HOW TO Channel was an Australia

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n cable

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 and satellite

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 television

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 channel. It was carried on the Foxtel Digital

Foxtel

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, Optus TV featuring Foxtel Digital

Optus Television

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 and Austar Digital

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 platforms. It was owned by Premier Media Group

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, a 50/50 joint venture of Publishing and Broadcasting Limited

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 and News Corporation

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.

The channel mainly featured a range of DIY

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 style programs. it also featured Technology

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 help program The Lab with Leo Laporte

The Lab with Leo Laporte

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and formerly aired Call for Help. The Channels website recently moved to an internal site within Homesite, News Corporation

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's Australian home and garden advice website. The channel hopes that this resource will be able to help viewers with advice while learning about the channel itself.

In December 2010, Foxtel announced that the How To Channel will cease on 1 March 2011, and will be replaced with LifeStyle HOME

LifeStyle Home

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, a brand new channel completely dedicated to home and property. It will include programming from the current main Lifestyle Channel in addition to some existing programs from the How To Channel. This will be the third subsidiary channel for LifeStyle. Lifestyle HOME will broadcast on Foxtel/Austar digital channel 119 on both cable and satellite. Upon that, How To Channel was ceased airing over night on the 1st of March 2011 around 4:00am, to make room for Lifestyle HOME.