3 hours ago, Shalmanese said:
The history of the Food Network is that it was a failing tv channel with declining audiences until it was bought by Scripps and Judy Girard was brought in charge and radically remade the network away from lessons on how to cook from actual chefs and towards travel/eating shows and reality competitions. Whatever the Food Network is today, it has almost nothing in common with Schonfeld's original vision except the title.
Depending on which source where the information came from. Soon after the TVFN went on air, they doubled their staff size. They ran out of studio space (from five kitchens) and had to contract out to Unitel (later part of King World, now part of CBS) for more production facilities.
Original hosts were Robin Leach (Life Styles Of the Rich And Famous) and Donna Hanover (Then Mrs. Rudolph Giuliani ). Very different 1993 food culture than Guy 2016, 23 years later.
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