2023 in American television

The following is a list of events affecting American television in 2023. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, and cancellations; channel launches, closures, and re-brandings; stations changing or adding their network affiliations; information on controversies, business transactions, and carriage disputes; and deaths of those who made various contributions to the medium.

Notable events

January

Date	Event	Source
2	During the first quarter of that night's Monday Night Football game against the Cincinnati Bengals at Paycor Stadium, Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin went into cardiac arrest and collapsed midfield after tackling Bengals wide receiver Tee Higgins. Hamlin received treatment (including CPR and automated external defibrillation) on-field by stadium medical personnel, who were able to restore his heartbeat, and was subsequently taken to University of Cincinnati Medical Center in critical condition. (Hamlin came out of his induced coma on January 5, with his neurological functions determined to be intact; he was released from UCMC on January 9 and returned to Buffalo, where he underwent two additional days of evaluation at Buffalo General Medical Center before being released there.) After being suspended for roughly 45 minutes with 5:58 remaining in the quarter, the game—which was simulcast on ABC, in addition to its regular broadcasts on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN Deportes and ESPN+—was postponed. On January 6, the NFL announced that the game would not be completed; playoff seeding that was to be determined by the Bills–Bengals game was instead decided by winning percentage (factoring this, the Bengals would clinch the AFC North championship title), and matchups were determined through Wild Card games (involving the Miami Dolphins against the Bills, and the Baltimore Ravens against the Bengals) scheduled for January 14 and 15, respectively. The Bills and Bengals would each advance to the Divisional Playoffs, which saw the Bengals qualify for the AFC Championship, 27–10, in a January 22 rematch against the Bills.
3	For The View's first episode of the year, current and former hosts (including original panelists Star Jones, Debbie Matenopoulos and Meredith Vieira, the latter appearing via phone call due to illness) reunite to honor Barbara Walters. Walters, who died on December 30, 2022, at age 93, created and produced the ABC daytime talk show, and was among its panelists from its August 1997 debut until her retirement in May 2014.
5	CBS West Coast flagship KCBS-TV and independent KCAL-TV, both in Los Angeles and owned by the network, jointly rebrand their news department as KCAL News. The change takes effect with the launch of a six-hour local morning newscast on KCAL-TV, with a one-hour simulcast on KCBS-TV (which begins carrying CBS Mornings live at 4 a.m. PT along with the West Coast feed at 7 a.m. PT). Local and network management agreed to the KCAL News rebrand as a way to leverage KCAL-TV's stronger identity in the market, having been the first station to launch a three-hour primetime newscast in 1990.
6	Dish Network removes 32 stations collectively owned by Mission Broadcasting (including WPIX/New York City, WXXA/Albany, WYOU/Scranton–Wilkes Barre, KWBQ–KASY/Albuquerque–Santa Fe, WNAC/Providence, KAMC/Lubbock, and KLRT–KASN/Little Rock) and White Knight Broadcasting (owner of WVLA/Baton Rouge and KFXK/Longview), after the satellite provider and the two Nexstar Media Group affiliate companies fail to renew a carriage agreement that expired that day. The blackout effectively leaves the affected Mission and White Knight stations without satellite distribution as both groups have been involved in separate carriage disputes with DirecTV (and co-owned DirecTV Stream and U-verse TV) that began in October 2022.
10	The 80th Golden Globe Awards air on NBC and stream on Peacock from The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, with Jerrod Carmichael hosting. It follows a one-year absence from the network after NBC declined to air the previous year's ceremony in support of boycotts by various media companies, actors, and other creative individuals in the entertainment industry over the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's lack of action to increase the diversity of the organization's board membership. Among television awards, Abbott Elementary was the top winner with three awards each ("Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy", "Best Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy" for Quinta Brunson, and "Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series – Musical-Comedy or Drama" for Tyler James Williams), tying with top film winner The Banshees of Inisherin (which won for "Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy", "Best Screenplay", and "Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy" for Colin Farrell) for the most wins overall among the ceremony's awards.
12	Nexstar Media Group ceases live streams of local programming (including newscasts) produced by its stations on their websites and mobile apps, instituting a two-hour delayed feed of each station's local programs in its place. The change is an apparent effort to obtain leverage in contractual negotiations with linear pay TV providers, amid Nexstar's carriage disputes with providers such as DirecTV, Dish Network and Verizon FiOS (see January 6 entry as an example). Three of the group's major-market stations (WGN/Chicago, KTLA/Los Angeles and KRON/San Francisco), and live breaking news and severe weather events covered by the affected stations are exempt from the change, which deviates from the now-standard practice of offering live newscasts online for the convenience of viewers who are unable to view them at home or who live outside of the station's home market.
15	The 28th Critics' Choice Awards airs on The CW from the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Century City, with Chelsea Handler as host. Among television nominees, Better Call Saul had the most wins with three awards ("Best Drama Series", "Best Actor in a Drama Series" for Bob Odenkirk, and "Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series" for Giancarlo Esposito), while Abbott Elementary won two awards ("Best Comedy Series", and "Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series" for Sheryl Lee Ralph). Everything Everywhere All at Once won five awards (including "Best Picture", and "Best Supporting Actor" for Ke Huy Quan) to become the ceremony's top winner overall and among film nominees. Special honors went to Jeff Bridges (Lifetime Achievement Award) and Janelle Monáe (#SeeHer Award).
17	The Daily Show begins its post-Trevor Noah era, returning from a five-week hiatus with Leslie Jones beginning a week-long stint as guest host. Jones is the first in a series of guests who will anchor the Comedy Central nightly program while the network determines a permanent successor for Noah, who ended a seven-year run as host in December 2022.
19	LIV Golf signs a multi-year deal with The CW to broadcast and stream its events beginning with the 14-tournament 2023 season (the first event being the LIV Golf Mayakoba tournament at the El Camaleón Mayakoba Golf Course in Solidaridad, Quintana Roo from February 24 to 26). The deal is the golf organization's first U.S. broadcast deal—its inaugural year in 2022 was available only through YouTube—and the CW's entry into live sports telecasts. This deal was criticized by the National Press Club as an attempt by Saudi Arabia's monarchy (which finances LIV through a sovereign wealth fund) to sportwash its unflattering reputation after their alleged involvement in the October 2018 assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. As CW stations are only contractually obligated to air the network's prime time schedule, 14 affiliates (eight owned by CBS, five owned by Tegna, and Weigel-owned WCIU/Chicago) declined to air the LIV telecasts; CW majority owner Nexstar leased airtime on other stations in those markets.
23	CBS News Detroit, a localized extension of CBS News's streaming service, formally launches in Detroit. CBS-owned WWJ-TV simulcasts the 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts, with additional newscasts debuting on both platforms in the coming weeks. This marks a return to local news on WWJ-TV since a partially-outsourced morning drive newscast was cancelled in 2012. (An 11 p.m. newscast, produced by co-owned WKBD-TV, ran from 2001 to 2002, when the entire news service was shuttered.) The launch of CBS News Detroit was delayed throughout much of 2022 due to pandemic and supply chain-related delays. WKBD-TV's 10 p.m. news, originally produced remotely from KTVT/KTXA in Dallas–Fort Worth, had already been relaunched as Detroit Now News, a hybrid national-local newscast featuring CBS News Detroit reports and content.
	The Association of Pickleball Professionals signs multiplatform deals with CBS Sports and ESPN to broadcast and stream its tournaments beginning with the league's 2023 season. In addition to coverage on APP's standalone outlet, APP TV, the agreements encompass eleven of the 22 APP Tour events scheduled for the 2023 season, covering streaming coverage of eight events on ESPN+ (beginning with the Daytona Beach, Florida event held from February 8–12) and accompanying hour-long recap shows airing on ESPN2, and linear broadcasts of three additional events and recap programs on CBS Sports Network.
24	In the wake of felony charges of domestic abuse against him being made public following a court hearing on January 12, Adult Swim announces that it has severed ties with Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland. The single-count charges of domestic battery and false imprisonment, to which Roiland pled not guilty in October 2020, were related to a complaint involving an alleged incident that occurred ten months prior with an unidentified woman. Following Roiland's exit, production of the animated series will continue with co-creator Dan Harmon remaining as its lone showrunner, while the title characters, which had been voiced by Roiland, will be recast. Hulu would follow suit the next day, dropping him from Solar Opposites (the lead character of which he also voiced, in addition to handling showrunning duties) and the just-premiered Koala Man.
	The FCC issues a fine of $504,000 against Fox for "willfully violating" regulations prohibiting the sounding of Emergency Alert System tones or the simulation of an EAS alert during television programming in the absence of an emergency for a November 2021 promotional segment that aired during Fox NFL Sunday for a game telecast involving the New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles that followed the pre-game show. (The Giants won that game, 13–7.) The promo mimicking an emergency broadcast, described by Fox as a "short comedic advertisement", began with a three-second excerpt of the 853 Hz and 960 Hz tones used to precede EAS alert transmissions, which the network admitted had been downloaded or recorded from a YouTube video.
25	DirecTV removes Newsmax TV from the namesake satellite provider, and sister services DirecTV Stream and U-verse TV, after the company and network parent Newsmax Media fail to agree on a new contract. Although DirecTV cites aggressive carriage fee demands for the removal (while noting the wide availability of the network's content on its website and free streaming platforms), Newsmax accused the company of "deplatforming" it and fellow archconservative news and commentary channel One America News Network (which DirecTV removed in April 2022)—inferring an ideological motive for the decision, even though DirecTV continues to carry their main conservative rival Fox News—and dishonesty about the network's fee increase offers. A group of 41 Republican congressmen led by Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) sent a letter to the CEOs of DirecTV and shareholders AT&T and TPG Capital the week before, warning them of possible House committee hearings over the impasse should the provider drop the network. Newsmax TV, as with OAN, has been accused of pushing debunked claims of electoral fraud during the 2020 presidential election, earning support from former president Donald Trump (who is a personal friend of Newsmax CEO Christopher Ruddy) amid his criticism of Fox News for being the first television news outlet to call Arizona for Democratic challenger Joe Biden in that election. DirecTV reached an agreement to resume carriage of Newsmax on March 22.
	As part of a multi-year agreement that also extends their carriage contract for Court TV, the E. W. Scripps Company and YouTube TV announce that the vMVPD service will add Ion and digital multicast networks Bounce TV and Scripps News to its lineup, effective on this date. Under the terms of the deal, YouTube TV has the option of adding fellow Scripps-owned multicast networks Grit, Ion Mystery and Laff at a later date.
27	ABC News officially cuts ties with Amy Robach and T. J. Holmes. The two hosts of GMA3: What You Need to Know, who had respectively been with the network since 2012 and 2014, had been off the air since December 5, 2022, after a Daily Mail exposé revealed they had been in a romantic relationship (and had left their respective spouses), an affair ABC described then as "an internal and external disruption" but not a violation of company policy (although an internal investigation would commence). On May 11, the news division named Good Morning America weekend co-anchor Eva Pilgrim and correspondent Demarco Morgan to co-host GMA3, while transportation correspondent Gio Benitez (who was among those acting as substitute hosts on the program following Holmes and Robach's departure) will take over Pilgrim's GMA weekend anchor slot.
	Deadline reports that CNBC will discontinue producing original entertainment content for its prime time block, emphasizing instead on reruns of reality and documentary shows (e.g. Shark Tank, American Greed). The business news-oriented network's prime time had been home to first-run unscripted content that focused on wealth and lifestyle, including Jay Leno's Garage (whose cancellation had been announced earlier in the week) and the Kevin O'Leary-hosted Money Court.
30	Paramount Global announces plans to fully integrate its Showtime network with the premium tier of the Paramount+ streaming service, beginning on a future date yet to be announced. The combined service will be branded as Paramount+ with Showtime, replacing a bundle of the same name that launched in mid-2022.
	FuboTV loses access to CBS stations in 160 markets after their respective owners (including Nexstar Media Group, Sinclair Broadcast Group, the E. W. Scripps Company, Hearst Television, Cox Media Group and Tegna) declined to accept the terms of a renewed master affiliate carriage agreement negotiated between network parent Paramount Global and the vMVPD. A national CBS feed, offering most of the network's base schedule (excluding some live sports events) and news content from the CBS News Streaming Network, was provided to substitute the affected affiliates. (CBS's owned-and-operated stations were not affected by the impasse as they were carried on a different carriage agreement.) Three weeks after the affiliate board approved a revised carriage deal, the affected stations began returning to Fubo on March 31.
	Longtime KSAT-TV/San Antonio sports director Greg Simmons resigns after 42 years, a decision made after his being charged for DWI. Weekend sports anchor Larry Ramirez would serve as KSAT's interim sports director.
31	YouTube TV drops MLB Network from its channel lineup after failing to reach a contract renewal agreement. Subscribers will be able to continue watching select national Major League Baseball games on Fox, ESPN and TBS.

February

Date	Event	Source
3	For the first time since 2015, Paul Shaffer reunites The World's Most Dangerous Band (the house band for David Letterman's Late Night and Late Show) to fill in for The Tonight Show's regular house band The Roots, who were in Los Angeles preparing for a performance at the Grammys.
5	The 65th Annual Grammy Awards airs on CBS from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. Trevor Noah serves as host of a ceremony that sees notable winners including Lizzo, whose "About Damn Time" wins Record of the Year; Harry Styles, whose Harry's House wins Album of the Year; and Beyoncé, whose four wins on the night (including Renaissance as Best Dance/Electronic Album) push her career Grammy mark to 32, making her the most-lauded artist in Grammy history.
7	NFL Network removes analyst and former player Michael Irvin from its coverage of Super Bowl LVII following allegations of sexual misconduct toward a woman at a hotel he was staying at in the Phoenix area, where the game will be held. Though surveillance video showed him interacting with the woman, Irvin told Dallas–Fort Worth radio station KRLD-FM and The Dallas Morning News that he had no recollection of any incident because he had been inebriated, and denied any wrongdoing. Irvin would file a $100 million defamation suit against the anonymous accuser and the hotel on February 9.
8	The Wall Street Journal reports Warner Bros. Discovery will continue to operate Discovery+ as a standalone streaming service, a pivot from the company's initial plans to shutter it entirely following the May 13 launch of its combination service Max, which will feature most of Discovery+'s existing content library in addition to the full HBO Max library. WBD cites concerns about Discovery+ subscribers opting out of moving to the pricier offering for the decision. (WBD has indicated that the combined service's ad-supported and ad-free tiers will be set at a higher price point than those of HBO Max and Discovery+.)
	NewsNation correspondent Evan Lambert is arrested on disorderly conduct and criminal trespassing complaints for allegedly disrupting a news conference by Ohio Governor Mike DeWine on the February 3 derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train containing hazardous chemicals that prompted residential evacuations in East Palestine. The D.C.-based correspondent was conducting a live report for the Nexstar-owned cable news channel's Rush Hour program when police officers inside the gym of the village's elementary school, where the news conference was held, told him to conclude the report while DeWine was speaking, and subsequently pushed Lambert to the ground and handcuffed him after acceding to their request. DeWine later condemned the officers' actions, clarifying he did not authorize Lambert's arrest. Lambert was released from the Columbiana County Jail later that evening on an $850 bond; he is scheduled to be arraigned on February 23.
12	The Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Philadelphia Eagles, 38–35, in Super Bowl LVII at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, which was broadcast on Fox (in English) and Fox Deportes (in Spanish), and streamed on the Fox Sports app and NFL+. It was the first Super Bowl assignment for play-by-play announcer Kevin Burkhardt and color analyst Greg Olsen, who succeeded Joe Buck and Troy Aikman as Fox's NFL broadcast team in 2020 after they were hired by ABC/ESPN to call its Monday Night Football and NFL playoff telecasts. The Fox telecast averaged 115.1 million viewers according to Nielsen data, becoming the most-watched program in American television history (just ahead of Super Bowl XLIX), with viewership reaching 118.7 million during the halftime show (headlined by Rihanna, who revealed her second pregnancy with the performance); the Fox Deportes telecast was watched by 951,000 viewers, becoming both the most-watched Super Bowl broadcast and the most watched non-soccer sports telecast in Spanish-language cable history.
15	Gray Television sells Fox affiliate KNIN in Boise, Idaho (operated by the E. W. Scripps Company) to Marquee Broadcasting in exchange for MeTV affiliate WPGA in Macon, Georgia. When completed, the deal will result in Gray owning at least one full-power station in nine of Georgia's eleven television markets. The deal was completed on May 1.
16	Ryan Seacrest announces he will step down as co-host and executive producer of Live with Kelly and Ryan, which he has hosted alongside Kelly Ripa since 2017, to concentrate full-time on other projects (including his hosting duties on American Idol and his syndicated radio program). Ripa's husband, Mark Consuelos, who has frequently served as guest host since she became co-host of the Disney/ABC-produced syndicated morning talk show in 2001, will succeed Seacrest on April 17 as permanent co-host of the renamed Live with Kelly and Mark. Seacrest—who will return occasionally to guest co-host—will continue hosting Live through April 14, at which time he will relocate to Los Angeles to host Idol's live performance shows.
22	Spectrum News 13 reporter Dylan Lyons is killed, and colleague and photojournalist Jesse Walden critically injured, in a shooting incident in the Orlando suburb of Pine Hills, Florida that also claimed the life of a nine-year-old girl and critically injured her mother. Lyons and Walden were at the scene of a homicide that claimed the life of a woman earlier that day. A teenager was taken into custody as a suspect in both incidents.
23	Ellen Pompeo makes her last appearance as a cast regular on Grey's Anatomy as her character, Meredith Grey, leaves Seattle and Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital for Boston in the episode "I'll Follow the Sun." Pompeo has been with the ABC medical drama since its 2005 premiere, and remains attached as an executive producer and narrator, in addition to making occasional on-screen guest appearances, the next of which will be the current 19th season's finale in May.
	Dish Network is hit by a cyberattack that resulted in data being extracted from its IT networks; and the company's internal servers, customer support systems and company websites being knocked offline, with service disruptions affecting its co-owned vMVPD service Sling TV and wireless provider Boost Mobile. Dish and Sling subscribers also experienced difficulties accessing streaming apps (such as its Dish Anywhere service, OTT services purchased through Dish and TV Everywhere apps of various networks carried by the Dish satellite service and Sling) using their provider logins. Some employees continued to be paid during the outage despite it preventing them from performing their jobs. Although Dish restored "many of the systems," including its websites, customer service operations and self-service applications within weeks of the attack, service disruptions and technical issues lingered into March as customers continued to report call center backlogs (some lasting up to 14 hours) and problems processing payments. Several Dish investors filed a class action lawsuit over the breach on March 30, accusing the company of negligence in failing to properly secure customer data.
24	Warner Bros. Discovery informs the teams whose games air on its AT&T SportsNet channels based in Denver, Houston, and Pittsburgh that the company will exit the regional sports network business, and that its AT&T Sports Networks unit will file for Chapter 7 liquidation bankruptcy unless the channels are sold or the teams take back their broadcast rights by March 31. Teams that air on Seattle-based Root Sports Northwest are not part of the proceedings as WBD only holds a minority stake in that network.
	Warner Bros. Discovery files a breach of contract lawsuit with the New York Supreme Court, accusing Paramount Global of violating a 2019 agreement that gave HBO Max rights to stream the first 23 seasons of South Park as well as three subsequent seasons that had yet to air at the time on Paramount-owned Comedy Central. The suit alleges Paramount diverted most of the animated series' post-2019 episodes to Paramount+ under a separate $900-million deal between ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks (now Paramount Media Networks) and series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone reached in August 2021, despite WBD holding streaming exclusivity over the series under their $596.7-million (or $1.7 million per episode) deal, and only produced 14 of the 30 additional episodes promised to fill out the WBD–Paramount contract. Paramount countersued WBD on April 19, alleging the contract did not define a specified episode commitment for future seasons or required it to license made-for-streaming South Park movies to HBO Max. WBD and Paramount both claim they are owed $52 million in unpaid license fees.
26	The 29th Screen Actors Guild Awards are presented at the Fairmont Century Plaza in Century City, California, with notable winners including the motion picture Everything Everywhere All At Once (four awards) and TV series Abbott Elementary and The White Lotus (wins for comedy and drama ensembles, respectively). The ceremony airs live on Netflix's YouTube channel, a one-year arrangement between SAG and Netflix before the streamer, once its live-streaming capabilities are worked out, carries the ceremony exclusively beginning in 2024. (The SAG Awards' former broadcast homes, TNT and TBS, announced in 2022 that they would no longer broadcast the ceremony.)

