2017 in American television

The following is a list of events affecting American television in 2017. 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
1	Hearst Television stations in 26 markets are removed from DirecTV due to the companies failing to reach a new retransmission contract. The stations are restored on January 6 with a new retrans agreement.
	WBTS-LD (a former translator of Merrimack, New Hampshire-licensed Telemundo O&O WNEU) signs on as Boston's NBC owned-and-operated station with a rebroadcast of the city's First Night New Year's Eve festivities, replacing Sunbeam Television-owned WHDH, which ended its 68-year tenure as a network affiliate (it had served as a CBS affiliate since its initial sign-on as WNAC-TV (1948–1961, later rejoined in 1972 until 1995), ABC (1961–1972) and NBC (1995–2017), respectively). The switch comes after parent company Comcast (which acquired the station from ZGS Communications in September 2016) announced that it will launch an NBC O&O station in the Boston market (potentially using WNEU, which was announced in November 2016 that it will simulcast the station on one of its subchannels) after WHDH failed to renew its affiliation contract with the network.
2–13	Former Today anchors Katie Couric and Meredith Vieira rejoin Matt Lauer on the Today anchor desk, with Couric appearing the week of January 2 and Viera the week of January 9. The appearances are to help fete Lauer's 20th anniversary on the NBC morning news/talk show, to help fill the void left by current co-anchor Savannah Guthrie's maternity leave, and to mark Today's 65th anniversary.
3	NBC News announces the hiring of Megyn Kelly from Fox News, where she was host of The Kelly File (which aired its last edition on January 6). At NBC, she will host a daytime news and discussion program (reported to be replacing the existing Today's Take format of the third hour of Today) and a Sunday newsmagazine, and is figured to play a prominent role in the network's political and major news coverage.
4	The FCC approves a waiver in regulations allowing Mexican media company Televisa to increase its ownership stake in Univision Communications from 10% to 40%. This waiver of the 1934 law, which applies only to any Televisa/Univision transaction (foreign ownership in any U.S. communications company is limited to 25%), will allow Televisa to expand its long-sought control of Univision, which has sought out ways to stay financially competitive.
5	As part of a new contract with ESPN, Chris Berman announced he will step down from his role as host of the network's NFL studio programming, as well as the Major League Baseball Home Run Derby. The sportscaster, who has been with the network from its inception in 1979, will stay on as a commentator for Monday Night Countdown and call the MLB Division Series for ESPN Radio.
	Former Fox News Channel anchor Greta Van Susteren is hired by rival MSNBC, where she will host For the Record with Greta, an early-evening news and analysis show based in Washington, DC. Van Susteren's program, debuting on January 9, replaces the rebroadcast of Bloomberg Television's With All Due Respect, which ended in December 2016. The program only lasts just over six months, and Van Susteren departs MSNBC on June 29 due to the network deciding to go in a different direction.
6	Hearst Television announces that it had acquired a majority stake in Charleston, South Carolina-based Litton Entertainment, which controls four of the five E/I-compliant Saturday morning blocks on the five major broadcast networks, along with being a syndicator of traditional programming, for an undisclosed amount (the company's CEO, Dave Morgan, was a former employee of Hearst). The deal was closed on February 1.
8	The motion picture La La Land (with a record seven wins, including best musical/comedy film) and TV newcomers Atlanta and The Crown (best comedy/musical and drama series, respectively) are among the notable winners at the 74th Golden Globe Awards. Jimmy Fallon emcees the ceremony on NBC.
12	C-SPAN's live coverage of a United States House of Representatives debate abruptly switches for 10 minutes to a live feed of RT. Although fears are suggested that the feed was hijacked by pro-Russian hackers (RT is funded by the Government of Russia), C-SPAN initially believes it was due to an internal routing error (RT is one of several networks that C-SPAN monitors for news coverage).
	Former HBO employee Jennifer Choi is sentenced to 30 months in prison after admitting to bilking nearly $1 million from the network over a six-year period (2008–2014). Choi had worked in talent relations for HBO, and plead guilty in January 2016 to charges of wire fraud and tax evasion. She admitted to submitting invoices and reaping money for services never rendered by a shell company she controlled, as well as charging $63,000 to HBO's account for car service bills for her family and friends. Choi also faces three years of post-jail supervised release (during which she cannot be employed in a capacity where she is in charge of an employer's funds) and must also pay restitution to HBO and back taxes.
15	An audience of 48.5 million watch Fox's live broadcast of the National Football Conference divisional round game between the Green Bay Packers and Dallas Cowboys, one marked by Packers kicker Mason Crosby's game-ending, game-winning 51-yard field goal. The audience for the telecast is the largest ever for an NFL divisional round game, outdrawing last season's NFC Championship game (45.7 million) and falling just behind 2015's NFC title game (49.8 million).
16	After a 19-month hiatus, Bob Beckel returns to Fox News Channel as co-host of The Five. Beckel, who joined FNC in 2000 as a political contributor and is one of the original co-hosts of the early-evening political opinion program since its 2011 debut, left the program in 2015 to join CNN as a commentator. Current co-host Juan Williams, who will continue to appear on The Five, will remain as Fox News contributor across all programs. Beckel departs Fox News Channel again on May 19, this time involuntarily, for refusing to allow an African-American FNC IT employee to service his personal computer and directing racial remarks towards the man.
17	Almost a full year after the deal was first announced, due in part to delays in license transfer approvals caused by the agency's auction of broadcast spectrum to telecommunications providers, and six days after the FCC gives its approval, Nexstar Broadcasting Group completes its $4.6 billion acquisition of Media General. The combined company, now known as Nexstar Media Group, includes a portfolio of 171 full-power stations, covering 100 markets (including 16 of the top 50,) and nearly 39% of the U.S. Among these stations, MyNetworkTV affiliate KRON-TV/San Francisco becomes Nexstar's largest station by market size and its second to be based in a top-10 market (after WHAG-TV/Hagerstown, Maryland, which is licensed within the Washington, D.C. market).
	On the same day Dish Network reaches a retransmission deal to avert a blackout of Gray Television's stations, the lack of a new carriage pact leads to the removal of 12 Bonten Media Group stations in eight markets from the satellite service.
	Shark Tank host Kevin O'Leary announces on his Facebook page that he will return to his native Canada to run for the leadership post of that country's Conservative Party, a role equivalent to a U.S. presidential candidate. O'Leary withdrew from the race and endorsed a fellow leadership candidate on April 26.
18	Britney Spears (four awards) and Ellen DeGeneres (three awards, enough to make her the most awarded in the show's history) are among the notable winners at the 43rd People's Choice Awards. Joel McHale hosts the telecast, which airs on CBS.
22	Several contributors to Fox News Channel are cut from the network, including longtime contributors George Will and former Fox News Watch panelist Cal Thomas, along with Ed Rollins, former U.S. Senator Alphonse D'Amato and actress Stacey Dash, who was a regular panelist on Outnumbered and had made several controversial statements.
29	The Miss Universe 2016 pageant is held at the Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay, Metro Manila, Philippines and broadcast on Fox and Azteca, with Steve Harvey as host (who humorously addressed his mistake during the previous year's pageant, in which he accidentally announced Ariadna Gutiérrez of Colombia as the winner before being corrected that Pia Wurtzbach of the Philippines had actually won). Iris Mittenaere of France is selected as the winner, ending a 63-year drought for the country, when Christiane Martel took the title in 1953. This marked the second time that the pageant skipped a year since the Miss Universe 2014, which was held in Miami, Florida in January 2015.
	NBC special correspondent Tom Brokaw celebrates his 50th anniversary at NBC News with a two-hour special episode of Dateline NBC, titled Tom Brokaw at NBC News: The First 50 Years, which featured footage from some of his most memorable interviews and highlights in his career (including his coverage of Watergate scandal, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and several presidential campaigns), as well as in-depth conversations with guests including Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates, Tom Hanks, Jon Stewart, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Colin Powell and David Letterman. Brokaw joined NBC News as a West Coast correspondent and anchor of NBC O&O KNBC/Los Angeles from 1966 to 1972 before becoming a White House correspondent (1973–1976) and an anchor of Today (1976–1981) and NBC Nightly News (1982–2004).
31	With one final ESPN assignment on this date (a Georgia/Kentucky men's basketball game), Brent Musburger ends a nearly 50-year TV sportscasting career spent covering various events for ESPN, ABC, and CBS.

February

Date	Event
1	The networks and owned-and-operated television stations of Univision Communications (including Univision, UniMas, Galavision, Fusion, Univision tlnovelas and the Univision Deportes Network, along with the American simulcasts of several domestic Mexican Televisa networks) are removed from Charter/Spectrum systems nationwide due to an ongoing retransmission dispute between the companies. The next day, a judge overseeing a carriage fee lawsuit between the two companies orders the Univision channels to be restored on Charter/Spectrum. The companies later agree to temporarily keep the channels on Charter/Spectrum until at least June.
2	The National Women's Soccer League announced a three-year agreement with A&E Networks, in which Lifetime broadcasts 22 regular-season matches as the NWSL Game of the Week at 4 p.m. Eastern on Saturday afternoons, as well as three post-season matches. This marked the first time that the NWSL had a weekly broadcast window throughout the entire season. Players also wear a sleeve patch of the network's logo on their uniforms. As part of the deal, A&E Networks also purchased a 25% equity stake in the NWSL, were granted two seats on the league's board, and formed a joint venture with the league known as NWSL Media to oversee the league's marketing and broadcast rights. This deal marked the first time Lifetime had broadcast sports since the WNBA in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
5	Super Bowl LI airs on Fox in English and on Fox Deportes in Spanish, with 111.3 million viewers watching the New England Patriots come back from a 25-point 3rd quarter deficit to defeat the Atlanta Falcons in the first Super Bowl to go into overtime. Lady Gaga is the headliner in the halftime show, a critically acclaimed performance that draws 117.5 million viewers, the fourth consecutive year the halftime show outdraws the Super Bowl itself. Two noteworthy ads that debut that make light of U.S. President Donald Trump's signing of executive orders that ban travelers from several Muslim nations and orders a physical wall to be built between Mexico and the United States. An ad for Budweiser beer depicts Anheuser-Busch co-founder Adolphus Busch's emigration to the United States from Germany and his first meeting with Eberhard Anheuser, while one for 84 Lumber depicts a mother and daughter journeying from Mexico to the United States, a shorter version of a full ad made available online (after Fox rejects the longer version for being overtly political).
6	Fox affiliate WFXG/Augusta, Georgia begins migrating production of its news programming in-house with the debut of a 3+1⁄2-hour weekday morning newscast that is produced out of expanded space at the station's studios in nearby Martinez. The Raycom Media station had been outsourcing its newscasts since 2004, when it premiered a 10:00 p.m. broadcast produced under an agreement with ABC affiliate WJBF. After WJBF took over the news operations of NBC affiliate WAGT through a since-discontinued shared services agreement between their respective ex-owners Media General and Schurz Communications in October 2011, production of the program's in-studio segments transferred to CBS-affiliated sister WTOC-TV/Savannah, with WFXG maintaining a limited staff of Augusta-based multimedia journalists to file field reports. WTOC will continue to produce all studio segments for the prime time newscast in the interim until WFXG expands its news staff.
9	Bob Costas announces during a live interview on Today that he will step down as prime time host of NBC's Olympic Games coverage and Sunday Night Football, duties he has held for NBC Sports since 1992 and 2006, respectively. Costas will hand the duties to Mike Tirico, who joined NBC Sports in 2016 after a quarter century at ESPN, beginning with the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
	Viacom announces a plan to realign its cable television division to focus on six core channels: MTV, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr., Comedy Central, BET, and Spike, the latter of which will rebrand to the Paramount Network in early 2018.
11	Alec Baldwin hosts Saturday Night Live for the 17th time, setting the record for the most appearances as the show's guest host, having made his first appearance in 1990. The episode was Baldwin's first time hosting during the 42nd season, after having appeared as Donald Trump in several sketches in most of the season's episodes to date, succeeding Darrell Hammond. This episode – which also featured performances by musical guest Ed Sheeran and a special guest appearance by Melissa McCarthy as White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer in the cold open (the second consecutive episode she has done so) – delivered a 3.10 rating and an audience of 10.843 million, the largest for the NBC late night live television sketch comedy and variety show since the January 8, 2011 episode hosted by Jim Carrey with musical guest The Black Keys.
12	Adele (who, despite dropping an obscenity while asking for a do over during a tribute to George Michael, emerges as the winner Album, Record, and Song of the Year categories, for 25 and "Hello", respectively), David Bowie (five posthumous wins, all for his last album Blackstar), Chance the Rapper (Best New Artist, the first unsigned artist to win in this category), Twenty One Pilots (who accepted their win in the Pop Duo performance category for "Stressed Out" while wearing underwear), and Maren Morris (Country solo for "My Church") are among the notable winners at the 59th Grammy Awards. James Corden hosts the event, which airs on CBS. Other major performances during the telecast include pregnant two-time winner Beyonce ("Love Drought" and "Sandcastles"), Lady Gaga with Metallica ("Moth Into Flame", despite minor sound issues), Katy Perry ("Chained to the Rhythm", while the U.S. constitution is displayed in the background), The Time with Bruno Mars (a Tribute to Prince), and a controversial performance by A Tribe Called Quest with Anderson Paak, Busta Rhymes, and Consequence attacking Donald Trump's travel ban while performing "We the People...."
13	Nick Cannon announces he will not return as host of America's Got Talent, citing creative differences between him and executives at NBC. The resignation comes in the wake of news that the network considered firing Cannon, who hosted the variety competition for eight seasons, after he made disparaging remarks about NBC in a recent Showtime comedy special, Stand Up, Don't Shoot. "I love art and entertainment too much to watch it be ruined by controlling corporations and big business," Cannon said in a statement, referencing cable giant Comcast's ownership of NBC.
15	KSWL-LD/Lake Charles, Louisiana signs on the air as the market's CBS affiliate, returning the network to Lake Charles for the first time since KTAG-TV ceased operations in 1961. Prior to the sign-on, viewers in the market could only receive CBS programming via KLFY-TV/Lafayette and KFDM-TV/Beaumont, Texas. Shortly after KSWL made its debut, its owner, Waypoint Media, also acquired KWWE-LD, which is converted into a MyNetworkTV affiliate (with MeTV on its LD2 subchannel).
16	Gray Television announces its intent to purchase CBS affiliate WABI-TV/Bangor, Maine and ABC affiliate WCJB/Gainesville, Florida from Diversified Communications for $85 million. The deal, which will mark Diversified's exit from broadcasting once the purchase receives FCC approval, will end WABI's status as the oldest continuously family-owned station in the U.S. and will reunite the station with fellow CBS outlet WAGM-TV/Presque Isle, which Diversified had owned from 1971 to 1984 (it was eventually sold to Gray in 2015).
19	Discussion forms on The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) are shuttered. The Amazon-owned platform, which catalogs a database of films, television, and performers, announced the move on February 3, citing the migration of entertainment discussions to social media as well as the disruption of user experiences and user ratings by internet trolls.
	NBC celebrates its 90th anniversary of broadcasting with a three-hour special, The Paley Center Salutes NBC's 90th Anniversary. Hosted by Kelsey Grammer, the program features a look back at NBC's most well-known former and current programs (including dramas, comedies, late night and variety shows, NBC News programs, television specials, sporting events among others) and recorded interviews with the network's past and present talents. The network began its operations in 1926 as a radio network when it was founded by former owner Radio Corporation of America (RCA), and launched its television service in 1941 with the launch of an experimental television station that later became its New York City flagship WNBC-TV.
23	The FCC issues a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that will authorize broadcasters to utilize ATSC 3.0, the second generation of the digital television broadcast standard that will enable television stations to provide improved better management of offer features such as ultra-high-definition content, enhanced bandwidth and compression efficiency, datacasting, targeted advertising and upgrades to the Emergency Alert System. Unlike with the transition to the current ATSC 1.0 standard, broadcasters could adopt the standard (which will require launching a separate digital signal) on a voluntary basis and will not require television and mobile phone manufacturers to include tuning capability for viewers to receive the signals nor will employ government subsidies for consumers to make the transition. The rules were put into place despite concerns about issues concerning requirements that pay television providers carry 1.0 and 3.0 signals of participating stations at the expense of other channels, effects on consumers and voluntary broadcaster adoption of the standard.
	The Meredith Corporation announces that it will acquire the license assets of independent station WPCH-TV/Atlanta – which Meredith had been operating since 2011 under joint sales and shared services agreements with its existing CBS affiliate WGCL-TV – from the Turner Broadcasting System for $70 million. The sale was reportedly done to expedite Turner parent Time Warner's merger with AT&T. Turner Broadcasting founder Ted Turner purchased the station (then WJRJ) in 1970, and uplinked it to satellite in December 1976, making it the first national superstation – later known as TBS – and the first basic cable channel in the U.S. The Atlanta station was separated from the national TBS feed in October 2007, after the latter acquired partial national cable rights to air Major League Baseball games (TBS' Atlanta Braves game telecasts were relegated to WPCH for exclusive local broadcast thereafter, before Fox Sports South fully assumed the regional television rights in 2013). The transaction received FCC approval on April 17, and was completed four days later on April 21.
26	La La Land (six awards) and Moonlight (Best Picture) are among the notable winners at the 89th Academy Awards. Jimmy Kimmel hosts the event, which airs on ABC. Throughout the show, Jimmy renews his "feud" with Matt Damon in a skit harshly criticizing Damon's 2011 film We Bought a Zoo, has announcer Randy Thomas introduce him as only the unnamed "guest" of Ben Affleck, and conducts the orchestra to play him off while Damon presents the award for Best Adapted Screenplay. The telecast also includes several jokes and pro-diversity comments from winners and presenters in response to President Donald Trump's immigration policies, such as those in which Kimmel live-tweets Trump, who hadn't responded to the comments on his Twitter account since the show's start (Trump was hosting the annual Governor's Ball at the White House during the ceremony) and gives a speech in which he jokingly agrees with Trump's tweets about Meryl Streep's pro-diversity speech at the Golden Globes, in which Trump called her "overrated." In an infamous moment, La La Land is accidentally announced as Best Picture winner, after presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway are mistakenly given the envelope disclosing La La Land's Emma Stone as Best Actress winner; La La Land producer Jordan Horowitz interrupts to clarify that Moonlight was the actual winner. PricewaterhouseCoopers, the accounting firm which secures the envelopes, later issued a sincere apology for the error and promise to investigate it. It was reported the man who handed Beatty the envelope was tweeting a picture he took of Stone with her trophy instead of concentrating on his duties. In addition, ESPN (through its in-house film division) is given the first Oscar for Best Documentary Feature ever awarded to a sports-centric broadcaster, as well as the first longest-running documentary or motion picture to achieve this feat (clocking in at 7 hours and 47 minutes), for its 30 for 30 miniseries feature O.J.: Made in America. History is also made for streaming services Netflix, which scored its first win with the Syrian-produced documentary short The White Helmets, and Amazon Studios with Manchester by the Sea for Best Original Screenplay (Kenneth Lonergan) and Best Actor (Casey Affleck); the first-ever film released by a digital streaming service to be nominated for Best Picture, and The Salesman (for Best Foreign Language Film; Amazon holds U.S. rights to the Iranian/French-produced film). The ceremony, which runs for three hours and 49 minutes (the longest telecast in 10 years), delivered an overnight 22.4 rating and 32.9 million total viewers, the lowest viewership average for the ceremony since the 2008 telecast.

March

Date	Event
1	Aiming to improve U.S./Mexico relations in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order proposing a wall on the countries' border and mass deportations of illegal Mexican immigrants (moves that have caused a diplomatic crisis between the countries), Conan O'Brien takes his TBS talk show to Mexico. The special episode, titled "Conan Without Borders: Made in Mexico" and taped with all-Mexican guests, crew and audience at Televisa's Mexico City studios, features as guests actor/producer/director Diego Luna, former Mexican President Vicente Fox, and Top Chef Mexico Judge Aquiles Chavez, as well as O'Brien's attending a Quinceañera and soliciting (without success) donations to fund the wall in person-on-the-street segments.
3	Hearst Television stations in 26 markets (including Boston, Baltimore, Kansas City, Orla ndo, Sacra mento and New Orleans) are removed from Dish Network due to the companies failing to reach a new retransmission contract, despite a 48-hour extension granted by Hearst to extend negotiations to renew the contract that formally expired on March 1. Representatives for Dish stated that the company had agreed to accept the same terms that DirecTV had reached Hearst after the two companies had renewed their carriage agreement in January, which Hearst felt was less acceptable, given that Dish has only half the total audience reach of its satellite rival. The Hearst signals return to Dish on April 26.
8	By a 91–21 margin (with 12 other ballots challenged or uncounted) in NLRB-administered balloting, actors employed by Telemundo for the Spanish-language network's scripted programming vote to unionize with SAG-AFTRA, bringing a close to a 15-year labor dispute between the entertainers' union and Telemundo parent NBCUniversal. SAG-AFTRA had argued that NBCUniversal maintains a double standard by allowing its English-language performers to unionize while refusing the same right to Spanish-speaking actors. The move marks the first time in which a Spanish-language television broadcaster has allowed to have its employers to become part of a labor union.
16	Entravision Communications announces that it will purchase Action Channel affiliate KMCC/Laughlin, Nevada from Beam Tilt, LLC (a subsidiary of Chicago-based Cranston Acquisition LLC) for $3.75 million. The sale will create a triopoly with Entravision's existing Las Vegas stations, Univision affiliate KINC and UniMás affiliate KELV-LD (Laughlin is part of the Las Vegas market), and the second full-power duopoly in the market (after Sinclair Broadcast Group-owned NBC affiliate KSNV and CW affiliate KVCW); the deal complies with current FCC duopoly regulations as neither station is among the Las Vegas market's four highest-rated and the market will have more than eight independent station owners once the sale is finalized.
21	Fox News suspends legal analyst Andrew Napolitano from on-air appearances after he makes a bogus claim that the British spy agency Government Communications Headquarters had illegally wire tapped Trump Tower at the request of outgoing President Barack Obama during the 2016 US Presidential election. Napolitano, still standing by his claims, returns to Fox News' air on March 29.
27–31	Five colleges and universities visited by NBC personality Al Roker set new Guinness-verified world records on live television as part of its week-long special series Rokerthon 3: Storming Into The Madness, which aired on the network's morning news/talk show, Today. The special series began at University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma and concluded at Roker's alma mater, SUNY Oswego in Oswego, New York.
28	Fox's, New Girl answers a long-unresolved question with the revelation of Schmidt's (Max Greenfield) first name — Winston (the same as that of fellow roommate Winston L'Andre Bishop, played by Lamorne Morris) — in the episode "San Diego."
31	After a 16-month absence, Comcast restores YES Network to its cable systems in New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, in the wake of the sides resolving a carriage dispute, in which Comcast accused the 21st Century Fox-Yankee Global Enterprises regional sports network venture of asking for an estimated 33% hike in subscriber fees to continue carrying the channel.

