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| | Home Shopping Network: FTC News Release (1999) |
 | | Home Shopping Network (HSN), the TV retailer that reaches more than 70 million households, has agreed to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it aired advertisements for a variety of skin care, weight-loss, and PMS/menopause products containing claims it could not substantiate, in violation of a 1996 FTC order. |
 | | Home Shopping Network, Inc., and its subsidiary, Home Shopping Club, L.P., will pay a $1.1 million civil penalty to settle the charges, and will be ordered not to make ad claims it cannot substantiate. |
 | | In March, 1995, the Commission issued a complaint charging HSN and two subsidiaries, Lifeway Health Products, Inc., and Home Shopping Club, Inc., with violating federal laws by making claims they could not substantiate for four Lifeway-brand therapeutic products, including a vitamin spray to prevent colds and a stop-smoking spray. |
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