March

Date	Event	Source
4	The 2023 Kids' Choice Awards airs on Nickelodeon and was simulcast on six Paramount-owned sister networks (including the Nick Jr. Channel, Nicktoons, TeenNick, TV Land and MTV2) from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, with Nate Burleson and Charli D'Amelio (who won "Favorite Female Creator") as hosts. Harry Styles won the most awards among all nominees with three each: for "Favorite Male Artist", "Favorite Global Music Star", and "Favorite Song" (for "As It Was"). High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (with Olivia Rodrigo and Joshua Bassett winning both "Favorite Kids TV Star" categories) and Wednesday (which won "Favorite Family TV Show" and "Favorite Female Family TV Star" for Jenna Ortega) were the top winners among TV nominees with two each. Other major winners include Sonic the Hedgehog 2 ("Favorite Movie"), SpongeBob SquarePants ("Favorite Animated Series"), and Adam Sandler ("King of Comedy Award"). Also on this day, Nickelodeon receives its first major rebrand in almost six years.
8	Fremantle, the production company behind The Price Is Right, announces that the CBS game show will relocate from Los Angeles' Television City to Haven Studios, a Fremantle-co-owned facility in nearby Glendale, California, when its 52nd season begins taping in the summer. TPIR has originated from Studio 33 at Television City (renamed in 1998 as the Bob Barker Studio, in honor of the former longtime host) since premiering in 1972; its move, and the pending relocations of several other shows from the facility (among them The Young and The Restless and Real Time with Bill Maher), comes before the start of a $1.25 billion renovation of the property, which Hackman Capital Partners bought from CBS in 2018.
	Hulu removes 34 ABC stations operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group from its vMVPD service in 32 markets, after the streaming service reportedly declined Sinclair's offer to add Tennis Channel as part of a renewed agreement for the stations. Unlike the earlier FuboTV master agreement dispute between CBS and several of its affiliate operators (see January 30 entry), Hulu—which is majority owned by ABC parent Disney—did not substitute the affected Sinclair stations with a linear ABC national feed. (A feed was provided to the affected markets exclusively for the network's telecast of the 95th Academy Awards four days later.) The dispute lasted until April 21, when Hulu and Sinclair agreed to reinstate the affected stations through a new contract.
	WLBT/Jackson removes longtime morning anchor and chief meteorologist Barbie Bassett (who is white), after she quoted the Snoop Dogg-coined slang, "Fo shizzle, my nizzle" ("nizzle" referring to the Black term of endearment vernacular for "nigger"), when a collaboration with another WLBT reporter was jokingly raised during the Gray-owned NBC affiliate's 11:00 a.m. newscast, after a report on the introduction of a new wine to the rapper's Cali Wine Collection line. Although WLBT—which infamously had its license revoked by the FCC in 1969 from original owner Lamar Life Insurance, due to the station's advocacy of racial segregation and omission of civil rights movement coverage during NBC News broadcasts—has not formally disclosed Bassett's status, her biography was removed from its website. Bassett previously apologized for a similar incident in October 2022, in which she suggested reporter Carmen Poe (who is Black) ask her grandmother—whom Bassett referred to as "grandmammy"—for a pie recipe to get a scoop on a then-upcoming ESPN College Gameday telecast from Jackson State University.
12	The 95th Academy Awards airs on ABC from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, with Jimmy Kimmel as host. Everything Everywhere All at Once was the top winner with seven awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress (Michelle Yeoh, who became the first Asian woman to win the honor), Best Supporting Actor (Ke Huy Quan), and Best Supporting Actress (Jamie Lee Curtis). Other major winners included All Quiet on the Western Front with four awards (including Best International Feature Film) and The Whale with two (including Brendan Fraser for Best Actor). The telecast was seen by an estimated 18.7 million viewers, up 12% from the previous year.
13	As part of a multi-year agreement that also extends their existing carriage contracts for the group's 40 CBS stations and NewsNation, Nexstar Media Group and YouTube TV announce that the vMVPD service will add 59 Nexstar-operated stations serving 56 markets (consisting of 29 CW, 26 MyNetworkTV and four independent stations, including WPIX/New York City, KTLA/Los Angeles, WGN-TV/Chicago, KRON/San Francisco, WPHL/Philadelphia, and WDVM–WDCW/Washington, D.C.) to its lineup. The deal fills a major affiliate coverage gap for The CW on YouTube TV, as Nexstar was the largest group without a carriage deal for its CW stations (CBS and Sinclair Broadcast Group were the largest CW station operators to offer their affiliates on the service); it also expands local MyNetworkTV carriage on YTTV (beyond affiliates operated by Fox and Sinclair) for the first time.
14	Diamond Sports Group files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Texas. The operator of the Bally Sports group of regional sports networks, which carry local broadcasts for nearly half of the teams in the NBA, NHL and MLB (42 teams in total across 19 channels), had been struggling to reduce around $8 billion in debt acquired through its 2019 purchase of the former Fox Sports Networks from The Walt Disney Company. Diamond's financial health, which was impacted by cord-cutting as well as carriage disputes earlier in the decade that significantly reduced Bally Sports' vMVPD distribution, became an issue after announcements that it had missed a $140 million payment to its lenders in February, and a scheduled rights payment to MLB's Arizona Diamondbacks on March 10. Diamond will separate from majority parent Sinclair Broadcast Group as part of the reorganization, and plans to continue to produce and air games. Diamond president Steve Rosenberg subsequently stepped down on March 20, succeeded by CFO David DeVoe.
	DirecTV files a lawsuit against Nexstar Media Group, Mission Broadcasting and White Knight Broadcasting with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, accusing the groups of price fixing through an "illegal conspiracy" to collectively bargain in retransmission fee negotiations using "sidecar" arrangements between Nexstar and the latter two companies meant to skirt FCC regulations (including its local station ownership caps). The suit is in relation to a broader carriage dispute involving 23 Mission and two White Knight stations that were removed from DirecTV, DirecTV Stream and U-verse TV during separate negotiations in October 2022.
15	Sports Business Journal reports that Greg Gumbel has signed a contract extension with CBS Sports that will allow the veteran sportscaster to remain studio host for its NCAA basketball coverage while stepping away from his role as play-by-play announcer for its NFL broadcasts. Outside of the period when the network did not have the NFL (1994–97), Gumbel has been with CBS since 1990 and is the first African-American to handle play-by-play for the Super Bowl.
17	Tyra Banks discloses in an interview with TMZ that she will step down as co-host of Dancing with the Stars after three seasons to focus on her business and television production projects. Banks succeeded Tom Bergeron (who had hosted DWTS since its 2005 debut on ABC) and Erin Andrews as sole host of the reality competition series in 2020. On March 20, Julianne Hough—who served as a pro dancer from 2007 to 2009 and as a judge from 2014 to 2017—was named to succeed Banks, alongside returning co-host Alfonso Ribiero, who joined the series in 2022 (coinciding with its move to Disney+).
	NBC and the post-production editing staff of Saturday Night Live announce a tentative labor agreement that averts a strike against the variety series that was set for April 1. The staff of 12–20 editors and film managers, who edit pre-taped sketches for SNL, unionized in October 2022, sent contract proposals to NBCUniversal that December, and approved a strike authorization with the Motion Picture Editors Guild on January 23. The deal, whose ratification was announced on March 23, gives the team pay boosts, healthcare benefits, employer-paid meals, and accommodations for those who work long shifts with short turnarounds.
18	KCBS–KCAL/Los Angeles weekend morning meteorologist Alissa Carlson Schwartz faints on-air just prior to presenting a weather segment during the CBS-owned duopoly's Saturday morning newscast. The rest of the broadcast was preempted following the incident, with both stations (which simulcast portions of the newscast) airing pre-recorded and paid programming in its place. Carlson—who, while employed at NBC affiliate KGET/Bakersfield, was diagnosed with a heart valve leak after vomiting on-set during a weather report in 2014—was treated for a head injury, and later revealed in a March 21 interview with CBS Mornings that the fainting spell was induced by vasovagal syncope likely triggered by dehydration.
24	Sinclair Broadcast Group lays off 30+ news department employees and cancels certain local newscasts produced by NBC affiliates WPMI/Mobile (operated under an SSA with Deerfield Media) and WEYI/Saginaw–Flint (operated under an SSA with Howard Stirk Holdings), Fox affiliate WACH/Columbia, and Fox/ABC affiliate WGXA/Macon, and shuts down the news department of ABC affiliate KAEF/Arcata–Eureka, California. WPMI cut more than 20 members of its approximately 30-person news staff, and discontinued its weekday morning and noon newscasts as well as the lifestyle program Gulf Coast Today; WEYI cut six production staffers, and cancels its weekday morning and weekend evening newscasts; WACH cancels its four-hour morning newscast; and WGXA cut nine production staffers, reduces its hour-long weeknight 5:00 p.m. newscast to a half-hour and cancels its Sunday–Thursday 10:00 p.m. newscast. On April 3, most of the affected stations replaced some or all of the affected newscasts with Sinclair's syndicated national newscast, The National Desk (with WACH replacing the first hour of its morning newscast with a repeat of its 10:00 p.m. newscast, and WPMI replacing its local midday programs with additional runs of Family Feud), while KAEF began simulcasting newscasts from Redding parent station KRCR (retaining two Eureka-based reporters to file reports for those broadcasts).
26	The United States Army pauses its recently launched advertising campaign featuring on-screen narrator Jonathan Majors, which revives its classic "Be All You Can Be" ad slogan, one day after the actor's arrest on misdemeanor domestic violence charges in connection to a March 24 domestic dispute, in which Majors allegedly physically assaulted a woman he was dating, resulting in her sustaining minor head and neck injuries. New ads in the campaign, which do not feature Majors, would be rolled out the following weekend.
27	Chanel West Coast announces her departure from MTV's Ridiculousness after signing a deal to develop, produce, and star in unscripted projects for MTV parent Paramount Media Networks and its MTV Entertainment Group subsidiary. Chanel had co-presented the comedic clip show, alongside Steelo Brim and lead host Rob Dyrdek, since its launch in 2011.
28	One day after The Bachelor's 27th season concludes, Mike Fleiss announces his departure from the Bachelor franchise he created and had produced since the first Bachelor season on ABC in 2002. Claire Freeland, Jason Ehrlich, and Bennett Graebner are immediately tapped to oversee the dating game show franchise, which also includes The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise. Though Fleiss, ABC, and Warner Bros. Television Studios (the franchise's producer) were tight-lipped as to the reason for his departure, a Variety report later indicated that Fleiss was the subject of an investigation, conducted by an outside party, into allegations of bullying and racially discriminatory behaviors.

April

Date	Event	Source
2	The LSU Tigers defeat the Iowa Hawkeyes to win the championship of the 2023 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament. Simulcasts of the game on ABC and ESPN2 drew a combined 9.9 million viewers, the largest ever television audience for a women's college basketball game.
	The 2023 CMT Music Awards airs on CBS from the Moody Center in Austin, Texas, with Kane Brown and Kelsea Ballerini as hosts. In addition to co-hosting, Kane Brown won the Video of the Year award for his collaboration with wife Katelyn Brown, "Thank God". Jelly Roll was the top winner of the night, with three awards (all for his single "Son of a Sinner").
3	The UConn Huskies top the San Diego State Aztecs in the title game of the 2023 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. The CBS broadcast attracted 14.693 million viewers, a record low for the championship event. The broadcast is also Jim Nantz's last college basketball assignment for CBS; though he remains the network's lead play-by-play announcer for NFL and PGA golf events, Nantz steps back from college basketball after calling 32 consecutive tournaments for CBS and Turner Sports. Ian Eagle will succeed Nantz as CBS' lead college basketball announcer in the 2023–24 season. This also marks the first Men's Final Four to be overseen by Charlie Baker, who was appointed president of the NCAA in December 2022 to succeed Mark Emmert (who announced his retirement in April of that year).	[18][17]
	Frontier Communications removes three networks—Newsmax Media-owned Newsmax TV, and Fuse Media-owned Fuse and FM—from its systems, after declining to negotiate new agreements with their respective parent companies. The dispute involving Newsmax comes two weeks after DirecTV ended a two-month dispute with the conservative news and commentary channel, and 4+1⁄2 months after Frontier dropped its archconservative competitor One America News Network in a similar dispute.
	American Idol season 21 contestant Sara Beth Liebe abruptly quits during the Hollywood Week round, citing the need to be with her children. Liebe called out Katy Perry on social media two weeks prior for a controversial "mom-shaming" joke that the singer made during her initial audition, in which she remarked that Liebe, after revealing she was a mother of three at age 25, had been "laying on the table too much."
5	Hearst Television announces it will purchase NBC affiliate WBBH/Fort Myers from Waterman Broadcasting for $220.54 million, pending FCC approval. The purchase—which includes the LMA rights to Montclair Communications-owned ABC sister WZVN—marks the family-owned Waterman's exit from broadcasting (the group, originally founded in 1956 as a radio station operator, had owned WBBH since 1978), and will give Hearst its fifth station in Florida, alongside its existing properties in Orlando (WESH/WKCF), West Palm Beach (WPBF) and Tampa (WMOR). The sale was completed on June 30.
12	As part of a multi-year agreement that also extends their existing carriage contracts for the group's 25 CBS and 16 MyNetworkTV stations as well as Comet, Sinclair Broadcast Group and YouTube TV announce that the vMVPD service will add Tennis Channel and its companion AVOD streaming channel T2, and digital multicast networks Charge! and TBD to its lineup, effective June 1. This would later be followed on July 19 by a similar deal between Sinclair and Hulu to add the three networks as well as Comet to the service’s vMVPD offering in January 2024.
	PBS and many of its member stations suspend activity on Twitter after the social messaging platform labeled the service's accounts as "government-funded media." The designation had earlier been given to NPR, which suspended posts the day prior amid a broader dispute that began on April 4, when Twitter first relabeled the counterpart radio service under the "state-affiliated media" classification previously given only to news agencies influenced or controlled by autocratic governments. PBS and NPR, which are editorially independent, consider both labels to be misleading and meant to undermine their credibility; both public broadcasters are funded primarily through donations from viewers as well as corporate and philanthropic donors, while government appropriations to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting account for >1% of their overall funding. (Other public broadcasters, including the BBC and CBC/Radio-Canada, have also criticized or paused activity on Twitter after being assigned the label.)
13	The studios of WWMT/Kalamazoo–Grand Rapids were evacuated around 2:30 p.m. ET, after a Greenville man with a history of mental illness threatened to kill himself with a bomb he claimed to have in his backpack. (Authorities later confirmed that they only found an iPhone charger and wiring in the backpack.) The suspect—who initially said he was submitting a news tip—forced his way through the front door of the Sinclair-owned CBS/CW affiliate's lobby when chief engineer George Markle moved to barricade the suspect between both lobby doors, and helped evacuate station staff from the building. After two hours, the suspect surrendered to police and was taken to the Kalamazoo County Jail.
16	Due to a 90-minute delay over what is later revealed to be an overlooked technical bug, Netflix aborts plans to live-stream the Season 4 reunion special of dating series Love is Blind. The special would have been the streamer's second-ever live event (after Chris Rock: Selective Outrage, which ran without error on March 4). The reunion is recorded and released on a tape delay the following day.
18	Avoiding a trial in Delaware Superior Court that already had a jury empaneled and sworn in, Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News announce a $787.5 million settlement agreement in the former company's defamation lawsuit over the latter's airing of baseless claims that Dominion's voting machines switched votes cast for Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, one of several conspiracy theories spread by Trump, his supporters and many conservative media outlets to explain his defeat by Biden. Dominion had been seeking $1.6 billion in damages. Though the settlement does not require them to apologize on-air, Fox News does acknowledge in a statement that "the Court's rulings [found] certain claims about Dominion to be false."
19	The news-gathering helicopters of Griffin Media's two Oklahoma CBS affiliates sustain damage from a supercell thunderstorm that spawned at least nine tornadoes across the central section of the state. While covering an EF3 tornado that caused extensive damage in Cole, three-inch hailstones knocked out the windshield of a Bell 407 operated by Oklahoma City flagship KWTV; pilot Jim Gardner and photographer Rich Kriegel, who were both on board, were not injured. An EF2 tornado which struck Shawnee later that evening damaged the tail rotor and roof of a Bell 206 B3 JetRanger operated by Tulsa sister KOTV (which was being housed in a hangar for maintenance and required inspection) at the city's airport.
20	The WNBA announces a multi-year deal with the E. W. Scripps Company that will see Ion Television air regular season doubleheaders, along with regional telecasts (airing in early- or late-evening broadcast windows) carried on selected Ion O&Os, on Friday nights starting with the 2023 season. Ion's initial slate of 44 WNBA-produced games will air over 15 weeks from May 26 to September 8. The deal gives Ion its first national sports telecasts since a three-event UFC preliminary fight deal in 2010–11, and marks the first rights deal ever signed by Scripps Sports, which was formed in December 2022 to acquire sports events for Ion and Scripps's local television stations.
	Fox News announces it has parted ways with conservative commentator Dan Bongino, who hosted the Saturday prime time show Unfiltered for the network as well as the Fox Nation program Canceled in the USA. According to Bongino, the move was due to a breakdown in contract negotiations and not related to Fox's settlement with Dominion Voting Systems.
21	Paramount Global agrees to a $167.5 million settlement of a case stemming from the 2019 merger of CBS Corporation and Viacom filed by former CBS shareholders against some of the company's former officers and directors (including vice-chairperson Shari Redstone and acting CEO Joseph Ianniello) over alleged breaches of fiduciary duties related to the merger negotiation and approval.
23	NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Shell departs the company following a third-party investigation into a complaint relating to an inappropriate relationship that Shell had with a female employee. Comcast president Michael J. Cavanagh will assume management responsibilities for the division until a successor is appointed. CNBC anchor and senior international correspondent Hadley Gamble—who lodged the complaint alleging sexual harassment by Shell, and allegations of bullying and discrimination by members of CNBC World's management team in March that led to investigations into both matters—would subsequently reach an agreement with NBCUniversal to depart the network on May 9.
24	Fox News parts ways with Tucker Carlson, permanently ending Tucker Carlson Tonight with the April 21 broadcast (which ended with the expectation that it would be back the following Monday). The dismissals of Carlson and senior executive producer Justin Wells—reportedly directed by Fox Corporation executive chairman/CEO Lachlan Murdoch and Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott to Fox chairman Rupert Murdoch—are tied to a discrimination lawsuit by producer Abby Grossberg (who was fired in March, and would go on to settle the litigation for $12 million on June 30), alleging she was subjected to bullying and antisemitic comments while working on the program, and was coerced by company lawyers to provide misleading testimonial answers in the Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit settled six days prior. Private text messages that Carlson sent to colleagues (expressing skepticism of election fraud claims made by former president Donald Trump's attorneys, criticizing the network for "jeopardizing" its credibility by amplifying the claims, and revealing that he hated Trump "passionately") were among the internal messages made public through the Dominion lawsuit that were widely seen as exposing Fox to greater legal liability. Carlson's former 8:00 p.m. ET slot was temporarily filled by Fox News Tonight, which was hosted by a rotation of network personalities; Jesse Watters Primetime took over the hour on July 17, as part of a broader prime time realignment that also saw timeslot changes for The Ingraham Angle and Gutfeld! (with Ingraham being moved to Watters' former 7:00 p.m. ET slot). Carlson would debut a conservative commentary video series on Twitter on June 6, prompting a cease and desist notice issued by Fox News one week later, citing a non-compete clause in his former contract that runs until early 2025.
	CNN parts ways with anchor Don Lemon, following a series of controversies over his on-air remarks and treatment of network colleagues, and an April 5 Variety report that outlined allegations of mistreatment toward several former female colleagues—including Nancy Grace, Kyra Phillips and Soledad O'Brien—and instances of "diva-like behavior" during his 17-year career at CNN. Lemon was earlier criticized for remarks about Nikki Haley, which were widely perceived as sexist, on the February 16 edition of CNN This Morning, suggesting the former United Nations ambassador and South Carolina governor (who turned 51 the month prior) was not a viable presidential candidate because she "isn't in her prime"—referencing a comment Haley made during her declaratory speech the day prior that implied President Joe Biden and her rival for the 2024 Republican nomination, Donald Trump (then 80 and 76, respectively), were too old to hold office.
	The Walt Disney Company conducts a second round of layoffs affecting hundreds of employees, including ABC Current Programming SVP Stacey Adams, Freeform programming development SVP Julie Jarmon, and Disney Branded Television unscripted programming VP Marc Buhaj, and 20th Television SVP and Current Programming co-chief Dana Sharpless; FiveThirtyEight founder/CEO Nate Silver will also depart at the end of his contract later this year as part of cuts to the ABC News unit. The company will also combine the current programming and development teams of Disney Television Animation, and dissolve digital content division 20th Digital Studio, Disney Media Distribution's first-run syndication unit and Disney Television Studios's marketing division (marketing responsibilities for programs produced by its studio units will be handled by the company's television and streaming properties).
	Concluding an expansion that began on April 1 (when it replaced overnight drama series and infomercials with repeats of its evening talk and analysis shows), NewsNation permanently switches to a 24-hour all-news schedule on weekdays: the Nexstar-owned network debuts a four-hour rolling afternoon news block, NewsNation Now (replacing crime dramas in that slot), and an hour-long political news show, The Hill (a broadcast extension of the co-owned publication, replacing an hour of NewsNation Rush Hour). The expansion coincides with the unveiling of a new studio at its New York bureau in the Daily News Building (where co-operated CW affiliate WPIX also christened a separate studio on that date). Syndicated scripted series acquired before the former WGN America began its gradual format shift from entertainment to news in February 2021 (such as Blue Bloods and Last Man Standing) and time-brokered programs will continue to air on weekends outside of prime time until late 2024, when NewsNation plans to switch to all-news programming full-time.
25	A man carrying an electric guitar and a handwritten sign—reading "Free Billie Eilish", and referencing a dark web conspiracy theory regarding the CIA's infamous MKUltra experimentation program and ex-Illuminati "insider" Donald Marshall—climbed onto a digital billboard on KTLA/Los Angeles's landmark auxiliary transmission tower outside its Sunset Bronson Studios facility. (The Nexstar-owned CW affiliate's promotional billboard was subsequently turned off temporarily for safety reasons.) The man descended from the tower after about three hours, as firefighters and LAPD crisis negotiators sought to get him down an adjacent ladder. He was arrested on a suspicion of trespassing complaint.
26	Facebook Watch announces the cancellation of Red Table Talk, the streaming service's last remaining original program, with its producers seeking a new service for future episodes of the talk show. The move comes amid ongoing layoffs at Facebook Watch parent Meta Platforms (which included that of Mina Lefevre, Facebook Watch's head of development and programming) and a shift in emphasis by Meta toward content for its Horizon Worlds virtual reality service.
	ESPN cut ties with baseball reporter Marly Rivera for calling fellow reporter Ivón Gaete a "fucking cunt" in a heated caught-on-tape exchange on April 18, after Rivera alleged Gaete tried to interview Aaron Judge, despite the former having had been scheduled to interview the New York Yankees outfielder.
	Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt vetoes H.B. 2820, a bill that would extend authorization for the Oklahoma Educational Television Authority, the state's PBS member network, through July 1, 2026. Although Stitt later alleged the veto was over objections to LGBTQ+ content on certain PBS programs that he claims "indoctrinat[es]" and "overly sexualizes" children (harkening rhetoric of a broader ongoing culture war over LGBTQ+ rights), the bill is one of over 20 measures (some passed unanimously by the state's House and Senate) that he elected to veto in a broader impasse with Senate leaders over his education and tax proposals—which, in addition to increasing education funding and teacher salaries, would also create a voucher-like tax credit program. The veto of H.B. 2820—which, had it not received the required two-thirds support of both legislative chambers to override it, would have resulted in OETA's agency authorization expiring on July 1 and the member network ceasing operations when its existing funding appropriations lapsed in July 2024—was overridden by the legislature on May 25 (the penultimate day of its 2023 session), passing the House, 73–23, and the Senate, 38–6.
	A red-tailed hawk fatally collided with a Bell 206 JetRanger operated by WPLG/Miami as the helicopter flew over Pembroke Pines en route to cover a story during the BH Media-owned ABC affiliate's noon newscast. Pilot Mark Lewis and photographer Joe Brennan were not injured, and the helicopter—which sustained damage to its cockpit window—landed safely.
27	Just shy of a year after announcing his departure, James Corden hosts The Late Late Show for the 1,193rd and final time. Will Ferrell and Harry Styles are the guests on the finale, which also featured a pre-recorded farewell message from President Joe Biden and a dream sequence sketch that included appearances by fellow current and former late night hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, David Letterman and Trevor Noah. The last episode of Corden's 81⁄2-year run as host—which was preceded earlier that night by the show's final prime time Carpool Karaoke special—also served as the series finale of the CBS late night talk franchise, which debuted in January 1995 with Tom Snyder as its original host. CBS will fill the program's timeslot with a revival of the comedy panel show @midnight (which originally ran from 2013 to 2017 on Paramount-owned sister cable channel Comedy Central) later in the year.
	Sinclair Broadcast Group announces it will cancel full-length newscasts and lay off all news department staff at CBS affiliate KTVL/Medford, Oregon, and CBS/Fox affiliate KPTH/Sioux City, and discontinue partially outsourced newscasts on NBC affiliate WNWO/Toledo (co-produced by CBS sister WSBT/South Bend since March 2017), CBS affiliate WGFL/Gainesville, Florida (co-produced by CBS sister WPEC/West Palm Beach since October 2019), and Fox affiliate KPTM/Omaha (co-produced by Fox sister KMPH/Fresno since 2013), effective May 12. The National Desk will replace newscasts on all five stations starting May 15. The cuts, as well as reductions in news production at five other stations (see March 24 entry), are believed to be related to the recent bankruptcy of Sinclair-controlled Bally Sports parent Diamond Sports Group.
28	Phoenix's professional basketball teams, the NBA's Suns and the WNBA's Mercury, reach agreements with Gray Television to air their regionally televised games on independents KTVK and KPHE-LD, and with interactive video provider Kiswe to livestream their games on team-specific subscription streaming services. The deal—which was slated to begin with a Mercury-Minnesota Lynx preseason game on May 25 and last five years for the Suns and two for the Mercury—would see the Gray stations maintain exclusivity over certain Suns and Mercury games, feature team-related programs on KTVK and KPHE, and have the content distributed throughout Arizona across KTVK's translator network and Gray-owned KPHE repeaters in Tucson (KOLD-DT5) and Yuma–El Centro (soon-to-launch KAZS). The Suns and Mercury are the first major-league teams to end their television partnerships with Bally Sports since the March 14 bankruptcy of parent Diamond Sports Group, whose Bally Sports Arizona has carried Suns and Mercury games since 2003 and 2006, respectively. (The Suns were last on over-the-air local TV when the team ended its contract with MyNetworkTV O&O KUTP in 2011.) U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Christopher Lopez, who is overseeing Diamond's bankruptcy proceedings, would void the Gray deal on May 10, on the basis that the Suns and Mercury violated rules that froze Diamond's rights with the teams and gave them a right of first refusal to match the deal, while in bankruptcy. Diamond effectively reversed course on July 13, declining to submit an offer matching the Gray deal to retain the Suns/Mercury rights before that day's deadline.
30	During ABC's coverage of Game 1 in the Miami Heat–New York Knicks playoff series, a bumper shown during the telecast included stock footage with the original towers of the World Trade Center in the background. After complaints from viewers, ESPN said it "mistakenly used an old stock image and we apologize."

