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German Shopping Channels QVC and Channel 21 Acquire Terrestrial Capacity

admin — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:00:03 +0000

The two channels will be available to approximately 2.3 to 3 million viewers in the area surrounding the cities of Frankfurt am Main and Wiesbaden in the German stat of Hesse. Broadband TV News (UK) Jun. 22, 2010

SES WORLD SKIES Announces Addition of HSN HD to its HD-PRIME Distribution Platform

admin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 20:31:17 +0000

SES WORLD SKIES, a division of SES S.A. (SESG)(LuxX:SESG), today announced the rapid uptake of HSN HD on its HD-PRIME distribution platform and the delivery of 100 HD channels over its satellites. Michelle Wilkins, Vice President of Broadcast Engineering for HSN, said “HSN created TV shopping more than 30 years ago and we continue to innovate and raise the bar with on-screen advancements like HD.” SES World Skies Press Release at Investors Business Daily Apr. 12, 2010

QVC Unveils Mobile Shopping App for iPhone

admin — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:09:32 +0000

QVC iPhone App

In addition to providing robust seach-and-shopping functionality, the application nods in the direction of the social networking craze with “recommend-to-friends” and “remind-me-later” features. What’s more, in a fit of generosity, the retailer is offering the application for free! IntoMobile.com Dec. 4, 2009

Verizon Latest Cable Carrier to Offer HSN’s Shopping Widget

admin — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:17:20 +0000

Verizon Fios joins Comcast, Dish Network and Time Warner Cable’s Oceanic Serivce in offering HSN’s Shop by Remote shopping widget. The service offers different functionality on different services. Multichannel News Dec. 3, 2009

Local TV Stations Face Uncertain Future

admin — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:51:56 +0000

Long on the wane, their profits have been battered since the recession began in late 2007. To add insult to injury, ow some industry heavyweights are imagining a future without them. In December, CBS Corp.’s chief executive Leslie Moonves said that moving the CBS network to cable would be “a very interesting proposition.” WSJ article is an excellent overview of the television business over the past few decades. The Wall Street Journal Feb. 10, 2009 Paid subscription may be required.

Profits Fall, but Subscribers Increase at DirecTV

admin — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:51:57 +0000

DirecTV Group Inc., the largest U.S. satellite-television provider, reported a 4.6 percent drop in fourth-quarter profit after spending more to attract customers in a slowing economy. That investment paid off in the form of an additional 301,000 U.S. TV subscribers the year-ago period. That seems pretty good, given the times, or as one stock analyst put it, “DirecTV has, at least so far, been as little impacted by the recession as any company in America.” Bloomberg Feb. 10, 2009

Verizon Adds HSN in HD to FiOS Line-Up in Massachusetts and Rhode Island

admin — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:21:47 +0000

HSN in HD was one of thirteen new channels Verizon added to its FiOS service in the two New England states. The Boston Globe Verizon Press Release Feb. 6, 2009

Verizon Adds HSN to Fios Line-Up in Seattle

admin — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 21:10:42 +0000

HD-Report (High Definition Television and Gaming News) Jan. 29, 2009

Religion is Out, TV Shopping is In…

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:43:33 +0000

At least that’s the way it’s going to be for Time Warner Cable subscribers in the California desert. The cable operator has bumped a religious channel up the dial to digital and replaced it with HSN on its basic TV package. Chock one up for consumerism! The Desert Sun (Palm Springs, CA) Oct. 9, 2008

HSN to Use Web-to-TV Technology in Hawaii

admin — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:06:23 +0000

HSN will take advantage of technology from ActiveVideo Networks that converts worldwide web video for viewing on a television set to give customers of Time Warner Cable’s Occeanic system in Hawaii greater control over their viewing experience. The roll-out of this technology by Time Warner comes on the heels of a successful test during the summer Olympics, which allowed subscribers to view “…single-screen mosaic coverage of multiple channels of broadcast and cable Olympics programming as well as Olympics news, photo albums, schedules and other content acquired from Web RSS feeds.” Presumably, that functionality will enable HSN to offer a “hybrid-type” shopping experience, incorporating the breadth of a website or catalog with the depth and excitement of a live, TV pitch. Broadcasting & Cable Oct. 8, 2008