ION Television June 2009 --

Blog Story:
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/blog/2009/05/ion-television-june-2009-acquires-more.html


Regular schedule changes listed ONLY:

Mondays, effective Monday, June 1, 2009
8:00pm Ghost Whisperer (replaces Reba 2x)





Here is the FULL regular schedule for June:
Mon-Thurs
3:00PM qubo on ION (Wed-Thurs)
4:00PM Quantum Leap
5:00PM M*A*S*H
5:30PM M*A*S*H
6:00PM Family Feud
6:30PM Family Feud
7:00PM Reba/Big Screen Movies
7:30PM Reba/Big Screen Movies
8:00PM Ghost Whisperer (Mon); Boston Legal (Tues); Big Screen Movies (Wed-Thurs)
9:00PM NCIS (Mon); Boston Legal (Tues); Big Screen Movies (Wed-Thurs)
10:00PM NCIS (Mon); Boston Legal (Tues); Big Screen Movies (Wed-Thurs)

Friday
3:00PM qubo on ION
4:00PM Quantum Leap
5:00PM M*A*S*H
5:30PM M*A*S*H
6:00PM Family Feud
6:30PM Family Feud
7:00PM Reba/Big Screen Movies
7:30PM Reba/Big Screen Movies
8:00PM-11:00PM Big Screen Movies

Saturday & Sundays
6:00PM-11:00PM Big Screen Movies/M*A*S*H




Movies, Stunts, Marathons




- Movie Schedule
Wed-Sat in primetime

Wednesday, June 3, 2009
8pm-11pm Assassins (1995, premiere)

Thursday, June 4, 2009
7pm-9pm & 9pm-11pm Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995, premiere)

Friday, June 5, 2009
8pm-11pm Batman (1989, premiere)

Saturday, June 6, 2009
8pm-11pm Batman (1989) MASH airs 6p-8p

Wednesday, June 10, 2009
7pm-9pm & 9-11pm Just Cause (1995, premiere)

Thursday, June 11, 2009
8pm-10:30pm Major League II (1994, premiere) MASH follows at 10:30pm

Friday, June 12, 2009
7pm-9pm & 9-11pm Sudden Impact (1983, premiere)

Saturday, June 13, 2009
6pm-8:30pm Sudden Impact (1983)
8:30pm-11pm Assassins (1995)

Wednesday, June 17, 2009
7pm-9pm & 9-11pm Sudden Impact (1983)

Thursday, June 18, 2009
8pm-11pm The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

Friday, June 19, 2009
7pm-9pm & 9pm-11pm Young Guns II (1990)

Saturday, June 20, 2009
6pm-8pm Young Guns II (1990)
8pm-11pm The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

Wednesday, June 24, 2009
8pm-11pm The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

Thursday, June 25, 2009
7pm-9pm & 9pm-11pm Just Cause (1995)

Friday, June 26, 2009
8pm-10:30pm Pacific Heights (1990, premiere) MASH follows at 10:30pm

Saturday, June 27, 2009
6pm-8:30pm Pacific Heights (1990)
8:30pm-11pm True Crime (1999, premiere)





- M*A*S*H Sunday Marathons
Sundays from 6pm-11pm




Read the blog before you post. It will give much more insight than just the schedule, so please link this if you're posting elsewhere:
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/blog/2009/05/ion-television-june-2009-acquires-more.html

Well Boston Legal must not be doing as well as before for ION to cut back. The movies must be pulling in some viewers, esp since we have a lot of familiar hit titles in the package and to see more recent stuff like The Departed be coming on....wow........maybe Warner Bros just ought to outright buy ION (and give up its share of the CW) and start fresh in the mini-network business.

Well Boston Legal must not be doing as well as before for ION to cut back. The movies must be pulling in some viewers, esp since we have a lot of familiar hit titles in the package and to see more recent stuff like The Departed be coming on....wow........maybe Warner Bros just ought to outright buy ION (and give up its share of the CW) and start fresh in the mini-network business.

The way ION is going, the entire schedule will be movies soon. BORING!!! :lol:

It will also be still Paid Programs,Kids Cartoons and Church Stuff.

ER returns June 29:

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/blog/2009/05/fox-upfront-2009-10-fall-2009-schedule.html

Did Quantum Leap at least cycle through once?

just saw this on the web--ION Files for Bankruptcy!

http://www.multichannel.com/article/233139-Ion_Files_For_Bankruptcy_Protection.php

They were simply spending beyond their means. I still hold to my belief that the company will fold in a year.

QL has been on for a good while, so I'm sure it has cycled through.

It looks like they are simply wiping out old debt and getting $300 million more in financing once they emerge. Talk about throwing good money after bad!

Schedule change:

Weekdays, effective Monday, June 8, 2009
6:00pm Reba (replaces Family Feud)
6:30pm Reba (replaces Family Feud)
7:00pm Family Feud (replaces Reba)
7:30pm Family Feud (replaces Reba)

Also, ER is now not returning June 29. More on that on the blog:

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/blog/2009/05/ion-switches-reba-and-feud-abc-summer.html

ION is switching Family Feud and Reba due to poor ratings. Is it any wonder? Reba is one of the most idiotic, annoying "sitcoms" there is. Completely unfunny crap. They should just pull the show from the schedule entirely. I liked the fact that Family Feud aired at 6 because I could watch that and then switch over to ABC and watch Jeopardy! and Wheel Of Fortune at 7. Now they'll be back to being on at the same time again and I'll have to flip back and forth between stations (which I hate doing.) They also need to stop showing so many movies. All of the movies have been shown already dozens of times on cable, broadcast tv and released on DVD.

At least they're keeping Family Feud, even though they're dropping Quantum Leap. I never liked Reba either. I'd also appreciate it if they didn't play so many movies that I have on dvd or video like Batman and Major League II.

I really through Reba was doing good for Ion.

Ghost Whisperer launch did a 0.5 rating, better than Reba and ER though.

Monday, June 1, 2009
HH Rating (Households)
8:00PM Ghost Whisperer 0.5/1
9:00PM NCIS 1.2/2
10:00PM NCIS 1.1/2

ION beat The CW and MNT on Monday night in HH and tied them with a 0.3 18-9 rating in primetime.

Tried to get this posted yesterday, the site was down. Anyway, is Quantum Leap staying? Looks like it's on the schedule

It's leaving June 29 as mentioned, but something else is replacing it now instead of ER. More on that tomorrow on the blog, with the July schedule.

Schedule change:

Weekdays, effective Monday, June 8, 2009
6:00pm Reba (replaces Family Feud)
6:30pm Reba (replaces Family Feud)
7:00pm Family Feud (replaces Reba)
7:30pm Family Feud (replaces Reba)


Now this isn't happening...didn't even start and they changed their mind. It's back to Feud at 6 and Reba at 7.