After less than a decade in the business, QVC had become the biggest home shopping network in the country, available in 80 percent of homes with cable and on three million satellite dishes.
Home Shopping Network was the first televised home shopping network in the country, and it remains one of the most popular.
In 1986 the Home Shopping Network became a publicly traded company on the American Stock Exchange.
The Home Shopping Network's website was launched in 1999, and in 2000 the company officially changed its name to HSN.
Today, the Home Shopping Network reaches 89 million homes and is the fourth largest cable network (QVC ranks second).
