Fine Living (Canadian TV channel)

Fine Living
Country	Canada
Broadcast area	National
Headquarters	Toronto, Ontario
Ownership
Owner	CW Media (68.24% & ; managing partner) ; Scripps Networks ; (19.76%) ; Corus Entertainment (12% & ; minority partner)
History
Launched	September 3, 2004
Closed	October 19, 2009
Replaced by	DIY Network (most providers)

Fine Living was a Canadian pay television channel owned by CW Media (a division of Canwest and GS Capital Partners), Corus Entertainment, and Scripps Networks Interactive.

Programming

Programs on Fine Living originated from five main categories: Design & Décor, Every Day, Favourite Things, Food & Drink and Travel & Adventure.

Design & Décor

Catalog This!
Design Inc.
Mail Order Makeover
Neat
Sarah's House

Every Day

Glutton For Punishment
Made to Order
Opening Soon
Time Makeover
What's Your Time Worth?

Favourite Things

American Shopper
I Want That!
Real Estate Confidential
The Shopping Detective
What You Get for the Money

Food & Drink

Dinner Date
Great Cocktails
Pairings with Andrea
Shopping with Chefs
Simply Wine

Travel & Adventure

Home Away From Home
The Thirsty Traveler
The Wandering Golfer
We Live Here
What You Get For the Money: Vacations

Note: This is only a partial list of programs listed as of October 2009.

History

Fine Living was licensed by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) on November 24, 2000 as The Luxe Network to Alliance Atlantis. The licence was originally set to expire on April 1, 2003 if the service was not operating by that date. The CRTC gave an extension to November 24, 2004 and by that time The E.W. Scripps Company had purchased a minority interest in the service and on September 3, 2004 the channel launched as Fine Living.

On January 18, 2008, a joint venture between Canwest and GS Capital Partners bought Alliance Atlantis including Alliance Atlantis' interest in Fine Living.

In June 2009, Canwest announced that it would be shutting down Fine Living in the fall of that year. Canwest said that it would launch a Canadian version of the DIY Network for television providers to replace Fine Living with.^[1]^[2] The channel was eventually shut down on October 19, 2009 with the launch of DIY Network. The channel will become Magnolia Network on March 28, 2022.

References

^ Channel Canada: "Fine Living to Shut down", 6/11/2009. Archived 2010-02-08 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Channel Canada: "Some details about the new DIY Channel", 6/11/2009". Archived from the original on 2009-06-16. Retrieved 2009-06-14.

[1] Channel Canada: "Fine Living to Shut down", 6/11/2009. Archived 2010-02-08 at the Wayback Machine

[2] "Channel Canada: "Some details about the new DIY Channel", 6/11/2009". Archived from the original on 2009-06-16. Retrieved 2009-06-14.

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