1994 in American television

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List of years in American television:
1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997
1993–94 United States network television schedule
1994–95 United States network television schedule
List of American television programs currently in production

The following is a list of events affecting American television during 1994. Events listed include television series debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel initiations, closures and re-brandings, as well as information about controversies and disputes.

Events[]

Date	Event
January 3	Animaniacs, the popular most watched cartoon in American television has been snapped up for television broadcasting in Ireland on Network 2.
January 16	Standup comedian George Carlin gets his very own TV show on Fox.
January 18	The Peanuts special You're in the Super Bowl, Charlie Brown is broadcast by NBC. It will prove to be the last new Peanuts special broadcast on television for eight years until A Charlie Brown Valentine airs on ABC. It was the last special in creator Charles Schulz's lifetime to air on TV and the gang's first appearance on NBC in over 25 years.
	CBS wins the rights to broadcast the 1998 Winter Olympics from Nagano, Japan, after paying roughly $375 million.
January 22	NBC broadcasts the NHL All-Star Game for the fifth consecutive year. This would also mark the last time that NBC would broadcast a National Hockey League game for 12 years.
January 23	CBS, which had broadcast National Football League games since 1956, broadcasts its final telecast, with the Dallas Cowboys defeating the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship Game, 38–21. CBS had been outbid during December 1993 for rights to the NFC package by the Fox Network. CBS, however, would regain NFL rights (taking over the AFC rights from NBC) in 1998.
January 24	During a segment on NBC's Today, host Bryant Gumbel asks "What is the internet, anyway?"
January 30	NBC airs the Super Bowl for the second consecutive year. It's the first time that a network has aired two straight Super Bowls outright. While CBS did air the first two Super Bowls back to back, the first ever Super Bowl was really a simulcast between CBS and NBC.
January 31	Bill Cosby returned to NBC for a two-hour movie, The Cosby Mysteries, after ending production of The Cosby Show for 21 months.
	The Fox children's action series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers begins airing in Australia on Seven Network.
February 1	American pay television channel Encore initiates seven new themed multiplex channels (Westerns, True Stories, Love Stories, WAM!: America's Kidz Network, Action and Mystery), primarily on TCI cable systems, becoming the first premium service to offer themed premium services. Starz, which features more recent movie fare than its parent channel, is also initiated on this date as part of the Encore multiplex and would later become a rival to HBO, Showtime, Cinemax and The Movie Channel.
February 12	CBS affiliate in Phoenix, KTSP-TV, changes its name to KSAZ-TV, in preparation for the realignment that saw Citicasters stations switched to Fox via New World.
February 19	During the opening monologue on Saturday Night Live, guest host Martin Lawrence makes sexually explicit jokes about female genitalia and feminine hygiene, which results in NBC banning him from appearing on the network (for the next year) and SNL (for life). In repeats of the episode, the offending section of the monologue is replaced by a title card read by an off-screen player (writer Jim Downey), saying that although SNL is neutral about the issues mentioned by Lawrence, network policy prevents his remarks from being re-broadcast, and that the incident almost cost the entire cast of SNL their jobs.
February 23	CBS's coverage of the short program in women's figure skating at the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway (fueled by the media frenzy from a scandal in which associates of figure skater Tonya Harding attacked Nancy Kerrigan) immediately becomes one of the highest rated prime time television programs in American history.
March 1	The Pay television content advisory system, which describe the varying degrees of suggestive or explicit content in series and movies being broadcast by pay cable channels, are first implemented by HBO, Cinemax, Showtime and The Movie Channel. A streamlined version of the system—a categorized, ten-point system of content labels and abbreviated codes—was implemented on June 10.
March 11	Viacom assumes control of Paramount Pictures, which includes Paramount Television. Later during the year Paramount/Viacom announces plans to initiate a new over-the-air television network, in conjunction with United Television. The new network, the United Paramount Network (or UPN for short), is initiated during January 1995.
March 15	Major League Soccer with ESPN and ABC Sports announced the league's first television rights deal without any players, coaches, or teams in place.[1] The three-year agreement committed 10 games on ESPN, 25 on ESPN2, and the MLS Cup on ABC. The deal gave MLS no rights fees but split advertising revenue between the league and networks.
March 31	Madonna appears on CBS's Late Show with David Letterman and makes headlines for going on a profanity-laden tirade—one of the most censored events of American TV talk-show history, swearing 13 times during the interview. Though infamous, it results in some of the highest ratings of Letterman's late-night career. (Robin Williams would later describe the segment as a "battle of wits with an unarmed woman.")
April 1	Nickelodeon celebrates its 15th anniversary.
April 3	After 15 years, Charles Kuralt hosts CBS News Sunday Morning for the final time. He would be succeeded by Charles Osgood.
