By the mid 1980s, the Home Shopping Network was broadcasting nationwide 24 hours a day out of studios in the Levitz Shopping Center in Clearwater, top, and it had 300 employees. Today, it has a 1.4-million-square-foot facility in St. Petersburg, below, and employs more than 4,400.
Today, 25 years later, the Home Shopping Network is the oldest of TV’s 24-hour product pitchers, offering cubic zirconium to cruises. And raking in billions of dollars. READ MORE…