Home Shopping Club
| Home Shopping Network | |
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| Launched | 1982 |
| Owned by | HSN, Inc. (Liberty Interactive)) |
| Picture format |
1080i (HDTV) (HD feed downgraded to letterboxed 480i for SDTVs) |
| Slogan | It's Fun Here. |
| Country | United States |
| Broadcast area | Worldwide |
| Headquarters | St. Petersburg, Florida, United States |
| Formerly called | Home Shopping Club (1982–1985) |
| Sister channel(s) | HSN2 |
| Website | hsn |
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Availability
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| Terrestrial | |
| Available in most markets | Check local listings for stations |
| Ion Television O&Os | xx.6 (check local listings for channel number) |
| Satellite | |
| Dish Network | 84 HSN (SD only) 226 HSN2 (SD) |
| DirecTV | 240 (SD only) 1240 VOD |
| Cable | |
| Check local listings | Available on most cable providers |
| IPTV | |
| AT&T U-verse | 1422 (HD) 422 (SD) |
| Verizon FiOS | 651 (HD) 151 (SD) |
| Streaming media | |
| Digital media receiver | Roku and Apple TV (4th generation) |
| Public | |
| Traded as |
NASDAQ: HSNI S&P 400 Component |
| Industry | Cable Television Satellite Television |
| Founded | 1982 |
| Founders |
Lowell Paxson Roy Speer |
| Headquarters | St. Petersburg, Florida, United States |
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Key people
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Mindy Grossman (CEO (2006-2017)) |
| Parent | Liberty Interactive |
| Divisions | Cornerstone Brands |
| Website | www |
Home Shopping Network (HSN) is an American broadcast, basic cable and satellite television network that is owned by HSN, Inc. (NASDAQ: HSNI), which also owns catalog company Cornerstone Brands. Based in St. Petersburg, Florida, United States, the home shopping channel has former and current sister channels in several other countries. HSN also has an online outlet at HSN.com.
Mindy Grossman is a former CEO of the company. She became CEO of HSN in 2006, and aggressively reinvented and relaunched the brand. She took HSN public in 2008, and overseen its multibillion-dollar retail portfolio and multimedia expansion. Mindy Grossman left HSNi in May 2017 to helm the Weight Watchers corporation.
The forerunner of HSN was launched by Lowell "Bud" Paxson and Roy Speer in 1982 as the Home Shopping Club, a local cable channel seen on Vision Cable and Group W Cable in Pinellas County, Florida. It expanded into the first national shopping network three years later on July 1, 1985, changing its name to the Home Shopping Network, and pioneering the concept of a televised sales pitch for consumer goods and services. Its competitor and future owner QVC was launched the following year.
The idea for HSN had its roots in a radio station managed by Paxson. Due to an advertiser's liquidity problem in 1977, the company was paid in can openers. Left with having to raise the funds, on-air personality Bob Circosta went on the radio and sold the can openers for $9.95 each. The can openers sold out, and an industry was born. Circosta later became the new network's first ever home shopping host and would eventually sell 75,000 different products in over 20,000 hours of live television.
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