Editing Ion Television (section)

====Children's programming====
Prior to Ion Television's original launch as Pax TV in 1998, the network had reached an agreement with [[DIC Entertainment]] to produce a five-hour children's programming block called ''Freddy's Firehouse'', to air on Saturday and Sunday mornings.<ref name=awm/><ref>{{cite news|title=Paxson, DIC in kidstuff deal for Pax Net|url=https://variety.com/1998/biz/news/paxson-dic-in-kidstuff-deal-for-pax-net-1117469438/|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130205134644/http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117469438.html?categoryid=18&cs=1&query=|url-status=live|archive-date=February 5, 2013|first=Richard|last=Katz|periodical=Variety|date=April 3, 1998|access-date=August 15, 2009}}</ref> The block of animated series was instead launched on September 5, 1998, as "Cloud Nine", featuring a trio of winged teenage angels that hosted the wraparound segments that bridged breaks during the block's shows, which were mostly sourced from the DIC library.<ref name="Pax SFGate"/> "Cloud Nine" was discontinued in the spring of 1999, and was replaced by a new block under the title "Pax Kids."<ref>{{cite journal|title=The Three-Hour Rule Is It Living Up To Expectations?|url=http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/19990629_three_hour_expectations_report1.pdf|first=Kelly L.|last=Schmitt|journal=Report Series|publisher=The Annenberg Public Policy Center|issue=30|page=8|date=June 29, 1999|access-date=November 3, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141104012133/http://www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/wp-content/uploads/19990629_three_hour_expectations_report1.pdf|archive-date=November 4, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> The DIC programs were replaced in 2000 with reruns of ''[[Jack Hanna's Animal Adventures]]'', which was replaced by ''[[Just Deal]]'' and ''[[California Dreams]]'' the following year. Pax TV became the first major commercial broadcast network in the U.S. to not supply children's programming in January 2002, and later one of only two until it restored a children's block in 2006 ([[UPN]] eventually joined it in this distinction after it dropped its [[Disney's One Too]] block in August 2003, following the termination of a programming agreement with [[Buena Vista Television]]). Between 2002 and 2006, Pax and i used original reality series such as ''[[Animal Miracles|Miracle Pets]]'', ''[[Animal Tails]]'', and ''[[America's Most Talented Kids]]'' to fulfill its stations' E/I requirements.

On September 15, 2006, Ion Television debuted a weekly children's program block called "[[Qubo]] on Ion Television", through a partnership between [[Ion Media Networks]], [[NBC Universal]], the [[Nelvana]] unit of [[Corus Entertainment]], [[Scholastic Books|Scholastic Media]], [[Classic Media]], and its subsidiary [[Big Idea Productions]]. The Qubo block originally debuted on [[NBC]] and [[Telemundo]] on September 9, 2006, with NBC's Qubo block initially being rebroadcast on Ion Television on Friday afternoons (making it the last weekday afternoon children's block to be carried by a major commercial broadcast network until 2010).<ref>{{cite news|title=Qubo, for English- and Spanish-speaking youngsters|url=http://www.medialifemagazine.com/qubo-for-english-and-spanish-speaking-youngsters/|first=Ed|last=Robertson|periodical=Media Life Magazine|date=August 24, 2006|access-date=February 11, 2014}}</ref> On January 4, 2015, the Qubo block on Ion was relaunched as the "Qubo Kids Corner", concurrent with the block's move to Sunday mornings. As mentioned above, Scripps now purchases syndicated programming to meet Ion Television's E/I requirements with its wind-down of Qubo.