May

Date	Event	Source
1	Two days after the conclusion of the 2023 NFL Draft, Xfinity drops NFL Network from its systems after failing to reach a contract renewal agreement prior to its expiration. The blackout ends the following day, reportedly resolved after a phone discussion between NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and Comcast CEO Brian Roberts conducted the previous afternoon.
	As part of a multi-year agreement that also extends their existing carriage contracts for the company's 90 ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox stations and NewsNation, Nexstar Media Group and Hulu announce that the latter will begin carrying additional Nexstar-run stations serving 32 markets (consisting of 26 MyNetworkTV and four independent stations, including WGN-TV/Chicago, KRON/San Francisco, WPHL/Philadelphia, WTTA/Tampa–St. Petersburg, KAUT/Oklahoma City and WDVM/Hagerstown–Washington, D.C.) to its vMVPD service's lineup. Although some of Nexstar's 29 CW affiliates were reportedly added to Hulu beginning in February, the terms of the deal do not specify whether carriage of other CW stations operated by Nexstar were included as part of the agreement.
2	The Writers Guild of America commences a strike against television and film studios, its first labor stoppage since 2007 and the largest production stoppage for the American entertainment industry since 2020, after the union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers failed to agree on a new contract by the WGA's May 1 renewal deadline. The WGA sought increases in compensation and residuals, and greater protections for over-scale pay (citing a decline in pay despite the expansion of content with the rise of streaming services in recent years that effectively created a "gig economy" for unionized writers), staffing requirements for television shows to employ a certain number of writers for a specified period of time (regardless of need for specific episodes), curbs on mini-rooms (where groups of writers outline story breakdowns and write scripts), and restrictions on chatbot scriptwriting. The strike immediately halted production of late night talk and variety shows; and, just as how the Fall network schedules were impacted by the 1981 and 1988 strikes in addition to being compounded by the concurring SAG–AFTRA strike that would begin on July 14, halted or delayed development and production of scripted series for the 2023–24 network schedule (resulting in unscripted programs, and acquired foreign, cable and streaming series occupying much of the Fall schedule), along with cable and streaming programs that have uncompleted episodes. At the outset, prime time network schedules were not significantly disrupted at the strike's commencement (after production on most scripted network shows for the 2022–23 season had already concluded). As well, some shows that employed paerticipating WGA members continued production, either without pre-written material (including talk shows The View, The Kelly Clarkson Show and Gutfeld!) or using fi-core and non-union writers to continue ongoing and planned storylines (as soap operas had done during previous strikes). The WGA would declare the strike over effective at 12:01AM on September 27, three days after the Guild and AMPTP reached a tentative agreement that was approved by Guild leadership on September 26, and allowing its rank and file to return to work while they perform a ratification vote.
	A man fires an automatic-style rifle into a glass door panel outside the front lobby of WHBQ/Memphis around 11:30 a.m. CT. The suspect—who had a history of mental illness, and was in the midst of a mental episode that family and friends reportedly intended to seek help for that day—had earlier informed an employee of the Imagicomm-owned Fox affiliate that he was carrying a gun while talking to them outside the studio's front gate. Employees were evacuated to a back parking lot for around 30 minutes as police secured the area; no one was injured. The suspect was arrested about two hours later at a nearby burger restaurant, where he was barricaded inside a bathroom and posted a Facebook Live video, in which he insisted on speaking with "news people" about alleged evidence into corruption in the Memphis Police Department.
4	The NHL's Vegas Golden Knights sign a multi-year agreement with the E. W. Scripps Company's Scripps Sports division to air their regionally-televised games on Ion O&O KMCC/Laughlin–Las Vegas (which will become an independent station). The deal, effective with the 2023–24 season, replaces AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain as the Knights' television partner and expands the team's local relationship with Scripps (KMCC sister station KTNV has carried the Knights' preseason and ABC-televised regular season games since the team's inaugural 2017–18 season, concurrent with its AT&T SportsNet contract). Scripps will syndicate the Knights telecasts to stations across the team's broadcast territory, including the company's stations in Boise, Salt Lake City and Montana. The Knights are the first major-league team to cut ties with AT&T SportsNet since its parent, Warner Bros. Discovery, announced its intent to exit the RSN business.
	Gray Television fires South Dakota State Capitol reporter Austin Goss (who filed reports for KOTA–KEVN/Rapid City and KSFY–KDLT/Sioux Falls) following his arrest on charges of making "threatening, harassing or misleading contacts" tied to a January 23 prank call he made to former South Dakota State Senator and Republican Party chairman Dan Lederman by spoofing the personal cell phone number of Governor Kristi Noem, which a state investigation found that Goss may have obtained during "personal and professional" communications with her.
5	NBC Sports California suspends veteran Oakland Athletics play-by-play announcer Glen Kuiper, after he appeared to refer to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum as the "nigger league museum" during the pre-game show for that night's away game against the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium. Kuiper apologized for the remarks—which he made while discussing a visit he and broadcast partner Dallas Braden made to the museum earlier that day—following a commercial break at the top of the sixth inning. The A's denounced Kuiper's remarks in a statement on Twitter, calling his use of the slur "unacceptable." Kuiper was fired by NBC Sports California on May 22.
6	The coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla is televised on all major broadcast networks, cable news channels and BBC America. The ceremony was watched cumulatively by 10.9 million viewers according to Nielsen, with ABC's coverage leading all networks with 3.04 million viewers.
7	The 2023 MTV Movie & TV Awards are broadcast on MTV and its sister networks, with Scream VI (Best Movie) and The Last of Us (Best Show) among the notable winners. Originally planned as a live ceremony (from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California), the event airs instead as a prerecorded presentation in the wake of several attendees, and previously announced emcee Drew Barrymore, withdrawing in solidarity with striking WGA members, as well as plans by the Guild to picket the event. (Barrymore, who still appeared on the broadcast in pre-recorded skits, has agreed to host the ceremony in 2024.)
8	Nexstar Media Group announces it will acquire independent station KUSI/San Diego from McKinnon Broadcasting for $35 million. The deal would create a duopoly with Fox affiliate KSWB (the first such duopoly in the San Diego market), and marks the family-owned McKinnon's exit from broadcasting (McKinnon, which was founded in 1962, had launched KUSI in 1982 and the station was its last television property following the 2010 sale of KIII/Corpus Christi to London Broadcasting Company). Nexstar plans to turn KUSI into a CW affiliate once its contract with Tegna-owned KFMB-DT2 (which runs through September 2026) expires or is terminated early.
9	Paramount Media Networks announces it will shut down MTV News as part of broader layoffs and cost-cutting at the company, affecting 25% of the company's U.S.-based staff. Launched in 1987 but affected by downsizing in its later years, MTV's news and documentary division was noted for its coverage of music, politics, lifestyle, and pop culture that was geared toward the network's younger audiences. Paramount Global also announces the consolidation of Showtime Networks and MTV Entertainment Studios into a single "studio" unit, and the nine separate operations teams of the Paramount Media Networks cable channels into one portfolio group.
10	CNN's Kaitlan Collins moderated a town hall with Donald Trump at Saint Anselm College in Goffstown, New Hampshire, in front of an audience primarily made of likely Republican primary voters. The former president and 2024 Republican presidential candidate made numerous false claims (including repeating voter fraud allegations in his 2020 presidential election loss); reiterated his support of the 2021 U.S. Capitol attack; credited himself for appointing three of the six Supreme Court justices who overruled the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion ruling in the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision; and sidestepped questions about whom he supported in the Russia–Ukraine war and if he supported a national abortion ban during the event. Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav and CNN Global CEO Chris Licht defended the decision to hold the town hall; however, media observers, CNN staffers, and Trump critics across the political spectrum denounced it for appearing to "normalize" his candidacy—despite Trump being the subject of multiple criminal and civil cases (including federal and state investigations into his attempts to overturn the 2020 election, and a New York civil trial that concluded the day prior, in which he was found liable of sexually abusing and defaming former Elle columnist E. Jean Carroll, remarks about whom Trump made during the event were amended into a separate defamation lawsuit against Trump, filed by Carroll in 2019, on May 22), and his tendency to make false claims and spread disinformation. In response to the event, legal commentator Tristan Snell said he would no longer appear on CNN under its current leadership. The town hall was watched by 3.1 million viewers according to Nielsen, lower than that of the network's July 2022 town hall with President Joe Biden (3.7 million).
15	WideOpenWest announces it will discontinue its in-house pay television services, Ultra TV (a traditional pay-TV service relying on QAM/IP-based set-top boxes that launched in 2011) and WOW tv+ (an IPTV service using Android TV infrastructure that launched in March 2020), and migrate its remaining video customers—totaling 117,100 subscribers as of Q1 2023, a 6.2% decline from Q4 2022—to YouTube TV, under a partnership that wil see the Alphabet-owned vMVPD provider be offered as part of WOW!'s Internet bundle, beginning that Summer.
	Country singer Reba McEntire, who earlier served as an advisor in the Knockout rounds for the 23rd season of The Voice, was announced to succeed outgoing coach Blake Shelton—the last of the NBC music competition series' four original coaches, who earlier announced his departure prior to the Season 23 premiere—for the 24th season. The semifinals, which followed a real-time voting structure without an "Instant Save" feature for the first time since Season 5, saw both artists coached by Shelton, Grace West and NOVIAS, advancing to the following week's final round; both artists would go on to lose to eventual winner Gina Miles, who was coached by former One Direction member and debuting coach Niall Horan, making him the series' tenth overall winning coach and the third coach to win on their first attempt.
16	The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announce the postponement of the 50th Daytime Emmy Awards, pending a resolution to the Writers Guild of America strike. The ceremony was scheduled to air June 16 on CBS and Paramount+ from the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles.
17	Mission Broadcasting announces it will acquire MyNetworkTV affiliate WADL/Mount Clemens, Michigan from Adell Broadcasting Corp. for $75 million. Clinton Township-based Adell, which signed on WADL in May 1989, will retain ownership of religious broadcaster The Word Network and radio station WFDF/Farmington Hills. Upon closure, Mission will contract with partner company Nexstar Media Group to provide operational services for WADL, which becomes Detroit's affiliate of The CW (a network majority owned by Nexstar) on September 1 (replacing WKBD-TV).
19	Citadel Communications announces that it will sell independent station WSNN-LD/Sarasota, Florida to Nexstar Media Group for $1 million. The transaction, which is expected to be completed by the end of the year, will combine the station with Nexstar's existing Tampa–St. Petersburg duopoly of WFLA (NBC) and WTTA (MyNetworkTV), and marks Citadel's exit from broadcasting; the company—which acquired WSNN in 2009—had owned nine major-network stations in the Midwest and New England (including current Nexstar properties WHBF/Rock Island–Davenport, KCAU/Sioux City and WIVT/Binghamton) at various points from its founding in 1982 until 2019. The sale was finalized on July 20.
22	Fifteen months to the date after it was first announced, Tegna announces it has terminated its deal to be acquired by hedge fund Standard General. The $8.6-billion deal, which was originally slated to be completed in the second half of 2022, had faced regulatory hurdles (the FCC's Media Bureau had designated the deal for a hearing by an administrative law judge in February), scrutiny from lawmakers and labor unions concerned over job losses (in part because the deal did not address conflicts with stations operated by Cox Media Group—whose majority owner, Apollo Global Management, helped finance the deal—in four markets), and a deadline for Standard General to arrange financing for the deal on this date. As a result of the deal's termination, Tegna (which owns and operates 68 stations in 54 markets) announces a share repurchase plan and the collection of a $136 million breakup fee from Standard General.
23	Netflix begins cracking down on unauthorized password sharing between subscribers and non-paying customers in the U.S. by introducing an $8/month "extra member" option to permit access to users who do not live in the account holder's household, and intending to block devices attempting to access a user's Netflix account without paying over a certain timeframe. Netflix initially tested the "extra member" program—which resulted in account cancellations in countries where paid-sharing has been implemented—to primary account holders in Chile, Costa Rica and Peru in 2022, and formally commenced paid-sharing in Canada, New Zealand, Portugal and Spain In February 2023.
24	Gray Television files a lawsuit in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals that requests to vacate a $518,283 fine issued by the FCC in July 2021 (which was upheld on appeal in a 3–1 vote by the FCC Media Bureau in October 2022), pertaining to a July 2020 non-license asset deal between Gray and Denali Media Holdings that saw the former acquire and transfer the CBS affiliation rights for Anchorage from KTVA (now a Rewind TV affiliate) to Gray-owned KYES (now KAUU). Because Gray already owned NBC affiliate KTUU, the FCC considered the transaction as equivalent to purchasing a second top-four station in violation of FCC duopoly regulations. Gray—which acquired KAUU (then a lower-rated MyNetworkTV affiliate) in 2016—contends the FCC had no authority to regulate the affiliation purchase as it did not involve a license transfer, that its regulation of a "functional equivalent" to the agency's Top-4 Rule via the fine exceeds the agency's regulatory authority, and that the fine violates the First Amendment by penalizing Gray's programming decisions without furthering a "legitimate" government interest.
29	Silver Chalice acquires majority control of Stadium from Sinclair Broadcast Group (which co-founded the broadcast/streaming sports network with the Chicago White Sox subsidiary in 2017, as a reconfiguration of Sinclair's American Sports Network syndication service). Sinclair cites that the decision to sell its controlling stake in Stadium was due to insufficient viewership to justify continued financing, refuting a report by Front Office Sports disclosing the purchase that it was tied to financial issues related to the recent bankruptcy of its Diamond Sports Group unit. Stadium will maintain its affiliation agreements with Sinclair-run stations, while Sinclair will continue to supply some programming for the network.
30	One week after failing to make a rights payment before the end of its fee grace period, Diamond Sports Group informs the San Diego Padres that it will no longer provide financing to Bally Sports San Diego that would enable the regional sports network to continue paying fees to the team. The Padres' local television rights consequently reverted to the team and Major League Baseball following that evening's game against Miami (the first of a three-game away series), marking the first instance since Diamond's March 14 bankruptcy filing that it returned the local MLB broadcast rights to a franchise. The league took over production of the Padres' regional telecasts starting with the May 31 Padres–Marlins game, and began carrying them on alternate channels on Cox, Spectrum, U-verse, DirecTV and Fubo within the team's home market, along with, for the first time ever, a blackout-free, direct-to-consumer option via MLB.tv. Game announcers Don Orsillo, Mark Grant and Bob Scanlan will remain on the broadcasts as they are directly employed by the Padres.

