Cooking Channel (American TV channel) facts for kids
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| Country | United States |
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| Broadcast area | United States International |
| Headquarters | Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S. |
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| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) (Downgraded to letterboxed 480i for SDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Warner Bros. Discovery Global Linear Networks (69%)< Nexstar Media Group (31%) |
| Parent | Television Food Network, G.P. |
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| History | |
| Launched | August 21, 2002 |
| Former names | Fine Living Network (2002–2010) |
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| Streaming media | |
| Affiliated Streaming Service | HBO Max, Discovery+ |
| Service(s) | DirecTV Stream, Hulu + Live TV, Philo, Sling TV |
Cooking Channel is a TV channel in the United States. It is all about food and cooking! It started as a spin-off from the popular Food Network. Both channels are owned by a company called Television Food Network, G.P. This company is a partnership between Warner Bros. Discovery Global Linear Networks and Nexstar Media Group.
You can watch Cooking Channel through regular Cable television or by streaming it on Discovery+. In November 2023, about 34 million homes in the United States could watch Cooking Channel. This number was higher in 2016, when 66 million homes watched it.
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Channel History
How Fine Living Network Started
The channel first launched on August 21, 2002. It was called Fine Living (and later Fine Living Network or FLN). The company Scripps created it. This channel was made for people who wanted ideas for their free time. It showed programs about travel, adventure, money, homes, and new technology.
Fine Living also had a website. The company even bought part of a magazine to go with the channel. They planned to spend a lot of money on new shows for Fine Living. In 2007, the channel started showing reruns of The Martha Stewart Show. Later, they added Whatever, Martha!, a funny show with Alexis Stewart, Martha's daughter.
Becoming Cooking Channel
In October 2009, Scripps Networks Interactive announced a big change. Fine Living would become the Cooking Channel in 2010. This happened after a tough economic time called the Great Recession. People were spending less money, and Fine Living wasn't growing as much.
The new Cooking Channel became a spin-off of Food Network. It focused on teaching people how to cook and showing shows with famous chefs. Food Network had started to show more reality and competition shows. So, Cooking Channel became the place for cooking lessons and chef personalities. It aired both new shows and older programs from Food Network. Cooking Channel officially launched on May 31, 2010.
What's on Cooking Channel
Cooking Channel shows many different programs about food. It has original series and also reruns of popular shows.
Original Cooking Shows
Some famous chefs from Food Network, like Emeril Lagasse, Rachael Ray, and Bobby Flay, had new shows on Cooking Channel. These included Emeril's Fresh Food Fast, Week In a Day, and Brunch @ Bobby's.
Other original shows included:
- Food(ography) with Mo Rocca, which taught about food.
- Extra Virgin, a reality show about actress Debi Mazar and her family.
- Robert Earl's Be My Guest, where entrepreneur Robert Earl shared dining secrets.
- Unwrapped 2.0, a new version of the old Food Network show Unwrapped.
- The Real Girl's Kitchen and Haylie's America with actress Haylie Duff.
- Dinner at Tiffani's hosted by Tiffani Thiessen.
- Man Fire Food with Roger Mooking.
- Food: Fact or Fiction? hosted by Michael McKean.
- Tia Mowry at Home with Tia Mowry.
- Cheap Eats hosted by Ali Khan.
- Carnival Eats with Noah Cappe.
- Rev Run's Sunday Suppers hosted by Rev Run.
- Unique Eats, Unique Sweets, and Donut Showdown.
Popular Reruns
Cooking Channel also shows programs that first aired in other countries, like Canada and Great Britain. These include shows from chefs like David Rocco (David Rocco's Dolce Vita) and Rachel Allen (Rachel Allen: Bake!).
Many shows from the Food Network library also air on Cooking Channel. Some of these are:
- A Cook's Tour
- Ace of Cakes
- Bill's Food
- ... Kitchen (This show's original title contained a word not suitable for kids, so it has been changed.)
- Caribbean Food Made Easy
- Chuck's Day Off
- Chinese Food Made Easy
- Cupcake Wars
- Drink Up
- Easy Chinese San Francisco by Ching He Huang
- Everyday Exotic
- Everyday Italian with Giada De Laurentiis
- FoodCrafters
- Food Jammers
- French Food at Home
- Good Eats
- Indian Food Made Easy
- Iron Chef (the original Japanese version)
- Iron Chef America
- MasterChef Canada
- Spice Goddess
- Two Fat Ladies
- Tyler's Ultimate
- Various past programs hosted by Julia Child and Nigella Lawson.
Cooking Channel Around the World
Fine Living in Other Countries
A Canadian version of FLN, called Fine Living, was on air from 2004 to 2009. It was later replaced by a Canadian version of DIY Network.
In Europe, FLN started in 2010. It took the place of another channel called Zone Club in most areas. An Italian version of FLN also aired from 2014 to 2017.
Cooking Channel in Other Countries
A Canadian version of Cooking Channel launched on December 12, 2016. It is run by Corus Entertainment, which also runs the Canadian Food Network. As of January 1, 2025, Corus no longer has the rights to most Warner Bros. Discovery channels in Canada. Rogers Sports and Media now has these rights, including for Cooking Channel. Its content has moved to Citytv+.
See also
In Spanish: Cooking Channel para niños
