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Yet Another Shopping Network Biting the Dust

MarcB

MarcB

Last year we saw HSN shut down its second network America's Store and this year we saw the second shut down of The Shop-at-Home Network, now another shopping channel is biting the dust.

The Jewelry Channel (not to be confused with Jewelry Television), is shutting down on July 20th. TJC (as it is listed on the on-screen guides on DIRECTV and DISH NETWORK is one of those stupid Reverse Auction Networks (much like GEMS-TV). Late last week DISH NETWORK had a scrolling message that the network wouldn't be available after July 7th. That has changed to July 20th. The network is doing Inventory Liquidation and All Sales Are Final.

Honestly I had never heard of TJC until my parents got DIRECTV in May.

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2008/06/16/daily8.html
 
National TV/Re: Yet Another Shopping Network Biting the Dust

I don't know if it had anything to do with shopping channels or the internet, but Boston's PBS outlet, WGBH-TV, did not hold an on-the-air-all-the-time auction the first two weeks in June. True, they ran the kind of detritus that usually airs during "Pledge Periods", but some normal PBS fare aired too.
 
oldschooltv said:
KML-224 said:
Cool! One less channel to worry about! :)
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Thank God!
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And destined to take The Jewelry Channel's place? Another religious channel, probably. :D
 
dhett said:
Nate Wesley said:
oldschooltv said:
KML-224 said:
Cool! One less channel to worry about! :)
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Thank God!
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And destined to take The Jewelry Channel's place? Another religious channel, probably. :D
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Is that a bad thing? ;)
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If you're not religious, yeah. You can't exactly switch them out for the atheist channels you really want (kidding).

Seriously, subscription television is bad enough filled with its niche shopping channels and its niche religious stations and its uber-niche religious shopping channels. Some contraction in these genres probably isn't the end of the world. Then again, if viewers don't make enough donations to either type... :D
 
When QVC goes ... hopefully during a last second sale on "HD" Radios ... that's when it's the END as we'll know it.

That's when it's time to drink the Kool-Aid, put the cloth triangles on the bed, put the aluminum foil hat on and go nite-nite.
 
Hi everyone:
oldschooltv said:
KML-224 said:
Cool! One less channel to worry about! :)
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Thank God!

Now if only infomercials would start to disappear...
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The same with those stupid so-called "Reality" shows.

By that I mean EACH & EVERY such show EXCEPT the following should disappear....

Reality Shows which actually fit the genre and aren't ones that are merely "passed off" as such....

* COPS
* America's Most Wanted
* Police Videos
* America's Funniest Home Videos (The show starring US - AMERICA! :) )
* Maximum Exposure (Although this looks more like a cross between America's Funniest Home Videos and the aforementioned Police Videos series and is mostly in reruns anyway, but at least it beats the other crap out there)

The shows I think can stay on, but need to be re-labeled and might have a much better chance of survival if moved to a more appropriate network are as follows....

* Deal Or No Deal (Game Show)
* Million Dollar Password (Game Show)
* Smarter Than A 5th Grader (Game Show)
* American Idol (Talent Show)
* Last Comic Standing (Talent Show)
* Dancin' With The Stars (Talent Show)
* So You Think You Can Dance (Talent Show)
* Hell's Kitchen (Cooking Show)

I know I'm probably missing a few, but at least that's a list to start building on.

Just my $.02 worth :)

Cheers :)
 
quadraphonic said:
Man alive, The SPAM CHANNEL is the most niche channel there is.
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Technically speaking, "SPAM" would fall under the territory of Food Network, though I doubt the eliteist chefs there would touch the stuff with a 10 foot pole. ;D
 
The Jewelry Channel is one of the stupidest damn things I've ever seen. They start off with some piece of junk costume jewelry ring and set the price at something outrageous e.g. $2600. Then the price keeps dropping like a stone as "fewer and fewer" pieces remain (yeah, right). At the very end, when there are only "2 rings left!," the final price comes up on the screen followed by a graphic which says that EVERYONE will get to purchase the ring at the final price.

This is the very definition of television for morons. But when it goes, will Comcast replace it with something I would like but don't currently have? Probably not. What they do here is just close down the entire channel while telling you that "for technical reasons we are unable to provide any further content on this particular channel." Then they raise my rates.
 
Re: National TV/Re: Yet Another Shopping Network Biting the Dust

Laurence Glavin said:
I don't know if it had anything to do with shopping channels or the internet, but Boston's PBS outlet, WGBH-TV, did not hold an on-the-air-all-the-time auction the first two weeks in June. True, they ran the kind of detritus that usually airs during "Pledge Periods", but some normal PBS fare aired too.
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It's interesting you bring that up, because I've noticed that another thing that's starting to be redundant is PBS Pledge drives. For many years, they would interrupt programming, cut shows short, to have people talking for about 10 minutes and beg people to pledge. I think WGBH only does it once a year now, if even that.
 
These shopping newtorks are highly marketed and designed to max profitablity. It doesn't surprise me when one goes because the backers of said network have it planned out to the penny what the return should be.

The fact they use purchases NOT callers and NOT viewers to determain their viablity makes it very easy for them to stick around or pull the plug. The same for infomercials, who can tell within 20 after a the infomercial airs if it'll work or to go on to another infomercial.

I think the Internet hasn't worked out a good way to find impulse buys. No one really just browses the Internet for anything, though eBay has several options to do this. It's just way too full of spammy things to make it a worthwhile thing.
 
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