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ShopHQ
ShopHQ 2019 Logo.png
LaunchedMarch 12, 1991
Owned byiMedia Brands Inc. (Comcast [1] [12.5%])
Picture format 480i (SDTV)
1080i (HDTV)
SloganBe Good to Yourself
Country United States
Language English
Broadcast areaNationwide
Headquarters Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States
Formerly calledValueVision (1991–2000)
ShopNBC (2000–2013)
ShopHQ (2013–2015)
Evine Live (2015–2016)
Evine (2016–2019)
Website shophq.com
Availability
Terrestrial
Available in most marketsCheck local listings for stations
Satellite
DirecTV Channel 316 & 73
Dish Network Channel 134 & 228
Cable
Verizon FiOS Channel 657 (HD)
Channel 157 (SD)
AT&T U-verse Channel 1424 (HD)
Channel 424 (SD)
Channel 39 (SD)
Streaming media
Live Stream Watch live (YouTube)
Digital media receiver Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV
iMedia Brands Inc.
Public
Traded as NASDAQ:  IMBI (Class A) [2]
Russell Microcap Index component
IndustryCatalog & mail order houses [2]
Founded1990 [2]
Headquarters
Eden Prairie, MN [2]
,
US
Number of locations
2 (HQ, warehouse)
Key people
Bob Rosenblatt (CEO) [3]
ServicesSales
RevenueIncrease2.svg $666.65M
Increase2.svg $.077M
Increase2.svg $(2.515)M
Total assets Increase2.svg $233.7M
Total equity Increase2.svg $78.208M
Number of employees
957 [2]
Parent The Clinton Group (control)
Website investors.imediabrands.com/overview/default.aspx
Footnotes /references
[2]

ShopHQ, formerly known as Evine, is a multi-channel video retailer and American cable, satellite and broadcast television network. Owned by iMedia Brands Inc., the channel is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. [4] The home shopping channel's main competitors are Qurate's HSN and QVC.

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History

ValueVision

ValueVision was founded in June 1990 and began broadcasting in 1991.[ citation needed ]

ShopNBC/HQ

In 2000, NBC purchased a share of the company. [5] In November of that year, ValueVision was rebranded as ShopNBC, including a logo with the NBC peacock. [6]

NBC American television and radio network

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial terrestrial television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast. The network is headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, with additional major offices near Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia. The network is one of the Big Three television networks. NBC is sometimes referred to as the "Peacock Network", in reference to its stylized peacock logo, introduced in 1956 to promote the company's innovations in early color broadcasting. It became the network's official emblem in 1979.

The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) has used several corporate logos over the course of its history. The first logo was used in 1926 when the radio network began operations. Its most famous logo, the peacock, was first used in 1956 to highlight the network's color programming. While it has been in use in one form or another for all but four years since then, the peacock did not become part of NBC's main logo until 1979 and did not become the network's sole logo until 1986. The logos were designed by NBC itself. The first logo incorporated design from parent company RCA, and was a unique logo not related to the NBC radio network.

Reports surfaced in 2010 stating NBC would sell its stake in ValueVision, due in part to NBC Universal's pending merger with Comcast. NBCUniversal formally announced that it would sell its stake back to ValueVision Media in May 2010, [7] but ultimately decided in June 2010 to retain its stake in the company. [8]

Comcast American telecommunications company

Comcast Corporation is an American telecommunications conglomerate headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is the second-largest broadcasting and cable television company in the world by revenue and the largest pay-TV company, the largest cable TV company and largest home Internet service provider in the United States, and the nation's third-largest home telephone service provider. Comcast services U.S. residential and commercial customers in 40 states and in the District of Columbia. As the owner of the international media company NBCUniversal since 2011, Comcast is a producer of feature films and television programs intended for theatrical exhibition and over-the-air and cable television broadcast, respectively.

ValueVision acquired NBCUniversal's financial stake in the company in 2013, and announced the network would be renamed ShopHQ (visually branded as SHQP). [4] Mark Cuban's American Dream aired on the network in 2014, and was part of a plan under the Clinton Group management to feature more celebrity hosts. [9]

Mark Cuban American billionaire entrepreneur

Mark Cuban is an American businessman and investor. He is the owner of the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s Dallas Mavericks, co-owner of 2929 Entertainment and chairman of AXS TV. He is also one of the main "shark" investors on the ABC reality television series, Shark Tank. In 2011, Cuban wrote an e-book, How to Win at the Sport of Business, in which he chronicles his experiences in business and sports.

