Instruct: Given a question, retrieve passages that can help answer the question.
Query: Who owns HGTV?
HGTV (an initialism for Home & Garden Television) is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by Discovery, Inc.
David Reed Bromstad (born August 17, 1973) is an American designer and television personality. In 2006, he became the winner of the debut season of "HGTV Design Star". He is the host of his own television show, "Color Splash with David Bromstad", which debuted in March 2007 on HGTV as well as "Color Splash Miami" on HGTV which debuted in 2010. He also hosts HGTV's "My Lottery Dream Home", in which he helps lottery winners find their dream real estate property.
Moss' husband Paul began building small homes in the Dallas/Ft Worth area in the early 1980s. Moss began helping her husband's clients with their interior design selections for the homes he would build. As his business grew to larger custom homes, Moss' design business also grew. Although she had taken a job as a travel industry professional with American Airlines, she continued to work toward an interior design career. Moss had ten years of personal design experience by the time she was chosen to become a contestant in Season 1 of HGTV's "Design Star", now named HGTV Star. She was voted out just behind the top five finalists. Afterward, she opened her own boutique in Texas, "That's Haute" and "That's Haute Kids" together with her daughters. In 2011, HGTV pitched her own show, and HGTV's "Donna Decorates Dallas" aired. It was cancelled in 2014.
This season is the first season of HGTV Design Star. It features 10 designers competing for their own show on HGTV. In the fourth episode, the designer with the worst design in the clients' eyes would be eliminated outside of the judging panel. The worst design was Teran's, and so he was cut. The design deemed best was Temple's.
Samples served as President of HGTV from 2007 to 2011. During his tenure, HGTV ranked every year as the #1 network among upscale female viewers in the U.S. At HGTV, Samples broadened the network's programming slate by introducing a series of hits shows including "Love It or List It", "Property Brothers" and "Kitchen Cousins" while greatly expanding the network's hit franchise "House Hunters". He also partnered with the consumer products team to create new off-air brand extensions including "HGTV Magazine", the #1 home magazine in the U.S., and an extensive HGTV-branded product line.
The Antonio Treatment is a one-hour weekly docu-design series show on HGTV and is hosted by Antonio Ballatore, who won Season 4 of the HGTV reality show "Design Star". The pilot episode aired on January 1, 2010 and the show officially premiered March 14, 2010,
In August 2010, Kudzu.com partnered with HGTV, where HGTV's videos and content were added to Kudzu.com, and the ability to search Kudzu.com's listings was added to several HGTV websites. The partnership ended at the end of 2011.
Karen McAloon (born August 16, 1968) is the designer/host on the television show "Find Your Style" on HGTV (seasons 1& 2: 2007; season 3: 2008), and the designer/host of HGTV's Design Remix that ran from 2005-2007 (7 season, 91 episodes). Karen began on the HGTV Network as a guest landscape designer on five episodes of Landscape Smart in 2004/05. She also designed and hosted six one-hour specials for HGTV, and was a host of the HGTV 2007 Tournament Of Roses Parade live broadcast.
The contestants compete for their own design show on HGTV, which follows the format of "The Next Food Network Star" on sister channel Food Network. Each week, the judges decide whom to eliminate; and, in Seasons 1-4, Clive Pearse would tell the contestant(s) who had been eliminated, "Your show has been cancelled...please exit the studio."
HGTV Design Star All Stars is a spin-off series based on HGTV Design Star. It features 6 designers from the first seven seasons of the original series. Host and mentor David Bromstad and incumbent judges Vern Yip and Genevieve Gorder will all return to their respective positions for this competition. The season premiered on HGTV on July 31, 2012, a week following the conclusion of the seventh season of the parent series.
Love It or List It is a Canadian home design TV show currently airing on HGTV, W Network, and on OWN Canada, and is the original show in the "Love it or List It" franchise. The show is produced by Big Coat Productions and was based in Toronto and other surrounding areas in Ontario, Canada. The show premiered as a primetime program on W Network on September 8, 2008, and has since aired on OWN Canada as well as HGTV in the United States. In September 2014, the show began filming in the United States in North Carolina.