April

Date	Event
4	Raycom Media announces its intent to purchase a majority interest in Fox affiliate WVUE-DT/New Orleans from Tom Benson (owner of the New Orleans Saints and New Orleans Pelicans, who will retain a partial stake in WVUE once the deal is completed) for $51.8 million. Pending FCC approval, the acquisition will bridge a relationship that the Montgomery, Alabama-based group has had with WVUE since 2013, when Benson's Louisiana Media Company (which bought the station from Emmis Communications for $41 million in May 2008) decided to transfer its operations to Raycom under joint sales and shared services agreements that included a put option – which Benson exercised on February 6 – for Raycom to eventually acquire the license. It will also give Raycom its fourth owned-and-operated station in Louisiana, joining CBS affiliates KSLA/Shreveport and WAFB/Baton Rouge, and NBC affiliate KPLC/Lake Charles. The acquisition was finalized on August 8.
	After announcing his retirement from the National Football League as a player, former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo is named the lead commentator for CBS Sports' coverage of the professional league, serving as color analyst alongside current lead play-by-play host Jim Nantz. Under the league's contract with CBS, he will also cover the network's Thursday Night Football telecasts, which Amazon Prime acquires streaming rights to (along with NBC games) on the same day for $50 million, or five times what Twitter paid the previous year.
5	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer buys out Lionsgate and Paramount Pictures's combined 80.91% ownership stakes in premium cable channel Epix for $1.03 billion. Under the terms of the deal, Paramount and Lionsgate – both of which co-founded Epix in conjunction with MGM in 2009, following a contract negotiation dispute with Showtime over film rights fees – will continue to allow Epix to hold the pay television rights to their theatrical feature films under multi-year distribution agreements. Lionsgate and Paramount parent Viacom had been looking at a possible sale of Epix since the fall of 2016, after Lionsgate purchased pay cable rival Starz in June of that year, and Viacom sought strategic opportunities to pay down its debt of $12 billion and streamlined its operations by shifting focus on restructuring Paramount and the Viacom Media Networks cable channels.
	YouTube enters the over-the-top MVPD field with the rollout of YouTube TV, which initially launches in New York City, Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, Philadelphia and Chicago. Announced on February 28, the service offers live streams of programming from the five major broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and The CW), as well as a slate of approximately 40 cable channels owned by NBCUniversal, CBS Corporation, 21st Century Fox and The Walt Disney Company (including among others USA Network, Disney Channel, FX and ESPN, with Showtime and Fox Soccer Plus available as add-ons for an extra fee) and access to YouTube Red original content. The lineup is smaller than the more than 100 channels offered by AT&T's DirecTV Now, and does not include channels owned by major groups like Viacom, Time Warner, Discovery Communications, A+E Networks or AMC Networks. Features will include the ability to create up of six user account profiles per a single subscription (with separate log-ins and access to three simultaneous streams per account) and a cloud DVR with unlimited storage that can retain recorded programming for nine months after their original airdate.
	Max Media files an FCC application announcing its intent to sell NBC-primary/CBS-subchannel affiliate WNKY/Bowling Green to Marquee Broadcasting for $5.6 million. Following expected approval of the sale, Fox affiliate WPFO/Waterville-Portland, Maine will temporarily become the sole television station in Max Media's portfolio, until its sale of the license to Cunningham Broadcasting (whose partner company, Sinclair Broadcast Group, already maintains a shared services agreement with WPFO) is completed.
6	PepsiCo pulls a controversial ad titled Live for Now that contained Kendall Jenner marching through a crowd of Black Lives Matter protestors to give a white police officer a can of Pepsi, stating "Pepsi was trying to project a global message of unity, peace and understanding. Clearly we missed the mark, and we apologize. We did not intend to make light of any serious issue. We are removing the content and halting any further rollout. We also apologize for putting Kendall Jenner in this position."
15	Beginning with this night's broadcast (with host Jimmy Fallon, musical guest Harry Styles, and surprise guests Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump, Melissa McCarthy as Sean Spicer, Rachel Dratch as Denise "Zazu" McDenna of The Boston Teens, and Nile Rogers sitting in with the band), the last four episodes of the season for NBC's Saturday Night Live are carried live for the first time across all four time zones in the Contiguous United States (though it also airs at its usual time on a second-run tape delay in the Pacific Time Zone, and delayed as usual after late local newscasts on affiliates in Alaska, Hawaii, Guam and the Mariana Islands), along with all of Canada on simulcasting network Global. The March 16 announcement of the nationwide live broadcast of the 42nd season's remaining episodes came one week after NBC announced that it will also air 30-minute live prime time editions of the show's Weekend Update segment in August.
18	AT&T signs a deal with Fox Networks Group to add live feeds of 14 Fox-affiliated stations owned by Tribune Media (serving markets such as Denver, San Diego, Kansas City, St. Louis, Cleveland and Seattle) to DirecTV Now, beginning April 24. The Tribune-owned Fox affiliates join the network's 17 owned-and-operated stations, bringing the number of Fox stations offering linear streams on the AT&T-owned virtual MVPD service to 31. The deal – which will make DirecTV Now the second virtual MVPD provider, after PlayStation Vue (which carries CBS affiliates owned by various groups as well as a limited selection of ABC, NBC, and Fox-affiliated stations), to offer affiliates not owned by their corresponding network – is part of a strategy by the Big Three networks to offer their local stations on new and existing virtual MVPD services through opt-in digital rights agreements with their various affiliate groups.
19	21st Century Fox announces its firing of Fox News personality Bill O'Reilly. A popular part of Fox News since its 1996 launch, O'Reilly's firing (and his reported $25 million severance) came after more than 85 sponsors pulled their advertisements from The O'Reilly Factor (the network's highest-rated program), on the heels of legal documents uncovered by The New York Times surrounding sexual harassment allegations against O'Reilly, in which he and Fox News — which had reached a deal to extend O'Reilly's contract earlier in the month — paid settlements totaling about $13 million to five women. (O'Reilly claims the accusers are "targeting" him because of his prominence.) The move creates a shakeup in FNC's lineup: on April 24, Tucker Carlson Tonight will take Factor's 8:00 p.m. Eastern time slot; late-afternoon show The Five will move to Carlson's 9:00 p.m. slot; and departing Five co-host Eric Bolling will debut a new show in Five's former slot on May 1.
20	In a 2–1 party-line vote, the FCC restores the 50% discount on calculating a station owner's national coverage by factoring the broadcast coverage of UHF stations (physical channels 14 to 51). The restoration of the 1985 rulemaking – which was abolished in a similar party-line vote led by former FCC chair Tom Wheeler in September 2016, on the basis that reception of UHF signals became superior to those operating on the VHF band with the advent of digital television – will allow ownership groups to surpass the still-in-place 39% nationwide household cap, potentially allowing them reach up to 78% of all U.S. markets. The move comes despite Democratic opposition from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and House Committee on Energy and Commerce ranking member Frank Pallone, who jointly authored a letter in advance of the vote, condemning the discount's reinstatement as re-opening a loophole to allow broadcasters – including companies with already large station portfolios such as Sinclair Broadcast Group, which Pelosi and Pallone cited in the letter regarding reports of Sinclair's interest in acquiring Tribune Media, and Nexstar Media Group – to acquire additional television stations with a "blunt, illogical and anti-consumer instrument."
21	In the first deal announced after the FCC's restoration of the UHF discount, a move seen as a likely catalyst toward station ownership consolidation, Sinclair Broadcast Group announces it will purchase the fourteen television stations owned by Bonten Media Group in eight markets for $240 million. At approximately 25%, with the discount, the deal – which is pending FCC approval – will only add 1% of coverage to Sinclair's national market reach (without the discount, Sinclair's national reach will exceed the current national cap at 39.6%). Fox affiliate WFXI/Greenville, North Carolina is exempted from the deal, as that station's spectrum had been sold in the FCC incentive auction for $42.1 million (Fox programming will remain available in the market via WFXI satellite station WYDO).
	In a ruling on a copyright infringement lawsuit first filed in 2015, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia orders the shutdown of Shava TV and Cres TV, two over-the-top services founded by Imran and Naeem Butt, which sold set-top boxes transmitting several Arabic and South Asian entertainment networks (such as Sony Entertainment Television Asia, Star Plus, Zee TV, ARY Digital, ATN Bangla, MBC and Al Jazeera) through peer-to-peer networks to U.S. residents, after determining that the companies violated copyright law by distributing the networks and using their logos without permission. The case's plaintiffs (led by Dish Network and several of the aforementioned networks, which are also members of the International Broadcaster Coalition Against Piracy) were awarded $25.65 million in damages.
24	ABC announces the launch of the ABC Clearinghouse initiative, a digital MVPD venture that brings 160 affiliate stations (among them coming from broadcasters such as Sinclair Broadcast Group, the E.W. Scripps Company, Hearst Television, and Tegna), including its eight O&Os (about 90% of the country) to an emerging platform as a chance to opt-in to a uniform carriage deal template negotiated by network executives in an effort to ensure that the network has a robust presence. The initiative will also utilize ABC programming via the ABC app and TV Everywhere, along with live streaming carriage pacts with DirecTV Now, PlayStation Vue, YouTube TV, CenturyLink, Hulu, Amazon (the latter two of which are planning services that will include this deal upon the announced launches of their virtual MVPD services) and other nascent ventures.
26	Facing increasing rights fees and a decreasing subscriber base, ESPN lays off approximately 100 employees, including such notable on-air faces as athletes-turned-analysts Trent Dilfer and Danny Kanell, and noted journalists like NFL beat reporter Ed Werder and Major League Baseball expert Jayson Stark. Further cost-cutting measures taken by ESPN include relocating ESPNU's studio operations from Charlotte to the company's Bristol, Connecticut headquarters, reducing its longtime MLB studio show Baseball Tonight to Sundays as a lead-in to the primetime game, and adding the MLB Network-produced Intentional Talk to ESPN2's daily lineup.
30	General Hospital, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Talk, Entertainment Tonight, Good Morning America, Jeopardy! and Steve Harvey are among the notable winners at the 44th Daytime Emmy Awards. The ceremony, hosted for the first time by Mario Lopez and Sheryl Underwood, was broadcast via livestream on Facebook Live and Periscope Producer.

May

Date	Event
1	After almost a full year of working with guest hosts in the wake of Michael Strahan's move to a full-time role at Good Morning America, Kelly Ripa introduces Ryan Seacrest as the new permanent co-host of the newly renamed Live with Kelly and Ryan, effective on this date. It is Seacrest's first turn as a host of a syndicated television program since his first effort in 2004. Under the arrangement, Seacrest will serve as an executive producer on the Disney/ABC-produced Live, and will relocate from Los Angeles to New York City (with his syndicated radio program, which will move into a converted radio studio inside ABC's New York City offices, following suit) to accommodate his work on the show.
	Fox News announces the resignation of its co-president, Bill Shine, in the wake of ongoing sexual harassment cases and accusations at the network and his alleged knowledge about and cover-ups of them. Longtime deputies Suzanne Scott and Jay Wallace succeed Shine as president of programming and president of news, respectively.
	In an emotional monologue criticizing House Republicans' attempts to replace the Affordable Care Act with the controversial American Health Care Act, Jimmy Kimmel reveals that his newborn son, William John Kimmel (to whom wife and show co-head writer, Molly McNearney, had given birth on April 21), had recently underwent surgery to repair a rare congenital heart defect, tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary atresia, that was detected by a nurse when William was three hours old. To tend to his son, Kimmel takes paternity leave from Jimmy Kimmel Live!, with Will Arnett, Anthony Anderson, Kristen Bell and David Spade, respectively, filling in for Kimmel for the remainder of the week. Kimmel returned to the show on May 8, sarcastically repenting for his comments in his monologue, in response to criticism from some conservative Congressmen and commentators who labeled him as an elitist for his plea to reverse their consideration of the AHCA, which previous CBO estimates stated could result in 24 million Americans losing healthcare coverage by 2014 through the elimination of ACA-mandated patient protections (an ACA repeal bill was passed by Republicans in a party-line House vote on May 4). He also interviewed Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana), a physician who suggested that a Senate review of the AHCA should employ a "Jimmy Kimmel test" to ensure that the legislation adequately covers pre-existing medical conditions in a fiscally conservative manner, with Kimmel calling for such a litmus test to ensure that the ability to afford insurance or existing health maladies not dictate whether families and individuals receive healthcare services.
2	Hours after their old deal expires, the Writers Guild of America (both West and East branches) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers announce a new three-year labor agreement (pending approval of the union's rank-and-file), averting a potential strike that could have adversely affected TV production. Under the proposal, which Guild membership approved by May 24, writers will receive higher pay for work on shorter-run seasons of television programs distributed on both linear and digital platforms, and residuals for programs distributed on video on demand platforms. Both sides also agreed to increase studio and network contributions and initiate other cost-effective changes to the WGA's health insurance plan.
3	On the heels of YouTube's April launch of its over-the-top television provider, Hulu beta launches its own virtual MVPD service, which offers access to live streams of more than 50 broadcast and cable-originated channels as well as Hulu's library of 3,500+ TV series and films for $39.99 per month. The service, first announced in 2015, offers live streams of programming from the five major broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and The CW) through owned-and-operated stations and affiliates in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and Philadelphia (Hulu plans to reach deals with other broadcasting groups to expand its portfolio of streamed stations), as well as cable channels owned by NBCUniversal, 21st Century Fox, CBS Corporation, The Walt Disney Company, Turner Broadcasting System, Scripps Networks Interactive and A+E Networks (encompassing networks such as CNN, Food Network, Disney Channel, A&E, MSNBC and ESPN). Showtime – which Hulu had been selling as a standalone streaming offering since the launch of the premium channel's OTT service in 2015 – is also available as an add-on for an extra fee. The lineup does not include channels owned by major groups like Viacom (with which Hulu has indicated it will not seek a carriage agreement), Home Box Office Inc., Starz Inc., Discovery Communications or AMC Networks. With initial support for Xbox One, Apple TV, Chromecast, iOS and Android devices, features will include the ability to create up of six user account profiles per a single subscription (with personalized program recommendations based on a user's favorite programs and varying simultaneous streams depending on the package), personalized sports recommendations and a cloud DVR with between 50 and 200 hours of storage depending on the level of service (the lower-tier DVR does not have ad skipping functionality). Fox offers a national feed with alternative programming from sister cable networks outside of network time in markets where a Fox affiliate has not come to terms to stream their station through Hulu's live TV service, returning Fox to offering some form of a national feed for the first time since 2006, when the network ended their Foxnet cable channel for markets without an available affiliate upon the advent of the digital age.
4	Gray Television announces its purchase of WCAX-TV/Bulington-Plattsburgh, acquiring the station long held by the Hasbrook/Martin family and its Mount Mansfield Television company for $29 million. Gray will assume operational control under a local marketing agreement beginning June 1, with the purchase expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2017.
	Morning Joe co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski announce in an interview with Vanity Fair they are engaged to be married. Scarborough and Brzezinski, who have been co-hosts of the MSNBC morning political talk show since 2007, reportedly began dating months after Brzezinski filed for divorce from her first husband, WABC-TV/New York City investigative reporter James Hoffer, in December 2015.
7	The 2017 MTV Movie & TV Awards air live on MTV and its Viacom sister networks, originating from Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium in a live broadcast. The event, for the first time, features honors in television categories, along with individual honors not being listed by gender, with TV honors going to Stranger Things for "Best Show" and the Netflix series' co-star, Millie Bobby Brown, winning "Best Actor in a Show".
8	Sinclair Broadcast Group announces that it will acquire Tribune Media for $3.9 billion, plus the assumption of $2.7 billion in debt. Factoring prior purchases still under regulatory review, the acquisition may boost Sinclair's portfolio to as many as 223 stations in 108 markets, with expansions into additional top-10 markets including New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and Dallas (CW affiliate WPIX/New York City will displace ABC affiliate WJLA-TV/Washington D.C. – which will form a duopoly with CW affiliate WDCW through the deal – as its largest station by market size). To comply with DOJ antitrust and FCC ownership regulations, Sinclair is required to divest stations in certain markets that will put the group over the current 39% national reach limit (its enlarged portfolio will technically cover 72% of the U.S., but theoretically reach around 45% with the UHF discount), and sell conflict properties in Seattle, Portland (Oregon), Oklahoma City, St. Louis, Harrisburg, Greensboro, Salt Lake City, Scranton, and Norfolk (the aforementioned markets, save for Portland and Norfolk, involve a Fox affiliate owned by Sinclair or Tribune, or a duopoly and/or a JSA/SSA involving one or both groups; six of the market conflicts involve two stations that both rank among and/or below the top four in local viewership, with five of them involving stations with competing news departments). Sinclair executives indicated that the group will fully divest any conflict stations to independent buyers if necessary, though given FCC chairman Ajit Pai's relaxed scrutiny on outsourcing agreements, it may also consider selling some to partner companies such as Cunningham Broadcasting and Deerfield Media. The sale dealt a competitive blow to 21st Century Fox – which briefly discussed submitting a joint bid for Tribune with The Blackstone Group – as the added scale will give Sinclair more leverage in reverse compensation negotiations for its Fox and MyNetworkTV affiliates, and will make the company the largest Fox affiliate operator by station count and market reach, with up to 52 affiliates (covering 28% of the U.S.). Media activism groups expressed concern over Sinclair's enlarged reach (particularly with regards to the conservative lean of its in-house syndicated news content), and suggested that FCC rule changes leading to the deal were part of a quid pro quo with President Donald Trump's administration due to Sinclair executive chair David Smith's prior meetings with Pai, and an arrangement set up by Trump's son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner that granted reporters from select Sinclair stations conditional access to interview then-President-elect Trump in the run-up to his January 20 inauguration.
	With the Tribune purchase announcement, Sinclair Broadcast Group CEO Christopher Ripley revealed that the company will reposition WGN America (one of five networks, along with Antenna TV, Chicagoland Television, and partial interests in Food Network and This TV, that it will acquire from Tribune, joining Sinclair's five existing broadcast and cable networks) for "profitable growth" once it assumes ownership of the cable network, de-emphasizing high-end scripted series in favor of acquired programs and "cost-effective" originals on the basis that WGN's ratings do not justify its current original programming budget (Peter Kern – whose predecessor, Peter Liguori, spearheaded the former superstation's original programming efforts in 2014 to build viewership and expand its national distribution – signaled WGN America's shift away from scripted content after he took over as Tribune's interim president and CEO in March, when the network cancelled Outsiders). The statement immediately put into question the future of Underground, a slavery-era period drama that premiered in March 2016 and ended its second season on May 10 (WGN officially announced the series' cancellation on May 30). Its production backer, Sony Pictures Television, will reportedly shop the series to other networks and streaming services (such as Hulu, which maintains a content deal with WGN America) for a third season pickup.
9	Over a year after the reality competition had its final airing on Fox, ABC announces it has ordered a revival of American Idol to debut during the 2017-18 season. The long-running reality competition series, based on the British series Pop Idol, had previously aired on Fox from 2002 to 2016, spending most of its run as that network's highest-rated program as well as the highest-rated series on U.S. broadcast television from the 2003-04 season until the 2010-11 season.
10	Morgan Murphy Media acquires CBS affiliate KOAM-TV/Pittsburg, Kansas and ABC primary affiliate KAVU/Victoria, Texas (including its CBS, NBC, and Univision subchannel/low-power TV outlets) from Saga Communications – which is exiting the television business to focus on its radio stations – in a $66.6 million deal. The transaction includes an option to acquire Surtsey Media-owned Fox affiliate KFJX/Joplin, Missouri and SagamoreHill Broadcasting-owned Fox affiliate KVCT, both of which are operated by Saga under local marketing agreements. Saga will use proceeds from the sale of the television assets to acquire Apex Media, a group that is in the process of selling their radio stations in Charleston and Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
12	The Federal Communications Commission fines Vearl Pennington and Michael Williamson, operators of Morehead, Kentucky low-power television station W10BM, $144,344 for continuing to operate the station despite the 2004 cancellation of its license for failure to file for license renewal in 1998. In its Notice of Apparent Liability, the FCC noted that it had warned Pennington and Williamson that the continued unlicensed operation was against the law and ordered them to shut down the station, but that they had not done so.
14	The Miss USA 2017 pageant was held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Nevada and was broadcast by Fox and Azteca. The show was hosted by Julianne Hough and Terrence J, reprising their 2016 hosting roles. Model and body activist Ashley Graham also returned as backstage host. Brett Eldredge, Pitbull, and the cast of Michael Jackson: One by Cirque du Soleil performed. Deshauna Barber of the District of Columbia (who shared an emotional story about her mother's death shortly after winning the title the previous year and had an Afro hair wearing in honor of her mother's memory during her farewell walk) crowned her successor Kára McCullough, also of the District of Columbia at the end of the event. McCullough will represent the United States at the Miss Universe 2017 competition. This is the first consecutive win for a state at Miss USA since Texas won the crown in 1988 and 1989. Entertainment reporter Alex Wehrley, a former Miss Wisconsin USA, and Barber hosted the preliminary competition held on May 11.
	With the conclusion of the two-hour sixth season finale episode "The Final Battle", the ABC fantasy drama Once Upon a Time marks its final Sunday night 8PM (ET) timeslot airing after six seasons (the show's only airing day and most frequent timeslot since it debuted in October 2011), moving to the Friday night 8PM (ET) timeslot starting October 6, and also marks the final appearances for six of the series' regulars in that status. Jennifer Morrison (who plays Emma Swan) was the first to announce that she would be departing, followed by Rebecca Mader (Wicked Witch of the West / Zelena) after two seasons, original cast members Ginnifer Goodwin (Snow White / Mary Margaret Blanchard), Josh Dallas (Prince Charming / David Nolan) and Jared Gilmore (Henry Mills), and Emilie de Ravin (Belle / Belle Gold) who joined in the second season. All six actors would make at least one appearance in season 7, including all for the series finale. As part of a soft reboot that would lead to a new setting and storyline, the final moments of the episode shifted to the future, where an adult Henry Mills (played by new regular Andrew J. West) is asked by his daughter Lucy (new regular Alison Fernandez) to save their family after she escaped a nearly destroyed Enchanted Forest.
21	The 2017 Billboard Music Awards air on ABC with Ludacris and Vanessa Hudgens as hosts. Drake was the night's big winner with 13 awards, surpassing Adele's record (with 12 wins in 2012) for most wins in a single year. The event also saw Miley Cyrus' comeback performance ("Malibu"), Celine Dion's tribute to the 20th anniversary of the film Titanic performing her signature song "My Heart Will Go On", and Cher being honored as the Icon Award winner (the former two of which, alongside South Korean group BTS winning the Top Social Artist award – the group's first live public appearance on an American music awards show, and the first K-pop artist to win that award – were among the show's most tweeted moments on social media).
22	ABC's The Bachelorette begins its 13th season with Rachel Lindsay, an attorney, chosen to select a fiancée among 25 male suitors. Lindsay, who was second runner-up on The Bachelor's 21st season (on which she was still appearing when the announcement was made on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on February 12, and was one of the few black contestants to reach the antepenultimate "Hometown Dates" round), becomes the first African-American to serve as a lead in the Bachelor/Bachelorette franchise, which has been criticized in recent years over the lack of diversity with its contestants overall, and whose producers (Next Entertainment, NZK Productions and Warner Horizon Television) faced a discrimination lawsuit in 2012 by two Tennessee men whose applications were rejected by the program's producers, which was later dismissed on grounds that casting decisions were protected by the First Amendment.
23	NFL running back Rashad Jennings (a free agent at the time, after having been released by the New York Giants in February) is crowned the winner of the 24th season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars. Jennings and his pro partner, Emma Slater, beat former Major League Baseball catcher David Ross and his partner, Lindsay Arnold, to win the show's Mirror Ball trophy.
25	Millerton, Pennsylvania native Ryan Belz wins $31,500 by playing Plinko on CBS game show The Price Is Right, setting a new record for the highest winning amount in one of the show's most popular pricing games. Belz, a Penn State University graduate and an aspiring TV meteorologist, said in an interview with TMZ that he credited his job at Target for helping him to win on the show by familiarizing him with prices for a wide variety of items.
29	Almost five months after beginning local weather coverage, WPBI-LD/Lafayette, Indiana launches its news department with the debut of its weekday-only nightly newscast under the "Star City News" brand. The newscasts, which presently broadcasts 7+1⁄2 hours of local newscasts each week, air at 6:00 and 11:00 p.m. on NBC-affiliated subchannel, and at 10:00 p.m. on Fox-affiliated primary channel. Additionally, radio tie-ins of the newscasts are also planned for Waypoint Media-owned sister stations WSHY, WBPE, WYCM, and WAZY-FM.
31	CBS affiliate KFMB-TV affiliates its DT2 subchannel with The CW, assuming the network's San Diego affiliation from XETV-TDT, licensed across the Mexican border in Tijuana, Baja California (MeTV had earlier vacated KFMB-DT2 on May 1, moving to KGTV-DT2 and its sister station KZSD-LP); KFMB-DT2 also launches weekday morning, and weeknight-only 7:00 and 10:00 p.m. newscasts produced by its parent station, and displaces XETV from that station's existing channel slots on local cable and satellite providers. XETV concurrently becomes a full-time primary affiliate of Canal 5 (which had been carried on its DT2 subchannel since 2012), a move that ends its 63-year run as an English-language television station: it had served as an affiliate of ABC (1956-1973) and Fox (1986–2008), and as an independent during its tenure. XETV owner Televisa dissolved the American managerial licensee that ran its San Diego-based operations, Bay City Television, and had earlier (on March 31) closed the station's news department. The switch makes San Diego the largest U.S. market with a subchannel-only CW affiliate (superseding WKRC-DT2/Cincinnati) and the largest overall in which any of the five major networks maintains a subchannel-only affiliation.
	CBS News confirms that Scott Pelley will exit as anchor of the CBS Evening News, nearly six years after he assumed the role from Katie Couric on June 6, 2011. Pelley – who will depart from the program following the June 16 edition – will remain full-time in his correspondent role at CBS' 60 Minutes. Anthony Mason is designated as interim Evening News anchor.
	CNN removes Kathy Griffin from its New Year's Eve Live broadcast following the release of images from a controversial photoshoot by photographer Tyler Shields, in which the comedienne is seen holding a decapitated, bloody head bearing a resemblance to President Donald Trump, an act that the network stated was "disgusting and offensive." Griffin had co-hosted the cable channel's New Year's Eve coverage from Times Square with Anderson Cooper since 2007. On October 11, it was announced that Bravo's Watch What Happens Live host Andy Cohen (who had participated in NBC's New Year's Eve coverage the previous year, hosting a special episode of Hollywood Game Night, and has collaborated with Cooper on a storytelling tour) will replace Griffin as his co-host for the 2018 celebration.

