Jewelry Television is an American television network, similar to the Home Shopping Network. It was formerly called "America's Collectibles Network" (ACN). It has an estimated coverage area of over 65 million viewers in the USA. The network also offers online streaming of its network through their website. The headquarters of Jewelry Television are located in Knoxville, Tennessee. In addition it has manufacturing facilities in Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, and Thailand. In addition to being one of the top 15 largest jewelry retailers in the world, Jewelry Television is the world's largest retailer of loose gemstones.
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Jewelry Television is an American television network, similar to the Home Shopping Network. It was formerly called "America's Collectibles Network" (ACN). It has an estimated coverage area of over 65 million viewers in the USA. The network also offers online streaming of its network through their website. The headquarters of Jewelry Television are located in Knoxville, Tennessee. In addition it has manufacturing facilities in Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, and Thailand. In addition to being one of the top 15 largest jewelry retailers in the world, Jewelry Television is the world's largest retailer of loose gemstones.
Jewelry Television broadcast its first live show on October 15, 1993, from a studio located in Greeneville, Tennessee. Originally, Jewelry Television offered collectible items such as coins, knives, quilts and even skin care products, but has since offered only jewelry and gemstones.
On June 21, 2006, Jewelry Television replaced Shop at Home on Shop at Home-affiliated stations owned by E.W. Scripps, following Shop at Home's closure. Jewelry Television will also acquire some assets and employees from Shop at Home.
Its suggested display call letters for programming guides is JTV or JWLTV.
On March 26, 2008, Jewelry Television filed suit in the U.S. District Court in Tennessee against Lloyd's of London, as a result of a criminal scheme the company alleges took place in 2006 and 2007. A person used a bank account of the Office of the Comptroller of the City of New York to buy more than $3.5 million in jewelry. Jewelry Television has cited that Lloyd's is exploiting a loophole in their insurance agreement to withhold recompensing the jeweler.
On May 23, 2008, a $5 million class action lawsuit was filed in California against Jewelry Television. The suit alleges since 2003 the shopping network has sold treated gemstones without disclosing the treatment while promising buyers that these stones were rare and untreated.
Jewelry TV announced they will launch the network in high definition in October 2008 .
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- List of United States over-the-air television networks
- List of DirecTV channels
- List of Dish Network channels