June

Date	Event	Source
4	Chuck Todd announces that he will stepping down as moderator of Meet the Press after nine years. Todd's tenure as moderator, which would end on September 10, saw the NBC program launch into other ventures (including the NBC News Now extension show Meet The Press Now, which Welker co-hosts and had originally debuted on MSNBC in 2015 as MTP Daily, weekly podcasts and a documentary film festival), and Todd himself facing criticism from some viewers and media critics for not pushing back against false statements made by guests (particularly those made by former president Donald Trump, his administration's officials, and his archconservative supporters in political leadership). Todd will be succeeded as MTP moderator on September 17 by NBC News White House correspondent Kristen Welker, who will move from the co-anchor chair at Saturday Today to become the political talk show's first female moderator (since co-creator Martha Rountree's 1947–53 tenure as its original host), as well as the first person of color to regularly serve as the program's moderator (Welker is of mixed Black–Caucasian heritage).
6	The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead reports that Red River Broadcasting has exercised an option to terminate the sale of Fox affiliates KQDS/Duluth–Superior and KVRR/Fargo–Moorhead to Forum Communications. The $24-million deal, first announced in November 2021, was dependent on the FCC approving a waiver of ownership rules prohibiting the combination of two full-power "Big Four" outlets in the same market, in order to allow a duopoly between KVRR and Forum-owned ABC affiliate WDAY. The FCC, which has only once approved such a "Big Four" duopoly (in 2019), had not yet considered the Fargo waiver. (Forum, which also owns The Forum and News Tribune newspapers in the respective cities, would have had no such issues in Duluth as it has no existing television properties in that market.)
7	Warner Bros. Discovery announces the departure of Chris Licht as CEO of its CNN Global division after just over one year. Licht had already ceded operational control of the network to WBD Chief Corporate Operating Officer David Leavy in the fallout from the Donald Trump town hall meeting, though the ouster came in the aftermath of the June 2 publication of a less-than-flattering Atlantic article documenting Licht's short but tumultuous tenure at CNN.
	Actor Jay Johnston is arrested by the FBI for his alleged involvement in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The comedian/actor (known for his roles in Mr. Show with Bob and David, The Sarah Silverman Program and Bob's Burgers) was charged by the U.S. Department of Justice on counts that include civil disorder, entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, and impeding passage through Capitol property.
11	The 76th Tony Awards air on CBS and Paramount+ from New York's United Palace, with Ariana DeBose as host. Notable winners included Kimberly Akimbo (Best Musical), Leopoldstadt (Best Play), and the first two non-binary performers to win acting awards (J. Harrison Ghee for Some Like It Hot and Alex Newell for Shucked). The ceremony and telecast were initially postponed on May 12 after organizers for the Tonys were denied a waiver request from the Writers Guild of America to use pre-written material during the Guild's strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (both CBS and Paramount+ are AMPTP members). But by May 16, organizers agree to ceremony alterations—including refraining from using a script and placing an emphasis on live performances from Tony-nominated shows—thus allowing the event to proceed without a WGA waiver or picket line.
12	The Denver Nuggets defeat the Miami Heat, 94–89, in Game 5 of the 2023 NBA Finals to win their first championship in franchise history; the Nuggets, in their first-ever Finals appearance, defeated the Heat in four of five games in the best-of-seven series; ABC carried the NBA Finals exclusively for the 21st consecutive year. This year's NBA playoffs, which began on April 15 (and were televised on TNT, ESPN, ABC and NBA TV—with each team's regional broadcaster also televising local coverage of First Round games, except for most weekend games that ABC televised nationally), saw ESPN/ABC carry the Western Conference Finals and TNT carry the Eastern Conference Finals, per the alternating exclusivity rotation under the NBA's contracts with ESPN Inc. and Warner Bros. Discovery Sports.
	Pat Sajak announces on social media that he will retire as host of Wheel of Fortune at the conclusion of its 41st season in mid-2024; he will remain with the program thereafter as a consultant. Sajak has hosted the Sony/CBS-distributed game show since December 1981, when he succeeded Chuck Woolery on the now-defunct network version (Sajak would leave that version in January 1989, six months prior to its move from NBC to CBS, to host his own late-night talk show for the latter network), and began hosting the syndicated version when it debuted in September 1983. On June 27, it was announced that Ryan Seacrest will succeed Sajak as host for the 2024–25 season.
13	The Vegas Golden Knights defeat the Florida Panthers, 9–3, in Game 5 of the 2023 Stanley Cup Finals to win their first championship in franchise history; the Golden Knights, which began play in the NHL six years prior, defeated the Panthers in four of five games in the best-of-seven series. TNT, TBS and TruTV simulcasted this year's Stanley Cup Finals, per the alternating rotation under the NHL's contracts with ESPN Inc. and Warner Bros. Discovery Sports. It marked both the first time that the three networks carried the championship series and the first time since 1994 (when it was carried nationally by ESPN and regionally by New York City-based MSG) that the Finals aired exclusively on cable in the U.S. This year's Stanley Cup playoffs began on April 17, and was televised on ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, TBS and TNT, with each franchise's regional broadcaster also televising local coverage of First Round games (except for weekend games that ABC televised nationally).
	Sports analyst/commentator Shannon Sharpe announces he will be leaving the FS1 morning sports talk show Skip and Shannon: Undisputed, which he has co-hosted since its debut in September 2016, following that day's broadcast. It was then announced that the show would take a hiatus until August 28 due to Fox Sports failing to find a new debate partner with Skip Bayless.
20	The NBA's Utah Jazz signs a multi-year agreement with Sinclair Broadcast Group to broadcast their regionally televised games and other team-specific programs on the company's Salt Lake City duopoly of KUTV (CBS) and KJZZ (independent), effective with the league's 2023–24 season; the stations replace Warner Bros. Discovery-owned AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain and Root Sports Northwest as the Jazz's regional television partners. The deal also marks the team's return to KJZZ, which previously held over-the-air telecast rights to Jazz games from 1993 to 2009. Team owner Ryan Smith's holding company, Smith Entertainment Group, also starts a new in-house production division, SEG Media, to produce the telecasts, which will also be carried on a new subscription streaming service scheduled to launch in October. Game announcers Craig Bolerjack, Thurl Bailey and Holly Rowe will remain on the broadcasts as they are directly employed by the Jazz.
21	Television presenter Geraldo Rivera announces he has quit the Fox News talk show The Five, which he has co-hosted since January 2022. On June 29, the same day his final episode was scheduled to air, Rivera announced that he would be leaving Fox News entirely after having quit the program; he later alleged in a July 13 appearance on The View that a "toxic [work] relationship" with an unnamed Five co-host led to his departure.
27	Roku and CBS Sports announce a multi-year deal to become the exclusive American media partners for the Formula E electric motorsport series. The deal marks the first sports rights agreement for Roku and expands CBS's existing relationship with the promotion; Roku will stream 11 races per season on the Roku Channel and CBS will carry five races per season that will also be streamed on Paramount+, with all races carried by the two streaming services being accessible through Roku's live-streaming sports aggregation platform.
28	As part of a multi-year agreement that also extends their existing carriage contract for NFL Network and expands its distribution to co-owned DirecTV Stream and U-verse, NFL Media and DirecTV announce that the latter will add NFL RedZone to the lineups of its subscription television services. The addition of RedZone will allow DirecTV subscribers to continue to view regional NFL broadcasts not carried within their home market in some capacity, after the league's December 2022 deal with Google to distribute the package to YouTube TV and YouTube Primetime Channels customers resulted in DirecTV losing residential carriage rights to the NFL Sunday Ticket out-of-market sports package following the 2022 season.
29	Nexstar Media Group fires news director Stanton Tang and assistant news director Amy Fox from NBC affiliate WOOD/Grand Rapids, following an internal investigation into a leaked memo urging reporters and producers to cover fewer stories on West Michigan-area Pride Month events because of criticism from conservative viewers over related stories aired earlier that month on its newscasts. Tang—who, in the memo, had asked reporters to only cover Pride events if considered newsworthy and to pursue viewpoints reflecting "both sides" of the story—had also been accused by station journalists of having his own right-leaning views influence editorial decisions (occasionally sending links to Twitter posts from conservative news outlets and commentators as story ideas in emails to reporters), and of fostering a hostile work environment within the news department (including pressuring and getting into intense arguments with journalists that caused some to take sick leave due to mental anguish, and discouraging them from voting in the 2022 Michigan gubernatorial and U.S. House primaries, only to later acknowledge he voted in that election, in possible violation of voter intimidation laws); prior complaints about Tang's workplace conduct allegedly went unaddressed when brought up to WOOD general manager Julie Brinks and to Nexstar management. News producers Luke Stier and Madeline Odle were also terminated for leaking information about the memo to local media and broadcast industry outlets. Veteran television executive Steven Ackermann was appointed as interim news director on June 30.
30	In what the network describes as a move meant to "identify additional cost savings," ESPN lays off about 20 on-air personalities. The notable names confirmed on this date to be exiting include NBA analysts Jalen Rose and Jeff Van Gundy; NFL studio analysts Matt Hasselbeck, Keyshawn Johnson, Rob Ninkovich, and Steve Young; NFL draft expert Todd McShay; boxing analyst and This Just In host Max Kellerman; college football analyst David Pollack; college basketball analyst LaPhonso Ellis; veteran reporter/host Suzy Kolber; and SportsCenter anchors Neil Everett and Ashley Brewer. It is the third round of layoffs this year at ESPN, following two waves affecting behind-the-scenes staffers earlier in the Spring.

July

Date	Event	Source
1	Hawaiian Telcom removes the Honolulu duopoly of Fox/CW affiliate KHON and MyNetworkTV affiliate KHII, and NewsNation from its systems across the state after failing to renew an agreement with Nexstar Media Group that expired on June 30. The provider filed an FCC complaint on July 6, asking for the commission to rule Nexstar's failure to continue the channels’ carriage as a violation of good-faith negotiation rules for each day since the previous contract lapsed. Hawaiian Telcom, which noted the Islands‘ volcanic and mountainous terrain prevents many residents from receiving KHON/KHII over-the-air and alleged that the group sought to increase fees to carry the channels by 80%, accused Nexstar of withholding consent by not responding to its request to extend negotiations by one week—forcing it to remove the channels—until immediately before the agreement expired. The parties reached a multi-year agreement to restore KHON/KHII (along with Rewind TV-affiliated KHON-DT4) and NewsNation to Hawaiian Telcom’s lineup on July 20, although the provider stated it would not drop the Nexstar complaint (which it amended the day before to allege the group had unraveled an earlier version of the deal on July 17, demanding Hawaiian Telcom rescind the complaint and not file future FCC complaints against Nexstar).
2	DirecTV removes 159 stations owned by Nexstar Media Group after the two parties fail to reach a new carriage agreement. The impasse results in the complete loss of stations operated by Nexstar and its partner companies (Mission Broadcasting and White Knight Broadcasting) from the DirecTV satellite service, DirecTV Stream and U-verse, amid an existing contractual and legal dispute between DirecTV and Nexstar dating to October 2022, concerning alleged collective bargaining influence by the three station groups in retransmission fee negotiations that prompted the earlier removal of Mission and White Knight's respective stations from the company's television services (see March 14 entry). In a July 18 FCC letter, DirecTV accused CW majority owner Nexstar of forcing Sinclair Broadcast Group to remove 21 affiliates (all based in markets where both groups operate stations, and leaving subscribers of the vMVPD service in those areas unable to view CW programs) from DirecTV Stream on July 12; Nexstar countered that DirecTV Stream continued to carry Sinclair’s CW stations without renewing a prior agreement that expired in November 2022. A gradual restoration of the Nexstar stations to DirecTV would begin on September 17, with the companies announcing a new multi-year carriage deal the next day.
10	Charter Communications announces it will begin offering a reduced-cost tier of its Spectrum TV Select cable package that will exclude regional and many national sports networks featured in its standard basic tier (including its own Spectrum Sports channels in areas where Charter also operates an RSN). The Spectrum Select Signature tier—which will gradually launch across most of its footprint beginning in late Summer, alongside the renamed Spectrum Select Plus expanded tier—will be marketed primarily to non-sports fans, and is intended to limit cord-cutting among existing subscribers. The company also plans to launch a subscription streaming service for its Spectrum Sports channels, which will be available at no extra charge to Select Plus subscribers. Concurrently, Charter announces a new carriage agreement with DirecTV for Spectrum SportsNet and SportsNet LA, which lowers the required coverage rates for the two Los Angeles-based networks under terms similar to recent deals that saw the company reduce coverage mandates for owned or third-party regional sports networks carried on its systems (RSNs usually require carriage by at least 80% of a provider's regional subscribers); Charter intends to impose similar provisions for its Spectrum Sports RSNs in future negotiations with other providers, enabling them to reduce programming costs subsidized by their customers.
	Saima Mohsin, who served as an international correspondent for the network from 2013 fo 2017, sues CNN for racial discrimination and wrongful termination. The journalist (who became a freelance presenter for Sky News in 2022) suffered severe tissue damage after a cameraman accompanying her on assignment accidentally drove over her foot while covering the Israel-Palestine conflict in 2014. Moshin—who is British Pakistani—alleges that the network refused to provide adequate accommodations for her injury, which left her unable to do more physically demanding reporting work, and denied her request to move to an anchor role (alleging an executive said she didn't "have the look we are looking for") and other on-air opportunities in favor of white American correspondents.
13	The Atlantic Coast Conference announces a four-year deal with The CW, under which the network will broadcast a total of 50 ACC college football and basketball games (initially consisting of 13 football, 28 men's basketball and nine women's basketball games) each season through the 2026–27 academic year. Raycom Sports—which sublicenses the ACC television rights from ESPN, and terminated a preceding national broadcast deal with Bally Sports on June 15—will produce the telecasts. Starting with a September 9 non-conference football game between the Pittsburgh Panthers and Big 12 member Cincinnati Bearcats, The CW will air two ACC football games each Saturday during the Fall (in the afternoon and prime time), and Saturday afternoon men's basketball doubleheaders and Sunday afternoon women's basketball games from December to February.
15	The New York Supreme Court rules in favor of DirecTV in a breach of contract lawsuit filed by the company in November 2021 against Nexstar Media Group, involving a 2015 carriage renewal agreement for WDVM/Hagerstown, Maryland (then-NBC affiliate WHAG). The suit alleged that Nexstar did not give DirecTV adequate notice that the station would become an independent once its affiliation contract with NBC expired in July 2016, resulting in the satellite provider overpaying to carry a station that would no longer be a Big Four affiliate. (As part of an effort at the time to reduce affiliate duplication in certain markets, NBC parent Comcast elected to disaffiliate from WHAG—a decision that was disclosed publicly by Nexstar in February 2016—due to perceived competition with nearby O&O WRC/Washington, D.C.) The court ruled that Nexstar overcharged DirecTV by basing its carriage fee rate for WDVM on its prior NBC affiliation, and ordered the broadcaster to repay “several million dollars” worth of excess fees that DirecTV paid during the contract term (plus interest).
17	Four days after its release, CMT removes the music video for Jason Aldean’s single "Try That in a Small Town" from its rotation, amid controversy over the song’s lyrics and the video’s themes. The scrutiny pertained to the lyrics being interpreted by some listeners as evocative of vigilantism, lynchings and sundown towns (the former interpretation also drawing criticism as Aldean performed at the Route 91 Harvest music festival during the October 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting); the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee, where the video was filmed, being the site of several incidents of racial violence (including a 1927 lynching and the city’s 1946 race riots); and the juxtaposition of the lyrics and excerpts of news footage from the 2020 race riots (including lootings and violent clashes between protesters and officers) interspersed in the video. Aldean responded to the criticism on Twitter, asserting the song was meant to represent “the feeling of a community that I had growing up, where we took care of our neighbors, regardless of differences of background or belief."
18	Diamond Sports Group files separate lawsuits against majority owner Sinclair Broadcast Group and senior creditor JP Morgan that seek to receive compensation for Sinclair's preferred equity repayment to the investment firm. Sinclair compeleted its $1.025-billion worth of equity repayments to JP Morgan in February for its preferred interest in Diamond that it acquired as part of the group’s 2019 purchase of the former Fox Sports Regional Networks from Disney. Diamond accuses Sinclair of manipulating the payment schedule so that JPMorgan was nearly made completely whole on its investment, even though it knew the former’s bankruptcy would wipe out its equity in the subsidiary,
	After Diamond Sports Group receives bankruptcy court approval of its motion (filed on June 22, with the intent of terminating the contract effective June 30) to surrender its contract with the team, the Arizona Diamondbacks and Major League Baseball assume the regional television rights to the former’s games from Bally Sports Arizona, starting with that night’s game against the Atlanta Braves. The telecasts will be carried on alternate channels on Cox, Spectrum, Xfinity, DirecTV, DirecTV Stream, Fubo and other providers within the team's regional territory, along with a blackout-free livestream on MLB.tv (with all games scheduled through July 23 available free to stream using MLB login credentials on the respective websites and apps of the MLB and the Diamondbacks). Due to the earlier departures of the NBA’s Suns and WNBA’s Mercury from the network (see April 28 entry), the loss of the Diamondbacks from the network leaves the NHL’s Arizona Coyotes as the only major Phoenix-area sports franchise that maintains a broadcasting relationship with Bally Sports Arizona. Game announcers Steve Berthiaume and Bob Brenly will remain on the broadcasts as they are directly employed by the Diamondbacks.
23	Preceding that day's ESPN+ broadcast of a friendly match between AC Milan and Real Madrid CF at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, ESPN soccer analyst Shaka Hislop fainted on-air while co-hosting the pre-match show with play-by-play analyst Dan Thomas. The retired professional soccer star later regained consciousness and was treated by stadium medical personnel, later describing the incident as "awkward" and was seeking medical opinion on the cause of his collapse.
28	NASCAR announces a seven-year deal with The CW to broadcast Xfinity Series races exclusively on the network starting in 2025. The deal—which replaces NBC, USA Network and Fox Sports as the second-tier circuit’s broadcast partners—will see The CW air 33 live races each year as well as weekend practice and qualifying events, with additional content being made available on The CW’s streaming apps and digital platforms; NASCAR Productions, the stock car racing league’s in-house production unit, will handle production responsibilities for the race telecasts and other ancillary content. The deal will mark the first time that all Xfinity Series races will be available exclusively on American broadcast television.

