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12 unusual facts about Home Shopping Network


Home Shopping Game

Veteran game show host Bob Goen was the emcee; Bob Circosta, who was the first ever host on the Home Shopping Network, served as announcer/co-host, and Debbie Bartlett was the female model and assistant.

Jennifer Flavin

Flavin is also the co-founder of Serious Skin Care, a company which sells beauty treatments and cosmetics via the Home Shopping Network.

K25FW

K25FW is a Home Shopping Network affiliate for the Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex, licensed in Corsicana, Texas, owned and operated by Ventana Television, the holding company for HSN's low-power television stations.

K43GZ-D

K14IF was owned by Clarabelle F. Boone; under her ownership, the station began its affiliation with the Home Shopping Network.

KASN

It joined Fox in October 1986, but in 1988, KASN negotiated a merger with eventual sister station and then-independent KLRT that would have moved KASN's Fox network affiliation and syndicated programming to KLRT, while KASN would become an affiliate of the Home Shopping Network.

KBSE-LP

KBSE-LP is a low-power television station in Boise, Idaho, broadcasting locally on channel 33 as an affiliate of Home Shopping Network.

KTFQ-DT

The KTFQ-DT studio is co-located with Entravision, which operates a Joint Sales Agreement for KTFQ-DT and also owns two other stations in Albuquerque, Univisión affiliate KLUZ channel 41 and Home Shopping Network affiliate KTFA-LP channel 48.

KUPX-TV

The station had previously been the WB affiliate in the Salt Lake City, and Paxson continued that affiliation, but also replaced Home Shopping Network programming with Paxson's infomercial network, inTV, and religious programming.

KVPA-LD

Early programming is unknown, but later, the station aired the same programming, Home Shopping Network, as K25DM, which at the time was also owned by Broadcasting Systems, Inc.

Shop TV

SHOP TV is a 24-hour shopping related TV channel owned by Solar Entertainment Corporation in partnership with Home Shopping Network.

WCWG

During this time, WEJC's programming was split in approximately half between the Home Shopping Club and religious programming.

WNUV

The UPN affiliation moved to Home Shopping Network station WHSW (channel 24), which had been purchased by UPN part-owner Chris-Craft Industries and changed its callsign to WUTB.


Homemade Millionaire

Each week, three entrepreneurs and their products are tested and advised by coaches Ed Evangelista or Wendy Robbins as they pitch their product to the executives of Home Shopping Network (HSN) in New York.

KFTL-CD

KFTL airs Home Shopping Network 24 hours 7 days a week on digital subchannel 28.2; KFTL also airs Zuus Latino, the 24/7 Network, and ZUUS Country.

WJYS

In the early 1990s, WEHS (channel 60, then-owned by the Home Shopping Network, now UniMás owned-and-operated station WXFT-DT) tried to buy WJYS.

WNAI-LP

WNAI is in the Philadelphia media market, and it carries programming from the Home Shopping Network.

WPPX-TV

When Vineland, New Jersey-based independent WSJT (channe 65, now WUVP-DT) was sold to Home Shopping Network later that year, WTGI planned to acquire that station's programming inventory of mostly 1950s sitcoms.

WPXL-TV

former affiliations = independent (1989-1990)
silent (1990-1994)
HSN (1994-1998)
Pax TV (1998-2005)
i

WPXX-TV

The station initially aired programming from the Home Shopping Network (sharing the affiliation with Holly Springs, Mississippi-based WBUY-TV, channel 40), until Paxson Communications (now Ion Media Networks) began operating the station under a local marketing agreement in 1998, when the station became a charter affiliate of the upstart Pax TV network (now Ion Television).

WUTB

former affiliations = religious independent (1985–1987)
HSN (1987–1998)
UPN

WVPX-TV

Finally, in 1996, Paxson Communications – another company that specialized in home-shopping programs, though of the infomercial variety (and whose founder also launched the Home Shopping Network; although Paxson had owned a couple of major network affiliates years before, such as West Palm Beach, Florida ABC affiliate WPBF) – purchased WAKC.