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|<ref>[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/juan-williams-leaving-the-five-fox-news-1234959739/ "Juan Williams Leaving ‘The Five’ At Fox News,"] from ''The Hollywood Reporter'', 5/26/2021</ref> |
|<ref>[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/juan-williams-leaving-the-five-fox-news-1234959739/ "Juan Williams Leaving ‘The Five’ At Fox News,"] from ''The Hollywood Reporter'', 5/26/2021</ref> |
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|In light of the 2019 [[killing of Javier Ambler]] that was filmed by ''[[Live PD]]''{{'}}s cameras, [[Texas]] [[Governor of Texas|governor]] [[Greg Abbott]] signs into law the first statewide measure in the U.S. (a bill named in Ambler's memory) that prohibits law enforcement agencies from authorizing TV crews to film on-duty officers "for the purpose of creating a reality television show". |
|In light of the 2019 [[killing of Javier Ambler]] that was filmed by ''[[Live PD]]''{{'}}s cameras, [[Texas]] [[Governor of Texas|governor]] [[Greg Abbott]] signs into law the first statewide measure in the U.S. (a bill named in Ambler's memory) that prohibits law enforcement agencies from authorizing TV crews to film on-duty officers "for the purpose of creating a reality television show". The bill, authored by Democratic State Representative [[James Talarico]] (whose district includes Williamson County where Ambler was killed), passes with near-unanimous support in both houses of the [[Texas Legislature]]. |
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|<ref>[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/texas-reality-tv-police-law-1234959622/ "Texas Bans Reality TV Crews From Riding With Police,"] from ''The Hollywood Reporter'', 5/26/2021</ref> |
|<ref>[https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/texas-reality-tv-police-law-1234959622/ "Texas Bans Reality TV Crews From Riding With Police,"] from ''The Hollywood Reporter'', 5/26/2021</ref> |
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| The [[2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards]] air on [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] from [[Hollywood]]'s [[Dolby Theatre]], one year after the [[2020 iHeartRadio Music Awards|2020 ceremony]] was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic (its winners were announced through a virtual press conference). [[Usher (musician)|Usher]] serves as host, with [[Elton John]] (recipient of the iHeartRadio Icon Award) among the honorees. |
| The [[2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards]] air on [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] from [[Hollywood]]'s [[Dolby Theatre]], one year after the [[2020 iHeartRadio Music Awards|2020 ceremony]] was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic (its winners were announced through a virtual press conference). [[Usher (musician)|Usher]] serves as host, with [[Elton John]] (recipient of the iHeartRadio Icon Award) among the honorees. |
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|<ref>{{cite press release|title=iHeartMedia and FOX Announce Nominees for the 2021 "iHeartRadio Music Awards"|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2021/04/07/iheartmedia-and-fox-announce-nominees-for-the-2021-iheartradio-music-awards-408512/20210407fox01/|publisher=[[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]|via=[[The Futon Critic]]|date=April 7, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release|title=Usher to Host and Perform During the 2021 "iHeartRadio Music Awards" on Thursday, May 27 Live on FOX|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2021/05/11/usher-to-host-and-perform-during-the-2021-iheartradio-music-awards-on-thursday-may-27-live-on-fox-806110/20210511fox01/|publisher=[[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]|via=[[The Futon Critic]]|date=May 11, 2021}}</ref> |
|<ref>{{cite press release|title=iHeartMedia and FOX Announce Nominees for the 2021 "iHeartRadio Music Awards"|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2021/04/07/iheartmedia-and-fox-announce-nominees-for-the-2021-iheartradio-music-awards-408512/20210407fox01/|publisher=[[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]|via=[[The Futon Critic]]|date=April 7, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release|title=Usher to Host and Perform During the 2021 "iHeartRadio Music Awards" on Thursday, May 27 Live on FOX|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2021/05/11/usher-to-host-and-perform-during-the-2021-iheartradio-music-awards-on-thursday-may-27-live-on-fox-806110/20210511fox01/|publisher=[[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]|via=[[The Futon Critic]]|date=May 11, 2021}}</ref> |
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| [[Peter Roth (executive)|Peter Roth]] will step down as the chairman of [[Warner Bros. Television Studios|Warner Bros. Television Group]] and be succeeded by [[Channing Dungey]]. |
| [[Peter Roth (executive)|Peter Roth]] will step down as the chairman of [[Warner Bros. Television Studios|Warner Bros. Television Group]] and be succeeded by [[Channing Dungey]]. |
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|<ref>{{cite press release|title=Television Industry Legend Peter Roth, Chairman of the Warner Bros. Television Group Will Step Down in 2021 After 22 Years at Helm of Hollywood's Most Prolific TV Studio|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2020/10/16/television-industry-legend-peter-roth-chairman-of-the-warner-bros-television-group-will-step-down-in-2021-after-22-years-at-helm-of-hollywoods-most-prolific-tv-studio-135314/20201016wbt01/|publisher=[[Warner Bros. Television Studios|Warner Bros. Television]]|via=[[The Futon Critic]]|date=October 16, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release|title=Industry Leader Channing Dungey Named Chairman, Warner Bros. Television Group|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2020/10/19/industry-leader-channing-dungey-named-chairman-warner-bros-television-group-298305/20201019wbt01/|publisher=[[Warner Bros. Television Studios|Warner Bros. Television]]|via=[[The Futon Critic]]|date=October 19, 2020}}</ref> |
|<ref>{{cite press release|title=Television Industry Legend Peter Roth, Chairman of the Warner Bros. Television Group Will Step Down in 2021 After 22 Years at Helm of Hollywood's Most Prolific TV Studio|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2020/10/16/television-industry-legend-peter-roth-chairman-of-the-warner-bros-television-group-will-step-down-in-2021-after-22-years-at-helm-of-hollywoods-most-prolific-tv-studio-135314/20201016wbt01/|publisher=[[Warner Bros. Television Studios|Warner Bros. Television]]|via=[[The Futon Critic]]|date=October 16, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite press release|title=Industry Leader Channing Dungey Named Chairman, Warner Bros. Television Group|url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news/2020/10/19/industry-leader-channing-dungey-named-chairman-warner-bros-television-group-298305/20201019wbt01/|publisher=[[Warner Bros. Television Studios|Warner Bros. Television]]|via=[[The Futon Critic]]|date=October 19, 2020}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 10:32, 31 May 2021
The following is a list of events affecting American television in 2021. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, and cancellations; channel launches, closures, and re-brandings; stations changing or adding their network affiliations; and information about controversies and carriage disputes.
Notable events
January
Date | Event | Source |
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8 | Jeopardy! airs the final episode (pushed back from Christmas Day) of Alex Trebek's hosting tenure, recorded 10 days before his November 8, 2020 death from stage IV pancreatic cancer. Starting with the January 11 episode and for the rest of the season, a series of guest hosts, the first being highest-winning Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings, fill in at the host lectern Trebek had occupied for 36 years. | [1] |
10 | While sister network CBS airs an NFL playoff between the Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints, Nickelodeon airs a special children-oriented version of the game. The broadcast added classic Nickelodeon gags such as CGI-created slime cannons "spraying" the end zones after touchdowns; prerecorded explanations of penalties, offered by Young Sheldon star Iain Armitage; and announcer and former NFL star Nate Burleson analogizing successful plays with such childhood activities as staying in school. Although Nickelodeon's broadcast was aimed at younger, new-to-football viewers, it was reportedly enjoyed more so by Generation X and millennial parents who grew up watching the channel in its 1980s/1990s heyday. | [2] |
The 1st Critics' Choice Super Awards, an event honoring films in the science fiction, action, horror and superhero genres, airs on The CW. The virtual ceremony saw The Boys as the top winner with four awards (including “Best Superhero Series”). | [3] | |
22 | Tom Brokaw announces his retirement from NBC News. A special correspondent and commentator since ending a 22-year run as Nightly News anchor in 2004, Brokaw spent 55 years with NBC, including roles as anchor/reporter at O&O KNBC/Los Angeles, White House correspondent, co-anchor of Today and even briefly as moderator of Meet The Press in 2008 after moderator Tim Russert's death. | [4] |
23 | Food Network pulls all content related to season 20 of Worst Cooks in America from its linear, streaming and social platforms (including discovery+), after season winner Ariel Robinson and her husband were charged in the January 14 death of their adopted three-year-old daughter at their Simpsonville, South Carolina home. | [5] |
25 | Two top executives of the CBS Television Stations group, division president Peter Dunn and Senior VP/News David Friend, are placed on administrative leave after a Los Angeles Times investigation reveals, among other allegations, their discriminatory and disparaging behavior concerning Black and female news employees at the station level, in particular at KYW-TV/Philadelphia. Both Dunn and Friend would leave CBS on April 7, in the midst of a third-party investigation into the matter. | [6][7][8][9] |
February
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1 | Gray Television announces its intent to acquire Quincy Media's broadcasting properties for $925 million. The deal—expected to be finalized in the second or third quarter of 2021—will have Gray acquire eleven television (and two radio) stations, expanding its portfolio to 198 TV outlets in 102 markets with a collective reach of 25.4% of U.S. television households. The expanded portfolio will not include stations Gray will divest to alleviate market conflicts with existing Gray properties (see April 29 entry). Quincy's newspaper holdings will be sold to a separate buyer prior to the Gray transaction's closure. | [10][11] |
Marilyn Manson is dropped from future episodes of American Gods and Creepshow due to multiple abuse allegations against him. The following day, Creative Artists Agency announced that it had dropped Manson by the agency as a client. | [12] | |
3 | Country music channel CMT joins numerous country radio stations, including those owned by Cumulus Media and iHeartMedia among others, in pulling Morgan Wallen's music from its video library after he was captured on video saying a racial slur that was posted by TMZ. In addition, he was dropped from his record labels, Big Loud and Republic Records along with being pulled from consideration for the Academy of Country Music Awards. | [13] |
