[7] Escape and Grit switched from direct response advertising as a meter of viewers to Nielsen rating C-3 late 2015 with Laff expected to follow suit.

[4]:3 On June 15, 2016, Katz Broadcasting signed a multi-network agreement with Nexstar Broadcasting / Media Group and operated affiliated TV station companies that would bring all three Katz-owned networks (as well as Bounce TV) to stations owned and/or operated by Nexstar in 54 markets, jumping national coverage of both Escape and Laff to 85% and Grit's coverage to 93%.

[9] In December 2018, Turner Broadcasting (founded 1965 in Atlanta, Georgia by media titan Ted Turner (born 1938) sold the rights to the brand and programming library of defunct cable network Court TV (which had been relaunched as TruTV a decade earlier in 2008) to Katz, who then re-launched it as an over-the-air digital network the following year in May 2019.

[12] Following Scripps' acquisition of Ion Media in 2021, the Katz-owned networks were moved over to the subchannels of Ion-owned stations beginning February 27, 2021.

[14] The channels are part of Scripps's strategy to increase penetration among cord cutters that do not have traditional pay TV packages.

[16] On April 6, 2021, Scripps announced that it would expand Newsy into a free over-the-air network, as well as being available on streaming platforms, starting October 1.

[22] On June 17, 2024, Scripps quietly posted a promotional video to the social media presences of Ion Plus and Defy TV that the latter would be wound down at the end of June as its programming moves to another unrelated network, Dare, launching on July 1, with Ion Plus returning to over-the-air availability on Defy TV's channel spaces.