Word: diller
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...silver bracelets and cubic-zirconia rings, plus a series of scandals, mired the medium at the low end of the retail business, even as it grew to gross about $2.2 billion a year. Recently, though, home shopping has spiffed up its image, thanks in part to media mogul Barry Diller. Since joining QVC as chairman six months ago, Diller has buffed the industry's reputation by luring Saks Fifth Avenue and famous designers like Diane von Furstenberg to sell goods on television. And in a move that could further help clean up and expand the business, he proposed last week...
...BARRY DILLER...
Anyone who thinks interactive television will change the world (and entertainment mogul Barry Diller recently bought into a video shopping network on just this premise) must regard the Home Shopping Network with some awe. It was the first major firm to take orders over the phone while selling its products on TV, and when it debuted on cable in 1982 it was an instant and wild success. The company has faltered in recent years, however, and now faces problems much worse than business reversals...
Little Rock? When Barry Diller wanders the country, even unemployed, he doesn't touch base with just the common folk. Though his fever put a damper on his private dinner with Bill and Hillary Clinton, Diller still mustered some typical words of advice for the future President. The primaries were over, but Ross Perot's popularity was starting to worry the Clinton camp. "I told him, 'You've won. Act like it.' " It's one piece of advice Barry Diller will never need. Winner or not, he always acts like...
...Barry Diller forsakes Hollywood glitz for TV's future...