ION Television Reports Record Results for ``Killer Wave''
13 Août 2007 - 3:00PM
Business Wire
ION Television, ION Media Networks� (AMEX:ION) flagship TV network
reaching over 93 million homes, saw a significant ratings spike
across all key demographics with the Sunday, August 5th premiere of
Killer Wave, a four-hour action-disaster miniseries. Based on
Nielsen Media Research data, Sunday night�s broadcast experienced a
household impressions increase of 76 percent over season-to-date
figures and a 72 percent increase over year-to-date figures. Killer
Wave, the first of 12 original productions airing under RHI Movie
Weekend on ION, also generated the highest delivery of key
demographics of RHI content since its start on June 29, 2007. The
miniseries, starring Golden Globe Nominee and Emmy Award� winner
Tom Skerritt (Steel Magnolias, Picket Fences, Brothers &
Sisters), is the highest-rated television movie this season in its
7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. time period. Killer Wave reached over one
million viewers, and delivered 362,000 household impressions in the
adult 25-54 category and 584,000 household impressions in the adult
35-64 category. Compared with season-to-date figures, the debut of
the miniseries, which also featured Angus Macfayden (Braveheart,
Alias, Saw 3), Steven McHattie (A History of Violence, Seinfeld)
and Karine Vanasse (Head in the Clouds, Set Me Free), increased
delivery in women ages 25-54 by 77 percent and adults ages 25-54 by
41 percent. �ION Television continues to draw considerable
increases in viewership across our time slots, and the addition of
RHI�s quality content helps accelerate these gains,� said Brandon
Burgess, CEO, ION Media Networks. �Killer Wave is only the
beginning, as we have more original productions, the next of which
is to be announced shortly, and a slate of popular, award-winning
titles from RHI that will run every weekend. These programs are
proven attractions to a wide variety of viewers.� Upcoming RHI
program highlights include the �prequel� to Lonesome Dove, Larry
McMurtry�s Dead Man�s Walk (August 18th, 25th and September 1st,
9:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.), starring David Arquette as Gus McCrae,
Jonny Lee Miller as Woodrow Call and a brilliant supporting cast
that includes Academy Award� winner F. Murray Abraham, Keith
Carradine, Brain Dennehy, Edward James Olmos and Harry Dean
Stanton. ION Television also has experienced ratings increases with
the addition of �Who�s The Boss?� to its weekday primetime lineup.
The first two weeks following the popular program�s July 9 debut,
viewership in its 9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. timeslot season-to-date
increased 41 percent in women 25-54, and 33 percent in adults
25-54. About ION Media Networks ION Media Networks, Inc. owns and
operates the nation's largest broadcast television station group
and ION Television, reaching over 93 million U.S. television
households via its nationwide broadcast television, cable and
satellite distribution systems. ION Television currently features
popular TV series and movies from the award-winning libraries of
Warner Bros., Sony Pictures Television and CBS Television, among
others. ION Media has also partnered with RHI Entertainment, which
owns over 4,000 hours of acclaimed television content, to provide
weekend primetime programming consisting of exclusive original
programming and quality library titles. Utilizing its digital
multicasting capability, the company has launched several digital
TV brands, including qubo, a television and multimedia network for
children formed in partnership with several leading media and
entertainment companies, and ION Life, a television and multimedia
network dedicated to health and wellness for consumers and
families. For more information, visit www.ionmedia.tv. About RHI
Entertainment RHI Entertainment, LLC, is the global leader in the
production and distribution of groundbreaking miniseries and movies
for television. Since the company�s inception, under the guidance
of Robert Halmi, Sr. and Robert Halmi, Jr., RHI has produced and
distributed over 4,000 hours of quality television programming,
received more than 100 Emmy� Awards, and outperformed the
competition annually in viewer ratings. Currently, RHI provides
40-60 new television movies and miniseries a year to networks
worldwide.
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