5 | Fox Business cancels Lou Dobbs Tonight, the network's highest-rated show. The cancellation came one day after its host, Lou Dobbs, was one of several Fox hosts – and Fox itself – were sued for $2.7 billion by electronic voting system producer Smartmatic for defamation, regarding Dobbs and others' role in spreading conspiracy theories about the 2020 United States presidential election. Fox News hosts Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro and frequent Fox News guests and ex-President Donald Trump's former lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell were also named in the suit. | [14][15] [16][17] |
7 | The Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs to win Super Bowl LV and become the first team to win the championship game in their home stadium. The game aired on CBS in English and ESPN Deportes in Spanish. The game was watched by 90.8 million people on linear television and another 5.6 million people on streaming platforms. It was the smallest audience since Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005. | [18][19] |
10 | Gina Carano is fired from The Mandalorian due to her controversial social media posts, with Lucasfilm announcing that they are ending their relationship with her. Carano is also dropped by United Talent Agency as a client. | [20] |
24 | NBC pulls from digital distribution an episode of the medical drama Nurses that aired on the network February 9. Titled "Achilles Heel," a plotline in the episode features an Orthodox Jewish patient and his father objecting to a bone graft from a cadaver to treat a leg injury; the characters' depiction received criticism from Jewish rights groups for "demonizing" those of the Jewish faith, and of the ethical quandary presented in the plot being completely fictional. The episode of the Canadian-produced Nurses had already aired in that country in February 2020 (host network Global would follow NBC's suit in pulling "Achilles Heel" from its own digital platforms). | [21][22] |
28 | The 78th Golden Globe Awards aired on NBC with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler as the hosts. The COVID-19 pandemic moved it from its usual first Sunday of January berth, along with film awards season in general. Jane Fonda was honored with the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award. Norman Lear was honored with the Carol Burnett Award. This was the first Golden Globe Awards ceremony to go bicoastal with Fey co-hosting from the Rainbow Room in New York City, and Poehler co-hosting from The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. | [23][24] [25][26] |
March
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7 | TV series Ted Lasso and The Crown and the motion picture Nomadland are among notable winners at the 26th Critics' Choice Awards. The event aired on The CW, with Taye Diggs hosting for the third consecutive year. | [27] |
In a two-hour special airing on CBS, Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, talk with Oprah Winfrey about their separation as working members of, and relationships with, the British royal family. | [28] | |
10 | The National Hockey League announces a new seven-year deal with ESPN, covering the 2021–22 through 2027–28 seasons. The deal includes 25 games each season on ESPN or ABC; 75 games on ESPN+ (which will replace NHL.tv as the league's out-of-market streaming home); exclusive rights to the All-Star Game and Skills Competition; and half of the Stanley Cup Playoffs each season, including four Stanley Cup Final series exclusively. The deal marks a reunion of the NHL with ESPN, which last carried the league in 2003–04, and will form one half of a two-carrier deal with the league (see April 26 entry). | [29] |
The Talk co-hosts Sharon Osbourne and Sheryl Underwood get into a heated on-air discussion over Osbourne's defense of Piers Morgan, who came under fire in Great Britain for dismissing Meghan, Duchess of Sussex's talk about her mental health during her March 7 interview with Oprah Winfrey (and would storm off ITV's Good Morning Britain on March 8, resigning from that show a day later). Osbourne would state on Twitter that her defense of Morgan wasn't meant to be racially motivated, and that she had been blindsided by The Talk producers into having the conversation. It leads to CBS launching an internal review of the incident and The Talk suspending production on March 15, initially for two days but eventually extended (see March 26). | [30][31] [32] | |
12 | WLS-TV/Chicago and sports anchor Mark Giangreco announced they have come to a separation agreement. A long-time Chicago TV/radio personality (and a 27-year veteran of the ABC O&O), Giangreco had been on administrative leave since a January 28 newscast in which, while presenting video of a house being painted by a hockey player on roller skates, he equated fellow anchor Cheryl Burton to a "ditzy, combative interior decorator" of a hypothetical DIY Network home improvement show, with Burton asking for some kind of action to be taken after he had done the same previously. | [33] |
13 | The 2021 Kids' Choice Awards air on Nickelodeon with simulcasts on TeenNick, Nicktoons and Nick Jr; Kenan Thompson served as the host, and Justin Bieber was the headlining performer. Television winners included Alexa & Katie (for “Favorite Kids' TV Show”), Stranger Things (for “Favorite Family TV Show”), Jace Norman (of Henry Danger for “Favorite Male TV Star”), Millie Bobby Brown (of Stranger Things for “Favorite Female TV Star”), America's Got Talent (for “Favorite Reality Show”) and SpongeBob SquarePants (for “Favorite Animated Series”). The broadcast resulted in the setting of two Guinness World Records: for the Most People Gunged/Slimed Simultaneously Online (with 195 participants) and Most Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards Won by a Music Group (BTS, who won three awards, joining their two prior wins, respectively, in 2018 and 2020). | [34][35] [36][37] |
14 | The 63rd Grammy Awards air on CBS with Trevor Noah as the host. The awards were originally scheduled to be held on January 31, but were moved to March after Los Angeles County began experiencing a surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations. | [38][39] [40] |
18 | The National Football League announces new TV deals covering the 2023 through 2033 seasons. The deals ensure Sunday afternoon broadcasts remain on CBS and Fox, keeps Sunday Night Football on NBC, and gives Amazon Prime Video exclusive rights to Thursday Night Football (transferring it from Fox and NFL Network). It also expands ESPN's Monday Night Football presence to include doubleheader games with ABC; late-season flex scheduling of more compelling games; and ABC/ESPN simulcasts of two Super Bowls. | [41] |
Nischelle Turner is named the new co-anchor of Entertainment Tonight, becoming the first Black woman to host the 40-year-old showbiz newsmagazine. | [42] | |
22 | NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon brings in a limited, socially distanced, and fully-masked live audience to its regular home at Studio 6B of 30 Rockefeller Plaza, becoming the first major U.S. late-night talk show to record before an audience since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Sidekick/announcer Steve Higgins, who had been recording the show's introductions from home, also appears in person for the first time since before New York City's lockdown began. Tonight had spent the pandemic either "at home" or in temporary audience-free space at Studio 6A in the 12 months before this evening's episode. The pre-pandemic opening theme and sequence returned, albeit with minor edits featuring Fallon alone in a face mask, including a street-side performance of mostly-masked house band The Roots; it was later reverted to its original mask-less pre-pandemic version after the CDC's guidelines were updated in May. Two months later, Tonight would announce that they would be bringing the audience in full in early June. | [43][44] |
24 | Warner Bros. Television fires All Rise executive producer Greg Spottiswood in the wake of an internal investigation over his alleged use of offensive remarks and other insensitive actions in the CBS legal drama's writers room. It is the second such incident involving Spottiswood at All Rise; the first, in late 2019, resulted in five writers leaving the show, and a corporate coach (a Black woman) being brought in, after the writers clashed with Spottiswood (who is white) over the show's depiction of gender and race, specifically people of color. | [45] |
25 | Dick Stockton announces his retirement after a 55-year sportscasting career, most notably covering the NFL, NBA, Major League Baseball, and the Winter Olympics for Fox, CBS, and Turner Sports, as well as local broadcasts of the Boston Red Sox and Oakland Athletics. | [46] |
26 | After The Talk's hiatus is extended past March 16, when reports surfaced that former co-hosts Leah Remini and Holly Robinson Peete accused Sharon Osbourne of saying racist and homophobic slurs about Robinson Peete and fellow former panelists Julie Chen and Sara Gilbert, CBS finishes its review of the March 10 on-air incident, stating that Osbourne's actions "did not align with our values for a respectful workplace," and that Osbourne (the last remaining member of The Talk's original 2010 host panel) will not return to the show. The Talk would eventually return to air on April 12, when the show's remaining panelists sat down to discuss the incident and their reactions. | [31][32] [47][48] [49] |
31 | T-Mobile US announces the shutdown of its fledgling vMVPD service TVision, effective April 29. Launched in November 2020 as a streaming-only version of the wired TVision Home IPTV service (launched in 2019), TVision saw early criticism from Discovery Inc., ViacomCBS and NBCUniversal for, without their prior input and running afoul of channel bundling obligations set under their carriage deals, excluding certain networks they each own from the provider's higher-end “Live” packages despite having included them in its discount “Vibe” tier. Existing TVision subscribers will be offered $10/month discounts off of either Philo or YouTube TV’s respective base packages. (Prior to the announcement, TVision had intended to begin selling its packages to customers outside of T-Mobile’s consumer base by the end of 2021.) | [50][51] |
April
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1 | Dish Network and Sling TV drop MASN (home of Major League Baseball's Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals), on the first day of the 2021 Major League Baseball season, due to a carriage dispute. Additionally, the providers drop NBC Sports Washington (home of the Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals); NBC Sports California (home of the Oakland Athletics, San Jose Sharks, and Sacramento Kings); and NBC Sports Bay Area (home of the San Francisco Giants and Golden State Warriors) for the same reason. | [52][53] [54] |
Former Williamson County, Texas sheriff Robert Chody turns himself in to authorities in neighboring Travis County on charges of evidence tampering for ordering the destruction of video footage, captured by Live PD, during a 2019 traffic stop that ended in the killing of Javier Ambler. It is the second time Chody is indicted for the crime (Williamson County charged him in September 2020), and it comes two days after Travis County charged two of his former deputies with manslaughter for their role in the incident. | [55][56] [57] | |