June

Date	Event
1	KCJO-LD/St. Joseph, Missouri – one of the three flagship stations owned by the locally based News-Press & Gazette Company – switches its network affiliation to CBS, becoming the network's first in-market affiliate in the area since 1967, when KQTV (then KFEQ-TV, which signed on as a CBS station in September 1953) switched to a full-time affiliation with ABC. The move, which also resulted in NPG moving KCJO's prior Telemundo affiliation to a newly activated digital subchannel of NBC affiliate KNPG-LD, displaced KCTV/Kansas City as the default CBS affiliate for the market. As NPG already controls the market's Fox, NBC and CW affiliations respectively through KBJO sisters KNPG and KNPN-LD, the switch left MyNetworkTV as the only conventional English language broadcast network available in the St. Joseph area through a Kansas City-based station (KCTV's MyNetworkTV-affiliated sister station, KSMO-TV, is receivable over-the-air and is also carried on Suddenlink, Dish Network and DirecTV in the St. Joseph market).
	Just moments after President Donald Trump announced that he will withdraw the United States from the 2015 Paris Climate Accord, the fallout saw one of the supporters of this initiative, The Walt Disney Company Chairman Bob Iger, resigning from his advisory councils. The Weather Channel and National Geographic also respond to Trump's decision by turning their webpages into protest sites highlighting the dangers of climate change and disputing Trump's claims about it not being real.
2	In a live interview during HBO's Real Time, host Bill Maher and guest Senator Ben Sasse (R-Nebraska) discuss the boundaries between adolescence and maturity, at which point Sasse remarks about having Maher "work in the fields" of Nebraska. Maher replies by describing himself as a "house nigger." Maher utters the racial slur in jest (the conversation had turned by that point to adults in California who dress up for Halloween), but his remark is quickly condemned by HBO, who calls it "completely inexcusable and tasteless" and edited it out of repeats of the episode aired on its linear and streaming services. With several calls for his firing from HBO, Maher expressed regret at his choice of words in the interview.
6	Production on the fourth season of ABC's reality dating series Bachelor in Paradise is suspended, after producers lodged allegations of sexual misconduct against DeMario Jackson (who originally appeared in season 13 of The Bachelorette), who, on the first day of filming, was alleged to have engaged in a sexual encounter with Corinne Olympios, who alleges that she was too inebriated to give consent (most news outlets initially withheld The Bachelor season 21 contestant's identity as the accuser in reports, prior to Olympios obtaining attorney Marty Singer as her legal counsel). All of the initial contestants were sent home from the Sayulita, Mexico resort set to the U.S. on June 11. The incident placed doubt on whether the Bachelor spinoff will continue for its planned summer 2017 season, if at all; though, in separate statements, show host/executive producer Chris Harrison and ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey said that Warner will evaluate whether production will resume pending the investigation's outcome. On June 20, Warner Horizon Television, the show's production company, disclosed that an investigation launched upon the discovery that the incident was filmed by one of the show's camera crews had yielded no evidence of misconduct, and that filming will resume (it is unknown whether the season will debut on August 8 as scheduled); Singer said that an independent investigation on the accusations will be conducted.
14	In the wake of mass shootings in Virginia and San Francisco, NBC pulls an episode of The Carmichael Show, titled "Shoot-Up-Able", from its schedule due to a similar story line involving the mass shootings (which saw Jerrod Carmichael's eponymous fictional character surviving a mass shooting physically unharmed but psychologically scarred), and replaces it with another episode, "Lesbian Wedding." That same day, Carmichael appeared on the Netflix talk show Chelsea, which was filmed after the shootings but before NBC had made the final decision to pull the episode. Carmichael told host Chelsea Handler that he hoped NBC would not pull "Shoot-Up-Able", and that doing so would be a "disservice" to viewers. The episode (which was rescheduled to air 2 weeks later, on June 28) was not centered around political discussions such as gun control, but Carmichael and his family afterward.
15	The District of Columbia Court of Appeals denies an emergency stay motion that was filed by The Institute for Public Representation on behalf of a coalition of public interest groups (including among others, Free Press, the United Church of Christ, the Prometheus Radio Project, the National Hispanic Media Coalition and Common Cause) on May 15, to block the FCC's restoration of the UHF discount, which counts the total market reach of UHF stations toward the nationwide ownership cap. Had a permanent stay motion been granted, it would have placed a roadblock for Sinclair Broadcast Group's acquisition of Tribune Media. Prior to the initial administrative stay on June 1, the FCC and the National Association of Broadcasters asked the D.C. Court of Appeals to not issue the proposed motion on grounds that the plaintiffs did not provide sufficient basis for the stay. The groups that filed the motion argued that there was no longer any technical logic for the UHF discount to be restored (as UHF digital stations have typically maintained better signal quality compared to UHF transmissions in analog) and would trigger a wave of mergers and acquisitions in the broadcast television industry that would result in fewer diverse station owners. A lawsuit filed by the public interest groups to determine whether the UHF discount can remain in place remains subject to a pending court proceeding.
	Citing her busy schedule, which includes three shows (series regular on Criminal Minds, host of The CW's Whose Line Is It Anyway?, and as a voice talent on FXX's Archer) and a directorial debut for the film Axis, as her reason, Aisha Tyler announces that she will leave The Talk after six seasons following the completion of its current seventh season run (which will wrap up on August 4). Tyler, who joined the CBS daytime talk show during its second season alongside Sheryl Underwood, said she will return as a guest host and to promote her various projects.
17	Cops begins its 30th season, continuing its reign as America's longest-running reality show.
18	The NBC newsmagazine Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly airs a segment profiling broadcaster/blogger Alex Jones (founder of the conservative news website InfoWars). The segment drew volumes of controversy prior to the broadcast over fears that host Megyn Kelly's interview with Jones would give a less-than-critical platform for Jones' alt-right views and the various conspiracy claims he promotes, most notably the charge that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown, Connecticut was a hoax with actors portraying victims. Out of respect for the victim's families, NBC's Connecticut O&O, WVIT/New Britain, pre-empted the broadcast (episodes of George to the Rescue, a home improvement series produced by New York City sister station WNBC, aired in its place). The network's decision to air the interview led JPMorgan Chase & Co. to pull its ads from the program through that night's edition, while the Sandy Hook Promise Foundation dropped Kelly as host of an upcoming charity gala. Jones claimed that NBC would edit the interview to show him in a less-than-flattering light.
19	The Comcast-owned network Syfy adopts a new logo and imaging, as well as stylized capitalization of the channel's name and slogan, "It's a Fan Thing", in honor of its 25th anniversary. The new branding (which unveiled on May 11, four days prior to NBCUniversal's upfront presentation) will aim to re-position the channel back towards targeting fans of the fantasy and science fiction genres. NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group President of Entertainment Networks and network head Chris McCumber explained that the new logo was meant be a "badge" that could be used across its array of programming. Syfy also planned to place a larger focus on its genre news division Syfy Wire, disclosing the possibility of extending the website to television as well.
20	In separate deals, Ion Media Networks announces the purchase of three Ion Television-affiliated television stations in Missouri, South Carolina, and Idaho, which – if the transactions receive approval by the FCC and Department of Justice – would expand Ion's portfolio to 63 owned-and-operated television stations in 58 markets (including in 24 of the 25 largest U.S. markets; the purchase prices were not initially disclosed). Ion will acquire WRBU/East St. Louis, Illinois-St. Louis and WZRB/Columbia from a trust overseen by former LIN Media CEO Gary Chapman to which Ion Media Networks was the beneficiary; the trust had cancelled a stalled 2015 purchase by Cedar Creek Broadcasting (an arm of Northwest Broadcasting, controlled by its CEO, Brian Brady) on May 9. Separately, Ion will also buy KTRV-TV/Boise – which became an Ion affiliate in September 2016 – from Block Communications.
22	CBS Television Stations reaches a 10-year exclusive partnership with ReachMe.TV that will put CBS programming on the latter's upcoming in-airport mobile entertainment network. The deal (with its content appearing on thousands of screens in the top 50 airports in the U.S. and Canada, with a reach of more than 70 million viewers a month) will provide entertainment, news and sports programming, including local news, weather and sports reports provided by CBS TV Stations; programming from other divisions of CBS Corporation including digital news service CBSN; and film and TV highlight packages from CBS Television Distribution-produced syndicated entertainment news program Entertainment Tonight. In addition, CBS TV Stations will also exclusively manage advertising sales for the said venture.
25	John Oliver announces in his show Last Week Tonight that he has been sued by coal mining company CEO Robert E. Murray of Murray Energy Corporation. Oliver had received a cease and desist letter asking him to stop making negative comments about the company (specifically the controversial 2007 Crandall Canyon Mine disaster) from Murray's attorney the week before, but continued to do so. Oliver was later told by his attorneys not to discuss the lawsuit publicly while the case is pending, advice he is following.
	For the first time ever, the family of comedian and host Steve Harvey competes in an episode of Celebrity Family Feud (the ABC game show is a spin-off of the syndicated Family Feud, which also hosted by Harvey).
26	Three CNN journalists, Thomas Frank, Eric Lichtblau, and Lex Haris, resign after the publication of a Russia-related article involving President Donald Trump that was later retracted.
	LocusPoint Networks announces it will sell independent station WMGM-TV/Wildwood, New Jersey to Univision Communications – owner of Philadelphia-based Univision owned-and-operated station WUVP-DT and UniMás O&O WFPA-CD for $6 million. (LocustPoint had purchased WMGM in October 2013, with the intent to sell its spectrum in the FCC incentive auction, but was unable to find a wireless provider to which it could sell the spectrum.) Univision assumed operational control of the station on November 14, at which time WMGM-TV became an affiliate of the Justice Network (with a simulcast of WUVP on its DT3 subchannel) and initiated a channel-sharing agreement with TBN O&O WGTW-TV/Millville.
29	President Donald Trump begins posting tweets that take swipes at the news media for perceived biases against him. The first status is directed at Morning Joe personality Mika Brzezinski, in which the President called her "low I.Q. Crazy Mika" and falsely asserted that she was "bleeding badly from a face-lift". Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, her fiancé and Morning Joe co-host, then accused The White House of threatening to blackmail them with an expose in a tabloid magazine unless the pair apologized publicly to the President. Three days later, Trump published an old video from WrestleMania in which the CNN logo is superimposed over the head of Vince McMahon whom Trump is punching with the tagline "Fraud News Network." Both tweets cause concern among journalism advocates, who fear the President is inciting violence against the press. The person who made the image that Trump used immediately apologized and deleted his accounts saying that he did not want to incite or inspire violence against the media.
30	Just a week ahead of production that was about to start on Hawaii Five-0's eighth season, it was announced that series regulars Daniel Dae Kim (who plays Detective Lieutenant Chin Ho Kelly) and Grace Park (who plays Chin Ho's cousin, Officer Kono Kalakaua) will be departing due to a salary dispute with CBS. Kim and Park had been seeking pay equality with co-stars Alex O'Loughlin and Scott Caan, but did not reach satisfactory deals with CBS Television Studios. CBS's final offer to Kim and Park was 10–15% lower than what O'Loughlin and Caan make in salary. An update of their characters (Chin Ho taking a job with the San Francisco Police Department; Kono investigating a pornography ring in Reno in the seventh-season finale) will be given in the first episode of the new season.
	Olivia de Havilland sues the producers of the FX series Feud, and the channel itself, over what she says is an inaccurate portrayal of her in the series that focuses on the relationship of Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, causing damage to her reputation. The charges include common law right of publicity, invasion of privacy and unjust enrichment. She is asking the court for not only damages but also any profits gained from the use of her likeness and an injunction to keep FX from continuing to use her name and likeness.
	After a 40-year career as reporter and anchor, including a 25-year tenure as anchorwoman for KUSA-TV/Denver, Adele Arakawa retires from the Tegna-owned NBC affiliate.

July

Date	Event
1	NBC launches a new Telemundo owned-and-operated station in the San Diego market (on KNSD's digital 39.20 subchannel) that will replace Entravision's XHAS-TDT (licensed in Tijuana). XHAS becomes an affiliate of the American Azteca network, owned by Mexican conglomerate Azteca S.A. de C.V. (the parent of Tijuana's Azteca Trece affiliate XHJK-TDT and Azteca 7 transmitter XHTIT-TDT), displacing the market's existing low-power Azteca affiliate KZSD-LP. With this switch as well as The CW's migration from XETV-TDT to KFMB-DT2, the move results in Tijuana-based MyNetworkTV affiliate XHDTV-TDT becoming the last remaining Mexican-licensed station to serve the San Diego market to be affiliated with one of the major English or Spanish language networks.
	KidsClick, a multiplatform syndicated children's programming block, launches. The three-hour lineup of long-form and short-form animated content airs weekday and weekend mornings, primarily on CW- and MyNetworkTV-affiliated and independent stations operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group in several markets, and nationally on This TV. It also encompasses a website and mobile apps featuring a library of animated children's series from the block's content providers. KidsClick is the first conventional children's program block to air on American English-language commercial television since the discontinuance of NBC Kids in September 2016, which relegated traditional animated content on broadcast television to non-commercial broadcasters (such as PBS and the Trinity Broadcasting Network), and the first not to be E/I compliant since Vortexx was discontinued by The CW in September 2014.
	Nexstar-owned Hagerstown, Maryland independent station WHAG-TV changes its call letters to WDVM-TV (for "West Virginia", "District of Columbia", "Virginia" and "Maryland"), returning to the Washington, D.C. market (the western portion of which the new WDVM-TV serves) a callsign that had previously been used from 1979 to 1986 by what is now WUSA. Since it disaffiliated from NBC the year before (which ended in-market competition with NBC's Washington O&O WRC-TV and Baltimore affiliate WBAL-TV), the station has expanded its coverage throughout the Washington market through carriage agreements with local cable, satellite and telco services, along with expanding its local news coverage from focusing solely on the region of western Maryland and south central Pennsylvania to covering the larger Washington region.
	Waypoint Media-owned WPBY-CD in Lafayette, Indiana signs on the air, giving the Lafayette market its first full-time ABC affiliate, its third commercial station overall (the market had exclusively been served by CBS affiliate WLFI-TV since it signed on in June 1953, but did not get another major network affiliate until Waypoint signed on Fox-primary/NBC-subchannel affiliate WPBI-LD in October 2016), and in-market affiliates of all four major commercial networks. WPBY-CD's launch also marks Waypoint's third station launch in the U.S. in less than a year (alongside the respective February and March launches of CBS/MyNetworkTV duo KSWL-LD and KWWE-LD in Lake Charles, Louisiana). Prior to the sign-on, WRTV/Indianapolis served as the default ABC affiliate for the Lafayette area. WPBY's launch leaves The CW and MyNetworkTV as the only two networks available in the Lafayette area through their stations in Indianapolis (their respective affiliates for that market, WISH-TV and WNDY-TV, are viewable over-the-air and carried on Comcast, Dish Network, and DirecTV in Lafayette).
	ESPN broadcasts the boxing match between Manny Pacquiao of the Philippines and Jeff Horn of Australia, billed as the "Battle of Brisbane", which took place at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The fight, which saw Horn defeating Pacquiao after 12 rounds via a controversial unanimous decision to win the WBO welterweight championship title, marked the return of Top Rank boxing to ESPN; the promotion had previously aired fights on ESPN from 1980 to 1996, as well as the first time that a Pacquiao bout aired on a non-premium, basic cable channel in the United States, and was his first non-PPV bout since his co-main event fight with Héctor Velázquez in an Érik Morales-Zahir Raheem headliner in September 2005.
3	Maria Menounos announced that she has stepped down as co-host of E! News after three years to battle an ongoing brain tumor, as well as helping her mother's battle with stage 4 brain cancer.
	As part of an ongoing investigation into sexual harassment at 21st Century Fox, Jamie Horowitz is ousted from his position as chief of programming for the Fox Sports division. The decision comes after several women were interviewed regarding their interactions with him. Before joining Fox Sports, Horowitz worked for Today and ESPN.
6	Liberty Interactive, parent company of QVC, announces that it will acquire the 62% stock interest in Home Shopping Network parent HSN, Inc. that it did not already own for $40.36 per share (a value of $2.1 billion). After the deal is finalized, which is expected to occur in the fourth quarter of 2017 pending regulatory approval, Liberty will spin off its cable television operations into an independent company to be named QVC Group, which will be headed by QVC CEO Mike George, but will repurchase common stock in the new company. The combination of the two pioneer home shopping channels – which will continue to operate independently – is designed to improve their respective e-commerce operations, reduce costs and provide marketing opportunities, as well as to compete with online shopping services such as Amazon. In addition to QVC, HSN and their respective sister channels (HSN2, QVC2 and BeautyiQ), the company's holdings will include shopping website Zulily and HSN's Cornerstone lifestyle brands unit.
	Fox Business Network announced that it has suspended anchor Charles Payne over sexual harassment allegations made against him after an investigative story appeared in the Los Angeles Times about a three-year "romantic relationship" Payne had with a married female political analyst who frequently appeared on Fox Business Network and Fox News from 2013 to 2016, which in turn led to an investigation into the matter after the woman contacted a lawyer upon discovering that she was banned from Fox after she ended the affair as she believed Payne would help her chances of landing a position at the network, but instead saw her appearances on both FBN and FNC reduced as retaliation when she went to then-Fox News executive Bill Shine before his firing in May. Payne admitted to the extramarital affair in a statement to the National Enquirer published on July 5 that included an apology to his wife, children and friends, this after having denied the claims prior to the suspension.
7	Savannah Guthrie celebrates her fifth anniversary as an anchor of Today, which featured a look back at some of her most memorable moments on the show (including her breaking news coverage reports, funniest moments and celebrity interviews). Guthrie, who joined the NBC morning news/talk show as co-host of the third hour (a precursor to the current Today's Take segment) and chief legal correspondent in June 2011 following Meredith Vieira's departure, became the show's anchor in July 2012 when Ann Curry stepped down to become a correspondent and anchor-at-large at NBC News (which she remained until early 2015).
11	Just one year after he fled to Kentucky to avoid arrest on a child rape that allegedly occurred in Nashville back in 2004 (The alleged victim is a female family member), followed by a lengthy and delayed trial, which in turn led to TLC to cancel the reality series The Willis Family (along with social media accounts being deleted or terminated) in 2016, patriarch and musician Toby Willis pleads guilty to four counts of child rape. Cheatham County, Tennessee Circuit Court Clerk Julie Hibbs confirmed that Willis received two 25-year sentences on two counts and two 40-year sentences on the other two. Those sentences will be concurrent, and served at 100 percent, giving Willis a total of 40 years in prison.
13	CBS News and BBC News announces an editorial and newsgathering partnership under which the networks will share content around the world via their respective television, radio, and social media platforms (this ends the partnership the BBC maintained since the mid-90s with ABC News). The content-sharing arrangement will begin immediately, with additional newsgathering elements being added in the coming months.
14	AT&T Sports Networks rebrands four of its five Root Sports-branded regional sports networks under the AT&T SportsNet moniker; the channels affected primarily serve Houston, Pittsburgh, Utah, and the Rocky Mountain region. The lone exception is Root Sports Northwest, as Baseball Club of Seattle LP, the operating company of the Seattle Mariners, holds a controlling interest in the channel (AT&T only owns 40% of that network). AT&T acquired the channels in its 2015 purchase of DirecTV.
	NBC flagship O&O WNBC/New York City anchor Chuck Scarborough steps down as the anchor of the station's 11:00 p.m. newscast. Scarborough, who has been the station's main anchor since he joined in 1974 (most notably, his team-up with former anchor Sue Simmons from 1980 to 2012) and will continue to anchor the 6:00 p.m. newscast afterwards, will be succeeded by 4:00 p.m. anchor Stefan Holt (son of NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt) on the station's late night newscast beginning July 17.
15	Olympic Channel launches over the former channel space of Universal HD, which shut down the previous day. The channel, a linear Team USA focused version of the international Olympic Channel was launched by NBCUniversal in conjunction with the International Olympic Committee.
17	MyNetworkTV O&O WDCA/Washington D.C. rebrands as "Fox 5 Plus". The station's rebranding comes after Fox Television Stations' April 17 announcement that it will launch a new 8:00 p.m. primetime newscast produced by Fox owned-and-operated sister station WTTG, and will continue to air its current lineup of MyNetworkTV (on a one-hour delay from 9:00–11:00 p.m.) and syndicated programming to provide better name recognition with the latter sister station (the moniker change follows the May 2016 rebranding of San Francisco sister station KICU-TV, which rebranded as "KTVU Plus", in a similar tie to its Fox O&O duopoly partner KTVU).
19	Weigel Broadcasting reaches an agreement to acquire Heroes & Icons affiliate KCSG/Cedar City, Utah – which serves the Salt Lake City market – from West American Finance Corporation for $1.1 million (the agreement was not disclosed until the release of an FCC license transfer consent filing on August 1). The acquisition will make KCSG the first television station that Weigel has owned outside of its traditional Midwestern territory of Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana (the Chicago-based company already owns stations in the Chicago, Milwaukee, Rockford and South Bend, Indiana markets).
21	Spanish-language broadcaster Entravision Communications announces it was acquiring Palm Springs duopoly, KMIR-TV (NBC) and KPSE-LD (MyNetworkTV) from OTA Broadcasting for $21 million, pending FCC approval. The sale to Entravision, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2017, will make both stations a sister stations to KEVC-CD (UniMás) and KVER-CA (Univision).
22	Actor and YouTube personality Jake Paul and The Walt Disney Company announce his departure from the Disney Channel sitcom Bizaardvark as supporting character Dirk in the middle of its second season, days after Paul appears in an interview on KTLA/Los Angeles as unrepentant about disorderly conduct, pranks and disruptive parties at his West Hollywood home (which he shares the address to in order to draw crowds), to massive complaint from neighbors.
23	Former Olympic athlete Michael Phelps competes with a Great White shark in a Discovery Channel special Phelps vs. Shark: Great Gold vs. Great White, as part of its annual, week-long programming block Shark Week. The special, which saw the shark defeating Phelps by two seconds in a race between a man and a shark, sparked controversy among its viewers after it was revealed that the shark was actually computer generated, which Discovery and Phelps defended it.
24	Fusion relaunches its online presence under the brand "Splinter". The Univision Communications-owned website was merged into the parent company's recently acquired Gizmodo Media Group unit, with Fusion's website switching to Gizmodo's Kinja domain and commenting system in May prior to the rebranding.
31	Discovery Communications announces it will acquire Scripps Networks Interactive in a cash-and-stock transaction valued at $11.9 billion (or $90 per share), plus the assumption of $2.7 billion in net debt held by Scripps. Expected to be finalized by the first quarter of 2018, the deal will result in the combined company – which will encompass more than 20 domestic and international television networks, most of which are educational or lifestyle-oriented, including Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, OWN, HGTV, Travel Channel and Food Network – controlling a 20% audience share among ad-supported U.S. cable channels, and operating five of the 20 highest-rated cable networks among female viewers. Scripps and Discovery had previously held merger discussions as recently as 2014, each of which failed to produce a deal due to disagreements over sale price and other issues. Discovery's main competitor for Scripps Networks was Viacom, which rescinded its all-cash offer (Scripps sought a bid comprising a cash offering of at least 50%) on July 27, due to concerns that a jump in Scripps' stock price will increase Viacom's valuation to a level that, had such a bid by the media conglomerate been accepted, will risk downgrading its credit rating.
	In the latest in a series of cyber attacks against American entertainment companies, hackers steal data totaling 1.5 terabytes from HBO's server networks. While representatives did not specify whether the leaked content came from any of the Time Warner-owned premium service's original series in confirming the hacking, reports state that the stolen content consists of unaired episodes of the sitcom Ballers and horror dramedy Room 104, as well as a script from the Game of Thrones episode "The Spoils of War" (scheduled to air on HBO on August 6). In an email sent to employees, Richard Plepler, chairman/CEO of Home Box Office Inc., referred to the hack as "disruptive, unsettling, and disturbing for all of us", and stated that the incident was being investigated by senior leadership, technological staff and outside internet security experts.
	Sony Pictures Television Networks announces that it will acquire a 95% controlling interest in Flower Mound, Texas-based anime distributor Funimation for $143 million. The deal will allow Sony to provide synergies between Funimation (which includes streaming service FunimationNow) and its existing Animax and Kids Station network divisions, along with giving it rights to the company's program catalog (which includes more than 450 dubbed and subtitled anime titles such as Dragon Ball Z, Cowboy Bebop and One Piece). Funimation founder Gen Fukunaga will retain a 5% minority stake in the company, and remain as its CEO.

August

Date	Event
1	One day after sister company Scripps Networks Interactive was acquired by Discovery Communications, the E.W. Scripps Company announces that it will acquire Katz Broadcasting (operator of digital multicast networks Bounce TV, Grit, Escape and Laff) for $302 million, a deal that will give Scripps full control of the Katz properties (it had already owned a 5% interest in the group, at a valuation of $10 million). Company founder Jonathan Katz will remain with Katz Broadcasting – which will continue to be headquartered in the Atlanta suburb of Marietta, Georgia – to oversee operation of the networks as CEO of the new Scripps subsidiary after the purchase is finalized, pending regulatory approval.
	Fox News contributor and former homicide detective Rod Wheeler files a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging that the 21st Century Fox-owned cable network, correspondent Malia Zimmerman and Dallas-based investor/Fox News commentator Ed Butowsky had worked in concert with the administration of President Donald Trump to concoct a since-discredited report on the murder of Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee aide who was killed in a July 2016 shooting, which aired on Fox News on May 16. Wheeler alleges that he was misquoted in the story, claiming that the defendants intended to establish that Rich leaked DNC emails to WikiLeaks as part of a conspiracy to blame the Russian government to allay accusations that Trump had colluded with Russian lawyers and Kremlin associates to influence the outcome of the 2016 Presidential election, a move that Wheeler claims discredited his account when he made a correction to the disclosure. Butowsky and White House officials deny the accusations, with Butowsky accusing Wheeler's attorney, Douglas Wigdor (who has represented several Fox News employees in other lawsuits filed against the network), of fabricating the claims.
2	NBC's Meet the Press and the American Film Institute announce a partnership to launch a film festival to be held in November in Washington D.C. The event, organized by Meet the Press host Chuck Todd, will offer submissions for what is expected to be a slate of seven short-length documentary films that are being accepted. The "Meet the Press film festival" will feature contemporary documentaries of up to 40 minutes in length that focus on untold stories of American politics. Films selected for the festival will be eligible for up to $5,000 in finishing support from NBC News for post-production costs, including licensing of third‐party material, and are likely to get some sort of nod during the Sunday morning Meet the Press broadcast or during the week on MSNBC's MTP Daily.
5	Fox News suspends Eric Bolling, a commentator and host of the Fox News Specialists and Cashin' In, pending the results of an investigation into sexual harassment allegations first disclosed by The Huffington Post on August 4, in which Bolling reportedly had sent lewd, unsolicited text messages – including one enclosed with a photo of his genitalia – to at least three female colleagues employed with parent subsidiary Fox News Networks (one with Fox News and two employed with Fox Business Network). In response, Fox Business pre-empted the August 5 edition of Cashin' In, replacing it with a live half-hour newscast. Bolling was dismissed by Fox News on September 8, with the channel concurrently cancelling the Fox News Specialists.
7	Fox Television Stations-owned KUTP/Phoenix rebrands as "Fox 10 Xtra", aligning its brand with that of sister Fox O&O KSAZ-TV. Coinciding with the rebranding, KUTP – which will continue to carry programming from MyNetworkTV in prime time each weeknight – also begins simulcasting a two-hour-long late morning block of KSAZ's Fox 10 News Now streaming service each Monday through Friday (the moniker change marks the third MyNetworkTV O&O that Fox has rebranded to de-emphasize the programming service's brand, after its May 2016 rebranding of KICU-TV/San Francisco as "KTVU Plus" and its rebranding of WDCA/Washington, D.C. as "Fox 5 Plus" in July of this year).
	Nexstar Media Group announces that it will acquire the non-license assets of CW affiliate WLWC/Providence, Rhode Island from OTA Broadcasting for $4.1 million. The transaction – which is not subject to FCC approval and is expected to close during the fourth quarter of 2017 – involves only the operational and programming assets of WLWC, which had its broadcast spectrum sold by OTA earlier in the year in the FCC incentive auction, and will likely enter into a channel sharing agreement with either CBS affiliate WPRI-TV or Fox primary/MyNetworkTV subchannel-only affiliate WNAC-TV (both of which Nexstar had assumed operational responsibilities in January, following the closure of its purchase of Media General).
8	ESPN transforms its sister network ESPNU to "ESPN8: The Ocho" (a parody of the former name of ESPN2: The Deuce) on this date. The one-day only, rebranded faux sports network, which draws inspiration from the 2004 hit sports comedy film DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story and the former alternative sports/extreme sports format of ESPN2, features a lineup of unconventional sporting events including Disc Golf, Ultimate Trampoline Dodgeball, Firefighters World Challenge, Roller derby, and Arm wrestling, playing off the mantra highlighted in the film, "Bringing You the Finest in Seldom Seen Sports".
	The Walt Disney Company purchases an additional 42% stake (worth $1.58 billion) in digital technology provider BAMTech from MLB Advanced Media, giving it majority ownership (75%) in the venture. With the deal, Disney also announced that BAMTech will help the company launch over-the-top services for Disney's content library and ESPN, giving subscribers access to content ranging from live sports to the live-action Lion King film. The streaming services will include an ESPN-branded sports streaming service (offering live games from Major League Baseball, NHL, Major League Soccer and college sports events, and Grand Slam tennis coverage) that will launch in early 2018, and an OTT streaming service offering family-oriented films and television programs from Disney's content library as well as newer film releases that will debut in 2019 (the latter service will replace an existing content deal with Netflix that, in turn, displaced a film rights agreement with pay-cable service Starz in 2016).
10	CNN fires conservative commentator and American Spectator columnist Jeffrey Lord – a supporter of President Donald Trump, who joined the network as a political contributor in August 2015 – after he tweeted the Nazi victory salute "Sieg Heil" at Angelo Carusone, president of the progressive watchdog group Media Matters for America, who has been campaigning for Fox News to fire popular host Sean Hannity (Carusone forwarded a screenshot of Lord's tweet to CNN's Twitter account, asking for the Time Warner-owned network to comment on "on air talent issuing (in [a] serious and non-ironic way) Nazi victory salutes"). In a telephone interview, Lord defended the use of the salute as satirizing Media Matters for its advertiser boycotts of controversial conservative pundits (equating such boycotts to fascism, and viewing them as infringing on the free speech rights of Hannity and other conservatives) and not as an endorsement of Nazism.
	The NBC medical drama The Night Shift airs a special veteran-themed episode titled "Keep the Faith." The episode – in which the main characters, employed as doctors at the fictional San Antonio Memorial Hospital, are tasked with treating military veterans injured by anti-gay protesters at a military funeral – was written, directed by and guest starred several military veterans, including episode writer/show co-producer Brian Anthony (an Army veteran), director Timothy Busfield (a Navy veteran), and guest stars Dan Lauria (who served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps and fought in the Vietnam War), Josh Kelly (who served as an Army Ranger in the Iraq War), and Yvonne Valadez (a former Air Defense Operator in the U.S. Army).
13	The 2017 Teen Choice Awards airs on Fox, which, for the first time since 2002 (and the fifth in its 18-year history), did not have an official host. The event saw Zendaya (accepting her "Choice Summer Movie Actress" award for her role in Spider-Man: Homecoming) give a speech about individuality and social justice, in response to the August 12 far-right/white nationalist rally protesting the planned removal of a Robert E. Lee statue from a Charlottesville, Virginia park (during which, among other clashes, an Ohio man killed one and injured 19 counter-protesters in a vehicle-ramming attack), as well as the state of American politics in general; similar speeches were made by Vanessa Hudgens (who was honored with the "See Her" Award for her work to improve media representation of females) and Lauren Jauregui (while accepting the award for "Choice Music Group", alongside her Fifth Harmony bandmates). Riverdale won the most awards among television nominees, winning all seven of its categories (including "Choice Drama TV Show" and "Choice Breakout TV Show", with stars Cole Sprouse, Lili Reinhart, Camila Mendes and Madelaine Petsch respectively winning "Choice Drama TV Actor", "Choice Breakout TV Star", "Choice Scene-Stealer" and "Choice Hissy Fit").
17	Turner Broadcasting System announces it has acquired the rights to the UEFA Champions League soccer tournament, beginning with the 2018-19 competition, with the intention of streaming a majority of the games via a standalone online sports venue. The Time Warner-owned company reportedly paid $60 million for the right, notably higher than Fox Sports' current contract. While the new service is not expected to carry present sports offerings such as the NBA on TNT or Major League Baseball on TBS, Turner does plan on revealing other programming to be streamed in the future.
21	A large number of media outlets broadcast live coverage of the solar eclipse that transited over the contiguous U.S. (which began at 10:17 AM PDT over Lincoln City, Oregon and ended at 2:44 PM EDT over Charleston, South Carolina), with NASA TV and NASA Edge offering live coverage and streaming during the event as well as ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC pre-empting regular programming to air live specials to cover the eclipse with correspondents stationed across the path of totality, along with CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, Science, and The Weather Channel. The PBS program Nova presented streaming coverage on Facebook hosted by Miles O'Brien, and aired a special episode chronicling the event — "Eclipse Over America" — that evening (which marked the fastest production turnaround time in Nova history).
	Cops celebrates its 1,000th episode with a live special on Spike called "Cops: Beyond the Bust", hosted by Terry Crews, which included historical clips from the run of the series as well as reunions of officers and the suspects that they arrested.
	Nexstar Media Group-owned MyNetworkTV affiliate KRON-TV/San Francisco expands its local news programming in prime time with the debut of an hour-long newscast at 9:00 p.m. The program (which expanded the station's weekday local news broadcast to 11 hours) resulted in moving MyNetworkTV's programming to late night (the station had already moved the network's second hour of programming to that time slot when it launched a 10:00 p.m. newscast a year prior) and competes with another newscast aired at that hour on independent station KOFY-TV (the latter is produced by ABC O&O KGO-TV under a news share agreement). The shift also resulted in KRON discontinuing its 11:00 p.m. newscast (a holdover from the station's pre-2001 NBC affiliation), which had been reduced to a 15-minute broadcast in coincidence with the 10:00 broadcast's debut.
22	Reports surface that ESPN has reassigned sportscaster Robert Lee from calling an upcoming college football contest between the University of Virginia and William and Mary College, the decision coming on the heels of the protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, where UVA is based, as well as the similarity between the announcer's name and Confederate General Robert E. Lee. ESPN gave sportscaster Lee the option to remain on the telecast, but he chose another game.
	In what she saw was a rude and offensive remark to her ongoing divorce from Stephen Belafonte, Mel B threw a glass of water towards co-judge Simon Cowell and walked off the judges' table during a live broadcast of NBC's America's Got Talent after magician Demian Aditya attempted an escape trick involving a wooden box, fire and steel stakes – which did not come off perfectly during the routine – thus causing Cowell to elicit a comment about the aforementioned performance, saying "I kind of imagine this would be like Mel B's wedding night... A lot of anticipation, not much promise or delivery." (Aditya was later eliminated from the quarterfinals that night); Brown did return afterwards. This tension between Brown and Cowell has been going on since the latter joined as a regular in 2016, leading to several confrontations on the show.
24	Bill Nye and the producers of his 1993-98 children's educational series Bill Nye the Science Guy sue The Walt Disney Company's Buena Vista Television division for $28.1 million ($9.4 million for Nye personally), accusing them of improperly concealing money and breaching its fiduciary duty and contract. The suit claims that starting in 1993, Nye and his partners were entitled to 50% of net profits from the series, which were never received. The suit also names Seattle PBS member station KCTS-TV, Rabbit Ears Productions, and producers James McKenna and Erren Gottlieb as plaintiffs. A Buena Vista Television spokesperson said in a statement: "This lawsuit is a publicity ploy and we look forward to vigorously defending it."
26–27	The studios of Tegna-owned CBS affiliate KHOU/Houston are flooded due to heavy rainfall from Hurricane Harvey as the station was covering the story on-air, prompting the station's staff to evacuate to a makeshift studio at PBS member station KUHT. At the same time, KHOU field reporter Brandi Smith and photographer Mario Sandoval came to the aid of a stranded truck driver that was caught in the floodwaters, and alerted Harris County Sheriff's Department officers, who rescued the man immediately. Smith's actions immediately captured the attention and praise of media outlets in Houston and from around the globe. On November 16, the station announced it will remain at KUHT indefinitely while finding new facilities, and not return to their former facility.
27	CBS Corporation announces its intent to purchase Network Ten in Australia, pending approval of that country's Foreign Investment Review Board. This comes two-and-a-half months after it went into voluntary administration, that nation's equivalent to American corporate bankruptcy. CBS had already maintained a long-term program and news-sharing agreement with Ten, and was cited as a large creditor for Ten in the administration filing.
	The 2017 MTV Video Music Awards – which was held at The Forum in Inglewood, California – aired on MTV and its sister networks, hosted by Katy Perry. Building on its prior elimination of gender-specific categories from the MTV Movie & TV Awards (which were held on May 7), the 34th edition of the VMAs marked the first time that male and female nominees competed jointly in the "Best Video" categories (the separate Best Female and Best Male Video awards were replaced with the singular "Artist of the Year" category). Rapper/songwriter Kendrick Lamar (who kicked off the show with a well-received fiery set) led the list of nominees with eight VMA nominations, winning six for "Humble". Other notable performances came from Taylor Swift (a video debut for "Look What You Made Me Do"), Lorde (who danced during her performance of "Homemade Dynamite" with a IV on her arm; she had to refrain from singing for medical reasons), Logic with Khalid and Alessia Cara (who invited people whose lives were saved or intervened during his performance of "1-800-273-8255"), Fifth Harmony (whose opening medley of "Angel"/"Down" featured a fifth person falling from the top of the stage, alluding to the group's feelings toward former member Camila Cabello), DNCE with Rod Stewart (a new take on Stewart's 1979 Disco hit "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?"), Demi Lovato (from Las Vegas, performing "Sorry Not Sorry" at a poolside party), Thirty Seconds to Mars and Travis Scott (a thermal performance of "Walk on Water" and "Butterfly Effect"), Miley Cyrus ("Younger Now" with children and seniors), and a medley of hits from Video Vangard recipient P!nk, with Reverend Robert Wright Lee IV (whose great-great-great grandfather is Robert E. Lee) introducing Susan Bro (the mother of Heather Heyer, who was killed in the August 12 Charlottesville rally), who presented the award to all of the nominees in the "Best Fight Against the System" category.
28	Hulu announces an agreement with The CW, that will allow the streaming service to carry on-demand content from the network across Hulu's streaming platform and live programming feeds from The CW's local affiliates on the Hulu Live OTT pay television service. The CBS Corporation-Warner Bros. joint venture was the last of the major broadcast television networks in the U.S. to sign a deal with Hulu to make their content available on the service, joining ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC, each of which had already signed deals and/or distribution arrangements earlier in the year.
	For the fourth and fifth consecutive time in a year, Fox Television Stations rebrands two of its MyNetworkTV O&Os, as WFTC/Minneapolis-St. Paul co-brands with sister Fox O&O KMSP-TV under the "Fox 9+" brand (joining similar rebrands involving O&Os of the programming service in Washington, D.C., San Francisco and Phoenix). Coinciding with the move, WFTC also plans to premiere a half-hour 7:00 p.m. newscast on September 18, as well as begin carrying a one-hour-delayed rebroadcast of KMSP's 10:00 p.m. newscast. Also on the same day, sister station KDFI/Dallas-Fort Worth rebrands as "Fox 4 More", which aligned its branding with fellow sister Fox O&O KDFW.
29	British TV provider Sky UK ends carriage of sister American network Fox News in the United Kingdom after fifteen years (a simulcast that fully resembled the main American network, outside of commercials being replaced by Sky News forecasts and headlines). A low audience average of 2,000 daily viewers is cited for the discontinuation, though FNC's issues through 2017 and Rupert Murdoch clearing hurdles to acquire the remainder of Sky UK are also cited.
30	After 27 years of scoring for The Simpsons, for which he won two Emmys for his work, it was revealed that composer Alf Clausen had been "fired" from the show, with suggestions that the reasons behind the decision were largely financial. His last complete score was for the season finale of Season 28.
31	Fox Sports terminates Pete Rose from his role as a Major League Baseball analyst following allegations of sexual misconduct with a minor that were disclosed in a July 31 motion in a defamation lawsuit against attorney John M. Dowd (who served as special counsel in the insider betting investigation that led to then-Cincinnati Reds manager Rose's lifetime ban from baseball in 1989). The unidentified woman who filed the claim stated that she and Rose had engaged in a sexual relationship for several years in the 1970s, beginning when he was 34 and before she turned 16 (the age of consent in Ohio, where they then both lived); Rose acknowledged the claim, but said he thought the girl was 16 at the time. Rose filed the suit after Dowd claimed in a 2016 radio interview that a sports memorabilia dealer who handled Rose's bets on baseball games brought underage girls to spring training games for Rose's "satisfaction".
	Disney–ABC Television Group holds its day-long telethon event "Day of Giving" in support to the victims of Hurricane Harvey in Texas, which broadcast on ABC (including its O&O stations and affiliates), as well as expanding to Disney-owned platforms and networks (ESPN, Freeform, Disney Channel, A&E Networks – including History and Lifetime, ABC Radio, and Radio Disney) and on social media platforms. The network-wide telethon event (which began with an hour-long special episode of 20/20, titled "City Underwater: Catastrophe in Houston" on August 30, and concluded on Good Morning America on September 1) raised over $14 million in donation to the American Red Cross to help the hurricane victims.
	American Spirit Media-owned Fox affiliate KVHP/Lake Charles, Louisiana begins broadcasting ABC on its DT2 subchannel as "SWLA ABC", returning the network to Lake Charles for the first time since Raycom Media-owned NBC affiliate KPLC dropped its secondary ABC affiliation in 1980 (KVHP is operated by Raycom under a shared services agreement); with the CW affiliation being moved to KPLC-DT2 subchannel. The station also simulcasts KPLC's morning, 5:00 p.m., and 10:00 p.m. newscasts, and plans to launch an exclusive 6:30 p.m. newscast in mid-October.

