ION Television June 2008 -- ER and The Dead Zone Join

[clj2]

Originally Posted by pavanbadal

I used to get the program breakdowns for ION back in late December for a week or so, but now I don't.

That's too bad. What do you think about last week's ratings? Is there a particular show that's bringing it down, or is it just a bad line-up?

[Pavan]

I'm not sure, it is hard to tell. Remember only three of these nights are QL/Dead Zone/ER and the other nights they are movies.

[Jude The Obscure]

And they sure don't seem to be in any hurry in doing your interview, Pav!

[JulieSomoski]

Originally Posted by 60s70s80stvfan

Remember in July 2007 the ratings really went up when they added Who's the Boss, so they were probably even better in Jul 07 than Jun 07, which was pretty good. I think the Diagnosis/Designing/Mama/Boss/Wonder Years line-up (in that order) was the best they ever had and got the best ratings, too.

That lineup wast he best ION has ever had. I remember watching WTB/Wonder Years every night from 9pm-11pm - both were just great shows, and they really went well airing with each other. I also got my fix of DW whenever I could at 7pm, and the occasional Mama at 8. It's too bad I can't say that for a single show on their lineup nowadays.

It makes me wonder what exactly is bringing down the ratings. It could also be the RHI Movies on the weekends that's getting the low ratings, and not Quantum/Dead/ER Monday-Wednesday. Or it could be the Thursday movies. Too bad they don't release the daily ratings anymore.

[clj2]

Well Julie if it were the Thursday movies, seems like they could yank those pretty fast since those are selected by ION. Does anyone here watch the RHI movies? Have they declined in quality or something? I know they used to do pretty well....since they take up 3 nights of the week, it could be those. They have to air RHI, of course, until next summer I think.

[clj2]

Pavan, will you have the ratings for last week tomorrow? Can't wait to see how they did....I'm expecting it to remain around the 300-350,000 range. Not much change.

[JulieSomoski]

Originally Posted by 60s70s80stvfan

Well Julie if it were the Thursday movies, seems like they could yank those pretty fast since those are selected by ION. Does anyone here watch the RHI movies? Have they declined in quality or something? I know they used to do pretty well....since they take up 3 nights of the week, it could be those. They have to air RHI, of course, until next summer I think.

Yeah, if they're still scheduling those movies, they must not be the problem. From the looks of it, it seems like the majority of the RHI movies they schedule are all repeats, or they've all aired on ION before, which could be a reason for a ratings decline. Just imagine all the shows they could be airing if they didn't have to air the RHI.

[Pavan]

ION went up a bit for the week of June 23-29 in primetime:

420,000 total viewers and 0.3/1 HH rating.

[JulieSomoski]

I guess viewers are finally finding ER and the Dead Zone on ION, but that's still a far cry off from what ION used to bring in.