teleshoppern.
/ˈtɛlᵻˌʃɒpə/, U.S. /ˈtɛləˌʃɑpər/ 1. (A name for) a television programme featuring goods which are for sale to viewers. Also (in quot. 1978): a device enabling goods to be ordered electronically. Now rare.Television programmes with this name were popular in the United States from 1949 to the early 1950s.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > type of programme
dramedy1905
news film1912
sex comedy1915
television adaptation1935
action comedy1936
sportcast1939
teleshopper1949
telethon1949
special1952
television special1952
TV special1952
science-fictioner1953
spectacular1954
promo1955
sitcom1956
spec1959
spin-off1959
reality programming1962
teleroman1964
mockumentary1965
serialization1965
talk show1965
laugh-in1967
novela1968
reality show1968
breakfast television1971
spy series1975
reality television1978
reality TV1980
series1988
shockumentary1988
society > trade and finance > buying > [noun] > shopping > shopping by specific method > equipment used for
teleshopper1978
1949 Daily Rev. (Hayward, Calif.) 16 Dec. 10/3 KPIX Teleshopper.
1950 Salt Lake Tribune 22 Mar. 3/3 (advt.) Shop in the convenience of your own home. Shop by television through ZCMI Tele-shopper... See new gift ideas demonstrated. Order yours by phone.
1953 Lebanon (Pa.) Daily News 13 May (Radio & TV Program Guide section) 4/3 Teleshopper.
1978 Harvard Business Rev. Sept. 82/1 So long as sight, feel, smell, or personal service was not important to the consumer when ordering the merchandise, it would be a candidate for the teleshopper.
1989 Daily Herald (Chicago) 31 Mar. (Business section) 2/4 Penney's system lacked the game-show atmosphere of the teleshoppers.
2. A person who buys goods by telephone or electronically, esp. from a television programme or channel featuring products for sale to viewers.
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society > trade and finance > buying > buyer > [noun] > shopper > other shoppers
home buyer1774
comparison shopper1911
saler1928
personal shopper1941
home shopper1958
junker1968
teleshopper1976
shopaholic1977
power shopper1986
cybershopper1994
1976 Eng. Jrnl. 65 83/1 Scientists are busy developing the hardware for a future world of telecommunications in which people will function as telecommuters and teleshoppers.
1984 Christian Sci. Monitor 3 Jan. 27/3 Studies have indicated that the elderly..could eventually be big teleshoppers.
1988 Daily Tel. 15 Mar. 9/1 The pilot scheme..will allow customers to order groceries using a computer and an adapted television and have them delivered... The Duchess will watch the first ‘teleshoppers’, at St John's House.
2006 Business Today (Nexis) 4 Dec. 12 Unlike internet users, teleshoppers can't search a near-infinite range of items, but must flick through channel after channel.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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