See also the bevy of house-flipping and renovation shows from 2006 to 2008 and the rise of HGTV.
What HGTV has been able to do is to deliver its content via the Internet as opposed to a cable or satellite system.
Only the line can, admittedly, get blurry and emotional: I clearly needed those adorable new yoga pants, my Kombucha fix and my HGTV.
There are still some obvious channels missing like National Geographic HD, Food HD and HGTV HD, but expect to see them anytime now.
At HGTV, pushing the editorial envelope means a show like Love It or List It, which radically combines buying real estate and home renovation.
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Programming was cheap, and cable providers started paying up (Food now commands 18 cents per subscriber per month, HGTV 16 cents, according to SNL Kagan).
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The ad will run mostly on nationwide cable channels focusing on food, home and travel that could include Bravo, HGTV, Discovery and Travel Channel.
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W. Scripps ' (nyse: SSP - news - people ) HGTV or the vast amounts of home-improvement programming on PBS, the Learning Channel and The Walt Disney Co.
The success of HGTV attests to this fact.
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The result was a custom HGTV-designed VEVO TV Control Room that functioned as a music venue, an exclusive after-hours VIP lounge, a beer garden and a hang-out spot with picnic tables, ping-pong, food and beverages.
Kennon Earl, who stars on HGTV's "Selling LA, " says he currently has two interns who got into real estate because of the show and receives dozens of Twitter messages each week from fans wanting to enter the business.
The home of cable channels Food Network, HGTV and Travel Channel is tucked between the old Brown Squirrel Furniture Store and the Dead Horse Lake Golf Course at the foot of the Great Smoky Mountains in Knoxville, Tenn.
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's (nyse: DIS - news - people ) ABC? (The real estate boom gets more television time than college basketball these days.) Will HGTV's hit show House Hunters be as fun to watch if you know that the happy couple is likely, on paper, to see the down payment they worked so hard to save wiped out in a tumbling market?
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