ION Media Networks, Inc.

Cyrus Capital Extends Offer for ION Networks [Press Release]
Business Wire | 7 days 11 hours 16 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...

ION Television to Premiere Network s First Originally Produced Film -- A Golden Christmas -- on Sunday, December 13 [Press Release]
Business Wire | 6 days 14 hours 19 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.

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 | 7 days 11 hours 53 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 Provide Broadcast Premieres for Multiple Blockbuster Theatrical Releases [Press Release]
Business Wire | 27 days 14 hours 22 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 14 hours 52 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 | 81 days 10 hours 13 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 15 hours 13 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 | 58 days 4 hours 43 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...

With Standard Adopted, Broadcasters Poised to Bring Mobile DTV to American Consumers [Press Release]
Business Wire | 38 days 17 hours 44 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...

Energizer Powers Search for America's Most Advanced "Rock Band(TM)" [Press Release]
MarketWire | 40 days 9 hours 18 minutes ago
ST. LOUIS, MO -- (Marketwire) -- 10/14/09 -- With its cross-generation appeal, "Rock Band(TM)" has given consumers of all ages a new way to interact with and perform the music they love. And on Nov. 3, one lucky "Rock Band" band will show their new found skills, performing live in New York City. The winning band will rock out for 20 straight hours at the Energizer "Advance Into Overdrive" event at the MTV store in Times Square.

RHI Entertainment Announces Results for the Third Quarter and Nine Months Ended September 30, 2009 [Press Release]
Business Wire | 13 days 16 hours 15 minutes ago
RHI Entertainment, Inc. (NASDAQ: RHIE), a leading developer, producer, and distributor of made-for-television (MFT) movies, miniseries, and other television programming, today reported its financial results for the third quarter and nine months ended September 30, 2009.

Audi Reveals the Purely Electric e-tron [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 69 days 19 hours 12 minutes ago
FRANKFURT, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Audi presents the highlight of the IAA 2009: the e-tron, a high-performance sports car with a purely electric drive system. Four motors - two each at the front and rear axles - drive the wheels, making the concept car a true quattro. Producing 230 kW (313 hp) and 4,500 Nm (3,319.03 lb-ft) of torque, the two-seater accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h (0 - 62.14 mph) in 4.8 seconds, and from 60 to 120 km/h (37.28 - 74.56 mph) in 4.1 seconds. The lithium-ion batter...

Thin-and-Light Gateway EC Series Notebooks Deliver Long Battery Life and Distinctive Style [Press Release]
Business Wire | 35 days 17 hours 15 minutes ago
The new Gateway EC Series notebook PCs debut today in two of the most popular sizes for today’s busy computer users – 15.6-inch mainstream size for productivity maximizers and the 11.6-inch ultraportable size for road warriors – both delivering up to eight hours of battery life(1).

Nissan Supports Electric Vehicle & Infrastructure Deployment Project [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 110 days 12 hours 14 minutes ago
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