The plan — designed to thwart a potential hostile takeover — will grant one preferred stock purchase right for each share of HSN’s common stock held by stockholders of record as of Jan. 5.  It will become exercisable in the event a person or group acquires ownership of 15 percent or more of HSN’s common stock.  (Current, large stockholders, such as Liberty Media, are exempted.)  BusinessWeek Dec. 29, 2008

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