ShopHQ Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===ValueVision and ShopNBC/HQ=== After being founded in June 1990, ValueVision Media (VVM) had a part of the company sold to [[National Broadcasting Company|NBC]] ten years later.<ref name=bc>{{cite news|title=Valuevision vamping NBC brand|url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/137783-Valuevision_vamping_NBC_brand.php|access-date=June 24, 2010|newspaper=[[Broadcasting & Cable]]|date=February 23, 2001}}</ref> When ValueVision was renamed ShopNBC in November 2000, its rebranding included a new logo that features the [[Logo of NBC|NBC peacock]],<ref name="b&c-vvtoshopnbc">{{cite news|title=ValueVision network becomes ShopNBC|url=http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/146801-ValueVision_network_becomes_ShopNBC.php|access-date=June 24, 2010|newspaper=Broadcasting & Cable|date=March 12, 2001}}</ref> but the parent company retained its name. In 2010, it was reported that NBC might sell its stake in ValueVision Media, due in part to a pending merger between NBCUniversal and Comcast. One month after formally announcing that it would sell its stake back to VVM,<ref name=sell>[http://www.multichannel.com/article/452902-NBC_To_Sell_Stake_In_ShopNBC.php NBC to Sell Stake in ShopNBC], ''MultiChannel News'', May 20, 2010</ref> NBCU ultimately decided to maintain its investment in the company in June.<ref>{{cite news|last=Brooks Suzukamo|first=Leslie|title=NBC holding on to ValueVision stake, for now|url=http://www.twincities.com/ci_15368160|access-date=June 25, 2010|newspaper=[[St. Paul Pioneer Press]]|date=June 24, 2010}}</ref> After acquiring NBCUniversal's financial interest in 2013, ValueVision Media announced the network would be renamed '''ShopHQ''' (visually branded as '''SHQP''').<ref name=tcb>{{cite news|last=Mahoney |first=Kevin|title=ValueVision Drops ShopNBC Name, Swings To A Profit|url=http://tcbmag.com/News/Recent-News/2013/May/ValueVision-Drops-ShopNBC-Name-Swings-to-a-Profit|access-date=June 19, 2013|newspaper=Twin Cities Business|date=May 23, 2013}}</ref> ''[[Mark Cuban]]'s American Dream'' aired on the network in 2014, and was part of a plan under the Clinton Group management to feature more celebrity hosts.<ref name=mspbj>{{cite news|last1=Halter|first1=Nick|title=Mark Cuban's other TV show brings him back to Minnesota|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/news/2014/10/06/mark-cubans-other-tv-show-brings-him-back-to.html|access-date=February 13, 2015|work=Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal|date=October 6, 2014}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page