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Ion Television has the most owned-and-operated stations of any commercial broadcast network in the United States, reaching 65.1% [53] of the United States (well above the Federal Communications Commission's coverage-based national ownership limit of 39% [54]); it is also the only American commercial broadcast network whose stations almost ...
The following is a list of television stations owned by the Ion Media unit of Katz Broadcasting (d/b/a Scripps Networks), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company since January 7, 2021. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This list also includes radio and television stations formerly owned by corporate antecedent Paxson Communications and the company's ...
The spectrum allocated to the networks on the former Ion Media stations will be repurposed to carry the Katz-owned networks starting March 1, with the initial slate of Ion Television O&Os adding those networks following the expiration of Scripps/Katz's existing contracts with other broadcasting companies the day prior, and other stations ...
Ion Television is a television network based in the United States made up of 44 owned-and-operated stations and 194 network affiliates, 164 of which broadcast as digital subchannels. [1] The Ion-owned stations are a part of the Ion Media unit of Scripps Networks, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company. [2]
Scripps also owns a number of free-to-air multi-genre digital subchannel multicast networks through its Scripps Networks division, including the Ion Television network and Scripps News. The company started out in the newspaper business, expanding into radio in the mid-1930s and television in the mid-1940s.
On March 24, 2015, Katz signed a multi-network agreement with the Meredith Corporation that would add all three Katz-owned networks to the Meredith-owned stations in five cities / media markets, boosting Laff's national coverage up to that time to 50%, Ion Mystery / Escape's to 58%, and Grit's to 78% of all U.S. television markets. [7]
Ion Plus is an American broadcast television network and FAST television channel owned by the Scripps Networks subsidiary of the E. W. Scripps Company.The network originally launched in 2007 as Ion Life, maintaining a format featuring lifestyle programming focused on health and wellness, cooking, home decor, and travel.
Following Scripps' acquisition of Ion Media on January 7, 2021, a previous agreement for the network to air on the subchannels of Univision Communications-owned-and-operated stations, was nullified. The network then moved to the stations of Ion Media and Inyo Broadcast Holdings (which acquired stations Scripps could not) as a subchannel, doing ...