QVC

QVC
Country	United States
Broadcast area	Worldwide
Headquarters	1200 Wilson Drive, West Chester, Pennsylvania 19380
Programming
Language(s)	English
Picture format	2160p UHDTV ; 1080i HDTV; (downscaled to letterboxed 480i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	Qurate Retail Group
Sister channels	(see below)
History
Launched	November 24, 1986
Links
Website	qvc.com
Availability
Terrestrial
ABC Owned Television Stations	-DT4 channel position; list of stations
Over-the-air as a subchannel	Consult local listings
Streaming media
QVC	Live Stream
Apple TV & Amazon Fire TV	QVC app (all QVC networks)
Roku	QVC/HSN app (all QVC & HSN networks)
Frndly TV	Internet Protocol television

QVC (short for "Quality Value Convenience") is an American free-to-air television network and a flagship shopping channel specializing in televised home shopping, owned by Qurate Retail Group. Founded in 1986 by Joseph Segel in West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States, QVC broadcasts to more than 350 million households in seven countries, including channels in the UK, Germany, Japan, and Italy, along with a joint venture in China with China National Radio called CNR Mall.^[2]

As of December 2013, Halo2Cloud holds the networks record for most units sold in a day of 380,000 chargers with total sales reaching $19 million.^[3]

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^ "QVC takes to French television sets for first time". Cosmeticsbusiness.com. August 4, 2015. Archived from the original on February 17, 2020. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
^ Kavilanz, Parija (December 16, 2013). "Sales of Halo2Cloud's Halo pocket charger have soared to $90 million in three years". CNNMoney. Retrieved April 10, 2024.