Editing Ion Television (section)

=====Qubo=====
{{Main|Qubo}}
[[Qubo]] was a children's television network that launched on January 8, 2007, and is carried on the second digital subchannel of Ion Television's stations. Its launch was announced on May 8, 2006, when Ion Media Networks, NBCUniversal, Nelvana, Scholastic Media, Classic Media (now [[DreamWorks Classics]] which would later be owned by NBCUniversal) and its [[Big Idea Productions]] unit announced plans to create Qubo as a multi-platform children's entertainment endeavor that would extend to a weekly programming block on Ion Television as well as NBC and Telemundo, and a [[video-on-demand]] service for [[digital cable]] providers.<ref name="ionmedia4">{{cite press release|title=Press|url=http://www.ionmedia.tv/press/press.cfm?id=4|website=Ion Media Networks|date=May 8, 2006|access-date=July 7, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060929195959/http://www.ionmedia.tv/press/press.cfm?id=4|archive-date=September 29, 2006|url-status=dead}}</ref> Qubo features content from the programming libraries of each of the partners, though there was an early promise of each company producing a new series for the network each year; most of its programs are targeted at children ages 2 to 11, though its late night programming block "Qubo Night Owl" (which originally featured animated series from Qubo's partners and the [[Filmation]] library, but after August 2013 features a mix of animated and live-action series sourced solely from the distribution partners) is aimed at older teenagers and adults.

The network debuted on January 8, 2007.<ref>{{cite web|title=How To Get Qubo Channel|url=http://www.qubo.com/qubo247.asp|website=[[Qubo]]|access-date=December 17, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070112055327/http://qubo.com/qubo247.asp|archive-date=January 12, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> Its initial format was composed of a four-hour block of shows that repeated six times a day, all featuring programming exclusive to the new channel; by 2010, the channel adopted a more traditional schedule featuring a larger array of programs. As a consequence to the pending launch of Qubo, the ''i'' secondary feed was replaced on ''i'' O&Os with a repeating promo loop in late September 2006. NBCUniversal dropped out of the venture in 2012, with NBC and sister network Telemundo replacing their Qubo blocks with their own E/I-compliant [[NBC Kids|children's lineups]] programmed by [[PBS Kids Sprout]] (now [[Universal Kids]], which is part-owned by NBCUniversal's corporate parent [[Comcast]]) that July, relegating Qubo's companion programming block exclusively to Ion Television and Ion Plus; Ion Media Networks acquired the stakes of the remaining partners in the channel, which all retained distribution partnerships with Qubo, in 2013.

Programming on Qubo Channel and its companion block on Ion Television and Ion Plus accounted for all educational programming content on Ion's owned-and-operated stations, thus relieving the network from the responsibility of carrying programs compliant with [[Children's Television Act]] guidelines on its other subchannel services.

Qubo ceased broadcasting after Ion Media's acquisition by the [[E. W. Scripps Company]] and merger with [[Katz Broadcasting]].<ref name="scripps.com">{{cite press release|url=https://scripps.com/press-releases/scripps-takes-first-steps-to-realize-ion-synergies-with-multicast-networks-move/|title=Scripps takes first steps to realize ION synergies with multicast networks move|date=January 14, 2021|access-date=January 14, 2021|first=Carolyn|last=Micheli}}</ref>