HGTV's "Fixer Upper" Season Four Scores its Highest-Rated Premiere Ever

New York [For Immediate Release - December 2, 2016] The season premiere of HGTV's Fixer Upper on Tuesday night at 9 p.m. ET/PT delivered the series' highest-rated season premiere to date with a 1.41 rating--an 18 percent increase over the season three opener and a 29 percent increase over year-ago levels. HGTV also ranked as the #1 cable network among upscale P25-54 and W25-54 viewers for the night.

HGTV's blockbuster series stars home renovation power couple Chip and Joanna Gaines. The new season features the duo as they complete stunning renovation projects in Waco, while parenting their four kids, running a 40-acre farm with cows, goats, horses and chickens, and managing their family businesses.

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HGTV delivers the superstar experts, fascinating families, compelling renovations and stunning transformations that make all things home fun. America's favorite way to get entertaining, relatable and inspirational home and lifestyle content, HGTV offers: a top 10 cable network that is distributed to more than 92 million U.S. households; a website, HGTV.com, that attracts an average of nine million people each month; social media platforms that engage nearly nine million users; HGTV Magazine, a monthly publication that reaches more than one million readers and exclusive collections of home-oriented products through the HGTV HOME(TM) consumer products line. Viewers can become fans of HGTV and interact with other home improvement enthusiasts through Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Instagram. Headquartered in Knoxville, Tenn., HGTV is owned by Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc., which also owns and operates Food Network, Travel Channel, DIY Network, Cooking Channel and Great American Country.