes visiting homeowners who are in need of help, mainly due to unsatisfactory home renovations performed by hired contractors....
  
  
• Holmes Inspection
  Holmes Inspection
  Holmes Inspection is a 2009 Canadian home renovation series on HGTV, hosted by general contractor Mike Holmes. It is the third of Holmes' renovation series, following Holmes on Homes and Holmes in New Orleans. The format of the series is similar to those of his previous series Holmes on Homes,...
  
  
• Home By Novogratz
• Home Rules
• House Crashers
• House Hunters
  House Hunters
  House Hunters is an American reality series that airs on HGTV. Having originally premiered in 1999, there have been three spin-off series that follow a similar format as the original show.-Format:...
  
  
• House Hunters International
• If Walls Could Talk
• Income Property
  Income Property
  Income Property is a home-improvement show which airs on HGTV. The host, Scott McGillivray, is a home contractor and renovation specialist who helps homeowners make their mortgage payments by adding a rental unit to their house....
  
  
• My First Place
• My Yard Goes Disney
• Over Your Head
• Property Brothers
  Property Brothers
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• Property Shop
• Property Virgins
  Property Virgins
  Property Virgins is a reality television series produced by Cineflix. The show portrays the experiences of prospective first-time home buyers, or "property virgins." The program originated on HGTV Canada in March 2006 and expanded to HGTV in the United States in its second season. The program is...
  
  
• Real Estate Intervention
• Red Hot & Green
• Rip & Renew
• Sarah's House
  Sarah's House
  Sarah's House is a Canadian television reality series hosted by Toronto interior designer Sarah Richardson, which airs on HGTV. The program's on-air team also includes interior designer Tommy Smythe and contractor Vito Colucci, as well as Richardson's husband, marketing communications specialist...
  
  
• Secrets from a Stylist
• Selling New York
  Selling New York
  Selling New York is an American television series airing on HGTV. It features real estate brokers from three Manhattan real estate companies selling real estate to New York's elite. The show regulars include Michele, Sabrina, and Samantha Kleier, power brokers and authors of Hot Property...
  
  
• Showhouse Showdown
• The Antonio Treatment
  The Antonio Treatment
  The Antonio Treatment is a one-hour weekly docu-design series show on HGTV and is hosted by Antonio Ballatore, who won Season 4 of the HGTV reality show Design Star. The pilot episode aired on January 1, 2010 and the show officially premiered March 14, 2010,Ballatore and his crew of unconventional...
  
  
• Top 10
• Tough as Nails
• Yard Crashers

Notable shows currently not airing

• 24 Hour Design
  24 Hour Design
  24 Hour Design is an American reality television series involving a team consisting of a host and designer, design assistant and a carpenter that help homeowners transform a single room. The show is shot in a single day , with a budget around $2,000.Original episodes of 24 Hour Design began to air...
  
  
• Bought & Sold
  Bought & Sold
  Bought & Sold is a television program that is currently airing on HGTV. The show is a spin-off of HGTV Canada's Buy Me. The show focuses on 12 realtors who work out of ReMax Village Square Realtors located in northern New Jersey....
  
  
• Buy Me
  Buy Me
  Buy Me is a television program that is currently aired on HGTV in the U.S. , and on HGTV Canada , where it is that cable network's most popular show. It is also seen in Belgium and South Africa, either dubbed or with subtitles...
  
  
• Carol Duvall Show
  Carol DuVall Show
  The Carol Duvall Show is an arts and crafts show which aired on the HGTV cable channel from 1994 to 2005 hosted by Carol Duvall. It was also broadcast on the DIY Network from 2005 until late-2009...
  
   (also on DIY Network
  DIY Network
  DIY Network is a channel owned by Scripps Networks Interactive that focuses on do it yourself projects at home.Television stations air local versions with local hosts with segments produced by the network. Branded DIY Network programming is also broadcast in Japan and the Philippines...
  
  , 2005–2009)
• Changing Rooms (TV show)
• Creative Juice
  Creative Juice
  Creative Juice is a crafting show hosted by Cathie Filian and Steve Piacenza on HGTV and DIY Network. The program features art projects, home decorating ideas, and cooking. Filian and Piacenza were nominated for a Daytime Emmy in the Best Lifestyle Host category in 2006...
  
