Industry Updates – May 2014

  • Cable’s Bio Channel to rebrand as “FYI” in July. New A&E lifestyle lineup with food, fashion, home programs.
  • Celebrity TV Chefs G. Garvin Ingrid Hoffmann, and Devin Alexander partner with Lynx Grills (Cuisine Noir)
  • New Glamour Series Takes You Behind the Scenes with High-Profile Women (VideoInk)
  • Short list of TV channels with new food, fashion, and travel series: Food Network, Cooking Channel, Bravo, OWN, WeTV, Public Television, NHK, MTV, Travel Channel, RLTV, TLC, DYI, Discovery, Esquire, CNN, Pivot, …
  • CEO Rida Khan Leaves Fashion TV to re-launch Style Network Channel
  • Glam Media rebrands as “Mode Media”
  • Aziz Ansari launches ‘Food Club‘ web series, bestows plaques upon favorite chefs.
  • At the Hulu NewFront, TV and Food Are on Demand [Video]
  • Create TV’s Pati’s Mexican Table talks about her leap from political analyst to Mexican chef (Forbes)
  • Food Network’s Robert Irvine’s Advice for Aspiring Restaurateurs (WSJ VIDEO)
  • Foodbeast video Showing 10 Food Hacks That Greatly Improve Your Desk Lunch
  • Award Winner Zagat: Dining Etiquette Fails – How NOT to Order Wine video
  • Video is growing! (AdAge) BuzzFeed at theNewFronts: ‘Video is the biggest shift in our business’
  • Eddie Huang’s MTV Show Snack-Off Premieres in July (Eater)