List of Ion Television affiliates


Ion Television is an American broadcast, cable and satellite television network owned by Ion Media, which was launched on August 31, 1998 as Pax TV., the network currently has 59 owned-and-operated stations, and current and pending affiliation agreements with 15 other television stations. Most of its owned-and-operated stations incorporate the letters "PX" in their call signs, and all but one carry the network as a primary channel affiliation. Ion Television also distributes its base national programming feed directly to cable, satellite and IPTV providers in various media markets not listed here, as an alternative method of distribution in areas without a locally based owned-and-operated or affiliate station.
This article is a listing of current, pending and former Ion Television affiliates in the continental United States, arranged alphabetically by state, and based on the station's city of license and followed in parentheses by the Designated Market Area if it differs from the city of license. There are links to and articles on each of the broadcast stations, describing their histories, technical information and any local programming.
The station's virtual channel number follows the call letters, and is itself followed by the station's actual digital channel number, which are listed as separate columns. The article also includes a list of its former affiliate stations, which is based strictly on the station's city of license or market, and denotes the years in which the station served as an affiliate under either its Pax TV, i: Independent Television and/or Ion Television identities as well as the current status of the corresponding channel that carried the network.

Current affiliates

Notes:
  1. Two boldface asterisks appearing following a station's call letters indicate a station that was an original Ion Television owned-and-operated station from the network's inception as Pax TV in August 1998;
  2. This list includes Ion Media Networks-owned stations, which are also listed separately from its affiliated stations in the article List of stations owned and operated by Ion Media Networks.
  3. This list does not include sister networks Qubo and Ion Plus, which are carried on digital subchannels of most of the stations listed.

    Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

California

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Puerto Rico

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

US Virgin Islands

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Former affiliates