Evine

On February 13, 2015, the ShopHQ network was rebranded as EVINE Live, following ValueVision Media's acquisition of e-commerce company Dollars Per Minute, the owner of the EVINE trademark, in order to distance itself from the reputation it held under ValueVision/ShopNBC/ShopHQ. [10] The network hired former QVC host Kathy Levine, and has featured merchandise branded under different reality TV stars, including Lisa Vanderpump and Countess Luann DeLesseps. The company has also premiered concepts from other well-known celebrities, including Paula Deen, Vanessa Williams, Nancy O’Dell, Holly Robinson Peete, Karen Fairchild, Dr. Terry Dubrow and Heather Dubrow, Todd English, Donny Osmond and Bob Vila. It also sells products on its e-commerce website, Evine.com.

Paula Deen American cook, cooking show host, restaurateur, author, actress, and television personality

Paula Ann Hiers Deen is an American TV personality and cooking show host. Deen resides in Savannah, Georgia, where she owns and operates The Lady & Sons restaurant and Paula Deen's Creek House with her sons, Jamie and Bobby Deen. She has published fifteen cookbooks. Though married since 2004 to Michael Groover, she uses the last name Deen, from her first marriage.

Vanessa Williams American actress, singer and former Miss America

Vanessa Lynn Williams is an American singer, actress, and fashion designer. She initially gained recognition as the first woman of African-American descent to receive the Miss America title when she was crowned Miss America 1984 in 1983. However, a scandal arose the following year when, a few weeks prior to the end of her reign, Williams learned that Penthouse magazine would be publishing unauthorized nude photographs of her in an upcoming issue. Amid growing media controversy and scrutiny, Williams resigned as Miss America in July 1984, and was replaced by first runner-up Miss New Jersey Suzette Charles. Thirty-two years later, Miss America CEO Sam Haskell offered her a public apology for the events of 1984.

Holly Robinson Peete American actress

Holly Elizabeth Robinson Peete is an American actress and singer. She is known for her roles as Judy Hoffs on the Fox TV police drama 21 Jump Street, Vanessa Russell on the ABC sitcom Hangin' with Mr. Cooper, and Dr. Malena Ellis on the NBC/WB sitcom For Your Love. She also served as one of the original co-hosts of the CBS Daytime talk show, The Talk.

EVINE Live launched a high definition feed of the channel in 1080i (including the acquisition of HD tier channel slots under new carriage agreements) the same year, but until September 2017, remained in standard definition, merely rebroadcasting the SD feed. The network converted to an upscaled standard definition widescreen presentation in the fall of 2016, and quietly upgraded to HD a year after.

In July 2016, EVINE dropped 'Live' from their on-air name.

Return to ShopHQ

On July 17, 2019, Evine Live Inc. began doing business under the new corporate banner of iMedia Brands Inc, with their shares traded under a new ticker of IMBI; Invicta Watch Group (which has a number of hours on the network as its largest vendor) invested an additional $6 million into the company. The television network returned to the ShopHQ name effective August 21 [11] , which the company used between 2013 and 2015, with the cited reason being market research suggesting confusion with the "E" name being confused for an entertainment news brand such as E! or Entertainment Tonight . The company announced plans to launch a Spanish-speaking shopping channel called LaVenta Shopping Network, along with the male-focused Bulldog Shopping Network. [12]

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WWDP, virtual channel 46, is a dual Shop LC/ShopHQ-affiliated television station serving Boston, Massachusetts, United States that is licensed to Norwell. The station is owned by WRNN-TV Associates. WWDP's studios are located on Bert Drive, and its transmitter is located off Pleasant Street, both in West Bridgewater.

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.

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Shop CJ is a 24-hour home shopping channel broadcast in India, and operated by Shop CJ Network Pvt. Ltd.. The channel was formed in March 2009 and was jointly owned by STAR India and CJ O Shopping Co. Ltd. of South Korea as a 50-50 Joint Venture. In June 2014 STAR India sold its stake in the company to Providence Equity Partners, a New York based Private Equity firm and the company was rebranded in early 2015.

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  6. ↑ "ValueVision network becomes ShopNBC". Broadcasting & Cable. March 12, 2001. Retrieved June 24, 2010.
  7. ↑ NBC to Sell Stake in ShopNBC, MultiChannel News, May 20, 2010
  8. ↑ Brooks Suzukamo, Leslie (June 24, 2010). "NBC holding on to ValueVision stake, for now". St. Paul Pioneer Press . Retrieved June 25, 2010.
  9. ↑ Halter, Nick (October 6, 2014). "Mark Cuban's other TV show brings him back to Minnesota". Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal. American City Business Journals. Retrieved February 13, 2015.
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  11. ↑ Crosby, Jackie (21 August 2019). "Eden Prairie home shopping network is now ShopHQ again; Evine is rebranding to a former name in a broader effort to reignite home-shopping sales". Star Tribune . Retrieved 21 August 2019.
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