I’ve watched my fair share of HGTV over the years. More specifically, the home makeover type shows. When we owned our house in Colorado, my wife and I would watch them to get new ideas.

Then radio life did what it does, uproots you. So we sold our house and moved to a different market. Then we were doing that renting thing again for a while. So I stopped watching those types of shows.

That same radio life eventually brought me back home to Minnesota and after almost 2 years of renting, again, we finally bought a house. It's our “going to die in it” home. We love this house but we knew it needed updating. And this house as a lot of square footage, so it’s going to need MAJOR updating.

But that’s cool because we have a lot of time. And now I’m suddenly itching to watch those 'renovate your house' type of shows on HGTV again.

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Over the years, that little cable channel that could -- became the cable channel that did. Four years ago HGTV took over CNN as the third-largest cable channel in the country, and many of those watchers are Minnesotans.

Michigan Bulb Co. (they're a gardening company) did a data deep dive to see who's searching for what when it comes to home improvement or home buying type shows. So what’s the most searched HGTV show for Minnesotans?

credit: Michigan Bulb Co.
credit: Michigan Bulb Co.
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Usually, these types of studies show more commonality between states. This one shows more variety than you typically see. Only one show had more than two states as its most-searched. And that was Fixer Upper.

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