Food Network

Food Network

Country	United States
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	Warner Bros. Discovery (69%) Nexstar Media Group (31%)
Parent	Television Food Network, G.P.
Sister channels	List Adult Swim American Heroes Channel Animal Planet Boomerang Cartoon Network Cartoonito Cinemax CNN Cooking Channel The CW (12.5%) Destination America Discovery Channel Discovery en Español Discovery Family Discovery Familia Discovery Life HBO HGTV HLN Investigation Discovery Magnolia Network Motor Trend Oprah Winfrey Network Science Channel TBS TLC TNT Travel Channel TruTV Turner Classic Movies
History
Launched	November 23, 1993; 31 years ago (1993-11-23)
Former names	TV Food Network (1993–97)
Links
Website	foodnetwork.com
Availability
Terrestrial
Freeview (UK)	Channel 43
Streaming media
Affiliated Streaming Service	Max
Services	fuboTV, Sling TV, YouTube TV, Philo, Hulu + Live TV, DirecTV Stream, Vidgo

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.

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 November 2023^[update], Food Network is available to approximately 70,000,000 pay television households in the United States-down from its 2011 peak of 100,000,000 households.^[1]