2021 in American television
The following is a list of events affecting American television in 2021. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, and cancellations; channel launches, closures, and re-brandings; stations changing or adding their network affiliations; and information about controversies and carriage disputes.
Notable events
January
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8 | Jeopardy! airs the final episode (pushed back from Christmas Day) of Alex Trebek's hosting tenure, recorded 10 days before his November 8, 2020 death from stage IV pancreatic cancer. Starting with the January 11 episode and for the rest of the season, a series of guest hosts, the first being highest-winning Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings, fill in at the host lectern Trebek had occupied for 36 years. | [1] |
10 | While sister network CBS airs an NFL playoff between the Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints, Nickelodeon airs a special children-oriented version of the game. The broadcast added classic Nickelodeon gags such as CGI-created slime cannons "spraying" the end zones after touchdowns; prerecorded explanations of penalties, offered by Young Sheldon star Iain Armitage; and announcer and former NFL star Nate Burleson analogizing successful plays with such childhood activities as staying in school. Although Nickelodeon's broadcast was aimed at younger, new-to-football viewers, it was reportedly enjoyed more so by Generation X and millennial parents who grew up watching the channel in its 1980s/1990s heyday. | [2] |
The 1st Critics' Choice Super Awards, an event honoring films in the science fiction, action, horror and superhero genres, airs on The CW. The virtual ceremony saw The Boys as the top winner with four awards (including "Best Superhero Series"). | [3] | |
22 | Tom Brokaw announces his retirement from NBC News. A special correspondent and commentator since ending a 22-year run as Nightly News anchor in 2004, Brokaw spent 55 years with NBC, including roles as anchor/reporter at O&O KNBC/Los Angeles, White House correspondent, co-anchor of Today, and interim moderator (after Tim Russert's 2008 death) of Meet The Press. | [4] |
23 | Food Network pulls all content related to season 20 of Worst Cooks in America from its linear, streaming and social platforms (including discovery+), after season winner Ariel Robinson and her husband were charged in the January 14 death of their adopted three-year-old daughter at their Simpsonville, South Carolina home. | [5] |
25 | Two top executives of the CBS Television Stations group, division president Peter Dunn and Senior VP/News David Friend, are placed on administrative leave after a Los Angeles Times investigation reveals, among other allegations, their discriminatory and disparaging behavior concerning Black and female news employees at the station level, in particular at KYW-TV/Philadelphia. CBS would commission a third-party investigation into the matter and the broad culture within the station division; by the time it concludes in July, both Dunn and Friend would depart CBS (on April 7), and the general managers at CBS stations in Chicago (WBBM-TV) and Los Angeles (KCBS-TV/KCAL-TV) would be dismissed. | [6][7] [8][9] [10] |
February
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1 | Gray Television announces its intent to acquire Quincy Media's broadcasting properties for $925 million. The deal—expected to be finalized in the second or third quarter of 2021—will have Gray acquire eleven television (and two radio) stations, expanding its portfolio to 198 TV outlets in 102 markets with a collective reach of 25.4% of U.S. television households. The expanded portfolio will not include stations Gray will divest to alleviate market conflicts with existing Gray properties (see April 29 entry). Quincy's newspaper holdings will be sold to a separate buyer prior to the Gray transaction's closure. | [11][12] |
Marilyn Manson is dropped from future episodes of American Gods and Creepshow due to multiple abuse allegations against him. The following day, Creative Artists Agency announced that it had dropped Manson by the agency as a client. | [13] | |
3 | Country music channel CMT joins numerous country radio stations, including those owned by Cumulus Media and iHeartMedia among others, in pulling Morgan Wallen's music from its video library after he was captured on video saying a racial slur that was posted by TMZ. In addition, he was dropped from his record labels, Big Loud and Republic Records along with being pulled from consideration for the Academy of Country Music Awards. | [14] |
5 | Fox Business cancels Lou Dobbs Tonight, the network's highest-rated show. The cancellation came one day after its host, Lou Dobbs, was one of several Fox hosts – and Fox itself – were sued for $2.7 billion by electronic voting system producer Smartmatic for defamation, regarding Dobbs and others' role in spreading conspiracy theories about the 2020 United States presidential election. Fox News hosts Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro and frequent Fox News guests and ex-President Donald Trump's former lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell were also named in the suit. | [15][16] [17][18] |
7 | The Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs to win Super Bowl LV and become the first team to win the championship game in their home stadium. The game aired on CBS in English and ESPN Deportes in Spanish. The game was watched by 90.8 million people on linear television and another 5.6 million people on streaming platforms. It was the smallest audience since Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005. | [19][20] |
10 | Gina Carano is fired from The Mandalorian due to her controversial social media posts, with Lucasfilm announcing that they are ending their relationship with her. Carano is also dropped by United Talent Agency as a client. | [21] |
24 | NBC pulls from digital distribution an episode of the medical drama Nurses that aired on the network February 9. Titled "Achilles Heel," a plotline in the episode features an Orthodox Jewish patient and his father objecting to a bone graft from a cadaver to treat a leg injury; the characters' depiction received criticism from Jewish rights groups for "demonizing" those of the Jewish faith, and of the ethical quandary presented in the plot being completely fictional. The episode of the Canadian-produced Nurses had already aired in that country in February 2020 (host network Global would follow NBC's suit in pulling "Achilles Heel" from its own digital platforms). | [22][23] |
28 | The 78th Golden Globe Awards aired on NBC with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler as the hosts. The COVID-19 pandemic moved it from its usual first Sunday of January berth, along with film awards season in general. Jane Fonda was honored with the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award. Norman Lear was honored with the Carol Burnett Award. This was the first Golden Globe Awards ceremony to go bicoastal with Fey co-hosting from the Rainbow Room in New York City, and Poehler co-hosting from The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. | [24][25] [26][27] |
March
Date | Event | Source |
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7 | TV series Ted Lasso and The Crown and the motion picture Nomadland are among notable winners at the 26th Critics' Choice Awards. The event aired on The CW, with Taye Diggs hosting for the third consecutive year. | [28] |
In a two-hour special airing on CBS, Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, talk with Oprah Winfrey about their separation as working members of, and relationships with, the British royal family. | [29] | |
10 | The National Hockey League announces a new seven-year deal with ESPN, covering the 2021–22 through 2027–28 seasons. The deal includes 25 games each season on ESPN or ABC; 75 games on ESPN+ (which will replace NHL.tv as the league's out-of-market streaming home); exclusive rights to the All-Star Game and Skills Competition; and half of the Stanley Cup Playoffs each season, including four Stanley Cup Final series exclusively. The deal marks a reunion of the NHL with ESPN, which last carried the league in 2003–04, and will form one half of a two-carrier deal with the league (see April 26 entry). | [30] |
The Talk co-hosts Sharon Osbourne and Sheryl Underwood get into a heated on-air discussion over Osbourne's defense of Piers Morgan, who came under fire in Great Britain for dismissing Meghan, Duchess of Sussex's talk about her mental health during her March 7 interview with Oprah Winfrey (and would storm off ITV's Good Morning Britain on March 8, resigning from that show a day later). Osbourne would state on Twitter that her defense of Morgan wasn't meant to be racially motivated, and that she had been blindsided by The Talk producers into having the conversation. It leads to CBS launching an internal review of the incident and The Talk suspending production on March 15, initially for two days but eventually extended (see March 26). | [31][32] [33] | |
12 | WLS-TV/Chicago and sports anchor Mark Giangreco announced they have come to a separation agreement. A long-time Chicago TV/radio personality (and a 27-year veteran of the ABC O&O), Giangreco had been on administrative leave since a January 28 newscast in which, while presenting video of a house being painted by a hockey player on roller skates, he equated fellow anchor Cheryl Burton to a "ditzy, combative interior decorator" of a hypothetical DIY Network home improvement show, with Burton asking for some kind of action to be taken after he had done the same previously. | [34] |
13 | The 2021 Kids' Choice Awards air on Nickelodeon with simulcasts on TeenNick, Nicktoons and Nick Jr; Kenan Thompson served as the host, and Justin Bieber was the headlining performer. Television winners included Alexa & Katie (for "Favorite Kids' TV Show"), Stranger Things (for "Favorite Family TV Show"), Jace Norman (of Henry Danger for "Favorite Male TV Star"), Millie Bobby Brown (of Stranger Things for "Favorite Female TV Star"), America's Got Talent (for "Favorite Reality Show") and SpongeBob SquarePants (for "Favorite Animated Series"). The broadcast resulted in the setting of two Guinness World Records: for the Most People Gunged/Slimed Simultaneously Online (with 195 participants) and Most Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards Won by a Music Group (BTS, who won three awards, joining their two prior wins, respectively, in 2018 and 2020). | [35][36] [37][38] |
14 | The 63rd Grammy Awards air on CBS with Trevor Noah as the host. The awards were originally scheduled to be held on January 31, but were moved to March after Los Angeles County began experiencing a surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations. | [39][40] [41] |
18 | The National Football League announces new TV deals covering the 2023 through 2033 seasons. The deals ensure Sunday afternoon broadcasts remain on CBS and Fox, keeps Sunday Night Football on NBC, and gives Amazon Prime Video exclusive rights to Thursday Night Football (transferring it from Fox and NFL Network). It also expands ESPN's Monday Night Football presence to include doubleheader games with ABC; late-season flex scheduling of more compelling games; and ABC/ESPN simulcasts of two Super Bowls. | [42] |
Nischelle Turner is named the new co-anchor of Entertainment Tonight, becoming the first Black woman to host the 40-year-old showbiz newsmagazine. | [43] | |
22 | NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon brings in a limited, socially distanced, and fully-masked live audience to its regular home at Studio 6B of 30 Rockefeller Plaza; sidekick/announcer Steve Higgins also returns to the studio (he had been recording Tonight's intros from home), as well as the return of the show's pre-pandemic opening theme and street-side intro, albeit with special edits featuring host Jimmy Fallon and house band The Roots wearing masks (the original mask-free intro would return in May after the CDC's guidelines were updated). Prior to returning to 6B (which would bring back a full audience on June 7), Tonight had spent the pandemic either "at home" or in temporary audience-free space at Studio 6A in the 12 months before this evening's episode. | [44][45] |
24 | Warner Bros. Television fires All Rise executive producer Greg Spottiswood in the wake of an internal investigation over his alleged use of offensive remarks and other insensitive actions in the CBS legal drama's writers room. It is the second such incident involving Spottiswood at All Rise; the first, in late 2019, resulted in five writers leaving the show, and a corporate coach (a Black woman) being brought in, after the writers clashed with Spottiswood (who is white) over the show's depiction of gender and race, specifically people of color. | [46] |
25 | Dick Stockton announces his retirement after a 55-year sportscasting career, most notably covering the NFL, NBA, Major League Baseball, and the Winter Olympics for Fox, CBS, and Turner Sports, as well as local broadcasts of the Boston Red Sox and Oakland Athletics. | [47] |
26 | After The Talk's hiatus is extended past March 16, when reports surfaced that former co-hosts Leah Remini and Holly Robinson Peete accused Sharon Osbourne of saying racist and homophobic slurs about Robinson Peete and fellow former panelists Julie Chen and Sara Gilbert, CBS finishes its review of the March 10 on-air incident, stating that Osbourne's actions "did not align with our values for a respectful workplace," and that Osbourne (the last remaining member of The Talk's original 2010 host panel) will not return to the show. The Talk would eventually return to air on April 12, when the show's remaining panelists sat down to discuss the incident and their reactions. | [32][33] [48][49] [50] |
31 | T-Mobile US announces the shutdown of its fledgling vMVPD service TVision, effective April 29. Launched in November 2020 as a streaming-only version of the wired TVision Home IPTV service (launched in 2019), TVision saw early criticism from Discovery Inc., ViacomCBS and NBCUniversal for, without their prior input and running afoul of channel bundling obligations set under their carriage deals, excluding certain networks they each own from the provider's higher-end "Live" packages despite having included them in its discount "Vibe" tier. Existing TVision subscribers will be offered $10/month discounts off of either Philo or YouTube TV's respective base packages. (Prior to the announcement, TVision had intended to begin selling its packages to customers outside of T-Mobile's consumer base by the end of 2021.) | [51][52] |
April
Date | Event | Source |
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1 | Dish Network and Sling TV drop MASN (home of Major League Baseball's Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals), on the first day of the 2021 Major League Baseball season, due to a carriage dispute. Additionally, the providers drop NBC Sports Washington (home of the Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals); NBC Sports California (home of the Oakland Athletics, San Jose Sharks, and Sacramento Kings); and NBC Sports Bay Area (home of the San Francisco Giants and Golden State Warriors) for the same reason. | [53][54] [55] |
Former Williamson County, Texas sheriff Robert Chody turns himself in to authorities in neighboring Travis County on charges of evidence tampering for ordering the destruction of video footage, captured by Live PD, during a 2019 traffic stop that ended in the killing of Javier Ambler. It is the second time Chody is indicted for the crime (Williamson County charged him in September 2020), and it comes two days after Travis County charged two of his former deputies with manslaughter for their role in the incident. | [56][57] [58] | |
13 | American Spanish-language broadcaster Univision Communications and Mexico-based Televisa announce that they will combine their respective entertainment assets into one company, to be known as Televisa-Univision. The $4.8 billion deal would result in Univision, UniMás and their respective O&Os as well as the company's cable properties (including Galavisión, Fusion TV and TUDN) being united under one company with the Televisa entertainment assets that Univision has long relied on to supply programming. | [59] |
14 | ABC News taps Kimberly Godwin as its new president, set to succeed outgoing chief James Goldston. A veteran of local and network news operations (including the last 14 years at CBS News), Godwin will become the first Black executive to lead a broadcast news operation when she joins ABC News in May. | [60] |
18 | The 56th Academy of Country Music Awards aired on CBS from three locations in Nashville: the Grand Ole Opry House, the Ryman Auditorium, and the Bluebird Café. Keith Urban and Mickey Guyton (who became the first African-American woman to serve as host) were the hosts for the telecast. Luke Bryan won "Entertainer of the Year" and Chris Stapleton (for Starting Over) won "Album of the Year"; Maren Morris, Carly Pearce and Lee Brice won the most awards during the event, earning two each. | [61][62] [63] |
