America's Store
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America's Store is a US shopping television network. It is the spin-off channel to the Home Shopping Network (HSN).
America's Store (AS) began in 1988 as the Home Shopping Club Overnight Service, which aired on broadcast stations around the USA from midnight to 9am and, in particular, on WWOR-TV from 3am to 6am in the New York City metro area. In 1989, HSN purchased a number of low-power TV stations and began operating the service 24 hours a day as Home Shopping SPREE. In 1997, the name was changed again to America's Jewelry Store to reflect a switch to selling exclusively jewelry. This incarnation met with limited success, so in 1998, the selection was expanded to include all of HSN's inventory categories, and the word jewelry was removed from the network's name. In 2003, AS was added to the DirecTV lineup. Dish Network, however, will not pick up the channel at any time soon.
The low-power TV stations owned by HSN with partners and affiliated companies were located in every major metropolitan market - including a transmitter atop the World Trade Center until September 11, 2001.
Much of the merchandise presented by AS is "distressed" inventory from HSN, so the prices are usually dropped until liquidated or removed from air.
Interestingly, competitor QVC had a spin-off channel called "Q2", which only lasted during the mid-1990s. Following Barry Diller's exit from QVC and purchase of HSN many former Q2 employees followed him to HSN and America's Store.
[edit] Current hosts
Current hosts appearing on America's Store include (in alphabetical order; names in bold denote hosts also appearing on HSN):
- Liz Benbrook
- Tina Berry
- Alyce Caron
- Bill Green
- Angela Gustafsson
- Rich Hollenberg
- Brian Hyder
- Michele Lau
- Margaux St Ledger
- Lori Leland
- Diana Perkovic
- Michelle Ragland
- Alan Skantz
- Perry Slater
- Marlo Tejera
- Allison Waggoner
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