August

Date	Event	Source
2	Jeffrey Goldberg is named moderator of Washington Week effective August 11, coinciding with The Atlantic (where Goldberg has served as editor-in-chief since 2016) joining Washington, D.C. PBS member station WETA and NewsHour Productions, LLC as an editorial partner of the PBS political affairs program, which will accordingly be retitled Washington Week with The Atlantic. Goldberg succeeds Yamiche Alcindor, who stepped down from the role on February 24, primarily to focus on her job as Washington correspondent for NBC News (various journalists have served as guest moderators since Alcindor’s departure).
4	Days of Our Lives producer Corday Productions announces the departure of the Peacock soap opera's longtime co-executive producer/director Albert Alarr, with senior producer Janet Spellman-Drucker replacing him as co-EP and the company announcing it will be "implementing additional HR protocols." Alarr's departure comes in the aftermath of an investigation conducted by Days distributor Sony Pictures Television (outlined in a July 25 Deadline Hollywood report) that revealed Alarr had allegedly fostered a toxic work environment on the program, and had been verbally and physically abusive toward staffers (namely female staffers, who allege incidents of inappropriate comments and physical contact by Alarr). Though Corday Productions reportedly gave a written warning to Alarr (who denied the allegations against him) and ordered him to undergo training, his continued presence on Days led to on-set tensions among those aware of the investigation, with cast members petitioning for Alarr's ouster.
9	Big Brother season 25 contestant Luke Valentine is removed from the CBS/Paramount+ reality show one day after uttering the N-word in a conversation, a violation of the show's code of conduct.
10	The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and Fox formally announce that the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards will be pushed back from its original planned date of September 18 until January 15, 2024. The rescheduling, due to the ongoing Writers Guild and SAG-AFTRA strikes, mark the first postponement of a Primetime Emmy ceremony since 2001, when the September 11 attacks and ensuing start of the war in Afghanistan pushed the 53rd Primetime Emmys from September to November. (The related Creative Arts Emmys will also move from September to the weekend of January 6-7, 2024.)
15	Sage Steele announces that she has left ESPN after settling her lawsuit against the network and its parent, The Walt Disney Company. Steele, who had been with ESPN since 2007 and had anchored SportsCenter and NBA Countdown, had sued ESPN and Disney in 2022, alleging the network had "sidelined" her after she criticized the network's COVID-19 vaccination policy and questioned the ethnicity of former U.S. President Barack Obama.
	Nielsen Media Research reports that for the first time since it started its monthly gauge in 2021, the combined share of broadcast and cable network viewing during July was less than half of all total TV usage (49.6%).
20	Spain defeats England, 1–0, in the final of the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup. The tournament, which began on July 20, was televised by Fox Sports and Telemundo respectively in English (on Fox and FS1) and Spanish (on Telemundo and Universo), with all games streamed on the Fox Sports app and Peacock. The networks and streaming platforms carried a primarily late night and early morning schedule of games—with only five matches being held during prime time—due to the tournament being played across nine cities in Australia and New Zealand (12–16 hours ahead of Eastern Daylight Time, depending on each game’s corresponding host venue).
23	Fox News hosts the first of the 2024 Republican Party presidential debates at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which will also host the GOP's nominating convention. Eight candidates appear on the stage—Doug Burgum, Chris Christie, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Asa Hutchinson, Mike Pence, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Tim Scott—the lowest number of candidates for the first Republican debate stage since 2012. The relatively low number was due to strict RNC requirements that any participants have at least 40,000 individual donors and poll above 1% in either three national polls or two national polls and one state poll. (By comparison, high candidate numbers caused both the 2016 GOP and 2020 Democratic debates to be spread out over two nights.) Thanks to not meeting polling requirements or refusing to sign a loyalty pledge to back the eventual nominee, Ryan Binkley, Larry Elder, Will Hurd, Perry Johnson, Francis Suarez, and former president Donald Trump did not attend; Trump, the polling frontrunner, instead appears in a pre-taped interview with Tucker Carlson that aired as counterprogramming to the debate on X (formerly Twitter).
30	Two months after the ouster of Chris Licht (see June 7 entry), Warner Bros. Discovery announces the hire of Mark Thompson as CNN's new chief executive officer; Thompson is previously known for his tenures as director general of the BBC and CEO of The New York Times.
31	The cable networks and TV stations owned by The Walt Disney Company (including Disney Channel, Freeform, National Geographic, the FX and ESPN networks, and ABC O&O stations), are dropped from Charter Communications' Spectrum cable systems due to an unresolved carriage dispute. The two companies would announce a new agreement on September 11, one that allows customers who subscribe to certain Spectrum packages access to the Disney+ and ESPN+ streaming services (and, when it launches, ESPN's direct-to-consumer service), but also allows Charter to drop carriage of Freeform, FXX, FXM, and smaller Disney- and Nat Geo-branded channels.

September

Date	Event	Source
2	Producers of Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta announce that cast member Erica Mena will not return to the VH1 reality show for its next season, its 12th, after a Season 11 episode (which originally aired on August 29) captured Mena directing a slur at castmate Spice during an argument (and table-flipping incident) between the two women.
5	Citing a desire to focus on his "health, family, and faith," Chris Mortensen announces on social media he retired from his NFL reporting role at ESPN after the network's coverage of the league's player draft in April. Mortensen had been a mainstay of ESPN's pro football coverage since joining the network in 1991, and appeared in his "insider" role on draft broadcasts, Sunday NFL Countdown, and SportsCenter.
8	Stations owned and operated by Hearst Television (37 stations covering 27 markets) are dropped from Dish Network due to an impasse in retransmission negotiations between the two sides.
	Fox News fires senior executive John Finley following an investigation into a violation of the company's conduct standards. Finley's 20-year tenure at Fox included serving as executive producer of Hannity and helping to develop other Fox News signature shows (including Outnumbered and The Five) as well as the Fox Nation streaming service.
9	With Kristen Welker moving to host Meet the Press (see June 4 entry), NBC News justice correspondent Laura Jarrett becomes the new co-anchor of the Saturday edition of Today alongside Peter Alexander.
12	The 2023 MTV Video Music Awards airs on MTV and its related digital and linear platforms from Newark's Prudential Center. Nicki Minaj serves as host, with notable winners including Shakira (Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Award), Diddy (Global Icon Award), Minaj herself (Best Hip-Hop Video for "Super Freaky Girl"), and Taylor Swift (a night-leading 9 awards, including her 2nd consecutive Video of the Year, and record-extending 4th overall, for "Anti-Hero").
14	Morgan Murphy Media announces it will acquire three TV stations in Michigan from The Marks Group: WBKP/Calumet and WBUP/Ishpeming (affiliated with The CW and ABC respectively and simulcasting each network on both stations across the market over subchannels), and WBKB-TV/Alpena (CBS/NBC/ABC/Fox). The $12 million deal, which also includes radio properties in the western Upper Peninsula, is expected to close at the end of the year pending regulatory approval.
18	Amid the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes, ABC announces that it will simulcast ESPN's Monday Night Football during each week of the 2023 NFL season. This marks the first time a full season of Monday Night Football has aired on ABC since 2005.
21	WWE announces that its Friday night showcase SmackDown will leave Fox for USA Network in October 2024 as part of a new deal with USA owner NBCUniversal that also includes a series of WWE prime time specials airing on NBC beginning in the 2024–2025 TV season. SmackDown previously aired between 2016–2019 on USA, which currently also carries Monday Night Raw and NXT telecasts under separate deals that end in September 2024.
	Rupert Murdoch announces he will step down as chairman of Fox Corporation and sister company News Corp in November. Murdoch's son, Lachlan Murdoch, will become sole chairman of both companies at that time, while the elder Murdoch, who founded the Fox television network in 1986 and Fox News in 1996, will retain a "chairman emeritus" role.
26	Sean McManus announces he will retire from the chairman role at CBS Sports in April 2024, with David Berson replacing him. McManus, who has been with CBS since 1996 and has been its sports division's chariman since 2011, is noted for securing several sports rights deals for the network (most notably the 1998 return of the NFL after a four year hiatus); he also concurrently served as president of both CBS Sports and CBS News from 2005 to 2011.
27	The second 2024 Republican Party presidential debate takes place at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California. The event is conducted by and aired on Fox News and Univision.
28	The inaugural edition of the People's Choice Country Awards, the country music-focused offshoot of the People's Choice Awards, airs on NBC and Peacock from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry House. Little Big Town serves as hosts of a ceremony that includes notable winners Morgan Wallen (The People's Artist), Jelly Roll (four awards, including Male Artist and New Artist) and Lainey Wilson (three awards, including Female Artist).

October

Date	Event	Source
5	Roy Wood Jr. announces he will not return to The Daily Show when it returns from the WGA strike on October 16. Wood had been a correspondent on the Comedy Central program since 2015 and had been regarded as a candidate for the permanent host role (Wood, in an interview with NPR, indicated he would still consider such a role if the network extended it to him).
	The NHL's Arizona Coyotes announce they have agreed to end their relationship with Bally Sports Arizona, and that the team has reached a multi-year deal with Scripps Sports to carry Coyote games on Scripps-owned KNXV-DT2 in Phoenix as well as KGUN-DT2/Tucson and KUPX-TV and KSTU-DT2/Salt Lake City. The Coyotes were the last remaining Arizona pro sports team with a contract with Bally Sports Arizona, after the network ceded Arizona Diamondbacks rights back to Major League Baseball (see 7/18/2023 entry) and the NBA's Phoenix Suns and WNBA's Mercury signed new deals with Gray Television (see 4/28/2023 entry).
10	Barry Melrose announces he is stepping down from his hockey analyst role at ESPN due to his being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. A former player and coach (most notably coach of the Los Angeles Kings), Melrose had been a popular part of ESPN's NHL and collegiate hockey coverage since 1994.
17	Paramount Global announces that it will shutter Showtime's sports division at the end of the year, with all sports content within the company, and any content that may air on Showtime, expected to be produced by CBS Sports beginning in 2024. Showtime Sports launched in 1986 and has been known for its coverage of boxing (primarily under the Showtime Championship Boxing and ShoBox: The New Generation banners) and mixed martial arts (namely the Bellator MMA promotion) on both the Showtime network and pay-per-view.

Ongoing events

Date	Event	Source
July 14–TBD	SAG-AFTRA has commenced a strike against television and film studios, after the union and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers failed to agree on a new contract after their previous agreement expired on June 30. This marks the first time that actors have initiated a labor dispute since the 1980 actors strike. With the concurrent Writers Guild of America strike, this is also the first time that actors and writers have walked out simultaneously since 1960. Similar to the WGA, SAG-AFTRA cited several issues, including economic fairness, residuals, regulating the use of artificial intelligence, and alleviating the burdens of the industry-wide shift to self-taping. In addition to impacting film and television productions, actors cannot take part in promotional work, such as press junkets, film premieres, and other events such as the July 20–23 San Diego Comic-Con. Journalists and performers employed under the SAG-AFTRA National Code of Fair Practice for Network Television Broadcasting contract (a separate agreement negotiated between the union, major broadcast networks and other producers which currently runs through July 2024) are not affected, allowing news programs, most talk, variety, game and reality shows, soap operas, sports and promos to continue production with SAG-AFTRA members covered by that agreement.

Future events

November

Date	Event	Source
8	The 57th Annual Country Music Association Awards will air on ABC from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee with Luke Bryan and Peyton Manning as hosts.
	NBC News will host the third 2024 Republican Party presidential debate which will take place in Miami.
30	Sean Hannity will moderate a debate on Fox News between Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and California Governor Gavin Newsom

Television shows

Shows debuting in 2023

Main article: List of 2023 American television debuts

Shows changing networks

Show	Moved from	Moved to	Source
Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta	VH1	MTV
RuPaul's Drag Race
All Star Shore	Paramount+
Inside the NFL		The CW
9-1-1	Fox	ABC
Miss Universe		The Roku Channel
Chad	TBS
Kevin Hart's Muscle Car Crew	Motor Trend
The Nevers	HBO	Tubi
Screen Actors Guild Awards	TNT/TBS	YouTube
Snowpiercer	TNT	TBA
Warrior	Cinemax	Max
Summer Camp Island	HBO Max	Cartoon Network
Jellystone!
FBOY Island		The CW
Minx		Starz
Joe Pickett	Spectrum Originals	Paramount+
Uncoupled	Netflix	Showtime
Genius	National Geographic	Disney+
Superstar Racing Experience	CBS	ESPN
Dancing with the Stars	Disney+	ABC/Disney+
Below Deck Down Under	Peacock	Bravo
The Real Housewives of Miami
61st Street	AMC	The CW
NFL Sunday Ticket	DirecTV	YouTube TV
Miss USA	FYI	The CW

Milestone episodes and anniversaries

Show	Network	Episode #	Episode title	Episode airdate	Source
Family Guy	Fox	400th episode	"Love Story Guy"	January 8
Jimmy Kimmel Live!	ABC	20th anniversary	"George Clooney, Snoop Dogg, Coldplay"	January 26
Bob's Burgers	Fox	250th episode	"Oh Row You Didn't"	February 19
Chicago P.D.	NBC	200th episode	"Trapped"	February 22
RuPaul's Drag Race	MTV		"The Crystal Ball: Episode 200"	February 24
NCIS	CBS	450th episode	"Unusual Suspects"	February 27
The Lead with Jake Tapper	CNN	10th anniversary	"March 17, 2023"	March 17
The Blacklist	NBC	200th episode	"The Hyena"	March 19
The Young and the Restless	CBS	50th anniversary	"3/22/2023"	March 22
All In with Chris Hayes	MSNBC	10th anniversary	March 31, 2023	March 31
General Hospital	ABC	60th anniversary	Multiple	March 31 April 3–7
The Neighborhood	CBS	100th episode	"Welcome to the Milestone"	April 10
The Bold and the Beautiful		9,000th episode	"4/18/2023"	April 18
Power Rangers	Netflix	30th anniversary	"Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always"	April 19
American Dad!	TBS	350th episode	"Better on Paper"	May 8
The Simpsons	Fox	750th episode	"Homer's Adventures Through the Windshield Glass"	May 21
FBI	CBS	100th episode	"God Complex"	May 23
On Patrol: Live	Reelz		"072923"	July 29
AEW Dynamite	TBS	200th episode	"Dynamite 200"	August 2
When Calls the Heart	Hallmark Channel	100th episode	"Life Is But a Dream"	August 27
Anderson Cooper 360°	CNN	20th anniversary	"September 8, 2023"	September 8
The Rachel Maddow Show	MSNBC	15th anniversary	"September 11, 2023"	September 11
Teen Titans Go!	Cartoon Network	400th episode	TBA	TBA

Shows returning in 2023

Show	Last aired	Type of return	Previous channel	Returning channel	Return date	Source
Lingo	2011	Revival	Game Show Network	CBS	January 11
Night Court	1992		NBC	same	January 17
Are You the One?	2019	New season	MTV	Paramount+	January 18
Kitten Bowl (as Great American Rescue Bowl)	2021	Revival	Hallmark Channel	Great American Family	February 12
XFL	2020	New season	ESPN/ABC/Fox/FS1	ESPN/ABC/FX	February 18
Magnum P.I.	2022		CBS	NBC	February 19
Party Down	2010	Revival	Starz	same	February 24
Farmer Wants a Wife	2008	Reboot	The CW	Fox	March 8
Split Second	1987	Revival	First-run syndication	Game Show Network	April 17
Clone High	2003		MTV	Max	May 23
Warrior	2020	New season	Cinemax		June 29
Project Greenlight (as Project Greenlight: A New Generation)	2015	Revival	HBO		July 13
Justified (as Justified: City Primeval)			FX	same	July 18
Futurama	2013	New season	Comedy Central	Hulu	July 24
Comics Unleashed	2014	Revival	First-run syndication	CBS	September 18
Kitchen Nightmares			Fox	same	September 25
Wild Kingdom (as Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom Protecting the Wild)	2018		YouTube	NBC	October 7
Frasier	2004		NBC	Paramount+	October 12
Hollywood Squares (as Celebrity Squares)	2019		VH1	same	October 17
Big Ten on CBS (as The Home Depot Big Ten on CBS)	1986		CBS		Fall
What Would You Do?	2020		ABC
Caillou	2010		PBS Kids	Peacock	TBA
Total Drama Island	2015	Reboot	Cartoon Network	Cartoon Network/Max
Phineas and Ferb		Revival	Disney Channel/Disney XD	TBA
Yo Gabba Gabba!			Nickelodeon	Apple TV+
Aqua Teen Hunger Force			Adult Swim	same
Dating Naked	2016		VH1	Paramount+
@midnight	2017		Comedy Central	CBS
SurrealEstate	2021	New season	Syfy	same
American Rust			Showtime	Amazon Freevee

Shows ending in 2023

End date	Show	Channel	First aired	Status	Source
January 6	The Mosquito Coast	Apple TV+	2021	Canceled
January 11	Willow	Disney+	2022
January 13	Hunters	Amazon Prime Video	2020	Ended
	Destination Fear	Travel Channel	2019	Canceled
January 17	New Amsterdam	NBC	2018	Ended
	The Resident	Fox		Canceled
January 18	Home Economics	ABC	2021
	Big Sky		2020
January 20	Bling Empire: New York	Netflix	2023
January 22	The L Word: Generation Q	Showtime	2019
January 26	Gossip Girl	HBO Max	2021
February 2	Welcome to Flatch	Fox	2022
	Freeridge	Netflix	2023
February 8	National Treasure: Edge of History	Disney+	2022
February 9	The Game	Paramount+	2021
February 10	Hallie Jackson Reports	MSNBC		Ended
February 15	The Nevers	Tubi		Canceled
February 17	Animaniacs	Hulu	2020	Ended
February 24	Young Rock	NBC	2021	Canceled
March 2	Walker: Independence	The CW	2022
	Sex/Life	Netflix	2021
March 4	ACC on Regional Sports Networks	Bally Sports MASN NESN Yes Network	2011
March 6	Ridley Jones	Netflix	2021
March 7	The Winchesters	The CW	2022
March 8	Kung Fu		2021
March 10	Most Dangerous Game	The Roku Channel	2020
March 17	Carnival Row	Amazon Prime Video	2019	Ended
	Servant	Apple TV+
March 19	Your Honor	Showtime	2020
March 24	Truth Be Told	Apple TV+	2019	Canceled
	Dear Edward		2023
	Up Here	Hulu
March 27	The Watchful Eye	Freeform
	Chrisley Knows Best	USA Network	2014
March 30	Alaska Daily	ABC	2022
March 31	Doogie Kameāloha, M.D.	Disney+	2021
	Game Theory with Bomani Jones	HBO	2022
April 3	Saving Me	BYUtv		Ended
April 5	Wu-Tang: An American Saga	Hulu	2019
April 6	Restaurant: Impossible	Food Network	2011	Canceled
	The Problem with Jon Stewart	Apple TV+	2021
April 7	Spicer & Co.	Newsmax TV	2020	Ended
April 8	The Owl House	Disney Channel
April 18	American Auto	NBC	2021	Canceled
April 19	Snowfall	FX	2017	Ended
April 20	Star Trek: Picard	Paramount+	2020
April 21	Tucker Carlson Tonight	Fox News	2016	Canceled
	Slip	The Roku Channel	2023
April 22	Unfiltered w/Dan Bongino	Fox News	2021
April 24	Perry Mason	HBO	2020
April 27	Firefly Lane	Netflix	2021	Ended
	The Late Late Show with James Corden	CBS	2015
April 28	Grand Crew	NBC	2021	Canceled
May 3	The Goldbergs	ABC	2013	Ended
	A Million Little Things		2018
	Tooning Out the News	Comedy Central	2020	Canceled
May 4	Call Me Kat	Fox	2021
May 7	The Company You Keep	ABC	2023
May 8	Fantasy Island	Fox	2021
May 10	Single Drunk Female	Freeform	2022
May 11	Titans	HBO Max	2018	Ended
May 12	The Great	Hulu	2020	Canceled
May 14	East New York	CBS	2022
May 17	True Lies		2023
May 19	A Black Lady Sketch Show	HBO	2019
May 21	NCIS: Los Angeles	CBS	2009	Ended
May 24	The Flash	The CW	2014
May 25	Judge Mathis	First-run syndication	1999	Canceled
	Dr. Phil		2002	Ended
	Vice News Tonight	Vice TV	2016	Canceled
May 26	The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel	Amazon Prime Video	2017	Ended
	You Bet Your Life	First-run syndication	2021	Canceled
	Blindspotting	Starz	2021
May 28	The Next Revolution	Fox News	2017
	Succession	HBO	2018	Ended
	Barry
June 1	Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies	Paramount+	2023	Canceled
June 2	Manifest	Netflix	2018	Ended
June 8	Never Have I Ever		2020
June 9	Human Resources		2022
June 16	City on Fire	Apple TV+	2023	Canceled
June 21	High Desert
June 22	Queen of the Universe	Paramount+	2021
June 25	Vice	Showtime	2013
June 27	Gotham Knights	The CW	2023
June 29	The Other Two	Max	2019	Ended
July 2	Valerie's Home Cooking	Food Network	2015	Canceled
	The Idol	HBO	2023
July 7	Painting with John		2021
July 11	How I Met Your Father	Hulu	2022
July 13	The Blacklist	NBC	2013	Ended
July 14	Jack Ryan	Amazon Prime Video	2018
	Run the World	Starz	2021	Canceled
July 19	Mayans M.C.	FX	2018	Ended
July 21	The People's Court	First-run syndication	1981	Canceled
July 26	The Hardy Boys	Hulu	2020	Ended
July 27	Looney Tunes Cartoons	Max
	iCarly	Paramount+	2021	Canceled
July 28	The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse	Disney+	2020	Ended
	Rachael Ray	First-run syndication	2006
August 9	High School Musical: The Musical: The Series	Disney+	2019
August 11	Summer Camp Island	Cartoon Network	2018
August 16	The Wonder Years	ABC	2021	Canceled
August 23	Riverdale	The CW	2017	Ended
	Nancy Drew		2019
September 1	Disenchantment	Netflix	2018
	How To with John Wilson	HBO	2020
September 6	The Afterparty	Apple TV+	2022	Canceled
September 7	Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight	Netflix		Ended
September 15	Heels	Starz	2021	Canceled
September 17	Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty	HBO	2022
September 25	Breeders	FX	2020	Ended
September 27	Physical	Apple TV+	2021
	Reservation Dogs	FX on Hulu
October 17	Good Bones	HGTV	2016
October 29	Billions	Showtime		Ending
November 9	Doom Patrol	Max	2019
November 18	All Rise	Oprah Winfrey Network
November 19	Fear the Walking Dead	AMC	2015
December 2	SEC on CBS	CBS	1996
December 6	Magnum P.I.	NBC	2018
December 7	Hilda	Netflix
December 14	The Crown		2016
December 17	Archer	FXX	2009
December 19	Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel	HBO	1995
TBA	The Handmaid's Tale	Hulu	2017
	Craig of the Creek	Cartoon Network	2018
	Cobra Kai	Netflix
	Yellowstone	Paramount Network
	My Brilliant Friend	HBO
	Snowpiercer	TBA	2020
	Mo	Netflix	2022

Entering syndication in 2023

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	Notes	Source
Insecure	5	No	Cable syndication on OWN.
FBI		Yes	Broadcast syndication on Ion Television.
Man with a Plan	4	No	Digital syndication on Laff.