25 | The 93rd Academy Awards aired on ABC. Originally scheduled to be held on February 28, it was moved to April 25, the latest scheduled date for the ceremony in its history. The ceremony was presented from two locations in Hollywood: the Dolby Theatre and the Union Station. Nomadland earned the most wins with three awards: "Best Picture", "Best Director" (for Chloé Zhao, who became the first woman of color and the second woman overall to win in the category), and "Best Actress" (for Frances McDormand, who became the seventh person and second actress ever to win three acting Oscars over their career). Anthony Hopkins' "Best Actor" win for The Father (which, at 83, made him the oldest winner in an acting category) sparked some criticism as many viewers believed that the ceremony's producers broke with tradition in moving the lead acting categories to be presented after the "Best Picture" winner presentation on assumption that Chadwick Boseman (nominated for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom) would receive a posthumous "Best Actor" award in tribute. | [64][65] [66][67] [68] |
26 | The National Hockey League announces a new seven-year deal with Turner Sports, covering the 2021–22 through 2027–28 seasons. The "'B' package" with Turner (the ESPN/ABC deal announced on March 10 has been termed the "'A' package") will see TBS and/or TNT carry up to 72 regular season games each season; the New Year's Day Winter Classic; half of the Stanley Cup Playoffs each season; three Stanley Cup Final series exclusively on TNT; and live streaming and simulcast rights for HBO Max (which, alongside ESPN+, will replace NHL.tv as the league's out-of-market streaming home), marking the service's entry into live programming. The Turner and ESPN/ABC deals mean that NBC Sports' relationship with the NHL (one that dated to the 2005–06 season) would conclude at the end of the truncated 2021 season (see July 7), this after NBC pulled out of negotiations for the partial contractual rights. | [69][70] |
27 | Contestant Laura Trammell wins $398,690 in cash and prizes (including a Latitude Margaritaville house worth $375,000) during that evening's episode of Wheel of Fortune, making her the fourth biggest winner in the show's history (and the biggest outside of three other $1 million winners); it is also the expensive non-grand prize win outside the $100,000 grand prize, since a Winnebago Intent was offered and won in an 2019 episode. For the week of April 26–30, a special wedge was added to the wheel which allowed a contestant to add a second Latitude Margaritaville house envelope in the bonus round, similar to the Million Dollar Wedge (which was intact in the contestant's possession and is susceptible to any bankrupt wedge hits). It is also the third week to feature a collaboration between Margaritaville and Wheel, after previous sponsorships in 2018 and 2019. | [71] |
29 | Nearly three months after announcing its intent to acquire Quincy Media's broadcast properties (see February 1 entry), Gray Television announces it will sell seven Quincy-owned stations (including corresponding satellites belonging to four ABC affiliates) to Allen Media Broadcasting to address local cross-ownership conflicts with existing Gray properties. The $380-million deal will result in the Entertainment Studios unit acquiring NBC affiliates KVOA/Tucson, KWWL/Cedar Rapids and WREX/Rockford, and ABC affiliates WKOW/Madison, WXOW/La Crosse, WAOW/Wausau and WSIL/Paducah. | [72] |
30 | The CW removes the British police procedural Bulletproof (which has aired on the network since 2019, under license from distributor Sky Vision) from its streaming platforms following an April 29 report in The Guardian detailing accusations of misconduct against star Noel Clarke from 20 women, in which he was accused of sexual harassment, unwanted groping, bullying, making inappropriate on-set comments, and sharing sexually explicit photos and videos without consent. Clarke has denied the allegations except for those pertaining to inappropriate comments he admits to have made about one of the women. | [73] |
May
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3 | Gray Television announces it will acquire the Meredith Local Media broadcasting unit from the Meredith Corporation for $2.7 billion. (Meredith will concurrently spin off its print/digital unit to current company shareholders.) The deal, expected to be finalized in the fourth quarter of 2021, will result in Gray adding 17 stations in 12 markets to the company's portfolio, as well as make Gray the third-largest TV station group in the U.S. (behind Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair Broadcast Group), with 101 stations serving 113 markets that reach 36% of U.S. households (or 25% when factoring in the UHF discount). (See also July 14.) | [74][75] |
Two months after awarding Thursday Night Football rights to Amazon Prime Video (see March 18 entry), the National Football League announces the streamer's exclusive commitment to the package will begin one season earlier than announced, from 2023 to 2022. The move means that 2021 will be the last season TNF will be available on over-the-air (Fox) and conventional cable (NFL Network) services, outside of broadcast stations in the competing teams' home markets. | [76] | |
10 | Believing that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association needs ample time to properly execute organizational and membership reforms (including initial changes approved on May 6), NBC announces it will not air the HFPA's Golden Globe Awards ceremony in January 2022. It's one of several stands (and boycotts) taken by studios, talent, agents, and PR firms against the HFPA in light of recent reports about its lack of membership diversity, as well as its long history of insular culture, suspect financial practices, and other questionable conduct. | [77] |
Calling himself a "salary cap casualty," Kenny Mayne announces his departure from ESPN after 27 years as an anchor and correspondent for the sports network; his last on-screen appearance occurs on May 24. | [78] | |
13 | HBO cancels taping of the May 14 episode of Real Time with Bill Maher (scheduled to feature Neil deGrasse Tyson as the interview guest, and Max Brooks and Dan Carlin as panelists) after the comedian/political satirist tests positive for COVID-19, with Maher being asymptomatic, following weekly PCR testing for the disease conducted by the premium channel ahead of the scheduled broadcast. Maher is one of several rare "breakthrough" COVID-19 cases that occurred despite prior vaccination. (HBO aired reruns of Real Time and Mare of Easttown, respectively, in place of the cancelled May 14 and May 21 episodes.) Maher returned to the program on May 28. | [79][80] [81] |
16– 17 |
The 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards aired on MTV (and simulcast on ViacomCBS-owned sister channels including Nick at Nite, BET, Comedy Central, TV Land and Paramount Network) with Leslie Jones as the host. The ceremony, held at the Hollywood Palladium, saw Sacha Baron Cohen be honored with the Comedic Genius Award and Scarlett Johansson honored with the MTV Generation Award. Among television nominees, WandaVision earned the most accolades with four awards (including Best Performance in a Show and co-lead Elizabeth Olsen for Best Show). It is also the first telecast to be split over two nights: the second night (on May 17) marked the inaugural edition of MTV Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted, a ceremony devoted exclusively to awards in reality television. (In addition to airing on MTV, the event was simulcast on MTV2, VH1 and CMT.) The ceremony, hosted by Nikki Glaser, saw RuPaul's Drag Race earn the most wins with three awards (including Best Competition Series and RuPaul for Best Host). | [82][83] [84][85] [86][87] [88][89] |
17 | AT&T and Discovery, Inc. reach a definitive agreement to combine the respective media assets of WarnerMedia (such as HBO, HBO Max, Warner Bros., CNN, TBS and a 50% share of The CW) and Discovery (such as Discovery Channel, Discovery+, Food Network, HGTV and TLC) in a cash/securities/stock deal worth $43 billion, plus WarnerMedia's retention of certain debt. The deal is structured as a Reverse Morris Trust, as AT&T will spin out WarnerMedia into an independent company (unwinding its $85-billion 2017 acquisition of the former Time Warner) that will concurrently acquire Discovery. Expected to close in mid-2022, AT&T shareholders will own 71% of the company and Discovery shareholders will own the remaining 29% share, with each shareholder group appointing representative board members; Discovery President/CEO David Zaslav will head the new company, taking over from WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar (whose post-merger duties were not initially disclosed). | [90][91] |
18–22 | The 2021 Eurovision Song Contest (held at Rotterdam Ahoy in Rotterdam, Netherlands) airs live on Peacock, with the semi-finals airing on May 18 and May 20, and the final (in which Italy won with Måneskin's "Zitti e buoni") airing on May 22. It marked the first time that an entire Eurovision Song Contest event (both semi-finals and the final) have been carried live-to-air on a U.S. television service. | [92] |
22 | CNN terminates their contract with political commentator and former politician Rick Santorum in response to racist and historically inaccurate comments he made about Native Americans at an event in April. | [93] |
23 | The 2021 Billboard Music Awards air on NBC from the Microsoft Theater, with Nick Jonas as the host. The Weeknd won 10 awards from among his 16 nominations, including for Top Artist, Top Male Artist, Top R&B Artist, Top R&B Album (for After Hours) and Top Hot 100 Song (for "Blinding Lights"). | [94][95] [96] |
HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver airs a segment on the practice of local television stations featuring sponsored content on newscasts and daytime advertorial lifestyle programming (and its impact on journalistic integrity). During the segment, host John Oliver revealed that the show had created a fake product, the "Venus Veil" (a regular blanket that it intentionally deceptively marketed as "the world's first sexual wellness blanket"), and hired an actress to pitch the product on three unsuspecting stations, KTVX/Salt Lake City, KVUE/Austin and KMGH-TV/Denver (all ABC affiliates). | [97] | |
26 | Juan Williams announces he will depart from the host panel of Fox News Channel's The Five rather than commute between his Washington, D.C. home and Fox News' New York City studios, where the show would return to production on June 1. Williams, who had been with The Five since its launch in 2011, remains with Fox as a Washington-based senior political analyst. | [98] |
In light of the 2019 killing of Javier Ambler that was filmed by Live PD's cameras, Texas governor Greg Abbott signs into law the first statewide measure in the U.S. (a bill named in Ambler's memory) that prohibits law enforcement agencies from authorizing TV crews to film on-duty officers "for the purpose of creating a reality television show". The bill, authored by Democratic State Representative James Talarico (whose district includes Williamson County, where Ambler was killed), had passed with near-unanimous support in both houses of the Texas Legislature. | [99] | |
27 | HBO Max, which marked the one-year anniversary of its launch on this date, releases Friends: The Reunion, a special reuniting the main cast of the 1994–2004 NBC sitcom (Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer). Moderated by James Corden, it featured taped and in-person guest appearances from former guest stars (such as Tom Selleck, Elliott Gould, James Michael Tyler, and Reese Witherspoon) and celebrity fans (such as David Beckham, Justin Bieber, Cindy Crawford, and Lady Gaga). Filming of the special – which was recorded in front of a studio audience at the sitcom's former Stage 24 at Warner Bros. Studios, Burbank – took place in April, after having been delayed twice in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. | [100][101] |
The 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards air on Fox from Hollywood's Dolby Theatre, one year after the 2020 ceremony was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic (its winners were announced through a virtual press conference). Usher serves as host, with Elton John (recipient of the iHeartRadio Icon Award) among the honorees. | [102][103] | |
28 | Longtime KSAT/San Antonio reporter Paul Venema retires from the Graham Media Group-owned ABC affiliate after 47 years. | [104][105] |
June
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3 | The internal networks of Cox Media Group’s television and radio stations are struck by what is described as a ransomware attack. The IT incident disrupts the stations' online streams; forces employees to use personal devices for communication instead of company-owned computers and phones; and impacts the production of live news broadcasts, including the pre-emption of full newscasts on at least one of Cox's television stations (WSB-TV/Atlanta). | [106][107] |
7 | Chris Harrison reaches a non-disclosure agreement with ABC and Warner Horizon Unscripted Television to end his 19-year run as host (and co-executive producer) of The Bachelor franchise. Harrison had been taking a sabbatical from its various series following a controversial February 9 Extra interview, in which he defended Season 25 contestant Rachael Kirkconnell during a discussion with former contestant Rachel Lindsay concerning photos of Kirkconnell at a 2018 Antebellum South plantation-themed fraternity formal, and accusations she liked racist social media posts and had bullied a high school classmate for dating Black men. (Guest hosts were slated for all scheduled 2021 editions of the franchise – including Season 17 of The Bachelorette, which premiered the night prior – starting with the Season 25 edition of The Bachelor: After the Final Rose.) | [108][109] [110] |
GAC Media, a newly incorporated holding company co-founded by Hicks Equity Partners and former Crown Media Family Networks CEO William J. Abbott, announces it had reached separate agreements to acquire Great American Country from Discovery, Inc. and equestrian sports-focused Ride TV from Ride Television Network, Inc. for undisclosed prices. Abbott will manage the networks as GAC Media's president and CEO. | [111] | |
14 | For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, CBS' The Late Show with Stephen Colbert broadcasts before a live audience at New York's Ed Sullivan Theater, with Jon Stewart as Colbert's primary in-studio guest. The show is adhering to New York state's adoption of CDC guidelines, including audience members proving full vaccination, optional wearing of face masks, daily testing and screening of staff, and a compliance officer monitoring and enforcing all safety protocols. In the 15 months before this broadcast, Late Show originated from either Colbert's home or within the confines of a closet-sized studio above the Sullivan. | [112][113] |
24 | TBS' Conan airs an extended (past 60 minutes) final episode that features guest appearances by Jack Black (in-studio) and Will Ferrell (via Zoom), an animated cold open "exit interview" with Homer Simpson, and clip packages from previous episodes. The finale marks host Conan O'Brien's departure from late-night TV; his 28 years working on Conan and NBC's The Tonight Show and Late Night trail only the 33 and 30 years respectively spent by David Letterman and Johnny Carson in the daypart. | [114] |
25 | The 48th Daytime Emmy Awards air on CBS, with Sheryl Underwood serving as host and notable winners including General Hospital (Outstanding Drama Series) and Jeopardy! (Outstanding Game Show), as well as posthumous wins for Larry King (Outstanding Informative Talk Show Host) and Jeopardy!'s Alex Trebek (Outstanding Game Show Host). | [115][116] |
July
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3 | With TNT's broadcast of the Milwaukee Bucks' NBA Eastern Conference-winning victory over the Atlanta Hawks, Marv Albert heads into retirement, closing out a sports announcing career that dates back to the 1960s and included TV work covering NBA, NFL, NHL, boxing, and Olympic coverage for Turner Sports, NBC, and CBS, as well as local teams including the New York Knicks. | [117][118] |
7 | The Tampa Bay Lightning defeat the Montreal Canadiens 1–0 in Game 5 of the 2021 Stanley Cup Finals to win their second consecutive and third overall championship in franchise history. This game also marked the final NHL broadcast for NBC Sports after 16 seasons, with ESPN/ABC and Turner Sports becoming the new U.S. NHL broadcasters starting with the 2021-22 season. Game 5 attracted 3.6 million viewers and the series averaged 2.52 million viewers overall for NBC. | [119][120] |
