Shop at Home Network
The Shop at Home Network (also called Shop at Home, Shop at Home TVand SATH) was a television network in the United States, owned and operated by the E. W. Scripps Company from 2002 to 2006, then by Jewelry Television.[1] It primarily aired home shopping programming. During Scripps' ownership, some shows simulcast on sister channels (such as Food Network).
Ownership
While Shop at Home was primarily a cable and satellite television network, the network also aired on broadcast television stations in the United States. Until Scripps' sale of the network, five of these stations were owned and operated by Shop at Home itself, but its operations remained completely separate from the existing operations of Scripps' general commercial television stations outside of financial disclosures. In September 2006, Scripps agreed to sell the stations to Multicultural Television Broadcasting LLC for $170 million pending FCC approval;[14] they dropped Shop at Home programming soon after Multicultural took over. The five stations were:
Other stations remained affiliated with the Shop at Home Network, and are listed below:
Some stations stopped broadcasting Shop at Home before the first closure:
In addition, programming was seen online on the network's website.
Following SAH's first closure, these stations began airing Jewelry Television. Some stations continued to JTV in the late morning and afternoon even after Shop at Home's return to 24-hour programming. WJJA would carry JTV until April 21, when it was purchased by Weigel Broadcasting to carry the pre-network version of MeTV and became WBME-TV.