April 10	Pat Summerall makes his final assignment and on-camera appearance as a broadcaster for CBS Sports, the final round of the Masters.
April 14	Turner Classic Movies channel, an extension of Turner Broadcasting System debuted.
April 16	The pilot episode for All That airs on Nickelodeon.
April 17	ABC/Fox affiliate KARD in Monroe, Louisiana disaffiliates from ABC and moves its secondary affiliation with Fox to primary status, in the first unofficial affiliation swap of the 1994–96 United States broadcast TV realignment. ABC programming would then only be seen via off-market stations (e.g. KTBS in Shreveport, Louisiana) on cable television in the Monroe market until KAQY signs-on in 1998.
April 24	Barney the Dinosaur makes his commercial network television debut on the NBC prime-time special spin-off program Bedtime with Barney: Imagination Island. However, the song "I Love You" was not sung in the special due to a lawsuit about the song at the time; this explains why "I Love You" was not used in Barney's Favorites Vol. 2, as it uses songs from the spin-off. Surprisingly enough after this special aired, the 1965 film The Sound of Music was also included in the lineup for a Family Friendly Night of the '90s.
April 28	The Simpsons broadcasts its 100th episode on Fox.
May 13	Johnny Carson makes a surprise appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman to deliver Letterman his "Top Ten Lists". This would prove to be Carson's final television appearance.
May 23	Star Trek: The Next Generation concludes its seven-year run with the series finale, All Good Things... The two-hour finale was broadcast at 6 p.m. on most affiliates, rather than as part of the prime time lineup.
May 25	Shannen Doherty makes her final appearance as Brenda Walsh on Beverly Hills, 90210.
May 27	The final episode of Family Feud to be hosted by Ray Combs is broadcast.
June 1	FX begins broadcasting. This was first cable TV network to be owned by Fox.
	First formal broadcast of Newsworld International and Trio.
June 11	World Wrestling Federation wrestler Hulk Hogan signs a deal with World Championship Wrestling on a live broadcast of WCW Saturday Night.
June 17	With all major networks providing live coverage, former NFL player O. J. Simpson, suspected in the murder of his former wife and her acquaintance, flees from police with his friend Al Cowlings in his white Ford Bronco; the low-speed chase ends with Simpson's surrender to police at his Brentwood mansion. NBC, who was broadcasting Game 5 of the NBA Finals between New York and Houston in the meantime, periodically covers the chase via a split-screen.
	DirecTV, a direct broadcast satellite service, begins broadcasting in Jackson, Mississippi.
June 20	NBC's Today moves into Studio 1A at Rockefeller Center.
June 23	The first ever Nurses Ball event airs on General Hospital.
July 4	America's Talking, a talk and information channel (and forerunner to MSNBC), launched.
July 9	British vintage puppet action series Thunderbirds is introduced to the United States when the series goes to air on Fox Kids on Saturday mornings with brand new music and voices.
July 11	PBS repackages their existing children's programs as a new block called PTV.
July 12	The 1994 Major League Baseball All-Star Game from Pittsburgh is broadcast on NBC (NBC's first Major League Baseball telecast since Game 5 of the 1989 National League Championship Series). The game is the first production of The Baseball Network, a joint venture between MLB, NBC, and ABC. Hampered by its much-criticized regional policy for game broadcasts and a players' strike that cancels the 1994 postseason, the venture will be termed a failure even before it dissolves at the end of the 1995 season.
July 16	Baseball Night in America premieres on ABC. This would mark the first time that Major League Baseball games would be broadcast on ABC since the 1989 World Series.
August 12	The ABC soap opera All My Children broadcasts a memorial episode for original cast member Frances Heflin, who died during June. The memorial is in the form of a funeral service for Heflin's character, Mona Kane Tyler.
	Fox broadcasts its first National Football League broadcast, a pre-season game in San Francisco between the 49ers and Denver Broncos.
August 21	HBO broadcasts a concert appearance by Barbra Streisand, the entertainer's first public concert in 27 years.
August 29	Highlights from the NWA World Title Tournament from two days prior air on ECW Hardcore TV. It was at that particular event that the tournament winner, Shane Douglas threw down the NWA World Heavyweight Championship belt and proclaimed the ECW Heavyweight Championship to be a world championship. Douglas' speech presaged the emergence of ECW - renamed from Eastern Championship Wrestling to Extreme Championship Wrestling shortly after the event - as a nationally recognized promotion and the continued decline in the power and profile of the NWA.[2]
September 1	The Independent Film Channel debuted.
September 2	Both Cops and Love Connection aired for the final time in The 7:00-8:00 p.m. hour on WNBC. After that, Cops moves to WNYW, and Love Connection moves to reruns on WPIX. Extra and the return of Inside Edition replaced it. Inside Edition being on WNBC lasted until 1996, while Extra remained there for 25 years until 2019.
	The Fox O&Os aired A Current Affair for the final time at 7:30 p.m. After that, it moved to different slots and different stations until 1996.
September 4	Fox covers regular season National Football League games for the very first time with the launch of their pre-game program, Fox NFL Sunday.
September 9	The National Hockey League reaches a five-year, US$155 million contract with Fox[3] for the broadcast television rights to the league's games, beginning with the 1994–95 season.[4]
September 11	The 46th Primetime Emmy Awards were presented on ABC.