13 | All remaining analog television stations, as mandated by the FCC, shut off their analog signals and broadcast only in digital. This transition comes twelve years and one month after the digital transition for full-power television stations in 2009; only existing low-power broadcasters have been allowed to broadcast in analog since then. The few remaining analog low-power stations are mostly distant rural translators in large geographical television markets and a few urban-area stations operating primarily as radio stations on 87.7 FM; digital television is incompatible with either digital or analog radio, which forces the 87.7 stations to change frequencies or cease their radio operations altogether. | [121] |
14 | The Talk announces that frequent guest panelist Jerry O'Connell (who had been recurring on the program since May, when the series began employing a rotation of male guest hosts) will join the CBS daytime show in September as a permanent panelist, the first male to join what had been an all-female panel throughout its 11-year history. | [122] |
Gray Television announces it will sell its ABC affiliate in the Central Michigan market, WJRT-TV/Flint, to Allen Media Broadcasting. The $70 million deal—expected to be completed in the third or fourth quarter of 2021, prior to the closure of the Gray-Meredith deal—resolves the only single-market overlap created by Gray's pending acquisition of Meredith Corporation's broadcast assets (see May 3 entry), and allows Gray to keep another "top-four-ranked" station in the market, Meredith-owned CBS affiliate WNEM-TV/Bay City. | [123] | |
23–August 8 | The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, are scheduled to take place after their one-year postponement was made on March 24, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. NBC and its cable networks will carry coverage in the United States. (NBCSN will offer event coverage for the last time as it is scheduled to close later in the year; see “Networks and Services” below for details.) Although the International Olympic Committee stated it would be held as scheduled, postponement of the Summer Olympics to the following year was made in March 2020. The new opening/closing ceremony date range was announced on March 30, 2020. | [124][125] [126][127] |
28 | Big 12 Conference Commissioner Bob Bowlsby issues a cease-and-desist letter to ESPN, demanding the network end correspondence with the conference's member schools and other NCAA Division I conferences and accusing ESPN—without providing evidence—of having “actively engaged” in discussions with the SEC and American Athletic Conference about approaching Big 12 members for membership in those conferences to “destabilize the Big 12” and allow the universities of Oklahoma and Texas (which informed the Big 12 two days earlier that they will not renew their grant of media rights after the 2024–25 academic year, intending to join the SEC in 2025–26, an invitation approved by that conference the day after the letter's release) to avoid having to make buyout payments should the Big 12 fold. (ESPN maintains television and streaming rights to all three NCAA conferences.) Representatives for ESPN dismissed Bowlsby's claims as having “no merit.” | [128][129] |
29 | Ending a 33-month-long retransmission dispute, Dish Network and Home Box Office, Inc. reach an agreement that allows the satellite provider to resume distribution of HBO and Cinemax (offering five of seven HBO and three of eight Cinemax linear channels, not counting West Coast versions of their primary feeds, plus SVOD content from both networks), as well as offer access to HBO Max for the first time. (Dish will concurrently offer customers a 20% discount on HBO Max's ad-free tier through October 27). Dish Network and Sling TV dropped HBO and Cinemax in October 2018, which Dish blamed on AT&T (owner of HBO parent WarnerMedia) leveraging its ownership of HBO to help boost Dish rival DirecTV. (Sling TV is not included in the Dish/HBO carriage agreement.) | [130][131] |
30 | Ramar Communications reaches an agreement to sell its television station cluster in the Albuquerque market—Telemundo affiliate KASA-TV and its network of repeaters (KTEL-CD and its Carlsbad satellite KTEL-TV, and 40 low-power translators), MeTV affiliate KRTN-LD (and its Durango, Colorado satellite KRTN-TV), Movies! affiliate KUPT-LD, and Heroes & Icons affiliate KUPT/Hobbs—to Telemundo Station Group for $12.5 million. The sale will result in KASA becoming a Telemundo O&O (resulting in Telemundo parent NBCUniversal obtaining its 31st O&O market for the Spanish-language network), though it is unclear if the KRTN and KUPT stations will be spun off to a separate buyer or converted into repeaters of KASA. It will also mark Ramar's exit from television broadcasting, after having previously sold its Lubbock television cluster (led by Fox affiliate KJTV-TV, CW affiliate KLCW-TV, and MyNetworkTV affiliate KMYL-LD) to Gray Television (owner of local NBC affiliate KCBD) and SagamoreHill Broadcasting in October 2020; the company will retain ownership of its eight-station radio cluster in Lubbock. | [132] |
Waypoint Media announces its intent to exit broadcasting with the sale of its television stations and its centralized News Hub to Coastal Television Broadcast Group. It is Waypoint's second attempt to sell the stations, after a previously announced sale to Standard Media collapsed earlier in the year. Both Coastal and Waypoint own stations mostly in small cities and rural areas of the United States; Waypoint's owners stated that consolidation into a larger media company was a necessity to achieve the economy of scale to survive in the modern American media landscape and had previously divested its other broadcast assets to HC2 Holdings, Family Life Ministries and Seven Mountains Media over the course of the late 2010s and early 2020s. | [133] |
August
Date | Event | Source |
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8 | ABC airs an exclusive special edition of ESPN Sunday Night Baseball, a rivalry game between the Chicago Cubs and Chicago White Sox, in which the White Sox won 9–3 (marking their first three-game series sweep at Wrigley Field since May 2012). The telecast marked the first regular season Major League Baseball game shown on ABC since August 1995 (during its involvement in the short-lived Baseball Network consortium with NBC), and the first time that ABC had broadcast a regular season MLB game produced by ESPN, which fully absorbed the network's sports division in 2006. (ABC resumed airing MLB games of any kind on a limited basis in September 2020, by arrangement with ESPN for the league's wild card round.) | [134][135] |
11 | Jeopardy! distributor Sony Pictures Television announces two new permanent hosts for the show: executive producer Mike Richards was assigned to helm the daily syndicated version, while actress Mayim Bialik will host primetime and spinoff versions, including a "National College Championship" slated to air on ABC in 2022. Both Richards and Bialik were among Jeopardy's guest hosts in the months after former host Alex Trebek's death. Richards subsequently resigned as host on August 20 and was later fired as showrunner of Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune (both of which he oversaw since replacing longtime producer Harry Friedman in May 2020, after the latter's retirement) on August 31, amid scrutiny over misogynistic and offensive remarks he made on his 2013–14 podcast The Randumb Show, and prior wrongful termination lawsuits filed by two models dismissed during his 2009–19 producing tenure on The Price is Right. The five completed syndicated episodes that Richards hosted—filmed the day before his resignation—will air during the premiere week of Jeopardy!'s 38th season (September 13–17), with guest hosts (led by a three-week stint by Bialik) being utilized thereafter until a permanent host is named. | [136][137] [138][139] [140] |
19 | Bally Sports Detroit suspends Detroit Tigers color commentator Jack Morris after he used an offensive Asian accent while talking about Japanese Los Angeles Angels utility player Shohei Ohtani during a game on August 17. Morris apologized for the incident later in the game and Ohtani said he was not offended after seeing the video. | [141] |
Actress Briana Thomas (who had a background role as a barista for multiple episodes from 2018 to 2019) filed a discrimination and wrongful termination lawsuit against The Young and the Restless distributor Sony Pictures Television and CBS, alleging that Anthony Morina—who has served as the soap opera's executive producer/showrunner since 2018—had sexually harassed her on multiple occasions (including complimenting her body, offering her a “private acting lesson”, and asking her to remove a sarong during the filming of one scene in order to see her fully in a bikini), and had publicly verbally abused her on-set before firing her from Y&R via email in retaliation for spurning his advances. | [142][143] | |
20 | Carrie Ann Inaba announces her departure from The Talk after three seasons. Inaba, who assumed the moderator/co-host slot previously held by Julie Chen in January 2019, had been on sabbatical from the CBS daytime talk show since April, a move she then cited was “to focus on [her] well-being”. Inaba's depature was the first in a series of hosting changes for The Talk: Elaine Welteroth, who joined the panel in January 2020, subsequently announced on August 31 that she would also be leaving the program, while American Ninja Warrior co-host Akbar Gbajabiamila (who guest co-hosted multiple episodes between April and July) was announced to occupy one of the vacancies on September 2. | [144][145] [146] |
Disney Media Distribution announces that ABC News will assume production oversight of Tamron Hall, effective with the syndicated daytime talk show's third season (scheduled to premiere on September 6). The division already oversees two of ABC's daytime programs: The View (originally overseen by the network's daytime division from 1997 to 2014) and the news-based Good Morning America extension program GMA3: What You Need To Know (originally formatted as a lighter talk show from 2018 to 2020, when it was overhauled into its current hard news/interview format amid the COVID-19 pandemic). | [147] | |
25 | ESPN removes Rachel Nichols—who had been a host and sideline reporter for the network since 2004—from her NBA coverage assignments, along with canceling The Jump (a daily basketball analysis program she had hosted since its 2016 debut), in the wake of a recorded 2020 phone conversation with Adam Mendelsohn (an advisor to LeBron James) leaked on July 5, in which Nichols lamented Maria Taylor (who is Black) being assigned to cover the 2020 NBA Finals over herself, implying Taylor got the assignment because of “pressure” toward ESPN to address their “crappy longtime record on diversity,” remarks which earlier resulted in the network dropping Nichols from covering the 2021 Finals. (Taylor left ESPN on July 31, subsequently joining NBC Sports as a correspondent through a deal signed ten days prior.) | [148][149] [150] |
Kirstyn Crawford, a former producer for Good Morning America anchor George Stephanopoulos, files a civil lawsuit against ABC and former GMA and World News Tonight executive producer Michael Corn (who was named president of news at NewsNation on May 28) in the New York Supreme Court. The suit alleges sexual assault and attempted sexual coercion by Corn toward Crawford (by repeatedly forcing her head into his chest, kissing her and rubbing her legs during an Uber ride, and fabricating the loss of his hotel key to be invited into her room for sex during a 2015 assignment to cover the 87th Academy Awards for GMA) and ex-WNT staffer/supporting claimant Jill McClain (by groping and forcing himself on her during two separate 2010 assignments for World News Tonight, which he executive produced from 2010 to 2014), that Corn fostered a toxic work environment at both programs, and that ABC News management did not investigate the complaints against Corn (including one filed by Stephanopoulos on Crawford's behalf). Corn dismissed the claims as “demonstrably false,” pointing to emails between him and Crawford that he claims contradict her allegations. | [151][152] | |
29 | Hours after Hurricane Ida makes landfall as a Category 4 near Port Fourchon, Louisiana, Nexstar's New Orleans duopoly of WGNO (ABC) and WNOL (CW) suffers significant wind and flood damage to their shared studio building at the Metairie-based Galleria office complex. A section of the ceiling above the control room was peeled away, forcing duopoly personnel to be evacuated from that area during WGNO's hurricane coverage and causing flooding within the building (including its newsroom); some of the facility's exterior walls and a satellite relay dish were also damaged. Gray-owned Fox affiliate WVUE is forced to temporarily relocate some of its anchors and personnel to the studios of sister stations WBRC/Birmingham and WAFB/Baton Rouge the next day, after its studio building loses generator power following a “catastrophic” electrical outage that affected over 90% of homes and businesses in Orleans Parish (including the majority of New Orleans proper). Over 350,000 cable subscribers in the storm's path were left without TV and/or internet service (338,115 of them being in Louisiana, including New Orleans-area customers of Cox, Spectrum and U-verse). | [153][154] [155][156] |
ESPN's High School Showcase airs a high school football contest between IMG Academy and the Bishop Sycamore Centurions, only realizing partway through the game—which IMG would ultimately win 58–0—that there were numerous inconsistencies in the claims that Bishop Sycamore had made to secure the national television slot, including questions on the identities and credentials of Bishop Sycamore's players, many of whom were revealed as graduates of other schools who had gone unrecruited; the team's playing of another game less than 48 hours before against the rules of every high school sanctioning body in the United States; and the organization of Bishop Sycamore itself, which did not exist before 2019 and has scant evidence of being a high school as it claims. Both ESPN and its scheduler Paragon Marketing Group admitted they had failed to do their due diligence in scheduling the Centurions. | [157][158] |
September
Date | Event | Source |
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2 | Locast indefinitely suspends operations, two days after New York Southern District Judge Louis Stanton denied the streaming service a summary judgment that would have exempted it from copyright liability; the ruling set up a likely trial in 2022 for an infringement lawsuit filed in 2019 by the owners of NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox. Locast contended it was exempt from liability under the Copyright Act because it seeks $5 monthly donations from users—earning around $4.3 million to date, nearly twice the $2.4 million it incurred in operational expenses—to cover costs of “maintaining and operating an expanding system” that streams retransmitted broadcast signals to users within the markets it operates. Stanton asserted the donations amounted to surcharges to allow Locast users to receive uninterrupted streams following a 15-minute free viewing window (occurring four times per hour until a donation is made, a feature it suspended on September 1 in light of the ruling), and asserted no provision exists that would allow the donations to be used for expansion of the service into additional markets. | [159][160] [161] |
6 | Buzzr will begin rerunning the cult 1979–80 game show Whew! for the first time, returning the show to television for the first time in 41 years, in a licensing agreement with owners Burt Sugarman and Jay Wolpert, who will retain ownership of the series. | [162] |
7 | CBS revamps its weekday morning show franchise, relaunching it as CBS Mornings and incorporating feature segments during its second hour to tie the program in more closely with CBS Sunday Morning. The changes, which also involve the addition of sportscaster and former NFL wide receiver Nate Burleson as tertiary co-anchor (alongside co-anchors Gayle King and Tony Dokoupil, both holdovers from the preceding CBS This Morning format) and the incorporation of the abstract sun motif and "Abblasen" trumpet fanfare used by Sunday Morning since its January 1979 debut (mirroring the unified 1979–82 Morning format), coincides with the network moving production of its morning shows to a new studio at One Astor Plaza in Times Square. The Saturday edition, to be retitled CBS Saturday Morning and which already incorporates feature segments similar to those on Sunday Morning, will follow suit—retaining its existing anchors—on September 18. | [163] |
15 | The NBA's Milwaukee Bucks announce Lisa Byington as their new play-by-play announcer for local TV broadcasts on Bally Sports Wisconsin, replacing the retired Jim Paschke. Byington becomes the first female to call TV play-by-play on a full-time regular-season basis for a major men's pro sports team. | [164] |
