Is HSN Down?

HSN is a television network that broadcasts live from the Home Shopping Network headquarters in St. Petersburg, Florida with additional coverage from its studios in New York City and Los Angeles. The forerunner of HSN was launched by Lowell "Bud" Paxson and Roy Speer in 1982 as the Home Shopping Club, a local cable channel seen on Vision Cable and Group W Cable in Pinellas County, Florida. It expanded into the first national shopping network three years later on July 1, 1985, changing its name to the Home Shopping Network, and pioneering the concept of a televised sales pitch for consumer goods and services. Its competitor QVC was launched one year after HSN's inception.