Editing Ion Television (section)

===National feeds===
Separate national feeds (formerly known as "i Plus" or "Ion Plus") have been made available to pay television providers, including [[Dish Network]], DirecTV, [[Comcast]] and [[Charter Communications]]. A separate [[Video on demand#Advertising video on demand|advertising-supported video-on-demand]] feed is also available through several AVOD streaming services, including Samsung TV Plus, Vizio WatchFree, [[Xumo]], [[Tubi]], [[Freevee]], [[Roku|The Roku Channel]], and [[TCL Technology|TCL Channel]], which features programming sourced from Ion Plus in place of paid programming that airs on the main network. Prior to the launch of Ion Life, the Ion Plus feeds carried reruns of cancelled Pax original programs (such as ''[[Miracle Pets]]'' and ''Beat the Clock''), as well as [[public domain]] movies and sitcom episodes (such as ''[[I Married Joan]]'' and ''[[The Beverly Hillbillies]]''). The feeds used the Pax name and [[Digital on-screen graphic|bug]] after the network's rebrand as ''i'', until about September 2005. As Ion has refocused towards its current schedule however, along with a de-emphasis on local advertising, the national pay-TV feed effectively repeats Ion's main feed outside a lack of [[station identification]].

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Ion follows a programming strategy similar to major cable networks, with majority of its schedule being filled by acquired broadcast and cable drama series, few original programs, holiday films and other original movies, and theatrically released movies sourced mainly from major film studios, with its entertainment programming schedule occupying 18 hours of its daily broadcast schedule. Ion Television, unlike other broadcast networks, does not necessarily allow its owned-and-operated stations and affiliates to air syndicated programming during the daytime and late-night hours.

In the United States, syndicated programming accounts for a majority of the revenue of local network-affiliated and independent stations. Network programming (on stations that have a network affiliation), newscasts or other locally produced programs (if a station carries any), and infomercials make up the rest. Since paid programming once made up a relatively sizable portion of Ion's schedule (prior to 2008), the benefit is that it provides the main source of revenue. However, this is also a drawback as, in the past, Ion had relied more on infomercials rather than sitcoms and dramas; sponsors of television series often have qualms about their message being lost on stations whose primary content is infomercials and other paid programming. Ion Television's reliance on mostly paid programming has decreased since the late 2000s, as a result of the network's expansion of entertainment programming to additional daytime and late night timeslots, and in particular, the later creation of the infomercial-dedicated subchannel service Ion Shop. Ion Television stations also lack locally produced programming; most of its stations had aired newscasts from other local network-affiliated stations until the rebrand as ''i'', and have even produced their own [[Public affairs (broadcasting)|community affairs]] shows; however, local programming has since become virtually non-existent on most of Ion's O&Os and affiliates, and was entirely discontinued with the 2019 repeal of the Main Studio rule by the FCC.

In effect, the repeal also freed Ion Media from the responsibility of maintaining 'studios' in any manner, which for most stations were merely a low-cost office suite containing the station's [[public file]], a telephone operated by a general manager with only the responsibility of responding to viewers and local pay-TV providers as a local representative of the network, along with a broadcast engineer who often is responsible for multiple Ion stations (the rule required two employees, an engineer and general manager, at minimum to staff a television station). Currently in a market with another Scripps station, that station's engineer also performs the same duties for the Ion station.

In the past, as a result before digital multicasting, there were a small number of stations (such as former affiliate [[WKFK-LD]] in [[Pascagoula, Mississippi]]) that maintained dual affiliations with both Ion and another smaller network, such as [[America One]]. In early 2006, it was announced that the ''i'' stations in [[Memphis, Tennessee]] ([[WPXX-TV]]), [[Rapid City, South Dakota]] ([[KKRA-LP]]) and [[Greenville, North Carolina]] ([[WEPX-TV]], as well as its satellite [[WPXU-TV]] in [[Jacksonville, North Carolina]]) would add programming from MyNetworkTV in September 2006, causing preemptions of ''i'' programming during prime time due to the stations' programming commitments to carrying the MyNetworkTV schedule. This blow came after ''i'' lost some affiliates in [[New Mexico]], New York and [[Illinois]] entirely (although the New York station, [[WWBI-LP]] in [[Plattsburgh]], subsequently rejoined the network after a sale that resulted in the affiliation change fell through).

In late September 2009, a year after Ion Media Networks purchased WPXX and WEPX/WPXU from Flinn Broadcasting, those stations resumed carrying Ion Television full-time, having disaffiliated from MyNetworkTV as a result of the network terminating its existing affiliation agreements due to its conversion into a programming service. NBC affiliate [[WITN-TV]] took over the MyNetworkTV affiliation for the Greenville, North Carolina market, placing it on a [[digital subchannel]]; Memphis CW affiliate [[WLMT]], meanwhile, picked up only ''[[WWE SmackDown]]'' in place of WPXX (that station would also add MyNetworkTV on a digital subchannel in a dual affiliation with [[MeTV]] from 2011, but eventually dropped the affiliation in 2016, leaving it on [[KPMF-LD]] until 2021, which is licensed to the nearby [[Jonesboro, Arkansas]] market but transmits from the same tower as WLMT does north of Memphis).-->