Future events
September
Date | Event | Source |
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19 | The 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards will air on CBS, with Cedric the Entertainer as the host. | [165][166] |
20 | Dancing with the Stars will premiere its 30th season on ABC, which will feature a regular same-gender dance pairing for the first time in the reality competition's history: singer/actress JoJo Siwa (who came out as pansexual in April 2021, and, on August 26, was among the first two celebrity contestants announced to appear that season, alongside Olympic gold-medal gymnast Sunisa Lee) will be paired with a female professional partner to be announced during the season premiere. (Season 22 contestants Nyle DiMarco and Jodie Sweetin were both paired with pro dancers of the same gender for one-time routines in 2016; certain international versions of the franchise have featured occasional same-gender partnerships dating to 2010, when the Israeli version Rokdim Im Kokhavim paired sportscaster Gili Shem Tov with female dancer Dorit Milman.) | [167][168] [169] |
26 | The 74th Tony Awards will air on CBS and Paramount+ from New York's Winter Garden Theatre. Originally scheduled for June 7, 2020 at Radio City Music Hall, the ceremony had long been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has kept Broadway theatre shut down from March 2020 until a scheduled return date weeks before this ceremony. The 74th Tonys will be expanded to a four-hour event, with acting, directing, and technical awards (nominations for which were announced in October 2020) presented in a two-hour segment shown exclusively on Paramount+, then continue on CBS with a two-hour concert billed as The Tony Awards Present: Broadway's Back! that will feature live Broadway performances and the awarding of the Tonys for Best Play, Best Play Revival, and Best Musical. Audra McDonald will be the host of the ceremony and Leslie Odom Jr. will be the host of the Broadway's Back! special. | [170][171] [172][173] [174] |
October
Date | Event | Source |
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2 | With the network's annual two-night season lead-off telecast of the iHeartRadio Music Festival, The CW will debut prime-time programming on Saturdays (running from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. ET/PT), replacing syndicated series, feature film packages and/or local programs (including in some cases, paid programming) that its affiliates had run on that night. It will mark the first time The CW has programmed that night in its 15-year history and will make it only the sixth conventional U.S. English-language commercial broadcast network—counting the modern "Big Four" and the now-defunct DuMont—ever to maintain a seven-night-a-week schedule. (Fox, which has programmed Saturdays since July 1987, was the last network to start offering a full weekly schedule upon adding prime-time programming on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in January 1993; CW predecessors The WB and UPN never programmed Saturday prime time during their existences.) As a trade-off for the move, the network shuttered its daytime block on September 3, giving that one hour per weekday back to its affiliates effective September 6 and leaving its Saturday morning E/I block, One Magnificent Morning, as the only non-prime-time programming remaining on The CW's schedule. The night's regular schedule will debut the following Saturday (October 9), consisting of returning unscripted shows Whose Line Is It Anyway? and World's Funniest Animals. | [175][176] |
December
Date | Event | Source |
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7 | The 47th People's Choice Awards will be held at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California. This will be the first ceremony to air simultaneously on both E! and NBC. | [177] |
31 | After a 21-year absence, CBS will return to broadcasting New Year's Eve live programming with New Year's Eve Live: Nashville's Big Bash, broadcast live from the Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park in downtown Nashville, Tennessee and various locations across the city featuring performances by headliners Dierks Bentley, Zac Brown Band, Dan + Shay, Blake Shelton, Miranda Lambert, Brooks & Dunn, among others, as well as its renowned music note drop and fireworks display at midnight (Central Time). This will mark the network's first New Year's Eve special and the fourth one since America's Millennium (broadcast in 1999), and its predecessors Happy New Year, America (broadcast from 1979 to 1995) and New Year's Eve With Guy Lombardo (broadcast from 1956 to 1978). | [178][179] |
TBD
Date | Event | Source |
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Early | Peter Roth will step down as the chairman of Warner Bros. Television Group and be succeeded by Channing Dungey. | [180][181] |
Television shows
Shows debuting in 2021
Shows changing networks
Show | Moved from | Moved to | Source |
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Condor | Audience | Epix | [182] |
Stargirl | DC Universe/The CW | The CW | [183] |
Doom Patrol | DC Universe/HBO Max | HBO Max | [184] |
Titans | DC Universe | [185] | |
Young Justice | [186] | ||
Harley Quinn | [187] | ||
Kids Say the Darndest Things | ABC | CBS | [188] |
Dr. Pimple Popper: This Is Zit | TLC.com | Discovery+ | [189] |
Crikey! It's the Irwins | Animal Planet | [190] | |
See No Evil | Investigation Discovery | [191] | |
Evil Lives Here | |||
Murder in the Heartland | |||
The Orville | Fox | Hulu | [192] |
Archibald's Next Big Thing | Netflix | Peacock | [193] |
Tuca & Bertie | Adult Swim | [194] | |
Younger | TV Land | Paramount+ | [195] |
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars | VH1 | [196] | |
SEAL Team | CBS | [197] | |
Evil | |||
The Rich and the Ruthless | Allblk | BET+ | [198] |
Milestone episodes and anniversaries
Show | Network | Episode # | Episode title | Episode airdate | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ridiculousness | MTV | 600th episode | "Chanel and Sterling CCLIII" | January 7 | [citation needed] |
Teen Titans Go! | Cartoon Network | 300th episode | "Justice League's Next Top Talent Idol Star: Dance Crew Edition" | January 8 | [199] |
Saturday Night Live | NBC | 900th episode | "Dan Levy/Phoebe Bridgers" | February 6 | [citation needed] |
Let's Make a Deal | CBS | 2,000th episode | "Episode 2000" | February 19 | [200] |
American Housewife | ABC | 100th episode | "Getting Otto with The Franks" | February 24 | [201] |
The Simpsons | Fox | 700th episode | "Manger Things" | March 21 | [202][203] |
Dr. Phil | Syndication | 3,000th episode | "Dr. Phil's 3,000th Show - With Bonus Footage!" | April 2 | [204] |
Ridiculousness | MTV | 650th episode | "Chanel and Sterling CCXCII" | April 9 | [citation needed] |
Bunk'd | Disney Channel | 100th episode | "Gi Whiz" | June 3 | [citation needed] |
The Flash | The CW | 150th episode | Heart of the Matter, Part 1 | July 13 | [205] |
Ridiculousness | MTV | 700th episode | "Chanel and Sterling CCCXXXII" | July 18 | [citation needed] |
Shows returning in 2021
The following shows will return with new episodes after being canceled or having ended their run previously:
Show | Last aired | Type of Return | Previous channel | New/returning/same channel | Return date | Source |
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Monster Garage | 2006 | Revival | Discovery Channel | Discovery+ | January 4 | [206][207] |
Name That Tune | 1985 | First-run syndication | Fox | January 6 | [208] | |
The Chase | 2015 | Game Show Network | ABC | January 7 | [209] | |
Walker, Texas Ranger (as Walker) | 2001 | Reboot | CBS | The CW | January 21 | [210][211][212][213] |
Top Gear America | 2017 | BBC America | Motor Trend | January 29 | [214][215] | |
The Equalizer | 1989 | CBS | same | February 7 | [216][217] | |
Evil Lives Here | 2020 | New season | Investigation Discovery | Discovery+ | February 14 | [191] |
Archibald's Next Big Thing (as Archibald's Next Big Thing Is Here!) |
Netflix | Peacock | February 18 | [193] | ||
Modern Marvels | 2015 | Revival | History | same | February 21 | [218] |
Chain Reaction | 2016 | Game Show Network | February 22 | [219][220] | ||
Punky Brewster | 1988 | First-run syndication | Peacock | February 25 | [221] | |
Dinner: Impossible | 2010 | Food Network | same | March 11 | [222] | |
America's Most Wanted | 2012 | Lifetime | Fox | March 15 | [223][224] | |
Wipeout | 2014 | Reboot | ABC | TBS | April 1 | [225][226] |
Kung Fu (modern-day version) | 1997 | First-run syndication | The CW | April 7 | [227][212][228] | |
Younger | 2019 | New season | TV Land | Paramount+ | April 15 | [195][229] |
Kids Say the Darndest Things | 2020 | ABC | CBS | May 5 | [188][230] | |
The Rich and the Ruthless | 2019 | Allblk | BET+ | May 13 | [198] | |
In Treatment | 2010 | Reboot | HBO | same | May 23 | [231][232][233] |
Rugrats | 2004 | Revival | Nickelodeon | Paramount+ | May 27 | [234][235][236][237] |
iCarly | 2012 | June 17 | [238][239] | |||
Evil | 2020 | New season | CBS | June 20 | [197][240] | |
College Bowl (as Capital One College Bowl) |
1970 | Revival | NBC | same | June 22 | [241][242] |
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars | 2020 | New season | VH1 | Paramount+ | June 24 | [196][243] |
Gossip Girl | 2012 | Revival | The CW | HBO Max | July 8 | [244][245][246][247] |
Johnny Test | 2014 | Cartoon Network | Netflix | July 16 | [248] | |
Beavis and Butt-Head | 2011 | MTV | Comedy Central | Mid | [249] | |
Fantasy Island | 1999 | Reboot | ABC | Fox | August 10 | [250][251] |
You Bet Your Life | 1993 | First-run syndication | same | September 13 | [252] | |
The Wonder Years (modern-day version) | ABC | September 22 | [253][254][255][256][257] | |||
America's Black Forum | 2006 | Revival | First-run syndication | October 2 | ||
Legends of the Hidden Temple | 1995 | Nickelodeon | The CW | October 10 | [258][259] | |
Dexter (as Dexter: New Blood) | 2013 | Reboot | Showtime | same | November 7 | [260][261] |
Making the Band | 2009 | Revival | MTV | TBA | [262] | |
What Not to Wear | 2013 | TLC | [263] | |||
Inside Amy Schumer | 2016 | Comedy Central | Paramount+ | [264] | ||
Dating Naked | VH1 | [265] | ||||
Ink Master | 2020 | Paramount Network | [265] | |||
Condor | 2018 | New season | Audience | Epix | [182] | |
Who Do You Think You Are? | TLC | NBC | [266][267] | |||
Tuca & Bertie | 2019 | Netflix | Adult Swim | [194] | ||
Slasher | Shudder | [268] |
Shows ending in 2021
End date | Show | Channel | First aired | Status | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
January 11 | Lazor Wulf | Adult Swim | 2019 | Canceled | [citation needed] |
January 15 | Carmen Sandiego | Netflix | Ended | [269] | |
January 27 | Bonding | Canceled | [270] | ||
February 4 | Lou Dobbs Tonight | Fox Business | 1980 | [15][16][17][18] | |
February 15 | The Crew | Netflix | 2021 | [270] | |
Big Hero 6: The Series | Disney XD | 2017 | Ended | [271] | |
February 24 | For Life | ABC | 2020 | Canceled | [272] |
February 25 | Punky Brewster | Peacock | 2021 | [273] | |
March 15 | DuckTales | Disney XD | 2017 | Ended | [274][275] |
March 18 | The Unicorn | CBS | 2019 | Canceled | [276] |
March 19 | Country Comfort | Netflix | 2021 | [270] | |
March 21 | American Gods | Starz | 2015 | [277] | |
March 25 | Superstore | NBC | Ended | [278][279] | |
March 31 | American Housewife | ABC | 2016 | Canceled | [272] |
April 9 | Wynonna Earp | Syfy | Ended | [280][281] | |
April 11 | Shameless | Showtime | 2011 | [282][283][284] | |
April 14 | Dad Stop Embarrassing Me! | Netflix | 2021 | Canceled | [285] |
April 15 | Infinity Train | HBO Max | 2019 | Ended | [286] |
April 30 | MacGyver | CBS | 2016 | [287] | |
May 7 | Shrill | Hulu | 2019 | [288][289] | |
Jupiter's Legacy | Netflix | 2021 | Canceled | [290] | |
May 13 | Castlevania | 2017 | Ended | [291] | |
Mom | CBS | 2013 | [292] | ||
May 16 | Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist | NBC | 2020 | Canceled | [293] |
May 18 | Prodigal Son | Fox | 2019 | [294] | |
Mixed-ish | ABC | [272] | |||
May 19 | Call Your Mother | 2021 | |||
May 20 | Special | Netflix | 2019 | Ended | [295] |
Last Man Standing | Fox | 2011 | [296][297][298] | ||
May 22 | Iyanla: Fix My Life | Oprah Winfrey Network | 2012 | [299] | |
May 23 | NCIS: New Orleans | CBS | 2014 | [292] | |
May 24 | All Rise | 2019 | Canceled | [300] | |
Debris | NBC | 2021 | [301] | ||
Black Lightning | The CW | 2018 | Ended | [302][303] | |
May 28 | The Kominsky Method | Netflix | [304][305] | ||
Panic | Amazon Prime Video | 2021 | Canceled | [306] | |
June 3 | A Little Late with Lilly Singh | NBC | 2019 | Ended | [307] |
Everything's Gonna Be Okay | Freeform | 2020 | Canceled | [308] | |
June 6 | Pose | FX | 2018 | Ended | [309] |
June 9 | Queen of the South | USA Network | 2016 | [310][311] | |
June 10 | Younger | Paramount+ | 2015 | [195][312] | |
Rebel | ABC | 2021 | Canceled | [272][313][314] | |
June 14 | Final Space | Adult Swim | 2018 | [315][316] | |
June 20 | Bless the Harts | Fox | 2019 | [317][318] | |
The Moodys | [319] | ||||
Keeping Up with the Kardashians | E! | 2007 | Ended | [320][321] | |
June 24 | Conan | TBS | 2010 | [322][323] | |
June 25 | Bosch | Amazon Prime Video | 2014 | [324][325] | |
Van Helsing | Syfy | 2016 | [326][327][328][329][330] | ||
June 30 | The Bold Type | Freeform | 2017 | [331][332][333] | |
July 8 | Generation | HBO Max | 2021 | Canceled | [334] |
July 9 | Atypical | Netflix | 2017 | Ended | [335][336] |
July 13 | Mr Inbetween | FX | 2018 | [337][338][339] | |
July 16 | Betty | HBO | 2020 | Canceled | [340] |
July 20 | The Haves and the Have Nots | Oprah Winfrey Network | 2013 | Ended | [341][342][343] |
July 22 | Good Girls | NBC | 2018 | Canceled | [344] |
July 23 | Judge Judy | First-run syndication | 1996 | Ended | [345][346] |
July 25 | Good Witch | Hallmark Channel | 2015 | [347] | |
July 29 | Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy | Netflix | 2020 | [348] | |
August 4 | Home & Family | Hallmark Channel | 2012 | [349] | |
September 6 | The Republic of Sarah | The CW | 2021 | Canceled | [350] |
September 10 | Lucifer | Netflix | 2016 | Ended | [351] |
September 16 | Brooklyn Nine-Nine | NBC | 2013 | [352][353][354][355] | |
September 22 | Dear White People | Netflix | 2017 | Ending | [356][357] |
September 24 | Goliath | Amazon Prime Video | 2016 | [358][359] | |
September 30 | Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs | HBO Max | 2021 | [360][361] | |
October 4 | On My Block | Netflix | 2018 | [362][363] | |
October 7 | The Outpost | The CW | Canceled | [364][365] | |
November 5 | Narcos: Mexico | Netflix | Ending | [366] | |
December 24 | Dickinson | Apple TV+ | 2019 | [367][368] | |
December 26 | Insecure | HBO | 2016 | [369][370] | |
TBA | Supergirl | The CW | 2015 | [371][372][373] | |
F is for Family | Netflix | [374] | |||
The Expanse | Amazon Prime Video | [375] | |||
You Me Her | TBA | 2016 | [376] | ||
Claws | TNT | 2017 | [377] | ||
Ozark | Netflix | [378] | |||
Lost in Space | 2018 | [379] | |||
Dead to Me | 2019 | [380] | |||
The Walking Dead: World Beyond | AMC | 2020 | [381] |
Entering syndication in 2021
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 |
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Chicago Fire | 9 | Yes | [382] | |
The Good Doctor | 4 | Yes | [383] | |
Bull | 5 | Yes | ||
SEAL Team | 4 | Yes | ||
MacGyver | ||||
S.W.A.T. |
Networks and services
Launches
Network | Type | Launch date | Notes | Source |
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Discovery+ | OTT streaming | January 4 | Announced in September 2020 as a global expansion of its existing India service (launched in March of that year), Discovery, Inc. launched Discovery+ as a streaming service featuring original and archival content from Discovery's network and production properties (including the former networks of Scripps Networks Interactive acquired by the company in March 2018) as well as select programming from A&E Networks. | [384] |
Twist | OTA multicast | April 5 | Tegna revealed plans on February 24 to launch Twist, which joins True Crime Network and Quest in the company's multicast portfolio. Twist targets a female audience with factual lifestyle and reality programming, mainly home- and food-oriented shows sourced from the libraries of A&E Networks and NBCUniversal Lifestyle Network Group. The "exciting reveals" featured in these shows serve as the inspiration for the network's name. | [385][386] |
MeTV+ | May 15 | On May 3, Weigel Broadcasting announced plans to launch MeTV+, an experimental spin-off of flagship network MeTV that will feature a lineup of classic sitcoms, drama series, and comedic and animated shorts sourced from the libraries of Sony Pictures Television, CBS Media Ventures, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution and NBCUniversal Syndication Studios that will be complimentary to the offerings on its parent network. At the outset, MeTV+—the second MeTV extension effort by Weigel, following a local "MeToo" service that ran on WMEU-CD/Chicago (now an independent station) from 2008 to 2013—launched on Weigel-owned Chicago flagship WCIU-TV and KMOH-TV/Kingman–Phoenix, occupying subchannels that carried Bounce TV (which shifted to local Ion stations owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, parent of Bounce owner Katz Broadcasting). If successful, Weigel plans to expand MeTV+ to stations that the company owns in other markets (including as a replacement for Bounce TV on Weigel stations that carried the network since its 2011 debut) and to affiliates owned by third-party station groups. | [387] | |
