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If I am interested in buying a product I would much rather listen to the vendor explain the item to me. Maybe that is what is happening, the hosts now think they are ready for prime time.

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THAT'S IT!!!! Perhaps thats why Qurates revenues and sales have declined...perhaps the hosts need to focus more on product information and selling the product rather than being "a TV personality"......🤔

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@Spurt wrote:

THAT'S IT!!!! Perhaps thats why Qurates revenues and sales have declined...perhaps the hosts need to focus more on product information and selling the product rather than being "a TV personality"......?


@Spurt    Yeah...but...NOW the "personalities" are also becoming DESIGNERS.   

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They sure have a lot of TV air time, though.

 

Two, three, sometimes four straight hours.

 

Mostly ad lib, too.

 

It takes quite a bit training and experience to be able to do that in front of cameras and millions of viewers.

 

It isn't very easy, in my opinion.

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@Desertdi wrote:

@Spurt wrote:

THAT'S IT!!!! Perhaps thats why Qurates revenues and sales have declined...perhaps the hosts need to focus more on product information and selling the product rather than being "a TV personality"......?


@Spurt    Yeah...but...NOW the "personalities" are also becoming DESIGNERS.   


@Desertdi 

 

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Re: TV Personality

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Many of these hosts are actors and have hosted talk shows, acted in summer stock, or plays, have been in TV shows, etc. so, I guess you could call them "TV Personalities."  I remember reading that Monifa was in a few episodes of "Queen Sugar."  Shawn was on a show with Martha Stewart, Amy & Terri Conn have been on soap operas, Rick & Julia have studied and acted in Shakespearean plays, and many were newscasters, etc.

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They are TV Personalities. Is there any untruth in that?

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@ROMARY wrote:

They sure have a lot of TV air time, though.

 

Two, three, sometimes four straight hours.

 

Mostly ad lib, too.

 

It takes quite a bit training and experience to be able to do that in front of cameras and millions of viewers.

 

It isn't very easy, in my opinion.


I agree, but that is the job they applied for and I would imagine the yays and nays of the job were explained to them during the interview.  Just do your best.

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Absolutely they are television personalities.

 

"Hosts" of programming are listed as a category of television personality for SAG/AFTRA membership.

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Who cares?  I dont see a problem, just nit picking.

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