What should be done with Ion?

[localclassictvfan]

What should Ion do with the main Ion channel? Apart from a few Canadian shows like Saving Hope and Private Eyes to be broadcast next year all it shows is repeats of US crime series all day. They tried original programming before but it didn't really work out. Why don't they try some original factual type programming to differ themselves from the other main networks or acquire more Canadian content? Will they be airing these same few shows in 5+ years. Why did the Cloo channel shut down when Ion airs a lot of the same crime shows?
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2018)
Blue Bloods (2014)
Burn Notice (2013)
Criminal Minds (2009)
Law & Order (2015)
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2012)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (2015)
NCIS: Los Angeles (2017)
Saving Hope (2014)
Psych (2011)
CSI seems to have replaced Numbers.

Isnt Flashpoint still on ION....Cloo was shutdown basically because the ratings plummeted and most of Cloo's programming migrated to pretty much where MeTV's programming went, COZI. NBC Universal owned cloo and it owns COZI (which I am hoping for NYD shows up in my market).....

 

[osu1991]

Isnt Flashpoint still on ION....Cloo was shutdown basically because the ratings plummeted and most of Cloo's programming migrated to pretty much where MeTV's programming went, COZI. NBC Universal owned cloo and it owns COZI (which I am hoping for NYD shows up in my market).....

Flashpoint is on Netflix now, I think. Ion no longer has the rights

 

[localclassictvfan]

Flashpoint is on Netflix now, I think. Ion no longer has the rights

Thanks.....

 

[harshness]

correct me if I am wrong on this (factual type shows), these ota networks (like ION, LAFF, GET), aren't they're primary goal is to get shows that we favored from past decades.

The exclusive goal of secondary networks is to provide a host medium for running more advertising. It comes down to what programming they can afford, not an original air date. This is evidenced by the list of shows presented in the OP where much of the programming is crime dramas from the last eight years that appear on numerous other networks.

They have to be careful about picking a particular genre and branding around it as there may not be the content to support it in the long term. There seem to be as many channels that have lost their way with respect to branding (Grit?) as are managing to hang on. For their part, Ion obviously visited a crime drama fire sale to keep programming going.

 

[localclassictvfan]

The exclusive goal of secondary networks is to provide a host medium for running more advertising. It comes down to what programming they can afford, not an original air date. This is evidenced by the list of shows presented in the OP where much of the programming is crime dramas from the last eight years that appear on numerous other networks.

They have to be careful about picking a particular genre and branding around it as there may not be the content to support it in the long term. There seem to be as many channels that have lost their way with respect to branding (Grit?) as are managing to hang on. For their part, Ion obviously visited a crime drama fire sale to keep programming going.

I noticed that when Get Launched on KLFY back last year. It was programing basically from decades ago like old westerns and older movies. Now its sitcoms like 4 hours of in the heat of the night and others from the 80's. They kept the 24 hour westerns on Saturday. From what I seen Get is moving to half hour shows like on Antenna TV...

 

[comfortably_numb]

which station is ION on in your market OTA...

KPXE 50

 

[localclassictvfan]

KPXE 50

Oh I know now your from the Kansas City area, you always had that fella Matt to deal with, mgsports

 

[comfortably_numb]

Oh I know now your from the Kansas City area, you always had that fella Matt to deal with, mgsports

Yep

 

[renegade734]

I would have thought it would be documentaries.

Reality in the TV programming sense doesn't seem to be particularly chummy with fact.

Yes, but it wouldn't take much for a documentary to turn really weird ...

 

[harshness]

Yes, but it wouldn't take much for a documentary to turn really weird ...

Only if it is a documentary about fetishes.

 

[Justin Hill]

I miss PAX...

 

[Mgsports]

Lots of people on here post from KC. Supermarket Sweeps,Talk Shows,A West Wing remake called East Wing,Hollywood Squares,Brady Bunch remake and so on.

 

[Mister B]

Ion is not available OTA here in El Paso, TX but I get it in HD with DTV. I actually watch it quite a bit. Since I am familiar with the characters and basic premise of most of those crime dramas and have probably forgotten "who-done-it" they are entertaining for an episode without feeling lost due to watching the show out of sequence. I have also seen Ion in HD by antenna in Los Angeles and in SD as a sub-channel in Albuquerque.

 

[harshness]

My 720p Ion, KPXG, shares with six (6) SD channels so it isn't much to look at. I'd argue against calling it "DVD quality" because of all of the artifacting.

 

[mvcg66b3r]

Ion is not available OTA here in El Paso, TX but I get it in HD with DTV.

KVIA just added Ion on 7.3 in SD.
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[Mister B]

I just did a scan and yes, Ion on KVIA 7.3 actually looks very good for 480i 16X9. It is defiantly better than the western feed of Ion on DTV which is SD surrounded by black but of course I will still choose the eastern feed in HD.