This is related to the Headline News thread. In Memphis, WHBQ when it was an ABC affiliate aired the Home Shopping Spree (now America's Store) overnights. WWOR New York also carried it (both local and EMI service); from a YouTube video I saw, it may also have aired on WBRC Birmingham. What stations carried Home Shopping Spree in your market?
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Old Home Shopping Spree Stations
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In the Los Angeles market, it was KRCA/62 Riverside (but transmitter on Mt. Wilson with the rest of the L.A. stations), now the flagship for Liberman's "Estrella TV" network. I seem to remember 62 running brokered Asian programming when it first signed on in the late 1980s but it was definitely "Spree" by the end of 1990, because it was on my cable system in the east San Fernando Valley then; Liberman has owned it since 1997 or 1998.
We also had HSN-owned KHSC/46 (the former religious broadcaster KBSA) at the same time running Home Shopping Club. It was sold to Univision in 2002 when they launched TeleFutura (now UniMás) as KFTL. When KBSA was still under construction in the 1960s it got its "fifteen minutes of fame" as Broadcasting misidentified it as being the future L.A. affiliate of what turned out to be the ill-fated Overmyer Network (the magazine had to issue an embarrassing correction the following week).
Both channels 46 and 62 were Home Shopping Network 24/7, with all the FCC-required news and public affairs programming coming in two- to three-minute capsules in what were supposed to be local commercial avails. I don't think E/I was required yet.
We also had HSN-owned KHSC/46 (the former religious broadcaster KBSA) at the same time running Home Shopping Club. It was sold to Univision in 2002 when they launched TeleFutura (now UniMás) as KFTL. When KBSA was still under construction in the 1960s it got its "fifteen minutes of fame" as Broadcasting misidentified it as being the future L.A. affiliate of what turned out to be the ill-fated Overmyer Network (the magazine had to issue an embarrassing correction the following week).
Both channels 46 and 62 were Home Shopping Network 24/7, with all the FCC-required news and public affairs programming coming in two- to three-minute capsules in what were supposed to be local commercial avails. I don't think E/I was required yet.
KARE/11 (NBC) in Minneapolis/St. Paul overnights, usually 2:10am-5am. It disappeared when NBC Nightside came along.
At one time HSN ran 3 networks.
Home Shopping Network. Phone number ended in 3100.
Home Shopping Club Phone Number ended in 3200.
Home Shopping Spree. Phone Number ended in 3400.
WTXX Channel 20 in Waterbury, Connecticut became an affiliate of Home Shopping Spree when HSN discontinued the Home Shopping Club. Other channels that were affiliated with Home Shopping Club such as Channel 67 in Smithtown, Long Island switched to the main HSN Network when Home Shopping Club was discontinued. WTXX was airing Home Shopping Club some 15 (or so) hours a day.
Home Shopping Spree then became America's Jewelry Store and then America's Store. That was eventually discontinued. Then HSN launched HSN2 which is basically "The Best of HSN". They use the 3400 telephone number SPREE and America's Store used to use.
Home Shopping Network. Phone number ended in 3100.
Home Shopping Club Phone Number ended in 3200.
Home Shopping Spree. Phone Number ended in 3400.
WTXX Channel 20 in Waterbury, Connecticut became an affiliate of Home Shopping Spree when HSN discontinued the Home Shopping Club. Other channels that were affiliated with Home Shopping Club such as Channel 67 in Smithtown, Long Island switched to the main HSN Network when Home Shopping Club was discontinued. WTXX was airing Home Shopping Club some 15 (or so) hours a day.
Home Shopping Spree then became America's Jewelry Store and then America's Store. That was eventually discontinued. Then HSN launched HSN2 which is basically "The Best of HSN". They use the 3400 telephone number SPREE and America's Store used to use.
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