So, the "Ionic PaxNet" still seems to be the same 15 hours of Infomercials in the daytime and only a few hours of classic TV at night.........

Where's all this wonderful old programming Lowell Paxson himself promised us in his 1/2 hour taped promo just as "PaxNet" was barely getting started almost 10 years ago?

(Did see Smokey and the Bandit on there a few weeks ago tho....then went to a neighbour's place the Monday following and borrowed his Laserdisc of it.....)

Why don't they just throw in the towel and just admit that their network is a flop, instead of throwing more money away with it? All re-naming it will do is just give it a new name.....won't do anything to improve the programming!!

Laserdisc? WOW!
ROVS "Reflective Optical Videodisc System"
First LaserDisc (DiscoVision) title marketed in North America??? Jaws 78'
The last two titles released in North America were Paramount's Sleepy Hollow and Bringing Out the Dead in 2000.

I don't have any Discovision titles but I am always looking!!

(Mainly in this case, for novelty/collector value, not necessarily picture quality.........)

There are 3 digital channels broadcast by Ion in Portland. Over the air, 32.1 is old series and movies a la Nick at Nite. 32.2 is Qubo, a largely animated and children's network. 32.3 is primarily infomercials and a few of the aforementioned old TV series.

...er, those should be 22.1, 22.2, and 22.3, respectively...sorry for my inaccuracy.

Did they kill their 4th channel?

At one point they had been broadcasting 4 channels.

Nope... just checked, 22.4 = Worship

So basically 22.3 is merely a simulcast of the programming currently showing on analogue 22/54, right?

I need to get a new OTA convertor anyways, might even enjoy the "Nick at Night" takeoff. And I miss The Tube!

Slightly off-topic, but--
Isn't the case true with DTV that the more multicasts you put on a channel, the lower the quality gets because your bandwidth is being limited? Kinda like the major problem plaguing Ibiquity's FM system only this time around on TV?

I remember seeing, at my Aunt's place TBN having five multichannels (not that I ever *watch* TBN aside from trying to tune my antenna!) and the quality of some of those subs really wasn't anything to write home about. (But she also uses Direct-TV, so this might be like what apples are, compared to oranges........)

Another out of place thread? Come on guys, move this crap to the other side.

Omega--

Do you watch television? Isn't TV technology another type of radio?? Isn't this a board about RADIO??

Methinx it izz............

I'm pretty sure this topic has come up in the past and it was decided that TV talk belongs somewhere else...

May I suggest the obvious? Avoid opening and posting on any threads that have a TV subject line. Everytime you post to complain, they of course go right back up to the top. You could email Dan privately if they're bumming your high that much.

Just my .0002

Hey...

ION is normal on 22.1, which is what we all see on 22/54 on the analog side.

22.2 is QUBO, an all kids network. 22.3 is ION Life (Beginning tomorrow 2-19-07). This used to be the east coast feed of ION, so nothing to gain except to see growing pains at 5 instead of 8. 22.4 is Worship.

I think ION is realizing that there is a market for retro tv 24 hours a day and 22.1 will eventually transition to that. What I am curious about is adoption of the other channels by the cable companies. I hope ION Life takes on a discovery channel personality of its own.

"I think ION is realizing that there is a market for retro tv 24 hours a day and 22.1 will eventually transition to that."

I certainly hope so. 'Bout time. Ten years of infomercials, and (just a wild guess) poor ratings should be enough for ANY network to realise the need for, what....TV!!

I mean, seriously.........How many times a day do I need to see Al Borland trying desperately to plug his "Little Giant Ladder System" when we all know what he's *really* trying to do is re-live his Binford days?

Jeez, what a Tool.......... *snickers*



So apparently what you've mentioned with the Ion Life thing starting in the future.....they give the channels their network name even before they start broadcasting its actual programming? Sounds kind-of like what I was seeing way back in Dish Net days, before I went FTA.

(Hey hey, what can I say? My OTA convertor box fell victim to a nasty power surge a coupla years ago, and haven't gotten a new one....yet........)

This is the first time I've heard of a network changing names before anyone knew what the old one was called! It sort of reminds me of the "Magnavox Decision": Oh, just kidding.

Whuuhhhh????

No, seriously--what do you mean by the "Magnavox Decision"?

Was this something to do with their merger with Philips a number of years ago, or what?

In 1980, the FCC chose Magnavox as the approved system for AM stereo. Soonafter, there were claims of "pops and ticks" and certain people threatened to sue. The FCC quickly backed down and after a 2 year delay, "decided not to decide" and went with the "marketplace decision" instead. In retrospect, if the FCC had stayed with the original decision at a time when AM still enjoyed nearly half of the radio audience, it may have encouraged receiver manufacturers to make better sounding AM radios when there was still plenty of music on the band and 2nd and 3rd generation improvements to the Magnavox system would probably have solved the "pops and ticks" problem or greatly reduced it.