ION Television June 2010 --

Blog Story: http://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2010/05/ion-television-june-2010-highlights.html


Regular schedule changes listed ONLY:

Weekdays
4:00PM Family Feud (replaces M*A*S*H)
4:30PM Family Feud (replaces M*A*S*H)
6:00PM Ghost Whisper (replaces Family Feud 2x)
7:00PM Ghost Whisperer (replaces Criminal Minds Mon-Tues, Thurs)

Wednesdays & Fridays
11:00PM Criminal Minds (replaces Ghost Whisperer)

Saturdays
3:00PM-7:00PM M*A*S*H/Ghost Whisperer
7:00PM-12:00AM Movies (replaces Ghost Whisperer 9pm-12am)


Here is the FULL regular schedule for June:
Mon-Thurs
8:00AM-9:00AM qubo on ION (Wed-Thurs)
4:00PM Family Feud
4:30PM Family Feud
5:00PM Family Feud
5:30PM Family Feud
6:00PM Ghost Whisper
7:00PM Ghost Whisperer
8:00PM Criminal Minds (Mon-Tues, Thurs); Ghost Whisperer (Wed)
9:00PM Criminal Minds (Mon-Tues); Ghost Whisperer (Wed); NCIS (Thurs)
10:00PM Criminal Minds (Mon-Tues); Ghost Whisperer (Wed); NCIS (Thurs)
11:00PM Criminal Minds

Friday
8:00AM-9:00AM qubo on ION
4:00PM Family Feud
4:30PM Family Feud
5:00PM Family Feud
5:30PM Family Feud
6:00PM Ghost Whisper
7:00PM Ghost Whisperer
8:00PM Criminal Minds
9:00PM Ghost Whisperer
10:00PM Ghost Whisperer
11:00PM Criminal Minds

Saturday
3:00PM M*A*S*H/Ghost Whisperer
7:00PM Movie
9:30PM Movie

Sunday
3:00PM M*A*S*H
3:30PM M*A*S*H
4:00PM M*A*S*H
4:30PM M*A*S*H
5:00PM The Emeril Lagasse Show
6:00PM Movie
8:30PM Movie
11:00PM Movie/My Name is Earl
11:30PM My Name is Earl





Movies, Stunts, Marathons




- Movie Schedule
Ever Weekend

Saturday, June 5, 2010 (M*A*S*H airs 3-4:30pm)
4:30pm-6:30pm Shanghai Noon (2000)
6:30pm-9pm Blood Work (2002)

Sunday, June 6, 2010
6pm-8:30pm & 8:30pm-11pm Entrapment (1998)

Saturday, June 12, 2010 (M*A*S*H airs 3-4pm/Ghost Whisperer 4pm-7pm)
7pm-9:30pm Field of Dreams (1989)
9:30pm-12am Entrapment (1998)

Sunday, June 13, 2010 (My Name is Earl at 11:30pm)
6pm-8:30pm Field of Dreams (1989)
8:30pm-11:30pm The Fugitive (1993)

Saturday, June 19, 2010 (Ghost Whisperer 3pm-6pm)
6pm-9pm & 9pm-12am The Fugitive (1993)

Sunday, June 20, 2010 (My Name is Earl at 11:30pm)
6pm-9pm The Fugitive (1993)
9pm-11:30pm Blood Work (2002)

Saturday, June 26, 2010 (M*A*S*H airs 3-5pm/Ghost Whisperer 5pm-8pm)
8pm-12am The Godfather (1972)

Sunday, June 27, 2010 (My Name is Earl at 11:30pm)
6pm-8:30pm Blood Work (2002)
8:30pm-11:30pm The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)





-The Emeril Lagasse Show
Premiered Sunday, April 18, 2010
Now Sundays at 5:00pm
"The Emeril Lagasse Show," a new weekly, entertainment television show featuring celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse. The original, primetime series will be recorded before a live studio audience and will capture Emeril's passion for people, entertainment, music, food and celebration. The hour long program will air on Sundays at 8pm beginning April 18.
"The Emeril Lagasse Show" will feature one of America's most popular chefs as he has never been seen before. Each week, Emeril will welcome celebrity guests, musicians and entertainers to break news and break bread as Emeril shares his world, his friends and his passions with the studio audience and viewers at home. A house band will be on set, playing live music and interacting with Emeril, guests and audience. The show also will include entertaining and surprising field pieces that will be shot in and around New York City where the show will be taped. TV veteran Karen Katz and After Five Productions, which executive produced Lagasse's long-running Food Network series, "Emeril Live," will be executive producer of "The Emeril Lagasse Show."



