Question about ION

[blackgold]

Pax TV had a chance to shine at the turn of the Millenium when they'd planned to air a live 25 hour broadcast on New Year's Eve 1999, but it was cancelled at the last minute and so it's floundered ever since. It oughta go out of business or switch to ethnic programming.

 

[RadioFanBoy]

ION's "regular program schedule" currently runs 10am-3am Weekdays, 1pm-3pm Weekends. The LA station, KPXN airs two shows from the LA35 Public access channel Thursday Morning from 6-7am to cover their "local" requirement. E/I Programming comes from Qubo W-F 11am-Noon. The Qubo channel btw, runs no infomercials. ION Life has only two hours of Paid Programming @ 8am and 1pm, 7 days a week. Hence the ISHOP sub channel.

 

[FightingIrish]

ION's "regular program schedule" currently runs 10am-3am Weekdays, 1pm-3pm Weekends. The LA station, KPXN airs two shows from the LA35 Public access channel Thursday Morning from 6-7am to cover their "local" requirement. E/I Programming comes from Qubo W-F 11am-Noon. The Qubo channel btw, runs no infomercials. ION Life has only two hours of Paid Programming @ 8am and 1pm, 7 days a week. Hence the ISHOP sub channel.

I've noticed the ISHOP subchannel recently (on xx.4 of your local Ion channel). Not surprisingly, picture quality is equivalent to bad YouTube, being sandwiched in with an HD feed and two other subchannels). Haven't really seen them sell anything the few times I glanced at it. Looks kinda like LiveWell. Very little information available on the internet. I really have no idea what it is.

 

[Darth_vader]

It's called "ShopTV". Looks like a paid commercial programming (not infomercial) stream, á la PAX during the "transitional" period after Home Shopping Club went off the air and PAX's original form was still in development. Only this looks like it's deliberate, not just "filler" like it was "back then".

Yes, Qubo does run infomercials.

"PAX TV had a chance to shine at the turn of the Millenium [sic] when they'd planned to air a live 25 hour broadcast on New Year's Eve 1999, but it was cancelled at the last minute."

And I don't wonder; they would have been a year early holding it in 1999, since the turn of the "Millenium" (and, consequently, the century) happened on New Year's Eve of 2000.

 

[Kenny Atkinson]

but Paxson is a pretty rich guy.

Paxson hasn't owned the network since 2005. He actually spent most of his wealth trying to form PAX, a national, family friendly network.

ION is majority owned by NBC. They stations clear national ad buys and clear Universal produced programming and movies that don't necessarily have other suitors.

I like the addition of WWE Main Event. It's the only WWE wrestling on broadcast TV now with the movement of Smackdown to SyFy.

SATURDAY MORNING SLAM airs on CW.

 

[umfan]

I wasn't aware of that. Smart move by WWE to keep kids interested.

 

[Mr Tony]

But Slam is watered down...its rated TV G and is designed for kids 7-10

No moves to the head...they cut away to the announcers or random shots.
I've seen more arm drags in the last 2 weeks of Slam then I've seen in 2 years of Raw or Smackdown