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DH Direct with Jim Peck
Step into the world of DH Direct, a bold venture crafted by the retail giants at Minneapolis based Dayton-Hudson Corporation. With their empire spanning Dayton and Hudson department stores alongside the ubiquitous Target chain, the stage was set for retail domination. Yet, even with all their retail prowess, success on their nightly syndicated show, a one-hour extravaganza of salesmanship, proved elusive.
Picture this: the opening segment unfolds, promising a tantalizing glimpse into what DH Direct has to offer. Did it captivate you? Would you have tuned in, eager to witness the spectacle?
Delve into the captivating world of the TV shopping industry and infomercials with the podcast "Are We On The Air?©", accessible on all major podcast platforms.
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CVN 1987 Cable Value Network
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Welcome to 1987, where CVN, the Cable Value Network, is your ticket to excitement! Join host Dan Dennis for a whirlwind of quick segments that'll keep you on the edge of your seat. But wait, there's more! Strap in for a thrilling 20-minute ride with the charismatic Steve Sedahl, who's not just selling products - he's making dreams come true. From telescopes that unveil the mysteries of the univ...
So you want to be a show host
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Being a show host on QVC or HSN might seem glamorous-just a few hours on-air, then off to relax, right? Not quite! On this podcast, we peel back the curtain to reveal everything viewers don't see. It's these behind-the-scenes moments that determine who thrives and who falters in the business. Later, we'll play a clip from HSN showing how the price game is making a dramatic comeback. And stick a...
Christmas 1993 ValueVision greeting
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Overnight broadcasts on a TV shopping network were once a tightly-knit community of colleagues and viewers. Viewers familiarized themselves with the production team, as each night we operated independently. Overnight Director Neil garnered a dedicated following, receiving letters and postcards from across the nation. In this Christmas greeting from host Shawn Wilsie, Neil is prominently feature...
ValueVision promotional spot 1993
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In 1993, ValueVision was predominantly broadcasted on low-power UHF stations, accounting for the video quality you see today. This was the common viewing experience for many. This promotional commercial aimed to introduce new customers to the network, fostering confidence in their viewing choices by showcasing the brand behind the screen. Delve into the captivating world of the TV shopping indu...
HSN Home Shopping Networks 19th birthday in 1996
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Step into the time machine to 1996, where the Home Shopping Network was in full swing celebrating its 19th birthday bash! Take a thrilling journey back with hosts Bob Circosta and Bobbi Ray as they roll out the red carpet for a spectacular behind-the-scenes tour of the "museum of modern shopping." Join Bob as he unveils iconic treasures from HSN's storied history, offering an exclusive peek at ...
HSC gets examined by Sixty Minutes
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The tv show 60 Minutes profiles the goings on at HSC in this segment. An extensive behind the scenes look is given to the viewer, of how Home Shopping Club operates. If you are interested in the TV shopping industry and infomercials, check out the podcast “Are We On The Air?©”, available on all podcast platforms. Delve into the captivating world of the TV shopping industry and infomercials with...
Opening to Home Shopping Club bargathon
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The Bargathon was an always highly anticipated event. On this day, as Bob Circosta and Uncle Bud open the show, the viewer had no idea that "60 Minutes" was there filming for the TV show, which is posted elsewhere. If you are interested in the TV shopping industry and infomercials, check out the podcast “Are We On The Air?©”, available on all podcast platforms. Delve into the captivating world ...
Early STN Shop Television Network
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A quick video of some STN, Shop Television Network during the break they would take between shows. If you are interested in the TV shopping industry and infomercials, check out the podcast “Are We On The Air?©”, available on all podcast platforms. Delve into the captivating world of the TV shopping industry and infomercials with the podcast "Are We On The Air?©", accessible on all major podcast...
The Fashion Channel in 1987