Defy TV | July 1 | On March 2, the E. W. Scripps Company announced plans to add two new networks to its digital broadcast portfolio (joining its six existing networks, which include Ion, Bounce TV and Court TV). Defy and TrueReal (the latter had initially been billed as Doozy) will respectively target men and women in the 25-54 age range with factual lifestyle and reality programming. On Ion O&Os and INYO Broadcast Holdings-owned Ion affiliates, Defy TV and TrueReal primarily occupied subchannels formerly affiliated with QVC and HSN. (Qurate Retail Group, the parent of the respective home shopping networks, ended its channel-lease agreement with Ion Media on June 29.) | [388][389] | |
TrueReal | ||||
AccuWeather Now | OTT streaming | August 17 | On July 29, AccuWeather announced plans to launch AccuWeather Now, a 24-hour live streaming service. It will be differentiated from its cable and satellite channel AccuWeather Network in that it will include liberal amounts of social media content, viral videos and feature stories in addition to its core product of weather forecasts. The service initially launched on The Roku Channel’s live TV service on August 17. | [390][391] |
El Rey Network | Relaunch as OTT streaming channel (previously on cable/satellite and digital from 2013 to 2020) |
On August 7, 2021, Robert Rodriguez and FactoryMade Ventures announced they had entered into a partnership with Cinedigm to relaunch El Rey Network—which ceased operating as a traditional pay television network in December 2020, after AT&T and Spectrum dropped it from their systems as well as in the wake of Univision Communications's withdrawal as a minority stakeholder—as a free, ad-supported live streaming channel. As a streaming channel, the English-language Latino-oriented network initially debuted on The Roku Channel's live TV service on August 17. | [392][393] | |
G4 | Digital and linear | Summer | On July 24, 2020, the Twitter accounts of G4TV and G4's Attack of the Show! and X-Play, reactivated to post a teaser video of a G4 revival in some form, slated for 2021 (the form of distribution, whether as a return as a wireline network or a digital component of a service such as Peacock, was not divulged). The teasers were timed for Comic-Con@Home, the first virtual streaming edition of the annual fan convention, San Diego Comic-Con International. Consequently, G4's website also redirected to a nonstop game of Pong (which if won, redirects to a mailing list sign up for updates), once again reflecting back to the network's original launch in 2002 and their shutdown in 2014. | [394][395] |
Rewind TV | OTA multicast | September 1 | On April 26, Nexstar Media Group announced plans to launch Rewind TV, a spin-off of Antenna TV targeting adults 25–54 (primarily towards Gen Xers) that will focus on classic sitcoms from the 1980s and 1990s. Rewind—which initially launched on subchannels of stations owned or managed by Nexstar in markets reaching 45% of U.S. television households, occupying subchannel slots vacated by Katz-owned networks being transferred to Scripps-owned network affiliates and Ion O&O/affiliate stations in some markets—draws from the libraries of Sony Pictures Television, CBS Media Ventures, Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution and NBCUniversal Syndication Studios, and initially included many series (including Murphy Brown, The Facts of Life, Who's the Boss? and Family Ties) previously acquired for Antenna TV, which began phasing out post-1970s series from its lineup in April as it shifts to a narrowed focus on sitcoms from the late 1950s, 1960s and 1970s (although Antenna TV will continue to offer a more limited lineup of post-1970s sitcoms in the interim). | [396][397] |
Novelisima | September 4 | On September 1, Grupo Cisneros announced it had entered into a distribution agreement with HC2 Broadcasting to launch Novelisima, a 24-hour multicast network focusing on imported telenovelas. | [398] | |
Fuse+ | OTT streaming | September 13 | Following a beta launch in June, on September 13, Fuse Media officially launched Fuse+, a subscription streaming service focusing on multicultural programming aimed at millennials. The service—which is priced at $1.99/month (or $19.99/year), with paywalled content accessible for free using login credentials provided to subscribers of participating cable and satellite services that carry either of its co-owned linear channels, Fuse and FM—incorporated an initial slate of over 500 hours of original content, consisting of Fuse original programs (with new episodes airing day-and-date with the linear channel), independent films and documentaries, along with a selection of supplemental music, Black cultural, hip-hop and archival home fitness programs that are also available through a free, ad-supported tier for non-subscribers. | [399] |
DigiTV | OTA multicast | September 27 | On September 8, Net X Holdings, LLC announced plans to launch Digi TV, a multicast network focusing on imported English-language programming. Initially launching primarily on subchannels of Univision and UniMás stations owned by Univision Communications and Tri-State Christian Television O&Os, the network will air a mix of scripted and reality-based entertainment, knowledge-based and lifestyle programming primarily sourced from the United Kingdom and Australia. | [400] |
Fox Weather | OTT streaming | October | On December 29, 2020, Fox News Media announced plans to launch Fox Weather, a 24-hour streaming weather channel intended to compete with The Weather Channel, AccuWeather Network and WeatherNation TV (the latter of which has long been streamed for free on the network's app and on ad-supported streaming platforms such as Pluto TV). The service will be available as a standalone app and website, and will feature live programming utilizing resources of its own meteorologists and meteorologists from local Fox Television Stations properties as well as local, regional and national weather updates. Critics, citing shared management between the two services, have expressed concern that Fox Weather might express opinions dismissive of climate change mirroring similar commentary made in recent years by Fox News personalities and contributors. | [401][402] |
Weather Channel Plus | Q4 | On June 30, Allen Media Group announced plans to launch Weather Channel Plus, a subscription streaming service—to be sold for $4.99/month—that will offer content from The Weather Channel (including supplemental digital-only content) and more than 50 streaming news and entertainment channels (similar to those offered by the existing Local Now AVOD service). | [403] |
Conversions and rebrandings
Old network name |
New network name |
Type | Conversion date | Notes | Source |
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Urban Movie Channel | Allblk | OTT streaming | January 6 | AMC Networks rebranded Urban Movie Channel – launched in 2014 as the first streaming service dedicated to television programs and films aimed at Black audiences, and content made by Black filmmakers – as Allblk, citing the original name no longer fit the brand, its audience or culture (several "urban"-branded broadcasters, along with radio stations formerly under the urban contemporary banner, switched to other descriptive terms throughout 2020). The service will also increase original programming, with five new series initially slated to debut in 2021. | [404][405] |
Light TV | Over-the-air multicast/ OTT streaming |
January 15 | Following its acquisition of the network's satellite slot from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Allen Media Group relaunched the former channel space of family-oriented digital multicast network Light TV as TheGrio (branded after the Black cultural news and entertainment website of the same name acquired by parent company Entertainment Studios in 2016), adopting a focus primarily around movies, along with selected television series, news and lifestyle content aimed at African American audiences. There has been some confusion however, as Light TV continues to run on some affiliates and online, while some former Light TV affiliates stopped carrying the network in the run-up to TheGrio's launch. | [406] | |
WGN America | NewsNation | Cable and satellite | March 1 | On January 25, 2021, Nexstar Media Group announced it would relaunch the entertainment-oriented WGN America (a name traced to its existence as a superstation feed of WGN-TV/Chicago from the channel's launch in November 1978 until its content separation from WGN-TV in December 2014) as the news-centric NewsNation, named after the prime time newscast that the channel debuted in September 2020, effective March 1. The rebrand coincides with a gradual expansion of its news programming that initially includes the additions of an hour-long early-evening newscast, the hour-long Donlon Report (a prime-access newscast fronted by NewsNation anchor Joe Donlon) and a weeknight news/interview program hosted by Ashleigh Banfield, as well as a condensed version of the retitled NewsNationPrime (to be reduced from three hours to two). A reduced schedule of entertainment programs in its inventory will continue to be featured in daytime and overnight slots (along with early morning paid and religious programming), which will be replaced with news content once syndication contracts expire. | [407][408] |
CBS All Access | Paramount+ | OTT streaming | March 4 | CBS All Access adopts the Paramount+ name used in certain international markets. The rebranding occurs amid an ongoing expansion of the service — originally developed as a subscription platform for CBS featuring original programs, content from the CBS television network and its syndication arm CBS Media Ventures, and live streams of local CBS stations, CBS' ad-supported OTT services and events from CBS Sports – to include content from other television and film brands owned by ViacomCBS (including Paramount Pictures, MTV, BET, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon). | [409][410] |
Vix | PrendeTV | OTT streaming | March 30 | On January 12, Univision Communications announced it would launch PrendeTV, a free, ad-supported Spanish-language streaming service aimed at U.S. Hispanics and Latinos in the first quarter of the year, formally launching on March 30. The platform, which is the first AVOD platform dedicated exclusively to Spanish content, offers over 30 curated channels (similar to those featured on services like Pluto TV, Peacock and Xumo) and approximately 20,000 hours of Spanish-language and -dubbed movies and television series for video-on-demand viewing from Univision and third-party providers including Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Grupo Globo, Caracol Televisión, Banijay, FilmRise, Nelvana, RCN, Lionsgate and MGM. The service was built off the infrastructure of and inherit content from Pan-American streaming service Vix, which Univision bought from a consortium of Batanga Media, Discovery Inc. and HarbourVest Partners on February 1. | [411][412] [413] [414] |
Fox Sports Networks | Bally Sports | Cable and satellite | March 31 | Sinclair Broadcast Group, as part of a partnership with Entertainment Studios, acquired the regional networks formerly owned by Fox Sports parent News Corporation in 2019. (Disney was required by the Department of Justice to divest the channels during its acquisition of 21st Century Fox on antitrust grounds due to its ownership of ESPN Inc.) Sinclair reached a cross-partnership with gaming company Bally's Corporation in November 2020, which led to the channels shedding the "Fox Sports" brand after more than 24 years in favor of "Bally Sports"; the move coincided with the start of the 2021 Major League Baseball season the next day. | [415][416] |
SportsGrid Network | Conversion to over-the-air distribution (to retain carriage on ad-supported and subscription OTT services) |
September 1 (start of OTA distribution) | On August 25, Nexstar Media Group announced a partnership with SportsGrid Inc. to offer the latter's sports betting- and fantasy sports-focused streaming news service SportsGrid Network as a digital multicast network starting September 1. SportsGrid, which will retain its existing distribution through its Internet apps and Internet television providers (such as Xumo, Samsung TV Plus and Sling TV), will initially be available in nine Nexstar markets (including San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Tampa, Nashville and Portland) where the company's subchannel leasing agreements with Katz Networks properties are slated to lapse the day prior. (The Court TV, Court TV Mystery, Laff and Bounce TV affiliations to be affected in the corresponding markets will become exclusive to subchannels of parent company Scripps’ Ion O&O stations that had added them on a transitional basis following the February 28 closures of Ion Plus, Qubo and Ion Shop.) | [417] | |
Newsy | Conversion from cable/satellite to over-the-air distribution (to retain carriage on ad-supported OTT services) |
June 30 (pay-TV discontinuation) October 1 (start of OTA distribution) |
After years as a cable and over-the-top service, the E. W. Scripps Company announced plans on April 6 to transition its 24-hour news channel, Newsy, to a new distribution model as an over-the-air multicast service, along with retaining its existing distribution through its Internet apps and Internet television providers. Effective October 1, Newsy will be carried primarily through Scripps's television stations (mainly its Ion Television O&Os), through commiserate carriage via retransmission consent agreements for Scripps/Ion stations, and through third-party affiliation agreements in non-Scripps markets. Scripps thus began terminating the network's existing contracts with wireline and vMVPD providers (instead of opting for converting them to must-carry arrangements, similar to those employed by other OTA multicast networks such as MeTV, GetTV and Heroes & Icons) beginning June 30, with end dates varying by provider throughout the Summer. | [418][419] [420] | |
Paramount Network | Paramount Movie Network | Cable/satellite | TBD | Paramount Network will convert from a mix of movies, original unscripted programs, and off-network shows to an all-movie channel (consisting of both new original productions and content from the Paramount Pictures library). The renamed Paramount Movie Network will continue to carry at least one scripted series or miniseries each quarter (among them, existing drama series Yellowstone, which will modify its episode format to meet the network's new focus). Along with discontinuing unscripted programming, certain Paramount Network original programs (such as Bar Rescue and Lip Sync Battle) will move to other ViacomCBS-owned cable channels. | [421] |
Closures
Network | Type | End date | Notes | Source |
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DC Universe | OTT streaming | January 21 | In September 2020, DC announced that the DC Universe streaming service would be folded into DC Universe Infinite as a solely digital comics subscription service on January 21, 2021. DC Universe subscriptions would automatically transfer over to DC Universe Infinite. Original programs Young Justice, Titans, Doom Patrol, and Harley Quinn are moving to HBO Max as Max Original series starting their new seasons, while Stargirl is moving to The CW with its second season. | [422][423][183] |
Ion Plus | Over-the-air multicast | February 28 | Following the completion of its acquisition of Ion Media, on January 14, the E. W. Scripps Company announced that it will shutter three Ion networks – Ion Plus (a secondary schedule of programming from Ion's content distributors), Ion Shop (all-paid programming) and Qubo (children's programming) – and allocate their spectrum space on Ion Media's stations to offer networks from existing Scripps subsidiary Katz Broadcasting (consisting of Court TV, Court TV Mystery, Bounce TV, Laff and Grit). This will eventually consolidate Ion's operations into Katz and replace expiring contracts with other broadcasters that carried the Katz networks outside of mainstream Scripps markets (albeit with affiliate duplication in the interim due to the structure of Katz's subchannel-leasing arrangements), while offloading those networks on mainstream Scripps stations with limited spectrum capacity during the ATSC 3.0 transition. (Ion's namesake flagship channel will continue as a Scripps-owned network.) Qubo, Ion Plus and Ion Shop were replaced by selected Katz networks on Ion affiliates (consisting mainly of former O&Os spun off by Scripps to Inyo Broadcast Holdings) on February 27, and were replaced on Scripps-owned Ion stations post-shutdown on March 1. | [424] |
