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The QVC shopping channel on Thursday was hawking, among many things, Shadow Fern area rugs ($39.19), Keds Smooth Stretch Slip-on Comfort Clogs ($28.40) and Sun Laboratories Instant Self-Tanning Spray ($19.93). Over the years, such items have been very good to the channel, whose owner announced that control of QVC itself is being sold for a price that is far beyond what most of its viewers are accustomed to paying: $7.

Move over, MTV. Here comes QVC. That's right music fans. In between the blond women selling jewelry and the dermatologists shilling skin-care products, television retail channels are booking live musical acts -- and not off-brands, either.

Liberty Media Corp.'s $7.9-billion purchase of Comcast Corp.'s controlling stake in QVC, the largest home shopping television network, was cleared by U.

The Federal Trade Commission staff is seeking to bar the acquisition of QVC Inc. by Tele-Communications Inc. and Comcast Corp., contending that the $1.

The pen was mightier than the word when late-night television crossed the final shopping frontier early Saturday. Two Russian cosmonauts aboard the Mir space station, appearing live on the QVC shopping channel, set out to hawk the American-made $32.

An anonymous firm has purchased the right to sponsor the Hollywood sign. Chris Baumgart, chairman of the Hollywood Sign Trust, which is charged with maintaining the landmark, said the sponsor--described only as a well-known corporation--paid $100,000 for one year's worth of sponsorship rights.