September 12	The first television stations involved in the 1994–96 United States broadcast TV realignment, as part of a larger affiliation deal between Fox and New World Communications, change their network affiliation. WDAF-TV in Kansas City ends its 45-year affiliation with NBC and WJW-TV in Cleveland ends its longtime affiliation with CBS, in both cases to become Fox affiliates. WDAF and WJW also trade their former affiliations with Fox affiliates KSHB-TV (becoming an NBC affiliate) and WOIO (becoming a CBS affiliate). Meanwhile, in Phoenix, KSAZ-TV (channel 10) ends its 40-year affiliation with CBS, and temporarily becomes an independent station, 3 months before becoming a Fox affiliate. CBS then signs an affiliation deal with former independent station KPHO-TV (channel 5), reuniting CBS with its original Phoenix affiliate, and ABC signs with former Fox outlet, KNXV-TV (channel 15) through an affiliation deal between ABC and The E.W. Scripps Company, owners of KNXV. This leaves the former ABC affiliate, KTVK (channel 3), to become an independent station (briefly becoming a WB affiliate in January 1995 until KASW (channel 61) signs on a year later and assumes the WB affiliation from KTVK, who enters into a LMA with the station). Fox Kids doesn't follow Fox to WJW-TV, WDAF-TV and KSAZ-TV due to newscasts, and instead air on independent stations WBNX-TV, KSMO-TV and KTVK.
	Original Family Feud host Richard Dawson returns to the series after nine years, replacing his successor, Ray Combs; the show also expands from half-hour to full-hour episodes.
September 19	The pilot episode for ER airs on NBC.
September 21	The sitcom Daddy's Girls debuts on CBS. Although it is abandoned after three episodes, it is notable as the first series in which a gay principal character is played by an openly gay actor, Harvey Fierstein.[5]
	Sam Waterston makes his first appearance on Law & Order as Executive Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy.
September 22	The pilot episode for Friends airs on NBC.
September 23	UWF Blackjack Brawl airs live on SportsChannel America.
September 24	The Marvel Action Hour, featuring animated adaptations of Iron Man and the Fantastic Four, debuts in syndication.
October 1	Fox affiliate KITN-TV in Minneapolis/St. Paul changes its name to WFTC-TV.
October 7	NBC airs the two-hour television movie, Saved by the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas, which concerns the lead-up to Zack and Kelly's wedding. This particular film in effect, served as the series finale for Saved by the Bell: The College Years. When aired in syndication, it is commonly split into two double-length episodes.
October 19	The series finale of Dinosaurs is broadcast on ABC, depicting the irresponsible actions of the dinosaurs toward their environment, and the ensuing Ice Age which leads to their demise.
October 31	fxM: Movies from Fox debuts as a spinoff of FX, broadcasting movies from the Fox library on a round-the-clock basis.
November 3	Various NBC comedies feature storylines centered on blackout events. This included Mad About You, Friends, and Madman of the People.
November 10	Sesame Street celebrates its 25th anniversary.
November 15	Fox purchases KDVR, giving KDAF to Renaissance Broadcasting. The sale would be completed on July 3 of the following year.
November 19	The pilot episode for Spider-Man: The Animated Series is broadcast on Fox Kids.
November 28	Wheel of Fortune introduced the $10,000 wedge (represented with a one-peg $10,000 gold-colored space sandwiched between two Bankrupts) in one of the rounds. This format lasts until the end of Season 25 in 2008, after which it was replaced with a similar wedge variant, dubbed Million Dollar Wedge (enabling the contestant a chance to win the $1,000,000 grand prize if held).
December 1	The Game Show Network, a network devoted to broadcasting classic game shows 24 hours a day, debuts.
	Home & Garden Television debuted.
December 3	Roughly a month and a half after making his final World Wrestling Federation television appearance, Randy Savage makes his World Championship Wrestling TV debut on a live edition of WCW Saturday Night.
December 10	The 1994–96 United States broadcast TV realignment continues as WITI in Milwaukee ends its CBS affiliation after 37 years to become a Fox affiliate. After failing to procure affiliations with Milwaukee's other major stations, CBS eventually aligns with former independent station WDJT (channel 58). Former Fox affiliate WCGV-TV (channel 24), who had turned down CBS, briefly becomes an independent station again before affiliating with UPN a month later.
December 11	The 1994–96 United States broadcast TV realignment continues as WJBK in Detroit and WAGA-TV in Atlanta end their longtime affiliations with CBS and switch their affiliations to Fox. As in Milwaukee, CBS struggles to find replacement stations in both areas, and eventually align with former independent stations WGPR (which CBS also acquires and renames WWJ-TV) and WGCL (then WGNX). Former Fox affiliates WKBD in Detroit and WATL in Atlanta both become independents briefly before respectively joining UPN and The WB one month later.
December 12	The 1994–96 United States broadcast TV realignment continues as WTVT (channel 13) in St. Petersburg, Florida ends its longtime CBS affiliation to become a Fox affiliate. Through an affiliation deal between CBS and Citicasters, the network joins the former ABC affiliate, WTSP-TV (channel 10) while ABC aligns with former Fox affiliate WFTS-TV (channel 28) through an affiliation deal between ABC and The E.W. Scripps Company, owners of WFTS-TV. Fox Kids, Fox's block of children programming, doesn't follow Fox's other programming to WTVT (which prefers to air newscasts in the block's scheduled timeslot), and instead airs on independent station WTTA.