Qubo | ||||
Ion Shop | ||||
WWE Network | OTT streaming | March 18 (United States) |
On January 25, WWE announced it would discontinue the standalone WWE Network service in the United States and merge it into the offerings of Peacock. All paying Peacock subscribers will have access to the WWE Video Library and no-cost access to WWE pay-per-view events in the same manner as current WWE Network subscribers. WWE Network will remain unchanged outside of the United States. | [425][426] |
CNN Airport | Closed-circuit international airport television systems | March 31 | On January 12, CNN announced that it would shut down the CNN Airport network, which was available in numerous airports across the United States. The network, which carried a mixture of family-friendly news and entertainment programs from select WarnerMedia networks (as well as some high-profile sporting events), had been seeing declining viewership since the financial crisis of 2007–08 as a result of the increased proliferation of Wi-Fi-enabled devices which themselves allow access to the mainline CNN network; the decline was accelerated in 2020 when global commercial air travel declined greatly as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. | [427] |
NBCSN | Cable and satellite | 4th quarter | On January 22, NBC Sports Group announced it was shutting down NBCSN, which launched in 1995 as the Outdoor Life Network and later rebranded as Versus before becoming the NBC Sports Network in 2012 and adopting its current name in 2013. Its programming, which includes the Premier League and NASCAR races, will move to NBC and USA Network along with some programming moving to the Peacock streaming service; its National Hockey League contract (a cornerstone of the network's programming) expires at the end of the abbreviated 2021 season. | [428] |
Television stations
Subchannel launches
This section needs additional citations for verification. (February 2021) |
Date | Market | Station | Channel | Affiliation | Source |
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January 1 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | KFXA | 28.5 | Comet | [citation needed] |
Charleston, West Virginia | WCHS | 8.3 | Antenna TV | [429] | |
WVAH-TV | 11.4 | Charge! | [430] | ||
11.5 | TBD | ||||
Columbus, Ohio | WSYX | 6.4 | Antenna TV | [citation needed] | |
Dayton, Ohio | WRGT-TV | 45.5 | TBD | ||
45.6 | Stadium | ||||
Idaho Falls-Pocatello, Idaho | KIFI-TV | 8.5 | Telemundo | ||
February 4 | Sioux City, Iowa | KMEG | 14.4 | Stadium | |
February 15 | Albuquerque, New Mexico | KNME-TV | 5.4 | World Channel | |
5.5 | Create | ||||
March 1 | Columbus, Ohio | WSFJ-TV | 51.2 | Grit | [431] |
Indianapolis, Indiana | WRTV | 6.5 | HSN | ||
Kansas City, Missouri | KSHB-TV | 41.4 | GetTV | ||
Miami, Florida | WSFL-TV | 39.5 | QVC | ||
Norfolk, Virginia | WGNT | 27.5 | QVC2 | ||
27.6 | HSN2 | ||||
Raleigh, North Carolina | WRPX-TV | 47.4 | Grit | ||
April 1 | Chicago, Illinois | WLS-TV | 7.3 | This TV | |
Fresno, California | KFSN-TV | 30.4 | HSN | ||
Houston, Texas | KTRK-TV | 13.4 | QVC | ||
Los Angeles, California | KABC-TV | 7.4 | QVC2 | ||
New York City, New York | WABC-TV | HSN | |||
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | WPVI-TV | 6.4 | QVC | ||
Raleigh, North Carolina | WTVD | 11.4 | HSN | ||
San Francisco, California | KGO-TV | 7.4 | |||
April 5 | Atlanta, Georgia | WXIA-TV | 11.2 | Twist | [385][386] |
Buffalo, New York | WGRZ | 2.5 | |||
Charleston, South Carolina | WBSE-LD | 20.2 | |||
Charlotte, North Carolina | WCNC-TV | 36.5 | |||
Chicago, Illinois | WGBO-DT | 66.6 | |||
Cleveland, Ohio | WKYC | 3.5 | |||
Columbia, South Carolina | WLTX | 19.5 | |||
Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas | WFAA | 8.9 | |||
Davenport, Iowa-Moline, Illinois | WQAD-TV | 8.5 | |||
Denver, Colorado | KUSA | 9.7 | |||
Des Moines, Iowa | WOI-DT | 5.5 | |||
Detroit, Michigan | WADL | 38.8 | |||
Fort Smith, Arkansas | KFSM-TV | 5.4 | |||
Fort Wayne, Indiana | WCUH-LD | 16.2 | |||
Grand Rapids, Michigan | WZZM | 13.5 | |||
Greensboro, North Carolina | WFMY-TV | 2.6 | |||
Hartford, Connecticut | WTIC-TV | 61.5 | |||
Houston, Texas | KHOU | 11.4 | |||
Jacksonville, Florida | WJXX | 25.5 | |||
Las Vegas, Nevada | K36NE-D | 43.3 | |||
Little Rock, Arkansas | KTHV | 11.6 | |||
Los Angeles, California | KMEX-DT | 34.6 | |||
Macon, Georgia | WMAZ-TV | 13.5 | |||
Miami-Fort Lauderdale, Florida | WLTV-DT | 23.5 | |||
New Orleans, Louisiana | WWL-TV | 4.4 | |||
New York City, New York | WXTV-DT | 41.3 | |||
Norfolk, Virginia | WVEC | 13.5 | |||
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | WFPA-CD | 28.4 | |||
Portland, Oregon | KGW | 8.4 | |||
Sacramento, California | KXTV | 10.5 | |||
St. Louis, Missouri | KSDK | 5.5 | |||
Salt Lake City, Utah | KUTH-DT | 36.6 | |||
San Francisco, California | KFSF-DT | 66.6 | |||
April 12 | Louisville, Kentucky | WHAS-TV | 11.5 | ||
Washington, D.C. | WUSA | 9.4 | |||
April 19 | Memphis, Tennessee | WATN-TV | 24.4 | ||
April 26 | Austin, Texas | KVUE | 24.6 | ||
Knoxville, Tennessee | WBIR-TV | 10.5 | |||
Phoenix, Arizona | KPNX | 12.5 | |||
May 3 | Amarillo, Texas | KLKW-LD | 22.6 | ||
May 10 | Cleveland, Ohio | WOIO | 19.4 | Shop LC | |
Midland/Odessa, Texas | KWES-TV | 9.5 | Twist | [385][386] | |
San Antonio, Texas | KENS | 5.6 | |||
May 15 | Kingman, Arizona (Phoenix) | KMOH-TV | 6.3 | MeTV Plus | [387] |
May 17 | Tyler/Longview, Texas | KYTX | 19.4 | Twist | [citation needed] |
May 24 | Albuquerque, New Mexico | KLUZ-TV | 19.6 | ||
Boston, Massachusetts | WUNI | 66.5 | |||
June 7 | Portland, Maine | WCSH | 6.5 | ||
July 1 | Louisville, Kentucky | WBKI | 58.5 | TrueReal | [388][389] |
58.6 | Defy TV | ||||
July 5 | Davenport, Iowa | KLJB | 18.4 | Bounce TV | |
July 19 | Harlingen, Texas | KGBT-TV | 4.1 | Antenna TV | |
September 1 | Albuquerque/Santa Fe, New Mexico | KWBQ | 19.5 | Rewind TV | [432] |
Amarillo, Texas | KCPN-LD | 33.2 | |||
Austin, Texas | KXAN-TV | 36.4 | |||
Chicago, Illinois | WGN-TV | 9.5 | TBD | ||
Chico/Redding, California | KUCO-LD | 27.4 | Rewind TV | [432] | |
Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas | KDAF | 33.5 | |||
Davenport, Iowa | KLJB | 18.3 | |||
Evansville, Indiana | WEHT | 25.4 | |||
Fayetteville/Fort Smith, Arkansas | KXNW | 34.2 | |||
Fresno, California | KSEE | 24.4 | |||
Green Bay, Wisconsin | WFRV-TV | 5.4 | |||
Huntsville, Alabama | WHDF | 15.3 | |||
Johnstown/Altoona/State College, Pennsylvania | WWCP-TV | 8.4 | Antenna TV | ||
Little Rock, Arkansas | KASN | 38.2 | Rewind TV | [432] | |
Los Angeles, California | KTLA | 5.5 | |||
Lubbock, Texas | KLBK-TV | 13.4 | |||
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota | WUCW | 23.5 | |||
Odessa/Midland, Texas | KPEJ-TV | 24.3 | |||
Rockford, Illinois | WQRF-TV | 39.4 | |||
Shreveport, Louisiana | KMSS-TV | 33.2 | |||
Springfield, Missouri | KOZL-TV | 27.4 | |||
Terre Haute, Indiana | WAWV-TV | 38.4 | |||
Tyler/Longview, Texas | KIVY-LD | 16.3 | |||
West Palm Beach, Florida | WWHB-CD | 48.4 | |||
WTCN-CD | 43.4 | Dabl | |||
October 1 | Corpus Christi, Texas | KRIS-TV | 6.5 | Ion Television | [418] |
6.6 | Newsy | ||||
Richmond, Virginia | WTVR-TV | 6.6 | |||
San Diego, California | KGTV | 10.6 | |||
TBA | Los Angeles | KWHY-TV | 22.8 | Spanish News | [433] |
Stations changing network affiliations
This section needs additional citations for verification. (February 2021) |
- This section outlines affiliation changes involving English and Spanish networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, PBS, The CW, Univision, etc.), and format conversions involving independent stations. Digital subchannels will only be mentioned if the prior or new affiliation inolves a major English and Spanish broadcast network or a locally programmed independent entertainment format.
Date | Market | Station | Channel | Prior affiliation | New affiliation | Notes | Source |
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January 1 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | KGAN | 2.2 | GetTV | Fox | On January 1, KGAN began simulcasting KFXA for a one-month transitional period; GetTV concurrently moved to KGAN's third digital subchannel. | [citation needed] |
2.3 | Comet | GetTV | |||||
Charleston, West Virginia | WCHS-TV | 8.2 | Antenna TV | Fox | On January 1, WCHS-TV began simulcasting WVAH-TV for a one-month transitional period; Antenna TV concurrently moved to a new third digital subchannel of WCHS-TV. | ||
Columbus, Ohio | WSYX | 6.3 | On January 1, WSYX began simulcasting WTTE for a one-month transitional period; Antenna TV concurrently moved to a new fourth digital subchannel of WSYX. | [434] | |||
Dayton, Ohio | WKEF | 22.2 | Stadium | WKEF-DT2 disaffiliated from Stadium on January 1; it concurrently began simulcasting sister station WRGT-TV for a one-month transitional period. | [435] | ||
Idaho Falls–Pocatello, Idaho | KIDK | 3.1 | CBS | Dabl | In December 2020, VistaWest Media LLC, owner of KIDK, announced that most of the station's CBS network and syndicated programing, and local newscasts from its KIDK Eyewitness News 3 operation would be transferred to the DT2 subchannel of News-Press & Gazette Company-owned ABC affiliate and SSA partner KIFI-TV on January 1. KIDK would concurrently switch to Dabl (which is also carried on its Fox-affiliated sister KXPI-LD), while Telemundo programming displaced from KIFI-DT2 would transfer to a new DT5 subchannel on that station. | [citation needed] | |
KIFI-TV | 8.2 | Telemundo | CBS | ||||
Port Arthur-Beaumont, Texas | KFDM | 6.3 | Charge! | Fox | KFDM-DT3 disaffiliated from Charge! on December 31, 2020; on January 1, the subchannel began simulcasting Fox-affiliated SSA partner KBTV-TV for a one-month transitional period. | [436][437] | |
Santa Barbara-Santa Maria, California | KCOY-TV | 11.1 | CBS | Dabl | In December 2020, the News-Press & Gazette Company, owner of KCOY-TV, announced that the station's CBS network and syndicated programming and its local newscasts would be transferred to the DT2 subchannel of its ABC-affiliated sister station KEYT-TV on January 1. (KEYT had previously maintained a part-time affiliation with CBS from its May 1953 sign-on until KCOY began offering the network full-time after dropping its former primary NBC affiliation in 1969.). KCOY became affiliated with Dabl, relocating the diginet from its discontinued DT4 subchannel. To make room for the former KCOY intellectual unit on its DT2 feed (at which point, its local newscasts were retitled NewsChannel 12 to match KEYT's base news brand), KEYT-DT3—previously affiliated with Bounce TV—adopted a news rebroadcast format with MyNetworkTV programming (previously on KEYT-DT2) airing weeknights. | [438] | |
KEYT-TV | 3.2 | MyNetworkTV | CBS | ||||
3.3 | Bounce TV | MyNetworkTV | |||||
February 1 | Dothan, Alabama | WDHN | 18.4 | Cozi TV | Antenna TV | Nexstar Media Group continues the process it launched in the fall of 2020 of phasing out subchannel carriage agreements with Cozi and MeTV, competitors in the classic television subchannel space, in order to increase exposure and publicity for Antenna TV on its existing stations, which it acquired in 2019 as part of the Tribune Broadcasting merger. | [439] |
Terre Haute, Indiana | WTWO | 2.4 | |||||
Monroe, Louisiana | KARD-TV | 14.4 | |||||
Joplin, Missouri | KSNF | 16.4 | |||||
Amarillo, Texas | KAMR-TV | 4.4 | |||||
Wichita Falls, Texas | KFDX-TV | 3.4 | |||||
Charleston, West Virginia | WVAH-TV | 11.1 | Fox | Decades | In December 2020, Sinclair Broadcast Group—which operates the station through Cunningham Broadcasting—announced that most of WVAH's Fox network and syndicated programing, its 10:00 p.m. Eyewitness News newscast (produced by ABC affiliated sister station WCHS-TV), and the "Fox 11" branding would transfer to the second subchannel of WCHS-TV beginning February 1, following a one-month transition period that began on January 1; the move ended WVAH's 34-year affiliation with Fox (dating to its 1987 national launch). After the transition, the station's main channel switched to the Weigel Broadcasting-owned Decades diginet. | [citation needed] | |
Port Arthur–Beaumont, Texas | KBTV-TV | 4.1 | Dabl | In December 2020, Sinclair Broadcast Group—which operated the station through Deerfield Media—announced that KBTV will disaffiliate from Fox after 13 years (ending a 67-year-run as a major network affiliate, having previously been with NBC from its 1953 sign on until 2008); the station switched to Dabl effective February 1, with its Fox network and syndicated programming, the 5:30 and 9:00 p.m. newscasts (produced by sister station KFDM) and the "Fox 4" branding being transferred to the third subchannel of KFDM on February 1, following a one-month transition period that began on January 1. Following this, KFDM will be the second station in the Beaumont–Port Arthur market to maintain dual major network affiliations on its main channel and a digital subchannel (ABC affiliate KBMT has carried NBC programming on its DT2 subchannel since KBTV dropped the latter network). | [436][437] | ||
4.5 | Dabl | Charge! | |||||
February 2 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | KGAN | 2.2 | GetTV | Fox | In December 2020, Sinclair Broadcast Group—which operates KFXA through Second Generation of Iowa, Ltd.—announced that the station would end its collective 33-year relationship with Fox (dating to KFXA's 1988 sign-on, with a ten-month sabbatical from October 1994 to August 1995 due to financial issues that caused its eviction from the station's original studios). KFXA's Fox network and syndicated programming, its weekday 7:00 a.m. and nightly 9:00 p.m. newscasts (produced by CBS-affiliated sister KGAN) and the "Fox 28" branding transferred to KGAN-DT2 on February 2, following a 33-day transition period that commenced on January 1; following the switch, GetTV programming moved from KFXA-DT2 to KGAN-DT3, Comet programming moved from KGAN-DT3 to the newly launched KFXA-DT5, and Dabl programming moved from KGAN-DT4 (discontinued to allocate HD bandwidth for KGAN-DT2) to KFXA's main channel. | [citation needed] |
2.3 | Comet | GetTV | |||||
KFXA | 28.1 | Fox | Dabl | ||||
February 3 | Columbus, Ohio | WTTE | 28.1 | TBD | In December 2020, Sinclair Broadcast Group—which operates WRGT and WTTE through Cunningham Broadcasting—announced that both stations would end their 34-year relationship with Fox (dating to the network's 1987 national debut). In Dayton, WRGT's Fox network and syndicated programming, its weekday 7:00 a.m. and nightly 10:00 p.m. newscasts (produced by ABC-affiliated sister WKEF) and the "Fox 45" branding transferred to WKEF-DT2 on February 4, following a 33-day transition period that commenced on January 1; following the switch, the part-time MyNetworkTV/Dabl affiliation moved to WRGT's main channel. In Columbus, WTTE's Fox and syndicated programming, its weekday 7:00 a.m. and nightly 10:00 p.m. newscasts (produced by ABC-affiliated sister WSYX) and the "Fox 28" branding transferred to the third subchannel of WSYX-DT3 on February 3, following a 32-day transition period that commenced on January 1; afterward, WTTE switched to Sinclair's TBD diginet. | [440] | |
28.2 | TBD | Stadium | |||||
February 4 | Dayton, Ohio | WRGT-TV | 45.1 | Fox | MyNetworkTV/Dabl | [435] | |
45.2 | MyNetworkTV/Dabl | TBD | |||||
45.5 | TBD | Stadium | |||||
Sioux City, Iowa | KMEG | 14.1 | CBS | Dabl | In January 2021, Sinclair Broadcast Group—which operated the station through Waitt Broadcasting—announced that KMEG would disaffiliate from CBS after 53 years (dating to its 1967 sign-on), with its network and syndicated programming, local newscasts produced through its Siouxland News operation, as well as the "KMEG 14" branding being transferred to the DT3 subchannel of its co-owned Fox/MyNetworkTV affiliated station KPTH beginning February 4. Both stations concurrently swapped their corresponding diginet affiliations with Dabl, TBD and Charge! on that date. | [441] | |
14.2 | TBD | Charge! | |||||
KPTH | 44.2 | Dabl | TBD | ||||
44.3 | Charge! | CBS | |||||
March 1 | Albany–Schenectady–Troy, New York | WYPX-TV | 55.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | With the shutdown of Ion Plus, Qubo and Ion Shop and as a consequence of The E. W. Scripps Company's purchase of Ion Media (along with concurrent spin-offs of some Ion O&Os to INYO Broadcast Holdings), Ion Television's owned and affiliated stations and Ion Plus' O&O stations reconfigured their channel map to add selected networks owned by fellow Scripps subsidiary Katz Broadcasting in place of the defunct networks. | [442][443] |
55.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
55.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
Atlanta, Georgia | WPXA-TV | 14.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
14.3 | Ion Plus | Laff | |||||
14.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Birmingham, Alabama | WPXH-TV | 44.2 | Qubo | ||||
