Lowell 'Bud' Paxson is the brainchild behind the Home Shopping Network. Along with money man Roy Spear, Bud launched an entire industry. Paxson also is the founder of the PAX broadcast network, which airs supposedly "family freindly" programs, but has a schedule of mainly infomercials during the day and a prime time lineup of mainly re-runs from other networks. Paxson is a born again Christian. The Home Shopping Network (HSN) is a mostly 24-hour shopping network that is seen on pay-cable, satellite, and selected broadcast channels in the USA. History Launched by Lowell Bud Paxson and Roy Spear in 1982 as the Home Shopping Club, a regional cable channel, and expanded into the... The PAX Network, PAX TV, PaxNet, or simply PAX, is a broadcast and cable television network first broadcasted on August 31, 1998. ... Infomercials are television commercials that run as long as a typical television program (roughly thirty minutes or an hour). ... Prime time is the block of programming on television during the middle of the evening. ... The term Christian means belonging to Christ and is derived from the Greek noun Χριστός Khristós which means anointed one, which is itself a translation of the Hebrew word Moshiach (Hebrew: משיח, also written Messiah), (and in Arabic it is pronounced Maseeh مسيح). ...
Paxson, a born-again Christian (since 1985), was fed up with the amount of sex, violence, and language on network television and decided to create a network which would carry only programing devoid of such content.
However, the network issued a press release on May 25, 2005, in which Paxson Communications chairman Lowell"Bud"Paxson was quoted as saying, "There have been several reports in the press that the Company is dropping or reducing entertainment programming.
In November of 2005, NBC Universal was granted a transferrable option to purchase a controlling stake in Paxson Communications.