13 | American Spanish-language broadcaster Univision Communications and Mexico-based Televisa announce that they will combine their respective entertainment assets into one company, to be known as Televisa-Univision. The $4.8 billion deal would result in Univision, UniMás and their respective O&Os as well as the company’s cable properties (including Galavisión, Fusion TV and TUDN) being united under one company with the Televisa entertainment assets that Univision has long relied on to supply programming. | [58] |
14 | ABC News taps Kimberly Godwin as its new president, set to succeed outgoing chief James Goldston. A veteran of local and network news operations (including the last 14 years at CBS News), Godwin will become the first Black executive to lead a broadcast news operation when she joins ABC News in May. | [59] |
18 | The 56th Academy of Country Music Awards aired on CBS from three locations in Nashville: the Grand Ole Opry House, the Ryman Auditorium, and the Bluebird Café. Keith Urban and Mickey Guyton (who became the first African-American woman to serve as host) were the hosts for the telecast. Luke Bryan won “Entertainer of the Year” and Chris Stapleton (for Starting Over) won “Album of the Year”; Maren Morris, Carly Pearce and Lee Brice won the most awards during the event, earning two each. | [60][61] [62] |
25 | The 93rd Academy Awards aired on ABC. Originally scheduled to be held on February 28, it was moved to April 25, the latest scheduled date for the ceremony in its history. The ceremony was presented from two locations in Hollywood: the Dolby Theatre and the Union Station. Nomadland earned the most wins with three awards: “Best Picture”, “Best Director” (for Chloé Zhao, who became the first woman of color and the second woman overall to win in the category), and “Best Actress” (for Frances McDormand, who became the seventh person and second actress ever to win three acting Oscars over their career). Anthony Hopkins’ “Best Actor” win for The Father (which, at 83, made him the oldest winner in an acting category) sparked some criticism as many viewers believed that the ceremony's producers broke with tradition in moving the lead acting categories to be presented after the “Best Picture” winner presentation on assumption that Chadwick Boseman (nominated for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom) would receive a posthumous “Best Actor” award in tribute. | [63][64] [65][66] [67] |
26 | The National Hockey League announces a new seven-year deal with Turner Sports, covering the 2021–22 through 2027–28 seasons. The "'B' package" with Turner (the ESPN/ABC deal announced on March 10 has been termed the "'A' package") will see TBS and/or TNT carry up to 72 regular season games each season; the New Year's Day Winter Classic; half of the Stanley Cup Playoffs each season; three Stanley Cup Final series exclusively on TNT; and live streaming and simulcast rights for HBO Max (which, alongside ESPN+, will replace NHL.tv as the league's out-of-market streaming home), marking the service’s entry into live programming. The Turner and ESPN/ABC deals mean that NBC Sports' relationship with the NHL (one that dated to the 2005–06 season) will conclude at the end of the truncated 2021 season, this after NBC pulled out of negotiations for the partial contractual rights. | [68][69] |
27 | Contestant Laura Trammell wins $398,690 in cash and prizes (including a Latitude Margaritaville house worth $375,000) during that evening's episode of Wheel of Fortune, making her the fourth biggest winner in the show's history (and the biggest outside of three other $1 million winners); it is also the expensive non-grand prize win outside the $100,000 grand prize, since a Winnebago Intent was offered and won in an 2019 episode. For the week of April 26–30, a special wedge was added to the wheel which allowed a contestant to add a second Latitude Margaritaville house envelope in the bonus round, similar to the Million Dollar Wedge (which was intact in the contestant's possession and is susceptible to any bankrupt wedge hits). It is also the third week to feature a collaboration between Margaritaville and Wheel, after previous sponsorships in 2018 and 2019. | [70] |
29 | Nearly three months after announcing its intent to acquire Quincy Media's broadcast properties (see February 1 entry), Gray Television announces it will sell seven Quincy-owned stations (including corresponding satellites belonging to four ABC affiliates) to Allen Media Broadcasting to address local cross-ownership conflicts with existing Gray properties. The $380-million deal will result in the Entertainment Studios unit acquiring NBC affiliates KVOA/Tucson, KWWL/Cedar Rapids and WREX/Rockford, and ABC affiliates WKOW/Madison, WXOW/La Crosse, WAOW/Wausau and WSIL/Paducah. | [71] |
30 | The CW removes the British police procedural Bulletproof (which has aired on the network since 2019, under license from distributor Sky Vision) from its streaming platforms following an April 29 report in The Guardian detailing accusations of misconduct against star Noel Clarke from 20 women, in which he was accused of sexual harassment, unwanted groping, bullying, making inappropriate on-set comments, and sharing sexually explicit photos and videos without consent. Clarke has denied the allegations except for those pertaining to inappropriate comments he admits to have made about one of the women. | [72] |
May
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3 | Gray Television announces it will acquire the Meredith Local Media broadcasting unit from the Meredith Corporation for $2.7 billion. The deal, expected to be finalized in the fourth quarter of 2021, will result in Gray adding 17 stations in 12 markets to the company’s portfolio, and necessitate a sale of one "top-four-ranked" station to meet FCC concerns (in the Central Michigan market, where Gray will sell its WJRT-TV to an independent third-party group while retaining Meredith's WNEM-TV). The Meredith acquisition will result in Gray becoming the third-largest television station group in the U.S. (behind Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair Broadcast Group), with 101 stations serving 113 markets that reach 36% of U.S. households (or 25% when factoring in the UHF discount). Meredith will concurrently spin off its print/digital unit to current company shareholders. | [73][74] |
Two months after awarding Thursday Night Football rights to Amazon Prime Video (see March 18 entry), the National Football League announces the streamer's exclusive commitment to the package will begin one season earlier than announced, from 2023 to 2022. The move means that 2021 will be the last season TNF will be available on over-the-air (Fox) and conventional cable (NFL Network) services, outside of broadcast stations in the competing teams' home markets. | [75] | |
10 | Believing that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association needs ample time to properly execute organizational and membership reforms (including initial changes approved on May 6), NBC announces it will not air the HFPA's Golden Globe Awards ceremony in January 2022. It's one of several stands (and boycotts) taken by studios, talent, agents, and PR firms against the HFPA in light of recent reports about its lack of membership diversity, as well as its long history of insular culture, suspect financial practices, and other questionable conduct. | [76] |
Calling himself a "salary cap casualty," Kenny Mayne announces his departure from ESPN after 27 years as an anchor and correspondent for the sports network; his last on-screen appearance occurs on May 24. | [77] | |
13 | HBO cancels taping of the May 14 episode of Real Time with Bill Maher (scheduled to feature Neil deGrasse Tyson as the interview guest, and Max Brooks and Dan Carlin as panelists) after the comedian/political satirist tests positive for COVID-19, with Maher being asymptomatic, following weekly PCR testing for the disease conducted by the premium channel ahead of the scheduled broadcast. Maher is one of several rare “breakthrough” COVID-19 cases that occurred despite prior vaccination. (HBO aired reruns of Real Time and Mare of Easttown, respectively, in place of the cancelled May 14 and May 21 episodes.) Maher returned to the program on May 28. | [78][79] [80] |
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The 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards aired on MTV (and simulcast on ViacomCBS-owned sister channels including Nick at Nite, BET, Comedy Central, TV Land and Paramount Network) with Leslie Jones as the host. The ceremony, held at the Hollywood Palladium, saw Sacha Baron Cohen be honored with the Comedic Genius Award and Scarlett Johansson honored with the MTV Generation Award. Among television nominees, WandaVision earned the most accolades with four awards (including Best Performance in a Show and co-lead Elizabeth Olsen for Best Show). It is also the first telecast to be split over two nights: the second night (on May 17) marked the inaugural edition of MTV Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted, a ceremony devoted exclusively to awards in reality television. (In addition to airing on MTV, the event was simulcast on MTV2, VH1 and CMT.) The ceremony, hosted by Nikki Glaser, saw RuPaul's Drag Race earn the most wins with three awards (including Best Competition Series and RuPaul for Best Host). | [81][82] [83][84] [85][86] [87][88] |
17 | AT&T and Discovery, Inc. reach a definitive agreement to combine the respective media assets of WarnerMedia (such as HBO, HBO Max, Warner Bros., CNN, TBS and a 50% share of The CW) and Discovery (such as Discovery Channel, Discovery+, Food Network, HGTV and TLC) in a cash/securities/stock deal worth $43 billion, plus WarnerMedia’s retention of certain debt. The deal is structured as a Reverse Morris Trust, as AT&T will spin out WarnerMedia into an independent company (unwinding its $85-billion 2017 acquisition of the former Time Warner) that will concurrently acquire Discovery. Expected to close in mid-2022, AT&T shareholders will own 71% of the company and Discovery shareholders will own the remaining 29% share, with each shareholder group appointing representative board members; Discovery President/CEO David Zaslav will head the new company, taking over from WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar (whose post-merger duties were not initially disclosed). | [89][90] |
18–22 | The 2021 Eurovision Song Contest (held at Rotterdam Ahoy in Rotterdam, Netherlands) airs live on Peacock, with the semi-finals airing on May 18 and May 20, and the final (in which Italy won with Måneskin’s "Zitti e buoni") airing on May 22. It marked the first time that an entire Eurovision Song Contest event (both semi-finals and the final) have been carried live-to-air on a U.S. television service. | [91] |
22 | CNN terminates their contract with political commentator and former politician Rick Santorum in response to racist and historically inaccurate comments he made about Native Americans at an event in April. | [92] |
23 | The 2021 Billboard Music Awards air on NBC from the Microsoft Theater, with Nick Jonas as the host. The Weeknd won 10 awards from among his 16 nominations, including for Top Artist, Top Male Artist, Top R&B Artist, Top R&B Album (for After Hours) and Top Hot 100 Song (for “Blinding Lights”). | [93][94] [95] |
HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver airs a segment on the practice of local television stations featuring sponsored content on newscasts and daytime lifestyle programming (and its impact on journalistic integrity). During the segment, host John Oliver revealed that the show had created a fake product, the "Venus Veil" (a regular blanket that it intentionally deceptively marketed as “the world’s first sexual wellness blanket”), and hired an actress to pitch the product on three unsuspecting stations, KTVX/Salt Lake City, KVUE/Austin and KMGH-TV/Denver (all ABC affiliates). | [96] | |
24 | The Late Show with Stephen Colbert announces that it will bring back live audiences starting June 14 in adherence to New York state’s adoption of CDC guidelines for fully vaccinated individuals and has been reviewed by the state officials. Guests will be required to show proof of being vaccinated fully before entering. Face masks will be optional. Staff and crew will continue to be tested before commencing work regularly and screened daily for symptoms. A COVID-19 compliance officer will monitor and enforce all health and safety protocols. | [97] |
26 | Juan Williams announces he will depart from the host panel of Fox News Channel's The Five rather than commute between his Washington, D.C. home and Fox News' New York City studios, where the show will return to production on June 1. Williams, who had been with The Five since its launch in 2011, remains with Fox as a Washington-based senior political analyst. | [98] |
In light of the 2019 killing of Javier Ambler that was filmed by Live PD's cameras, Texas governor Greg Abbott signs into law the first statewide measure in the U.S. (a bill named in Ambler's memory) that prohibits law enforcement agencies from authorizing TV crews to film on-duty officers "for the purpose of creating a reality television show". The bill, authored by Democratic State Representative James Talarico (whose district includes Williamson County where Ambler was killed), passes with near-unanimous support in both houses of the Texas Legislature. | [99] | |
27 | HBO Max, which marked the one-year anniversary of its launch on this date, releases Friends: The Reunion, a special reuniting the main cast of the 1994–2004 NBC sitcom (Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer). Moderated by James Corden, it featured taped and in-person guest appearances from former guest stars (such as Tom Selleck, Elliott Gould, James Michael Tyler, and Reese Witherspoon) and celebrity fans (such as David Beckham, Justin Bieber, Cindy Crawford, and Lady Gaga). Filming of the special – which was recorded in front of a studio audience at the sitcom's former Stage 24 at Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank – took place in April, after having been delayed twice in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | [100][101] |
The 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards air on Fox from Hollywood's Dolby Theatre, one year after the 2020 ceremony was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic (its winners were announced through a virtual press conference). Usher serves as host, with Elton John (recipient of the iHeartRadio Icon Award) among the honorees. | [102][103] | |
28 | Longtime KSAT/San Antonio reporter Paul Venema retires from the Graham Media Group-owned ABC affiliate after 47 years. | [104][105] |
Future events
June
Date | Event | Source |
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25 | The 48th Daytime Emmy Awards will air on CBS. | [106] |
July
Date | Event | Source |
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13 | All remaining analog television stations will be required, by FCC mandate, to shut off their analog signals and only broadcast in digital. This transition comes twelve years and one month after the digital transition for full-power television stations in 2009; only existing low-power broadcasters have been allowed to broadcast in analog since then. The few remaining analog low-power stations are mostly distant rural translators in large geographical television markets and a few urban-area stations operating primarily as radio stations on 87.7 FM; digital television is incompatible with either digital or analog radio, which will force the 87.7 stations to cease their radio operations. | [107] |
23–August 8 | The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, are scheduled to take place after their one-year postponement was made on March 24, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. NBC and its cable networks will carry coverage in the United States. Although the International Olympic Committee stated it would be held as scheduled, postponement of the Summer Olympics to the following year was made in March 2020. The new opening/closing ceremony date range was announced on March 30, 2020. | [108][109] [110][111] |
September
Date | Event | Source |
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19 | The 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards will air on CBS. | [112] |
26 | The 74th Tony Awards are to air on Paramount+ and CBS at a New York City location to be determined. Originally scheduled for June 7, 2020 at Radio City Music Hall, the ceremony had long been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has kept Broadway theatre shut down from March 2020 until a scheduled return date weeks before this ceremony. The 74th Tonys will be expanded to a four-hour event, with acting, directing, and technical awards (nominations for which were announced in October 2020) presented in a two-hour segment shown exclusively on Paramount+, then continue on CBS with a two-hour concert billed as The Tony Awards Present: Broadway’s Back! that will feature live Broadway performances and the awarding of the Tonys for Best Play, Best Play Revival, and Best Musical. | [113][114] [115][116] |
October
Date | Event | Source |
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2 | With the network's annual two-night season lead-off telecast of the iHeartRadio Music Festival, The CW will debut prime-time programming on Saturdays (running from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. ET/PT), replacing syndicated series, feature film packages and/or local programs (including in some cases, paid programming) that its affiliates had run on that night. It will mark the first time The CW has programmed that night in its 15-year history and will make it only the sixth conventional U.S. English-language commercial broadcast network—counting the modern “Big Four” and the now-defunct DuMont—ever to maintain a seven-night-a-week schedule. (Fox, which has programmed Saturdays since July 1987, was the last network to start offering a full weekly schedule upon adding prime-time programming on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in January 1993; CW predecessors The WB and UPN never programmed Saturday prime time during their existences.) As a trade-off for the move, the network will shutter its daytime block earlier in September, giving that one hour per weekday back to its affiliates and leaving its Saturday morning E/I block, One Magnificent Morning, as the only non-prime-time programming remaining on The CW's schedule. The night’s regular schedule will debut the following Saturday (October 9), consisting of returning unscripted shows Whose Line Is It Anyway? and World's Funniest Animals. | [117][118] |
TBD
Date | Event | Source |
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Early | Peter Roth will step down as the chairman of Warner Bros. Television Group and be succeeded by Channing Dungey. | [119][120] |
Television shows
Shows debuting in 2021
Shows changing networks
Milestone episodes and anniversaries
Show | Network | Episode # | Episode title | Episode airdate | Source |
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Teen Titans Go! | Cartoon Network | 300th episode | "Justice League's Next Top Talent Idol Star: Dance Crew Edition" | January 8 | [141] |
Saturday Night Live | NBC | 900th episode | "Dan Levy/Phoebe Bridgers" | February 6 | |
Let's Make a Deal | CBS | 2,000th episode | "Episode 2000" | February 19 | [142] |
American Housewife | ABC | 100th episode | "Getting Otto with The Franks" | February 24 | [143] |
The Simpsons | Fox | 700th episode | "Manger Things" | March 21 | [144][145] |
Dr. Phil | Syndication | 3,000th episode | "Dr. Phil's 3,000th Show - With Bonus Footage!" | April 2 | [146] |
The Flash | The CW | 150th episode | TBA | TBA | [147] |
Shows returning in 2021
The following shows will return with new episodes after being canceled or having ended their run previously:
Shows ending in 2021
Networks and services
Launches
Network | Type | Launch date | Notes | Source |
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Discovery+ | OTT streaming | January 4 | Announced in September 2020 as a global expansion of its existing India service (launched in March of that year), Discovery, Inc. launched Discovery+ as a streaming service featuring original and archival content from Discovery’s network and production properties (including the former networks of Scripps Networks Interactive acquired by the company in March 2018) as well as select programming from A&E Networks. | [286] |
Twist | OTA multicast | April 5 | Tegna revealed plans on February 24 to launch Twist, which joins True Crime Network and Quest in the company's multicast portfolio. Twist targets a female audience with factual lifestyle and reality programming, mainly home- and food-oriented shows sourced from the libraries of A&E Networks and NBCUniversal Lifestyle Network Group. The "exciting reveals" featured in these shows serve as the inspiration for the network's name. | [287][288] |
MeTV+ | May 15 | On May 3, Weigel Broadcasting announced plans to launch MeTV+, an experimental spin-off of flagship network MeTV that will feature a lineup of classic sitcoms, drama series, and comedic and animated shorts sourced from the libraries of Sony Pictures Television, CBS Media Ventures, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution and NBCUniversal Syndication Studios that will be complimentary to the offerings on its parent network. At the outset, MeTV+—the second MeTV extension effort by Weigel, following a local “MeToo” service that ran on WMEU-CD/Chicago (now an independent station) from 2008 to 2013—will launch on Weigel-owned Chicago flagship WCIU-TV and KMOH-TV/Kingman–Phoenix, occupying subchannels that carried Bounce TV (which will shift to local Ion stations owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, parent of Bounce owner Katz Broadcasting). If successful, Weigel plans to expand MeTV+ to stations that the company owns in other markets (including as a replacement for Bounce TV on Weigel stations that carried the network since its 2011 debut) and to affiliates owned by third-party station groups. | [289] | |
Defy TV | July 1 | On March 2, the E. W. Scripps Company announced plans to add two new networks to its digital broadcast portfolio (joining its six existing networks, which include Ion, Bounce TV and Court TV). Defy and TrueReal (the latter had initially been billed as Doozy) will respectively target men and women in the 25-54 age range with factual lifestyle and reality programming. | [290][291] | |
TrueReal | ||||
G4 | Digital and linear | Summer | On July 24, 2020, the Twitter accounts of G4TV and G4's Attack of the Show! and X-Play, reactivated to post a teaser video of a G4 revival in some form, slated for 2021 (the form of distribution, whether as a return as a wireline network or a digital component of a service such as Peacock, was not divulged). The teasers were timed for Comic-Con@Home, the first virtual streaming edition of the annual fan convention, San Diego Comic-Con International. Consequently, G4's website also redirected to a nonstop game of Pong (which if won, redirects to a mailing list sign up for updates), once again reflecting back to the network's original launch in 2002 and their shutdown in 2014. | [292][293] |
