The QVC cable shopping channel, watched in more than 98 million households in the USA alone, sells everything from food to exercise equipment, from fine jewelry to home electronics.
Today, as cable shopping networks bloom like kudzu, we stuff our closets with Grip-N-Flip kitchen utensils, mixers with dough hooks, tanzanite bracelets and vanilla candles so rank they knock out power lines.
Wharf Cable booths tout subscriptions at other shopping malls and subway stations.
Remember those rumors that the networking giant was shopping around its Scientific Atlanta cable set-top box business?
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In 1995, Malone, 66, turned to Diller when he needed to pass on control of his Silver King Communications, the parent company of TV shopping network HSN, due to cable regulations.
In addition to developing hotels and shopping centers, Wheelock is also involved in cable television and owns more than two-thirds of Modern Terminals, a southern China shipping operator.
Now, for the first time, Allen is competing directly with Gates for the same business: set-top-box software that lets cable companies offer digital video recording, video on demand and, eventually, shopping.
Now they are trying to turn these ramshackle federations into alliances bound together with new broadband cable that can carry two-way traffic and deliver sports, movies, online shopping and other luxuries to consumers who are willing to pay extra for them.
Next on his shopping list will likely be majority ownership in Sportsnet, an all-sports cable channel on which he can air his Blue Jays' games.
Prior to the completion of the cable cars, people stranded in the favelas wanting access to jobs, education, healthcare and even basic shopping had to make a slow and arduous journey down the mountainside to get into the city.
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