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ION Sports starts off with the WNBA

Opening Night for ION will be Washington Mystics vs Chicago Sky at 8pm Eastern, followed by Dallas Wings vs Seattle Storm at 10pm Eastern (The only two WNBA games on the schedule that night). Multiple game regional coverage begins on Friday June 2. All Friday games have ION listed as TV Coverage on the WNBA website, so each team should get between 6-7 games each televised.
 
Who knows they will air pro Boxing and Pro Wrestling (NWA, MLW or Impact Wrestling) on the weekends? It would be better than running mini marathons of SVU.
 
There is a reason it's Friday nights. That's already one of the lowest rated nights for TV. They don't mind sacrificing Friday nights. Could also be an ESG component to this as well.
 
Um...we're forgetting the WUSA matches on Saturdays if you go back to the PAX days...
 
Ion aired Conference USA College Football games back in the mid 2000s when it was known as I: Independent Television, the games were produced by CSTV (which in 2005 was just bought out by the then Viacom (now Paramount Global post re-merger of Viacom & CBS as ViacomCBS and later rename to the current name last year), only for it to go with CBS in the late 2005/early 2006 split of CBS & Viacom, CSTV was rebranded to CBS College Sports Network in 2008 and once again to it's current CBS Sports Network branding in 2011)
 
The Knights have new broadcast rights... off to KTNV/KMCC. Games will go on KMCC and in turn, become an Independent station to supplement KTNV. This means telecasts plus more live news from KTNV?

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Scripps gets Golden Knights local broadcast rights

Scripps has signed a multiyear deal to carry all Golden Knights games that are not in nationally exclusive windows on ESPN and Turner Sports.
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KMCC is on Vegas Cable Channel 32. They are not on a lot of Hotel TV lineups. That may change. This also could be the beginning for individual ION stations and the network itself.
 
CaliRadioFan said:
KMCC is on Vegas Cable Channel 32. They are not on a lot of Hotel TV lineups. That may change. This also could be the beginning for individual ION stations and the network itself.
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The beginning for the individual stations, but the end of the network as we know it...
 
TVCOOL said:
Ion Television can get some PBS stations in states that are defunding PBS.
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You have keep in mind PBS stations are licensed as "Non-commercial Station [EDT]" by the FCC. Not sure how complicated it would be to change it to a "Commercial [CDT]" license.
 
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