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Video of the Fashion Channel in the pre CVN-owned and QVC-owned is far and few between. Here is a quick clip from its earliest days. If you are interested in the TV shopping industry and infomercials, check out the podcast “Are We On The Air?©”, available on all podcast platforms. Delve into the captivating world of the TV shopping industry and infomercials with the podcast "Are We On The Air?©...
Charla Rhines on CVN
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Charla Rhines recently returned to ShopHQ after a long absence. Here she is in 1987 on CVN, the Cable Value Network. If you are interested in the TV shopping industry and infomercials, check out the podcast “Are We On The Air?©”, available on all podcast platforms. Delve into the captivating world of the TV shopping industry and infomercials with the podcast "Are We On The Air?©", accessible on...
CVN, Cable Value Network promotional commercial from 1986
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In the bustling media landscape of 1986, the Cable Value Network emerged, eager to make its mark among viewers. This captivating commercial aired across numerous cable networks, serving as a grand introduction to both the channel and the renowned personalities migrating from the Home Shopping Club, then the reigning titan of home shopping services. Delve into the captivating world of the TV sho...
Where did my favorite show host go?
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If you've ever watched a TV shopping network and suddenly your favorite host has vanished. It can leave you wondering what happened and no explanation is usually given. In this episode, we look at the hows and whys of show hosts disappearing from your favorite networks. Video of Mary Beth Roe announcing her retirement from QVC
CVN crosswords
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In 1988, the Cable Value Network initiated programming innovations by introducing dedicated morning and afternoon shows. Mark Brown hosted "CVN Crosswords," their rendition of a game show, in the afternoon segment. This format featured a fortunate home viewer attempting to solve a large-scale crossword puzzle. Delve into the captivating world of the TV shopping industry and infomercials with th...
ValueVision August 1991
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Transport yourself back to the summer of '91, a time when the airwaves crackled with anticipation, and television was in the midst of a thrilling evolution. Picture yourself in the heart of Minneapolis/St. Paul, where a fledgling network known as ValueVision was just beginning to carve its place in history. But this wasn't the polished, 24/7 powerhouse you would know. Oh no, back then, ValueVis...
QVC 1988, Paul Kelley and Pat James
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QVC 1988, Paul Kelley and Pat James
ShopHQ comings/goings and part II of the forgotten shopping networks
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ShopHQ comings/goings and part II of the forgotten shopping networks
STN cable system pitch tape
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STN cable system pitch tape
TelShop final 10 minutes of an episode
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TelShop final 10 minutes of an episode
DH Direct
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DH Direct
TelShop dream wheel misfire
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TelShop dream wheel misfire
CVN Cable Value Network contest drawing
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CVN Cable Value Network contest drawing
The Fashion Channel 1988 contest drawing
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The Fashion Channel 1988 contest drawing
Home Shopping Club plays BARGO
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Home Shopping Club plays BARGO
German shopping network Pearl TV with an Under 10 Euro show
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German shopping network Pearl TV with an Under 10 Euro show
QVC 50 in 50 tour, live from Minneapolis Minnesota
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QVC 50 in 50 tour, live from Minneapolis Minnesota
QVC/HSN Q1 results, Shop HQ happenings, what the host says vs what the viewer hears
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QVC/HSN Q1 results, Shop HQ happenings, what the host says vs what the viewer hears
Shop US Obscure tv shopping network
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Shop US Obscure tv shopping network
Sky Merchant tv shopping network December 1987
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Sky Merchant tv shopping network December 1987
The obscure TV shopping networks of the 80s
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The obscure TV shopping networks of the 80s