Programs[]

Debuts[]

Date	Show	Network
January 2	The Mighty Jungle	The Family Channel
	Viper	NBC
January 3	Intimate Portrait	Lifetime
January 5	Birdland	ABC
January 7	Burke's Law	CBS
	Ancient Mysteries	A&E
January 9	America's Castles
January 11	Monty	Fox
January 16	The George Carlin Show
January 17	Can We Shop starring Joan Rivers	Syndication
	Rolonda
	TekWar
January 26	Babylon 5	PTEN
	The Critic	ABC
January 30	The Good Life	NBC
February 5	Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?	Fox Kids
February 6	Aladdin	Syndication and CBS
February 14	Trashed	MTV
March 2	Tom	CBS
March 3	The Byrds of Paradise	ABC
March 5	Duckman	USA Network
	Weird Science
	Secret Life of Toys	The Disney Channel
March 7	Boggle	The Family Channel
	Shuffle
March 9	The Busy World of Richard Scarry	Showtime
	Thunder Alley	ABC
	Turning Point
March 12	Winnetka Road	NBC
March 14	Someone Like Me
March 25	Mysteries of the Bible	A&E
March 29	Ellen	ABC
March 31	Traps	CBS
April 1	Sister, Sister	ABC
April 3	Christy	CBS
April 5	South Central	Fox
April 11	704 Hauser	CBS
April 15	Space Ghost Coast to Coast	Cartoon Network
April 16	All That	Nickelodeon
April 22	Dennis Miller Live	HBO
June 1	Breakfast Time	FX
	Personal fX: The Collectibles Show
	The Pet Department
	Sound fX
	Under Scrutiny with Jane Wallace
June 13	Jumble	The Family Channel
June 15	Dead at 21	MTV
June 24	Encounters	Fox
June 27		USA Network
June 29	Models Inc.	Fox
July 4	Politics with Chris Matthews	America's Talking
July 9	Thunderbirds	Fox Kids
	Muddling Through	CBS
August 4	Hotel Malibu
August 14	Inside the Actors Studio	Bravo
August 15	The Brothers Grunt	MTV
August 25	Heaven Help Us	Syndication
	My So Called Life	ABC
August 26	M.A.N.T.I.S.	Fox
August 29	Masters of the Maze	The Family Channel
	Maximum Drive
September 1	The Head	MTV
September 3	VR Troopers	Syndication
September 4	Fortune Hunter	Fox
	Hardball
	Wild Oats
September 5	Extra	Syndication
September 8	New York Undercover	Fox
September 10	Bump in the Night	ABC
	The Magic School Bus	PTV
	Beethoven	CBS
	The Tick	Fox Kids
September 11	The Boys Are Back	CBS
September 12	Party of Five	Fox
	The Dennis Prager Show	Syndication
	The Gordon Elliott Show
	Jones & Jury
	Judge for Yourself
	The New Price is Right
	The Newz
	The Suzanne Somers Show
September 13	On Our Own	ABC
September 14	All American Girl
September 15	McKenna
	Due South	CBS
	The Martin Short Show	NBC
	Sweet Justice
September 17	The Baby Huey Show	Syndication
September 18	Chicago Hope	CBS
September 19	ER	NBC
September 20	Me and the Boys	ABC
September 21	Daddy's Girls	CBS
	Touched by an Angel
	The Cosby Mysteries	NBC
September 22	Friends	NBC
	Madman of the People
September 24	Free Willy	ABC
	ReBoot
	The 5 Mrs. Buchanans	CBS
October 1	Wild C.A.T.s
October 3	Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills	USA Network
	The Fox Cubhouse	Fox Kids
	Jim Henson's Animal Show
October 4	Johnson and Friends
October 5	Rimba's Island
October 8	The Secret World of Alex Mack	Nickelodeon
October 15	My Brother and Me
October 24	Allegra's Window	Nick Jr.
	Gullah Gullah Island
	Gargoyles	Syndication
October 29	Aaahh!!! Real Monsters	Nickelodeon
November 6	Earth 2	NBC
November 16	Essence of Emeril	Food Network
November 19	Spider-Man	Fox Kids
December 1	U to U	Nickelodeon
December 2	Prime Games	Game Show Network
December 18	Life with Louie	Fox Kids