Rewind TV | OTA multicast | September 1 | On April 26, Nexstar Media Group announced plans to launch Rewind TV, a spin-off of Antenna TV targeting adults 25–54 (primarily towards Gen Xers) that will focus on classic sitcoms from the 1980s and 1990s and fill subchannel slots vacated by the Katz networks. Rewind—which will initially launch on subchannels of stations owned or managed by Nexstar—will draw from the libraries of Sony Pictures Television, CBS Media Ventures, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution and NBCUniversal Syndication Studios, and initially include many series (including Murphy Brown, The Facts of Life, Who's the Boss? and Family Ties) previously acquired for Antenna TV, which began phasing out post-1970s series from its lineup in April as it shifts to a narrowed focus on sitcoms from the late 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. | [294][295] |
Newsy | OTA multicast (existing carriage on cable providers and ad-supported OTT services) |
October 1 | After years as a cable and over-the-top all-news service, the E. W. Scripps Company announced plans on April 6 to expand distribution of Newsy to include over-the-air carriage. The network will be carried primarily on subchannels of Scripps-owned stations, including the company’s Ion affiliates. | [296] |
Conversions and rebrandings
Old network name |
New network name |
Type | Conversion date | Notes | Source |
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Urban Movie Channel | Allblk | OTT streaming | January 6 | AMC Networks rebranded Urban Movie Channel – launched in 2014 as the first streaming service dedicated to television programs and films aimed at Black audiences, and content made by Black filmmakers – as Allblk, citing the original name no longer fit the brand, its audience or culture (several "urban"-branded broadcasters, along with radio stations formerly under the urban contemporary banner, switched to other descriptive terms throughout 2020). The service will also increase original programming, with five new series initially slated to debut in 2021. | [297][298] |
Light TV | TheGrio.TV | Over-the-air multicast/ OTT streaming |
January 15 | Following its acquisition of the network's satellite slot from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Allen Media Group relaunched the former channel space of family-oriented digital multicast network Light TV as TheGrio.TV (branded after the Black cultural news and entertainment website acquired by parent company Entertainment Studios in 2016), adopting a focus around movies, television series, news and lifestyle content aimed at African American audiences. There has been some confusion however, as Light TV continues to run on some affiliates and online, while some former Light TV affiliates have stopped carrying the network in the run-up to TheGrio.tv. | [299] |
WGN America | NewsNation | Cable and satellite | March 1 | On January 25, 2021, Nexstar Media Group announced it would relaunch the entertainment-oriented WGN America (a name traced to its existence as a superstation feed of WGN-TV/Chicago from the channel's launch in November 1978 until its content separation from WGN-TV in December 2014) as the news-centric NewsNation, named after the prime time newscast that the channel debuted in September 2020, effective March 1. The rebrand coincides with a gradual expansion of its news programming that initially includes the additions of an hour-long early-evening newscast, the hour-long Donlon Report (a prime-access newscast fronted by NewsNation anchor Joe Donlon) and a weeknight news/interview program hosted by Ashleigh Banfield, as well as a condensed version of the retitled NewsNationPrime (to be reduced from three hours to two). A reduced schedule of entertainment programs in its inventory will continue to be featured in daytime and overnight slots (along with early morning paid and religious programming), which will be replaced with news content once syndication contracts expire. | [300][301] |
CBS All Access | Paramount+ | OTT streaming | March 4 | CBS All Access adopts the Paramount+ name used in certain international markets. The rebranding occurs amid an ongoing expansion of the service — originally developed as a subscription platform for CBS featuring original programs, content from the CBS television network and its syndication arm CBS Media Ventures, and live streams of local CBS stations, CBS' ad-supported OTT services and events from CBS Sports – to include content from other television and film brands owned by ViacomCBS (including Paramount Pictures, MTV, BET, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon). | [302][303] |
Vix | PrendeTV | OTT streaming | March 30 | On January 12, Univision Communications announced it would launch PrendeTV, a free, ad-supported Spanish-language streaming service aimed at U.S. Hispanics and Latinos in the first quarter of the year, formally launching on March 30. The platform, which is the first AVOD platform dedicated exclusively to Spanish content, offers over 30 curated channels (similar to those featured on services like Pluto TV, Peacock and Xumo) and approximately 20,000 hours of Spanish-language and -dubbed movies and television series for video-on-demand viewing from Univision and third-party providers including Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Grupo Globo, Caracol Televisión, Banijay, FilmRise, Nelvana, RCN, Lionsgate and MGM. The service was built off the infrastructure of and inherit content from Pan-American streaming service Vix, which Univision bought from a consortium of Batanga Media, Discovery Inc. and HarbourVest Partners on February 1. | [304][305] [306] [307] |
Fox Sports Networks | Bally Sports | Cable and satellite | March 31 | Sinclair Broadcast Group, as part of a partnership with Entertainment Studios, acquired the regional networks formerly owned by Fox Sports parent News Corporation in 2019. (Disney was required by the Department of Justice to divest the channels during its acquisition of 21st Century Fox on antitrust grounds due to its ownership of ESPN Inc.) Sinclair reached a cross-partnership with gaming company Bally's Corporation in November 2020, which led to the channels shedding the "Fox Sports" brand after more than 24 years in favor of "Bally Sports"; the move coincided with the start of the 2021 Major League Baseball season the next day. | [308][309] |
Paramount Network | Paramount Movie Network | Cable/satellite | TBD | Paramount Network will convert from a mix of movies, original unscripted programs, and off-network shows to an all-movie channel (consisting of both new original productions and content from the Paramount Pictures library). The renamed Paramount Movie Network will continue to carry at least one scripted series or miniseries each quarter (among them, existing drama series Yellowstone, which will modify its episode format to meet the network's new focus). Along with discontinuing unscripted programming, certain Paramount Network original programs (such as Bar Rescue and Lip Sync Battle) will move to other ViacomCBS-owned cable channels. | [310] |
Closures
Network | Type | End date | Notes | Source |
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DC Universe | OTT streaming | January 21 | In September 2020, DC announced that the DC Universe streaming service would be folded into DC Universe Infinite as a solely digital comics subscription service on January 21, 2021. DC Universe subscriptions would automatically transfer over to DC Universe Infinite. Original programs Young Justice, Titans, Doom Patrol, and Harley Quinn are moving to HBO Max as Max Original series starting their new seasons, while Stargirl is moving to The CW with its second season. | [311][312][123] |
Ion Plus | Over-the-air multicast | February 28 | Following the completion of its acquisition of Ion Media, on January 14, the E. W. Scripps Company announced that it will shutter three Ion networks – Ion Plus (a secondary schedule of programming from Ion's content distributors), Ion Shop (all-paid programming) and Qubo (children's programming) – and allocate their spectrum space on Ion Media's stations to offer networks from existing Scripps subsidiary Katz Broadcasting (consisting of Court TV, Court TV Mystery, Bounce TV, Laff and Grit). This will eventually consolidate Ion's operations into Katz and replace expiring contracts with other broadcasters that carried the Katz networks outside of mainstream Scripps markets (albeit with affiliate duplication in the interim due to the structure of Katz's subchannel-leasing arrangements), while offloading those networks on mainstream Scripps stations with limited spectrum capacity during the ATSC 3.0 transition. (Ion's namesake flagship channel will continue as a Scripps-owned network.) Qubo, Ion Plus and Ion Shop were replaced by selected Katz networks on Ion affiliates (consisting mainly of former O&Os spun off by Scripps to Inyo Broadcast Holdings) on February 27, and were replaced on Scripps-owned Ion stations post-shutdown on March 1. | [313] |
Qubo | ||||
Ion Shop | ||||
WWE Network | OTT streaming | March 18 (United States) |
On January 25, WWE announced it would discontinue the standalone WWE Network service in the United States and merge it into the offerings of Peacock. All paying Peacock subscribers will have access to the WWE Video Library and no-cost access to WWE pay-per-view events in the same manner as current WWE Network subscribers. WWE Network will remain unchanged outside of the United States. | [314][315] |
CNN Airport | Cable and satellite | March 31 | On January 12, CNN announced that it would shut down the CNN Airport network, which was available in numerous airports across the United States. The network, which carried a mixture of family-friendly news and entertainment programs from select WarnerMedia networks (as well as some high-profile sporting events), had been seeing declining viewership since the financial crisis of 2007–08 as a result of the increased proliferation of Wi-Fi-enabled devices which themselves allow access to the mainline CNN network; the decline was accelerated in 2020 when global commercial air travel declined greatly as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. | [316] |
NBCSN | Q4 | On January 22, NBC Sports Group announced it was shutting down NBCSN, which launched in 1995 as the Outdoor Life Network and later rebranded as Versus before becoming the NBC Sports Network in 2012 and adopting its current name in 2013. Its programming, which includes the Premier League and NASCAR races, will move to NBC and USA Network along with some programming moving to the Peacock streaming service; its National Hockey League contract (a cornerstone of the network's programming) expires at the end of the abbreviated 2021 season. | [317] |
Television stations
Subchannel launches
This section needs additional citations for verification. (February 2021) |
Stations changing network affiliations
This section needs additional citations for verification. (February 2021) |
- This section outlines affiliation changes involving English and Spanish networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, PBS, The CW, Univision, etc.), and format conversions involving independent stations. Digital subchannels will only be mentioned if the prior or new affiliation inolves a major English and Spanish broadcast network or a locally programmed independent entertainment format.
