Screenshop was a British strand of

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programming and

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, owned by

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. Screenshop sold a wide variety of products from

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Channels

Screenshop 1

In 2004, Screenshop 1 began to be run for

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. 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 '

' 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.

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

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channel 680, using the downtime of Speed Auction. The channel showed items from

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

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. 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

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Channels

Screenshop 1

Screenshop 2

Screenshop strand

See also

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