Ending this year[]

Date	Show	Debut
January 2	Doug (returned in 1996)	1991
January 9	Cadillacs and Dinosaurs	1993
January 14	The Les Brown Show
January 19	George
January 23	The NFL on CBS (returned in 1998)	1956
January 30	CityKids	1993
February 8	Saved by the Bell: The College Years
February 18	Thea
February 23	Bonkers
April 21	Herman's Head	1991
	The Sinbad Show	1993
May 10	Roc	1991
May 19	In Living Color	1990
	L.A. Law	1986
May 22	The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.	1993
May 23	Star Trek: The Next Generation	1987
	Evening Shade	1990
May 27	The Arsenio Hall Show	1989
May 28	Café Americain	1993
June 10	Shuffle	1994
June 18	Getting By	1993
	Harts of the West
July 1	Love Connection (returned in 1998)	1983
July 10	I Witness Video	1992
July 20	Dinosaurs	1991
July 23	Trashed	1994
August 8	Droopy, Master Detective	1993
August 14	Bakersfield P.D.
August 27	Baby Races
August 28	America's Funniest People	1990
September 7	Dead at 21	1994
September 8	Hotel Malibu
September 25	Wild Oats
September 30	Shop 'til You Drop (returned in 1996)	1991
October 1	Clarissa Explains It All
October 2	Fortune Hunter	1994
October 12	Daddy's Girls
October 22	Cro	1993
November 4		1994
November 18	Boggle	1994
November 26	Dog City	1992
	The Little Mermaid
December 3	Beethoven	1994
	Sonic the Hedgehog	1993
December 10	Tales from the Cryptkeeper (returned in 1999)
	Garfield and Friends	1988
December 20	Romper Room	1953
December 30	Jumble	1994

Entering syndication this year[]

Show	Seasons	In Production	Source
Beverly Hills, 90210	4	Yes	[6]
Doogie Howser, M.D.	4	No	[6]
Evening Shade	4	No	[6]
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air	4	Yes	[6]
Northern Exposure	5	Yes	[6]
The Simpsons	5	Yes	[6]

Resuming this year[]

Title	Final aired	Previous network	New title	Returning network	Date of return
America Tonight	1991	CBS	Same	Same	June 1
The Kidsongs TV Show	1988	Syndication		Syndicated through PBS member stations	April 4

Changing networks[]

Show	Moved from	Moved to
Aladdin	Disney Channel	Disney Channel/CBS
Sirens	ABC	Syndication
Kidsongs	Syndication	Syndication/PBS Kids

Made-for-TV movies and miniseries[]