44.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
44.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
44.5 | QVC | Laff | |||||
Boise, Idaho | KTRV-TV | 12.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
12.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
12.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Boston, Massachusetts | WDPX-TV | 58.1 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||
WBPX-TV | 68.2 | Qubo | Court TV Mystery | ||||
68.3 | Ion Shop | Bounce TV | |||||
Buffalo, New York | WPXJ-TV | 51.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
51.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
51.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
Chicago, Illinois | WCPX-TV | 38.2 | Qubo | Court TV Mystery | |||
38.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
38.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
Cleveland, Ohio | WDLI-TV | 17.1 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||
WVPX-TV | 23.2 | Qubo | Grit | ||||
23.3 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Columbia, South Carolina | WZRB | 47.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
47.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV Mystery | |||||
47.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
Columbus, Ohio | WSFJ-TV | 51.1 | Ion Plus | Bounce TV | |||
Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas | KPXD-TV | 68.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
68.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
68.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
Denver, Colorado | KPXC-TV | 59.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | |||
59.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
59.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
59.6 | QVC | Grit | |||||
Des Moines, Iowa | KFPX-TV | 39.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
39.3 | Ion Plus | Laff | |||||
39.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Detroit, Michigan | WPXD-TV | 31.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
31.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
31.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Grand Rapids, Michigan | WZPX-TV | 43.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
43.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
43.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
43.5 | QVC | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point, North Carolina | WGPX-TV | 16.2 | Qubo | Grit | |||
16.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
16.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
Greenville–New Bern, North Carolina | WEPX-TV | 38.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
38.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
38.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
WPXU-TV | 35.2 | Qubo | Court TV | ||||
35.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
35.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
Hagerstown, Maryland | WWPX-TV | 60.2 | Qubo | Court TV Mystery | |||
60.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
60.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
Hartford, Connecticut | WHPX-TV | 26.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | |||
26.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
26.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
Honolulu, Hawaii | KPXO-TV | 66.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
66.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
66.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Houston, Texas | KPXB-TV | 49.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
49.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
49.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
49.5 | HSN | Laff | |||||
Indianapolis, Indiana | WCLJ-TV | 42.1 | Ion Plus | Bounce TV | |||
WIPX-TV | 63.2 | Qubo | Court TV | ||||
63.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
WRTV | 6.4 | Court TV Mystery | QVC | ||||
Jacksonville, Florida | WPXC-TV | 21.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
21.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV Mystery | |||||
21.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
21.6 | HSN | Laff | |||||
Kansas City, Missouri | KMCI-TV | 38.4 | Court TV | HSN | |||
KPXE-TV | 50.2 | Qubo | Court TV | ||||
50.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
50.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
50.6 | HSN | QVC2 | |||||
Knoxville, Tennessee | WPXK-TV | 54.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
54.3 | Ion Plus | Laff | |||||
54.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Lexington, Kentucky | WUPX-TV | 67.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
67.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
67.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
Los Angeles, California | KPXN-TV | 30.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
30.3 | Ion Life | Grit | |||||
30.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
30.5 | QVC | Laff | |||||
KILM | 64.1 | Ion Plus | Grit | ||||
Madison, Wisconsin | WIFS | 57.1 | Ion Plus | Ion Television | |||
57.5 | Qubo | Laff | |||||
57.6 | Laff | Court TV Mystery | |||||
57.7 | Court TV Mystery | Grit | |||||
Manchester, New Hampshire | WPXG-TV | 21.2 | Qubo | Court TV Mystery | |||
21.3 | Ion Shop | Bounce TV | |||||
Memphis, Tennessee | WPXX-TV | 50.2 | Qubo | Court TV Mystery | |||
50.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
50.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
Miami–Ft. Lauderdale, Florida | WPXM-TV | 35.2 | Qubo | Court TV Mystery | |||
35.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
35.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
Milwaukee, Wisconsin | WPXE-TV | 55.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | |||
55.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
55.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
Minneapolis–St. Paul, Minnesota | KPXM-TV | 41.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | |||
41.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
41.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Nashville, Tennessee | WNPX-TV | 28.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
28.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
28.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
New Orleans, Louisiana | WPXL-TV | 49.2 | Qubo | Grit | |||
49.3 | Ion Plus | Laff | |||||
49.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
New York City, New York | WJLP | 33.6 | Court TV | Heartland | |||
WPXN-TV | 31.2 | Qubo | Grit | ||||
31.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV Mystery | |||||
31.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV | |||||
31.5 | QVC | Laff | |||||
Norfolk–Portsmouth–Newport News, Virginia | WPXV-TV | 49.2 | Qubo | ||||
49.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV Mystery | |||||
49.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV | |||||
WGNT | 27.4 | Court TV | Dabl | ||||
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | KOPX-TV | 62.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | |||
62.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
62.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
Orlando, Florida | WOPX-TV | 56.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | |||
56.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV Mystery | |||||
56.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | WPPX-TV | 61.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
61.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
61.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
61.5 | HSN | Laff | |||||
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | WINP-TV | 16.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | |||
16.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
16.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Portland, Maine | WIPL | 35.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
35.3 | Ion Plus | Bounce TV | |||||
35.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
WCSH | 6.3 | Court TV | Antenna TV | ||||
Portland, Oregon | KPXG-TV | 22.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | |||
22.3 | Court TV | ||||||
22.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
Providence, Rhode Island | WLWC | 28.1 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||
WPXQ-TV | 69.2 | Qubo | Laff | ||||
69.4 | Ion Shop | Bounce TV | |||||
Raleigh–Durham, North Carolina | WRPX-TV | 47.3 | Court TV Mystery | ||||
47.5 | QVC | Laff | |||||
WFPX-TV | 62.1 | Ion Plus | Court TV | ||||
Roanoke–Lynchburg, Virginia | WPXR-TV | 38.2 | Qubo | ||||
38.3 | Ion Plus | Laff | |||||
38.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
St. Louis, Missouri | WRBU | 46.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
46.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
46.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
Sacramento, California | KSPX-TV | 29.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
29.3 | Ion Plus | Laff | |||||
29.4 | Ion Shop | Bounce TV | |||||
Salt Lake City, Utah | KUPX-TV | 16.2 | Qubo | Grit | |||
16.3 | Ion Plus | Laff | |||||
16.4 | Ion Shop | Bounce TV | |||||
San Antonio, Texas | KPXL-TV | 26.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
26.3 | Ion Plus | Laff | |||||
26.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
San Francisco–Oakland–San Jose, California | KKPX-TV | 65.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | |||
65.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
65.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
65.5 | QVC | Laff | |||||
Scranton–Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania | WQPX-TV | 64.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | |||
64.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
64.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
Seattle–Tacoma, Washington | KWPX-TV | 33.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
33.3 | Ion Life | Bounce TV | |||||
33.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
Spokane, Washington | KGPX-TV | 34.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | |||
34.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
34.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Syracuse, New York | WSPX-TV | 56.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
56.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
56.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Tampa–St. Petersburg, Florida | WXPX-TV | 66.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
66.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
66.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
Tulsa, Oklahoma | KTPX-TV | 44.2 | Qubo | NBC[note 1] | |||
44.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
44.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
Washington, D.C. | WPXW-TV | 66.2 | Qubo | Court TV Mystery | |||
66.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
66.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
Wausau–Rhinelander, Wisconsin | WTPX-TV | 46.2 | Qubo | Grit | |||
46.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV Mystery | |||||
46.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
46.5 | QVC | Bounce TV | |||||
West Palm Beach, Florida | WPTV-TV | 5.4 | Court TV Mystery | Start TV | |||
WPXP-TV | 67.2 | Qubo | Court TV | ||||
67.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV Mystery | |||||
67.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
67.5 | QVC | Grit | |||||
March 29 | Dallas, Texas | KTXA | 21.2 | MeTV | CBSN Dallas | In December 2020, Weigel Broadcasting completed its acquisition of Azteca América affiliates KAZD/Dallas and KYAZ/Houston from HC2 Holdings. On March 29, KAZD and KYAZ became MeTV owned and operation stations, as it shifts Azteca America programming to the stations' third subchannel. | [444][445] |
KAZD | 55.1 | Azteca América | MeTV | ||||
Houston, Texas | KPRC-TV | 2.2 | MeTV | Start TV | |||
KYAZ | 51.1 | Azteca América | MeTV | ||||
April 1 | Fresno, California | KFSN-TV | 30.3 | Laff | This TV | With Katz's carriage agreement with the ABC Owned Television Stations also running out, ABCOTS has since come to agreement with Allen Media Group to launch a revitalized This TV on those channel slots. | |
Houston, Texas | KTRK-TV | 13.3 | |||||
Los Angeles, California | KABC-TV | 7.3 | |||||
New York City, New York | WABC-TV | 7.3 | |||||
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | WPVI-TV | 6.3 | |||||
Raleigh, North Carolina | WTVD | 11.3 | |||||
San Francisco, California | KGO-TV | 7.3 | |||||
Minneapolis, Minnesota | K33LN-D | 33.1 | Bounce TV | QVC | |||
33.2 | Court TV Mystery | HSN | |||||
April 3 | Las Vegas, Nevada | KLAS-TV | 8.4 | Ion Television | Circle | ||
April 5 | Indianapolis, Indiana | WISH-TV | 8.3 | True Crime Network | Twist | [385][386] | |
May 15 | Chicago, Illinois | WCPX-TV | 38.2 | Court TV Mystery | Bounce TV | WCIU will launch the experimental MeTV Plus service over digital subchannels 26.5 on this date; the network will replace Bounce TV, which had been carrying its programming simultaneously on Ion O&O WCPX-TV (owned by Bounce parent, the E. W. Scripps Company) since February 28 and will cede its Chicago affiliation rights exclusively to that station with the switchover. | [387] |
WCIU-TV | 26.5 | Bounce TV | MeTV Plus | ||||
May 17 | Lexington, Kentucky | WTVQ-DT | 36.4 | Laff | Twist | ||
36.7 | Grit | QVC | |||||
June 7 | Charlotte, North Carolina | WJZY | 46.8 | Shop LC | QVC2 | ||
Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida | WTSP | 10.2 | Antenna TV | Twist | |||
WFTS-TV | 28.4 | Court TV | Court TV Mystery | ||||
28.5 | QVC | HSN | |||||
July 1 | Albany, New York | WYPX-TV | 55.5 | QVC | Defy TV | [388][389] | |
55.6 | HSN | TrueReal | |||||
Birmingham, Alabama | WPXH-TV | 44.6 | Defy TV | ||||
Boise, Idaho | KTRV-TV | 12.5 | QVC | ||||
12.6 | HSN | TrueReal | |||||
Buffalo, New York | WPXJ-TV | 51.5 | QVC | Defy TV | |||
51.6 | HSN | TrueReal | |||||
Chicago, Illinois | WCPX-TV | 38.5 | QVC | Defy TV | |||
38.6 | HSN | TrueReal | |||||
Cleveland, Ohio | WEWS-TV | 5.4 | Court TV | ||||
WVPX-TV | 23.5 | HSN | Defy TV | ||||
Colorado Springs, Colorado | KOAA-TV | 5.2 | WeatherNation TV | Court TV | |||
5.4 | Court TV | Defy TV | |||||
Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas | KPXD-TV | 68.5 | QVC | ||||
68.6 | HSN | TrueReal | |||||
Denver, Colorado | KPXC-TV | 59.4 | Laff | Defy TV | |||
59.5 | HSN | TrueReal | |||||
Detroit, Michigan | WPXD-TV | 31.4 | Court TV Mystery | Defy TV | |||
31.5 | QVC | TrueReal | |||||
Grand Rapids, Michigan | WZPX-TV | 43.6 | HSN | Defy TV | |||
Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point, North Carolina | WGPX-TV | 16.5 | QVC | ||||
16.6 | HSN | TrueReal | |||||
Hartford, Connecticut | WHPX-TV | 26.5 | QVC | Defy TV | |||
26.6 | HSN | TrueReal | |||||
Honolulu, Hawaii | KPXO-TV | 66.4 | Court TV Mystery | Defy TV | |||
66.5 | QVC | TrueReal | |||||
Indianapolis, Indiana | WIPX-TV | 63.5 | Defy TV | ||||
63.6 | HSN | TrueReal | |||||
Kansas City, Missouri | KPXE-TV | 50.3 | Grit | Defy TV | |||
50.4 | Laff | TrueReal | |||||
Lexington, Kentucky | WUPX-TV | 67.5 | QVC | Defy TV | |||
67.6 | HSN | TueReal | |||||
Los Angeles, California | KPXN-TV | 30.3 | Grit | Defy TV | |||
30.4 | Court TV Mystery | TrueReal | |||||
Memphis, Tennessee | WPXX-TV | 50.5 | QVC | ||||
50.6 | HSN | Defy TV | |||||
Nashville, Tennessee | WNPX-TV | 28.5 | QVC | ||||
28.6 | HSN | TruReal | |||||
New York City, New York | WPXN-TV | 31.4 | Court TV | Defy TV | |||
31.6 | HSN | TrueReal | |||||
Norfolk–Portsmouth–Newport News, Virginia | WPXV-TV | 49.4 | Court TV | Defy TV | |||
49.5 | QVC | TrueReal | |||||
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | KOPX-TV | 62.5 | Defy TV | ||||
62.6 | HSN | TrueReal | |||||
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | WPPX-TV | 61.4 | Court TV Mystery | ||||
61.6 | QVC | Defy TV | |||||
Phoenix, Arizona | KPPX-TV | 51.5 | |||||
Spokane, Washington | KGPX-TV | 34.5 | |||||
34.6 | HSN | TrueReal | |||||
Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida | WXPX-TV | 66.5 | QVC | Defy TV | |||
66.6 | HSN | TrueReal | |||||
West Palm Beach, Florida | WPXP-TV | 67.6 | Defy TV | ||||
July 5 | Burlington/Davenport, Iowa | KGCW | 26.4 | Bounce TV | CBS | ||
August 2 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | KCRG-TV | 9.3 | Antenna TV | The CW | As a result of the sale of KWWL to Allen Media Broadcasting due to the acquisition of the station's former owner Quincy Media by Gray Television, the owner of competitor KCRG-TV, The CW announced they will moved its affiliation from its second digital subchannel of KWWL to the third subchannel of KCRG-TV beginning August 2, after Start TV, Circle and Antenna TV diginets leaving the said station as well in the Cedar Rapids market, while the former joined the Weigel Broadcasting owned network Heroes & Icons. | |
KWWL | 7.2 | The CW | Heroes & Icons | ||||
