Under its former format, the community primarily featured well being and life-style applications, in addition to characteristic films on Sunday mornings and choose weeknights (which consist primarily of those its guardian network is scheduled to air in the course of the given month as a part of the "Ion Television on the Movies" block); some extreme sports programming beforehand aired on weekend evenings until July 2014. Much of Ion Life's programming consists of Canadian-imported packages, vapeduring with some limited U.S.-produced programming.

As a consequence to the pending launch of Qubo, the i secondary feed was changed on i O&Os with a repeating promo loop in late September 2006. NBCUniversal dropped out of the enterprise in 2012, with NBC and sister community Telemundo changing their Qubo blocks with their very own E/I-compliant kids's lineups programmed by PBS Kids Sprout (now Universal Kids, which is a component-owned by NBCUniversal's company dad or vapefigure   mum Comcast) that July, relegating Qubo's companion programming block exclusively to Ion Television.

Programming on each Qubo Channel and its companion Qubo blocks on NBC, Telemundo, vapealmost Ion Television, and Ion Plus accounted for all instructional and informative (E/I) programming, relieving Ion Media (each its O&O stations and sure Ion affiliates that carry the 24-hour channel) from the accountability of carrying programs compliant with tips dictated by the Children's Television Act on its different subchannel services.

Carried as a fourth digital subchannel on Ion Television's owned-and-operated stations, it primarily carried informercials; until June 2013, vaporfact Ion Shop also aired blocks of programming from Ion Life in some morning and late night time timeslots.

Under an agreement with Fox Television Stations, Ion was added to the fourth digital subcarrier of then owned-and-operated station WJZY on September 29, 2016. Ion in Charlotte later moved to the DT6 feed of WJZY-Tv. On August 5, 2013, as part of a partnership between QVC and Ion Media Networks to increase the channel's broadcast television protection, Ion Tv started carrying the cable and satellite house purchasing network through a fifth digital subchannel on most of its owned-and-operated stations.

Such circumstances embrace Minneapolis-Saint Paul, the place that area's Ion O&O, KPXM-Television, is licensed to St. Cloud (60 miles (97 km) northwest of the Twin Cities); Detroit, the place affiliate WPXD-Tv is licensed to Ann Arbor, Michigan (forty miles (sixty four km) west of Detroit), though its digital transmitter is located in Southfield, where the bulk of Detroit's television stations base their studios and transmitter facilities; Hartford, the place affiliate WHPX-Television is licensed to New London, Connecticut (situated forty miles (sixty four km) to the southeast), which moved its transmitter to the Farmington Rattlesnake Mountain site within the digital age; and vapemight Milwaukee, where O&O WPXE-Television is licensed to Kenosha, vapemight with its digital transmitter positioned at a tower farm on Milwaukee's north side (its former analog transmitter was located south of the town in Racine County).