Air date	Title	Channel
January 24	Pointman	PTEN
February 13	Knight Rider 2010	Action Pack
February 27	Heaven & Hell: North & South, Book III	ABC
May 8–12	The Stand
May 24	Seasons of the Heart	NBC
September 12	Danielle Steel's A Perfect Stranger
October 11	Out There II	Comedy Central
October 30	Without Warning	CBS
November 13	Scarlett
November 19	How the West Was Fun	ABC
November 20	Million Dollar Babies	CBS
November 28	Following Her Heart	NBC

Television stations[]

Station launches[]

Date	City of license/Market	Station	Channel	Affiliation
January 26	Wichita, Kansas	K61CG	61	Independent
March 16	Salem, Indiana (Louisville, Kentucky)	WFTE	58	Independent
April 1	Greenville, Texas	KTAQ	47	Shop at Home Network (primary) Jewelry Television (secondary)
April 15	Shreveport, Louisiana	KWLB	45	Independent
April 16	Bangor, Maine	W30BF	30	PBS MPTV+
May 10	Dalton, Georgia (Chattanooga, Tennessee)	WELF-TV	23	TBN
June 6	Orlando, Florida	WRBW	65	Independent
June 16	Crockett, Texas	K16BY	16	NBC (translator of KETK-TV)
June 19	Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota	KVBM	45	UPN
June 20	Gainesville, Florida	W14CB	14	America One
July 18	Eugene, Oregon	KROZ	36	Independent
July 20	Eureka, California	KBVU (semi-satellite of KCVU)	28	Fox
		KEUV-LP	31	Univision
August 1	Tampa, Florida	WFCT	66	Independent
August 8	Medford-Klamath Falls, Oregon	KMVU	26	Fox
August 18	Danville, Virginia (Roanoke-Lynchburg, Virginia)	WDRG	24	Independent
August 26	Honolulu, Hawaii	K60FJ	60	Univision
August 31	Austin, Texas	KNVA	54	Local weather
September 1	Fort Collins, Colorado	KFCT (semi-satellite of KDVR)	22	Fox
September 6	Elmira, New York	WYDC	48	Independent
September 20	Duluth, Minnesota	KNLD	21	Independent
September 21	Albany, New York	W26BL	26	FamilyNet
	Florence-Myrtle Beach, South Carolina	WWMB	21	Independent
October 15	Kannapolis, North Carolina (Charlotte, North Carolina)	WKAY	64	Independent
October 20	New Orleans, Louisiana	WHNO	20	LeSEA
October 21	Rock Hill, South Carolina (Charlotte, North Carolina)	WFVT-TV	55	Independent
October 31	Bryan, Texas	KYLE-TV	28	Independent
December 29	Tulsa, Oklahoma	K50JG	50	TBN
December 31	Memphis, Tennessee	WFBI	50	HSN
Unknown date	Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota	K69GB	69	3ABN
	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	WBPA-LP	29	Independent
	Victoria, Texas	K64EQ	64	NBC

Stations changing network affiliation[]

City of license/Market	Date	Station	Channel	Prior affiliation	New affiliation
Atlanta, Georgia	December 11	WAGA-TV	5	CBS	Fox
		WATL	36	Fox	Independent
		WGNX	46	Independent	CBS
Cleveland, Ohio	September 3	WJW-TV	8	CBS	Fox
Detroit, Michigan	December 11	WJBK	2	CBS	Fox
		WKBD-TV	50	Fox	Independent
		WGPR	62	Independent	CBS
Kansas City, Missouri	September 12	WDAF-TV	4	NBC	Fox
		KSHB-TV	41	Fox	NBC
Milwaukee, Wisconsin	December 11	WITI	6	CBS	Fox
		WCGV-TV	24	Fox	Independent
		WDJT-TV	58	Independent	CBS
Shaker Heights, Ohio (Cleveland, Ohio)	September 3	WOIO	19	Fox	CBS
Phoenix, Arizona	September 12	KPHO	5	Independent	CBS
		KSAZ-TV	10	CBS	Independent
	December 15			Independent	Fox
		KNXV-TV	15	Fox	ABC
Tampa–St. Petersburg, Florida	December 12	WTSP	10	ABC	CBS
		WTVT	13	CBS	Fox
		WFTS-TV	28	Fox	ABC
West Monroe, Louisiana (El Dorado, Arkansas–Monroe, Louisiana)	April 17	KARD	14	ABC	Fox

Births[]

