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Company Overview of ION Television, Inc.

Company Overview

ION Television, Inc. operates as a general entertainment television network in the United States. The company’s television network focuses on hit shows, original movies, and special event programming. It primarily serves households that include adults and women between 25 to 54 years of age. ION Television, Inc. was formerly known as i and changed its name to ION Television, Inc. in January 2009. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in West Palm Beach, Florida. ION Television, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of ION Media Networks, Inc.

601 Clearwater Park Road

West Palm Beach, FL 33401

United States

Founded in 1998

Phone:

561-659-4122

Fax:

561-659-4252

www.iontelevision.com

Key Executives for ION Television, Inc.

Chairman of Ion Media Networks
Compensation as of Fiscal Year 2012.

ION Television, Inc. Key Developments

Penske Media Corporation and ION Television Launches YouTube Premium Content Channel and Distribution Partnership for Entertainment News Television

Penske Media Corporation and ION Television announced a new distribution partner in their growing multi-platform entertainment news venture, ENTV (Entertainment News Television), launching a premium YouTube Channel as a part of YouTube’s new original channels initiative. ENTV brings viewers top breaking entertainment stories, first, directly from the leading sources and reporters in the entertainment field. By leveraging the exclusive breaking news reporting power of PMC’s core entertainment brands, including Deadline.com, HollywoodLife.com, TVLine.com and Movieline.com, along with ION Television’s powerful distribution platform, ENTV will deliver breaking entertainment news 24/7 on YouTube, as well as bring a series of entertainment lifestyle shows to their audience. The ENTV News segments will be comprised of multiple-daily hosted entertainment video segments starting at 9am EST and running until 11pm. Hosts will include Brian Corsetti, former Miss USA Shandi Finnessey, Chloe Melas and Kelly Beckett. The channel also plans on a weekly show with TVLine Editor-in-Chief Michael Ausiello; a daily celebrity news chat with HollywoodLife Editor-in-Chief Bonnie Fuller; a weekly celebrity interview show on the secrets to a Hollywood career with some of the top stars in the business; a weekly ‘talent watch’ show exposing the next generation of Hollywood stars; as well as a show that rounds up some of the day’s best clips from the YouTube channels with Matthew Hoffman. All of the content will be produced by Michael Davis, General Manager and Executive Producer of ENTV.

ION Television and PMC Announce the Launch of Entertainment News Television

PMC and ION Television announced the launch of Entertainment News Television (ENTV), an original multi-platform breaking news service. ENTV will leverage the exclusive breaking news reporting power of PMC's core entertainment brands, including Nikki Finke's Deadline.com, Bonnie Fuller's HollywoodLife.com, Michael Ausiello's TVLine.com, and Movieline.com, to deliver breaking entertainment and celebrity news on the top 10 ranked network ION Television and the web, simultaneously. The partnership between PMC and ION Television is the first time that leading online brands and a national television network will release daily content concurrently, merging PMC's trusted entertainment news brands with ION's national television distribution strength and growing audience of nearly 100 million households. With daily hosted video segments, ENTV will bring viewers top breaking entertainment stories first, before any of the traditional entertainment TV outlets and directly from PMC's leading sources and reporters in the entertainment field.

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