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| Company type | Private |
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| Nasdaq: HSNI | |
| Industry | Cable Television Satellite Television |
| Founded | 1977; 48 years ago (1977) |
| Founders | Lowell Paxson Roy Speer |
| Fate | Acquired byLiberty Interactive Corporation in 2017, now co-owned with QVC |
| Headquarters | , United States |
Key people | Mindy Grossman (CEO, 2006–2017) |
| Parent | QVC Group (formerlyQurate Retail Group) (2017–present) |
| Divisions | Cornerstone Brands |
| Website | HSN.com |
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| Country | United States |
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| Broadcast area | Worldwide |
| Headquarters | West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Programming | |
| Picture format | 1080i (HDTV) (HD feed downgraded toletterboxed480i for theSDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | QVC Group (formerlyQurate Retail Group and before that, Liberty Interactive) |
| Sister channels | HSN2 |
| History | |
| Launched | September 20, 1982; 43 years ago (1982-09-20) |
| Former names | Home Shopping Club (1982–1985) Home Shopping Network (1985–2000) |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| ABC Owned Television Stations | -DT4 channel position;list of stations |
| Over-the-air as a subchannel | Consult local listings |
| Streaming media | |
| Digital media receiver | Roku andApple TV (4th generation) |
| Service(s) | DirecTV Stream,Pluto TV,Samsung TV Plus,Sling Freestream,The Roku Channel,YouTube TV, |
| Website | HSN Live Stream HSN2 Live Streaming |
HSN, Inc. an initialism of its former nameHome Shopping Network, is an Americanfree-to-airtelevision network owned by the QVC Group (formerlyQurate Retail Group), which also ownscatalog company Cornerstone Brands. It is based inWest Chester, Pennsylvania.
As of July 2014,Joy Mangano holds the record for most units sold in a day with 216,000 units of pillow sets.[1]
The forerunner of HSN was launched byLowell Paxson (who later establishedPAX-TV, which is now Ion Television) andRoy Speer in 1982 as theHome Shopping Club, a local cable channel seen onVision Cable andGroup W Cable inPinellas County, Florida. It expanded into the first national shopping network three years later on July 1, 1985, changing its name to theHome Shopping Network, and pioneering the concept of a televisedsales pitch for consumer goods and services. Its competitor and future ownerQVC was launched the following year.[2]
In 1986, HSN began a second network thatbroadcast free-to-air on a number oftelevision stations it had acquired under the name Silver King Broadcasting. In 1992, HSN spun off from Silver King Broadcasting, and afterwards saw Liberty Media acquire stock in the network.[3] In 1996, the station group was sold back to Silver King Broadcasting, which was now owned byBarry Diller,[4][5] and changed its name to "HSN Inc." after its merger with Silver King was completed.[6] Under Diller's leadership, the HSN also acquired theUSA Network,Sci-Fi Channel andUniversal Television in October 1997.[7] This resulted in HSN Inc. being changed to USA Network Inc.[8] The purchase was finalized in February 1998.[9]
In September 2000, Home Shopping Network changed its name to HSN.[10]
Mindy Grossman became CEO of HSN in 2006,[11] and aggressively reinvented and relaunched the brand. She took HSN public in 2008 and has overseen its multibillion-dollar retail portfolio and multimedia expansion.[12] Grossman left HSNi in May 2017 to helmWeight Watchers.[13]
In April 2017, HSN CEO Mindy Grossman stepped down to assume the CEO position atWeight Watchers.[14] On July 6, 2017, Liberty Interactive announced it would buy the remaining 62% of HSN stock it did not already own to acquire the company for its QVC Group. QVC CEO Mike George would be CEO of the combined company.[15]
In September 2018, HSN had partnered withPickler & Ben for a "shop the show" feature that allows viewers to buy featured items from HSN via the show's website and HSN.com.[16]
In May 2023, HSN's parent Qurate Retail Group's stock was facing a delisting from the Nasdaq if share prices were unable to rebound, as their stock had declined over 80% over the past year.[17] In October 2023, CreditRiskMonitor reported that Qurate Retail Group was nearing a potentialChapter 11 bankruptcy filing.[18]
On February 21, 2025, HSN's parent Qurate Retail Group officially changed its name to QVC Group.
Until 2025, HSN's United States operations were based inSt. Petersburg, Florida, which housed its corporate headquarters, studio and broadcasting facilities. Additionalcall center facilities are located inRoanoke, Virginia &Toledo, Ohio. Distribution centers are situated in Roanoke,Piney Flats, Tennessee, andFontana, California. In October, 2018 Quarate announced the closure of the Roanoke distribution center in favor of a combined QVC/HSN distribution center to be located in Bethlehem, PA.[20] In January 2025, it was announced that HSN would be closing its St. Petersburg headquarters and relocating toWest Chester, Pennsylvania, home of HSN andQVC parent companyQurate Retail Group.[21]
As of today, HSN and QVC are carried over the digital public airwaves and can be viewed without a cable subscription or a streaming device. Additionally, a new Streaming service was introduced to cable providers, which provides a different shopping experience compared to if a viewer went online and ordered merchandise.[22]
HSN National began with a standard rotary phone system that concentrated calls to the front of the queue. This corresponded to the front row of order takers in the HSN Studio at the Levitz Center (so named as the location was a former Levitz furniture store) inClearwater, Florida. After several months, this system was no longer adequate, and HSN entered a phase where a phone system fromGTE was used. HSN claimed that the system's inability to handle the high call volumes resulted in a loss of business. HSN sued GTE for $1.5 billion. In a counter-libel suit, GTE claimed that HSN had slandered the company; GTE won a $100 million judgment. Both parties settled out of court.[23]
HSN developed its original order-taking system on aBurroughs Large System mainframe using theLINC 10 fourth generation language.[24]
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