ION Media Networks, Inc.

Cyrus Capital Extends Offer for ION Networks [Press Release]
Business Wire | 6 days 21 hours 34 minutes ago
Cyrus Capital Partners has extended its enhanced $250 million offer to finance ION Media Networks Inc. (IION.PK) exit from bankruptcy protection. The Cyrus offer, which was summarily rejected by the ION Networks’ Board, provides ION with $100 million of additional incremental capital not offered in the plan accepted by the Board. The extension will run until the bankruptcy court finally accepts or rejects the financially inferior offer now before the court. The disclosure was made in a letter...

Go Ahead Make My Day! It s All Clint Eastwood, All the Time, on ION Television Thanksgiving Weekend, November 27-29 [Press Release]
Business Wire | 6 days 22 hours 11 minutes ago
It will be all Clint, all the time on ION Television when the Network launches Feastwood film event during Thanksgiving weekend, Thursday, November 26 through Sunday, November 29. The announcement was made today by Leslie Chesloff, Executive Vice President, Programming, ION Media Networks.

ION Television to Premiere Network s First Originally Produced Film -- A Golden Christmas -- on Sunday, December 13 [Press Release]
Business Wire | 6 days 37 minutes ago
ION Television’s first originally produced television film, the holiday themed “A Golden Christmas,” is set to make its world premiere on the Network on Sunday, December 13 at 9:00 PM, ET. The announcement was made today by Leslie Chesloff, Executive Vice President, Programming, ION Media Networks. This two-hour film marks the first of a dozen originally produced made-for-television movies that ION Television is slated to roll out throughout 2010.

ION Television to Provide Broadcast Premieres for Multiple Blockbuster Theatrical Releases [Press Release]
Business Wire | 27 days 40 minutes ago
ION Television has finalized multiple film agreements that provide the Network with the broadcast premiere rights to four new titles. The agreement with Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution (WBDTD) provides ION Television with the broadcast premiere rights to the Academy Award-winning feature film “March of the Penguins.” In addition, ION Television has inked a deal with NBC Universal Domestic Distribution (NBCU) for the broadcast premiere rights to the theatrical releases “The Retur...

Mystery, Betrayal and Terrifying Secrets Are Unleashed When ION Television s Durham County Launches Its Second Season in January 2010 [Press Release]
Business Wire | 41 days 1 hour 10 minutes ago
The lesson that “love hurts” is well learned by the characters who inhabit the eerie suburb of Durham County when the original scripted primetime series launches its second season on ION Television in January, 2010. The series, which debuted this fall, returns to the bleak and disturbing landscape of an alienated suburbia with a new star villain – Michelle Forbes, known for her intense portrayals on the hit HBO series “True Blood” and “In Treatment” this year.

Ion Television Breaks a Guinness World Record by Creating World's 'Largest Moving Box' [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 80 days 20 hours 31 minutes ago
...Twentieth Television and Warner Bros. Parent company, ION Media Networks, Inc., owns and operates the nation's largest broadcast...group. Using its digital multicasting capability, ION Media Networks has launched the digital TV brands qubo...

ION Television Attempt To Break Guinness World Record for 'Largest Moving Box' [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 84 days 1 hour 31 minutes ago
...Twentieth Television and Warner Bros. Parent company, ION Media Networks, Inc., owns and operates the nation's largest broadcast...group. Using its digital multicasting capability, ION Media Networks has launched the digital TV brands qubo...

Fifth Annual New York Television Festival Announces Awards [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 57 days 15 hours 1 minute ago
...Twentieth Television and Warner Bros. Parent company, ION Media Networks, Inc., owns and operates the nation's largest broadcast...group. Using its digital multicasting capability, ION Media Networks has launched the digital TV brands Qubo...

With Standard Adopted, Broadcasters Poised to Bring Mobile DTV to American Consumers [Press Release]
Business Wire | 38 days 4 hours 3 minutes ago
The Open Mobile Video Coalition (OMVC), a voluntary association of more than 800 broadcast stations, today announced it is “All Systems Go” for a new era of television service on mobile devices. With Thursday’s adoption of a final mobile digital television (Mobile DTV) broadcast standard by the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC), U.S. broadcasters are poised to roll out an array of digital program services that will be available to consumers on devices ranging from in-car screens to...