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  • @SusanParker-cx2qe
    @SusanParker-cx2qe 4 дні тому

    I absolutely cannot agree with some of your choices of great hosts. Alberti? Jen Coffey? Both never shut up and make the shows about themselves. I think in general the current broadcasts on HSN are far more professional and watchable. QVC has fallen off of a cliff

  • @ianframe195
    @ianframe195 7 днів тому

    I would love to see Bargain Hunters-All Episodes from July 7,1987-September 4,1987 and some SM also known as Studio Master which has not aired if there have an ABC News Special Report for 5 min,10 min,30 min,2,4 or 6 hours on Mega or OneDrive site itself of UA-cam site with video please. 😀😃😄😁🙂😍🤩👍

  • @vickimanager
    @vickimanager 8 днів тому

    I was a loyal Dayton's employee AND customer; I never heard of this!!

  • @retrorhythms
    @retrorhythms 12 днів тому

    Wow, this is really cool. First, the music and graphics are literally the stuff my childhood dreams were made of. On top of that, the hosts here had a believable banter that is notably more relaxed than hosts on some of the more well-known networks. This Noreen Harris is intriguing in her personality, especially! I'll have to set aside some time soon to check out your podcast. In the meantime, I'm an enthusiastic new subscriber to your channel.

  • @rudyiraheta80
    @rudyiraheta80 12 днів тому

    from sound ideas

  • @vickimanager
    @vickimanager 14 днів тому

    Hi Shawn, I'm sure I'm not alone in asking you to show us video of your pod, not just audio?

  • @GenXerJeri
    @GenXerJeri 14 днів тому

    Now we have the INTERNET! I'd like to go back to this time now.

  • @scottt988
    @scottt988 16 днів тому

    47 dollars for pants? Ouch.

    • @SFBenjaminK
      @SFBenjaminK 15 днів тому

      Well minimum wage was $3.50 per hour, That was the wages, I was working at pizza place back in 80s when i was a teenager, pack a cigarette was $1.10, gas was 97 cents per gallon, hamburger and cheeseburger it was under a dollar.. and most Americans was blue collar people. Ya good ole days.. That was before the freaking Democracy and corporates got greedy and corrupted and now is getting worse, and the most mind boggling still dumb people vote for this mother fathers, how freaking dumb can be

  • @WayneThePoet
    @WayneThePoet 16 днів тому

    Hey Shawn, do you also have the 20/20 expose they did around this time? A blast from the past!

  • @seattlegirl2077
    @seattlegirl2077 16 днів тому

    Aww Morley

  • @michelemahone
    @michelemahone 16 днів тому

    Shawn, tell the truth, you have a time machine. How else are you getting these gloriously horrid clips? I’m watching them on a loop!

  • @lovly2cu725
    @lovly2cu725 17 днів тому

    steve colantuono. we are related some how, he looks just like my dad. he passed a few years ago

  • @lovly2cu725
    @lovly2cu725 17 днів тому

    Todd Donahoe was a sports reporter on ABC TV LOS ANGELES

  • @michelemahone
    @michelemahone 17 днів тому

    That’s so glorious I almost burst into tears! I’m seriously considering taking a screenshot and commissioning a mural. I can’t pick a favorite: the hair, the utterly natural conversation style and body movements, or those state-of-the-art graphics. The fact that it’s one of the ‘whitest’ things I’ve ever seen, is gravy.😂

  • @thomasbayer1843
    @thomasbayer1843 21 день тому

    I think he did okay with the take used in the commercial!

  • @sandramartin6770
    @sandramartin6770 27 днів тому

    I notice newer hosts who lack a sales/broadcasting background give banter and entertainment. But product information such as fabric content, measurements, etc., is lacking. I miss the good old days. 🙂

  • @Rickdomeier-s3y
    @Rickdomeier-s3y 27 днів тому

    Well said Shawn

  • @denniscaldwell8193
    @denniscaldwell8193 28 днів тому

    Mary Beth had been planning her retirement for a long time. She sold her lake house to buy a forever home to retire in. Then put up her main house for sale and had a buyer to only back out at the last min. Then found another buyer and closed then announced her retirement. You have to admit QVC is spinning out of control between sales and new hosts.

  • @darrylh1971
    @darrylh1971 Місяць тому

    Shawn: Do you have any footage of the 1986 Nashville Network/TNN MONEY MANIA that ran overnight during TNN's signoff hours?

    • @ShawnWilsie
      @ShawnWilsie Місяць тому

      yes, I've already posted some and just found a tiny bit more

  • @tealsunset4026
    @tealsunset4026 Місяць тому

    The Quest for America's Best-QVC's 50 in 50 Tour: Minnesota Live via The QVC Local Wednesday, July 19, 1995 6-9pm ET with Mary Beth Roe, Rick Domeier & Paul Kelley

  • @ambsat
    @ambsat Місяць тому

    Just discovered your podcast today, listened to some fascinating episodes...one in particular was older 2022, with Marvin Segal...he mentions a good book to read on the subject, you had said you'd put in the episode notes, I don't see it there, unless I missed something.. Can you answer that here, pls if you see this? Tks! Great podcast...very interesting.