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://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2010/05/ion-television-june-2010-highlights.html

Pretty good schedule, especially with Family Feud and Emeril. Still gotta catch that show. Some movies look good, although the schedule as a whole is still boring. I still miss the Ion days with Growing Pains, Perfect Strangers, Who's The Boss, etc. Maybe Hallmark can eventually become like that.

Are they having an upfront for the fall?

What a boring schedule....they're going to just sit with the same shows and those are going to run out of steam for them eventually. They need to be planning ahead.

^Agreed, very boring. They are gonna burn out GW and CM--just like they burned out any show that showed some ratings promise for them.

Maybe when the others do like TBS,ABC Family and so on.
Emeril on 7 Days a week would be good.

ION established new network all-time highs in the recently completed May Sweep, finishing with the following numbers:

ION May Sweep 2010: 0.7HH/1%, 0.3 A18-49, 960,000 P2+
ION May Sweep 2009: 0.4HH/1%, 0.1 A18-49, 530,000 P2+
Year-over-Year: +75% HH, +200% A18-49, +81% P2+

In A18-49s, ION ended up 10th amongst broadcasters, beating only the Spanish-language Azteca and Estrella networks.

In households, ION placed 8th, tying TeleMundo and beating TeleFutura by 0.2HH, the first time the mininet has tied/beaten those Spanish-language nets a May Sweep.

In P2+ viewers, ION finished 9th amongst broadcasters, beating TeleFutura for the first time ever.

I miss when Ion used to show The Wonder Years, Growing Pains, Alice and Mama's Family. It's now become just like any other network with a bunch of current, modern programming.

ION finished Week 36, the final week of the 2009-10 regular season, with a set of weekly numbers that were just a notch below rival mini-net The CW in A18-49s, and that tied The CW in households and P2+ viewers. These numbers are all the more remarkable in that The CW has roughly double the affiliate count of ION.

ION had a week 36 that was perfectly aligned to its season-to-date averages, finishing the regular season with its very first 0.3 A18-49 average and its first million-plus viewer regular season:

Week 36 (May.24-May.30, 2010)
ION 0.7HH/1%, 0.3 A18-49 (360,000), 1,010,000 P2+ viewers

Season-to-Date, Weeks 1-36 (Sep.21-May.30, 2010)
ION 0.7HH/1%, 0.3 A18-49 (390,000), 1,010,000 P2+ viewers

It looks like ION's summer season plans call for more of the same...highly-rated 'Criminal Minds' and 'NCIS' hours giving the netlet hefty Nielsens in the hours where they air. Still no upfront from the net on any changes planned for the fall season either.

Some changes:

http://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2010/06/breaking-rue-mcclanahan-passes-away-at.html

QUBO has moved to 8AM-9AM Eastern Wed-Friday. Infomercials now air in the 3PM-4PM slot that it used to be in.

You're right. Thanks, it started yesterday.

ION TELEVISION INKS DEAL WITH WARNER BROS. DOMESTIC TELEVISION

DISTRIBUTION FOR ALL SEVEN SEASONS OF THE HIT PRIMETIME DRAMA

“WITHOUT A TRACE,” FROM JERRY BRUCKHEIMER TELEVISION


West Palm Beach, FL – June 14, 2010 -- With a focus on further building upon a primetime line-up that continues to show significant ratings growth, ION Television has acquired all seven seasons (160 episodes) of the hit crime drama “Without a Trace,” produced by Jerry Bruckheimer Television, via a deal with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. “Without a Trace” aired on the CBS Television Network until 2009. The announcement was made by Kristine Hunsinger, Senior Vice President, Planning, Scheduling and Acquisitions, ION Media Networks.

“The highly successful and critically acclaimed ‘Without a Trace’ has enjoyed a strong and consistent network following,” said Hunsinger. “This series is the perfect complement to our dynamic primetime line-up of hit off-network series, which already includes such favorites as ‘Criminal Minds,’ ‘Ghost Whisperer’ and ‘NCIS’.”

Set in New York City , “Without a Trace,” follows a special FBI task force known as the Missing Persons Squad, dedicated to finding missing persons by applying advanced psychological profiling techniques. They peel back layers of the victims’ lives and trace their whereabouts in an effort to discover whether they’ve been abducted, are missing by choice, were murdered, have committed suicide or are, very simply, accident victims. Using the vast resources of the bureau, the team, led by Agent Jack Malone (series star Anthony LaPaglia), races against time in the tight 72-hour window after a disappearance while hope for a recovery is still typically possible. The stories also focus on the personal lives of the team members, and illustrate how their different experiences give them insight—and sometimes emotional reactions --to certain cases.