September

Date	Event
5	Jimmy Fallon announces a $1 million donation to NFL defensive end J. J. Watt’s fundraiser during the opening of an episode of NBC's late-night talk show The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and welcomes the Houston Gospel Choir (headed by Victoria White and Marquist Taylor, stars of a viral video who visited a storm shelter in Houston and formed a spontaneous gospel choir), performing "Lean on Me" in support of Hurricane Harvey victims.
6	WFAN/New York City morning host Craig Carton (who is also part of the Boomer and Carton program that airs on CBS Sports Network alongside co-host Boomer Esiason) is arrested by federal agents at his home on charges of securities fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit those offenses. Carton and business partner Joseph Meli are alleged to have run a Ponzi scheme that defrauded $5.6 million from investors by falsely claiming they had access to millions of dollars of concert tickets at face value through non-existent agreements with concert promoters. Carton allegedly used the funds from new investors to cover millions of dollars of gambling debts and to repay earlier investors, according to the complaint filed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Carton resigned from his duties at WFAN on September 13, thus also ending his co-hosting partnership on Boomer and Carton, which was rebranded the next day as The Morning Show with Boomer.
9	In advance of the Florida landfall of Hurricane Irma, the Home Shopping Network temporarily closes the channel's St. Petersburg facility and transfers around 100 staffers to a temporary facility in Nashville, Tennessee, where HSN broadcasts will originate through at least September 11, when Irma was expected to leave Florida and weaken to a tropical storm.
11	Weigel Broadcasting reaches separate agreements to acquire two television stations in California and Missouri, marking the company's second and third station purchases in markets outside of the Great Lakes region. The Chicago-based group purchases Azteca América affiliate KAZA-TV/Avalon, California – which serves the Los Angeles market – from Southern California License, LLC for $9 million, and purchases religious-secular independent station KNLC/St. Louis from New Life Christian Church for $3.75 million.
	Six years after he was dropped for making comments in which he compared a meeting between then-President Barack Obama and John Boehner to a hypothetical meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benjamin Netanyahu, ESPN brings Hank Williams, Jr. back to Monday Night Football and reinstate his 1984 signature song "All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight" as its theme song, this time as a collaboration with country duo Florida Georgia Line and R&B singer Jason Derulo. The song, also known as "All My Rowdy Friends Are Here on Monday Night" since it was first used on the program in 1989 (during MNF's run on sister network ABC), will return "Heavy Action" to being the show's second main theme, itself having been in use since 1975. Meanwhile, Beth Mowins became the first woman to serve as a play-by-play announcer on a nationally televised NFL game when she called the Chargers-Broncos MNF contest in Denver, the second woman ever to do a NFL play-by-play broadcast (Gayle Sierens, longtime anchor at WFLA-TV/Tampa from 1977 to 2015, accomplished the feat first on a regional NBC telecast in 1987). Former NFL coach Rex Ryan participated in his first game as a color commentator.
	On the same night as Hank Williams Jr.'s return to MNF, SportsCenter anchor Jemele Hill describes President Donald Trump as a white supremacist in a series of posts on Twitter, angering conservatives who call for her ouster from ESPN, among them Trump press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders during a daily White House media briefing. ESPN called the comments "inappropriate" and said in a statement that it addressed the situation with Hill.
15	During the 3:00 p.m. ET edition of that day's CNN Newsroom, Fox Sports Radio host and OutkickTheCoverage.com founder Clay Travis remarked that "the First Amendment and boobs" were the two things that "never let [him] down" during a discussion on the controversy surrounding ESPN anchor Jemele Hill's criticism of President Donald Trump as a "white supremacist." Anchor Brooke Baldwin cuts off the via satellite interviews with Travis and former ESPN senior editor Keith Reed minutes later in offense to Travis' comment. Baldwin further criticized Travis' comment in a CNN.com op-ed released on September 16, which also stated that Travis will not be invited to make any future appearances on Newsroom. Travis has since defended his conduct, while attacking Baldwin and Reed, in an editorial piece on his website.
17	The Primetime Emmy Awards aired on CBS with Stephen Colbert as host. The 69th annual event, which followed the other awards in using political rhetoric in both speeches and in an opening number by Colbert, as well as an appearance by former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, saw Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale win five awards, including Elisabeth Moss for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series and Outstanding Drama Series, marking the first time that a streaming program has won in both categories, along with Netflix winning the first streaming program in the Outstanding Television Movie category for Black Mirror. Julia Louis-Dreyfus became the first actress in Emmy history to score the most wins in the Best Actress in a Comedy series category, as well the first to win in the same role in Veep, which also repeated its win in the Best Comedy Series category, making her the only actor or actress to win six consecutive Emmys in the same category for the same role. Other notable firsts included Donald Glover becoming the first African-American to win Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series. Riz Ahmed, with his win for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie, became the first Asian male and first Muslim to win an Emmy acting award. With Aziz Ansari and Lena Waithe winning Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, the latter became the first African-American woman to win that award.
18	Political commentator Scottie Nell Hughes files a lawsuit against Fox News, claiming she was raped by Fox Business Network host Charles Payne, and eventually fired after reporting it in retaliation. The fallout comes after Payne, who was suspended in July because of his admitted affair with Hughes, was reinstated by Fox Business Network this month upon conclusion of an internal investigation.
	Just two weeks into the ABC daytime talk show's 21st season, Jedediah Bila announces that she will be leaving her role as a co-host/panelist on The View effective after that day's broadcast. Bila – who, as a libertarian, served as a conservative voice on the program – did not disclose the reasoning for her exit.
19	On his ABC program, Jimmy Kimmel launches into an attack on Sen. Bill Cassidy, stating that the co-sponsor of a bill intended to replace the Affordable Care Act lied to the host when appearing as a guest in May. Kimmel also urged viewers to contact their representative to oppose its passage. When later pressed by conservatives who claimed he is unqualified to discuss political matters, Kimmel responded that they voted for someone who "fired Meat Loaf on television", a reference to President Donald Trump's previous role as host of The Apprentice.
20	Mediaite releases video which shows Lawrence O'Donnell cursing and berating staff during a commercial break for his MSNBC program, The Last Word. At issue was communication with personnel in the control room, as well as the sound of hammering nearby. O'Donnell later took to Twitter to express regret at the outburst.
21	Cox Communications and Spectrum experience a signal intrusion event within their Orange County, California systems involving the September 23 Nibiru "end of the world" prediction and their Emergency Alert Systems, where a radio station playing the theory was heard. The companies are investigating the incident. The message, which said, "Realize this, extremely violent times will come," according to sources and DVR'd videos of the event, was taken from a 1997 interview between radio host Art Bell and a caller claiming to be a former employee at Area 51. The entire broadcast lasted approximately one minute.
24	In response to President Donald Trump's criticism of NFL players who decided to exercise their rights not to stand for the National Anthem, 28 of the 32 teams that have scheduled games on this day show their unity by locking together in arms, kneeling, and/or remaining in their locker rooms while the Anthem plays, a scenario that was shown during their broadcasts on CBS, Fox, and NBC. It was also the subject of topic on Sunday morning talk shows, as well as on ESPN, Fox Sports, and NFL Network.
	Star Trek returns to television through CBS All Access with the premiere of a new Star Trek series, subtitled Discovery (with a primetime CBS premiere), ending the absence of a first-run Star Trek series on television since Enterprise was cancelled by UPN in 2005. Future episodes will be exclusive to CBS All Access in the United States, with other carriage arrangements made in other nations.
	E! celebrates the tenth anniversary of its longest-running family-oriented reality series Keeping Up with the Kardashians with a 90-minute special hosted by executive producer Ryan Seacrest, which had the Kardashian/Jenner family (Kris, Kim, Khloe, Kourtney, Kylie, and Kendall) get together for a sit-down interview and discussion about how the show and their lives have changed since its 2007 debut.
28	NBC returns the "Must See TV" branding for the first time in three years with the premiere of returning comedies Superstore, The Good Place, Will & Grace, and Great News and drama Chicago Fire. This Is Us and Law & Order True Crime were originally part of its Thursday night lineup until the network's decision on May 30 that it will move those programs to Tuesday night – the former of which returned to its original Tuesday night 9:00 p.m. (ET) timeslot – in order to accommodate the former lineup's two-hour comedy block.

October

Date	Event
1	Altice USA reaches a last-minute retransmission agreement with The Walt Disney Company to carry its channels, narrowly averting what would have been a blackout of ABC owned-and-operated stations WABC-TV/New York City and WPVI-TV/Philadelphia, and several cable networks, including the ESPN family, Freeform, and Disney Channel within the cable provider's New York and New Jersey service area.
2	CBS fires Hayley Geftman-Gold, who served as corporate parent CBS Corporation's vice president and senior counsel of strategic transactions, after a personal Facebook post in response to the previous night's massacre at the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas (which killed 58 people and injured 851), writing she felt no sympathy for the victims and casting country music fans as "often...Republican gun toters".
7	Less than a week after performing on stage at the Route 91 Harvest festival when the shooting broke out, Jason Aldean opens Saturday Night Live with words of support for those suffering in the shooting's aftermath, followed by a cover of "I Won't Back Down" by Tom Petty, who had died one day after the shooting of cardiac arrest. With Gal Gadot serving as guest host and Sam Smith as musical guest, this broadcast also marked the first time that SNL aired in Israel, with Gadot giving her monologue in Hebrew, which viewers saw translated on screen to poke fun at the writers in English, as well as kissing cast member Kate McKinnon in a sketch parody of her blockbuster film Wonder Woman. The broadcast also featured a commercial parody on the popular testimonial ads for Safelite, in which a glass repair technician (played by Beck Bennett) becomes obsessed with both the teenage daughter (played by Melissa Villaseñor) and her mother (played by Aidy Bryant) he answers to every time to repair their minivan when it has a broken windshield, only to discover that he is smashing the windshield each time, infuriating the mother. The company, through their Twitter account, responded to the show's spoof: "Thanks for the skit... Although we can take a joke, this one was a step too far. Our techs are our heroes. #notcool." The November 25 rerun of the episode had the parody deleted and replaced with another piece cut for time, and it was also been removed and replaced on Hulu, YouTube and NBC's on demand services, likely due to the objections from Safelite and its not playing well in the environment of current events.
9	Just one day after Harvey Weinstein is ousted and fired as CEO and co-founder of The Weinstein Company in the wake of an article in The New York Times detailing reports of sexual harassment and misconduct towards women which has resulted in Weinstein denying the allegations, the studio's television division announced that his name will no longer be featured or credited on any of their shows produced by the company, effective immediately. The company will also take on a new name as soon as possible.
	ESPN suspends SportsCenter anchor Jemele Hill for violating their social media policy after she calls for fans to boycott the Dallas Cowboys' advertisers in response to owner Jerry Jones' statement that he will bench any players who disrespect the flag by kneeling during the National Anthem. It is the second time in a month Hill has caused controversy on Twitter, after she called President Trump a white supremacist in September.
10	Rapper Eminem slams Donald Trump in a freestyle rap that debuted during the 2017 BET Hip Hop Awards (aired on this night, but originally taped October 6), calling out the President for focusing on National Football League players' protests during "The Star Spangled Banner" instead of Puerto Rico's recovery efforts in the wake of Hurricane Maria, and delivering an ultimatum to Trump supporters who are also fans of the rapper to choose between one of them.
12	Amazon Studios announces that Roy Price, the company's VP and global head of Prime Video content, has been suspended (and later fired from the company) following a harassment claim from one of the company's producers. The news comes after Isa Hackett, a showrunner/producer on the streaming service's The Man in the High Castle and Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams, detailed in an exclusive interview with The Hollywood Reporter her "shocking and surreal" experience with the programming chief in July 2015. Hackett later reported the incident immediately to Amazon executives, and brought in outside investigators to speak to Hackett as well as Amazon execs; Hackett noted that she was never told the outcome of that inquiry and that she never seen Price at any events involving her shows. Price has denied the accusations. The fallout also comes on the heels of Amazon Prime's deals with projects they are co-producing with The Weinstein Company in the light of Harvey Weinstein's problems that led to his ouster from his company, which has yet to go forward.
15	NBC Sunday Night Football announcer Al Michaels draws quick criticism on social media after joking that the New York Giants had a "worse week than Harvey Weinstein" during the team's win over the Denver Broncos, with commenters finding neither humor in the sexual misconduct allegations facing Weinstein nor its connection to New York's 0-5 start. The 72-year-old broadcaster offered his apology later in the game.
	The ABC reality series Shark Tank features former Major League Baseball player Alex Rodriguez as a guest investor, joining the panel of "shark" investors, becoming the first Hispanic shark to be featured on the show.
	A retransmission consent dispute between Viacom's Media Networks division and Spectrum was to come to a head with the expiration of VMN's carriage agreement with the former Charter, Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks systems on this date, with Viacom posting news ticker messages about the dispute to Spectrum viewers of their networks during programming, along with the standard website describing their view of the dispute. Spectrum had already earned VMN's ire earlier in the year by moving networks which were decades-long basic cable stalwarts like Nickelodeon and MTV to their more expensive "Gold" tier allegedly due to the company's propensity for heavy repeats and older content on their networks. The dispute later comes to nothing, as Viacom and Spectrum come to a short-term extension late on this night, then solidify a preliminary deal on the evening of the 17th with no actual network removals occurring. A permanent deal is announced on November 15, returning Nickelodeon, BET, MTV, Comedy Central, Spike, VH1, TV Land and CMT to Spectrum's basic tier in the coming months, along with exclusive jointly produced programming for Spectrum customers.
23	After just one airing, ESPN removes late-night program Barstool Van Talk from its lineup, citing concerns about distinguishing the content of show producer Barstool Sports, a website known for its off-color humor, from that of ESPN. The cancellation comes in the wake of complaints from staff at the network, most notably Samantha Ponder, who had been a target of Barstool in the past.
24	In a 3-2 vote split along party lines, the FCC approves the elimination of the Main Studio Rule, a rule was adopted as part of the Communications Act of 1934 – which established the FCC – requiring radio and television stations to maintain a studio facility in their city of license. (The rule was modified in the 1970s to allow the studio to be located within 25 miles of the city of license.) Under the repeal, which cited that it will allow traditional broadcasters to fall in sync with present-day technology and social media, stations will still be required to maintain local or toll-free phone numbers and public file materials that are not online-accessible for the communities they serve. Critics expressed concern that the rule's elimination will pave the way for at least some broadcasters to consolidate their local content to a handful of studio locations across the country (with little to no content originating in the community or markets a radio or television station serves). Those in favor (or at least indifferent) to the rule noted that broadcasters had already been using legal fictions to circumvent the rule; stations often leased the studios of other broadcasters and even vacant storefronts to pass off as their main studios.
25	In the latest of a series of station buys for the Chicago-based group, Weigel Broadcasting announces it will purchase independent station KFFV/Seattle, MeTV affiliate KVOS-TV/Bellingham, Washington, and San Francisco stations KTLN-TV (TLN) and KAXT-CD from OTA Broadcasting for $23.2 million.
26	NBC News suspends political analyst Mark Halperin from appearing on NBC's news programs or on MSNBC, amid a CNN report released the day prior, which detailed accusations from five women that he had sexually harassed female staffers several times between the late 1990s and mid-2000s, while Halperin was working as political director for ABC News. The allegations also led HBO to cancel a miniseries project based on Halperin's journalistic work on the 2016 presidential election. Halperin was officially fired from NBC News on October 30.
27	Andi Mack introduces a storyline in which 13-year-old Cyrus Goodman (Joshua Rush) admits he has a crush on another boy, the title character's (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) steady boyfriend Jonah Beck (Asher Angel). This is the first time a Disney Channel live-action program features a regular character dealing with their homosexuality.
28	Twitter permanently bans conservative author/columnist/consultant and former Donald Trump advisor Roger Stone for violating company rules after he went on a tirade after CNN reported the previous day that Special Counsel Robert Mueller approved the first charges into his investigation on the Russian meddling of the 2016 presidential election. Upon seeing the story during that day's broadcasts of The Lead and CNN Tonight, Stone then took to Twitter and began to mock and harshly insult the hosts Jake Tapper and Don Lemon (who days earlier had received death threats that has since lead to law enforcement authorities to launch an investigation), and contributors Ana Navarro, Bill Kristol, Carl Bernstein, and Charles Blow.
31	Just as she was about to announce the finalists for her syndicated show's Halloween costume contest, host Wendy Williams faints on-air in a telecast going out live in much of the Eastern and Central time zones. After the immediate commercial break Williams returned and said, "That was not a stunt. I overheated and did pass out, but I'm a champ and I'm back," which was confirmed by her spokesman. Williams cited heat exhaustion from the Statue of Liberty costume she wore for the telecast.

