K-Tel Founder And Infomercial Icon Philip Kives Dies At 87

Philip Kives was a Winnipeg business executive and innovative marketing genius. He is a rags to riches story, about a Jewish farm boy from Saskatchewan, who emerged as a promotional wizard and dominated markets around the world. (Wikipedia)

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K-tel Pitchman Who Perfected ‘As Seen on TV’ Dies at 87

Philip Kives’s company, K-tel, saturated airwaves for decades with ads for gadgets like the Veg-O-Matic and compilation albums like “Hit Machine.”