Networks and services

Launches

Network	Type	Launch date	Notes	Sources
CBS News Detroit	OTT streaming	January 23	On December 14, 2021, CBS News and Stations announced that it would launch CBS News Detroit, a hybrid news department utilizing resources from their Detroit duopoly of CBS O&O WWJ-TV and CW O&O WKBD-TV, which relaunched in-house news operations for the first time since their previous effort was discontinued in December 2002; the news department and streaming channel was originally planned to launch in the second or third quarter of 2022, but was delayed until January due to pandemic-related broadcast equipment supply issues. CBS News Detroit launched with the news operation on January 23 (see that date's entry in the "Events" section), initially offering supplemental national content from the CBS News streaming service for much of its schedule, outside of simulcasts of WWJ's initial two weeknight newscasts and a half-hour streaming-exclusive extension of its early evening edition. Collectively, CBS News Detroit is expected to eventually produce 137 hours per week of live news programming (40 hours of which will consist of WWJ/WKBD news simulcasts), along with national CBS News streaming content.
The Cowgirl Channel	Cable/satellite and OTT streaming	February 5	A spinoff of The Cowboy Channel, the Rural Media Group-owned network will focus on content dedicated to women in western sports. Programming includes live professional rodeo and other western sporting events (including barrel racing, breakaway roping and women's ranch rodeo events), and western-themed lifestyle content (such as fashion and home design programs). The Cowgirl Channel will initially be available on Dish Network and Sling TV, along with live streaming and VOD content being made available on its sister network's dedicated OTT streaming service, Cowboy Channel+.
CBS Sports Golazo Network	OTT streaming	April 11	A soccer-focused OTT network from CBS Sports, the network—which will be based out of Stamford, Connecticut—will feature a new weekday morning snow called Morning Footy, live studio programming for the UEFA Champions League and NWSL, breaking news programming and select live matches from CBS's soccer properties.
Spectrum News+	OTT streaming	April 17	A national cable/streaming news channel operated by Charter Communications-owned Spectrum Networks, the network features reports from Spectrum News' 30+ regional cable news channels (such as New York 1, Bay News 9, Spectrum News 13 and the Spectrum News 1 networks), as well as national and international headlines, weather coverage, special reports and selected original programming from various Spectrum News regional channels. The network—which initially offered a 24-hour rolling news schedule on weekdays, with plans to expand its weekend programming to a 24-hour schedule as well by Summer—was available at launch to Spectrum residential cable customers, the Spectrum News mobile app, and connected TV apps for Roku and Apple TV devices.
HerogoTV	vMVPD streaming	May 26 (vMVPD service currently suspended as of June 14)	On May 26, HerogoTV—which originally launched in 2021 as a "freemium" AVOD streaming platform—soft-launched a vMVPD streaming service (formally launched on June 2) that would be available on its existing apps on iOS and Android, Fire TV, and Roku devices. The service—which licensed the channels by arrangement with Network Communications-owned content licensing firm Viacast—featured an advertised lineup of around 300 channels spread across four package tiers (including CNN; TBS; ESPN; Fox News Channel; A&E; Disney Channel; Nickelodeon; Discovery Channel; FX; AMC and Lifetime, and premium channels HBO, Showtime, Starz and MGM+), and over 12 free ad-supported television (FAST) channels (such as Al Jazeera), as well as VOD content and a catch-up feature that allowed users to watch certain programs (depending on licensing agreements) aired within the past three days without recording. However, the service faced criticism for advertising certain channels not included in its lineup (such as ABC and CBS stations, NFL Network and NHL Network), and UI issues (including technical bugs, lagging responsiveness, the inability to customize usernames, and the lack of login functionality on certain platforms). Citing the need to address these issues, the company temporarily suspended its vMVPD service on June 14, intending to issue refunds to existing subscribers; HerogoTV continues to offer its existing 12-channel "freemium" tier in the interim.
Court TV Legendary Trials	OTT streaming	July 17	The E. W. Scripps Company's Scripps Networks unit launched two ad-supported streaming channels—initially available on Amazon Freevee, Fubo, Plex and Xumo Play—serving as extension services of namesake digital multicast networks Court TV and Laff. Court TV Legendary Trials features four-hour blocks of archival, high-profile court cases from the network's library (dating to its initial 1991–2005 existence as a cable channel), featuring commentary and analysis from current Court TV anchors, while Laff More features classic sitcoms and unscripted comedy programs from the 1950s to the 1990s (including many series shown on the linear Laff network) as well as comedy films.
Laff More
CNN Max	OTT streaming	September 27	On August 24, Warner Bros. Discovery announced that it would incorporate live news into company's streaming service Max.
NBCUniversal AVOD networks (27 channels)	OTT streaming	TBD	On June 29, NBCUniversal announced it would launch 27 thematic ad-supported streaming channels—initially available on Xumo Play (owned by corporate parent Comcast) and Amazon Freevee—consisting of content from the company’s programming library, and programs sourced from its linear broadcast and cable channels. The networks consist of eight generalized programming services (reality-focused Bravo Vault; true crime networks Oxygen True Crime Archives and American Crimes; entertainment news and reviews channel Rotten Tomatoes; TNBC, featuring sitcoms originated on the 1992–2002 NBC Saturday morning block and other family-oriented comedies; and themed entertainment channels Universal Action, Universal Crime, Universal Monsters and Universal Westerns), two sports channels (sports news and talk service NBC Sports; and GolfPass, an extension of Golf Channel featuring news and features programs, and the linear network’s original magazine and instructional programs), four Telemundo-based Spanish-language channels (romance-focused entertainment network Historias de Amor; Lo Mejor de Telemundo, featuring selected original reality series, dramas and telenovelas from the network; 24-hour streaming news service Noticias Telemundo Ahora; and entertainment and sports news service Telemundo al Día), and 13 series-specific channels (devoted to the Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Real Housewives, Top Chef, Million Dollar Listing, Bad Girls Club and Saved by the Bell franchises, Saturday Night Live, Little House on the Prairie, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Lassie, The Lone Ranger, Made in Chelsea and Murder, She Wrote).
Now TV	vMVPD streaming	TBD	On May 23, Comcast announced that it would launch an American version of Now, the vMVPD streaming service operated by its Sky Group division in the United Kingdom and Europe, which will be available to Xfinity Internet customers through the Xfinity Stream app on supported devices (including Xfinity Flex, Fire TV, iOS and Android devices), and via casting through AirPlay and Google Chromecast. The discount service will initially feature a lineup of around 40 channels from companies that include A&E Networks; AMC Networks; Allen Media Group; Crown Media Holdings; Great American Media; Sony Pictures Television and Warner Bros. Discovery (including A&E, Discovery Channel, History, AMC, Lifetime, Great American Family, Hallmark Channel, Game Show Network, The Weather Channel and Food Network), and over 20 free ad-supported television (FAST) channels operated by NBC, Sky and Xumo Play (such as NBC News Now and Sky News), as well as complimentary access to the ad-supported version of Peacock's premium tier (which Comcast will cease offering separately at no additional charge to subscribers of Xfinity's Internet tiers on June 26).

Conversions and rebrandings

Old network name	New network name	Type	Conversion date	Notes	Source
Newsy	Scripps News	OTA multicast and OTT streaming	January 1	The E. W. Scripps Company announced on September 29, 2022, that it would rebrand Newsy as Scripps News, a rebranding that is part of a broader corporate reorganization of Scripps' national news services—including its Washington, D.C. bureau and the Scripps Local Media unit's Denver-based national desk—into a singular division under the same name. The move comes 1+1⁄2 years after a previous rebrand that saw Newsy expand its weekday live news and original news/interview programming, coinciding with the network's transition from a cable to an OTA multicast distribution model. (Scripps-owned Court TV—which offers a weekday block of trial coverage and crime-related news programming—will remain under the oversight of the company's president of network news, Kate O'Brian, who will head the new division as its executive vice president.) At the start of June, Scripps's traditional broadcast stations began to carry a daily hour of Scripps news programming, replacing the hour formerly held by the internally-produced The List and The Upside.
Epix	MGM+	OTT streaming and cable/satellite	January 15	On September 28, 2022, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer announced that it would rebrand Epix and its companion OTT streaming service Epix Now as MGM+ on January 15, 2023, as part of a broader effort to realign the service with the MGM brand and as a streaming-first platform with accompanying linear channel offerings. The rebranded service's three linear multiplex channels were renamed accordingly: Epix 2 as MGM+ Hits, Epix Hits as MGM+ Marquee and Epix Drive-In as MGM+ Drive-In.
Decades	Catchy Comedy	OTA multicast and vMVPD streaming	March 27	On February 13, Weigel Broadcasting announced that it would rebrand Decades as Catchy Comedy on March 27, as part of the classic television network's broader shift from a general entertainment format towards classic sitcoms. The rebranded network's schedule will feature a thematic block format on weekdays (featuring family-oriented sitcoms in the morning, female-driven sitcoms in daytime, comedies from the Norman Lear library in prime time, and "smart" comedies in late night), while the weekend "Decades Binge" block will be rebranded as "The Catchy Binge," focusing on binge-style marathons of various classic comedies.
Classic Reruns TV	NOST	OTA multicast and OTT streaming	April 3	On April 3, Classic Broadcasting rebranded Classic Reruns TV as NOST: The Nostalgia Network, shifting the network's format from classic television series to older licensed and public domain movies from the 1940s through the early 1980s. The rebranded network's schedule will incorporate thematic film blocks, including westerns on midday weekdays, a nightly "Primetime Spotlight" presentation, weekly "matinee" films on Saturday mornings, and the science fiction and horror movie showcase Lord Blood-Rah's Nerve Wrackin' Theatre on Saturday nights.
HBO Max	Max	OTT streaming	May 23	On April 12, Warner Bros. Discovery announced it would relaunch HBO Max as Max, featuring content from HBO Max's and much of Discovery+'s libraries (including original content as well as content from various WBD brands such as Warner Bros., New Line Cinema, CNN, Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, Cartoon Network and Warner Bros. Animation). Originally announced on August 4, 2022, the combined service was originally planned to operate on Discovery+'s existing app infrastructure and utilize that service's technical operations (as HBO Max ran on the infrastructure originally designed to support the smaller content selection and less intensive technical demands of the predecessor HBO Go and HBO Now services); however, WBD abandoned plans to fully integrate the services on February 23, choosing to maintain Discovery+ as a standalone platform due to the higher price point for Max, while incorporating much of the service's content library into Max. In addition to maintaining HBO Max's ad-free and ad-supported tiers at their existing price points (with user profiles, watch histories and other settings being ported to the relaunched service), Max will add a tertiary "Ultimate" ad-free tier that will feature an expanded catalog of 4K UHD content (previously available to lower-tier subscribers) and Dolby Atmos surround sound.
Showtime	Paramount+ with Showtime	OTT streaming	June 27	On January 30, 2023, Paramount announced plans to fully integrate the Showtime direct-to-consumer streaming service with the premium tier of the Paramount+ streaming service; the streaming tier rebrand replaces a bundle of the same name that launched in mid-2022. The separate Showtime app will also be shut down by the end of this year. The Showtime linear channels that are offered independently to other cable providers and video programming distributors remain unaffected.
LX News	NBC LX Home	OTA multicast and OTT streaming	August	Approximately 40 staffers at LX News were told on May 3 that NBCUniversal would be "winding down" the service, with a closure date expected in mid-2023 and employees being considered for other positions within the NBCU portfolio. LX News featured news/lifestyle features and longform content geared toward Gen Z and millennial audiences. Following the rebrand, NBC LX Home now airs LXTV produced lifestyle programs.
NBC Sports Washington	Monumental Sports Network	Regional sports network	September 12	In August 2022, Monumental Sports & Entertainment purchased NBC Sports Washington from NBCUniversal. Monumental owns the Washington Wizards, Washington Capitals and Washington Mystics, all of which have television rights agreements with the network. In June 2023, Monumental announced plans to rebrand the network in September 2023.
AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh	SportsNet Pittsburgh		October 2	On August 31, 2023, the Pittsburgh Penguins announced its intent to purchase AT&T SportsNet Pittsburgh and rebrand it as SportsNet Pittsburgh on October 2. NESN, which is owned by Penguins owner Fenway Sports Group, will operate the network. The purchase comes after AT&T SportsNet owner Warner Bros. Discovery announced in February they were leaving the regional sports network business.
AT&T SportsNet Southwest	Space City Home Network		October 3	On September 16, 2023, the Houston Chronicle reported that the Houston Astros and Houston Rockets planned to purchase AT&T SportsNet Southwest and rebrand it as Space City Home Network prior to the start of the 2023–24 Houston Rockets season.
Stadium	The Nest	OTA multicast	October 30	Five months after selling controlling interest in the sports-oriented Stadium to Silver Chalice (see May 29 entry), Sinclair Broadcast Group will convert Stadium's OTA channel space into a network of "comfort food programming" (Sinclair's term) that features reruns of home improvement, true crime, reality and celebrity-driven shows.

Closures

Network	Type	End date	Notes	Sources
DirecTV Red Zone Channel	Satellite	January 8	In December 2022, with the announcement that rights to NFL Sunday Ticket will move from DirecTV exclusively to YouTube (though it will continue to carry the service for commercial and hospitality establishments under a subcontract), it was confirmed that the service will not produce its own equivalent, and will simply distribute the NFL Network-produced RedZone. January 8 was the final day of the 2022 NFL season.
PeopleTV	OTT streaming	January 31	On January 24, Dotdash Meredith began notifying carriers of the streaming entertainment news and lifestyle channel (which include vMVPD providers Philo and FuboTV, and AVOD streaming services Tubi, Local Now, DistroTV, Stirr and Xumo Play) that it would shut down PeopleTV, an offshoot of the entertainment magazine, effective January 31.
TrueReal	OTA multicast	March 27	On March 10, the E. W. Scripps Company announced that it would discontinue TrueReal, effective March 27, and fold selected programming from its lineup (such as Storage Wars and Parking Wars) into the schedule of sister multicast network Defy TV; both networks had featured reruns of unscripted programming from the A&E Networks library, and had targeted different audiences in the 25-54 age group (TrueReal for women, Defy towards men), since jointly launching in July 2021. Scripps leased TrueReal's transponder space to Jewelry Television, which filled the network's subchannel placements on Scripps- and Inyo Broadcast Holdings-owned stations.
VRV	OTT streaming	May 8	On April 3, Crunchyroll, LLC announced that the anime, speculative fiction and gaming-centered streaming service would cease operating as a standalone service and integrate much of its content with the parent company's namesake service, effective May 3; existing VRV subscriptions (including watch histories and queues) will migrate to the Crunchyroll Premium service. The dissolution of VRV—launched in November 2016 as a joint venture between AT&T and the Chernin Group, and consisting of content from Crunchyroll and Mondo Media in addition to the premium tier VRV Select—is part of a broader consolidation of Crunchyroll, LLC's international anime streaming platforms (including Funimation and Wakanim) into the existing Crunchyroll platform, which Sony Pictures and Aniplex acquired from WarnerMedia in August 2021.
Bally Sports Arizona	Regional sports network	October 21	On October 13, 2023, Bally Sports Arizona announced on Twitter that it was shutting down. The network had lost the rights to its three professional sports teams due to its parent company's ongoing bankruptcy.
SportsNet Rocky Mountain			On September 5, 2023, The Denver Post reported that AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain had notified its employees that the network would shut down at the end of the year. October 6 will be the last day of work for full-time employees.

Television stations

Station launches

Date	Market	Station	Channel	Affiliation	Notes	Source
February 9	Fargo-Grand Forks, North Dakota	KNGF	27.1	BEK Sports	Channel 27 in Grand Forks was formerly occupied by KCPM, whose license was canceled on March 9, 2020, for failure to transmit from authorized facilities for the past 12 months. The frequency was put up for auction on June 7, 2022, along with 26 other full-power TV licenses. BEK Sports Network, Inc. was awarded channel 27 with a $6,411,000 winning bid. BEK was formally granted a construction permit for the new station on July 25, 2022. KNGF filed for a license to cover on February 9, 2023, which usually indicates that a station has signed on the air. Prior to KNGF's launch, BEK programming was seen on KRDK-TV (channel 4) during the afternoon and evening hours.
	27.2		BEK Sports Plus East
	27.3		BEK Sports Plus West
	27.4		NewsNet
September 26	Flagstaff, Arizona	KAZF	32.1	Independent	In 2022, Gray Television participated in an FCC auction of new TV stations and paid $4.648 million for channel 32 in Flagstaff and $1.345 million for channel 11 in Yuma. The FCC approved a request from Gray Television to change the Yuma allotment from VHF channel 11 to UHF channel 27 in February 2023. KAZS, the Yuma station, began broadcasting by September 26, 2023, when KAZF in Flagstaff debuted.
	32.2		Rewind TV
	32.3		FidoTV
	32.4		Infomercials
	32.5
	Yuma, Arizona-El Centro, California	KAZS	27.1	Independent
	27.2		Rewind TV
	27.3		FidoTV
	27.4		Infomercials
	27.5

Subchannel launches

Date	Market	Station	Channel	Affiliation	Notes	Source
January 13	El Paso, Texas	KVIA-TV	7.4	QVC Over the Air	On October 21, 2022, Innovate Corp, the company that owned Azteca America, announced that the network would cease operations on December 31, 2022. Prior to the announcement, TV Azteca had entered into a content and co-production agreement with competitor Estrella TV that will see its news and entertainment programming blended onto that network's schedule. TV Stations were notified of the closure and had switched affiliations to other networks such as Estrella TV and Vision Latina.
January 18	Caguas-San Juan, Puerto Rico	WLII-DT	11.3	Vision Latina
January 30	Panama City, Florida	W20DX-D	20.2	Jewelry Television
February 1	Decatur-Champaign-Springfield, Illinois	WBUI	23.4	Rewind TV
February 28	Baton Rouge, Louisiana	WVLA-TV	33.4	Antenna TV	On February 28, 2023, WVLA added Antenna TV (owned by station parent Nexstar Media Group) to a new subchannel on 33.4, approximately one month after original affiliate WLFT-CD disaffiliated from the network and switched to the religious Sonlife Broadcasting Network upon being purchased by Family Worship Center.
March 28	Bryan, Texas	KRHD-CD	15.4	Jewelry Television	E. W. Scripps Company announced on March 10 that programming from TrueReal would be folded into the schedule of sister multicast network Defy TV (see Closures above). The Scripps spectrum space TrueReal leaves behind will be leased by Scripps to the shopping channel Jewelry Television.
			15.5	HSN
April 14	Grand Junction, Colorado	KLML	20.6	Rewind TV	On April 14, 2023, KLML switched its DT4 subchannel to Rewind TV, two weeks after the demise of TrueReal.
July 1	Miami, Florida	WFOR-TV	4.5	Catchy Comedy
	New York City	WJLP	33.2	Comet
October 2	Charlotte, North Carolina	WSOC-TV	9.4
October 9	Twin Falls, Idaho	KSAW-LD	6.6	Laff	Changes made to allow Vegas Golden Knights games to air on the newly independent subchannels
TBA	Los Angeles	KWHY-TV	22.8	Spanish News

