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Ion Television

American broadcast television network
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Summary

Ion Television is a television channel[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of television channel entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,651 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Country: United States[3]
  • Instance of: television network[4]
  • Founder: Bud Paxson[5]
  • Owned by: Ion Media[6]
  • Headquarters location: West Palm Beach[7]
  • Commons category: Ion Television[8]
  • Inception: August 31, 1998[9]
  • Official website: https://www.iontelevision.com[10]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Ion Television[11]
  • Affiliation: list of Ion Television affiliates[12], list of stations owned and operated by Ion Media[13]
  • Official name: Ion Television[14]
  • Motto text: Positively Entertaining[15]
  • Date of official opening: January 1995[16]
  • Language used: English[17]
  • Social media followers: 68,507[18], 63,077[19], 68,496[20], 68,931[21]

Why It Matters

Ion Television has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

Related Entities

television channel United States

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4d ago · InMontreal · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['en', 'es', 'fr', 'id', 'ja', 'pt', 'simple', 'zh']
    Official website → https://www.iontelevision.com
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Official website: https://www.iontelevision.com"
  2. 16w ago · Chimatronx · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Website → —
    Inception → —
    Owned by → Ion Media
    Instance of → —
    + 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Inception: 31 August 1998"
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