Date	Name	Notability
January 19	Kristi Lauren	Actress (I Hate My Teenage Daughter)
January 21	Marny Kennedy	Australian actress (Mortified)
	Chanelle Peloso	Canadian actress (Incredible Crew)
January 24	Booboo Stewart	Actor (Descendants, Descendants: Wicked World)
February 1	Harry Styles	English actor and singer (One Direction)
February 6	Charlie Heaton	English actor (Stranger Things)
February 10	Makenzie Vega	Actress (The Geena Davis Show, The Good Wife) and sister of Alexa Vega
February 11	Dominic Janes	Actor (ER, Out of Jimmy's Head)
February 14	Allie Grant	Actress (Weeds, Suburgatory, All Night)
	Paul Butcher	Actor (Zoey 101)
February 21	Hayley Orrantia	Actress (The Goldbergs) and singer
February 23	Dakota Fanning	Actress (Taken)
	Cameron Palatas	Actor
March 1	Justin Bieber	Canadian singer and actor (Saturday Night Live)
March 2	Kofi Siriboe	Actor
March 5	Aislinn Paul	Canadian actress (Wild Card, Degrassi: The Next Generation, Heroes Reborn)
March 12	Christina Grimmie	American singer (d. 2016)
	Tyler Patrick Jones	Actor (Ghost Whisperer)
March 14	Ansel Elgort	American actor
	Frankie Ryan Manriquez	Actor (Life with Bonnie, Higglytown Heroes)
March 16	Sierra McClain	Actress
March 22	Serena Kerrigan	Voice actress (Alicia on Go, Diego, Go!)
April 2	Sofie Zamchick	Voice actress (Whoopi's Littleburg, Wonder Pets) and singer
April 4	Chris O'Neal	Actor (How to Rock)
	Nadia Alexander	Actress
April 9	Joey Pollari	Actor
April 11	Dakota Blue Richards	British actress (Skins)
April 12	Saoirse Ronan	Canadian actress (Kingdom Hospital)
April 14	Skyler Samuels	Actress (The Nine Lives of Chloe King, Scream Queens)
April 15	Arif Zahir	Actor
April 16	Liliana Mumy	Actress (Lilo & Stitch: The Series, Higglytown Heroes, Catscratch, Chowder, The Cleaner, The Loud House) and singer
April 18	Moisés Arias	Actor (Hannah Montana, Jean-Claude Van Johnson)
April 24	Jordan Fisher	Actor (Liv and Maddie, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)
May 4	Alexander Gould	Actor (Weeds)
May 6	Noah Galvin	Actor
May 7	Dylan Gelula	Actress (Jennifer Falls, Chasing Life)
May 9	Braison Cyrus	Actor
May 10	Cazzie David	Actress
May 16	Miles Heizer	Actor (Parenthood)
May 20	Peyton Clark	Actor (I Didn't Do It)
May 24	Cayden Boyd	Australian actor
June 2	Jemma McKenzie-Brown	English actress
June 3	Anne Winters	Actress (Tyrant)
June 11	Ivana Baquero	Spanish-American actress (The Shannara Chronicles)
June 15	Alice Englert	Australian actress (Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell)
June 16	Caitlyn Taylor Love	Actress (I'm in the Band, Ultimate Spider-Man)
June 23	Connor Jessup	Actor (Falling Skies)
June 24	Erin Moriarty	Actress (Red Widow, Jessica Jones)
June 29	Camila Mendes	Actress (Riverdale)
July 6	Camilla and Rebecca Rosso	Actresses
July 16	Mark Indelicato	Actor (Ugly Betty, Dead of Summer)
July 17	Jessica Amlee	Canadian actress (Heartland)
July 28	Tyler Peterson	Actor (How I Met Your Mother)
August 9	Forrest Landis	Actor
August 17	Taissa Farmiga	Actress (American Horror Story) and sister of Vera Farmiga
August 18	Jessie Flower	Voice actress (The Emperor's New School, Avatar: The Last Airbender)
	Madelaine Petsch	Actress (Riverdale)
August 22	Israel Broussard	Actor
August 25	Natasha Liu Bordizzo	Actress
August 27	Ellar Coltrane	Actor
September 8	Cameron Dallas	Actor
September 13	Mitch Holleman	Actor (Reba)
September 16	Jesse Schwartz	Voice actor (Leo on Little Einsteins (2005–06))
September 17	Denyse Tontz	Actress (Big Time Rush, Dog with a Blog)
September 25	Jansen Panettiere	Voice actor (Truman X on The X's)
September 29	Clara Mamet	Actress
October 9	Jodelle Ferland	Actress (Kingdom Hospital)
October 13	Noah Crawford	Actor (My Name is Earl, How to Rock)
October 24	Paola Lázaro	Actress
October 25	Chloe Rose	Canadian actress (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
October 26	Allie DeBerry	Actress (A.N.T. Farm) and model
	Morgan Saylor	Actress (Homeland)
October 27	Eddie Alderson	Actor (One Life to Live)
November 1	Rocky Lynch	Actor and singer (R5)
November 10	Zoey Deutch	Actress (Ringer)
November 11	Connor Price	Canadian voice actor (The Save-Ums!)
November 13	David Levi	Actor (The Naked Brothers Band)
November 15	Emma Dumont	Actress (Bunheads, Aquarius)
November 16	India Ennenga	Actress (Pinky Dinky Doo, Treme, The Returned)
	Brandon Larracuente	Actor
November 17	Raquel Castro	Actress
November 21	Victoria de Lesseps	Television personality
November 22	Dacre Montgomery	Australian actor (Stranger Things)
November 30	William Melling	British actor (Harry Potter)
December 3	Jake T. Austin	Actor (Wizards of Waverly Place, The Fosters, Voice of Diego on Go, Diego, Go! (2005–08))
December 11	Gabriel Basso	Actor (The Big C)
December 14	Joshua Dionisio	Filipino actor
December 15	Emma Lockhart	Actress
December 17	Nat Wolff	Actor (The Naked Brothers Band) and singer
December 24	LaShawn Tináh Jefferies	Voice actress (Uniqua on The Backyardigans)
December 26	Samantha Boscarino	Actress (How to Rock)