Stations changing network affiliations

Date	Market	Station	Channel	Prior affiliation	New affiliation	Notes	Source
January 1	Albuquerque, New Mexico	KQDF-LD	25.1	Azteca America	Vision Latina	On October 21, 2022, Innovate Corp, the company that owned Azteca America, announced that the network would cease operations on December 31, 2022. Prior to the announcement, TV Azteca had entered into a content and co-production agreement with competitor Estrella TV that will see its news and entertainment programming blended onto that network's schedule. Many stations owned by Innovate switched to other networks such as Estrella TV and Vision Latina.
	Atlanta, Georgia	WUVM-LD	4.1		Estrella TV
	Baltimore, Maryland– Washington, D.C.	WQAW-LD	69.1		Novelisima
	Baton Rouge, Louisiana	K29LR-D	47.1		Estrella TV
	Boise, Idaho	KFLL-LD	25.1		Infomercials
	Chicago, Illinois	WPVN-CD	24.1		Vision Latina
	Columbus, Georgia	W29FD-D	43.1		Defy TV
	Columbus, Ohio	WDEM-CD	17.1		Estrella TV
	Corpus Christi, Texas	KCCX-LD	24.1		Timeless TV
	Des Moines, Iowa	KRPG-LD	43.1		Vision Latina
	Fort Wayne, Indiana	WCUH-LD	16.1
	Hartford, Connecticut	WRNT-LD	32.1		Timeless TV
		WTXX-LD	34.1
	Las Vegas, Nevada	KHDF-CD	19.1		Vision Latina
	Madison, Wisconsin	W23BW-D	23.1		Timeless TV
	Midland–Flint, Michigan	WFFC-LD	17.1		Infomercials
	Milwaukee, Wisconsin	WTSJ-LD	38.1		Timeless TV
	Mobile, Alabama	WWBH-LD	28.1
	Monterey, California	KBIT-LD	43.1		Telemax
	New Orleans, Louisiana	WTNO-CD	22.1		Estrella TV
	New York City	WKOB-LD	42.1		Vision Latina
	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma	KOHC-CD	45.1		Novelisima
	Orlando, Florida	WFEF-LD	50.1		Infomercials
	Raleigh, North Carolina	WIRP-LD	27.1		Estrella TV
	Sacramento, California	KSAO-LD	49.1		NewsNet
	St. Louis, Missouri	K25NG-D	25.1		Estrella TV
	Salisbury, Maryland	WGDV-LD	32.1		MeTV
	San Juan, Puerto Rico	WOST	14.2		Timeless TV
	San Luis Obispo, California	KSBO-CD	42.1		Estrella TV
	Seattle, Washington	KUSE-LD	46.1		Vision Latina
	Stuart–West Palm Beach, Florida	WWHB-CD	48.1		TBD
	Tampa, Florida	WXAX-CD	26.1		beIN Sports Xtra
		WTAM-LD	30.1		Estrella TV
	Tucson, Arizona	KUDF-LP	14.1
	Tyler, Texas	KDKJ-LD	27.1		Timeless TV
	Westgate–Miami, Florida	W16CC-D	16.1		Infomercials
	Wilmington, North Carolina	WQDH-LD	49.1		Shop LC
February 1	Santa Maria–San Luis Obispo, California	KCOY-TV	12.1	Dabl	Telemundo
March 1	Phoenix, Arizona	KPHE-LD	44.1	LATV	Independent	On March 11, 2022, Gray Television (owner of CBS affiliate KPHO-TV and independent station KTVK) acquired KPHE-LD from Lotus Communications for $1.75 million; the sale was completed on May 4. Ten months later on January 25, Gray announced that it would convert KPHE into an independent station (branded as the "Arizona's Family Sports and Entertainment Network," the first part referencing KTVK/ KPHO's shared slogan that originated on the former in 2003) on March 1; the station airs simulcasts of most of KTVK/KPHO's newscasts, sporting events (such as Phoenix Rising FC soccer matches, selected games of which will be simulcast on either KTVK or KPHO during the USL regular season, and Arizona Interscholastic Association high school state championship games), and PowerNation-distributed sports and automotive programming. With KTVK, KPHE also serves as the television home of the Phoenix Mercury of the WNBA as of May, and the NBA's Phoenix Suns, beginning in October.
July 27	Cincinnati, Ohio	WBQC-LD	25.1	Cozi TV	Telemundo
August 28	Laughlin–Las Vegas, Nevada	KMCC	34.1	Ion Television	Independent	On May 4, as part of the announcement a deal that would bring the games of the National Hockey League's defending champion Vegas Golden Knights to the station starting that Fall (see that entry above), the E. W. Scripps Company announced that KMCC would convert into an independent station later in the year, offering syndicated entertainment programming, news (including local newscasts produced by ABC-affiliated sister KTNV as well as Scripps-distributed news programs), and local sports events. Ion programming moved to the second digital subchannel of KMCC.
September 1	Salt Lake City, Utah	KUPX-TV	16.1
	Atlanta, Georgia	WUPA	69.1	The CW	Independent	On May 5, CBS News and Stations announced that the company would convert its eight CW-affiliated stations into independents on September 1, intending to fill prime time slots with locally produced programs (including news and live sports, with CBSNS likely to pursue rights to professional sports teams currently held by Bally Sports networks in those markets) and programming from other properties owned by parent company Paramount Global, which sold most of its 50% stake in The CW (as did original co-parent Warner Bros. Discovery, both of which retained 12.5% shares in the network) to Nexstar Media Group in October 2022. CW programming will move to other stations in the affected markets (four of which, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Sacramento and Tampa, are home to stations operated by Nexstar—WPHL, KRON, KTXL and WFLA/WTTA, respectively), while Nexstar partner company Mission Broadcasting is in the process of acquiring WADL in the Detroit market (that station would confirm its switch to The CW—replacing WKBD—through a promotional video posted on its website in late August). On June 14, Nexstar announced that MyNetworkTV affiliates WPHL, KRON and WTTA would switch to The CW on September 1, with MyNetworkTV programming moving to their digital subchannels. CBS's stations in San Francisco and Pittsburgh will also change their callsigns in concert with the affiliation switch on September 1. On August 1, it was announced that KQCA would switch to the CW as part of a broader deal extending the network's affiliations with Hearst-owned stations in six other markets. During the week of August 28, Gray Television—under a deal extending the network's affiliations in eight other markets—announced that WPCH (which had been operating as an independent since its 1967 sign-on and was the originating feed of TBS from 1976 to 2007) would replace WUPA as the network’s Atlanta affiliate, while Sinclair Broadcast Group—as part of a renewal deal involving 18 other CW affiliates—agreed to assume the CW affiliations in Seattle (ABC affiliate KOMO-TV, which will become the network’s largest subchannel-only affiliate by market size) and Pittsburgh (MyNetworkTV affiliate WPNT), in exchange for letting Nexstar assume the CW affiliation rights in Oklahoma City (which will move from KOCB to KAUT-TV).
		WPCH-TV	17.1	Independent	The CW
	Detroit, Michigan	WADL	38.1	MyNetworkTV (retained as secondary affiliation)	The CW (primary affiliation)
		WKBD-TV	50.1	The CW	Independent
	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma	KOCB	34.1
		KAUT-TV	43.1	Independent	The CW
	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	WPHL-TV	17.1	MyNetworkTV	The CW
		WPSG	57.1	The CW	Independent
	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	WPCW→WPKD-TV	19.1
		WPNT	22.1	MyNetwork TV	The CW
	Sacramento–Stockton–Modesto, California	KMAX-TV	31.1	The CW	Independent
		KQCA	58.1	MyNetworkTV	The CW
	San Francisco–Oakland–San Jose, California	KRON-TV	4.1
		KBCW→KPYX	44.1	The CW	Independent
	Seattle–Tacoma, Washington	KSTW	11.1
	Tampa–St. Petersburg, Florida	WTTA	38.1	MyNetworkTV	The CW
		WSNN-LD	39.1	Independent	MyNetworkTV
		WTOG	44.1	The CW	Independent

Subchannels changing network affiliations

Date	Market	Station	Channel	Prior affiliation	New affiliation	Notes	Source
January 1	Fremont–San Francisco, California	KEMO-TV	50.4	Azteca América	Timeless TV	On October 21, 2022, Innovate Corp, the company that owned Azteca America, announced that the network would cease operations on December 31, 2022. Prior to the announcement, TV Azteca had entered into a content and co-production agreement with competitor Estrella TV that will see its news and entertainment programming blended onto that network's schedule. TV Stations were notified on the closure and had switch affiliations to other networks. WTXX-LD, which was also an Azteca America affiliate moved its Timeless TV affiliation to the main subchannel as part of the closure, and WQDH-LD which was also an Azteca America affiliate moved its Shop LC affiliation to the main channel as part of the closure.
	Katy–Houston, Texas	KYAZ	51.3		MeTV+
	Lake Dallas–Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas	KAZD	55.3
	Los Angeles, California	KWHY-TV	22.2		Independent
	Lubbock, Texas	KNKC-LD	29.2		Infomercials
	Phoenix, Arizona	KMOH-TV	6.2		MeTV+
	Springfield, Massachusetts– Hartford, Connecticut	WTXX-LD	34.5	Timeless TV	ShopHQ
	Weslaco–Harlingen, Texas	KRGV-TV	5.2	Azteca América	Novelisima
	Wilmington, North Carolina	WQDH-LD	49.3	Shop LC	Lx
February 1	San Francisco, California	KRON-TV	4.4	Quest	Charge!
March 1	Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point, North Carolina	WGPX-TV	16.6	TrueReal	Scripps News
			16.7	Scripps News	GetTV
			16.8	HSN	TrueReal
		WMYV	48.2	GetTV	Rewind TV
	Danville–Lexington, Kentucky	WDKY-TV	56.4	TBD	Comet
March 2	Belmont–Charlotte, North Carolina	WJZY	46.4	Movies!	Grit
March 28	Albany–Schenectady–Troy, New York	WXXA-TV	23.3	Laff	Grit	E. W. Scripps Company announced on March 10 that programming from TrueReal would be folded into the schedule of sister multicast network Defy TV (see Closures above). The Scripps spectrum space TrueReal leaves behind will be leased by Scripps to the shopping channel Jewelry Television.
		WYPX-TV	55.4	Grit	Laff
			55.6	TrueReal	Scripps News
			55.7	Scripps News	Jewelry Television
	Appleton–Green Bay, Wisconsin	WACY-TV	32.5	TrueReal
	Arlington–Dallas–Forth Worth, Texas	KPXD-TV	68.5		Scripps News
			68.6	Scripps News	Jewelry Television
	Atlanta–Rome, Georgia	WPXA-TV	14.6	TrueReal	Scripps News
			14.7	Scripps News	Jewelry Television
	Bellevue–Seattle, Washington	KWPX-TV	33.6	TrueReal	Scripps News
			33.7	Scripps News	Jewelry Television
	Birmingham, Alabama	WIAT	42.4	TrueReal	Defy TV
	Boston, Massachusetts	WBPX-TV	68.6		Jewelry Television
	Bradenton–Tampa, Florida	WXPX-TV	66.6		Scripps News
			66.7	Scripps News	Jewelry Television
	Bryan, Texas	KRHD-CD	40.3	TrueReal	Ion Television
	Cedar Rapids, Iowa	KPXR-TV	48.6		Scripps News
			48.7	Scripps News	Jewelry Television
	Charleston–Huntington, West Virginia	WLPX-TV	29.6	TrueReal	Scripps News
			29.7	Scripps News	Jewelry Television
	Chicago, Illinois	WCPX-TV	38.6	TrueReal	Scripps News
			38.7	Scripps News	Jewelry Television
	Cleveland, Ohio	WEWS	5.4	TrueReal	Defy TV
	Colorado Springs, Colorado	KZCS-LD	18.4		Jewelry Television
	Columbia, South Carolina	WZRB	47.6		Scripps News
			47.7	Scripps News	Jewelry Television
	Concord–Manchester, New Hampshire	WPXG-TV	21.6	TrueReal	Scripps News
			21.7	Scripps News	Jewelry Television
	Conroe–Houston, Texas	KPXB-TV	49.5	TrueReal	Scripps News
			49.6	Scripps News	Jewelry Television
	Des Moines–Newton, Iowa	KFPX-TV	39.6	TrueReal	Scripps News
			39.7	Scripps News	Jewelry Television
	East St. Louis, Illinois– St. Louis, Missouri	WRBU	46.6	TrueReal
	Franklin–Nashville, Tennessee	WNPX-TV	28.6
	Grand Rapids, Michigan	WXMI	17.4		Defy TV
	Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point, North Carolina	WGPX-TV	16.8		Jewelry Television
	Greenville, North Carolina	WEPX-TV	38.6		Scripps News
			38.7	Scripps News	Jewelry Television
		WPXU-TV	35.6	TrueReal	Scripps News
			35.7	Scripps News	Jewelry Television
	Jellico–Knoxville, Tennessee	WPXK-TV	54.5	TrueReal	Scripps News
			54.6	Scripps News	Jewelry Television
	Kenosha–Milwaukee, Wisconsin	WPXE-TV	55.6	TrueReal	Jewelry Television
	Las Vegas–Laughlin, Nevada	KMCC	34.6		Grit
			34.7	Grit	Jewelry Television
	Lewiston–Portland, Maine	WIPL	35.6	TrueReal	Scripps News
			35.7	Scripps News	Jewelry Television
	Los Angeles–San Bernardino, California	KPXN-TV	30.4	TrueReal	Laff
			30.5	Laff	Scripps News
			30.6	Scripps News	Jewelry Television
	Melbourne–Orlando, Florida	WOPX-TV	56.5	TrueReal	Scripps News
			56.6	Scripps News	Jewelry Television
	Miami, Florida	WSFL-TV	39.4	TrueReal	Defy TV
	New Orleans, Louisiana	WPXL-TV	49.6		HSN
	New York City	WPXN-TV	31.6		Scripps News
			31.7	Scripps News	Jewelry Television
	Newport–Providence, Rhode Island	WPXQ-TV	69.5	TrueReal
	Norfolk, Virginia	WPXV-TV	49.5		Laff
		49.6	Laff	Jewelry Television
	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania– Wilmington, Delaware	WPPX-TV	61.5	TrueReal	Scripps News
			61.6	Scripps News	Jewelry Television
	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	WINP-TV	16.5	TrueReal	Scripps News
			16.6	Scripps News	Jewelry Television
	Portland–Salem, Oregon	KPXG-TV	22.5	TrueReal	Scripps News
22.6			Scripps News	Jewelry Television
Provo–Salt Lake City, Utah	KUPX-TV	16.6	TrueReal	Scripps News
		16.7	Scripps News	Jewelry Television
Raleigh–Rocky Mount, North Carolina	WRPX-TV	47.4	TrueReal	Scripps News
		47.5	Scripps News	True Crime Network
		47.6	True Crime Network	Jewelry Television
Roanoke, Virginia	WPXR-TV	38.6	TrueReal	Scripps News
		38.7	Scripps News	Jewelry Television
Sacramento, California	KSPX-TV	29.6	TrueReal	Scripps News
		29.7	Scripps News	Jewelry Television
San Antonio–Uvalde, Texas	KPXL-TV	26.6	TrueReal	Scripps News
		26.7	Scripps News	Jewelry Television
San Francisco–San Jose, California	KKPX-TV	65.6	TrueReal	Scripps News
		65.7	Scripps News	Jewelry Television
Scranton, Pennsylvania	WQPX-TV	64.6	TrueReal	Scripps News
		64.7	Scripps News	Jewelry Television
Sierra Vista–Tucson, Arizona	KWBA-TV	58.6	TrueReal
Syracuse, New York	WSPX-TV	56.6	TrueReal	Scripps News
		56.7	Scripps News	Jewelry Television
Tulsa, Oklahoma	KJRH-TV	2.5	TrueReal	Scripps News
April 1	Greensboro–High Point–Winston-Salem, North Carolina	WGHP	8.3	Court TV	Grit
	New York City	WPIX	11.3
		WPXN-TV	31.3	Ion Mystery	Court TV
	St. Louis, Missouri	KTVI	2.3		Grit
April 4	Charleston–Huntington, West Virginia	WOWK-TV	13.3	Laff
		WLPX-TV	29.4	Grit	Laff
April 14	Grand Junction, Colorado	KLML	20.13	Twist	Antenna TV
	Idaho Falls–Pocatello, Idaho	KVUI	31.8	Laff	Rewind TV
	Twin Falls, Idaho	KBAX-LD	27.11	HSN
May 1	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	WDPN-TV	2.2	Grit	Court TV
		WPHL-TV	17.3	Court TV	Grit
May 5	Birmingham, Alabama	WIAT	42.3	True Crime Network
May 8	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma	KAUT-TV	43.2	Court TV	Rewind TV
May 22	Mount Clemens–Detroit, Michigan	WADL	38.4	QVC	QVC2
June 5	New Orleans, Louisiana	WNOL-TV	38.2	Court TV	Grit
July 1	New York City	WLNY-TV	55.2	Charge	Comet
August 28	Las Vegas, Nevada	KMCC	34.2	Bounce	Ion	Changes made because 34.1 became an Independent after agreeing to a deal for the television rights to the Vegas Golden Knights National Hockey League franchise.
			34.6	Grit	Bounce
September 1	Billings, Montana	KTVQ	2.2	The CW	Independent
		KSVI	6.2	Ion Mystery	The CW
			6.3	Bounce TV	Ion Mystery
	Butte, Montana	KXLF-TV	4.2	The CW	Independent
	Great Falls, Montana	KRTV	3.2
	Missoula, Montana	KPAX-TV	8.2
	Seattle, Washington	KOMO-TV	4.2	Comet (retained as primary affiliation)	The CW (secondary affiliation)	See September 1 entry in stations changing network affiliations
September 11	Phoenix, Arizona	KPHE-LD	44.2	FidoTV	Rewind TV
			44.3	Infomercials	FidoTV
October 2	Charlotte, North Carolina	WCCB	18.5	Antenna TV	Heroes & Icons
		WJZY	46.5	Heroes & Icons	TheGrio
			46.7	TheGrio	Antenna TV
October 9	Nampa–Boise, Idaho	KIVI-TV	6.2	Laff	Independent	Changes made to allow Vegas Golden Knights games to air on the newly independent subchannels
			6.5	GetTV	Laff
	Twin Falls, Idaho	KSAW-LD	6.2	Laff	Independent

