Word: qvc
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...systems to make high-definition television available to more than 80% of subscribers ahead of schedule. With $18.3 billion in revenues in 2003, Comcast bills 21.5 million cable subscribers each month (out of 40 million potential customers in the areas it services) and, after unloading its stake in the QVC home-shopping network for $7.9 billion, has a balance sheet healthy enough to go at Disney...
Sandra Lee's forte does not include pig rearing, and the home-craft maven, who made her mark on QVC selling curtains, doesn't sew a stitch if she can avoid it. Yet Semi-Homemade is broad in other directions, encompassing, for example, romance in a "Sexy in Seventeen Minutes" feature in its online magazine. There she advises fans to spend minute 14 brushing Pixy Stix candy powder over chest and cleavage to "take even the busiest multitasker from tired to tantalizing." Such are the warmth and zeal of Lee that you almost believe...
...Village apartment in New York City--Adams is doing a fair impression of an 11-year-old brat. We are supposed to be talking about his new album, Rock N Roll, but Adams has decided to chain-smoke and open his mail. "Why does my mom keep sending me QVC stuff?" he mumbles. "Oh. A book light. F___, yeah...
...says. Brent’s best friend, an inventor named Ty (Jay Chaffin ’06), first appears on stage recounting a religious experience on the toilet. Perlman, who is also a Crimson editor, describes Ty as a “cutting edge QVC media mogul, always inventing another crowd-pleasing novelty item.” His invention du jour is the Oedipus 2000, which allows children with inferiority complexes to kill their fathers—in virtual reality...
...terms at the bargaining table. AOL and Comcast are now the gatekeepers, and content players like Disney, Viacom and News Corp. carry much more weight. Malone has effectively acknowledged the corner he's in, indicating that lucrative Liberty stakes in certain closely held assets like CourtTV, E! and QVC will, within a couple of years, probably be sold to whichever media behemoth will pay top dollar. As he puts it, "We're in the business of moving goods." Nearly every major media power, from NBC to Viacom, would love to acquire Discovery, a worldwide, multibillion-dollar franchise. Says a longtime...