NPR's Alex Chadwick talks with Marketplace correspondent Tess Vigeland about the recent announcement by the "infomercial" industry that it is taking steps to police itself. If an infomercial producer ...

Survey finds few Americans are frequent buyers of infomercial products. May 20, 2011 — -- Three in 10 Americans have bought products they saw advertised on television infomercials, but few are ...

With his open, honest-seeming Midwestern face and interview-show format, infomercial king Kevin Trudeau has been ubiquitous on television for well over a decade, peddling products that claim to extend ...

Trudeau was found in contempt for violating a judge-ordered asset freeze. Sept. 18, 2013— -- Controversial TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau, who in July was found in contempt for failing to pay a $37.6 ...

NEW YORK — A theatrical biopic about the famous golfer Bobby Jones, starring Jim Caviezel, got one of the best pre-opening network-TV sendoffs ever on Sunday night because of a quirk of the weather.

New Yorkers have long taken perverse pleasure in the city’s inaccessibility to outsiders. Tons of people visit here, of course, but their experience, we liked to think, was 100 percent ersatz, as ...

Before “influencer” was a job title reserved for the likes of social media personalities marketing different products to folks scrolling aimlessly at home, infomercials existed to turn us into suckers ...

The rise and fall of infomercials. ━CHAPTERS━ 00:00 The rise and fall of infomercials 05:22 How did infomercials get invented 08:14 1984 TV advertising policy changes 13:49 The goal of infomercials 17 ...