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Screenshop was a British strand of
infomercial-based
shopping
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programming and
television channel
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, owned by
Sit-up Ltd
Sit-Up Ltd., traded as Bid Shopping, was an English broadcaster which launched in 2000. It operated a portfolio of falling price shopping television channels to over 12 million homes in the UK.
History
On 1 April 2009, it was announced that S ...
. Screenshop sold a wide variety of products from
TV Warehouse
TV Warehouse is an infomercial-based shopping channel brand based in the UK. The channel is owned and was originally launched by Canis Media.
History
TV Warehouse first launched in November 2001 by Canis Media. A sister channel TV Warehouse Se ...
.
Channels
Screenshop 1
In 2004, Screenshop 1 began to be run for
Sit-Up
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by
Vector Direct
Vector Direct was a direct response television company showing longform infomercials on the Freeview, Virgin Media cable service and Sky Digital platforms in the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, co ...
. Vector broadcast their presentations exclusively on the channel, and eventually this led to the channel being stripped of its own identity. In 2005, it began to broadcast under Vector Direct's own '
TV Warehouse
TV Warehouse is an infomercial-based shopping channel brand based in the UK. The channel is owned and was originally launched by Canis Media.
History
TV Warehouse first launched in November 2001 by Canis Media. A sister channel TV Warehouse Se ...
' brand (as TV Warehouse 1). This may be due to Vector Direct's appearance on the
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programme, which was due to the company charging unknowing customers
£99.00 for entrance into a "Travel and Leisure" club, in which entry was automatic with every purchas
It is expected that Vector Direct do not use their own brand because of this bad publicity, however this has not been confirmed.
Vector Direct
Vector Direct was a direct response television company showing longform infomercials on the Freeview, Virgin Media cable service and Sky Digital platforms in the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, co ...
went into voluntary liquidation just before Christmas in 2007, TV Warehouse was purchased by
JML Direct TV, JML but closed in 2009.
Screenshop 2
On 3 March 2008, a Screenshop branded channel "Screenshop 2" launched exclusively on
Sky
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channel 680, using the downtime of
Speed Auction. The channel showed items from
Vector Direct
Vector Direct was a direct response television company showing longform infomercials on the Freeview, Virgin Media cable service and Sky Digital platforms in the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, co ...
between 1.30am to 7.30am every night. Screenshop 2 closed on 29 April 2012.
Screenshop strand
Screenshop broadcast a strand during the night (until 7am) on UK Gold and also during the day on the Discovery channel feed on Sky in the late 90s. It also initially broadcast 24 hours a day on empty channel space on an Astra satellite, though this was short lived. In the 2000s, Screenshop broadcast daily from 1.30am to 7.45am, on sister channels
Bid and
Price Drop. Each of these channels carried a different feed of Screenshop, broadcasting different products at different times. The arrangement ended when Sit-Up went into administration in the early 2010s. Screenshop also broadcast from 2004 to 2009 as the teleshopping block on
Capital One
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.
See also
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TV Warehouse
TV Warehouse is an infomercial-based shopping channel brand based in the UK. The channel is owned and was originally launched by Canis Media.
History
TV Warehouse first launched in November 2001 by Canis Media. A sister channel TV Warehouse Se ...
External links
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Bid Shopping
Defunct British television channels
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2012
Television channels and stations established in 1997