US real estate mogul Trump wants to start TV shopping network

0 Comments | AFP, December, 2005

WASHINGTON (AFP) — Real estate tycoon turned television star Donald Trump reportedly plans to create his own television shopping network.

Trump, who appears on NBC in his own reality television show "The Apprentice," told The Wall Street Journal he wants to open his own "Trump Shopping Network."

The billionaire told the Journal he "was looking at a number of different alternatives" and said his network "doesn't necessarily have to be the NBC channel."

However, according to the Journal, a person familiar with the situation said Trump had had preliminary talks with NBC, which owns 30 percent of home-shopping channel ShopNBC.

NBC did not comment, the Journal said.

Trump is a second-generation Manhattan real estate owner known for his...

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