  
• Debbie Travis' Facelift
  Debbie Travis' Facelift
  Debbie Travis' Facelift was a home improvement reality television show that ran from January 28, 2003 to December 30, 2005. It was produced in Canada for Home & Garden Television and also aired in the United States on the American version of the network, Home & Garden Television...
  
  
• Decorating with Style
• Designing for the Sexes
  Designing for the Sexes
  Designing for the Sexes is a television show on HGTV. In each episode, a married couple with distinct tastes about decorating consult with an interior designer to create a room that meets both their needs.The show was originally hosted by Michael Payne....
  
  
• Deserving Design
  Deserving Design
  Deserving Design is a half-hour show on the Home and Garden TV network, starring Vern Yip. In each episode an inspirational family or individual is visited by Yip, who show him two different rooms they would like to have redesigned. Yip will pick one of the rooms to do and have the person or...
  
  
• Designers' Challenge
  Designers' Challenge
  Designers' Challenge is a show on HGTV in the United States. In each episode, three interior designers make presentations to a homeowner, who chooses one design to use in the house. Landscapers' Challenge is a spin-off that deals with outdoor landscaping instead....
  
  
• Dream House
  Dream House (HGTV)
  Dream House is a show on HGTV produced by High Noon Entertainment in the United States. Each season follows one person, couple, or family as they complete a new build or renovate an existing home, to obtain their dream house...
  
  
• Extreme Homes
• I Want That!
  I Want That!
  I Want That! is a TV series on the Fine Living network showcasing innovations for the home. The show is hosted by Kendis Gibson....
  
  
• The Fix (2008 TV series)
• FreeStyle
  FreeStyle
  FreeStyle is a no-cost design show on HGTV where interior decorators and designers de-clutter, reorganize and move furniture and accessories around in a room, to give homeowners a dramatic new look without spending a dime! The series was originally hosted by Aaron Foster, but new episodes now...
  
  
• Gardening by the Yard
  Gardening by the Yard
  Gardening by the Yard is an American gardening show that airs weekly on HGTV and is hosted by master-gardener Paul James. It premiered in 1996....
  
  
• Hidden Potential
  Hidden Potential
  Hidden Potential is a television series originally hosted by Peggy Bunker, but later hosted by Brandie Malay, that helps home buyers visualize what their dream home could look like before they buy it. The series premiered on HGTV on October 1, 2007. In each episode, a home buyer looks at three...
  
  
• House Detective
  House Detective
  House Detective is a television program on HGTV, based on an original concept proposed by nationally syndicated home inspection columnist, Barry Stone. In its classic format, it would feature two home inspections per half hour installment...
  
  
• Junk Brothers
  Junk Brothers
  Junk Brothers is a reality television series broadcast by HGTV Canada. Brothers and show hosts Steve and Jim Kelley collect discarded items and use these to create new furniture. These works are then returned to the people who discarded them; the former owners of the 'junk' do not expect their...
  
  
• Landscaper's Challenge
• Living With Ed
  Living With Ed
  Living With Ed is an American reality television show.It was originally shown on HGTV in 2007. In 2009 a new version began showing on the new Planet Green channel....
  
  
• Mission: Organization
  Mission: Organization
  Mission: Organization is a home improvement television show on HGTV, that has the intent of reorganizing and redesigning living space, in order to bring order to a particular room of a home...
  
  
• Myles Of Style
• National Open House
• Neat
  Neat (TV series)
  Neat is a Canadian television series, which airs on HGTV in Canada and formerly on Discovery Home in the United States. Hosted by professional organizer Hellen Buttigieg, Neat is a home improvement series in which Buttigieg helps a person with cluttered living spaces devise solutions to help...
  
  
• Reel Homes, Real Scary
• Sleep On It
  Sleep on It (TV series)
  Sleep On It is a half-hour show that premiered on HGTV on January 1, 2008 at 10 pm . The show will feature families looking to buy a house who get to "try" the house before they make a final decision....
  
  
• Spice Up My Kitchen
  Spice Up My Kitchen
  Spice Up My Kitchen is a reality show on Home & Garden Television that now airs only as reruns. The show is hosted by designer Lauren Lake and carpenter Jeff Devlin...
  
  
• The Stagers
  The Stagers
  The Stagers is a half-hour reality television show about home staging that airs on HGTV in the U.S. and Canada. It is produced by Paperny Films and stars Matthew Finlason, Bridget Savereux, and Maureen Powers.- Synopsis :...
  