The series stars Anthony LaPaglia (“Frasier,” “Summer of Sam”), who was nominated for an Emmy® Award and won a Golden Globe for his work as Jack Malone, Poppy Montgomery (“Blonde,” 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”), Marianne Jean-Baptiste (“Secrets & Lies”), Enrique Murciano (“Traffic,” “Black Hawk Down”), Roselyn Sanchez (“The Game Plan,” “Rush Hour 2”) and Eric Close (“Now and Again,” “Taken”). “Without a Trace” is from Jerry Bruckheimer Television in association with CBS Television Studios and Warner Bros. Television. The series was executive produced by Jerry Bruckheimer (the “CSI” series, the upcoming “Chase,” and the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films), Jonathan Littman (the “ CSI ” series, the upcoming “Chase” and “The Whole Truth”), Hank Steinberg (“61*,” “RFK”), Greg Walker (“Smallville,” “The X-Files”), Jan Nash (“Ellen,” “Caroline in the City”), Ed Redlich (“The Practice,” “Felicity”) and David Amann (“The X-Files,” “Chicago Hope”), and was created by Steinberg.

Yay, something worth watching on ION finally. When will Trace start?

ION TELEVISION INKS DEAL WITH WARNER BROS. DOMESTIC TELEVISION

DISTRIBUTION FOR ALL SEVEN SEASONS OF THE HIT PRIMETIME DRAMA

“WITHOUT A TRACE,” FROM JERRY BRUCKHEIMER TELEVISION


West Palm Beach, FL – June 14, 2010 -- With a focus on further building upon a primetime line-up that continues to show significant ratings growth, ION Television has acquired all seven seasons (160 episodes) of the hit crime drama “Without a Trace,” produced by Jerry Bruckheimer Television, via a deal with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution. “Without a Trace” aired on the CBS Television Network until 2009. The announcement was made by Kristine Hunsinger, Senior Vice President, Planning, Scheduling and Acquisitions, ION Media Networks.

I wonder whether the ION-Warner deal precludes broadcasts on Thursday night when 'Without a Trace' is skedded to air on MyNetworkTV this fall.

With this series acquisition being added to the current crimetime mix of 'NCIS' and 'Criminal Minds' together with 'Ghost Whisperer', ION is going to be virtually wall-to-wall CBS programs this fall aside from their rapidly disappearing movie nights.

If ION gives up their movie franchise this coming fall, this will be the first television season since the early sixties without a regularly scheduled movie night across one of the broadcast networks.

I'll announce Without a Trace's launch date and times tomorrow on the blog.

Without a Trace's launch date on ION is...

http://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2010/06/ion-television-acquires-without-trace.html

Without a Trace's launch date on ION is...

http://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2010/06/ion-television-acquires-without-trace.html
I cannot understand why Warner Television first syndicated two hours of 'Without a Trace' Thursdays at 8-10 pm on MyNetworkTV, and then allows ION to sked 'Without a Trace' Thursdays at 8-9 pm.

So far in their run of 'Ghost Whisperer' and 'Criminal Minds', ION has never aired their encores a the same time as the series were concurrently airing on the CBS Television Network.

This double-up of 'Without a Trace' on Thursdays from 8-9 pm can only lead to diminished numbers across both mininetworks.

Now that ION has 10 hours a week of 'Without a Trace' airing 7-9 pm Mondays to Fridays, MyNetworkTV should ask Warner to substitute another off-network series on Thursdays from 8-10 pm.

For the second week in a row, ION, with fewer than 100 affiliates, has soundly beaten The CW (which has over 200 affiliates giving it nationwide coverage) in households and P2+ viewers last week:

Week 38 Averages:
ION 0.8HH/1%, 0.3 A18-49 (420,000), 1,160,000 P2+ viewers
The CW 0.6HH/1%, 0.4 A18-49 (510,000), 930,000 P2+ viewers

ION should see a nice upward jolt to their Nielsens with the five weeknight stripping of 'Without a Trace' that begins in early July, and it is likely that the mininet will move ahead of the CW in A18-49s at that time for the duration of the summer season.

ION still needs to expand daytime and further move away from paid programming. The old starting point of noon (like PAX was) would be nice.