Consumers routinely give out their credit card numbers to low-paid telephone operators everyplace from L.L. Bean to the Home Shopping Channel.

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Even broadcast giant NBC , a unit of General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ), got into the act with ShopNBC , a home shopping channel 60% owned and operated by ValueVision Media (nasdaq: VVTV - news - people ).

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He has developed a private-label line of chenille clothing that he sells via QVC, the home-shopping channel.

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The interview features Phillips discussing the time she spent hiding in her home, compulsively purchasing items from a television shopping channel as well as the events surrounding her arrest.

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TuneIn Radio offers streaming music, sports and news from every corner of the earth, with over 70, 000 radio stations and 2 million on-demand programs, while the ShopNBC channel gives you access to live streaming feeds from one of the most popular home shopping networks.

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