Date | Market | Station | Channel | Prior affiliation | New affiliation | Notes | Source |
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January 1 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | KGAN | 2.2 | GetTV | Fox | On January 1, KGAN began simulcasting KFXA for a one-month transitional period; GetTV concurrently moved to KGAN's third digital subchannel. | [citation needed] |
2.3 | Comet | GetTV | |||||
Charleston, West Virginia | WCHS-TV | 8.2 | Antenna TV | Fox | On January 1, WCHS-TV began simulcasting WVAH-TV for a one-month transitional period; Antenna TV concurrently moved to a new third digital subchannel of WCHS-TV. | ||
Columbus, Ohio | WSYX | 6.3 | On January 1, WSYX began simulcasting WTTE for a one-month transitional period; Antenna TV concurrently moved to a new fourth digital subchannel of WSYX. | [323] | |||
Dayton, Ohio | WKEF | 22.2 | Stadium | WKEF-DT2 disaffiliated from Stadium on January 1; it concurrently began simulcasting sister station WRGT-TV for a one-month transitional period. | [324] | ||
Idaho Falls–Pocatello, Idaho | KIDK | 3.1 | CBS | Dabl | In December 2020, VistaWest Media LLC, owner of KIDK, announced that most of the station's CBS network and syndicated programing, and local newscasts from its KIDK Eyewitness News 3 operation would be transferred to the DT2 subchannel of News-Press & Gazette Company-owned ABC affiliate and SSA partner KIFI-TV on January 1. KIDK would concurrently switch to Dabl (which is also carried on its Fox-affiliated sister KXPI-LD), while Telemundo programming displaced from KIFI-DT2 would transfer to a new DT5 subchannel on that station. | [citation needed] | |
KIFI-TV | 8.2 | Telemundo | CBS | ||||
Port Arthur-Beaumont, Texas | KFDM | 6.3 | Charge! | Fox | KFDM-DT3 disaffiliated from Charge! on December 31, 2020; on January 1, the subchannel began simulcasting Fox-affiliated SSA partner KBTV-TV for a one-month transitional period. | [325][326] | |
Santa Barbara-Santa Maria, California | KCOY-TV | 11.1 | CBS | Dabl | In December 2020, the News-Press & Gazette Company, owner of KCOY-TV, announced that the station's CBS network and syndicated programming and its local newscasts would be transferred to the DT2 subchannel of its ABC-affiliated sister station KEYT-TV on January 1. (KEYT had previously maintained a part-time affiliation with CBS from its May 1953 sign-on until KCOY began offering the network full-time after dropping its former primary NBC affiliation in 1969.). KCOY became affiliated with Dabl, relocating the diginet from its discontinued DT4 subchannel. To make room for the former KCOY intellectual unit on its DT2 feed (at which point, its local newscasts were retitled NewsChannel 12 to match KEYT's base news brand), KEYT-DT3—previously affiliated with Bounce TV—adopted a news rebroadcast format with MyNetworkTV programming (previously on KEYT-DT2) airing weeknights. | [327] | |
KEYT-TV | 3.2 | MyNetworkTV | CBS | ||||
3.3 | Bounce TV | MyNetworkTV | |||||
February 1 | Dothan, Alabama | WDHN | 18.4 | Cozi TV | Antenna TV | Nexstar Media Group continues the process it launched in the fall of 2020 of phasing out subchannel carriage agreements with Cozi and MeTV, competitors in the classic television subchannel space, in order to increase exposure and publicity for Antenna TV on its existing stations, which it acquired in 2019 as part of the Tribune Broadcasting merger. | [328] |
Terre Haute, Indiana | WTWO | 2.4 | |||||
Monroe, Louisiana | KARD-TV | 14.4 | |||||
Joplin, Missouri | KSNF | 16.4 | |||||
Amarillo, Texas | KAMR-TV | 4.4 | |||||
Wichita Falls, Texas | KFDX-TV | 3.4 | |||||
Charleston, West Virginia | WVAH-TV | 11.1 | Fox | Decades | In December 2020, Sinclair Broadcast Group—which operates the station through Cunningham Broadcasting—announced that most of WVAH's Fox network and syndicated programing, its 10:00 p.m. Eyewitness News newscast (produced by ABC affiliated sister station WCHS-TV), and the "Fox 11" branding would transfer to the second subchannel of WCHS-TV beginning February 1, following a one-month transition period that began on January 1; the move ended WVAH's 34-year affiliation with Fox (dating to its 1987 national launch). After the transition, the station's main channel switched to the Weigel Broadcasting-owned Decades diginet. | [citation needed] | |
Port Arthur–Beaumont, Texas | KBTV-TV | 4.1 | Dabl | In December 2020, Sinclair Broadcast Group—which operated the station through Deerfield Media—announced that KBTV will disaffiliate from Fox after 13 years (ending a 67-year-run as a major network affiliate, having previously been with NBC from its 1953 sign on until 2008); the station switched to Dabl effective February 1, with its Fox network and syndicated programming, the 5:30 and 9:00 p.m. newscasts (produced by sister station KFDM) and the "Fox 4" branding being transferred to the third subchannel of KFDM on February 1, following a one-month transition period that began on January 1. Following this, KFDM will be the second station in the Beaumont–Port Arthur market to maintain dual major network affiliations on its main channel and a digital subchannel (ABC affiliate KBMT has carried NBC programming on its DT2 subchannel since KBTV dropped the latter network). | [325][326] | ||
4.5 | Dabl | Charge! | |||||
February 2 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | KGAN | 2.2 | GetTV | Fox | In December 2020, Sinclair Broadcast Group—which operates KFXA through Second Generation of Iowa, Ltd.—announced that the station would end its collective 33-year relationship with Fox (dating to KFXA's 1988 sign-on, with a ten-month sabbatical from October 1994 to August 1995 due to financial issues that caused its eviction from the station's original studios). KFXA's Fox network and syndicated programming, its weekday 7:00 a.m. and nightly 9:00 p.m. newscasts (produced by CBS-affiliated sister KGAN) and the "Fox 28" branding transferred to KGAN-DT2 on February 2, following a 33-day transition period that commenced on January 1; following the switch, GetTV programming moved from KFXA-DT2 to KGAN-DT3, Comet programming moved from KGAN-DT3 to the newly launched KFXA-DT5, and Dabl programming moved from KGAN-DT4 (discontinued to allocate HD bandwidth for KGAN-DT2) to KFXA's main channel. | [citation needed] |
2.3 | Comet | GetTV | |||||
KFXA | 28.1 | Fox | Dabl | ||||
February 3 | Columbus, Ohio | WTTE | 28.1 | TBD | In December 2020, Sinclair Broadcast Group—which operates WRGT and WTTE through Cunningham Broadcasting—announced that both stations would end their 34-year relationship with Fox (dating to the network's 1987 national debut). In Dayton, WRGT's Fox network and syndicated programming, its weekday 7:00 a.m. and nightly 10:00 p.m. newscasts (produced by ABC-affiliated sister WKEF) and the "Fox 45" branding transferred to WKEF-DT2 on February 4, following a 33-day transition period that commenced on January 1; following the switch, the part-time MyNetworkTV/Dabl affiliation moved to WRGT's main channel. In Columbus, WTTE's Fox and syndicated programming, its weekday 7:00 a.m. and nightly 10:00 p.m. newscasts (produced by ABC-affiliated sister WSYX) and the "Fox 28" branding transferred to the third subchannel of WSYX-DT3 on February 3, following a 32-day transition period that commenced on January 1; afterward, WTTE switched to Sinclair's TBD diginet. | [329] | |
28.2 | TBD | Stadium | |||||
February 4 | Dayton, Ohio | WRGT-TV | 45.1 | Fox | MyNetworkTV/Dabl | [324] | |
45.2 | MyNetworkTV/Dabl | TBD | |||||
45.5 | TBD | Stadium | |||||
Sioux City, Iowa | KMEG | 14.1 | CBS | Dabl | In January 2021, Sinclair Broadcast Group—which operated the station through Waitt Broadcasting—announced that KMEG would disaffiliate from CBS after 53 years (dating to its 1967 sign-on), with its network and syndicated programming, local newscasts produced through its Siouxland News operation, as well as the "KMEG 14" branding being transferred to the DT3 subchannel of its co-owned Fox/MyNetworkTV affiliated station KPTH beginning February 4. Both stations concurrently swapped their corresponding diginet affiliations with Dabl, TBD and Charge! on that date. | [330] | |
14.2 | TBD | Charge! | |||||
KPTH | 44.2 | Dabl | TBD | ||||
44.3 | Charge! | CBS | |||||
March 1 | Albany–Schenectady–Troy, New York | WYPX-TV | 55.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | With the shutdown of Ion Plus, Qubo and Ion Shop and as a consequence of The E. W. Scripps Company's purchase of Ion Media (along with concurrent spin-offs of some Ion O&Os to INYO Broadcast Holdings), Ion Television's owned and affiliated stations and Ion Plus' O&O stations reconfigured their channel map to add selected networks owned by fellow Scripps subsidiary Katz Broadcasting in place of the defunct networks. With Katz's carriage agreement with the ABC Owned Television Stations also running out, ABCOTS has since come to agreement with Allen Media Group to launch a revitalized This TV on those channel slots. | [331][332] |
55.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
55.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
Atlanta, Georgia | WPXA-TV | 14.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
14.3 | Ion Plus | Laff | |||||
14.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Birmingham, Alabama | WPXH-TV | 44.2 | Qubo | ||||
44.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
44.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
44.5 | QVC | Laff | |||||
Boise, Idaho | KTRV-TV | 12.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
12.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
12.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Boston, Massachusetts | WDPX-TV | 58.1 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||
WBPX-TV | 68.2 | Qubo | Court TV Mystery | ||||
68.3 | Ion Shop | Bounce TV | |||||
Buffalo, New York | WPXJ-TV | 51.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
51.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
