America's Store

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America's Store

Type	cable, shopping television network, satellite television network, broadcast television network
Country	United States
Availability	National
Founder	Spun off from the Home Shopping Network
Owner	IAC/InterActiveCorp
Launch date	1988
Past names	Home Shopping Club Overnight Service (1988-89) Home Shopping SPREE (1989-97) America's Jewelry Store (1997-98)
Website	www.americasstore.com

America's Store is a US shopping television network. It is the spin-off channel to the Home Shopping Network (HSN). On Friday January 5, 2007 HSN revealed that America's Store will cease all broadcasting on April 3, 2007. As of March 1, 2007, DirecTV has removed the service.

America's Store (AS) began in 1988 as the Home Shopping Club Overnight Service, which aired on broadcast stations around the USA from midnight to 9am and, in particular, on WWOR-TV from 3am to 6am in the New York City metro area. In 1989, HSN purchased a number of low-power TV stations and began operating the service 24 hours a day as Home Shopping SPREE. In 1997, the name was changed again to America's Jewelry Store to reflect a switch to selling exclusively jewelry. This incarnation met with limited success, so in 1998, the selection was expanded to include all of HSN's inventory categories, and the word jewelry was removed from the network's name. In 2003, AS was added to the DirecTV lineup.

The low-power TV stations owned by HSN with partners and affiliated companies were located in every major metropolitan market - including a transmitter atop the World Trade Center until September 11, 2001.

Much of the merchandise presented by AS is "distressed" inventory from HSN, so the prices are usually dropped until liquidated or removed from air.

Interestingly, competitor QVC had a spin-off channel called "Q2", which only lasted during the mid-1990s. Following Barry Diller's exit from QVC and purchase of HSN many former Q2 employees followed him to HSN and America's Store.