QVC will sell memorabilia at Obama inauguration
Arizona Coin Collector
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QVC will sell memorabilia at Obama inauguration
By DAVID BAUDER - 14 hours ago
NEW YORK (AP) - QVC is traveling to Washington to mark
President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration this
month - and is bringing along plenty of coins, stamps,
jewelry and even a small handbag to sell.
The retail network has already sold more than 100,000
items related to Obama's election and sees the
inauguration as an opportunity to reach far beyond the
group of people regularly interested in political
collectibles.
"Frankly, if we were not at the inauguration, we would
feel like we were not doing our job," said Doug Rose,
vice president of multichannel programming for the
retail giant, which is available in 94 million American
homes and had sales totaling $7.4 billion in 2007.
QVC will show portions of the parade and conduct
interviews with spectators, then air live on the night
of Jan. 20 from the Creative Coalition's inaugural
ball. Host Leah Williams will be decked out in an
inaugural gown.
Obama's inauguration has attracted plenty of interest
from TV networks, not only the traditional broadcast
and cable news outlets, but specialized venues such as
BET and Nickelodeon that don't normally pay attention
to live political events.
"We're trying to give the audience a flavor of what
the event is like, from the event," Rose said. "We
will try to give them a sense of the electricity in
the air."
Among the items QVC has been selling since the election
are a Barack Obama stamp collection, with stamps from
Liberia, Sierra Leone, Grenada, St. Vincent and The
Grenadines ($38.88). One set has an Obama-Biden half
dollar coin and a 1939 stamp depicting George Washington
taking the first oath of office ($23.75). An Obama throw
blanket is marked down from $41 to $36.84.
Several products are set to debut within the next few
weeks. For $200, a shopper can have a coin set with each
of the 44 presidents on a South Dakota quarter. A gold
presidential pocket watch with Obama's image will sell
for $90. A coin and stamp set commemorating Martin Luther
King Day and Obama's inauguration is $20. And QVC will
also sell a portfolio of newspaper front pages from
inauguration day.
Some of QVC's designers are at work, too, making a
simulated pearl necklace and a small handbag.
QVC, which began operation in 1986, sold
inauguration-related items in 1997, 2001 and 2005. Only
in 1997 did the network televise from Washington.
Weeks before the event, the company has nearly reached
its previously best sales figures marking a presidential
transition, from 1997, and is certain to go well past
that standard this year.
QVC's competitor, the Home Shopping Network, isn't going
to Washington, but it will telecast eight one-hour
specials the weekend before the inauguration hawking
medallions, porcelain plates, pocket watches and the
like. HSN offered an Obama coin set the weekend after the
election, with $3 million in sales over a few hours,
spokesman Brad Bohnert said.
And they're not the only places to find Obama memorabilia,
either. ShopNBC is offering Obama coin sets and throw
blankets. The New York Times Store offers framed
photographs, a framed copy of the front page announcing
Obama's election victory and an Obama jigsaw puzzle.
NBC is also selling a DVD compilation of Obama speech
highlights and NBC News coverage of the campaign.
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mazorj
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> FROM:
> http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i1PDQ4vCQenzX1UjrcRne1Dd211gD95H9CG00
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> QVC will sell memorabilia at Obama inauguration
>
> By DAVID BAUDER - 14 hours ago
>
> NEW YORK (AP) - QVC is traveling to Washington to mark
> President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration this
> month - and is bringing along plenty of coins, stamps,
> jewelry and even a small handbag to sell.
>
> The retail network has already sold more than 100,000
> items related to Obama's election and sees the
> inauguration as an opportunity to reach far beyond the
> group of people regularly interested in political
> collectibles.
As Dorothy Parker once said in disgust, "Tonstant weader fwow up."
Arizona Coin Collector
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Hello - Would the be the same as "shit floats"?
mazorj
Not really, although they're both sarcastically dismissive negative
characterizations.