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  • Why Americans Long to Live in an HGTV Home

    Virginia Postrel, Bloomberg View|Jan 12, 2017

    Home & Garden Television is the mac and cheese of cable -- video comfort food. And, like that perennial favorite, it sells very well. Last year, HGTV was the third-most-watched cable network after ESPN and Fox News. In a recent feature on the company, Bloomberg’s Gerry Smith attributed the network’s success to the “escapist appeal of looking at other people’s beautiful homes” in a year rife with conflict. “The relentlessly pleasant programming is a comfort, especially in hard times,” he wrote. But there’s more to HGTV’s appeal than mere blandne...