  • @lowen9778
    @lowen9778 Місяць тому

    CDN was aired from Houston Texas. I don't remember the channel, but I remember two of the hosts, Lisa Lamendola and Alan Stepp. Sadly, Lisa passed away of an overdose in 2017.

    • @ShawnWilsie
      @ShawnWilsie Місяць тому

      Oh no! I’m so very sorry to hear about Lisa.

  • @MrMatteNWk
    @MrMatteNWk Місяць тому

    1:20 Sounds like the voting music from America's Funniest Home Videos - same announcer too Ernie Anderson "Who will win the $10,000? 'Baby does something cute,' 'Dog chases itself,' or 'Man getting hit by football' We'll find out after this."

  • @mrmays9452
    @mrmays9452 Місяць тому

    lol😂

  • @John-km9ju
    @John-km9ju Місяць тому

    The history of television shopping networks is just fascinating! Shawn, I first started watching shopping channels (QVC) in the late 90s and enjoyed your watch show presentations when it was then, I think, ShopNBC. What do you think about QVC's new "Age of Possibility" focusing on 50+ consumers (a lot of Boomers out there)?

  • @cfs89
    @cfs89 Місяць тому

    I remember that Pirie Jones,who was on TelShop in 1987 was one of the original hosts of The Fashion Channel when it was based in California.

  • @mikebite229
    @mikebite229 Місяць тому

    she is hot...

  • @frankryder9325
    @frankryder9325 Місяць тому

    For sure ,, QVC TVSN to name a few !!

  • @3Storms
    @3Storms 2 місяці тому

    That was from when models weren't deliberately ofensive to the eye, they didn't have pink-haired pronoun camera crew, and they didn't yet undergo their rounds of laying off white hosts that people liked to make room for DEI hires with terrible personalities.

  • @cfs89
    @cfs89 2 місяці тому

    I loved Renai Ellison!! I remember she started out as a model and then became a host. ❤❤❤❤

  • @SusanParker-cx2qe
    @SusanParker-cx2qe 2 місяці тому

    So professional then. Not like the s..t show they have on today. No wonder they're losing money. Their hosts have become impossible to watch.

  • @19sonkyu
    @19sonkyu 2 місяці тому

    You can’t make this stuff up.

  • @SusanParker-cx2qe
    @SusanParker-cx2qe 2 місяці тому

    Its project Athens. Either way, its not working. Lol

  • @michelemahone
    @michelemahone 2 місяці тому

    You’re so great! Good to hear you, my friend.

  • @Emeraldmeg31
    @Emeraldmeg31 2 місяці тому

    That is terrifying lol.

  • @Emeraldmeg31
    @Emeraldmeg31 2 місяці тому

    Anthony Sullivan has created his own line of cbd products to help his daughter with a rare medical condition. It’s called Mount Kush. He’s walking an ethics fine line with his medical claims. I’m surprised the ftc is ok with that, but maybe he’s not on their radar. He’s on Shop HQ. You may already know all this but maybe didn’t want to bring it up. Liked the podcast!

  • @rudyiraheta80
    @rudyiraheta80 2 місяці тому

    0:00 galavision logo houston had a galavision affiliation on kpxb

  • @khriscaplinger4506
    @khriscaplinger4506 2 місяці тому

    It's really something seeing the cost of VCRs in those days and $390 then was like $1000 today and today VCRs are hard to find and the last time I saw one was in a flea market and was $5!, Lol,today a new DVD player is about $30 which is far more advanced than a VCR and Blue ray player is like $45

  • @cfs89
    @cfs89 2 місяці тому

    1987 closing credits from TelShop's 1st anniversary with Deanna Crowe,Mike Wagner and Madeline Press ua-cam.com/video/O7BG-IL8rGU/v-deo.htmlsi=0ani5-ykTIpW1QIZ

    • @ShawnWilsie
      @ShawnWilsie 2 місяці тому

      I've been trying to find a clean copy of the entire theme music for years, this is as close as I think we'll get.

