Apparently the various delays have been caused by stations slow to install the eBay e-commerce platform central to the show. In addition to installation, each individual station airing the program would require extensive training on how to integrate the eBay software and would then need to register viewers in their areas in order to be successful.

"It is my understanding that the eBay software will become a component of the station's own website and that the station's eBay co-branded Web site will be a hyperlink to eBay," says Bill Carroll, vice president and director of programming at Katz Television in New York. "Stations would have a profit participation in terms of new subscriptions to eBay and then through stuff that is sold through the site."