Noted pioneers in this industry include the first home shopping host, Bob Circosta ; Bud Paxson and Roy Speer, founders of the first home shopping channel HSN ; and Joseph Segel who founded America's most successful home shopping channel QVC.

Bob Arnzen, Pat Garrity, and Paxson are the only three basketball players in Notre Dame's history to earn Academic All-America accolades on more than one occasion.

Paxson also signed free agent small forward Andrés Nocioni, who had recently won an Olympic gold medal as a member of the Argentine national team.

Paxson attended Archbishop Alter High School in Kettering, Ohio, following in the footsteps of his elder brother, Jim, who would go onto a star career at the University of Dayton, and, later, in the NBA, as a member of the Portland Trail Blazers.

Historian Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer summarized the minority opinion of some American newspaper editors who opposed the purchase:

In 1928, his first concert accompanist was a young pianist named Theodore ( Ted ) Paxson, who became a close friend and remained his accompanist until Eddy's death 39 years later.

After volume twenty was published, the publisher decided to extend an invitation for an additional volume under Diana L. Paxson, an editor who had worked with Bradley, with the possibility of additional volumes being published if it became a success.

His first attempt at media ownership was TV station WNYP ( channel 26 ) in Jamestown, New York ; Paxson, who bought the station in 1966, attempted to affiliate the station with the CTV Television Network out of Canada ( a first for an American television station ); by 1969, the station had failed.

Paxson sold the channel in December 2002 to Corporate Media Consultants Group who changed the call sign to the current WPFO.

A second cable outlet, The Travel Channel was owned by the company from 1992 to 1996, when it was sold to Paxson Communications, who subsequently sold it to Discovery Communications, who subsequently sold it to Cox Communications.

Other notable ICSI scientists include SIGCOMM Award winner Professor Vern Paxson, who leads network security efforts and who previously chaired the Internet Research Task Force ; IEEE Internet Award winner Sally Floyd ; connectionist pioneer Jerry Feldman ; frame semantics and construction grammar pioneer Charles J. Fillmore and Collin F. Baker, who lead the FrameNet semantic parsing project ; and Paul Kay, who published an influential study on the universality of color words.

The station's majority shareholder was Lowell W. " Bud " Paxson, who later co-founded the Home Shopping Network.

The idea for HSN had its roots in a radio station managed by Paxson.

The advent of television made inroads in the once-lucrative concert circuits, and, in the early 1950s, Eddy had to consider future career options, eventually deciding to form a nightclub act, which premiered in January 1953 with singer Gale Sherwood, his partner, and Ted Paxson, his accompanist.

ACME and Paxson consummated the station swap agreement in September 1999 and took full ownership of the stations that they had already been operating under the LMAs.

The station had previously been the WB affiliate in the Salt Lake City, and Paxson continued that affiliation, but also replaced HSN programming with Paxson ’ s infomercial network, inTV, and religious programming.

Paxson, at the time, had never owned a television station before, and as a result, the station had become notorious and almost legendary among Western New York's broadcast community of the day, for gaffes and programming mishaps.

Under Paxson and without Diaz the show floundered, and on September 29, 1997 after a successful 11 year run ( the last few months of which featured several replacement hosts, all of whom took the name " Ron " in an attempted replacement of Diaz ). The Ron & Ron Show was promptly canceled when Clear Channel Radio purchased the radio division of rightsholder, Paxson Communications, and opted not to continue the show.

Under Paxson and without Diaz the show quickly floundered.

With Pippen playing, Cartwright at the sidelines, and Paxson in the front office, the Bulls hoped that some of the championship magic from before would return.

The publication of the United States-based Germanic neopagan group The Troth ( Idunna, edited by Diana L. Paxson ) derives its name from that of the goddess.

Paxson graduated from Notre Dame in 1983 with a degree in Business Administration and a 3. 17 GPA and was a two-time Academic All-American.

Paxson took control of the station in August, renaming it as WPXN-TV, and ran channel 31 under a local marketing agreement with a format that featured Bloomberg Business News in daytime, infomercials ( from Paxson's inTV ) and religious programs ( from Paxson's Worship Network ) the rest of the day.

Backscatter is a term coined by Vern Paxson to describe Internet background noise resulting from a DDoS attack using multiple spoofed addresses.

During the time between the sale of HSN and the founding of PAX TV, Paxson moved his headquarters from Tampa to West Palm Beach.

Possibly sensing that NBCU would do so, and beset with lawsuits over the operation of i, Paxson resigned from the company he founded.

Its length runs 47 miles from Paxson Lake to Sourdough.

Ron Diaz announced his departure on-air from The Ron & Ron Show in early 1997 as Paxson prepared to relocate it from the network ’ s studios in St. Petersburg, FL to one in Hollywood, FL.

Backscatter is a term coined by Vern Paxson to describe Internet background noise resulting from a DDoS attack using multiple spoofed addresses.

This series was started and became prominent from the titles published in Bradley's name, however the series is now being continued by Diana L. Paxson.

In 1997, Paxson Communications bought WOCD from Cornerstone, moved the station's offices from Scotia, New York to Guilderland, and made the station an outlet for the Infomall Television Network ( inTV ).

The station was an all-infomercial channel (" inTV ") from the time that Paxson Communications bought the station until the PAX Network began on August 31, 1998.

For a time in the early-2000s, WMPX re-aired some newscasts from WCSH and WLBZ as part of a larger deal between Paxson Communications and Gannett.

In the fall of 1998, the station affiliated with Pax TV ( later i and now ION Television ), running the network's programming from 11 a. m. to 7 p. m. and again from 10 p. m. to 1 a. m. WSFJ also began to be seen on a translator in Columbus, WCPX-LP channel 48, which was owned by Pax's parent company, Paxson Communications ( now ION Media Networks ).

In February 1996, the same day that the FCC approved the sale of the station from Royal Television to Roberts Broadcasting, Paxson Communications sent a proposal to Roberts Broadcasting to acquire a 50 % share in the station.

The KUPX intellectual unit began September 6, 1996, when Paxson Communications agreed to acquire channel 30, then known as KOOG-TV, from Alpha & Omega Communications LLC.

The station initially aired a feed from the Home Shopping Network, until Paxson Communications ( now ION Media Networks ) took over the station in 1998, when the station was converted to the then-new PAX network ( now known as Ion Television ) ( Flinn still owned the station, however ).

Other than a brief peoriod during 2004 and 2005 when the station aired programming from Daystar, WPXS aired programming from Pax and its successors, i and Ion Television, from August 1998 until 2008, when it changed affiliation to Retro Television Network ( RTN, later RTV ), a network owned at the time by Equity Broadcasting, which would buy the station from Paxson in 2005.

In 1995 the station was sold to Paxson Communications ; it then became an all-infomercial channel (" inTV ") until the launch of the Pax TV network on August 31, 1998, at which time it became WPPX.

In January 1998, Paxson bought the station from CTN and renamed it WOPX and continued with the same format until August 31, 1998.

In the meantime, WHCT stayed dark until February 5, 1997, when the bankruptcy trustee for Astroline, to avoid the license being automatically canceled by the FCC on February 9, put the station back on the air with programming provided by Paxson Communications ( which sold WTWS soon afterward ).

WPXJ was the only Pax station in the market until WBSG-TV's switch to Pax and acquisition by Paxson in 2000.