Deaths

January

Date	Name	Age	Notes	Source
January 1	Kelly Monteith	80	American comedian (several appearances on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson), actor (guest appearances on Love, American Style and The Love Boat) and host (The Kelly Monteith Show, Hit Squad)
January 5	Earl Boen	81	Character actor (Dennis Hubner on Making a Living, Reverend Lloyd Meechum on Mama's Family, voice of Chief Leonard Kanifky on Bonkers)
	Mike Hill	73	American film editor (Cagney & Lacey, The First Time, Baby Sister, Obsessive Love, Combat Academy)
January 6	Lew Hunter	87	American screenwriter and producer (Fallen Angel, Desperate Lives, Otherworld)
	Annette McCarthy	64	American film, television and stage actress (Happy Days, Magnum, P.I., The Fall Guy, St. Elsewhere, The Twilight Zone, Riptide, Ohara, Beauty and the Beast, Night Court, Twin Peaks, Baywatch)
January 7	Adam Rich	54	Actor (Nicholas Bradford on Eight Is Enough, voice of Presto the Magician on Dungeons & Dragons)
January 8	Dorothy Tristan	88	American actress (Gunsmoke, Kojak, The Rookies, The Incredible Hulk, The Waltons)
	Bernard Kalb	100	Journalist for NBC News and CBS News, founding anchor for CNN's Reliable Sources from 1993 to 1998
January 9	Lynnette Hardaway	51	Conservative contributor for Fox News and co-host of Diamond and Silk Crystal Clear on Newsmax TV
January 11	Carole Cook	98	Actress (The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy)
	Charles Kimbrough	86	Actor best known as Jim Dial on Murphy Brown
	Ben Masters	75	Actor best known as Dr. Leo Rosetti on HeartBeat and Julian Crane on Passions
January 13	Robbie Knievel	60	American daredevil (made guest appearances on CHiPs and Hawaii Five-0). Son of Evel Knievel.
	Yoshio Yoda	88	Japanese-American actor best known as Takeo Fujiwara on McHale's Navy, guest starred on Love, American Style
January 14	Wally Campo	99	American actor (The Lawless Years, Bat Masterson, Berrenger's, The Fall Guy, First Monday)
January 15	Bruce Gowers	82	Director, most notably on American Idol and the video for Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody"
	C. J. Harris	31	Singer (contestant on American Idol season 13)
January 16	Gina Lollobrigida	95	Italian actress, notably played Francesca Gioberti the sister of villainess Angela Channing in five episodes of Falcon Crest
January 17	Jay Briscoe	38	Ring of Honor professional wrestler
January 18	David Crosby	81	Musician (The Byrds, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young), recurred on The John Larroquette Show, guest starred on The Simpsons, Roseanne, and Ellen
January 20	Jerry Blavat	82	American radio disc jockey from Philadelphia (television appearances include The Mike Douglas Show, The Monkees, American Bandstand; appeared at numerous Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day parades)
January 23	Lloyd Morrisett	93	American psychologist, founder of Children's Television Workshop, creator of Sesame Street
January 24	Lance Kerwin	62	Actor best known as James Hunter on James at 15 and Mark Petrie on Salem's Lot
January 25	Cindy Williams	75	Actress best known as Shirley Feeney on Happy Days and Laverne & Shirley
January 26	Billy Packer	82	College basketball color analyst for CBS Sports and NBC Sports from 1974 to 2008
January 28	Lisa Loring	64	Actress best known as Wednesday Addams on The Addams Family
January 29	Annie Wersching	45	Actress known for series regular roles on 24, Bosch, and Runaways. Recurring roles include The Vampire Diaries, The Rookie, and Star Trek: Picard.
January 30	Jeff Vlaming	63	Television writer and producer (The X-Files, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Xena: Warrior Princess, Northern Exposure and Hannibal)

February

Date	Name	Age	Notes	Source
February 2	"Leaping" Lanny Poffo	68	Canadian-American professional wrestler (NWA, ICW, CWA, WWF); younger brother of "Macho Man" Randy Savage
February 3	Jack Taylor	94	News anchor for WGN-TV/Chicago
February 7	Tonya Knight	56	American bodybuilder; played Gold on American Gladiators
	Eugene Lee	83	American production designer for Saturday Night Live and the first four years of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
February 8	Cody Longo	34	Actor best known as Nicholas Alamain on Days of Our Lives and Eddie Duran on Hollywood Heights
February 13	Oliver Wood	80	British cinematographer best known for work on Miami Vice
February 14	Jerry Jarrett	80	American professional wrestler (NWA); father of Jeff Jarrett
February 15	David Oreck	99	Founder of Oreck Corporation (appeared in their many TV commercials and infomercials)
	Raquel Welch	82	Actress best known as Dianna Brock on Central Park West
February 16	Tim McCarver	81	Hall of fame baseball player and broadcaster
February 17	Gerald Fried	95	Composer (Gilligan's Island, Star Trek: The Original Series, Roots)
	Kyle Jacobs	49	American country music songwriter, husband of Kellie Pickler and co-starred with her on I Love Kellie Pickler.
February 18	Barbara Bosson	83	Actress best known as Fay Furrillo on Hill Street Blues
February 19	Richard Belzer	78	Actor best known as John Munch on Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and other shows in the Law & Order franchise plus guest spots as the character on several other shows
	Jansen Panettiere	28	Actor, best known for starring roles in the TV movies Tiger Cruise and The Last Day of Summer, guest appearances includes Casper on The Walking Dead and voice roles as Periwinkle on Blue's Clues and Truman X on The X's, brother of Hayden Panettiere.

March

Date	Name	Age	Notes	Source
March 3	Sara Lane	73	Actress best known as Elizabeth Grainger on The Virginian
	Tom Sizemore	61	Actor best known as Lieutenant Sam Cole on Robbery Homicide Division
March 7	Lisa Janti	89	Actress best known for roles in The Public Defender, Cheyenne, and other TV Westerns
March 9	Robert Blake	89	Actor best known as Anthony Vincenzo "Tony" Baretta on Baretta
March 15	Jeff Gaylord	64	American professional wrestler (UWF, WCCW) and football player (Toronto Argonauts)
	Norman Steinberg	83	Writer and producer (notable TV work including The Flip Wilson Show, Free to Be... You and Me, Doctor Doctor, and Cosby)
March 16	Sharon Acker	87	Canadian actress best known as Della Street on The New Perry Mason
March 17	Lance Reddick	60	Actor best known as Cedric Daniels on The Wire, Phillip Broyles on Fringe, and Irvin Irving on Bosch
	Hal Dresner	85	Screenwriter (The Harvey Korman Show, CBS Summer Playhouse, M*A*S*H)
March 20	Michael Reaves	72	Writer (Batman: The Animated Series, The Real Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
March 21	Peter Werner	76	Television director (Ghost Whisperer, Medium, Law & Order: Criminal Intent)
March 23	Rita Lakin	93	TV writer/producer (several shows including The Mod Squad, The Rookies, and Flamingo Road)
March 25	Leo D. Sullivan	82	Animator (Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, The Transformers, BraveStarr, The Incredible Hulk, The New Adventures of Flash Gordon, opening sequence on Soul Train)
March 28	Bill Saluga	85	Comedian best known for his character Raymond J. Johnson Jr. (regular appearances on The Redd Foxx Show and in a series of Natural Light beer commercials, in addition to numerous guest appearances)
March 30	Mark Russell	90	Comedian and political satirist known for correspondent work on Real People and for his own series of comedy specials on PBS

April

Date	Name	Age	Notes	Source
April 2	Bushwhacker Butch	78	WWE Hall of Fame professional wrestler
	Judy Farrell	84	Actress best known as Nurse Able on M*A*S*H
April 8	Elizabeth Hubbard	89	Actress best known for playing Lucinda Walsh on As the World Turns
	Michael Lerner	81	Actor best known as Sidney Greene on Glee
April 18	Charles Stanley	90	Pastor and televangelist (In Touch)
April 22	Len Goodman	78	English professional ballroom dancer and judge on Dancing with the Stars
April 25	Harry Belafonte	96	Calypso musician, made guest appearances on series like The Ed Sullivan Show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and The Muppet Show
April 27	Jerry Springer	79	Former Cincinnati mayor, news anchor for WLWT/Cincinnati, and host of The Jerry Springer Show, America's Got Talent, and Judge Jerry
April 29	Don Sebesky	85	Composer, arranger, and conductor (Allegra's Window, The Edge of Night, and Guiding Light)
April 30	Ron Hazelton	81	Home improvement expert (host of Ron Hazelton's HouseCalls and several series for History Channel)

May

Date	Name	Age	Notes	Source
May 1	Eileen Saki	79	Actress best known as Rosie on M*A*S*H
May 6	Newton N. Minow	97	Federal Communications Commission chairman (noted for referring to commercial TV as a "vast wasteland" in a 1961 speech)
May 7	John Roland	81	News presenter (WNYW, NBC News)
	Larry Mahan	79	Rodeo cowboy, had a role in the TV movie The Good Old Boys as Blue Hannigan
May 9	Jacklyn Zeman	70	Actress best known as Bobbie Spencer on General Hospital
May 11	Barry Newman	92	Actor (Petrocelli, Fatal Vision, Nightingales)
May 14	Samantha Weinstein	28	Canadian actress best known for roles in TV films like The Winning Season and Maggie Hill, as well as roles in shows like Wild Card and Copper and voice work on Super Why!, The ZhuZhus, Let's Go Luna! and Dino Ranch
May 15	Sharon Farrell	82	Actress best known as Florence Webster on The Young and the Restless
May 17	Superstar Billy Graham	79	WWE Hall of Fame professional wrestler
	Ray Austin	90	British stuntman and director best known for work on Zorro and Magnum, P.I.
May 18	Jim Brown	87	Football player (Cleveland Browns) and actor (I Spy, CHiPs, Knight Rider)
	Marlene Clark	85	Actress best known as Janet Lawson on Sanford and Son
	Dick Nourse	83	News anchor (KSL-TV)
May 21	Ed Ames	95	Actor best known as Mingo on Daniel Boone
	Ray Stevenson	58	Northern Irish actor best known for roles in Rome and Dexter, as well as voice work on The Super Hero Squad Show and Star Wars: The Clone Wars
May 22	Peggy Lee Leather	64	Professional wrestler (WWF, NWA)
May 24	George Maharis	94	Actor best known as Buzz Murdock on Route 66 and Jonathon Croft on The Most Deadly Game
May 28	Milt Larsen	92	Television writer (Truth or Consequences)
May 30	John Beasley	79	Actor best known as Irv Harper on Everwood and Barton Ballentine on The Soul Man

June

Date	Name	Age	Notes	Source
June 1	Anna Shay	62	Socialite, businesswoman, philanthropist, and television personality (Bling Empire)
June 6	Pat Cooper	93	Actor and comedian (It's a Living, Charlie's Angels, Seinfeld)
	Paul Eckstein	59	Writer and producer (Godfather of Harlem, Narcos, Law & Order: Criminal Intent)
June 7	The Iron Sheik	81	Iranian-born WWE Hall of Fame professional wrestler
	Tom Jolls	89	Weather anchor (WBES-TV, WBEN-TV and WKBW-TV, all in Buffalo, New York) and children's host (Commander Tom Show)
June 8	Pat Robertson	93	Chairman and founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network and host of The 700 Club
June 12	Carol Higgins Clark	66	Mystery author and actress (A Cry in the Night)
	Treat Williams	71	Actor best known as Dr. Andrew 'Andy' Brown on Everwood and Mick O'Brien on Chesapeake Shores
	Burns Cameron	85	Winner of the 1966 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions
June 15	Glenda Jackson	87	English actress and politician best known for appearances on The Muppet Show, American Playhouse, and Carol & Company
June 16	Paxton Whitehead	85	English actor best known for guest appearances on major sitcoms of the 1990s like Frasier, Caroline in the City, 3rd Rock from the Sun, The Drew Carey Show, Mad About You, and Friends.
June 19	Max Morath	96	Ragtime pianist, television presenter and author. Made guest appearances on series like Today and The Tonight Show.
June 21	George Winterling	91	Television meteorologist (WJXT)
June 23	Frederic Forrest	86	Actor (21 Jump Street, Lonesome Dove)
June 24	Dean Smith	91	Track and field athlete, Olympic champion (1952), stuntman, and actor (Tales of Wells Fargo, Maverick, Gunsmoke, Lawman, Have Gun Will Travel, The Iron Horse and Walker, Texas Ranger)
June 25	David Bohrman	69	Television executive (ABC News, CNN, Current TV)
June 26	Nicolas Coster	89	British-American actor (known for work on the soap operas Another World, Santa Barbara, and All My Children, as well as on prime time series Lobo and guest roles on Wonder Woman, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, T. J. Hooker, The Facts of Life and Star Trek: The Next Generation)
June 28	Sue Johanson	93	Canadian sex educator and host of Oxygen's Sunday Night Sex Show and Talk Sex with Sue Johanson. Made guest appearances on the Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
June 29	Alan Arkin	89	Actor (Sesame Street, St. Elsewhere, Chicago Hope)
	Judi Farr	84	Australian actress (Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars, Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America, Camp)
	Don Kennedy	93	Radio broadcaster, television personality, and voice actor (Space Ghost Coast to Coast)
	Anita Wood	85	Singer and actress (The Andy Williams Show)
June 30	Droz	54	Former WWF professional wrestler

July

Date	Name	Age	Notes	Source
July 1	Frank Field	100	Television meteorologist (WNBC, WCBS-TV, WWOR-TV)
	Robert Lieberman	75	Television director (Thirtysomething, The X-Files, Brothers & Sisters)
	Lawrence Turman	96	Film producer (Get Christie Love!, The Morning After, Miracle on the Mountain: The Kincaid Family Story)
July 6	Jimmy Weldon	99	Actor and ventriloquist best known for the voice of Yakky Doodle on The Yogi Bear Show
July 8	Jeffrey Carlson	48	Actor and singer best known for playing transgender character Zoe Luper on All My Children.
July 9	Manny Coto	62	Cuban-born television writer, director and producer (Star Trek: Enterprise, 24, Dexter, American Horror Story)
	Andrea Evans	66	Actress best known as Tina Lord on One Life to Live, Patty Williams on The Young and the Restless and Rebecca Hotchkiss on Passions
July 10	Randy Fullmer	73	Animator (Sesame Street, BraveStarr, She-Ra: Princess of Power, Ghostbusters) and film producer
July 11	Mantaur	55	Former WWF professional wrestler
July 12	Daniel Goldberg	74	Canadian film producer and screenwriter best known for being the executive producer of Beethoven, Mummies Alive!, Extreme Ghostbusters, and Alienators: Evolution Continues
July 13	Carlin Glynn	83	American singer and actress (Mr. President, A Woman Named Jackie, Day-O, Strange Luck, The Exonerated, Law & Order: Criminal Intent)
	Edward Hume	87	Television writer (The Day After, Barnaby Jones, The Streets of San Francisco)
July 14	Nick Benedict	77	Actor (All My Children, The Young and the Restless, Days of Our Lives)
July 17	Sue Marx	92	Documentary film director and news producer (WDIV-TV)
July 18	Stu Silver	76	Television writer (It's a Living, Webster, Soap)
July 20	Bill Geddie	68	Television producer (The View)
July 21	Jerome Coopersmith	97	Television writer (Hawaii Five-O)
July 23	Pamela Blair	73	Actress best known as Rita Mae Bristow on Loving
	Inga Swenson	90	Actress best known as Gretchen Kraus on Benson
July 30	Betty Ann Bruno	91	Television reporter (KTVU)
	Paul Reubens	70	Actor best known as Pee-wee Herman on Pee-wee's Playhouse and cameos on several other shows as the character; non-Pee-wee roles included Murphy Brown, You Don't Know Jack, and Tron: Uprising
July 31	Angus Cloud	25	Actor best known as Fezco "Fez" O'Neill on Euphoria
	Carol Duvall	97	Television host (The Carol Duvall Show)

August

Date	Name	Age	Notes	Source
August 3	Mark Margolis	83	Actor best known as Hector Salamanca on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul
August 8	Johnny Hardwick	64	Voice actor, comedian, writer, and producer best known for voicing Dale Gribble on King of the Hill
	Shelley Smith	70	Model and actress (The Associates, Murder, She Wrote, The Love Boat)
August 14	Rich Landrum	74	Television broadcaster (WCW WorldWide)
August 17	Rick Jeanneret	81	Canadian-American hockey announcer (Sabres Hockey Network and its TV partners Empire Sports Network and MSG Western New York, NHL on Fox)
August 18	Nancy Frangione	70	Actress best known as Cecile DePoulignac on Another World
August 19	Ron Cephas Jones	66	Actor (This Is Us, Luke Cage, Mr. Robot)
August 20	David Jacobs	84	Television writer, producer and director (Dallas, Knots Landing, Paradise)
August 21	Elizabeth Hoffman	97	Actress best known as Beatrice Reed Ventnor on Sisters
August 23	Terry Funk	79	WWE Hall of Fame professional wrestler
	Hersha Parady	78	Actress best known as Alice Garvey on Little House on the Prairie
August 24	Arleen Sorkin	67	Actress best known as Calliope Jones on Days of Our Lives and the voice of and inspiration for Harley Quinn on the DC Animated Universe. Also co-host of America's Funniest People from 1990 to 1992.
	Bray Wyatt	36	WWE professional wrestler
August 26	Bob Barker	99	Game show host and animal rights activist best known for being the long-time host of Truth or Consequences from 1956 to 1975 and The Price Is Right from 1972 to 2007. Also hosted the Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants from 1967 to 1987.
August 29	Don Browne	80	Television executive (Telemundo, NBC News)
	Robert Klane	81	Screenwriter, novelist and filmmaker. Wrote for several television shows including M*A*S*H and Tracey Takes On....
August 31	Gayle Hunnicutt	80	Actress best known as Vanessa Beaumont on Dallas

September

Date	Name	Age	Notes	Source
September 1	Jimmy Buffett	76	Singer-songwriter, made guest appearances on series like Saturday Night Live, Late Show with David Letterman, and Live! with Regis and Kelly
September 2	Max Gomez	72	Cuban-born medical journalist for New York's WNBC and WCBS-TV
	Marcia de Rousse	70	Actress (True Blood, St. Elsewhere, Schooled)
September 3	Ruschell Boone	48	Jamaican-born journalist for New York City's NY1
September 4	Steve Harwell	56	Lead vocalist for Smash Mouth. Was a featured cast member in the sixth season of The Surreal Life.
September 6	Adnan Al-Kaissie	84	Iraqi-born professional wrestler and manager (AWA, WWWF, WWF)
September 7	Geechy Guy	59	Stand-up comedian who competed on Star Search during the 1990–1991 season and on the sixth season of America's Got Talent.
September 8	Felicia Taylor	59	News correspondent (CNN International) and anchor (WNBC/New York)
September 10	Charlie Robison	59	Country singer-songwriter and judge of Nashville Star
September 11	Dick Bertel	92	Radio and television personality (WFSB, Voice of America, NBC, WTIC Radio/Hartford)
September 14	Michael McGrath	65	Actor (Mathnet, Between the Lions, and Madam Secretary)
September 15	Billy Miller	43	Actor best known as Billy Abbott on The Young and the Restless and Drew Cain on General Hospital
September 16	Irish Grinstead	43	Member of R&B group 702. Made cameos on Sister, Sister and Moesha along with the rest of her groupmates.
September 20	Elaine Devry	93	Actress (Perry Mason, 77 Sunset Strip, My Three Sons)
September 23	Nic Kerdiles	29	Ice hockey player (Anaheim Ducks) best known for appearing on Chrisley Knows Best
September 25	David McCallum	90	Scottish-born actor best known as Illya Kuryakin on The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Donald “Ducky” Mallard on NCIS
September 27	Michael Gambon	82	Irish-English actor (The Jim Henson Hour, Samson and Delilah, Angels in America, and Luck)

October

Date	Name	Age	Notes	Source
October 1	Tim Wakefield	57	Former baseball pitcher (most notably with the Boston Red Sox) and Red Sox TV analyst for NESN
October 4	Shawna Trpcic	56	Costume designer (several series including Firefly, The Mandalorian, and Ahsoka)
October 5	Dick Butkus	80	Hall of Fame football player (Chicago Bears) and actor (Blue Thunder, My Two Dads, Hang Time)
October 6	Michael Chiarello	61	Celebrity chef best known for hosting Easy Entertaining with Michael Chiarello on Food Network and NapaStyle on Fine Living Network.
October 8	Herschel Savage	70	Pornographic actor. Made appearances on shows like Just Shoot Me! and Are You There, Chelsea?.
October 9	Keith Giffen	70	Comic book artist and writer. Did storyboards for The Real Ghostbusters, Ed, Edd n Eddy, and Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi
	Anthony Hickox	64	English film director and screenwriter best known for doing work on New York Undercover, Pensacola: Wings of Gold, and Martial Law
	Buck Trent	85	Country musician and television personality (Hee Haw).
	Allan Weisbecker	75	Surfer, novelist, and screenwriter (Crime Story, Miami Vice).
October 10	Mark Goddard	87	Actor best known as Don West on Lost in Space
	Gail O'Neill	61	Model and correspondent on The Early Show
October 11	Phyllis Coates	96	Actress best known as Lois Lane on Adventures of Superman
October 12	Lara Parker	84	Actress best known as Angelique Bouchard Collins on Dark Shadows
October 14	Piper Laurie	91	Actress best known as Catherine Martell on Twin Peaks
October 15	Joanna Merlin	92	Actress best known as Judge Lena Petrovsky on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
	Suzanne Somers	76	Actress best known as Chrissy Snow on Three's Company and Carol Lambert on Step by Step. Also appeared in commercials for the ThighMaster.
October 20	Haydn Gwynne	66	English actress best known as Calpurnia on Rome
October 23	Harry Porterfield	95	Reporter/anchor for Chicago's WBBM-TV and WLS-TV
October 24	Richard Roundtree	81	Actor best known as John Shaft on Shaft

External links

• List of 2023 American television series at IMDb