November

Date	Event
3	Netflix announces it will discontinue its relationship with Kevin Spacey amid a slew of sexual assault allegations against the Oscar and Emmy winner, with the online streaming service adamant it will not continue to carry House of Cards as long as Spacey, who starred as Frank Underwood on the program, was involved. Furthermore, Netflix cancelled a Gore Vidal biopic Spacey had filmed. Netflix content chief Ted Sarandos later said the sixth and final season of House of Cards will begin to film in 2018 without Spacey in the cast.
5	NBC cancels this week's tapings of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon after the host's mother, Gloria Fallon, died on November 4; he had previously cancelled the November 3 episode taping, citing a "family emergency".
7	Just two years after his colleague cameraman and reporter-fiancée was killed in a murder-suicide, Chris Hurst, a former anchor for CBS affiliate WDBJ/Roanoke, wins a seat to represent the 12th District of Virginia’s House of Delegates. Hurst, a Democrat who had actively supported gun control legislation among other issues (including advocating for families struggling for access to mental health care and equality in education for students with special needs) in this district when he entered the race in February after leaving his job at WDBJ, unseated Joseph Yost, a three-term Republican incumbent.
8	Garth Brooks (who, despite lip-syncing issues for his performance of "Ask Me How I Know", emerges as the Entertainer of the Year winner), Chris Stapleton (Male Vocalist of the Year and Album of the Year for From A Room: Volume 1), Miranda Lambert (Female Vocalist of the Year), Taylor Swift (Song of the Year for Little Big Town's "Better Man" – the latter of whom also won the Vocal Group of the Year award), Keith Urban (Single of the Year for "Blue Ain't Your Color"), Brothers Osborne (Vocal Duo of the Year and Video of the Year for "It Ain't My Fault"), and Jon Pardi (New Artist of the Year) are among the notable winners at the 51st Country Music Association Awards. Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood host the ceremony for the tenth consecutive year, which airs on ABC. Other major performances during the telecast include an opening number by Eric Church, Lady Antebellum, Darius Rucker, Urban and other country music artists ("Amazing Grace" and "Hold My Hand"), Underwood ("Softly and Tenderly" during In Memoriam segment, which also featured the Las Vegas shooting victims), P!nk ("Barbies"), Dierks Bentley, Rascal Flatts and Eddie Montgomery ("My Town", a tribute to Montgomery Gentry member Troy Gentry), Lambert ("To Learn Her"), Alan Jackson ("Chasin' That Neon Rainbow" and "Don't Rock the Jukebox"), Little Big Town with Jimmy Webb ("Wichita Lineman", a tribute to Glen Campbell), Maren Morris and Niall Horan ("I Could Use a Love Song" and "Seeing Blind"), Brothers Osborne ("It Ain't My Fault" and "Tulsa Time", the latter of which as a tribute to Don Williams), and Paisley and Underwood's opening monologue, which focused on its unusually political subject matter (including shots at both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump), as well as performing parodies of country music songs such as the latter's hit song "Before He Cheats" (titled "Before He Tweets").
	Reports surface that the United States Department of Justice has told AT&T it must sell off either DirecTV or the Turner Broadcasting System or seek alternative antitrust remedies in order to complete its acquisition of Time Warner. AT&T CEO Randall L. Stephenson indicated he has no plans to comply with the request, which could potentially lead to a court battle over the merits of holding up the merger's approval. Insiders expressed concern that President Trump may be using the merger as leverage against Turner-owned CNN over his perception of its coverage of him (even though it has featured both pro- and anti-Trump commentators in its analysis of his campaign and presidency), calling into question whether the Antitrust Division's Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim was directed by the Trump administration to block the merger (citing Trump's criticism of CNN in speeches and on Twitter) or had legitimate antitrust concerns regarding the deal. (Stephenson disputed the relevance of CNN to antitrust issues pertaining to the acquisition, as AT&T does not own any existing national news channels.) It is later reported that Rupert Murdoch, chairman of 21st Century Fox (which owns CNN competitor Fox News Channel), had contacted Stephenson on two occasions as to whether CNN will be put up for sale. The government officially sued AT&T on November 20, citing concerns over anti-competition. AT&T responded on November 28, accusing the Justice Department of “improper selective enforcement” of antitrust laws.
9	Louis C.K.'s scheduled appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is cancelled as The New York Times publishes the story of five women who say the comedian had them watch as he masturbated in their presence. The debut of his film, I Love You, Daddy, set for the same night, is also cancelled. The fallout also resulted in HBO removing series and specials featuring the comedian from its cable channel and VOD platforms, including a November 18 special supporting autism awareness, and is later dropped by Netflix, FX Networks (including shows produced by his company), and his agency. Louis C.K. has since admitted via a statement from his publicist that the stories are true.
10	Warner Bros. Television suspends Andrew Kreisberg from his duties at the studio and announces an investigation into sexual harassment claims made against him, which leads to Warner cutting ties with Kreisberg on November 29. Kreisberg most notably worked as showrunner of Arrow and the other series in the Warner-produced Arrowverse.
	Major companies (among them Keurig, 23andMe, Conagra Brands, Realtor.com, Eloquii, Nature's Bounty, and E-Trade) announce that they are pulling advertising from Fox News Channel's Hannity program after the host did an interview with Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore during his radio show to address the accusations made against the former judge involving sexual encounters with four women during his time as an assistant district attorney in 1979 when he was 32 (the women were under the age of 18, the youngest being 14), that made headlines in The Washington Post the previous day. Moore has denied the allegations but during the interview admitted that he had some feelings for underage girls (at the time) although he didn't elaborate or clarify further to Hannity, who implied on his radio show that the sexual encounter with a 14-year-old as described in the Post report was "consensual." Hannity later apologized and said he "misspoke," as Moore has denied any sexual encounters and does not recall ever meeting Leigh Corfman, the accuser who claimed Moore groped her at age 14. In response to the decision to pull the ads, viewers took to social media to target Keurig by destroying their products in protest.
14	Philo – an Internet television founded in 2010 to provide streaming television service to colleges and universities – rolls out a national over-the-top MVPD service, becoming the third service to launch a live streaming TV offering in 2017. The basic service (consisting of 37 channels) is priced at $16 per month, with an add-on tier (incorporating nine additional channels) available for an additional $4 per month. The service – which can be viewed via Smart TVs, computers, tablets, and smartphones – includes entertainment-based cable channels operated by A&E Networks, AMC Networks, Discovery Communications, Scripps Networks Interactive and Viacom, which have invested a combined $25 million in Philo. (To reduce subscriber and operational costs, it does not include broadcast or cable channels owned by 21st Century Fox, The Walt Disney Company, NBCUniversal, CBS Corporation, or Time Warner; the Philo service does not include any broadcast networks, sports or premium channels in its lineup.) Features include support for up to three concurrent streams per a single subscription; the abilities to pause live TV streams, start programs currently airing from the beginning, and to watch programs aired over the past three days; and a cloud DVR with unlimited storage that can retain recorded programming for 30 days after their original airdate.
	NBC News fires booking agent Matt Zimmerman after he was accused of inappropriate conduct with female employees at the network.
15	The Shenandoah Valley Educational TV Corporation announces it will donate the licenses of PBS member stations WVPT/Staunton, Virginia and Front Royal satellite WVPY to the Commonwealth Public Broadcasting Corporation, owner of the Community Idea Stations member network (consisting of Richmond PBS stations WCVE-TV and WCVW, and WCVE satellite WHTJ/Charlottesville). The acquisition is expected to be completed by late February 2018, pending FCC approval.
	During an interview on MSNBC Live, Trenton Garmon, a lawyer for embattled Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, brings up a series of bizarre comparisons between host Ali Velshi’s background and his client defending himself against claims of having sexual encounters with underage women as a metaphor to how society in different countries deal with consensual relationship with minors, referring to Velshi having been born in Kenya but raised in his native Canada (to which viewers believe that he was implying about his racial background which is Ismaili Muslim of Gujarati Indian descent, that some thought was an insult to his skin color). This response prompts co-host Stephanie Ruhle to defend Velshi when Garmon tries to elaborate about what he meant about Velshi to no avail, with Velshi telling Garmon that he didn’t know where he was going with this statement, which both hosts saw as a deflection from the main topic.
16	In a 3-2 party line vote, the FCC votes to significantly relax rules on local media ownership, eliminating the newspaper-broadcast and radio-television cross-ownership rules, the Eight-Voices Test for television duopolies, the attribution rule applied to joint sales agreements and the retention of the disclosure rules for shared services agreements, as well as adding a waiver-style review process to the existing prohibition on common ownership of two of the four highest-rated stations within a market. The Commission plans to initiate an incubator program after it receives feedback, which it plans to use to promote and encourage diversity in broadcast ownership. Critics of the rulemaking – which was done outside of a Quadrennial Ownership Review under which such rule changes are typically made – suggest that it would accelerate broadcast ownership concentration and worsen existing issues with scant ownership of local media outlets by women and minorities. Free Press policy director Matt Wood stated that it and other public interest groups would likely file a court challenge seeking to overturn the rules, citing past precedent under prior relaxation attempts; two House and eleven Senate Democrats inquired to FCC Inspector General David L. Hunt to launch an investigation into whether agency chair Ajit Pai's dealings with a major benefactor of the rules, Sinclair Broadcast Group (as the change would allow the company to make fewer divestments in its acquisition of Tribune Media), and called for Pai to recuse himself from all future business related to the merger. (A February 2018 New York Times article later disclosed that an investigation into whether the FCC coordinated with Sinclair to make the deregulatory actions had been opened by Hunt.)
	Granite Broadcasting announces it will sell the majority of the assets held by independent station KOFY-TV/San Francisco to Stryker Media 2 (a subsidiary of CNZ Communications, which serves as a corporate cousin to Poquito Mas Communications, owner of Crossings TV affiliate KCNZ-CD) for $6 million. The move comes after Granite sold KOFY's broadcast spectrum for $88.357 million in the FCC incentive auction, and the later formation of a channel sharing agreement with KCNZ-CD (under which KOFY will continue broadcasting over a subchannel of the low-power station) on October 30. Upon completion of the sale, CBS affiliate WTVH/Syracuse, New York will become Granite's sole remaining television property.
19	Jeffrey Tambor announces that he will not continue in his role as Maura Pfefferman on the Amazon Studios/Sony Pictures Television series Transparent after four seasons amidst sexual allegations made against him by two people, including a transgendered cast member.
	The 2017 American Music Awards, which was held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California and hosted by Tracee Ellis Ross, airs on ABC. The ceremony featured notable performances including an opening number by P!nk and Kelly Clarkson (a cover duet of R.E.M.'s 1992 hit song "Everybody Hurts" – both P!nk and Clarkson returned on stage for their respective solo performances of "Beautiful Trauma", "Miss Independent" and "Love So Soft", with the former being performed in aerial stunts with backup dancers and aerialists at the side of a nearby JW Marriott Los Angeles L.A. Live), Demi Lovato ("Sorry Not Sorry"), Hailee Steinfeld, Alesso, Florida Georgia Line and Watt ("Let Me Go"), Shawn Mendes ("There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back"), Selena Gomez and Marshmello ("Wolves", the former's first awards show performance since her kidney transplant in September), Christina Aguilera (a medley of "I Will Always Love You", "I Have Nothing", "Run to You" and "I'm Every Woman", a tribute to Whitney Houston and 25th anniversary of the latter's 1992 romantic thriller film The Bodyguard), Lady Gaga ("The Cure", broadcast from her Joanne World Tour concert at Capital One Arena in Washington, D.C.), Portugal. The Man ("Feel It Still"), Zedd and Alessia Cara ("Stay"), Khalid and Imagine Dragons ("Young Dumb & Broke" and "Thunder"), BTS ("DNA", the group's first American music awards show performance), and Diana Ross (a medley of her songs "I'm Coming Out", "Take Me Higher", "Ease on Down the Road", "The Best Years Of My Life" and "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", who also received the award for Lifetime Achievement alongside her family). Bruno Mars was the night's big winner, earning seven awards.
20	Journalist Charlie Rose is suspended by both CBS News and PBS pending an investigation into claims from eight different women that the host of CBS This Morning and his self-titled interview program groped them, made obscene phone calls and arranged to be naked in their presence. CBS fired Rose the next day, while PBS and Bloomberg Television effectively leave Charlie Rose without production facilities and venues for airing the show by terminating their production and distribution agreements and business relationships with Rose, effectively de facto cancelling the show (Rose later reaches out to staff to let them know they will be paid until the end of 2017 and their access to the show's taping facility ended on December 8, effectively ending the series). On December 4, PBS announced it will begin to air episodes of CNN International's Amanpour in Rose's old time slot on an interim basis starting December 11.
	Dish Network pulls the owned stations and cable networks of the CBS Corporation (including 28 local CBS and CW owned and operated stations in 18 markets across 26 states overall (and a few MyNetworkTV and independent stations), as well as cable channels CBS Sports Network, Pop, and Smithsonian Channel, offering Bravo, Lifetime Movies, and beIN Sports in their place) after failing to reach a new re-transmission agreement. Subsidiary Showtime Networks is under a different agreement and not affected. The blackout ended after a new deal was reached on November 23.
	The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority issues an apology to The Weather Channel after a MARTA New Flyer Xcelsior bus accidentally blocks a live broadcast of the Georgia Dome implosion. The incident suddenly became a popular viral internet meme on social media.
21	Actor and singer Jordan Fisher is crowned the winner of the 25th season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars. Fisher and his pro partner, Lindsay Arnold, beat violinist and composer Lindsey Stirling and her pro partner, Mark Ballas, to win the show's Mirror Ball trophy.
26	Miss Universe 2017 is the 66th Miss Universe pageant, held at The AXIS at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas, Nevada. Iris Mittenaere of France crowned her successor Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters of South Africa at the end of the event, becoming the second Miss Universe titleholder from that country after Margaret Gardiner won in 1978. The show, which aired on Fox and Azteca, was hosted by Steve Harvey and Ashley Graham, while Fergie and Rachel Platten performed. Carson Kressley joined runway coach and pageant expert Lu Sierra in the commentary and analysis table throughout the telecast. Contestants from 92 countries and territories participated in this year's pageant, surpassing the previous record of 89 contestants in 2011 and 2012, respectively.
29	NBC News terminates Today anchor Matt Lauer after an employee filed a detailed complaint about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace. NBC News chairman Andrew Lack announced Lauer's termination, stating: "It represented, after serious review, a clear violation of our company’s standards. As a result, we’ve decided to terminate his employment. While it is the first complaint about his behavior in the over twenty years he’s been at NBC News, we were also presented with reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident. Our highest priority is to create a workplace environment where everyone feels safe and protected, and to ensure that any actions that run counter to our core values are met with consequences, no matter who the offender." Lauer is the second network anchor to be fired for sexual harassment or misconduct, following the termination of his former CBS This Morning competitor Charlie Rose the previous week after a Washington Post report that disclosed allegations from several former employees of Rose's production company.
	Another round of layoffs are initiated at ESPN, approximately 150 positions that are mostly behind the scenes rather than on-screen talent, according to company president John Skipper. This brings the total jobs lost since October 2015 to over 500 employees at the sports channel, as viewers continue to drop cable while ESPN is on the hook for the rights to several events and facing criticism over political bias in its sports coverage. It was also announced that the primetime editions of SportsCenter carried by ESPNews will be terminated as of November 30. On-air staff will eventually leave the company through other means, including non-renewal of their contracts.

December

Date	Event
1	The Disney-owned cable channel Freeform expands its 25 Days of Christmas programming block across its company-owned sister networks (ABC, Disney Channel, Disney Junior and Disney XD). Launched in December 1996 on predecessor The Family Channel (and carried over after the channel's subsequent relaunches as Fox Family and ABC Family), the annual holiday programming block broadcasts classic holiday programming (such as Rankin/Bass' classic TV specials), as well as Christmas-themed made-for-television and theatrically-released movies each year, and Christmas special episodes of the channel's original series.
2	ABC News suspends chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross for four weeks, after he erroneously stated during a special report announcing Michael Flynn's guilty plea for making "false, fictitious and fraudulent statements" to the FBI regarding his conversations with Russia's U.S. ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, that Flynn was preparing to testify that Donald Trump had directed him to make contact with Russian officials during Trump's presidential campaign. Ross issued a clarification on that evening's World News Tonight, explaining that Flynn had not been told to make contact with Russian officials until after the election, and that Trump had only asked Flynn and other advisors to "find ways to repair relations with Russia and other world hot spots" during his campaign. The incorrect report was criticized by conservative commentators, and Trump claimed that the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 350 points because of the report.
4	Discovery Communications buys an additional 24.5% stake in the Oprah Winfrey Network from Harpo Studios (the production company owned by network founder and CEO Oprah Winfrey) for $70 million. The acquisition will give Discovery 74.5% majority ownership of the lifestyle network.
	MSNBC cuts ties with progressive commentator Sam Seder (whose contract was set to expire in February 2018), after alt-right social media personality Mike Cernovich circulates a now-deleted tweet from 2009, in which Seder mocked liberal apologists of Roman Polanski's statutory rape conviction. As mentioned on November 30 on his Majority Report podcast, Seder alleges that Cernovich – whose own prior rape charge and apologetic/dismissive tweets about sexual assault came to light in consequence – intentionally took the tweet out of context in a smear campaign to "silence [Seder's] criticism of [Alabama Republican Senatorial candidate] Roy Moore and President Trump". Several left-wing commentators (among them, Slate political correspondent Jamelle Bouie, Mother Jones editor-in-chief Clara Jeffrey, Daily Beast senior editor Andrew Kirell, and Chris Hayes, host of MSNBC's All In) pilloried the firing, claiming that network management set a dangerous precedent that could empower others in the far right to damage the reputations of Trump and GOP critics in the media in a similar manner, as well as renewing criticism of MSNBC's dismissals of other progressive commentators over the past two years. On December 7, Seder was reinstated by MSNBC; in a statement to The Intercept, network president Phil Griffin apologized, stating “Sometimes you just get one wrong – and that’s what happened here.”
	Veteran CBS News correspondent Jeff Glor takes over as anchor of the CBS Evening News. His appointment as the program's lead anchor, announced on October 25, marks Glor's return to anchoring CBS News' flagship newscast, having served as anchor of the program's now-defunct weekend editions, first as the program's Saturday anchor from 2009 to 2010 and as its Sunday anchor from 2012 until 2016 (when the weekend broadcasts were replaced by the CBSN-produced CBS Weekend News).
	NBCUniversal's Owned Television Stations division announces its intent to purchase the remainder of the stations owned by ZGS Communications for its Telemundo Station Group; with one exception of a station carrying various ethnic programming, all of the ten stations being purchased are Telemundo affiliates (and in the case of WZDC-CD/Washington, D.C. and WRDM-CD/Hartford, had been due to lose their affiliations due to the spectrum auction and NBC moving the Telemundo affiliations to subchannels of their respective owned NBC stations in each market). NBCUniversal had previously purchased four other ZGS stations between 2013 and 2016.
5	Danny Masterson is fired from the Netflix sitcom The Ranch (which he had co-starred alongside his former That '70s Show castmate Ashton Kutcher, who will become the show's sole lead as a result of Masterson's dismissal) following the resurfacing of sexual assault allegations from 2002, that were investigated by police at the time but found to be without merit.
	During an interview on CNN's New Day, co-host Poppy Harlow admonishes Janet Porter, a spokeswoman for Alabama Senate Candidate Roy Moore, after she deflects from the primary topic to make a not-so-flattering comment about Harlow's pregnancy (Harlow is eight months pregnant and showing), telling her that Moore will protect her baby while his then-opponent, Democrat Doug Jones, will kill her child (which is inaccurate, as Jones has opposed a measure that would ban abortions after 20 weeks in most cases saying that he considered such a proposal too strict but also said he supports the current law in Alabama, which generally prohibits abortions after 22 weeks). In a responsive and respected tone, Harlow tells her to "leave my child out of this... Let's leave my child out of this," before getting back on topic. As pointed out by media outlets, they believe that Moore is using staffers and surrogates to bait the liberal media with tactics designed to discredit their reporting on him, a campaign ploy that eventually backfired on Moore that became a catalyst in Jones winning the Senate seat on December 12, giving Alabama its first Democrat Senator since 1992.
	During that night's edition of WPCH-TV/Atlanta's 9:00 p.m. newscast (which is produced by CBS-affiliated sister station WGCL-TV), weeknight co-anchor Sharon Reed, who is African American, makes an unannounced on-air address about an email sent by a female viewer, who accused Reed – whom the author referred to as a "niger", spelling the racial slur without a second "g", akin to the African country – of making a racial double standard with regards to a discussion in an earlier newscast about issues of race in the mayoral election between Atlanta city councilwomen Mary Norwood and Keisha Lance Bottoms (Bottoms is black and Norwood is white; Bottoms was elected mayor with 50.4% of the vote). Reed said the viewer mischaracterized what she said in the conversation, affirming that she never suggested white people could not talk about racial issues.
8	After 29 years anchoring Univision's flagship evening newscast, María Elena Salinas steps down as co-anchor of Noticiero Univision, with plans to become an independent news producer following her departure from the news division. Salinas anchored the program with Jorge Ramos since 1988, and, along with Ramos, was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 2012. Salinas will be replaced on the early evening edition of the program as well as the Sunday newsmagazine Aquí y Ahora by Ilia Calderón, veteran anchor of the network's daily newsmagazine Primer Impacto, who will make history as the first person of Afro-Latina heritage to anchor a daily national evening news program on a major U.S. television network.
10	During a discussion on the KFOR-TV/Oklahoma City political talk show Flash Point about departing U.S. Sen. Al Franken (D-Minnesota), conservative panelist and former mayor Kirk Humphreys asks Oklahoma State Rep. Emily Virgin (D-Oklahoma City) – who substituted for liberal panelist Mike Turpen on that week's broadcast – asked why she and other Democrats had pushed for Franken to resign because of the allegations of groping levied against him but did not ask openly gay ex-Congressman Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts) to do the same. (Frank was never accused of any sexual improprieties while in or out of office.) In comparing the issue with moral beliefs on homosexuality, Humphreys said, “If it’s OK, then it’s OK for everybody and, quite frankly, it’s OK for men to sleep with little boys." In a written statement, Humphreys apologized for the comment's apparent equation of homosexuality with pedophilia, while defending the right of himself and others to express their own moral beliefs. Following calls by individuals and groups including LGBT advocacy group Freedom Oklahoma for Humphreys to resign from that post over the prior two weeks, on December 21, Humphreys announced that he would resign as vice chairman of the University of Oklahoma Board of Regents at the start of the 2018 semester. (He will continue to serve on the boards of Oklahoma Gas & Electric and Oklahoma City-based John W. Rex Charter Elementary School.)
11	Mario Batali abruptly takes a leave of absence from his role as co-host of the ABC cooking talk show The Chew, while the Food Network suspends plans for a revival of his 1996–2005 series Molto Mario amid allegations by four women, some of which stretch at least two decades, that Batali had sexually harassed them while they were working for the celebrity chef and restaurateur. The women disclosed in a story on the culinary news website Eater that Batali had either groped or conducted other inappropriate behavior during their employment by Batali at his restaurants. Batali was eventually fired from The Chew, 3 days later.
	KTTV/Los Angeles fires Steve Edwards, longtime co-host of the station's morning show Good Day L.A., after he was accused of inappropriate sexual behavior made by several current and former co-workers, a pattern that date back decades before joining KTTV in 1993 and reportedly continued while being employed at the Fox O&O.
	The NFL Network suspends analysts Marshall Faulk, Ike Taylor and Heath Evans pending an investigation brought on by a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court against NFL Enterprises by Jami Cantor, a wardrobe stylist who claims that she was sexually harassed and groped by the former NFL players and other NFL Network employees (including two that were not named as defendants) during her tenure. The suit also accuses former NFL Network executive producer Eric Weinberger (who was suspended as president of Bill Simmons Media Group) and sending several nude pictures of himself and sexually explicit text messages to Cantor, and Weinberger, former NFL Network analysts Donovan McNabb and Eric Davis (both of whom were suspended by ESPN) of making inappropriate comments.
13	T-Mobile acquires startup cable provider Layer3 TV, and announces that it will launch a over-the-top subscription television service in 2018, which will compete with existing OTT services such as Sling TV, PlayStation Vue and DirecTV Now. The move will bring the company's signature "Un-carrier" approach to the pay television market.
	PBS announces that it is placing Tavis Smiley on “indefinite suspension” following an investigation involving the eponymous host, after he is accused of “multiple, credible” allegations of sexual misconduct that was brought forward to PBS by his alleged victims. It is not known if or when Smiley's program, for which he also serves as producer and distributor, will return at this point. The suspension makes it the second PBS late-night discussion program to have its distribution suspended, following the November cancellation of Charlie Rose (which had aired alongside Tavis Smiley on many PBS member stations/networks) after similar allegations of misconduct were levied against Rose.
	ABC fires Johnny Iuzzini and pulls the remaining third-season episodes of reality competition series The Great American Baking Show – on which he had served as a judge – amid sexual misconduct allegations levied in a Mic story, in which four former employees of Iuzzini's described instances in which he sexual harassed and abused them while working under him at a New York restaurant between 2009 and 2011. (The story was a follow-up to a piece published on November 29, disclosing allegations by four other women came forward with allegations.)
	CNN host Anderson Cooper's Twitter account is hacked and a tweet is posted calling President Trump and a "tool" and a "pathetic loser". It has since been deleted and Cooper confirmed he did not post it himself.
	Activist DeRay Mckesson sues Fox News Channel and Jeanine Pirro for defamation, alleging she made “false and defamatory statements” claiming he directed other protesters to commit violence that resulted in a police officer getting stuck in the face with a rock.
14	The Walt Disney Company announces its intent to buy 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion, pending regulatory approval. The deal involves the television and film studios, cable properties (FX, FXX, FX Movie Channel, National Geographic, Nat Geo Wild and certain sports network assets (including the regional Fox Sports Networks), assets of Star TV, and a stake in Sky TV), its television and film library and franchises, current programs in production (including Modern Family, The Simpsons and Empire), 20th Television (Fox's television distributor and syndicator), and an additional 30% stake in Hulu (in which Disney already held a 30% stake). The sale excludes the Fox network, MyNetworkTV, the Fox Television Stations, Fox News, Fox Business Network, and the national Fox Sports networks (Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2, Fox Soccer Plus, and the Big Ten Network), which will be transferred to a separate company. In return, the Murdoch family members will have a small stock in the deal with Disney. The sale also gives Fox a chance to expand their portfolio of television stations thanks in part to relaxation of television ownership rules from the FCC. Following a bid from Comcast in June 2018, Disney increases its bid to $71.3 billion.
15	KQED Life goes off the air after 13 years of service on PBS. Fortunately, several cooking and lifestyle programs are moved to KQED Plus/San Jose and KQED 9/San Francisco.
18	ESPN announced that President John Skipper has resigned from the network effective immediately. A statement from Skipper cites a substance addiction as the reason.
	Tegna, Inc. announces it will purchase CBS/CW affiliate KFMB-TV/San Diego from Midwest Television for $325 million, a deal that also includes its sister radio stations KFMB-AM-FM. This gives Tegna its second television station in California (after ABC affiliate KXTV/Sacramento, which it acquired in 1999 as an arm of the Gannett Company) and the company's first radio properties as an independent entity (the group had last owned radio stations as a Gannett subsidiary in 1997, when it sold off nine stations, most of which went to Clear Channel Communications). The sale was finalized on February 15, 2018.
19	Catt Sadler parts ways with E! after 12 years upon learning that her E! News co-host Jason Kennedy was earning "double" what she made in salary, claiming a gender pay gap and inequality at the Comcast-owned network.
21	The FCC proposes a fine of over $13 million against Sinclair Broadcast Group for allegedly violating sponsorship identification rules. The fine, which would be the largest of its kind (Sinclair has 30 days to challenge or pay it), centers on over 1,700 instances of newscast reports and program-length specials on Sinclair stations, most of which were profiles of the Huntsman Cancer Institute that were sponsored by the charitable foundation that supports the center. Sinclair had failed to disclose that the foundation was third-party sponsor of the reports, as required by law.
22	Dick Clark Productions severs ties with the Miss America Organization, owners of the same-named annual pageant, in the wake of a Huffington Post report revealing internal organization e-mails that contained crude language disparaging former pageant winners, a scandal that leads to the departure of Miss America's president, chief operating officer, and board chair. DCP had produced ABC's telecast of the Miss America pageant since 2015.
	ABC News announces Elizabeth Vargas will depart the network in May 2018.
24	Just hours after her contract wasn't renewed by MSNBC after a 12-year tenure as an analyst and contributor, sparking a backlash from viewers and progressives who happens to be her loyal followers, Joan Walsh is immediately hired by CNN for the same duties, which will begin in January 2018.
26	The 40th Kennedy Center Honors, hosted by Caroline Kennedy, aired on CBS. The event, taped December 3, honors television creator/producer Norman Lear, rapper/actor LL Cool J, singer/songwriters Gloria Estefan and Lionel Richie and choreographer/dancer Carmen de Lavallade. The aforementioned honorees have been critical of President Donald Trump since he campaigned and won the 2016 Election, eventually prompting both Lear and de Lavallade to boycott a gala at the White House that was planned during the week of the event. On August 19, Trump announced that he would not attend the event, making it the fourth time in history that a sitting President passed on or did not attend the event.
31	For the final week of the regular season, the National Football League opts not to feature a game on NBC Sunday Night Football. As had been done the previous nine years, the 8:30 p.m. ET slot was left open to move a game with major playoff implications. However, after the previous week, the NFL decided that many teams still in the hunt for a postseason bid relied on results from other contests, and putting a single game in primetime would impact competitive balance, along with the possibility the selected game would have little to no effect on playoff seeding, not to mention end close to when the East Coast rings in 2018. As a result, the NFL instead set up a schedule where all games will be played at either 1 or 4:25 p.m. on each conference's respective network, CBS and Fox. (NBC aired reruns of Dateline and The Wall in place of the game.)
	The end of the year brings changes to New Year's entertainment: NBC does not televise New Year's Eve with Carson Daly for the first time since 2003 as Carson Daly, the host of the special, does not attend the New Year's countdown in Times Square for only the second time since 1998. The move is also partly resultant from the NFL's initial provisional scheduling of a prime time game for that date, as that game's cancellation left NBC with no time to put together a live New Year's Eve special, nor a broadcast of its annual A Toast to... year-in-review special (which NBC also did not air for the first time since the Kathie Lee Gifford- and Hoda Kotb-hosted special premiered in 2011), last-minute. Meanwhile, Fox airs Fox's New Year's Eve with Steve Harvey: Live from Times Square, which is produced from Times Square by IMG and featured a live wedding ceremony between Maria Menounos and her longtime boyfriend Keven Undergaro (which Harvey, who was only ordained two days before the event, officiated). The program replaces Pitbull’s New Year’s Revolution and moves from Miami. Pitbull, meanwhile, moves over to Univision, where he hosts that network's ‘¡Feliz 2018!’ special.

