What happened to HSN??

I have to agree, my shopping with them has slowed right down. The new hosts I think need more training. Sarah Trimm yesterday was on zoom with Dr, Nassif and while talking with him she was talking to someone in her ear she was saying” do you want me to say good bye to the doctor”? and was having a conversation with them. It was bizzare.

OK ladies, It is time to stop bashing HSN or QVC and criticizing any of the hosts. Shut off your TV and drive the to the mall , Walmart, Target or any local business that you can support.

No one is forcing you to shop at HSN or QVC. or to watch it. I am so grateful that those 2 options exist. It has made my life easier.

I agree that the end is near. The offerings they have has been severely reduced. I bought so many cute things for Christmas and Halloween decor and this year they had nothing.

Even the clothes that Marla has been bringing are very dismal.

I also have watched both HSN and QVC for twenty five years or more. I have seen host come and go. I have followed their family with tears of joy and grief as some married and some loss love ones. I don’t have a problem with new host even though the old ones related to us like family. The problem I have is the merchandise they are selling now and the limited designers that are shown over and over again. Some designers are given an insane amount of air time it’s like a tv show that is showing reruns but the same episode is playing everyday several times a day. It’s the end of an era. That time we had is over. The clothes designers are all making clothes for the women with the same height and weight. There are old men dressing women to look old, nothing for my daughter or granddaughter’s age. The purses are pretty much the same with designers copying other designers style. Yeah it’s almost over.

When winter hits and it’s freezing cold in PA with no end in sight, those who relocated are probably going to regret leaving Florida! Maybe after HSN totally collapses many of them will move back to the sunshine.

HSN has been devalued on Quarate’s balance sheet. HSN No longer an asset. a write-off. take a look at the 2nd Qtr. call. QVC isnt doing that great.

Q is throwing everything at their own wall. Going full-bore into SM Tik Tok…They’re losing revenue big-time hoping to stop the bleeding.

this is the reason for HSN’s slip-shod production values. HSN has been devalued.

HSN’s days are N U M B E R E D. Sad but there it is. Quarate owns them.

Your comments here are interesting and probably accurate. It is surprising the type of new hosts hired. The fact there are 6 women and no men makes me wonder if Guy might come back. However, I also believe the hosts that didn’t make the move will be glad in a couple of years.
For those of us who have watched HSN for over 20 years, it will never be close to the same.
For those who have shopped for 10 years or less, you might stick around. I don’t see HSN drawing a lot of young viewers and I don’t think they will become one with the Q. These are just my opinions.

I don’t know. I think the social media thing is because that’s the way things are done now (remember Q/HSN has a TikTok now). The lack of diversity in the new hosts is blatantly obvious. LesleyAnn is the only minority of the six. That is not a slam on the new hosts. It is ultimately Qurate’s doing. It will come back to bite them.

As far as no channel bringing out 6 new hosts at once…no shopping channel has made a move and lost so many experienced hosts at one time. I wonder if we will see Shop HQ hosts hired on as well. HSN only has the experience of Suzanne, Adam, Callie, and Tamara, (and Sarah, who i don’t count as she really needs training). Bobbi and Lynn (and Michelle) are leaving. That leaves six hosts who have been there since 2017 or later, as well as the new six.

The hosts REALLY need training. Desperately. The Badgley Mischka fangirling was embarrassing, and the constant overuse of words and phrases like My Friends, Right, OK, Um, and others show a lack of training. Most of the ones who are guilty of this come from a news background and honestly, should know better. It’s on HSN to provide guidance on how to host successfully, and it shows they are aware of that issue, since the new hosts are being mentored by Mary Beth Roe.

I think that the HSN move to PA was just a transitional step in the channel basically getting absorbed into QVC, so they are not putting much effort into establishing it in PA as a fully functioning entity like it was in Florida. How could HSN fire 900+ employees in Florida and then move everything to PA and everything would proceed as it was? They definitely did not HIRE 900 new people to replace the ones they lost…

Even from the on air and host perspective: I believe the hosts who did not move to PA just saw the writing on the wall and did not want to make a major life adjustment for something they will only be doing for another year or two before QVC just takes everything over. I also think the new class of HSN hosts being touted all over their social media is a way for us to like them so we are more forgiving when most of them fall short of the traditional standard of hosting. I have been watching home shopping across multiple channels for many years and have never seen any of the channels bring out 6/8 new hosts at one time and make sure the audience knows “these are our new class”. They usually just get casually thrown in one by one or hired as-needed.

I think it all amounts to more Q, less H.