  
• Surprise Gardener
  Surprise Gardener
  Surprise Gardener was a TV series on Home & Garden Television which aired from 1998 to 2003. Each week, host Susie Coelho welcomed a guest designer to perform a much needed backyard or garden makeover...
  
  
• Ultimate Collectors
  Ultimate Collectors
  Ultimate Collectors was a show on Home and Garden Television for people who love to collect, or are fascinated by those who do. Each episode introduces viewers to the real "wow" collections and collectors...
  
  
• What's With That House?

HGTV HD

HGTV HD, a 1080i

1080i

1080i is the shorthand name for a high-definition television mode. The i means interlaced video; 1080i differs from 1080p, in which the p stands for progressive scan. The term 1080i assumes a widescreen aspect ratio of 16:9, implying a frame size of 1920×1080 pixels...

 high-definition

High-definition television

High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...

 channel, originally did not simulcast its parent network, but featured programming separate from HGTV.

On March 31, 2008, HGTV, along with Food Network

Food Network

Food Network is a television specialty channel that airs both one-time and recurring programs about food and cooking. Scripps Networks Interactive owns 70 percent of the network, with Tribune Company controlling the remaining 30 percent....

, launched its HD simulcast of its standard definition feed. Standard definition programs on the HD feed are stretched

Stretch-o-Vision

Stretch-o-Vision is a neologism used to describe the practice of upconverting video from a standard aspect ratio to a widescreen aspect ratio. HDTV programming is broadcast in the 16:9 aspect ratio, a widescreen image. However, most SDTV programming is usually broadcast in the 4:3 aspect ratio....

 to fill the screen rather than presented in their original 4:3 aspect ratio

Aspect ratio

The aspect ratio of a shape is the ratio of its longer dimension to its shorter dimension. It may be applied to two characteristic dimensions of a three-dimensional shape, such as the ratio of the longest and shortest axis, or for symmetrical objects that are described by just two measurements,...

.

Dispute with Cablevision

On December 31, 2009, Scripps removed Food Network

Food Network

Food Network is a television specialty channel that airs both one-time and recurring programs about food and cooking. Scripps Networks Interactive owns 70 percent of the network, with Tribune Company controlling the remaining 30 percent....

 and HGTV from Cablevision, a major cable television

Cable television

Cable television is a system of providing television programs to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through coaxial cables or digital light pulses through fixed optical fibers located on the subscriber's property, much like the over-the-air method used in traditional...

 provider serving the Greater New York City

New York City

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 metropolitan area

New York metropolitan area

The New York metropolitan area, also known as Greater New York, or the Tri-State area, is the region that composes of New York City and the surrounding region...

 on the day that their contract was set to expire. After months of negotiations, a consensus between Scripps and Cablevision was not reached, prompting the removal of the two channels.

On January 21, 2010, Cablevision and Scripps reached a deal and the channels were aired once again on the same day and by the next day in other areas.

AT&T U-verse carriage dispute

AT&T U-verse dropped Food Network

Food Network

Food Network is a television specialty channel that airs both one-time and recurring programs about food and cooking. Scripps Networks Interactive owns 70 percent of the network, with Tribune Company controlling the remaining 30 percent....

, Cooking Channel

Cooking Channel

Cooking Channel is a television specialty channel that airs recurring programs about food and cooking, owned by Scripps Networks Interactive. It is a spinoff of Food Network, also owned by SNI, but focuses more on instructional shows rather than "reality style" and contest programming that Food...

, HGTV, DIY Network

DIY Network

DIY Network is a channel owned by Scripps Networks Interactive that focuses on do it yourself projects at home.Television stations air local versions with local hosts with segments produced by the network. Branded DIY Network programming is also broadcast in Japan and the Philippines...

 and Great American Country

Great American Country

Great American Country , is a Nashville, Tennessee-based country music cable television network.-History:The station launched December 31, 1995 and Garth Brooks' video "The Thunder Rolls" was the first video to air on GAC....

 on November 5, 2010 due to a carriage dispute. But on November 7, 2010, the carriage dispute was resolved.

Canada

In 1997, a Canadian version of HGTV launched. It is a joint venture between Canadian company Canwest and Scripps Networks.