51.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
Chicago, Illinois | WCPX-TV | 38.2 | Qubo | Court TV Mystery | |||
38.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
38.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
Cleveland, Ohio | WDLI-TV | 17.1 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||
WVPX-TV | 23.2 | Qubo | Grit | ||||
23.3 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Columbia, South Carolina | WZRB | 47.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
47.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV Mystery | |||||
47.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
Columbus, Ohio | WSFJ-TV | 51.1 | Ion Plus | Bounce TV | |||
Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas | KPXD-TV | 68.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
68.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
68.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
Denver, Colorado | KPXC-TV | 59.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | |||
59.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
59.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
59.6 | QVC | Grit | |||||
Des Moines, Iowa | KFPX-TV | 39.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
39.3 | Ion Plus | Laff | |||||
39.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Detroit, Michigan | WPXD-TV | 31.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
31.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
31.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Grand Rapids, Michigan | WZPX-TV | 43.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
43.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
43.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
43.5 | QVC | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point, North Carolina | WGPX-TV | 16.2 | Qubo | Grit | |||
16.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
16.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
Greenville–New Bern, North Carolina | WEPX-TV | 38.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
38.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
38.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
WPXU-TV | 35.2 | Qubo | Court TV | ||||
35.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
35.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
Hagerstown, Maryland | WWPX-TV | 60.2 | Qubo | Court TV Mystery | |||
60.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
60.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
Hartford, Connecticut | WHPX-TV | 26.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | |||
26.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
26.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
Houston, Texas | KPXB-TV | 49.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
49.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
49.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
49.5 | HSN | Laff | |||||
Indianapolis, Indiana | WCLJ-TV | 42.1 | Ion Plus | Bounce TV | |||
WIPX-TV | 63.2 | Qubo | Court TV | ||||
63.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
WRTV | 6.4 | Court TV Mystery | QVC | ||||
Jacksonville, Florida | WPXC-TV | 21.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
21.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV Mystery | |||||
21.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
21.6 | HSN | Laff | |||||
Kansas City, Missouri | KMCI-TV | 38.4 | Court TV | HSN | |||
KPXE-TV | 50.2 | Qubo | Court TV | ||||
50.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
50.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
50.6 | HSN | QVC2 | |||||
Knoxville, Tennessee | WPXK-TV | 54.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
54.3 | Ion Plus | Laff | |||||
54.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Lexington, Kentucky | WUPX-TV | 67.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
67.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
67.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
Los Angeles, California | KPXN-TV | 30.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
30.3 | Ion Life | Grit | |||||
30.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
30.5 | QVC | Laff | |||||
KILM | 64.1 | Ion Plus | Grit | ||||
Madison, Wisconsin | WIFS | 57.1 | Ion Plus | Ion Television | |||
57.5 | Qubo | Laff | |||||
57.6 | Laff | Court TV Mystery | |||||
57.7 | Court TV Mystery | Grit | |||||
Manchester, New Hampshire | WPXG-TV | 21.2 | Qubo | Court TV Mystery | |||
21.3 | Ion Shop | Bounce TV | |||||
Memphis, Tennessee | WPXX-TV | 50.2 | Qubo | Court TV Mystery | |||
50.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
50.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
Miami–Ft. Lauderdale, Florida | WPXM-TV | 35.2 | Qubo | Court TV Mystery | |||
35.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
35.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
Milwaukee, Wisconsin | WPXE-TV | 55.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | |||
55.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
55.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
Minneapolis–St. Paul, Minnesota | KPXM-TV | 41.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | |||
41.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
41.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Nashville, Tennessee | WNPX-TV | 28.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
28.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
28.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
New Orleans, Louisiana | WPXL-TV | 49.2 | Qubo | Grit | |||
49.3 | Ion Plus | Laff | |||||
49.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
New York City, New York | WJLP | 33.6 | Court TV | Heartland | |||
WPXN-TV | 31.2 | Qubo | Grit | ||||
31.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV Mystery | |||||
31.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV | |||||
31.5 | QVC | Laff | |||||
Norfolk–Portsmouth–Newport News, Virginia | WPXV-TV | 49.2 | Qubo | ||||
49.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV Mystery | |||||
49.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV | |||||
WGNT | 27.4 | Court TV | Dabl | ||||
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | KOPX-TV | 62.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | |||
62.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
62.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
Orlando, Florida | WOPX-TV | 56.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | |||
56.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV Mystery | |||||
56.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | WPPX-TV | 61.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
61.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
61.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
61.5 | HSN | Laff | |||||
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | WINP-TV | 16.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | |||
16.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
16.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Portland, Maine | WIPL | 35.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
35.3 | Ion Plus | Bounce TV | |||||
35.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
Portland, Oregon | KPXG-TV | 22.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | |||
22.3 | Court TV | ||||||
22.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
Providence, Rhode Island | WLWC | 28.1 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||
WPXQ-TV | 69.2 | Qubo | Laff | ||||
69.4 | Ion Shop | Bounce TV | |||||
Raleigh–Durham, North Carolina | WRPX-TV | 47.3 | Court TV Mystery | ||||
47.5 | QVC | Laff | |||||
WFPX-TV | 62.1 | Ion Plus | Court TV | ||||
Roanoke–Lynchburg, Virginia | WPXR-TV | 38.2 | Qubo | ||||
38.3 | Ion Plus | Laff | |||||
38.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
St. Louis, Missouri | WRBU | 46.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
46.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
46.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
Sacramento | KSPX-TV | 29.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
29.3 | Ion Plus | Laff | |||||
29.4 | Ion Shop | Bounce TV | |||||
Salt Lake City, Utah | KUPX-TV | 16.2 | Qubo | Grit | |||
16.3 | Ion Plus | Laff | |||||
16.4 | Ion Shop | Bounce TV | |||||
San Antonio, Texas | KPXL-TV | 26.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
26.3 | Ion Plus | Laff | |||||
26.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
San Francisco–Oakland–San Jose, California | KKPX-TV | 65.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | |||
65.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
65.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
65.5 | QVC | Laff | |||||
Scranton–Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania | WQPX-TV | 64.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | |||
64.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
64.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
Seattle–Tacoma, Washington | KWPX-TV | 33.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
33.3 | Ion Life | Bounce TV | |||||
33.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
Syracuse, New York | WSPX-TV | 56.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
56.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
56.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Tampa–St. Petersburg, Florida | WXPX-TV | 66.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
66.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
66.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
Tulsa, Oklahoma | KTPX-TV | 44.2 | Qubo | NBC[note 1] | |||
44.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
44.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
Washington, D.C. | WPXW-TV | 66.2 | Qubo | Court TV Mystery | |||
66.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
66.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
