The phones are ringing off the hook at television home shopping company QVC. QVC (its name stands for "quality, value, and convenience") offers about 1,700 items each week to television-tied shopping addicts. Merchandise includes apparel, cosmetics, electronics, housewares, jewelry, and toys. It broadcasts 24 hours a day; viewers call in their orders to one of its six call centers. If you can't find what you're shopping for on the tube, it also sells online and through six outlet stores plus a full-line store at the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. The company also has shopping channels in Germany, Japan, and the UK. In mid-2003 Comcast sold its stake in QVC to Liberty Media.