Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ron Popeil, the infomercial icon who popularized the catchphrase "set it, and forget it" for Showtime Rotisserie oven, has died.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ron Popeil, seen in 1982, with some of the products he pitched and in some cases invented. (Reed Saxon / Associated Press ) "It ...

LOS ANGELES -- Infomercial king Ron Popeil died "suddenly and peacefully" Wednesday at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, according to a statement provided to CNN by Popeil representative ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The recent passing of 86-year-old gizmo guru Ron Popeil will yield few ...

To say there would be no direct-to-consumer industry today if Ron Popeil didn’t exist is a bit of a stretch… but not by much. Popeil, who if he didn’t invent the informercial and the concept of ...

Come, young ones: Gather around the glow of the smartphone's screen for a tale of a distant time when we watched TV on big boxy machines, and switched channels when we were bored. There were ...

FILE - In this Wednesday, Dec. 8, 1982 file photo, Ron Popeil, the man behind those late-night, rapid-fire television commercials that sell everything from the Mr. Microphone to the Pocket Fisherman ...