Wausau–Rhinelander, Wisconsin | WTPX-TV | 46.2 | Qubo | Grit | |||
46.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV Mystery | |||||
46.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
46.5 | QVC | Bounce TV | |||||
West Palm Beach, Florida | WPTV-TV | 5.4 | Court TV Mystery | Start TV | |||
WPXP-TV | 67.2 | Qubo | Court TV | ||||
67.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV Mystery | |||||
67.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
67.5 | QVC | Grit | |||||
April 1 | Fresno, California | KFSN-TV | 30.3 | Laff | This TV | ||
Houston, Texas | KTRK-TV | 13.3 | |||||
Los Angeles, California | KABC-TV | 7.3 | |||||
Minneapolis, Minnesota | K33LN-D | 33.1 | Bounce TV | QVC | |||
33.2 | Court TV Mystery | HSN | |||||
New York City, New York | WABC-TV | 7.3 | Laff | This TV | |||
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | WPVI-TV | 6.3 | |||||
Raleigh, North Carolina | WTVD | 11.3 | |||||
San Francisco, California | KGO-TV | 7.3 | |||||
April 5 | Indianapolis, Indiana | WISH-TV | 8.3 | True Crime Network | Twist | [287][288] | |
May 15 | Chicago, Illinois | WCPX-TV | 38.2 | Court TV Mystery | Bounce TV | WCIU will launch the experimental MeTV Plus service over digital subchannels 26.5 on this date; the network will replace Bounce TV, which had been carrying its programming simultaneously on Ion O&O WCPX-TV (owned by Bounce parent, the E. W. Scripps Company) since February 28 and will cede its Chicago affiliation rights exclusively to that station with the switchover. | [289] |
WCIU-TV | 26.5 | Bounce TV | MeTV Plus | ||||
May 17 | Lexington, Kentucky | WTVQ-DT | 36.4 | Laff | Twist | ||
36.7 | Grit | QVC | |||||
September 1 | Buffalo, New York | WNLO | 23.2 | Bounce TV | Rewind TV | [321] |
Station closures
Station | Channel | Affiliation | Market | Date | Notes | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
XHRIO | 15.1 | The CW | Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico (Rio Grande Valley, Texas) |
December 31 | In late 2019, when owner Entravision Communications released its third-quarter earnings, it announced that it would not pay the 20-year lump sum renewal for the station's license. As a result, the station is expected to cease operations at the end of its concession in December 2021 after broadcasting as an English language station for most of its 42-year history. The closure of XHRIO-TDT leaves Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon to depend on American television stations for English-language content. | [333] |
WVTA | 41.# | PBS | Windsor, Vermont | TBD | Vermont PBS announced on February 17, 2017, that it will sell the broadcast license for WVTA, which transmits from Mount Ascutney, for $56 million in the FCC spectrum auction. In a statement, the member network said that its other signals will be upgraded to cover the viewing area (southeastern Vermont and southwestern New Hampshire) served by WVTA.[needs update] | [334] |
Deaths
January
February
Date | Name | Age | Notability | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
February 1 | Dustin Diamond | 44 | Actor best known as Samuel "Screech" Powers in the Saved by the Bell franchise | [369] |
Jamie Tarses | 56 | Television executive (ABC Entertainment) and producer (Friends, Frasier, Happy Endings, My Boys, Franklin & Bash, The Wilds, Saturday Night Live, Perfect Strangers, Hawthorne, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Marry Me, Men at Work) | [370] | |
February 5 | Christopher Plummer | 91 | Canadian Emmy, Oscar, and Tony Award-winning actor (TV credits include Omnibus, The Moneychangers, Jesus of Nazareth, Little Gloria... Happy at Last, The Thorn Birds, The Cosby Show, Counterstrike, Winchell, Nuremberg, American Tragedy, Departure, and Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight; voice work on Madeline; video clue presenter on Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time) | [371] |
Butch Reed | 66 | Former WWE and WCW professional wrestler | [372] | |
February 7 | Pedro Gomez | 58 | Sports journalist who primarily covered baseball for ESPN, appearing on SportsCenter and Baseball Tonight | [373] |
February 10 | Katherine Creag | 47 | Newscaster at WNYW and WNBC in New York City | [374] |
February 11 | Joan Weldon | 90 | Actress | [375] |
February 12 | Christopher Pennock | 76 | Actor best known as Gabriel Collins on Dark Shadows | [376] |
Lynn Stalmaster | 93 | Casting director | [377] | |
February 17 | Rush Limbaugh | 70 | Radio and TV personality and political commentator; TV work included eponymous Rush Limbaugh from 1992 to 1996, along with contributions to The 1/2 Hour News Hour and Sunday NFL Countdown. Also several voice appearances as himself on Family Guy. | [378] |
February 18 | Frank Lupo | 66 | Writer/producer, most notably (in partnership with Stephen J. Cannell) on The A-Team, Hunter and Wiseguy | [379] |
February 20 | Douglas Turner Ward | 90 | Playwright, actor, director, and theatrical producer. He was noted for being a founder and artistic director of the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC). | [380] |
February 23 | Geoffrey Scott | 79 | Actor best known as Mark Jennings on Dynasty | [381] |
February 28 | Irv Cross | 81 | Football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Los Angeles Rams) and sportscaster (The NFL Today). First Black network sports anchor. | [382] |
March
Date | Name | Age | Notability | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
March 2 | Gil Rogers | 87 | Actor (recurring roles as Hawk Shayne on Guiding Light, Ray Gardner on All My Children, and Dr. Martin Brandt on The Doctors). | [383] |
March 6 | Carmel Quinn | 95 | Irish-American entertainer who appeared on Broadway, television and radio after immigrating to the United States in 1954 | [384] |
March 9 | Roger Mudd | 93 | Reporter and anchor for CBS News and NBC News as well for PBS' MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and History Channel | [385] |
Cliff Simon | 58 | Actor best known for his role as Ba'al on Stargate SG-1. | [386] | |
March 13 | Yaphet Kotto | 81 | Actor best known for his role as Lt. Al Giardello on Homicide: Life on the Street | [387] |
March 14 | Henry Darrow | 87 | Puerto Rican actor (several series, including The High Chaparral, Harry O, All My Children, One Life to Live, Santa Barbara, General Hospital, and Zorro) | [388] |
March 17 | Amy Johnston | 66 | Film and television actress and drama coach | [389] |
March 18 | Richard Gilliland | 71 | Actor (several series, most notably McMillan, Operation Petticoat, and Designing Women) | [390] |
March 19 | Barry Orton | 62 | Actor and professional wrestler, son of professional wrestler Bob Orton | [citation needed] |
March 21 | Joel Steiger | 79 | Writer/producer (several films and shows, most notably Matlock, Jake and the Fatman, and the Perry Mason film series) | [391] |
March 23 | George Segal | 87 | Actor best known as Albert 'Pops' Solomon on The Goldbergs and Jack Gallo on Just Shoot Me! | [392] |
March 24 | Craig "muMs" Grant | 52 | Actor/poet (various TV series, most notably Oz, She's Gotta Have It, and Hightown) | [393] |
Jessica Walter | 80 | Actress (voice roles included Archer and Dinosaurs, on-camera roles included Arrested Development among several others) | [394] | |
March 25 | Rick Azar | 91 | Sportscaster best known for his 31 years with WKBW-TV in Buffalo, New York | [395] |
Robert Rodan | 83 | Actor best known for his role of Adam in Dark Shadows in 1968 | [396] |
April
May
Date | Name | Age | Notability | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
May 1 | Olympia Dukakis | 89 | Actress, director, producer, teacher, and activist (Search for Tomorrow, Tales of the City, Touched by an Angel, Center of the Universe, Bored to Death, Sex & Violence, Forgive Me, TripTank) | [413] |
May 2 | Bob Abernethy | 93 | Journalist, best known for serving various roles during a 42-year career with NBC News. He later co-created, and was executive editor and host of Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, which aired on PBS from 1997 until 2017. | [414] |
May 7 | Ernest Angley | 99 | Televangelist (host of The Ernest Angley Hour) and station owner (WBNX-TV/Akron, OH) | [415] |
Tawny Kitaen | 59 | Actress, comedian, and media personality, best known for her appearances in several Whitesnake music videos. Also the host of America's Funniest People; recurring roles on The New WKRP in Cincinnati and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys; and appearances in the reality shows The Surreal Life, Botched, and Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew. | [416] | |
May 11 | Norman Lloyd | 106 | Actor (most notably Dr. Daniel Auschlander on St. Elsewhere) and producer (Alfred Hitchcock Presents) | [417] |
May 12 | Blackie Dammett | 81 | Actor (guest spots on Who's the Boss?, Starsky & Hutch, Charlie's Angels, and Hunter). Father of Anthony Kiedis. | [418] |
May 14 | Jay Barbree | 87 | Correspondent for NBC News, focusing on space travel. He was the only journalist to have covered every non-commercial human space mission in the United States until 2011. | [419] |
New Jack | 58 | Professional wrestler (most notably with Extreme Championship Wrestling) | [420] | |
May 18 | Charles Grodin | 86 | Actor (main role as the second Matt Crane Stevens on The Young Marrieds; recurring role on Louie; and appearances in the mini-series Madoff and Fresno) | [421] |
May 19 | Paul Mooney | 79 | Actor, comedian, and writer (Real Husbands of Hollywood, Chappelle's Show, The Larry Sanders Show, In Living Color, Pryor's Place, The Richard Pryor Show, Saturday Night Live, Good Times, Sanford and Son). | [422] |
May 24 | Samuel E. Wright | 74 | Voice actor best known as Sebastian the Crab on The Little Mermaid. | [423] |
May 29 | Gavin MacLeod | 90 | Actor best known as Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Captain Merrill Stubing on The Love Boat, and Seaman Joseph "Happy" Hanes on McHale's Navy. | [424] |
See also
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