Rhonda Honey Shear is an American television personality, comedian, actress, and entrepreneur. She is known for her role as a host of the USA Network's weekend B-movie show, USA Up All Night, in the 1990s. In 2001, she started an intimate apparel business that was marketed on Home Shopping Network, with one of her most successful products being the Ahh Bra in 2010. She is a regular participant in Tampa Bay's annual Fashion Week events.
Health Sciences North is an academic health science centre in Greater Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. HSN offers a variety of programs and services, with regional programs in the areas of cardiac care, oncology, nephrology, trauma and rehabilitation. Patients visit HSN from a wide geographic area across northeastern Ontario.
QVC is an American free-to-air television network, and flagship shopping channel specializing in televised home shopping that is owned by Qurate Retail Group. Founded in 1986 by Joseph Segel in West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, QVC broadcasts to more than 350 million households in seven countries, including channels in the UK, Germany, Japan, and Italy, along with a joint venture in China with China National Radio called CNR Mall.
HSN, an initialism of its former name Home Shopping Network, is an American free-to-air television network owned by the Qurate Retail Group, which also owns catalog company Cornerstone Brands. Based in the Gateway area of St. Petersburg, Florida, United States, the home shopping channel has former and current sister channels in several other countries.
Tracey Elizabeth Bregman is an American soap opera actress. She is best known for the role of Lauren Fenmore on The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.
Lowell White "Bud" Paxson was an American media executive. In 1982, Paxson and his business partner, Roy Speer, co-founded the Home Shopping Club. He later established Pax TV in 1998, a television network focusing on family-friendly content.
America's Store was a US shopping television network. It was the spin-off channel to the Home Shopping Network (HSN). On April 3, 2007, America's Store ceased broadcasting permanently.
TSC, formerly The Shopping Channel, is a Canadian discretionary service channel that is owned by Rogers Sports & Media. The channel showcases various products which viewers can purchase either by telephone or internet.
WAMI-DT, virtual channel 69, is a UniMás owned-and-operated television station serving Miami and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States that is licensed to Hollywood, Florida. It is one of two East Coast flagship stations of the Spanish-language network. WAMI-DT is owned by the Univision Local Media subsidiary of Univision Communications, as part of a duopoly with Miami-licensed Univision co-flagship WLTV-DT. The two stations share studios known as "NewsPort" on Northwest 30th Terrace in Doral; WAMI-DT's transmitter is located in the Dale Village neighborhood of Pembroke Park, Florida. On cable, the station is carried on Comcast Xfinity channel 23.
John Cremeans is one of the first on-air home shopping hosts and is considered a pioneer in the home shopping industry. From 1985 to 2020, Cremeans's span of 35 consecutive years as a national television host and guest is rivaled by only a few in electronic retailing with over 35,000 live television hours, over $2 billion dollars in sales and over 100,000 product presentations. Cremeans returned to HSN as a guest from 2012 through 2016, and has been a guest presenter on EVINE, QVC UK, QVC Italy and HSE24 Germany.
The Shop at Home Network was a television network in the United States. Before its acquisition by Jewelry Television in 2006, Shop at Home was a public company which sold its broadcast network in 2002 to the E. W. Scripps Company which owned and operated the network from 2002 until 2006, when the network temporarily ceased operations on June 21. In 2006, competitor Jewelry Television bought Shop at Home from owner The E. W. Scripps Company along with all of Shop at Home's assets. The network primarily focused on home shopping programming, as indicated by the name. During Scripps' ownership, some of its programming was done in conjunction with other Scripps channels.
Bob Circosta is an American businessman and television host. He is television's first ever home shopping host and has achieved over one billion dollars in personal product sales on live television. His offices are in Clearwater, Florida, just a few miles from the Home Shopping Network (HSN)'s corporate building.
A home shopping host is the on-air host that partners with guests on television shopping channels, such as HSN, QVC, Jewelry Television and Evine. The job of a home shopping host is to introduce new presenters and guests to the television audience, and help these guests explain the values and features of the product being showcased.
Alice Cleveland is a former television home shopping host on HSN and most recently an on-air vendor representative on QVC.
Home shopping is the electronic retailing and home shopping channels industry, which includes such billion dollar television-based and e-commerce companies as Shop LC, HSN, Gemporia, TJC, QVC, eBay, ShopHQ, Buy.com and Amazon.com, as well as traditional mail order and brick and mortar retailers as Hammacher Schlemmer and Sears, Roebuck and Co. Home shopping allows consumers to shop for goods from the privacy of their own home, as opposed to traditional shopping, which requires one to visit brick and mortar stores and shopping malls.
Joy Mangano is an American inventor and entrepreneur known for inventions such as the self-wringing Miracle Mop. She was the president of Ingenious Designs, LLC, and appeared regularly on the US television shopping channel HSN until her departure in late 2018.
Helen Keaney is an American actress, comedian, and hostess on HSN. She was a cast member of "3 Blonde Moms" Previously she did national television commercials for various products including Clorox, Tylenol, Gateway, Degree Deodorant, Dr. Scholl's, Starkist, Thermacare and Verizon.
Anthony John "Sully" Sullivan, often called The OxiClean Man is an English producer and pitchman of media shopping in the United States, best known for his roles in television commercials. He is the founder and CEO of the Sullivan Productions, Inc. which produces commercial spots for brands such as OxiClean, Nutrisystem, and Arm & Hammer.
Mindy Grossman is the CEO of WW International. The Financial Times listed her in the top 50 women in world business in 2010 and 2011, and she has been ranked among Forbes' 100 most powerful women in the world for the years 2009, 2011, 2012, and 2013. In 2014 she was #22 in Fortune's Top People in Business.
Diane Gilman is an American clothing designer and shopping channel television personality on HSN, where she is known as the "Jean Queen". May 2014 marked her 20th anniversary on the retail network, where she built her $150 million jeans empire. She is the number one selling fashion brand on HSN, and also appears regularly on TSC, QVCItaly, and QVCuk.
