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It’s Official: Food Network Parent Company Now Owns Travel Channel
Posted on November 6th 2009 by Jillian Madison

Scripps, the parent company of the Food Network and HGTV, just finalized a deal to purchase a 65% controlling share of the Travel Channel. This is awful news for travel and television lovers, because the Travel Channel is one of the last resources of intelligent, compelling television. Scripps seems to ruin everything they get their grubby little hands on, and many fear the channel is now destined to become a monetized bastardization of its former self.

Perhaps Anthony Bourdian, host of the Travel Channel’s No Reservations, best summed up the Scripps mentality:

I used to be on the Food Network, but I think I slipped under the wire. The network at that point used to be run by a cabal of people getting bored with their own programming. For whatever reason, they gave me two years of traveling wherever I wanted, doing pretty much what I’ve been doing on “No Reservations.” After two years, they wanted me riding around on a pony in a parking lot doing chili cook-offs instead of going to foreign countries. My feeling was, “Let someone else do that.”

That’s right, folks. The changes are a-comin’. Here’s a small taste of what we should all probably expect to see on the new, Scripps-ified Travel Channel:


Other posts on Food Network Humor:

---Food Network Anthony Bourdain-isms
---The Twitterverse Takes On “Have Cake, Will Travel”
---New Cooking Channel/Food Network Shows
---UPDATE: Cablevision Drops Food Network And HGTV
---FIRST LOOK: New Cooking Channel Shows

    56 Responses

  1. Jammer says:
    July 8, 2010 at 5:01 am

    RF Horrible, now The Travel Network will turn into another Food TV Network. Horrible when a big company starts devouring other networks and taking over their programming. But that’s the way it is in Television right now. I’ve recently noticed they’re now putting Food TV shows on the Travel Channel. How Depressing.

    I stopped watching Food TV because they stopped traveling alot. Now they’re taking over The Travel Channel which I have watched as an alternative. Now they’ve followed me.

    RF

    I hope Anthony Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern and Andrew Richman can maintain control of their shows without interference.

    Peace

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  2. Jammer says:
    July 8, 2010 at 5:08 am

    RF

    Food TV, now Cooking Channel, now The Travel Channel turning into another Food Network. Yahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Anyway, thanks for letting me get that off my chest.

    Travel Channel Executives, please at least maintain some control of your network and keep a Travel Direction in your network.

    Thanks.

    As an aside, this happend with Tech TV which I loved, then they combined it with G4 Gaming Network, which destroyed Tech TV. And this happend in MMA when the UFC took over my beloved MMA Pride FC. They also took over Pride FC and their fighters and took over their organization and also destroyed Pride FC.

    So Whatever happens, it’s going to happen.

    I just hope I can be happy and some positive things happen.

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    • Jammer says:
      August 1, 2010 at 2:57 am

      The Food Network taking over The Travel Channel, it’s not a good thing, but that’s the way it is in today’s television. Even if I don’t like that or want it to happen, that’s going to happen. Food tv took over I think the Fine Living Channel, now they take over The Travel Channel. Sad but true the realities of Cable Network telvision. For whatever reason, The Travel Channel sold majority share to the company that runs the Food Network.

      RF

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  3. Mufugger says:
    July 24, 2010 at 6:15 pm

    This shit sucks, holms. Food Channel has become worthless piece of crap. Iron Chef is so lame now (same ole shit). Chopped is aight but the shit ain’t original. The Food Challenges are boring as fuck. Then you get the new dumbfuck stars showing up every day now … even the fuckers who didn’t win get their own lame ass shows. The only thing worth watching is Triple-D.

    Food Channel is not about cooking or culinary world … it’s about marketing the fuck out of food personalities. Rachel Ray ain’t no chef, mang. The lame ass “stars” suck shit too.

    Travel Channel at least much better food content than the Food Channel. HOw fucking ironic is that shit? Bourdain, Zimmern, and MvF trump all the lame ass shit the Food Channel produces.

    I’m wondering when Scripps will fuck up the Travel Channel too?

    Fucking lame, holms.

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