HSN

From TeeVeePedia, the Internet TV Encyclopedia.

In an effort to cut health care costs once and for all, the American government founded HSN, the Home Surgery Network, in 1998. The goal was to teach viewers how to perform surgery on themselves, thus cutting down on unnecessary time wasted in the ER. By law, HSN was carried on cable systems across the country. Unfortunately, this decision had unintended consequences as children, mistaking the graphic surgeries shown on HSN for anime, began watching in record numbers. Soon, HSN was the number one network in children's television.

Irate parents soon flooded the halls of Congress with snail mail, demanding that HSN be removed from their cable systems. Cable companies began replacing the endless stream of operations with non-stop advertisements, while still keeping the "HSN" logo on-screen to technically comply with the law. As a result, the demographics of HSN radically shifted as it became the number two network for viewers over 60, just behind CBS.

In 2002 Congress, realizing that the original concept of HSN was a failure, switched the surgical programming to the Discovery Health channel. Today, HSN continues to hawk every product known to mankind to a mostly gullible public.