Television programs

Debuts

These shows premiered in 2017.

First aired	Show	Channel	Source
January 1	The Mick	Fox
	Ransom	CBS
January 2	Beyond	Freeform
January 6	Emerald City	NBC
	One Day at a Time	Netflix
January 7	Dragon Ball Super	Adult Swim
	Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE:0096
January 9	Big Fan	ABC
	For the Record with Greta	MSNBC
January 10	Taboo	FX
January 12	My Kitchen Rules	Fox
	Hanazuki: Full of Treasures	Discovery Family / Hasbro
January 13	A Series of Unfortunate Events	Netflix
January 15	Victoria	PBS
	The Young Pope	HBO
	Mickey and the Roadster Racers	Disney Channel / Disney Junior
	First Family of Hip Hop	Bravo
January 16	Meet the Putnams	TLC
	Summer House	Bravo
	Bunsen Is a Beast	Nickelodeon
January 18	Six	History
January 22	Hunted	CBS
January 26	Riverdale	The CW
February 1	The Quad	BET
February 2	Powerless	NBC
	Training Day	CBS
February 3	Santa Clarita Diet	Netflix
February 5	24: Legacy	Fox
February 6	APB
	Nella the Princess Knight	Nickelodeon / Nick Jr.
February 7	Imposters	Bravo
February 8	Legion	FX
February 15	Doubt	CBS
February 19	Big Little Lies	HBO
	Crashing
	The Good Fight	CBS / CBS All Access
February 20	The Breaks	VH1
February 23	The Blacklist: Redemption	NBC
February 24	Legend Quest	Netflix
February 27	Taken	NBC
March 1	The Deed	CNBC
	Chicago Justice	NBC
March 5	Making History	Fox
	Time After Time	ABC
March 6	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs	Cartoon Network
March 9	Kicking & Screaming	Fox
March 10	Buddy Thunderstruck	Netflix
March 13	Hunter Street	Nickelodeon
March 14	Trial & Error	NBC
March 17	Iron Fist	Netflix
	Julie's Greenroom
March 20	Sweet Home Oklahoma	Bravo
	The Twins: Happily Ever After?	Freeform
March 22	Shots Fired	Fox
March 24	Tangled: The Series	Disney Channel
March 28	Rebel	BET
March 29	Imaginary Mary	ABC
March 31	13 Reasons Why	Netflix
April 5	Brockmire	IFC
April 7	Andi Mack	Disney Channel
	First Dates	NBC
	The Toy Box	ABC
	You the Jury	Fox
April 8	The Son	AMC
	Nate & Jeremiah by Design	TLC
April 9	Talking with Chris Hardwick	AMC
April 14	Puppy Dog Pals	Disney Channel / Disney Junior
April 15	Class	BBC America
April 18	Famous in Love	Freeform
April 21	Bill Nye Saves the World	Netflix
	Girlboss
April 23	Mary Kills People	Lifetime
April 25	Great News	NBC
	Genius	National Geographic Channel
April 27	The President Show	Comedy Central
April 28	Dear White People	Netflix
April 30	American Gods	Starz
May 1	The Fox News Specialists	Fox News
May 2	Truth & Iliza	Freeform
May 4	Second Wives Club	E!
May 8	Southern Charm Savannah	Bravo
May 14	Invite Only Cabo
May 17	Downward Dog	ABC
May 25	Beat Shazam	Fox
	Cyrus vs. Cyrus: Design and Conquer	Bravo
May 27	The Ollie & Moon Show	Universal Kids
May 29	Still Star-Crossed	ABC
May 30	World of Dance	NBC
May 31	The F Word	Fox
June 3	Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer	Disney XD
June 4	I'm Dying Up Here	Showtime
	The Next Revolution	Fox News
	Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly	NBC
June 5	Daytime Divas	VH1
June 6	The Jim Jefferies Show	Comedy Central
June 11	Steve Harvey's Funderdome	ABC
	Claws	TNT
June 12	Superhuman	Fox
	MTV Live	MTV
June 14	Blood Drive	Syfy
	Emogenius	GSN
June 21	Little Big Shots: Forever Young	NBC
June 22	The Mist	Spike
	Boy Band	ABC
June 23	GLOW	Netflix
June 25	Hotel Transylvania: The Series	Disney Channel
June 27	Tales	BET
June 28	Hood Adjacent with James Davis	Comedy Central
June 29	Morning Dose	First-run syndication (exclusive to select CW and MyNetworkTV stations owned by Tribune Broadcasting)
July 5	Snowfall	FX
July 6	Real Estate Wars	Bravo
July 9	Apollo Gauntlet	Adult Swim
	Candy Crush	CBS
	The Spouse House	TLC
July 10	Will	TNT
July 11	The Bold Type	Freeform
July 12	I'm Sorry	TruTV
	Salvation	CBS
July 13	Hooten & the Lady	The CW
July 14	Friends from College	Netflix
July 15	Polaris Primetime	Disney XD
	Kody Kapow	Universal Kids
July 17	Loaded	AMC
July 20	Flip or Flop Atlanta	HGTV
July 21	Ozark	Netflix
	Kibaoh Klashers
	Raven's Home	Disney Channel
July 24	Midnight, Texas	NBC
	Somewhere Between	ABC
	Welcome to the Wayne	Nickelodeon
July 28	The Last Tycoon	Amazon Video
	Room 104	HBO
July 31	The Beat With Ari Melber	MSNBC
	CBSN: On Assignment	CBS / CBSN
	Siesta Key	MTV
August	Cuomo Prime Time	CNN
August 1	OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes	Cartoon Network
August 2	The Sinner	USA Network
August 3	The Guest Book	TBS
	What Would Diplo Do?	Viceland
August 7	School of Roars	Universal Kids
August 8	Carpool Karaoke: The Series	Apple Music
August 9	Mr. Mercedes	Audience
August 11	Atypical	Netflix
	True and the Rainbow Kingdom
August 13	Get Shorty	Epix
August 16	Marlon	NBC
August 19	Spider-Man	Disney XD
August 25	Disjointed	Netflix
	The Tick	Amazon Video
August 28	Mysticons	Nickelodeon
September 4	I Am Frankie
September 5	Steve	First-run syndication
September 10	The Orville	Fox
September 17	Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams	Amazon Video
September 18	DailyMailTV	First-run syndication
	Pickler & Ben	First-run syndication (exclusive to Scripps stations and CMT)
September 22	Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus	Cinemax
September 24	Star Trek: Discovery	CBS / CBS All Access
September 25	The Brave	NBC
	The Good Doctor	ABC
	Me, Myself & I	CBS
	Megyn Kelly Today	NBC
	The Opposition with Jordan Klepper	Comedy Central
	Young Sheldon	CBS
September 26	Law & Order True Crime	NBC
September 27	SEAL Team	CBS
September 29	The Magic School Bus Rides Again	Netflix
	Inhumans	ABC
October 1	Ghosted	Fox
	Ten Days in the Valley	ABC
	Wisdom of the Crowd	CBS
	Vampirina	Disney Channel / Disney Junior
October 2	9JKL	CBS
	The Gifted	Fox
October 3	Kevin (Probably) Saves the World	ABC
	The Mayor
October 5	Ghost Wars	Syfy
October 9	Valor	The CW
October 11	Dynasty
October 12	The Comedy Get Down	BET
October 13	Top Chef Junior	Universal Kids
	Mindhunter	Netflix
October 14	Super Monsters
October 15	Lip Sync Battle Shorties	Nickelodeon
October 17	Hit the Road	Audience
	Loudermilk
October 20	Superstition	Syfy
October 22	The Jellies	Adult Swim
October 23	The Noise	Universal Kids
October 27	Unikitty!	Cartoon Network
October 30	The Ingraham Angle	Fox News
November 2	S.W.A.T.	CBS
November 5	Xscape: Still Kicking It	Bravo
November 7	Damnation	USA Network
November 10	Dinotrux Supercharged	Netflix
November 12	Unexpected	TLC
November 17	The Punisher	Netflix
	Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters	Netflix
November 20	Big Hero 6: The Series	Disney XD
November 21	Runaways	Hulu
	Checked Inn	OWN
November 23	She's Gotta Have It	Netflix
November 27	Floribama Shore	MTV
December 4	Tarantula	TBS
	RelationShep	Bravo
December 5	Stripped
December 6	Happy!	Syfy
December 10	Counterpart	Starz
December 11	Amanpour on PBS	PBS
December 15	Jean-Claude Van Johnson	Amazon Video
December 18	Ellen's Game of Games	NBC

Miniseries

First aired	Title	Channel	Source
January 24	The New Edition Story	BET
February 1	Madiba
February 27	When We Rise	ABC
April 16	The White Princess	Starz
April 23	This is Life Live	TLC
July 9	The Nineties	CNN
August 2	The Sinner	USA Network
August 4	Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later	Netflix
August 9	The Story of Diana	ABC
August 18	The Defenders	Netflix
November 22	Godless
November 24	Trailer Park Boys Out of the Park: USA

Television films and specials

First aired	Title	Channel	Source
January 16	Rufus 2	Nickelodeon
February 7	Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special	Netflix
May 7	The Last 100 Days of Diana	ABC
May 24	Dirty Dancing
June 4	Ariana Grande’s One Love Manchester Benefit Concert Live	ABC/Freeform
July 21	Descendants 2	Disney Channel
August 6	Sharknado 5: Global Swarming	Syfy
August 12	Jojo Siwa: My World	Nickelodeon
October 9	Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
October 27	Michael Jackson's Halloween	CBS
November 21	Beat Bugs: All Together Now	Netflix
November 24	Trolls Holiday	NBC
	Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie	Nickelodeon
November 26	A Very Merry Toy Store	Lifetime
November 27	Angry Angel	Freeform
December 1	DreamWorks Home for the Holidays	Netflix
December 2	Tiny Christmas	Nickelodeon
December 7	Psych: The Movie	USA Network
December 14	Olaf's Frozen Adventure	ABC
December 17	A Christmas Story Live!	Fox

Programs changing networks

Show	Moved from	Moved to	Source
Archer	FX	FXX
Nashville	ABC	CMT
Dino Dan	Nick Jr.	Amazon Video
Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir	Nickelodeon	Netflix
Rocket Monkeys		Nicktoons
The Fairly OddParents
Harvey Beaks
Bunsen Is a Beast
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Nicktoons	Nickelodeon
The Chris Gethard Show	Fusion	TruTV
The Shannara Chronicles	MTV	Spike
The Hunt with John Walsh	CNN / HLN	HLN
RuPaul's Drag Race	Logo TV	VH1
The Dude Perfect Show	CMT	Nickelodeon
90's House	MTV	MTV2
Loosely Exactly Nicole		Facebook Watch
Backstage	Disney Channel	Netflix

Programs returning in 2017

The following shows returned with new episodes or reruns after being canceled or having ended their run previously:

Show	Last aired	Type of Return	Previous channel	New/returning/same channel	Return date	Source
The Celebrity Apprentice (as The New Celebrity Apprentice)	2015	New Season	NBC	same	January 2
Elmo's World	2009		PBS	PBS / HBO	January 7
Samurai Jack	2004		Cartoon Network	Adult Swim	March 11
Prison Break	2009		Fox	same	April 4
Ben 10	2008	Reboot	Cartoon Network		April 10
Mystery Science Theater 3000	1999	Revival	Sci-Fi Channel	Netflix	April 14
My Super Sweet 16	2008	New season	MTV	same	May 14
Twin Peaks	1991	Revival	ABC	Showtime	May 21
Love Connection	1999	Revival	First-run syndication	Fox	May 25
Fear Factor	2012		NBC	MTV	May 30
The Gong Show	1989		First-run syndication	ABC	June 22
Battle of the Network Stars	1988		ABC	same	June 29
Cold Justice	2015	New Season	TNT	Oxygen	July 22
Man v. Food	2012		Travel Channel	same	August 7
Saturday Night Live Weekend Update Thursday (as Weekend Update Summer Edition)			NBC		August 10
DuckTales	1990	Reboot	First-run syndication	Disney XD	August 12
Wacky Races	1968		CBS	Boomerang, Boomerang's SVOD	August 22
MTV Unplugged	2014	Revival	MTV	same	September 8
Will & Grace	2006		NBC		September 28
Curb Your Enthusiasm	2011	New season	HBO		October 1
Total Request Live	2008	Revival	MTV		October 2
Dynasty	1989	Reboot	ABC	The CW	October 11
Cyberchase	2015	New Season	PBS Kids	same	October 23
The Joker's Wild	1991	Reboot	First-run syndication	TBS	October 24
MythBusters	2016	New Season	Discovery Channel	Science	November 15
Cash Cab	2012	Revival		same	December 4

Milestone episodes

Show	Network	Episode #	Episode title	Episode air date	Source
Teen Mom 2	MTV	100th	"Deja Vu"	January 9
Days of Our Lives	NBC	13,000th	"episode 13,000"	January 10
America's Funniest Home Videos	ABC	600th	"AFV 600"	January 15
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	NBC	400th	"Motherly Love"	February 8
America's Next Top Model	VH1	300th	"Celebrity Life"	February 15
Conan	TBS	1,000th	N/A	March 1
Survivor	CBS	500th	"The Stakes Have Been Raised"	March 8
Love Thy Neighbor	OWN	100th	"Digging The Hole Deeper"	March 11
Dancing with the Stars	ABC	400th	"First Dances/400th Episode Week"	March 20
Spongebob Squarepants	Nickelodeon	200th	Goodbye, Krabby Patty?	February 20
PAW Patrol		100th	Sea Patrol:Pups Save a Frozen Flounder/Sea Patrol:Pups Save a Narwhal	November 6
Scandal	ABC		"The Decision"	April 13
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver	HBO		N/A	May 7
Clarence	Cartoon Network		"Clarence's Stormy Sleepover Episode 6: Flood Brothers"	June 5
Nashville	CMT		"(Now and Then There's) A Fool Such as I"	June 15
Chelsea	Netflix		"Tear Down These Walls"	June 16
Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta	VH1		"Reality Bites"	June 19
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	NBC	700th	"Pharrell Williams/Chris Coffer/Vince Staples"	June 26
Whose Line Is It Anyway?	The CW	300th	N/A	July 10
The Haves and the Have Nots	OWN	100th	"Railroad"	July 25
Cops	Spike	1,000th	"Cops: Beyond the Bust"	August 21
Suits	USA Network	100th	"100"	August 30
Teen Wolf	MTV		"The Wolves Of War"	September 24
The Daily Show	Comedy Central	3,000th	"America Ferrera"	September 27
The Walking Dead	AMC	100th	"Mercy"	October 22
The Goldbergs	ABC		"Jackie Likes Star Trek"	October 25
Rachael Ray	First-run syndication	2,000th	"Rachael Celebrates Her 2,000th Show With...Oprah Winfrey"	October 26
Keeping Up With the Kardashians	E!	200th	"Catch Me If You Cannes"	October 28
Will & Grace	NBC	200th	"Rosario's Quincenera"	November 2
Grey's Anatomy	ABC	300th	"Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story"	November 9
Teen Titans Go!	Cartoon Network	200th	"Thanksgetting"	November 17
NCIS: Los Angeles	CBS		"This Is What We Do"	November 19
The Middle	ABC		"The 200th"	December 5
Brooklyn Nine-Nine	Fox	100th	"Game Night"	December 12
Major Crimes	TNT		"Conspiracy Theory: Part 3"	December 19

Ending this year

End date	Show	Channel	First aired	Status	Source
January 2	Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything	Disney XD	2015	Canceled
January 6	The Kelly File	Fox News	2013	Ended
January 7	Ultimate Spider-Man	Disney XD	2012
January 16	Big Fan	ABC	2017	Canceled
	Regular Show	Cartoon Network	2010	Ended
January 17	No Tomorrow	The CW	2016	Canceled
January 20	Girl Meets World	Disney Channel	2014
January 25	Salem	WGN America
	Incorporated	Syfy	2016
	Frequency	The CW
January 26	Pure Genius	CBS
January 27	Z: The Beginning of Everything	Amazon Video	2015
January 29	Conviction	ABC	2016
January 30	The Odd Couple	CBS	2015
February 2	Kirby Buckets	Disney XD	2014
February 5	Dora and Friends: Into the City!	Nickelodeon / Nick Jr.
	Zack & Quack
February 13	The Celebrity Apprentice	NBC	2008
February 19	Son of Zorn	Fox	2016
February 21	P. King Duckling	Disney Junior		Ended
February 22	Fox Sports Live	FS1	2013	Canceled
	Garbage Time with Katie Nolan		2015
February 28	Celebrity Name Game	First-run syndication	2014
March 3	Emerald City	NBC	2017
March 5	Mercy Street	PBS	2016
	The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!	PBS Kids	2010
March 8	Man Seeking Woman	FXX	2015
March 10	The Vampire Diaries	The CW	2009	Ended
March 14	The Real O'Neals	ABC	2016	Canceled
March 15	Workaholics	Comedy Central	2011	Ended
	Jeff & Some Aliens		2017	Canceled
March 17	60 Minutes Sports	Showtime	2013
March 24	Liv and Maddie	Disney Channel		Ended
March 26	Time After Time	ABC	2017	Canceled
March 28	Bones	Fox	2005	Ended
March 29	Duck Dynasty	A&E	2012
	Postman Pat	Universal Kids	1981
March 30	Review	Comedy Central	2014
March 31	Dr. Ken	ABC	2015	Canceled
	Grimm	NBC	2011	Ended
	Sleepy Hollow	Fox	2013	Canceled
	Last Man Standing (returned in 2018)	ABC	2011
April 2	Black Sails	Starz	2014	Ended
April 7	The Get Down	Netflix	2016	Canceled
April 11	Switched at Birth	Freeform	2011	Ended
April 13	The Blacklist: Redemption	NBC	2017	Canceled
April 14	You the Jury	Fox
April 16	Girls	HBO	2012	Ended
April 17	2 Broke Girls	CBS	2011	Canceled
	24: Legacy	Fox	2017
April 20	Powerless	NBC
April 21	The O'Reilly Factor	Fox News Channel	1996
	Girlboss	Netflix	2017
April 24	APB	Fox	2017
	Bates Motel	A&E	2013	Ended
April 25	Outsiders	WGN America	2016	Canceled
April 28	Rosewood	Fox	2015
April 30	American Crime	ABC
May 8	The Great Indoors	CBS	2016
May 10	Underground	WGN America
May 11	The Catch	ABC
May 12	I Love Dick	Amazon Video
May 14	Chicago Justice	NBC	2017
May 17	Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders	CBS	2016
May 20	Samurai Jack	Adult Swim	2001	Ended
	Training Day	CBS	2017	Canceled
May 21	Making History	Fox
May 22	Baby Daddy	Freeform	2012	Ended
May 26	Bloodline	Netflix	2015	Canceled
May 30	Imaginary Mary	ABC	2017
May 31	Right Now Kapow	Disney XD	2016
June 4	The Gorburger Show	Comedy Central	2017
	The Leftovers	HBO	2014	Ended
June 16	Reign	The CW	2013
June 21	EyeOpener	First-run syndication (exclusive to select CW and MyNetworkTV stations owned by Tribune Broadcasting)	2011	Canceled
	Lopez	TV Land	2016
June 23	Rabbids Invasion	Nicktoons	2013
June 27	Downward Dog	ABC	2017
	Pretty Little Liars	Freeform	2010	Ended
June 29	For the Record with Greta	MSNBC	2017	Canceled
June 30	Uncle Grandpa	Cartoon Network	2013	Ended
	Gypsy	Netflix	2017	Canceled
July 7	Dawn of the Croods		2015
July 13	Steve Harvey	First-run syndication	2012	Ended
July 14	Playing House	USA Network	2014	Canceled
July 26	The Fairly OddParents	Nicktoons	2001
July 28	Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero	Disney XD	2014
July 31	Daytime Divas	VH1	2017
August 2	Kingdom	Audience	2014	Ended
August 4	@midnight	Comedy Central	2013
August 9	The Carmichael Show	NBC	2015	Canceled
August 12	Doubt	CBS	2017
	Orphan Black	BBC America	2013	Ended
	Turn: Washington's Spies	AMC	2014
August 14	Stitchers	Freeform	2015	Canceled
August 20	Legends of Chamberlain Heights	Comedy Central	2016
August 24	The Mist	Spike	2017
August 25	Dark Matter	Syfy	2015
August 31	The Night Shift	NBC	2014
September 4	Will	TNT	2017
September 6	Blood Drive	Syfy
September 7	Fox News Specialists	Fox News
September 8	One Mississippi	Amazon Video	2015
	T.D. Jakes	First-run syndication	2016
	The Insider		2004	Ended
September 12	Betty White's Off Their Rockers	Lifetime	2012	Canceled
September 16	Wallykazam!	Nick Jr.	2014	Ended
September 17	The Strain	FX
September 21	Zoo	CBS	2015	Canceled
September 22	Today's Take	NBC	2000	Ended
September 24	Teen Wolf	MTV	2011
September 25	People of Earth	TBS	2016	Canceled
September 26	Difficult People	Hulu	2015
October 8	Dice	Showtime	2016
	Episodes		2011	Ended
October 14	Halt and Catch Fire	AMC	2014
October 15	Survivor's Remorse	Starz
October 20	Haters Back Off	Netflix	2016	Canceled
November 1	Mutt & Stuff	Nick Jr.	2015	Ended
November 2	Mary Mary	WE tv	2012
November 10	Inhumans	ABC	2017	Canceled
	Lady Dynamite	Netflix	2016
November 11	Transformers: Robots in Disguise	Cartoon Network	2015	Ended
November 12	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Nickelodeon	2012
	Vice Principals	HBO	2016
November 13	Sewing with Nancy	PBS	1982
November 14	The Mindy Project	Hulu	2012	Ended
November 17	Longmire	Netflix
	Charlie Rose	PBS	1991	Canceled
November 22	The Shannara Chronicles	Spike	2016
November 27	Fashion Police	E!	2010	Ended
November 29	Chance	Hulu	2016	Canceled
December 1	East Los High		2013	Ended
December 6	Shut Eye		2016	Canceled
December 10	Graves	Epix
	White Famous	Showtime	2017
December 12	The Mayor	ABC
December 13	Tavis Smiley	PBS	2004
December 15	Chelsea	Netflix	2016
	The Exorcist	Fox
	Jean-Claude Van Johnson	Amazon Video	2017
December 16	Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency	BBC America	2016
December 29	Harvey Beaks	Nicktoons	2015

Entering syndication this year

A list of programs (current or canceled) that have accumulated enough episodes (between 65 and 100) or seasons (three or more) to be eligible for off-network syndication and/or basic cable runs.

Show	Seasons	In Production	Source
Madam Secretary	3	Yes
Mom	5
The Goldbergs	5
Brooklyn Nine-Nine	5
Impractical Jokers	6
Dateline	25

Networks and services

Network launches

Network	Type	Launch date	Notes	Source
PBS Kids	Over-the-air multicast	January 16	The 24/7 digital broadcast network, available on many PBS member stations as a digital subchannel (particularly those that in the past, PBS had routinely supplied content for their independently programmed, kid-targeted subchannels) and through apps and streaming services, features a broad mix of the public television service's current inventory of children's programming. The PBS Kids channel marks PBS' third national children's television network venture; the service operated a DirecTV-funded cable/satellite channel from 1999 to 2005, and formerly co-owned Sprout in conjunction with Comcast and several minority partners from 2005 to 2013. It also acted as a de facto replacement for the Spanish-language network V-me, which is converting to a conventional cable-distributed and ad-supported model.
TBD	Over-the-air multicast	February 13	Owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group and initially soft-launching on five Sinclair-owned-or-operated stations in Des Moines, Green Bay, Portland, San Antonio, and Syracuse, the network features programming and content originating from various premium internet partners catering to millennial audiences.
Charge!	Over-the-air multicast	February 28	Operating as a joint venture between Sinclair Broadcast Group and MGM Television (which also jointly own the science fiction-focused multicast network Comet), Charge focuses on action- and adventure-themed films, as well as a very limited number of television series, sourced primarily from the MGM library.
Hallmark Drama	Cable television network	October 1	A sister channel to both Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries airing older light dramatic series and Hallmark Channel's films.

Network conversions

Old network name	New network name	Type	Conversion Date	Notes	Source
FamilyNet	The Cowboy Channel	Cable and satellite	July 1	The sister network to RFD-TV, which formerly had carried a classic sitcom and television format for several years after RFD's parent company purchased the network from various religious interests that had owned the network since its 1979 launch, will see their format changed in order to feature more Western and rodeo sports such as the Calgary Stampede and bull riding, bullfighting and chuckwagon racing, along with livestock auctions. The conversion also ended the last affiliations with the network for over-the-air stations.
Universal HD	Olympic Channel	Cable and satellite	July 14	A high definition-exclusive network that originated as Bravo HD+ in July 2003 during the format's infant era, the network declined to featuring mainly repeats from the Universal Television library, along with lower-profile Universal Pictures films, and was ended due to those issues. Comcast division Xfinity let the network's fate be known through a legal notice on the provider's website. The same day, Comcast, the International Olympic Committee and the United States Olympic Committee launched an Americanized version of its Olympic Channel (sub-branded as "The Home of Team USA") using Universal HD's existing satellite slot (and all existing cable/satellite carriage, albeit with some providers moving it to their sports tier), which features much of the Olympic sports content that moved to Universal HD after Universal Sports Network's 2015 closure, and will carry rolling news and medals stand coverage during the 2018 Winter Olympics. The network remains exclusively offered in HD.
American Sports Network	Stadium	OTA multicast, OTT free streaming	August 24	The three-year-old syndication network run by Sinclair Broadcast Group was integrated with Silver Chalice's Internet-based products, the live sports streaming service Campus Insiders and the studio-based 120 Sports. The full transition of ASN's terrestrial outlets into Stadium will follow in September.
Sprout	Universal Kids	Cable and satellite	September 9	NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group converted Sprout's general branding on this date to Universal Kids, which caters to a pre-teen and family audience in primetime, and features content from NBCU-owned DreamWorks Animation as well as child-specific reality shows such as Top Chef Junior (which finally will launch nine years after it was first proposed to air on Bravo), along with international children's programming previously unseen in the United States. However, Sprout's preschool-specific programming remains a major part of the schedule, as a programming block airing from 3:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. ET (12:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. PT).
Centric	BET Her	Cable and satellite	September 25	Viacom Media Networks announced in April 2017 the rebranding of Centric, BET's sister network for older African-American women viewers, to BET Her, a rebranding that took place on September 25, 2017. No major change in the network's programming direction is planned, outside of uniting branding efforts among the properties of VMN subsidiary BET Networks.
Retirement Living TV	Newsy	Cable and satellite	December 31	A network aimed at adults 50+ which launched in 2006, began to shift to an online-only model after the E. W. Scripps Company purchased the contractual rights to RLTV's carriage agreements from Retirement Living TV, LLC for up to $23 million on September 5. The channel will be replaced in most homes (unless declined by a provider) by Scripps' millennial-targeted OTT news channel Newsy, which, under the agreement, will expand its national distribution to about 40 million cable homes by the end of 2018 (the Newsy channel is already carried on many OTT pay television providers, including YouTube TV and Sling TV).

