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## Ion Television (2023-present)

For the first time, Ion Television became a major television network and offers a news programming produced by Newsy for the first time. Now, for the first time in 17 years, the Ion Television stations is finally allowed to aired local programming, syndicated programming and local commercials in addition of national commercials and PSAs plus replacing the nightmare marathon format. Starting in 2023, now Ion Television will have its very own customized national schedule feed replacing the main feed for the first time in 13 years. Plus for the first time ever, Ion Television will also have its very own primetime schedule, sports programming, news programming and events programming in respond with telecasting the Spelling Bee for the first time on Ion. When college sports programming, hockey programming or any sports programming beside the NFL don't aired, Ion Television respond by telecasting afternoon movies programming on Ion Television under Ion Television at the Movies. Plus after 2 years of being on PBS Kids, for the first time in 3 years since ABC last aired the specials, Charlie Brown return to live commercial television, but this time airing on Ion Television and it's sister station,

### Ion Television National Feed

For the first time, repeats of Ion Television programming along with a movies programming replacing paid programming. Beside the national Newsy on Ion Television telecasts,Ion Kids programming and Ion Television primetime programming that the network clears for national feed, the rest of the programming aired drama programming in a marathon format similar to the 2014-2022 structure of Ion Television stations. To keep it distance from the main Ion feed and as with CW+ and The WB 100+ Station Group, promotions for those programming airing in marathon format aired on the national feed of Ion Television omit affiliate references – either in the form of verbal identification or use of the affiliate's logo – in favor of network branding; the timeslot cards also only list airtimes based on Eastern and Central Time Zone scheduling, with the announcer being used to read the promo's airtime card only identifying that the program airs "[today/tonight/day of week] on Ion" or "Ion Kids" in a same manner as the Ion Television former structure from 2014 to 2021 as "Criminal Minds, Another Episode Next on Ion Television, Possibility Entertaining." The main feed has primetime programming and children's programming promos receive the local affiliate references- either in the form of verbal identification or use of the affiliate's logo and in case of some Ion O&O and Nexstar Media group, a customizing end tag background based on the graphics package of the Nexstar Media Group. Plus, like FoxNet, the standard station identification only contain the Ion logo and the slogan while the main feed has the station airing their own station identification with their own music package or Scripps News Music Package.

* Example: [Ion Kids Programming Promo] "Catch all the fun, weekdays afternoon starting at 2 on Ion 30 Los Angeles"
* Example 2: On the next Right This Minute, today at 5, on Ion 30 Plus
* Example 3: Your Watching WPXN-TV, Ion 38 in New York City
* Example 4: Your watching Ion 68 Kids, quality children's programming for Dallas-Fort Worth.

## Ion Plus Current Scheduling

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Though, for the first time, Ion Television stations move the primetime scheduling to late night scheduling and the promotion for Ion Plus shows is eliminated and reduced to just 1 hour of a certain drama series following the footstep from MyNetworkTV playbook and Ion Television stations sometimes move their children's programming and Newsy on Ion Television to their sister station. Mostly for INYO Broadcasting Stations, they commonly move the children's programming to Ion Plus station owned by INYO Broadcast in favor of airing other programming and INYO move the programming to 1AM

## Lighthouse Broadcasting Network (2022-present)

Ion Television announced that it will launch a major television network that will compete Ion Television for major television programming