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One Less Shopping Network

MarcB

MarcB

Home Shopping Network's secondary network America's Store will discontinue programming on April 3, 2007. The website is already going to HSN.COM and there's no more live streaming of the network. Further more Direct TV has already removed AS from their lineup.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America's_Store

Wow. I would've thought the new JTV owned mostly Coin Vault shopping Network Shop-At-Home would've gone off the air first.

This is the second time HSN has killed off one of its networks. There used to 3 HSN Networks. - Home Shopping Network, Home Shopping Club (later HSN2), and Home Shopping Spree (later America's Store). In 1994 HSN2 went off the air. Most affiliates switched over to the main HSN feed, but WTXX in Waterbury, CT went with Home Shopping Spree instead.
 
What do you call one less shopping network?
A good start.

They are all rip-offs. Selling junk by conning old ladies and trailer trash out of their pension and welfare money.

I am not a fan of government regulation, but the FCC should them down - all of them - and the infomercials, too. Certainly on broadcast television (and radio). Any broadcaster who works in that area has completely sold his soul (if any).
 
You really have to wonder how much these networks actually make.
 
I don't know what HSN makes, but QVC makes more money then at least one of the major broadcast networks. Somewhere I'll find stats to back that up.

My mom has never had any problems with anything she has bought from QVC and she's been a customer for over 15 years.

And before Scripps sold Shop-at-Home to JTV, they had a lot of good stuff. A lot of their kitchen stuff was from Food Network personalities and theyir stuff was also available in regular brick and morter stores. S@Home was selling the stuff cheaper than the Brick and Motrer stores. Further more I love my Olympus Digital Camera I bought from them when they were in Final Clearence Mode last Summer.
 
If the FCC should make anything illegal, they should make it illegal for the cable companies to cut off networks and replace them with infomercial networks overnight.

Time Warner here switches off Animal Planet from 2AM-8AM and replaces it with a feed of an infomercial network. They used to do the same with BET.
 
For years where I lived previously I had TCI. They'd replace the infomercials that Discovery Channel aires 3AM-9AM with ValueVision. Discovery Channel was on Channel 36. Then they moved Discovery to Channel 18 and put Animal Planet on Channel 36. Unfortuantely they never changed the timer to switch it so Animal Planet would be replaced with ValueVision 3AM-9AM. Now let me tell you, the mainstream shopping networks QVC, HSN, and ShopNBC (previously known as Valuevision) is more intelligent than infomercials. JTV and its sister station Shop@Home is garbage.

Personally Jeremey I'd rather watch infomercials (except for Girls Gone Wild) than that stupid phoney baloney religious crap BET show every morning 4AM-9AM.
 
Oh come on Marc, you don't want Popoff's Miracle Spring Water and Sea Salt?? :) It'll cure all that ails ya and make you filthy rich!!
 
MarcB said:
This is the second time HSN has killed off one of its networks. There used to 3 HSN Networks. - Home Shopping Network, Home Shopping Club (later HSN2), and Home Shopping Spree (later America's Store). In 1994 HSN2 went off the air. Most affiliates switched over to the main HSN feed, but WTXX in Waterbury, CT went with Home Shopping Spree instead.
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There was another: HSE (Home Shopping Español). It was short-lived; HSN shut it down in 2002 after only 3 years in operation.
 
dhett said:
There was another: HSE (Home Shopping Español). It was short-lived; HSN shut it down in 2002 after only 3 years in operation.
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I didn't know that it was a 24 hour network. I remember it aired a few hours a day on Galavision.

There was also BET Shop too. I remember it aired Saturday Nights on BET. It was done by Tina Berry, an African American Show host on HSN. Was that a 24 hour network or was that just an expeirment?
 
The only long-lasting memory I have of Shop at Home was Don West shilling baseball cards at the top of his lungs. Just about every baseball card product sold on Shop at Home was either found to be a fraud or absolutely worthless. I remember the two Baseball Card publications having their words against Shop at Home, it was a huge black eye for home shopping.
 
feeball said:
The only long-lasting memory I have of Shop at Home was Don West shilling baseball cards at the top of his lungs. Just about every baseball card product sold on Shop at Home was either found to be a fraud or absolutely worthless. I remember the two Baseball Card publications having their words against Shop at Home, it was a huge black eye for home shopping.
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I remember him. Someone lady that owned a knicknack store near where I used to live told me the stuff on there back in the day was worthless. I assume the sports collectables they have know are worth something because I've seen some of the same stuff on legit websites and the network is under different ownership/management.
 
The shop-at-home thing has gotten so bad that even NBC does it very early in the morning, after they finish their Tonight Show repeat at 3:30pm. I think it comes on at about 4:30am eastern til 5:30am. Sad, really.
 
I'm not sure, but I think you can still hear Don screaming on TNA Wrestling broadcasts each week on Spike TV.
 
Kevin Lagasse said:
I'm not sure, but I think you can still hear Don screaming on TNA Wrestling broadcasts each week on Spike TV.
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Yeah, it's the same Don West. From shilling baseball cards to shilling matches with Sting.
Speaking of wrestling, TNA is supposed to break away from the NWA either tomorrow or after the pay per view.
 
MarcB said:
dhett said:
There was another: HSE (Home Shopping Español). It was short-lived; HSN shut it down in 2002 after only 3 years in operation.
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I didn't know that it was a 24 hour network. I remember it aired a few hours a day on Galavision.

There was also BET Shop too. I remember it aired Saturday Nights on BET. It was done by Tina Berry, an African American Show host on HSN. Was that a 24 hour network or was that just an expeirment?
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I don't know whether it was a 24-hr network or not. It did run at least 12 hrs/day. I know channel 41 in Phoenix used to carry HSE; I assumed it was 24 hrs/day.
 
feeball said:
Kevin Lagasse said:
I'm not sure, but I think you can still hear Don screaming on TNA Wrestling broadcasts each week on Spike TV.
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Yeah, it's the same Don West. From shilling baseball cards to shilling matches with Sting.
Speaking of wrestling, TNA is supposed to break away from the NWA either tomorrow or after the pay per view.
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Since the NWA name in its current form has about as much value as those bootleg baseball cards West used to shill and TNA is just the Kevin Nash Comedy Hour now, most people who watch won't notice the difference.
 
fredflintstone said:
What do you call one less shopping network?
A good start.
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Hey! Didn't that start out life as a lawyer joke?

fredflintstone said:
I am not a fan of government regulation, but the FCC should them down - all of them - and the infomercials, too. Certainly on broadcast television (and radio). Any broadcaster who works in that area has completely sold his soul (if any).
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The regulatory solution is actually quite simple: broadcast channels that devote more than a certain percentage of their programming day to paid programming, infomercials, and/or home shopping programs would lose "must carry" status for cable and satellite carriage. They also shouldn't be entitled to the presumption of having served the public interest at license renewal time -- which would have the effect of opening up their licenses to competing applicants.
 
NBC pulled the shopping stuff late night to replace it with Poker All Night. (at least in most markets.) Comes on now after Carson and I believe they've dropped the reruns of Leno and Conan. They still have the SHopNBC channel.
 
CraigD said:
NBC pulled the shopping stuff late night to replace it with Poker All Night. (at least in most markets.) Comes on now after Carson and I believe they've dropped the reruns of Leno and Conan. They still have the SHopNBC channel.
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Poker All Night? Yeah, that's so much better than shopping. Way to cash in on the tail end of a passing fad, NBC.
 
How much does a local station make running infomercials? Or is it about the same that they would have taken in with a TV stations sales staff being lazy??
 
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