  • @cfs89
    @cfs89 2 місяці тому

    Deanna Crowe had been there since fall 1986 shortly after Nicole Ericson left for CVN in Minneapolis. Mike Wagner I recall was an FNN anchor who joined the TelShop host team when Todd Donoho left.

  • @cfs89
    @cfs89 2 місяці тому

    This network became America's Jewelry Store for a short time in the early 2000s then America's Store. HSN pulled the plug on that network in 2007.

    • @ShawnWilsie
      @ShawnWilsie 2 місяці тому

      I completely forget they had the word "jewelry" in the name for a brief time.

    • @cfs89
      @cfs89 Місяць тому

      @@ShawnWilsie It was quite brief from what I recall. They added in more products in addition to jewelry and then soon after that dropped "Jewelry" from the channel name. In 2004,they did a huge revamp of America's Store with new sets (a loft style living room and kitchen) ,graphics and hosts. Margaux St. Ledger from QVC and Angela Gustafson from ShopNBC joined as hosts. Both were there about 2 years and left a year before HSN pulled the plug on the channel. They reused some of the new America's Store sets for a few years on HSN.

  • @cfs89
    @cfs89 2 місяці тому

    Yes,that's definitely Toni Price.

  • @zcam1969
    @zcam1969 2 місяці тому

    those VCR's were expensive when they first came out

  • @rudyiraheta80
    @rudyiraheta80 2 місяці тому

    i am in their area

  • @cfs89
    @cfs89 2 місяці тому

    The host at the end of the video is Pirie Jones,who went on to the Fashion Channel and then on to acting. She now is a motivational speaker.

    • @ShawnWilsie
      @ShawnWilsie 2 місяці тому

      not leaving home shopping easily, she was also a model on the tv shopping/game show hybrid I discussed on an earlier podcast, "Bargain Hunters".

  • @cfs89
    @cfs89 2 місяці тому

    The bubbly Erin Morrisey at HSN's Levitz Center studios in Clearwater. When Network 2 launched in 1986,they had a neon Home Shopping Club Network 2 sign. By 1987,they dropped that and went with the same look that Network 1 had as seen in this video. By the end of 1987, Home Shopping Network moved to their current massive studio campus and I recall that Home Shopping Overnight service launched at their Levitz Center studio a few months before the move.

  • @cfs89
    @cfs89 2 місяці тому

    When they first launched Home Shopping Club Overnight,it was located in their old studio at Levitz Center in Clearwater for several months. Then they moved it to their new studio campus in St Petersburg,where HSN is still located.

  • @cfs89
    @cfs89 2 місяці тому

    The lovely Michelle Roth and Deanna Crowe!! ❤❤❤❤❤

    • @ShawnWilsie
      @ShawnWilsie 2 місяці тому

      Michelle was also making history during this time, as the first woman to serve as game show announcer, with the 1986-87 season of "Crosswits", for which she did an AMAZING job.

  • @rudyiraheta80
    @rudyiraheta80 3 місяці тому

    which station was consumer discount network on

    • @ShawnWilsie
      @ShawnWilsie 2 місяці тому

      that was part of their problem, it was hard to find. they would usually share channel space with a regional sports network, or the playboy channel, both of which would only operate at night, so CDN would be on during the day.

    • @rudyiraheta80
      @rudyiraheta80 2 місяці тому

      @@ShawnWilsie i am from houston & where on analog was that on

    • @ShawnWilsie
      @ShawnWilsie 2 місяці тому

      my grandmother lived in Houston in this time, and I don't recall ever seeing CDN while there.

    • @rudyiraheta80
      @rudyiraheta80 2 місяці тому

      @@ShawnWilsie the studios are in westchase near alief where i am from

  • @rudyiraheta80
    @rudyiraheta80 3 місяці тому

    houston had the cvn network on channels 55 & 30 & 5