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The media business, they used to say, was a license to print money. In 2001, that is still true, though nothing like the old days, when the money machines were [...]

Four years after losing QVC Inc.'s private-label credit card business, GE Consumer Finance has won it back, largely by letting customers pay their card bills online. Mark Tabak, the vice [...]

Home-shopping network QVC nets $4.3 billion in sales annually, receives more than 230 calls every minute, and ranks as the fifth-largest retailer of comfort shoes in the United States. Not [...]

A $1.5 billion breakup fee -- the result of Com-cast Corp.'s agreement with AT&T Corp. to drop out of the bidding for MediaOne Group Inc. -- pushed the Philadelphia-based MSO [...]

WEST CHESTER, Pa. -- QVC had a lot riding on its 'Fall Fashion Day,' a 24-hour style marathon that began at 12 a.m. on Aug. 25, and it appears to [...]

Did you read it? Last month, we ran a cover story underscoring that the one recession-proof segment of the TV programming business appeared to be home shopping. While most broadcast [...]

Surprising strength at QVC Inc. and accelerating digital-TV deployments lifted Comcast Corp.'s third-quarter results, the company reported last week. Comcast's consolidated operating cash flow rose 15 percent, to $420.7 million [...]

QVC is shuttering its spin-off shopping channel Q2, and E! Entertainment Television is preparing to launch its new channel Style from Q2's former transponder slot. QVC spokeswoman Ellen Rubin says [...]

Addenda: QVC reported last week that it passed the $2 billion mark in sales revenue over a 12-month period for the first time...Essence magazine has hired Denise West as corporate [...]

In the caption and bold-face quote on page 6, Nov. 13, the first and last names of Mossimo Giannulli were inverted. During a QVC segment, once viewers start calling in, [...]

Comcast Corp. last week reported overall revenue and cash flow up 12% for the third quarter, with its net loss, primarily due to capital expenditures, increasing 35% to $10 million-or [...]

QVC in the UK doubled its revenue to L37.2 million ($24.8 million) in 1995, thanks to a surge in pre-Christmas sales. Revenue during that quarter was up 73% over the [...]

WEST CHESTER, Pa. -- Hurt by costs from joint ventures abroad, QVC Inc. reported net earnings slipped 12 percent on a 15.6 percent increase in sales in the second quarter. [...]

WEST CHESTER, Pa. -- QVC Inc., jolted by lower margins in its core U.S. business and startup costs for ventures outside the U.S., reported first-quarter earnings dropped 31.5 percent before [...]

NEW YORK -- Earnings of QVC Inc. without Paramount Communications are expected to grow 18 percent a year at least through 1998, according to a research report by UBS Securities. [...]

QVC Inc.'s bitter contest for Paramount Communications Inc. proved expensive, but fourth-quarter results indicated that the fight didn't distract network executives from operations too badly. QVC said it spent $34.8 [...]

NEW YORK -- QVC Inc. reported Tuesday that operating profits climbed 34.4 percent in the fourth quarter of 1993, but net income was off sharply after a $18.8 million after-tax [...]

* LAST WEEK'S WINNERS: Carolee Friedlander, president of Carolee, sold $600,000 worth of jewelry last Saturday on QVC. Of 20 pieces, 15 sold out, according to Friedlander. The jewelry included [...]

Frustrated by what it called stalling on a lack of substantial response, QVC Network Inc. sidestepped Paramount Communications Inc.'s board last week and took its takeover offer directly to shareholders [...]

* LAST WEEK'S WINNERS: On Home Shopping Club, Maurada's jacket and pants sets, ranging in price from $39.95 to $70, sold in excess of 6,500 pieces. In addition, 2,582 pairs [...]

QVC Network Inc.'s bank group, led by Chemical Bank, committed a total of $6 billion to help finance the company's $9.9 billion bid for Paramount Communications QVC only needed to [...]

WEST CHESTER, Pa. -- QVC Network posted a 52.9 percent gain in second-quarter profits on an 18.6 percent increase in sales. For the quarter ended July 31, earnings at the [...]

WEST CHESTER, Pa. -- TV shopping giant QVC Network Inc. reported first-quarter earnings climbed 53.3 percent before a one-time gain from an accounting change, while sales grew 17.2 percent. For [...]

WEST CHESTER, Pa. -- Operating profits at QVC Network, the nation's largest televised shopping channel, climbed 36 percent for the fourth quarter and 40.1 percent for the year. After one-time [...]

QVC Network Inc. surprised analysts by posting an unusually sharp increase in sales and earnings. For the three months ended April QVC's sales jumped 21 percent to $233.2 million from [...]

Cable's two video retailing networks posted earnings last week, highlighting the differences between the high-growth QVC Network Inc. and the stalling Home Shopping Network Inc. as the two companies discuss [...]

Despite the recession that plagued most retailers, QVC Network Inc. posted strong gains during the second quarter. For the three months ended July, QVC's revenues jumped 25 percent to $199.2 [...]

QVC Avoids Loan Default NEW YORK -- QVC Network Inc. avoided a technical default on its bank debt after its major MSO shareholders agreed to stand ready to invest new [...]

QVC Has Upbeat End To a Rocky Fiscal Year QVC Network Inc.'s rocky fiscal year closed on an up note, with the company declaring that the problems incurred in absorbing [...]

QVC's Sales Better Than Expected WEST CHESTER, Pa. -- While most retailers suffered a sharp downturn during the holiday shopping season, QVC Network Inc.'s fourth-quarter sales came in slightly higher [...]

QVC Falling Short of Profit Goals TAMPA, Fl. -- After having its stock pounded for failing to live up to its profit and sales goals, QVC Networks Inc. is considering [...]