When failing to program a network, just let small-time advertisers take your channel to infomercial-land.

In a surprisingly fast, but not wholly unexpected development, the iPod video has already emerged as a medium for conveying long-form TV ads, better known as infomercials.

Ron Popeil, the prolific infomercial spokesman behind “as seen on TV” products like the Showtime Rotisserie and Hair in a Can, has died. He was 86. Popeil died early Wednesday morning at ...

Ron Popeil, inventor the face of infomercials for "as-seen-on-TV" products like Showtime Rotisserie, Hair in a Can and Pocket Fisherman, has died. He was 86.