After being laid off as a Disney illustrator, Bromstad started his own company, Bromstad Studio, designing fantasy bedrooms for children. At the urging of a friend, Bromstad moved to Miami Beach and tried out for HGTV's "Design Star", a reality show competition to pick a host for a new show on the HGTV cable network. On "Design Star", Bromstad competed against nine other potential designers, winning the grand prize – a car, and the chance to host his own show on HGTV. In "Color Splash"'s 23rd episode, Bromstad noted that HGTV opted for a second set of 26 episodes.
Jennifer Bertrand is the host of Home & Garden Television's "Paint-Over! with Jennifer Bertrand" and the season three champion of "HGTV Design Star". "Paint-Over! with Jennifer Bertrand" is an hour-long show that showcases her decorative painting and murals. She will also be on the show "HGTV Showdown", in which she will compete head-to-head with another HGTV designer. In addition to appearances and a hosting job on HGTV, Bertrand owns a design business with her husband in Weatherby Lake, Missouri.
On 27 June 2016, HGTV launched in New Zealand as a free-to-air channel on the Freeview terrestrial platform. On 24 August 2016, HGTV launched on the Freeview satellite platform and on Sky.
Peter Fallico is a Canadian designer and television personality, best known as a host of various programs on HGTV Canada. Originally a supporting craft and handyman on "Style at Home", he subsequently became a cohost of "This Small Space", as well as a set decorator for "", and was first given his own show, "Home to Go", in 2002. He has since hosted a number of other HGTV series, each based on the "Home to..." brand.
He has three shows on HGTV: "HGTV Design Star", where he has been a mentor from Season 6, and host from Season 7; HGTV's "Beach Flip"; and HGTV's "My Lottery Dream Home".
On October 27, 2010, the channel's ownership changed again as Shaw Communications gained control of HGTV as a result of its acquisition of Canwest and Goldman Sachs' interest in CW Media. Shaw Media has since been subsumed by its sister company Corus Entertainment, who owns the channel to this day.
HGTV is a Canadian English-language Category A cable and satellite specialty channel that is owned as a joint venture between Corus Entertainment (which serves as managing partner and owns 80.24% majority control through licensee HGTV Canada, Inc.) and Discovery Inc. (which owns the remaining 19.76%). HGTV broadcasts programs relating to real estate, home and garden design, and renovations.
Buy Me is a television program that has aired on HGTV in the U.S. since 2005, and on HGTV Canada since 2003, where it is that cable network's most popular show. It is also seen in Belgium and South Africa, either dubbed or with subtitles. It is produced by Whalley-Abbey Media Holdings (WHAM), which is owned by Debbie Travis and her husband, and produced "Debbie Travis' Facelift".
The winner of the challenge is supposed to get their own design TV show on HGTV, although several non-winners have also emerged as HGTV personalities.
Scripps Network Interactive has purchased a majority stake in TVN from Grupa ITI, taking control of company's channels. On 7 January 2017, HGTV has replaced fitness and weather channel TVN Meteo Active. HGTV is referred to in Poland as HGTV Home&Garden. This was the first market in Europe the channel has expanded to.
HGTV Design Star season 3 was the third season of the American reality TV home design show HGTV Design Star. The season first aired from 8 June to 3 August 2008 on HGTV in 9 weekly episodes. The season was hosted by Clive Pearse and the judges were designers Vern Yip and Cynthia Rowley. The final challenge involved renovating houses damaged during Hurricane Katrina and the winner was chosen in a vote open to viewers. The winner was Jennifer Bertrand, who won her own TV show on HGTV called "Paint-Over! with Jennifer Bertrand".
Patrick appeared on "Good Morning America"s "Recipe Show" with her chicken shish kabob recipe. She also appeared on radio on the "Kacey Kowars Show" in January 2008. For one season, she hosted her own talk show, "Beauty and the Book", which debuted on HGTV in March 2009, and was listed in HGTV's Top 10.
Buy Herself is a Canadian reality television series, which premiered April 16, 2012 on HGTV Canada. Hosted by Sandra Rinomato, formerly of the HGTV series "Property Virgins", the series focused on single women who are seeking to buy their first house on their own. Its format is otherwise similar to that of "Property Virgins", with Rinomato showing the potential buyer three homes and discussing how to manage and balance needs and expectations and complications in the home-buying process.
Bought & Sold is a television program that airs on HGTV. The show is a spin-off of HGTV Canada's "Buy Me". The show focuses on 12 realtors who work out of ReMax Village Square Realtors located in northern New Jersey. 