ION Television Hears CBS’ Ghost Whisperer

ION Media Networks picked up the off-net broadcast rights to CBS’ Ghost Whisperer, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt, starting in 2009.

Ghost Whisperer is one of several off-network acquisitions ION has made in recent weeks, including CBS’ Criminal Minds and Twentieth Television’s Boston Legal, both of which will premiere on ION Television this fall.

ION also airs Warner Bros.’ The Steve Harvey Show, Debmar-Mercury’s Family Feud and NBC Universal’s Quantum Leap.

ION, which is targeting adults 25-54, will deliver its upfront presentation to advertisers Thursday.

Paige Albiniak

Contributing editor Paige Albiniak has been covering the business of television for more than 25 years. She is a longtime contributor to Next TV, Broadcasting + Cable and Multichannel News. She concurrently serves as editorial director for The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (G.E.M.A.). She has written for such publications as TVNewsCheck, The New York Post, Variety, CBS Watch and more. Albiniak was B+C’s Los Angeles bureau chief from September 2002 to 2004, and an associate editor covering Congress and lobbying for the magazine in Washington, D.C., from January 1997 - September 2002.