Network closures

Network	Type	Closure date	Notes	Source
Northwest Cable News	Regional cable & OTA	January 6	Launched in December 1995 by the Providence Journal Company, the Tegna Media-owned Seattle-based news channel drew resources and content from Tegna stations in Seattle, Portland, Spokane, and Boise. NWCN's shutdown on this date arrives after the retirements or contract buyouts of several high-profile on- and off-screen talent in April 2016, and also comes at a time when the channel's viewership decreased in the face of increased news consumption on other non-TV platforms (along with all the associated stations carrying full newscast replays on their websites), in addition to KTVB's carriage ending due to a corporate mandate to carry the Justice Network. Approximately 25 employees were affected, more than half of whom moved to new positions at other Tegna stations.
Gun TV	Broadcast and cable syndication and online streaming	January 9	A short-lived attempt to use the traditional format of home shopping to the sale of firearms, which required the use of wholesalers shipping to federally licensed-dealers rather than the items being shipped direct to the consumer, Gun TV was stunted by several factors, including on-air demonstration limitations, low-level carriage through Tuff TV, the American Sports Network and brokered programming arrangements through pay TV providers, only being carried in overnights, and a launch announcement which came out about the time of the December 2015 San Bernardino shootings which scared away most distribution partners. It lasted only nine months after its April 1, 2016 launch.
Cloo	Cable and satellite	February 1	The channel launched in 1994 as the CBC-owned arts and culture channel Trio, and was eventually acquired by NBCUniversal, which later converted the channel to Sleuth in 2006, carrying crime and mystery content from the NBCUniversal library. Under Comcast's ownership, the channel rebranded to Cloo in August 2011, but declined due to a drift in format, no original programming output, the easy availability of its programming through other outlets, and its discontinuation of carriage by several key cable/satellite providers.
The Works	OTA digital broadcast	February 27	Launched in January 2015, the MGM-owned general entertainment multicast network featured a mix of feature films, classic television sitcoms and drama series from the 1950s through the 1980s, and some limited news and interview programming. The majority of the network's former affiliates – most of which were owned by Titan Broadcast Management – replaced The Works with Sinclair Broadcast Group/MGM joint venture network Charge!, when that network launched on February 28.
Esquire Network	Cable and satellite	June 28	The Comcast-owned network launched in 1998 as Style, but rebranded to Esquire in 2013 (under a license deal with Esquire publisher Hearst Corporation) in an effort to reach male viewers. (It had been set to replace G4, which was later shut down, but the plan was changed due to G4's lack of satellite distribution, which Esquire lost in subsequent contract cycles.) Esquire's viability diminished after DirecTV dropped the channel in December 2016 over low viewership and carriage fees (Charter/Spectrum was about to follow suit; it ended carriage of it and Chiller on April 25 nationwide). Some programming migrated to other NBCU networks, such as Friday Night Tykes moving to USA Network as a lead-out from WWE Raw in April.
Spectrum Sports (New York)	Regional cable	October 5	The 14-year-old regional sports network, formed as the result of Empire Sports Network's then-ongoing collapse in 2003, was shut down on this date, with Charter Communications citing a desire to consolidate its programming into a single destination channel (Another possible factor was the launch of a rival network, MSG Western New York, a year prior; that network had the backing of Buffalo sports giant Pegula Sports and Entertainment.). Existing programming on the network was merged into Spectrum News and migrated to online platforms.
Seeso	OTT subscription streaming	November 8	Launched on January 16, 2016 by NBCUniversal Digital Enterprises under its founder Evan Shapiro, the service, which focused on the Comedy genre utilizing original content and a library of properties from the NBCUniversal vaults, shut down operations on this date per an announcement made on August 9. That announcement came just three months after Shapiro exited the company and in light of increased competition from rival streaming services as well as lackluster interest from viewers. The original programming that was featured on Seeso (including HarmonQuest, My Brother, My Brother and Me, Hidden America with Jonah Ray and The Cyanide and Happiness Show) moved over to the online video app VRV, while upcoming programs that had been in development were expected to find new homes before it ceased operations.
InfoMás	Regional cable	November 20	As announced on October 31, Charter Communications discontinued the Spanish language regional cable news network serving the Tampa Bay and Orlando markets on this date, citing the fact that most Hispanic and Latino American viewers in Central Florida that subscribe to Charter Spectrum were drawn more to InfoMás' English language counterpart networks Bay News 9 and News 13 (the Spanish language outlets of both networks, Bay News 9 en Español and Central Florida News 13 en Español, were consolidated to form InfoMás in 2011). Segments and most personnel from InfoMás moved to those respective channels.
Spectrum Sports (Florida)		December 16	The former Bright House Sports Network, like its New York counterpart, ceased operations on this date. In contrast to the New York channel, most of its programming was canceled, with some content possibly moving online.
Chiller	Cable and satellite	December 31	Another NBCUniversal/Comcast-owned network (which ironically had little carriage on Comcast and Xfinity systems), the ten year-old horror/thriller film network (which had absorbed Fearnet at the end of July 2014) had lost nearly all its carriage in the space of a year, with Spectrum, Dish, Cox and Verizon Fios all dropping the network due to most of its content being duplicated easily on streaming services and other networks, and effectively sealing its fate as a going concern.

Television stations

Station launches

Date	Market	Station	Channel	Affiliation	Source
January 1	Boston, Massachusetts (Lawrence)	WMFP	60.5	NBC (simulcast of WBTS-LD)
January 6	Bowling Green, Kentucky	WCZU-LD7	39.7	Cozi TV
February 11	Columbus, Nebraska	KMJF-LD	48.2	Telemundo
February 15	Lake Charles, Louisiana	KSWL-LD	17.1	CBS
March 15	San Diego, California	XHDTV-TDT	49.2	Azteca (temporary home)
June 1	Charlotte, North Carolina (Kannapolis)	WAXN-TV	64.4	Laff (migrated from sister station WSOC-DT2)
	St. Joseph, Missouri	KNPG-LD	21.3	Telemundo
June 21	Lincoln, Nebraska	KFDY-LD	27.2
July 1	San Diego, California	KNSD	39.20
	Lafayette, Indiana	WPBY-CD	35.1	ABC
August 7	Chicago, Illinois	WGBO-DT4	60.4	Justice Network
August 31	Lake Charles, Louisiana	KPLC-DT4	7.4	Grit
September 6	Terre Haute, Indiana	WTHI-DT4	10.4	Ion Television (migrated from WTHI-DT3)
September 25	Duluth, Minnesota/Superior, Wisconsin Hibbing, Minnesota	WDIO-DT3 WIRT-DT3	10.3 13.3	Ion Television
October 9	Lansing, Michigan	WSYM-DT4	47.4	MyNetworkTV (migrated from WHTV)
November 4	Fairbanks, Alaska	KATN-DT3	2.3	The CW (migrated from KATN-DT2)

Stations changing network affiliation

Date	Market	Station	Channel	Prior affiliation	New affiliation	Source
January 1	Boston, Massachusetts (Merrimack, New Hampshire)	WHDH	7.1	NBC	Independent
		WBTS-LD	8.1	Independent/Cozi TV	NBC
		WNEU-DT2	60.2
	Wilmington, North Carolina	WILM-LD	10.1	CBS	Independent
		WWAY-DT2	3.2	The CW	CBS
		WWAY-DT3	3.3	Cozi TV	The CW
January 18	Albuquerque, New Mexico	KASA-TV	2.1	Fox	Telemundo
		KRQE-DT2	13.2	GetTV	Fox
January 29	Kingsport, Tennessee	WKPT-TV	19.1	MyNetworkTV	Cozi TV
			19.3	Cozi TV	Laff
		WAPK-CD	36.3	Laff	Bounce TV
March 1	Buffalo, New York (Springville)	WBBZ-DT2	67.2	This TV	Heroes & Icons
May 1	San Diego, California	KFMB-DT2	8.2	MeTV	temporarily vacant
		KGTV-DT2	10.2	Transitional newscast loop (instituted after disaffiliation from Azteca América)	MeTV
		KZSD-LP	41
May 31		XETV-TDT	6.1	The CW	Canal 5
		KFMB-DT2	8.2	temporarily vacant	The CW
June 1	St. Joseph, Missouri	KBJO-LD	30.1	Telemundo (migrated to sister station KNPG-LD3)	CBS (as KCJO-LD)
	Charlotte, North Carolina	WSOC-DT2	9.2	Laff	Telemundo
June 21	Lincoln, Nebraska	KFDY-LD	27.2	3ABN Proclaim	Telemundo (3ABN moved to digital channel 27.3 on June)
June 23	Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Fond du Lac)	WIWN	68.1	Sonlife	Cozi TV (Sonlife moved to digital channel 68.8 on May 1)
July 1	San Diego, California	XHAS-TDT	33.1	Telemundo	Azteca América
August 1	Lafayette, Indiana	WLFI-DT2	18.2	GetTV	The CW
August 23	Huntsville, Alabama	WAAY-TV	31.2	WeatherNation TV	Ion Television
August 31	Lake Charles, Louisiana	KPLC-DT2	7.2	Grit (Grit moved to digital channel 7.4)	The CW
		KVHP-DT2	29.2	The CW	ABC
September 6	Terre Haute, Indiana	WTHI-DT3	10.3	Ion Television	The CW
October 1	Silver Spring, Maryland (Washington, D.C.)	WJAL	68.1	English-language independent	LATV
October 2	Providence, Rhode Island	WPRI-DT2	12.2	Bounce TV	MyNetworkTV
		WPRI-DT3	12.3	GetTV	Bounce TV
		WLWC	28.1	The CW	Ion Life
		WNAC-DT2	64.2	MyNetworkTV	The CW
November 1	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma	KOKH-DT3	25.2	WeatherNation TV	Stadium
		KBZC-LD1	42.1	Stadium	Heartland
November 4	Fairbanks, Alaska	KATN-DT2	2.2	The CW (relocated to KATN-DT3)	Fox
		KFXF-LD	22.1	Fox	MyNetworkTV
December 17	Chicago, Illinois	WLS-DT3	7.3	Laff (migrated to WGBO-DT2)	temporarily vacant
		WGBO-DT2	60.2	getTV	Laff (migrated from WLS-DT3)
		WGBO-DT3	60.3	Grit	getTV

Station spectrum transitions

Former station	Channel sharing partner/ new station	Channel number	Channel number retained	Affiliation	Market	Date	Notes	Source
KSPR/KGHZ	KSPR-LD	33.1	Y	ABC	Springfield, Missouri	February 1	KSPR's full-power spectrum was sold in the spectrum auction, with KSPR's owner Schurz Communications transferring its ABC affiliation to Gray Television as it withdrew from broadcasting and to what was Gray's KYCW-LD, Springfield's CW affiliate four months in advance, which was re-called as KSPR-LD and assumed the ABC affiliation and channel 33 virtual channel (The CW moved to KSPR-LD2). KSPR was re-called as KGHZ in reference to the spectrum auction, and remained on the air with an Antenna TV affiliation also carried by KSPR-LD3 until the license was returned to the FCC by Schurz on May 31; the former KSPR transmitter was repurposed for Branson-licensed low-power station KYCW-LD, which carries The CW, Cozi TV and WeatherNation over three subchannels.
WAGT	WAGT-CD	26.1		NBC	Augusta, Georgia	May 31	WAGT's full-power license was sold in the spectrum auction for $40.7 million by owner Gray Television. WAGT-CD would have assumed WAGT's virtual channel number and subchannels a year earlier if not for ownership complications involving Schurz's sale of WAGT and an existing joint sales and shared services agreements with Media General at the time, which required sorting out. WAGT-CD departed from their long-time affiliation with the lower-tier Youtoo America network.
WIFR	WIFR-LD	23.1		CBS	Freeport/Rockford, Illinois		WIFR's full-power license was sold in the spectrum auction for slightly over $50 million. Gray acquired the low-power license W22EE-D from DTV America in 2016 (which had never gone on the air), and used that license to transfer over WIFR's CBS affiliation, virtual channel number, and subchannels to maintain its existing operations (including existing transmitter) at a lower power, which claims service of 95% of the market over-the-air, while turning the full-power WIFR license into the FCC.
WBIN	WUNI (spectrum channel share)	50.1	?	Independent Antenna TV	Derry-Manchester, New Hampshire/Boston, Massachusetts	September 15	WBIN owner Carlisle One Media announced on February 17 its intent to exit the television business by divesting the channel 50 license as part of the spectrum auction and announcing plans to sell translators to other broadcasters. In addition, WBIN immediately shut down its in-house news department, which was part of the Binnie-owned NH1 News division, which will retain a radio and digital presence. This marks the second time that the channel 50 license in the Boston market has been returned to the FCC (after WXPO-TV), with the sale leaving Manchester-based ABC affiliate WMUR-TV as the only full-power English language television station licensed to New Hampshire. On May 4, 2017, Binnie Media filed an application for WBIN-TV to enter into a channel sharing agreement with UniMás owned-and-operated station WUTF-DT (channel 66), in which Univision Communications would be granted the option of acquiring the WBIN license. Univision exercised that option on May 8, purchasing the channel 50 license for $16.76 million; it subsequently affiliated WBIN with Justice Network (Univision is carried in Boston through Entravision-owned affiliate WUNI (channel 27); in December 2017, WUNI moved to the Univision-owned channel 66 license and inherited the channel sharing agreement with WBIN).
WUSF-TV	WEDQ	16.1	Y (one subchannel)	PBS	Tampa/ St. Petersburg/ Clearwater, Florida	October 16	The University of South Florida announced on February 9 that it will sell WUSF-TV's broadcast spectrum as part of the FCC's spectrum auction for $18.8 million. The station was set to cease operations on October 15, with primary member station WEDU becoming the sole provider of PBS programming in the Tampa–St. Petersburg market. However, on October 8, WEDU owner Florida West Coast Public Broadcasting announced that it will enter into a channel sharing agreement with and acquire the license of WUSF-TV, with the intent of relaunching the station as an extension service offering PBS and other educational programming as well as certain programs that were carried by WUSF. Florida West Coast assumed operational responsibilities for WEDQ on October 16, running The Florida Channel on its remaining DT4 subchannel during the transition period (WEDU concurrently assumed WUSF's membership rights to the PBS Kids Channel and Create, migrating both networks onto WEDU's allocated spectrum).
WYCC	WTTW	20.1	?	PBS	Chicago, Illinois	November 27	The City Colleges of Chicago announced on April 4 that WYCC's broadcast spectrum was sold as part of the FCC's spectrum auction for $15 million. The existing WYCC schedule was dumped on October 25 and replaced with MHz Worldview (which had been carried on the station's DT3 subchannel); it remained with that network until WYCC ended its operations on November 27, a date settled for its shutdown after being changed multiple times, presumably to allow time to work out a channel sharing deal with the primary PBS member station in the area, WTTW, and its owner Window to the World Communications (which never came to fruition). On December 7, Window to the World Communications announced that it will purchase WYCC, a move that will put the two stations under one corporate umbrella.

Station closures

Station	Channel	Affiliation	Market	Date	Notes	Source
WHTV	18.#	MyNetworkTV	Jackson/Lansing, Michigan	August 31	WHTV was sold in the broadcast spectrum incentive auction by owner Venture Technologies Group. The existing schedule and JSA with E.W. Scripps Company-owned Fox affiliate WSYM-TV was dumped on May 1 to carry the former DT2 affiliation of Jewelry Television until it ended operations on August 31, a date that changed multiple times. MyNetworkTV programming returned to the Lansing-Jackson market on October 9, 2017, when WSYM launched a fourth digital subchannel affiliated with the programming service, which also carries some syndicated programs formerly carried by WHTV prior to its disaffiliation from the service.
WFXI	8.#	Fox	Morehead City/ Greenville, North Carolina	September 6	Bonten Media Group announced on April 4, 2017 that the broadcast spectrum of WFXI was sold as part of the FCC's spectrum auction for $42 million. This came just prior to Sinclair Broadcast Group's announcement of its acquisition of WCTI-TV and WFXI/WYDO owner Bonten Media. After the closure, its satellite station WYDO became the sole Fox affiliate for the Greenville market.
WBKI	34.#	The CW	Campbellsville/Louisville, Kentucky	October 25	On April 13, LM Communications sold the station's UHF spectrum for WBKI for over $20.65 million in the FCC's 2016 spectrum auction. WBKI's digital subchannels were completely merged into those of WMYO/Salem, Indiana, and the principal transmitter in Raywick was shut down.
WPBO	42.#	PBS	Portsmouth, Ohio/Huntington/ Charleston, West Virginia		WPBO, a satellite station of Columbus-based WOSU-TV, was sold in the spectrum auction by owner Ohio State University, which cited an "incredible duplication of PBS signals" in WPBO's broadcast area (far southern Ohio, western West Virginia, and northeastern Kentucky). Proceeds from the $8.8 million sale of WPBO will remain with WOSU-TV, which will continue operations.
WCDC	19.#	ABC	Adams/Pittsfield, Massachusetts	November 19	WCDC, a satellite station of Albany, New York ABC affiliate WTEN serving The Berkshires and Pittsfield from Mount Greylock, was sold in the spectrum auction by owner Nexstar Media Group. Nexstar had initially intended to keep WCDC on the air through a channel sharing agreement, but later announced that WCDC would instead shut down completely on December 1. Due to damage to the station's transmission line, WCDC ended operations two weeks earlier than scheduled on November 19. Nexstar also sold the WCDC tower to Albany-licensed public radio station WAMC on December 22, assuring that station's survival by retaining its wide coverage area across the Capital Region and Berkshires from the WCDC tower.
KQED Life	54.3	PBS	San Jose, California	December 15	KQED Inc. announced on November 14 that KQED Life will go off the air and all your favorite lifestyle programs are moved to KQED Plus and KQED 9.
KCCO	7.#	CBS	Alexandria, Minnesota	December 30	CBS sold KCCO's spectrum in the FCC's spectrum incentive auction, but was expected to engage in a channel-sharing agreement. In a request for a waiver of requirements that KCCO broadcast public service announcements related to the shutdown (as the station no longer has the capability to originate separate programming, such announcements would also need to air on primary flagship station WCCO-TV Minneapolis-St. Paul and semi-satellite KCCW-TV In Walker despite not being relevant outside of KCCO's viewing area; CBS intends to insert a crawl at the KCCO transmitter for broadcast every fifteen minutes), CBS disclosed that KCCO would shut down December 30, 2017. WCCO-TV will remain available on cable and satellite providers in the Alexandria area; CBS also signed a contract with Selective TV, Inc., a local translator collective, to carry WCCO programming.