Deaths[]

Date	Name	Age	Notability
January 1	Cesar Romero	86	Actor (The Joker on Batman)
January 8	Pat Buttram	78	Actor (Mr. Haney on Green Acres)
January 22	Telly Savalas	72	Actor (Theo Kojak on Kojak)
January 28	Hal Smith	77	Actor (Otis on The Andy Griffith Show, Dr. Seuss special)
February 11	Sorrell Booke	64	Actor (Boss Hogg on The Dukes of Hazzard)
	William Conrad	73	Actor (Cannon, Jake and the Fatman, The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show)
February 24	Dinah Shore	76	Singer and talk show hostess (Dinah!)
March 4	John Candy	43	Comedian and actor (SCTV)
March 21	Dack Rambo	52	Actor (Jack Ewing on Dallas)
	Macdonald Carey	81	Actor (Tom Horton in Days of Our Lives)
March 22	Walter Lantz	94	Cartoonist, creator of Woody Woodpecker
April 2	Betty Furness	78	Consumer advocate and spokesperson (The Today Show)
April 5	Kurt Cobain	27	Singer, songwriter, musician (Nirvana, Saturday Night Live [1992/93])
April 22	Richard Nixon	81	37th President of the United States
May 8	George Peppard	65	Actor (Banacek, Hannibal on The A-Team)
May 19	Jacqueline Kennedy	64	First Lady of the United States and spouse of President John F. Kennedy
June 1	Frances Heflin	73	Soap opera actress (All My Children)
June 11	Herbert Anderson	77	Actor (Henry Mitchell on Dennis the Menace)
June 14	Henry Mancini	70	Composer ("Peter Gunn Theme")
July 7	Cameron Mitchell	75	Actor (Uncle Buck on The High Chaparral)
July 8	Dick Sargent	64	Actor (Darrin Stephens #2 on Bewitched)
August 21	Danitra Vance	40	Comedian (the first African-American woman regular on Saturday Night Live)
September 3	James T. Aubrey	75	Head of programming at CBS (1963–64)
September 16	Jack Dodson	63	Actor (Howard Sprague on The Andy Griffith Show)
October 2	Harriet Nelson	85	Singer and actress (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet)
October 19	Martha Raye	78	Comic actress and singer ()
October 25	Mildred Natwick	89	Actress (The Snoop Sisters)
November 8	Michael O'Donoghue	54	Comedy writer (Saturday Night Live)
November 9	Priscilla Morrill	67	Character actress (Mrs. Vanderkellen on Newhart)
November 11	Pedro Zamora	22	HIV-positive participant of (The Real World)
November 18	Cab Calloway	86	American jazz singer
November 30	Lionel Stander	86	Actor (Max on Hart to Hart)
December 18	Don Fedderson	81	Producer (My Three Sons)

See also[]

• 1994 in the United States
• List of American films of 1994

References[]