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Home Shopping Network Chairman Resigns: Roy Speer, whose activities as head of the cable TV shopping channel have been under federal investigation, has been replaced by Robert Bennett, Liberty Media Corp. senior vice president and chief financial officer. Liberty Media is a controlling shareholder of Home Shopping Network Inc. and last month helped arrange a $1-billion merger with rival QVC Network Inc. Speer, 61, who is under investigation by a federal grand jury in Florida, earlier this year stated his intention to resign.