'HOME TOWN' DELIVERS STANDOUT SEASON ONE RATINGS FOR HGTV

New York [May 25, 2017] The first season of HGTV's newest hit home renovation series, Home Town, starring Ben Napier, a woodworker/craftsman, and Erin Napier, an artist/designer, averaged a 0.68 live plus same day rating among viewers P25-54. During its run, Home Town was consistently ranked as a top 3 show among both upscale P25-54 and upscale W25-54 for the Tuesday 10-11 p.m. timeslot. The series premiere on Tuesday, March 21, at 10 p.m. ET/PT, was also HGTV's second highest-rated series premiere in network history.

Home Town features Ben and Erin as they revitalize historic homes in their small Mississippi town for first-time homebuyers, couples with young children and adults wishing to live closer to grandchildren. The entire community benefits from Erin's imaginative designs and Ben's custom handiwork featuring local reclaimed materials.

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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 90 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, Tennessee, 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.