Kathy Wolf leaves HSN

After 24 years, HSN host Kathy Wolf has left the network. She decided to retire and HSN will really miss her!

Charter is done acquiring Time Warner Cable and Bright House

Charter Communications, a US cable company, has finally acquired Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks for a lot of money. The three companies will merge into one sometime soon, and in the Tampa Bay area, Bright House's TV, Internet, and home phone services will be available under Charter's Spectrum brand.

The Tampa Bay cable company is still called Bright House as of now.

Our cable company will soon have a different name: Charter Spectrum!

HSN gets two new show hosts, Tracey and Valerie!

Geoff Cowan, a man from Sydney, Australia, joined HSN just last month as a new show host. This month, two new show hosts have arrived, Tracey Kane and Valerie Stup.

Kane made a first appearance on HSN on The List with Colleen Lopez, but in fact, Valerie Stup joins HSN as another new host.

Most Rhonda Shear shows in my VHS collection!!!

I have most shows of Rhonda Shear's visit at HSN to celebrate her 13th anniversary of selling shapewear to the network, recorded from an old JVC VHS tape. Here's what the tape contains.

• A 1997 Cinemax airing of the 1996 Trimark Pictures film Sometimes They Come Back Again.
• A few Cinemax promos from late winter or early spring 1997.
• One cartoon from the modern cartoon era of Disney's Mickey Mouse on Disney Channel.
• Clips of presentations of all of Rhonda's items shown on the April 21, 2016 edition of 10 FAVES with Shannon Fox hosting.
• A clip of a partial rerun of the first 13th anniversary show of Body Solutions by Rhonda Shear, with Suzanne Runyan and Rhonda herself.
• Clips of models Regina, Kara, Annette, Nikita, and Emilie modeling for the Today's Special, actually pre-recorded from the first hour of Rhonda's visit, and reused on that day's HSN Today with Guy and Lesley.
• A presentation of the TS with host Lesley Ann Machado and Rhonda, but with different models. (The other models would return in the 11AM show.)
• Parts of a show with host Shivan Sarna, Rhonda, and models like Regina and Kara.
• And finally: Parts of a show with host Bobbi Ray Carter, Rhonda, and the models.

I never recorded the 5PM show with host Callie Northagen and Rhonda, because I was still asleep at the time. Sorry about that.

Prince dies of an unknown cause of death at 57

Music star Prince has died at the age of 57. He performed songs such as 1999, from 1982. He died of a then-unknown cause of death. He died in Chanhassen, MN.

FOX 13 sports director Chip Carter retires

WTVT Fox 13 knows that sports director Chip Carter has left the station. He's been replaced by a new sports director named Scott Smith. He'll do sports in place of Chip from now on.

Chip retired from Fox 13 after having been with the station since 1988.

Art Ferguson, nicknamed Charlie Tuna, dies of liver cancer at 71

Art Ferguson, whose nickname was Charlie Tuna, died of liver cancer in his sleep at his home in Tarzania, California at the age of 71 on February 19, 2016.

He was a disc jockey, radio voice, and announcer on the 1984-90 and 1993 versions of Scrabble. Both of these versions starred Chuck Woolery. Other game shows that Charlie Tuna announced on were Dick Clark's $25,000 Pyramid and $100,000 Pyramid, John Davidson's Time Machine, the 1983 revival of Battlestars, The Quiz Kids Challenge, and Scattergories.

I believe Charlie Tuna was the nickname of Ferguson.