The major programming themes, unchanged since the beginning, were home building and remodeling, landscaping and gardening, decorating and design, and crafts and hobbies. Using local Scripps cable franchises (since divested), the Federal Communications Commission " must carry" provisions of Scripps medium-market television stations, and other small television operators to gain cable carriage, the channel launched on December 30, 1994. About 90 percent of the channel's programming consisted of original productions at launch, with ten percent licensed and rerun from Canadian channels, PBS, and other sources. Burton Jablin, as Vice President of Programming, set the tone and oversaw the production of the early series. 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 United States. Ĭinetel became Scripps Productions, but it found producing more than thirty programs simultaneously daunting. Lowe cofounded the channel with Susan Packard. Scripps corporate board, he purchased Cinetel, a small video production company in Knoxville, as the base and production hub of the new network. With modest financial support from the E.W.
Scripps Company and, subsequently, the chief executive officer of Scripps Networks Interactive) envisioned the concept of HGTV in 1992.
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