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HSN, Inc. 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. It is based in the Gateway area of St. Petersburg, Florida , United States.
The network itself owns several low-power stations throughout the United States, usually under its broadcast division Ventana Television. Channel positions denoted with a 2 instead carry HSN2. Listings
ShopHQ – Generally thought of as the third-rated American home shopping network (behind the co-owned HSN and QVC, whose main and subnetworks now have wide brokered subchannel clearance), cable channel ShopHQ, formerly ValueVision and ShopNBC in the past, acquired main-channel major-market carriage controversially in June 2021, when WRNN-TV ...
Area served City of license VC RF Callsign Network Notes Allentown: Philadelphia: 35 9 WPPT: PBS: World on 35.2 : Allentown: 39 9 WLVT-TV: PBS: Create on 39.2, France 24 on 39.3 : Allentown ...
The channel was the Home Shopping Club, later Home Shopping Network, and Paxson's former radio man Bob Circosta was tapped as the network's first-ever host. HSN soon became a billion dollar enterprise and began the home shopping / electronic retailing industry. In 1996, the two sold HSN to Hollywood executive Barry Diller.
The concept of shopping channels was first popularized in the United States during the 1980s, when Lowell "Bud" Paxson and Roy Speer launched a local cable channel called the Home Shopping Club, which later expanded nationally as the Home Shopping Network (HSN). It soon faced competition from QVC, which eventually acquired HSN in 2017.
WUNE-TV: The Explorer Channel satellite of WUNC-TV ch. 4 Chapel Hill PBS on 17.1, PBS Kids on 17.3, The North Carolina Channel on 17.4 Charlotte: 18 18 WCCB: CW: Start TV on 18.2, MeTV on 18.3, QVC on 18.4, Heroes and Icons on 18.5, Dabl on 18.6, HSN on 18.7, Cozi TV on 18.8 Charlotte: 36 24 WCNC-TV: NBC
Area served City of license VC RF Callsign Network Notes Alexandria: Appleton: 7 7 KONC: TCT: Appleton: 10 10 KWCM-TV: PBS: Create on 10.2, Minnesota Channel on 10.3, World on 10.4, PBS Kids on 10.5, FNX on 10.6