Deaths

Date	Name	Age	Notability	Source
January 2	Richard Machowicz	51	Former Navy SEAL and host of Discovery Channel's Future Weapons
January 5	Sam Lovullo	88	Producer (co-creator of Hee Haw)
January 6	Francine York	80	American actress, model, and fitness activist, notable for playing Lydia Limpet on Batman, Venus DeMilo in Bewitched, a regular role as Lorraine Farr Temple on Days of Our Lives, and guest roles in Shirley Temple's Storybook, The Mindy Project and Hot in Cleveland; recurring roles on All My Children, One Life to Live, and Santa Barbara
January 10	Tony Rosato	62	Canadian actor, most noteworthy for being a cast member on SCTV and Saturday Night Live
January 12	William Peter Blatty	89	American Oscar-winning screenwriter and author/novelist whose best-selling thriller novel The Exorcist became the basis for the franchise that included the film and TV series.
January 13	Dick Gautier	85	American-born Canadian actor, singer, voice actor, comedian, game show panelist, author and artist, notable for playing Hymie the robot on Get Smart, Robin Hood in When Things Were Rotten, and the voice of Rodimus Prime in the Transformers television series universe
January 15	James Reiher	73	Fijian professional WWE Hall of Fame wrestler, better known as Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka
January 19	Loalwa Braz	63	Brazilian singer/songwriter and former member of Kaoma (appeared on The Arsenio Hall Show and Sabado Gigante)
	Miguel Ferrer	61	American actor (Dr. Garret Macy on Crossing Jordan, Owen Granger on NCIS: Los Angeles, and Albert Rosenfield on Twin Peaks; other starring roles include Shannon's Deal, Broken Badges, On the Air, Cruel Doubt, The Stand, LateLine, Bionic Woman and The Protector).
	Jim Fagan	72	American voiceover artist best known for the announcer of NBA on NBC and WWE.
January 21	Maggie Roche	65	American singer/songwriter and member of the family trio The Roches (TV credits include Tiny Toon Adventures, Saturday Night Live, and Tracey Takes On)
January 22	Connor Vernon	63	Meteorologist who worked at Alabama stations WTVY-TV and WDHN in Dothan (the latter from 2014 until his death), and WSFA in Montgomery
January 25	Mary Tyler Moore	80	American Emmy-award-winning actress, singer, activist, and businesswoman, best known as Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show and Mary Richards on her self-titled series, as well as co-founder of MTM Enterprises, among numerous other series and telefilm credits
January 26	Mike Connors	91	American actor, notable for playing Joe Mannix in the 1967-75 series Mannix, as well as lead roles in Tightrope! and Today's FBI
	Barbara Hale	94	American actress, notable for playing Della Street in the Perry Mason TV series and subsequent TV movie versions.
January 27	Stan Boreson	91	Comedian and TV personality, best known as the host of King's Klubhouse on KING-TV/Seattle for 12 years
January 31	Frank Pellegrino	72	Actor and restaurateur, best known as Frank Cubitoso on The Sopranos
February 6	Irwin Corey	102	American improviser, comedian, actor and humorist (TV credits include The Phil Silvers Show and The Donald O'Connor Show, numerous game shows, and promos for WJAR-TV/Providence and WTMJ-TV/Milwaukee)
February 7	Richard Hatch	71	Actor, best known as Captain Apollo in the original 1978 Battlestar Galactica and Tom Zarek in its 2004 remake
February 11	Chavo Guerrero Sr.	68	Professional wrestler who worked in the Universal Wrestling Federation, the American Wrestling Association, and the WWE from 1970 to 2010; oldest WWE Cruiserweight Champion; father of Chavo Guerrero Jr.
	Howard Leeds	97	Canadian-born American television producer, writer, and creator (notable for creating and producing My Living Doll, Diff'rent Strokes, The Facts of Life, Small Wonder, The Brady Bunch, Silver Spoons, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir, and Hello Larry; writer for Bewitched, Bachelor Father, My Three Sons, Meet Millie, Make Room for Daddy, and Barney Miller; co-writer on specials featuring Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, Benny Hill, among others)
February 12	Jay Bontatibus	52	American actor (The Young and the Restless, General Hospital and Days of Our Lives)
	Al Jarreau	76	American Grammy-award-winning singer/songwriter, notable for recording the theme song from Moonlighting and appearing as himself on The Soul Man
February 15	Bruce Lansbury	87	British-born American television/film producer, founder of Bruce Lansbury Productions, and "Vice President of Creative Affairs" (as shown on closing credits) for Paramount Television (Notable work includes The Wild Wild West, Mission: Impossible, Wonder Woman, Knight Rider, The Fantastic Journey, The Brady Bunch, Happy Days, The Odd Couple, and producer/co-writer on Murder, She Wrote, starring his sister, Angela)
February 16	Nicole Bass	52	Professional wrestler who worked with the WWE and Extreme Championship Wrestling in the 1990s and a member of Howard Stern's Wack Pack; guest roles on The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital and Guiding Light
	Jim Myers	79	WWE Hall of Fame professional wrestler better known as George "The Animal" Steele
February 17	Warren Frost	91	Actor, best known as Will "Doc" Hayward on Twin Peaks. Also recurring roles on Seinfeld and Matlock and guest spots on Another World, Loving, and As the World Turns.
February 18	Oreal Perras	74	Former WWWF and NWA professional wrestler, better known as "The Russian Bear" Ivan Koloff
February 20	Brenda Buttner	55	American business/financial news reporter (correspondent on Bulls & Bears, host of The Money Club, and contributor on Your World with Neil Cavuto) and reporter for KRNV-DT/Reno
February 23	Ward Chamberlin	95	Executive with WETA-TV/Washington, D.C. and WNET/New York City and original chairman of Corporation for Public Broadcasting
	Alan Colmes	66	American political commentator and TV/radio personality (co-host of Hannity & Colmes, frequent guest on The O'Reilly Factor, Red Eye, The Greg Gutfeld Show, and Fox News Watch)
February 25	Neil Fingleton	36	English-American actor and basketball player, notable for playing Mag the Mighty in Game of Thrones
	Bill Paxton	61	American film/television actor and filmmaker, notable for portraying characters roles such as Frank Roake on Training Day, John Garrett in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Bill Henrickson in Big Love, Billy Joe Robb in Fresno and Randolph McCoy in Hatfields & McCoys; guest roles on Miami Vice, The Hitchhiker, Tales from the Crypt, Frasier, narrator on JFK: The Day That Changed Everything, and appearances in music videos for Barnes and Barnes ("Fish Heads", which he also directed), Pat Benatar ("Shadows of the Night") and Limp Bizkit ("Eat You Alive")
	Chez Pazienza	47	American TV producer at cable news channels MSNBC and CNN; Los Angeles stations KCBS, KNBC and KCAL; and Miami stations WTVJ and WPLG
	Ron Savage	63	Anchor/reporter at WJBK/Detroit and volunteer firefighter/EMT for the Milford Fire Department
February 26	Joseph Wapner	97	Former Judge in the Los Angeles County Superior Court, who became better known as the Judge on The People's Court from 1981 to 1993 and Judge Wapner's Animal Court; appeared as an alternative version of himself (as a "Soviet Judge") in Sliders, and an episode of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson to resolve a dispute between the host and David Letterman
February 28	Paul Kangas	79	Anchor of Nightly Business Report 1979–2009
March 3	Míriam Colón	80	Puerto Rican actress (Studio One in Hollywood, Shirley Temple's Storybook, Dr. Kildare, The Great Adventure, Gunsmoke, The Edge of Night, Streets of Laredo, One Life to Live, Guiding Light, All My Children, Third Watch, Jonny Zero, Hawthorne, How to Make It in America and Better Call Saul)
	Tommy Page	46	American singer/actor, VJ, record executive, and journalist/editor at Billboard (appeared on Full House and hosting duties for programs on MTV and MTV Asia)
	Ron Heard	68	Former NWA and WWF professional wrestler, better known as "Outlaw" Ron Bass
March 6	Robert Osborne	84	Host on Turner Classic Movies since the network's launch in 1994, The Movie Channel 1986–1993 and entertainment critic on KTTV 1982–1987. Also author/film historian (columnist at The Hollywood Reporter) and actor (appeared in The Beverly Hillbillies and The Californians).
March 7	Doug Paul	59	Voice-over announcer for promos on Tribune Broadcasting's stations, including WGN-TV, WPIX and KTLA in the 1980s and 1990s and Peachtree TV and Grit in the present day, along with commercial clients like JoS. A. Bank and Coca-Cola.
March 8	Lou Duva	94	American boxing promoter, manager and trainer; member of the Boxing Hall of Fame (ABC's Wide World of Sports, Showtime Championship Boxing, ESPN Top Rank Boxing, HBO Boxing, Friday Night Fights, ESPN SportsCentury)
March 11	Joni Sledge	60	American singer/songwriter/producer and a member of family musical group Sister Sledge (TV credits include The Jeffersons, American Bandstand, Fridays, Soul Train, and The Midnight Special)
March 13	John Andariese	78	Sports journalist, reporter and analyst, nicknamed "Johnny Hoops" for his play-by-play of the New York Knicks broadcasts on TV and radio; also served as commentator on TBS, NBC, ESPN and NBA TV, the latter as TV host
	Mike Aktari	28	Reality TV star (Jerseylicious)
March 17	Lawrence Montaigne	86	Actor (guest spots on Star Trek, Batman, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Blue Light, Mission: Impossible, The Time Tunnel, The Invaders, Perry Mason, McCloud, and The Feather and Father Gang).
March 18	Chuck Berry	90	American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer, songwriter and guitarist whose music can be heard in numerous TV shows
March 21	Chuck Barris	87	Game show producer (Creator of The Newlywed Game, The Dating Game, The Family Game, and The Parent Game). Also host/creator of The Gong Show and founder of Chuck Barris Productions
March 22	Vince Jones	46	Bounty hunter and star of Big Rig Bounty Hunters
	Tomas Milian	84	Cuban-born American-Italian actor (Miami Vice, The Equalizer, Drug Wars: The Camarena Story, L.A. Law, Frannie's Turn, Murder, She Wrote, Oz, Law & Order, and UC: Undercover)
March 23	Lola Albright	92	Actress (guest appearances on Lux Video Theatre, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Thin Man, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, The Dick Van Dyke Show, My Three Sons, The Beverly Hillbillies, Bonanza, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Medical Center, Kojak, Columbo, McMillan & Wife, Quincy, M.E., Starsky & Hutch, The Incredible Hulk, Peter Gunn, Mr. Broadway, and Peyton Place)
March 24	Rich Fisher	67	News anchor at Detroit stations WJBK, WWJ-TV, and WXYZ-TV
	Jean Rouverol	100	Screenwriter (co-head writer on Guiding Light in the early 1970s, wrote episodes of Little House on the Prairie, Search for Tomorrow and As the World Turns). Also served on the board of directors of the Writers Guild of America, West.
March 26	Clay Adler	27	Actor and reality star (Newport Harbor: The Real Orange County, Make It or Break It)
March 27	Noreen Fraser	63	Producer (Entertainment Tonight, The Home Show, The Richard Simmons Show). Also co-founder of Stand Up to Cancer.
March 28	Kelley Williamson	57	Storm chasers who worked for The Weather Channel
	Randy Yarnall	55
March 31	Scott Brown	59	Political/investigative journalist for WGRZ/Buffalo, New York
April 5	Chelsea Brown	69	American comedic actress/singer/dancer, who was a regular on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and later a successful television actress and personality in Australia (TV credits include Love, American Style, Marcus Welby, M.D., Ironside, Matt Lincoln, and Mission: Impossible)
April 6	Don Rickles	90	Comedian and actor who made numerous appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Late Show with David Letterman, and The Dean Martin Celebrity Roast. Won a Primetime Emmy Award for his autobiographical documentary, Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project. Also lead roles in the sitcom C.P.O. Sharkey, two series named The Don Rickles Show, and the short-lived sitcom Daddy Dearest.
	Tom Johnston	46	Meteorologist at WCSH/Portland, Maine. Found dead April 6; likely died several days prior.
April 7	Frank Bramhall	83	Radio and Television personality in the Omaha market, notably as a meteorologist at WOWT
April 9	Peter Hansen	95	Actor, best known as Lee Baldwin on General Hospital and its spinoff Port Charles. Also guest spots on The Public Defender, Ben Jerrod, The Goldbergs, Cheers, The Golden Girls, Broken Arrow, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, Maverick, Petticoat Junction, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., How The West Was Won, Magnum, P.I., L.A. Law, Night Court, and Growing Pains.
April 11	Dorothy Mengering	95	Mother of David Letterman, made numerous appearances on his programs Late Night and Late Show
April 12	Charlie Murphy	57	Actor and comedian (writer and cast member on Chappelle's Show, recurring roles on Are We There Yet? and The Boondocks). Brother of actor/comedian Eddie Murphy.
April 15	Clifton James	96	Actor (recurring roles on Captains and the Kings, Lewis & Clark, and All My Children; guest spots on The Dukes of Hazzard, City of Angels, The A-Team, and Gunsmoke).
April 17	Trish Vradenburg	70	Screenwriter (Designing Women, Kate & Allie, Family Ties, and Everything's Relative)
April 20	Doug Smith	81	On-air personality at WIVB-TV in Buffalo, New York
April 21	Sandy Gallin	76	American film, stage, and television producer, manager, and promoter (co-creator and co-producer of Live... and In Person, Babes, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
April 22	Erin Moran	56	American actress best known for her role of Joanie Cunningham in Happy Days and its spinoff Joanie Loves Chachi
April 23	Chris Bearde	80	Australian writer and producer (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, The Ray Stevens Show, The Andy Williams Show, The Ken Berry 'Wow' Show, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, The Sonny Comedy Revue, The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show, That's My Mama, Cos, The Gong Show, The Bobby Vinton Show, Sherman Oaks and The Gong Show with Dave Attell)
	Kathleen Crowley	87	American actress (Chevron Theatre, Waterfront, Fireside Theatre, Schlitz Playhouse, Climax!, Matinee Theatre, Bat Masterson, 77 Sunset Strip, Surfside 6, Hawaiian Eye, Bronco, Maverick, Tales of Wells Fargo, Perry Mason, Batman, Bonanza and Family Affair)
April 26	Jonathan Demme	73	American Oscar-winning film, television, and music video director and producer (TV credits include Columbo, Saturday Night Live, American Playhouse, Subway Stories, Enlightened, A Gifted Man, The Killing, The New Yorker Presents and Shots Fired)
May 4	Ed Sherin	87	Director/producer, most notably on Law & Order
May 5	Quinn O'Hara	76	Scottish-born American actress, singer, and model (TV credits include Burke's Law, I'm Dickens, He's Fenster, The Real McCoys, My Three Sons, The Red Skelton Hour, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Ironside, One Day at a Time and CHiPs)
	Robert Wilson	75	Co-Founder and General Manager of KERA-TV & FM Dallas-Ft. Worth, credited for introducing Monty Python's Flying Circus to American viewers; father of Luke and Owen Wilson
May 8	Curt Lowens	91	German-American actor and Holocaust survivor (Combat!, Twelve O'Clock High, Hogan's Heroes, Garrison's Gorillas Run for Your Life, Mission: Impossible, The F.B.I., It Takes a Thief, Medical Center, M*A*S*H, Cannon, The Streets of San Francisco, The Six Million Dollar Man, Wonder Woman, The French Atlantic Affair, Barnaby Jones, Galactica 1980, Romance Theatre, V, Dynasty, Knight Rider, The A-Team, and Babylon 5)
May 9	Christopher "Big Black" Boykin	45	Actor and reality television personality (Rob & Big, Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory)
	Michael Parks	77	American singer and actor (Zane Grey Theater, The Detectives, The Dick Powell Show, Gunsmoke, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Wagon Train, Channing, Route 66, Then Came Bronson, Police Woman, Fantasy Island, The Riverman, The Colbys, The Equalizer, Twin Peaks, Shades of LA, and Walker, Texas Ranger)
May 10	Douglas Netter	96	American producer (The Sacketts, Buffalo Soldiers, Wild Times, Roughnecks, Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future, Babylon 5, The Wild West, Siringo, Hypernauts, Crusade and Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future)
May 13	John Cygan	63	Actor (several roles, most notably Lt. Paulie Pentangeli on The Commish)
May 14	Powers Boothe	68	Emmy-winning actor (Philip Marlowe on Philip Marlowe, Private Eye, Cy Tolliver on Deadwood, Noah Daniels on 24, Lamar Wyatt on Nashville, Gideon Malick on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and the voice of Gorilla Grodd on Justice League).
May 18	Roger Ailes	77	CEO of Fox News Channel and Fox Television Stations, creator of America's Talking and former host of Straight Forward.
May 19	Wayne Walker	80	Retired football player (Detroit Lions) and later sportscaster/sports director at KPIX-TV/San Francisco, 1974–1994. Also color commentator for NFL on CBS in the 1980s, and host of Incredible Idaho on KTVB-TV/Boise in the 1990s.
May 22	Dina Merrill	93	American actress, socialite, businesswoman and philanthropist (credits include a regular role in Hot Pursuit, Calamity Jan in Batman alongside then-husband Cliff Robertson, Bonanza, The Love Boat, and The Nanny; TV movies include Seven in Darkness, The Lonely Profession, Family Flight, and The Tenth Month)
May 23	Roger Moore	89	British actor best known as James Bond in seven movies. (TV credits include Ivanhoe, The Alaskans, Maverick, The Saint, and The Persuaders!)
May 25	Jared Martin	75	American actor (starring roles in The Fantastic Journey, One Life to Live, and War of the Worlds and a notable recurring role in Dallas, as Steven "Dusty" Farlow, and guest roles in The Young Lawyers, The Bold Ones: The Lawyers, Night Gallery, The Rookies, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Waltons, How the West Was Won, Wonder Woman, The Love Boat, Murder, She Wrote, Hotel, and Knight Rider)
May 28	Frank Deford	78	American sportswriter and commentator, correspondent for HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, winner of Emmy, Peabody and CableACE awards
May 30	Wendell Burton	69	American actor (Murder Once Removed, Young Dr. Kildare, Medical Center, Longstreet, Room 222, Love, American Style, Go Ask Alice, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, Kung Fu, The New Dick Van Dyke Show, The Rookies, Insight, The Red Badge of Courage, Journey from Darkness, Medical Story, East of Eden, Mathnet and Square One Television)
	Robert Michael Morris	77	Playwright and actor, best known as Mickey Deane in The Comeback and Mr Lunt in Running Wilde. Also guest spots on Will & Grace, How I Met Your Mother, 2 Broke Girls, and several other shows.
	Elena Verdugo	92	Actress (most notably on Meet Millie and Marcus Welby M.D.)
May 31	Tino Insana	69	Voice actor, best known as Uncle Ted on Bobby's World. Also actor (appeared on episodes of Designing Women, Night Court, Mad About You, Dream On, and Curb Your Enthusiasm)
	Jay Kordich	93	Creator of and spokesman for the Juiceman Juicer, a product seen ubiquitously on U.S. infomercials in the 1990s
June 3	Danny Dias	34	Reality star (appeared in season 13 of Road Rules)
June 4	Roger Smith	84	Actor best known as Jeff Spencer on 77 Sunset Strip
June 5	Marilyn Hall	90	Writer (Love, American Style and Lights, Camera, Monty) and producer (A Woman Called Golda, Do You Remember Love, and The Ginger Tree). Wife of game show host on Let's Make A Deal Monty Hall.
June 8	Glenne Headly	62	Actress (recurring roles in Lonesome Dove, ER, Encore! Encore!, Monk, and The Night Of)
June 9	Adam West	88	American television, film, and voice actor, best known for playing and voicing the role of Bruce Wayne/Batman in the 1966-68 original TV series and in its related DC television universe franchises featuring the character, as well as the voice of Mayor West in Family Guy, a regular role in The Detectives, pitchman for Nestle Quik, among other numerous performances; alumni of KGMB-TV/Honolulu
June 15	Bill Dana	92	Actor, best known as José Jiménez on his eponymous show. Also made numerous appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show and was flagship personality of the short-lived United Network, hosting its only program The Las Vegas Show
June 16	Stephen Furst	62	Actor best known as Dr. Elliot Axelrod on St. Elsewhere and Vir Cotto on Babylon 5. Also guest spots on Newhart, CHiPs, and The Jeffersons
June 23	Gabe Pressman	93	News anchor in New York City for over 50 years, mostly at WNBC, but also at WNEW
June 26	Warren Doremus	91	News anchor at WHEC/Rochester, New York for 45 years. Won the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Award in 1976.
June 27	Michael Bond	91	British author who created the characters in the show Paddington Bear
July 1	Stevie Ryan	33	Reality show personality, star of Stevie TV
July 6	Joan Lee	95	Model, author, and voice actress (Iron Man, Fantastic Four and Spider-Man). Wife of legendary Marvel Comics writer/editor Stan Lee.
	Nancy Jeffett	88	Tennis promoter who arranged the first network television broadcast of women's tennis in 1972.
July 7	Nelsan Ellis	39	Actor, best known for playing Lafayette Reynolds in True Blood
July 9	Wally Burr	91	Voice actor (Crying Freeman, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, Jem, Spider-Man, The All-New Super Friends Hour, The Skatebirds, The Transformers)
July 10	Jack Shaheen	81	Consultant on Middle East affairs for CBS News
July 12	John Bernecker		Stuntman on The Walking Dead and numerous films
July 15	Martin Landau	89	Oscar-winning actor (TV work includes starring roles on Mission: Impossible, The Evidence and Space: 1999; and recurring spots on Without a Trace, Entourage and Spider-Man; and several TV movies)
	Bob Wolff	96	Sportscaster (announcer for the Washington Senators, and reporter on NBC Sports, News 12 Long Island, MSG Network, and YES Network)
July 16	George A. Romero	77	Horror film/TV director, writer, producer and actor (creator/executive producer of Tales from the Darkside)
July 17	Harvey Atkin	74	Actor, best known as Sergeant Ronald Coleman on Cagney & Lacey
July 18	Red West	81	Actor, best known as Sgt. Andy Micklin on Black Sheep Squadron
July 21	John Heard	72	Actor (TV roles including recurring spots on The Client, The Sopranos, CSI: Miami, and Prison Break)
July 22	Jim Vance	75	News anchor on WRC-TV/Washington, DC for 45 years
July 25	Barbara Sinatra	90	Model, dancer, writer, and widow of Frank Sinatra. Appeared as herself in several documentaries.
July 26	Patti Deutsch	73	American comedic television, film and voice actress (notable for being a regular on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, This Is Tom Jones, Grandpa Goes to Washington, Tattletales, and Match Game; voice work for The Smurfs, Capitol Critters, As Told by Ginger, The Electric Company, The Emperor's New School, and The Wild Thornberrys)
	June Foray	99	Actress and voiceover artist (most notably the voices for Rocky J. Squirrel and Natasha Fatale on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show and Granny from the Looney Tunes Series)
July 27	Sam Shepard	73	Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, director and actor (TV roles include recurring spots on Bloodline, Streets of Laredo, and Klondike)
August 4	Dick Albert	73	Meteorologist at WCVB-TV/Boston 1978–2009
August 7	Rich O'Brien	60	Creative director at Fox News Channel, CNBC, and America's Talking
August 8	Glen Campbell	81	Country music singer/songwriter and actor (host of The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, appeared in the TV movies Strange Homecoming and Christmas in Disneyland, and an episode of The F.B.I.)
	Barbara Cook	89	Singer and actress (appeared in episodes of Babes in Toyland, Golden Windows, Bloomer Girl, Armstrong Circle Theatre, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Perry Como Show, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Dinah Shore Chevy Show, The United States Steel Hour, and Play of the Week)
August 13	Joseph Bologna	82	Actor (What Now, Catherine Curtis?, Rag to Riches, Superman: The Animated Series)
August 19	Dick Gregory	84	American comedian, actor, author, and activist (guest spots on Tonight Starring Jack Paar and Wonder Showzen)
August 20	Jerry Lewis	91	American comedian, actor, singer, personality, talk show host, and author, credited for being the host and co-founder of The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon from 1966 to 2010. Other notable work include The Colgate Comedy Hour, What's My Line?, Hullabaloo, Ben Casey, two versions of The Jerry Lewis Show, Wiseguy, The Bold Ones, The Simpsons, Mad About You and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit; pitchman for 7-Eleven, Diet Pepsi and Coca-Cola; narrator on the HBO documentary Rascal Dazzle; script contributor for Will the Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down
August 23	Viola Harris	91	Character actress (guest spots on several shows, including Peter Loves Mary, My Three Sons, Dr. Kildare, Hazel, and Law & Order)
August 24	Jay Thomas	69	Emmy-award-winning television/film actor, radio personality/music/programming director, voiceover actor/talent, and comedian (regular roles on Mork & Mindy and Love & War; recurring roles on Ray Donovan, Kate Joplin, Hercules, Married People, Murphy Brown, and Cheers)
August 25	Jack Keil	94	Advertising executive for Dancer Fitzgerald Sample, best known as the creator and voice of McGruff the Crime Dog
August 26	Tobe Hooper	74	Horror film/TV director, producer, and screenwriter (Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories, I'm Dangerous Tonight, and Salem's Lot)
August 31	Richard Anderson	91	Actor, best known as Oscar Goldman on The Six Million Dollar Man and its spinoff The Bionic Woman
September 1	Shelley Berman	92	Character actor (Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Twilight Zone, Bewitched, Peter Gunn, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Adam-12, Emergency!, Brothers, Night Court, MacGyver, L.A. Law, Friends, Walker, Texas Ranger, The King of Queens, Grey's Anatomy, Boston Legal, Hannah Montana, CSI: NY, Hawaii Five-0, and Walter & Emily)
	Novella Nelson	77	Character actress. Guest spots on numerous shows (Army Wives, The West Wing, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), miniseries (Chiefs, Mama Flora's Family, The Starter Wife), and TV movies (Citizen Cohn, The Summer of Ben Tyler, Daybreak)
	Peadar Lamb	87	Actor, best known as the voice of the title character in Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks
September 2	Elizabeth Kemp	65	Actress, best known as Betsy Randall on Love of Life
September 8	Blake Heron	35	Actor, best known as Jordan Wells on Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher and Dellus on Good vs. Evil
September 9	Mike Hodge	70	Television and commercial actor, best known for recurring roles as the Judge on Ed and Judge Delano Burns on Law & Order; President of SAG-AFTRA New York
September 10	Don Ohlmeyer	72	Sports producer (most notably with ABC Sports and Monday Night Football) and executive with NBC
September 11	Howard Caldwell	92	Long-time news anchorman at WRTV Indianapolis
	Mark LaMura	68	Actor, best known as Mark Dalton on All My Children
September 13	Frank Vincent	80	American actor (The Sopranos, The Paradise Club, Civil Wars, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Walker, Texas Ranger, Swift Justice, New York Undercover, Law & Order, NYPD Blue, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Mr. Pickles)
September 14	Sean Adams	46	Reporter on Longhorn Network
September 15	Harry Dean Stanton	91	American actor (Inner Sanctum, The Texan, The Lineup, Rescue 8, Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, Zane Grey Theatre, The Untouchables, The Lawless Years, Have Gun - Will Travel, Laramie, Bonanza, Rawhide, Gunsmoke, Daniel Boone, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Young Maverick, Two and a Half Men, Big Love, Mongo Wrestling Alliance, Getting On and Twin Peaks)
September 17	Bobby Heenan	72	Legendary WWF and WCW manager and color commentator; member of the WWE Hall of Fame
September 19	Bernie Casey	78	NFL football player (San Francisco 49ers, Los Angeles Rams) and actor (recurring roles on Babylon 5, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Bay City Blues, The Sophisticated Gents, The Martian Chronicles, and Harris and Company)
September 22	David Lyle	67	TV executive (National Geographic Channel, FremantleMedia, Fox Reality Channel)
September 26	Barry Dennen	79	Actor (Batman, Galtar and the Golden Lance, Tales from the Darkside and Justice League: Throne of Atlantis). Also voice actor (DuckTales, Batman: The Animated Series, The Pirates of Dark Water, Animaniacs, Avatar: The Last Airbender and Star Wars: The Clone Wars)
	Digby Diehl	76	Journalist, author, and commentator (Hollywood correspondent on CBS Morning News, literary correspondent on Good Morning America and movie critic on KCBS-TV Los Angeles)
September 27	Hugh Hefner	91	American magazine journalist, publisher, entrepreneur, broadcaster and reality television personality (Founder of Playboy Enterprises and Playboy TV; host of Playboy After Dark and Playboy's Penthouse, star of The Girls Next Door, several appearances on Kendra on Top; guest spots include Laverne and Shirley, Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-in, Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Robot Chicken, and MTV Cribs)
	Anne Jeffreys	94	Actress, best known as Amanda Barrington on General Hospital
September 30	Monty Hall	96	Canadian-American game show host (Let's Make a Deal) and creator (Stefan Hatos-Monty Hall Productions)
October 1	Dave Strader	62	NHL announcer (Detroit Red Wings, Dallas Stars, Phoenix Coyotes, Florida Panthers, St. Louis Blues, NBC, Versus, ESPN, Fox)
	Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr.	89	American publisher and businessman (formerly owned Brighthouse Networks and held a controlling interest in Discovery Communications and a minority interest in Charter Communications)
October 2	Tom Petty	66	American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer, songwriter and guitarist (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Traveling Wilburys, Mudcrutch). Appeared in several episodes of It's Garry Shandling's Show, a recurring role as Elroy "Lucky" Kleinschmidt on King of the Hill, a cameo on The Simpsons, and several appearances as the musical guest on Saturday Night Live.
	Warren Burton	72	American actor (All My Children, Another World, Guiding Light, Santa Barbara, General Hospital, Valley of the Dolls and The New Adventures of Zorro)
October 3	Lance Russell	91	American professional wrestling announcer and commentator (CWA, USWA, WCW)
October 6	Ralphie May	45	American standup comedian. Appeared on the first season of Last Comic Standing, guest spots on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and The Wayne Brady Show, recorded four specials for Comedy Central and two for Netflix.
October 8	Grady Tate	85	American jazz drummer and singer (Schoolhouse Rock!)
October 10	Bob Schiller	98	American two-time Emmy Award-winning screenwriter (I Love Lucy, All in the Family, Archie Bunker's Place, The Carol Burnett Show, Professional Father, The Jimmy Durante Show, It's Always Jan, That's My Boy, The Red Skelton Show, My Favorite Husband, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Ann Sothern Show, Pete and Gladys, My Favorite Husband, The Phyllis Diller Show, and The Flip Wilson Show) and producer (The Good Guys, All's Fair, and Maude)
October 16	Roy Dotrice	94	British actor (American TV work includes Jacob "Father" Wells on Beauty and the Beast and Father Gary Barrett on Picket Fences)
	John Dunsworth	71	Canadian actor, best known as Jim Lahey on Trailer Park Boys
October 17	Mychael Knight	39	American fashion designer, appeared on seasons 3 and 6 of Project Runway and season 3 of Rip the Runway
	Michele Marsh	63	News anchor at New York City stations WCBS-TV and WNBC
October 19	Jim Nash	73	News anchor at Los Angeles station KTLA
October 24	Robert Guillaume	89	Two–time Emmy award-winning–actor, best known as Benson DuBois on Soap and its spinoff Benson; and Isaac Jaffe on Sports Night.
	Patricia Llewellyn	55	British producer (U.S. TV work includes Kitchen Nightmares, Hotel Hell, MasterChef, and MasterChef Junior).
October 25	Jack Bannon	77	Actor, best known as Art Donovan on Lou Grant
November 1	Brad Bufanda	34	Actor, best known as Felix Toombs on Veronica Mars
November 9	John Hillerman	84	Actor, best known for his Emmy Award–winning role as Jonathan Higgins on Magnum, P.I.
November 14	Nancy Zieman	64	Designer, quilting expert, and host of PBS' Sewing with Nancy
November 16	Ann Wedgeworth	83	American television, film, and stage actress/singer, best known for playing Lana Shields in Three’s Company, Angela 'Angie' Talbot on The Edge of Night, Lahoma Vane Lucas on both Another World and Somerset, Bootsie Westchester on Filthy Rich, Audrey Conner on Roseanne, and Merleen Eldridge on both Evening Shade and Harlan & Merleen.
November 17	Earle Hyman	91	Actor best known as Russell Huxtable on The Cosby Show and the voice of Panthro on ThunderCats
	Robert D. Raiford	89	News anchor at WTOP-TV/Washington, DC and WCNC-TV/Charlotte, North Carolina and actor in several TV movies
November 19	Della Reese	86	American actress/singer, best known for playing Tess on Touched by an Angel, Victoria Royal on The Royal Family, and Della Rogers on Chico and the Man, among her numerous credits, as well as appearing on The Ed Sullivan Show a record 157 times, and hosting her own syndicated daytime talk show (1969–70), the first African American female to do so.
	Charles Manson	83	American cult leader and convicted murderer of actress Sharon Tate and others, who was the subject of several TV documentaries, most notably Helter Skelter
November 21	Buzz Belmondo	70	Actor best known for playing Buzz on Out of This World; also had a recurring role on Baywatch
	David Cassidy	67	Actor and singer best known as Keith Partridge on The Partridge Family
November 25	Rance Howard	89	American actor (recurring spots on Kraft Television Theatre, The Andy Griffith Show, Gentle Ben and Babylon 5, among numerous guest roles) and father of Clint Howard and Ron Howard
	Steve "Snapper" Jones	75	American basketball player (New Orleans Buccaneers, Dallas Chaparrals, Portland Trail Blazers) and analyst (NBC, CBS, TNT, TBS, USA, NBA TV, Denver Nuggets)
	Julio Oscar Mechoso	62	Character actor (recurring roles on Matador, Cane, Invasion, Greetings from Tucson, Damon, High Incident, Coach, Stat, and Miami Vice)
November 30	Jim Nabors	87	Actor best known for playing Gomer Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show and its spin-off Gomer Pyle, USMC, hosted The Jim Nabors Hour and The Jim Nabors Show, regular guest on The Carol Burnett Show and The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, and cast member of The Lost Saucer
	Heather North	71	American actress, portrayed Sandy Horton in Days of Our Lives from 1967–1971; second to voice Daphne Blake in the Scooby-Doo franchise from 1969–1985, and briefly reprised the role in 2003.
December 9	Stu Evey	84	Broadcasting executive, chairman of ESPN from 1979–1984
December 14	Bob Givens	99	Animator of several iconic characters including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Tom and Jerry, Alvin and the Chipmunks, and Popeye
December 19	Richard Venture	94	Actor (The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, Fame, Murder, She Wrote, and Seinfeld)
December 21	Dick Enberg	82	Sportscaster (Lead announcer for the NFL on NBC from 1978 to 1998, also called basketball, baseball and tennis for NBC, CBS, ESPN and Fox Sports San Diego)
December 24	Heather Menzies-Urich	68	Canadian-born American television/film actress/singer, model, and health advocate. TV roles include Jessica 6 in Logan's Run and Charlotte Henderson in Vega$.
December 26	Jim Burns	65	Co-creator of MTV Unplugged
	Irv Weinstein	87	News anchor (34 years at WKBW-TV in Buffalo, New York and key contributor of many elements to the Action News format)
December 27	Amanda Davis	62	Emmy-Award-winning news anchor and reporter in the Atlanta market, notably at WAGA-TV (1986 to 2012) and WGCL (January 2017 until her death), WCNC-TV/Charlotte and the short-lived Satellite News Channel.
December 28	Rose Marie	94	American actress and game show panelist, best known for her portrayal of Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show, Myrna Gibbons on The Doris Day Show and a regular on Hollywood Squares, among her numerous credits.
	Sue Grafton	77	American television and film screenwriter turned author and novelist of the Alphabet mystery series (credits include Sex and the Single Parent, Mark, I Love You, Nurse, Walking Through the Fire, adaptations of Agatha Christie’s A Caribbean Mystery and Sparkling Cyanide, A Killer in the Family, Love on the Run, and Svengali)
December 29	Danny Breen	67	Actor (cast member on Not Necessarily the News, recurring role on Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures, guest spots on The Golden Girls, Full House, Seinfeld, Frasier, and Curb Your Enthusiasm among numerous others), and producer (Whose Line Is It Anyway?, The Wayne Brady Show, and The Moment of Truth). Also performer at The Second City.

See also

• 2017 in the United States
• List of American films of 2017