September 1 | Albany/Schenectady/Troy, New York | WXXA-TV | 23.4 | Bounce TV | Rewind TV | [432] | |
Buffalo, New York | WNLO | 23.2 | |||||
WKBW-TV | 7.2 | Laff | Bounce TV | ||||
WIVB-TV | 4.2 | Court TV | QVC | ||||
Charleston/Huntington, West Virginia | WOWK-TV | 13.4 | Grit | Rewind TV | [432] | ||
Charlotte, North Carolina | WJZY | 46.8 | QVC2 | ||||
Chicago, Illinois | WGN-TV | 9.4 | TBD | ||||
Cleveland, Ohio | WOIO | 19.4 | Shop LC | ||||
Grand Rapids, Michigan | WOOD-TV | 8.2 | Bounce TV | ||||
8.3 | Laff | SportsGrid | |||||
Hagerstown, Maryland | WDVM-TV | 25.2 | Court TV Mystery | ||||
25.3 | Grit | Rewind TV | [432] | ||||
25.4 | Laff | HSN | |||||
Harlingen, Texas | KGBT-TV | 4.2 | TBD | Rewind TV | [432] | ||
Hartford/New Haven, Connecticut | WTNH | 8.2 | Bounce TV | ||||
WCTX | 59.2 | Grit | Comet | ||||
Honolulu, Hawaii | KHON-TV | 2.4 | Court TV | Rewind TV | [432] | ||
Nashville, Tennessee | WKRN-TV | 2.2 | Bounce TV | SportsGrid | |||
2.4 | Grit | Rewind TV | [432] | ||||
New York City, New York | WPIX | 11.4 | TBD | ||||
Portland, Oregon | KOIN | 6.3 | Bounce TV | SportsGrid | |||
Providence, Rhode Island | WNAC-TV | 64.3 | Laff | Rewind TV | [432] | ||
Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina | WNCN | 17.2 | Court TV | ||||
17.4 | Court TV Mystery | Circle | |||||
Roanoke/Lynchburg, Virginia | WWCW | 21.3 | Laff | Rewind TV | [432] | ||
Salt Lake City, Utah | KTVX | 4.3 | |||||
San Antonio, Texas | KABB | 29.2 | Comet | ||||
San Francisco, California | KRON-TV | 4.3 | Court TV | SportsGrid | |||
St. Louis, Missouri | KPLR-TV | 11.4 | Court TV | Rewind TV | [432] | ||
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania | WBRE-TV | 28.3 | Grit | ||||
WYOU | 22.3 | Bounce TV | Twist | ||||
Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida | WFLA-TV | 8.2 | Court TV | SportsGrid | |||
8.3 | Court TV Mystery | Antenna TV | |||||
September 20 | Detroit, Michigan | WMYD | 20.1 | MyNetworkTV/ABC (alternate) | Independent/ABC (remained alternate) | On July 10, 2021, it was announced that Fox Corporation's MyNetworkTV programming service will moved to Adell Broadcasting owned station WADL, ending its 36 years as an independent station, as well as their alternating affiliations with NBC (for programming declined to carry by the network's affiliated station in that market, WDIV-TV). Meanwhile, WMYD will return to its independence for the first time since 1995 (ending MNT's 15 year affiliation with the said station from its 2006 launch along with their 11 year affiliation with the now-defunct The WB from 1995 to 2006), while retaining their alternating affiliation with ABC (for programming declined to carry by the network's affiliated sister station in that market, WXYZ-TV due to breaking news and other programming). | [446] |
WADL | 38.1 | Independent/NBC (alternate) | MyNetworkTV | ||||
October 31 | Norfolk/Portsmouth/Newport News, Virginia | WVBT | 43.3 | Heroes & Icons | Rewind TV | ||
November 1 | Las Vegas, Nevada | KLAS-TV | 8.4 | Circle | |||
Lexington, Kentucky | WDKY-TV | 56.2 | Comet | ||||
Richmond, Virginia | WRIC-TV | 8.2 | Ion Television |
Station closures
Station | Channel | Affiliation | Market | Date | Notes | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
XHRIO | 15.1 | The CW | Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico (Rio Grande Valley, Texas) |
December 31 | In late 2019, when owner Entravision Communications released its third-quarter earnings, it announced that it would not pay the 20-year lump sum renewal for the station's license. As a result, the station is expected to cease operations at the end of its concession in December 2021 after broadcasting as an English language station for most of its 42-year history. The closure of XHRIO-TDT leaves Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon to depend on American television stations for English-language content. | [447] |
Deaths
January
Date | Name | Age | Notability | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
January 2 | Kerry Vincent | 75 | Australian baker and reality show contestant (The Best Thing I Ever Ate, Food Network Challenge, and Last Cake Standing) | [448] |
January 3 | Eric Jerome Dickey | 59 | Author and former actor. Recurring role on Almost There! | [449] |
January 4 | Tanya Roberts | 65 | Actress best known as Midge Pinciotti on That '70s Show. Also recurring roles on Charlie's Angels and Hot Line. | [450] |
Gregory Sierra | 83 | Actor best known as Detective Sergeant Chano Amengual on Barney Miller and as Julio Fuentes on Sanford and Son. | [451] | |
January 6 | Gerald Hiken | 93 | Character actor. Had a short recurring role on Car 54, Where Are You | [452] |
Antonio Sabàto Sr. | 77 | Italian-American actor, father of Antonio Sabàto Jr.; appeared as "Aldo Damiano" on The Bold and the Beautiful in 2006. | [453] | |
January 7 | Michael Apted | 79 | British director, producer, writer and actor (Rome, Ray Donovan, Masters of Sex) | [454] |
Deezer D | 55 | Actor and rapper best known as Malik McGrath on ER. | [455] | |
Tommy Lasorda | 93 | Hall of Fame manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers from 1976 to 1996; co-starred as the "Dugout Wizard" on The Baseball Bunch from 1980 to 1985, and later appeared in TV commercials for SlimFast | [456] | |
Marion Ramsey | 73 | Actress (Cos). Guest starred on K-Ville, Loving, and Another World. | [457] | |
January 8 | Ed Bruce | 81 | Country music songwriter, singer, and actor (Bret Maverick). Made guest roles on Happy Days, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Sally, Laverne & Shirley, The Brady Bunch, I Love Lucy, and The Munsters. | [458] |
Diana Millay | 85 | Actress (Father Knows Best, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Tab Hunter Show, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, Route 66, King of Diamonds, Target: The Corruptors!, The United States Steel Hour, Rawhide, Perry Mason, Dark Shadows) | [459] | |
Mike Henry | 84 | Football player (Pittsburgh Steelers and Los Angeles Rams) and actor (M*A*S*H, General Hospital, I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, Murder, She Wrote, Fantasy Island) | [460] | |
January 9 | John Reilly | 86 | Actor best known for roles on the soap operas General Hospital and Passions | [461] |
Caroly Wilcox | 89 | Theater professional, best known for her work with The Muppets on television programs including Sesame Street, The Muppet Show, and Fraggle Rock | [462] | |
January 14 | Peter Mark Richman | 93 | Actor best known as Andrew Laird on Dynasty. | [463] |
January 15 | Dale Baer | 70 | Animator (Disney) | [464] |
January 16 | Jim MacGeorge | 92 | Voice actor and writer (Laurel and Hardy, The Funky Phantom, The New Scooby-Doo Movies, Clue Club, Yogi's Space Race, Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels, The Ri¢hie Ri¢h/Scooby-Doo Show, The Kwicky Koala Show, DuckTales, Bionic Six, Foofur, Beany and Cecil) | [465] |
January 18 | David Richardson | 65 | Writer and producer, most known for work on The John Larroquette Show, Two and a Half Men, and F Is for Family | [466] |
Don Sutton | 75 | Hall of Fame baseball pitcher and TV announcer for the Atlanta Braves and Washington Nationals | [467] | |
January 19 | Mark Wilson | 91 | Magician and author, who was widely credited as the first major television magician and in the process establishing the viability of illusion shows as a television format. | [468] |
January 20 | Mira Furlan | 65 | Croatian actress and singer best known as Delenn on Babylon 5 and as Danielle Rousseau on Lost. | [469] |
January 21 | Marty Brill | 88 | Comedian, writer, actor and musician. Guest roles included Guiding Light, Transformers: Rescue Bots, Chicago Fire, Back to the Future, Captain N: The Game Master, Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy. | |
Donna Britt | 62 | News anchor at WAFB/Baton Rouge, Louisiana from 1981 to 2018 | [470] | |
January 22 | Hank Aaron | 86 | Professional baseball player (played himself on Happy Days, MacGyver, Mr. Belvedere, Touched by an Angel and Futurama) | [471] |
Ron Campbell | 81 | Australian animator, director, producer and storyboard artist (Krazy Kat, The Beatles, Sesame Street, The New Scooby-Doo Movies, The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan, The Big Blue Marble, ABC Weekend Special, Yogi's Space Race, The Smurfs, The Scooby & Scrappy-Doo/Puppy Hour, Pac-Man, The Dukes, Snorks, Yogi's Treasure Hunt, Paw Paws, The Jetsons, Ghostbusters (1986), Bionic Six, DuckTales, The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Police Academy, Camp Candy, Bobby's World, Rugrats, Darkwing Duck, James Bond Jr., Bonkers, Duckman, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Rocket Power, Dragon Tales) | [472] | |
January 23 | Hal Holbrook | 95 | Actor (several TV roles, including the series The Bold Ones: The Senator, Designing Women, and Evening Shade, and films and specials including That Certain Summer, Mark Twain Tonight! and 1977's Our Town) | [473] |
Larry King | 87 | Radio/TV broadcaster and host of Larry King Live on CNN and Larry King Now on Hulu and RT America | [474] | |
January 24 | Sonny Fox | 95 | Host of The $64,000 Challenge (1956) and Wonderama (1959–1967) | [475] |
Bruce Kirby | 95 | Actor best known as Sergeant George Kramer on Columbo and as Bruce Rogoff on L.A. Law. Also recurring roles on numerous shows. Guest roles included As the World Turns, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, Guiding Light, All That, Let's Make a Deal, The Young and the Restless, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, and The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour. | [476] | |
January 26 | Cloris Leachman | 94 | Actress best known as Phyllis Lindstrom on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spinoff Phyllis. Also recurring roles and guest spots on numerous shows. Three-time Emmy winner. | [477] |
Sekou Smith | 48 | Reporter and analyst for NBA TV | [478] | |
January 28 | Cicely Tyson | 96 | Actress and fashion model best known as Jane Foster on East Side/West Side, as Carrie Grace Battle on Sweet Justice, and as Ophelia Harkness on How to Get Away With Murder. | [479] |
January 30 | Allan Burns | 85 | Writer and producer (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, My Mother the Car, The Munsters, Rhoda, and Lou Grant) | [480] |
Marc Wilmore | 57 | Writer, actor, and producer (In Living Color, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, The PJs, The Simpsons, and F Is for Family); brother of Larry Wilmore. | [481] |
February
Date | Name | Age | Notability | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
February 1 | Dustin Diamond | 44 | Actor best known as Samuel "Screech" Powers in the Saved by the Bell franchise | [482] |
Jamie Tarses | 56 | Television executive (ABC Entertainment) and producer (Friends, Frasier, Happy Endings, My Boys, Franklin & Bash, The Wilds, Saturday Night Live, Perfect Strangers, Hawthorne, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Marry Me, Men at Work) | [483] | |
February 5 | Christopher Plummer | 91 | Canadian Emmy, Oscar, and Tony Award-winning actor (TV credits include Omnibus, The Moneychangers, Jesus of Nazareth, Little Gloria... Happy at Last, The Thorn Birds, The Cosby Show, Counterstrike, Winchell, Nuremberg, American Tragedy, Departure, and Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight; voice work on Madeline; video clue presenter on Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time) | [484] |
Butch Reed | 66 | Former WWE and WCW professional wrestler | [485] | |
February 7 | Pedro Gomez | 58 | Sports journalist who primarily covered baseball for ESPN, appearing on SportsCenter and Baseball Tonight | [486] |
February 10 | Katherine Creag | 47 | Newscaster at WNYW and WNBC in New York City | [487] |
February 11 | Joan Weldon | 90 | Character actress (guest spots on The Millionaire, Lux Video Theater, Perry Mason, Have Gun-Will Travel, Shirley Temple Theater, and This Is Your Music). | [488] |
February 12 | Christopher Pennock | 76 | Actor best known as Gabriel Collins on Dark Shadows | [489] |
Lynn Stalmaster | 93 | Casting director | [490] | |
February 17 | Rush Limbaugh | 70 | Radio and TV personality and political commentator; TV work included eponymous Rush Limbaugh from 1992 to 1996, along with contributions to The 1/2 Hour News Hour and Sunday NFL Countdown. Also several voice appearances as himself on Family Guy. | [491] |
February 18 | Frank Lupo | 66 | Writer/producer, most notably (in partnership with Stephen J. Cannell) on The A-Team, Hunter and Wiseguy | [492] |
February 20 | Douglas Turner Ward | 90 | Playwright, actor, director, and theatrical producer. He was noted for being a founder and artistic director of the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC). | [493] |
February 23 | Geoffrey Scott | 79 | Actor best known as Mark Jennings on Dynasty | [494] |
February 28 | Irv Cross | 81 | Football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Los Angeles Rams) and sportscaster (The NFL Today). First Black network sports anchor. | [495] |
March
Date | Name | Age | Notability | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
March 2 | Gil Rogers | 87 | Actor (recurring roles as Hawk Shayne on Guiding Light, Ray Gardner on All My Children, and Dr. Martin Brandt on The Doctors). | [496] |
March 6 | Carmel Quinn | 95 | Irish-American entertainer who appeared on Broadway, television and radio after immigrating to the United States in 1954 | [497] |
March 9 | Roger Mudd | 93 | Reporter and anchor for CBS News and NBC News as well for PBS' MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and History Channel | [498] |
Cliff Simon | 58 | Actor best known for his role as Ba'al on Stargate SG-1. | [499] | |
March 13 | Yaphet Kotto | 81 | Actor best known for his role as Lt. Al Giardello on Homicide: Life on the Street | [500] |
March 14 | Henry Darrow | 87 | Puerto Rican actor (several series, including The High Chaparral, Harry O, All My Children, One Life to Live, Santa Barbara, General Hospital, and Zorro) | [501] |
March 17 | Amy Johnston | 66 | Film and television actress and drama coach | [502] |
March 18 | Richard Gilliland | 71 | Actor (several series, most notably McMillan, Operation Petticoat, and Designing Women) | [503] |
March 19 | Barry Orton | 62 | Actor and professional wrestler, son of professional wrestler Bob Orton | [citation needed] |
March 21 | Joel Steiger | 79 | Writer/producer (several films and shows, most notably Matlock, Jake and the Fatman, and the Perry Mason film series) | [504] |
March 23 | George Segal | 87 | Actor best known as Albert 'Pops' Solomon on The Goldbergs and Jack Gallo on Just Shoot Me! | [505] |
March 24 | Craig "muMs" Grant | 52 | Actor/poet (various TV series, most notably Oz, She's Gotta Have It, and Hightown) | [506] |
Jessica Walter | 80 | Actress (voice roles included Archer and Dinosaurs, on-camera roles included Arrested Development among several others) | [507] | |
March 25 | Rick Azar | 91 | Sportscaster best known for his 31 years with WKBW-TV in Buffalo, New York | [508] |
Robert Rodan | 83 | Actor best known for his role of Adam in Dark Shadows in 1968 | [509] |
April
Date | Name | Age | Notability | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
April 1 | Lee Aaker | 77 | Actor best known as Rusty on The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin | [510] |
April 3 | Gloria Henry | 98 | Actress best known as Alice Mitchell on Dennis the Menace | [511] |
John Paragon | 66 | Actor/voice actor best known for playing Jambi the Genie and voicing Pterri the Pterodactyl on Pee-wee's Playhouse | [512] | |
April 6 | Walter Olkewicz | 72 | Character actor (The Last Resort, Barney Miller, The Blue and the Gray, Wizards and Warriors, Taxi, Partners in Crime, Family Ties, Dolly, Mr. Belvedere, Twin Peaks, Who's the Boss?, Night Court, Batman: The Animated Series, Grace Under Fire) | [513] |
April 7 | Anne Beatts | 74 | Comedy writer, best known for Saturday Night Live and Square Pegs | [514] |
James Hampton | 84 | Actor, television director, and screenwriter (Gunsmoke, F Troop, The Doris Day Show, Love, American Style, The Red Hand Gang, The Dukes of Hazzard, Insight, Maggie, Teen Wolf, Days of Our Lives, Full House) | [515] | |
April 16 | Felix Silla | 84 | Italian actor and stuntman (Cousin Itt on The Addams Family) | [516] |
April 18 | Sunday Burquest | 50 | Reality TV contestant (Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X) | [517] |
Alma Wahlberg | 78 | Reality television personality (Wahlburgers) and the mother of Donnie, Mark, Paul, and Robert Wahlberg. | [518] | |
April 21 | Bernie Kahn | 90 | Screenwriter (Petticoat Junction, Get Smart, The Second Hundred, My World and Welcome to It, The Good Life, Love, American Style, Bewitched, Room 222, Super Friends, Viva Valdez, The Practice, Tabitha, Three's Company, The Love Boat, The New Addams Family) | [519] |
April 22 | Charles Fries | 92 | Film producer, television producer, and executive producer who worked on many TV series, made-for-TV movies, and theatrical films | [520] |
April 23 | Nathan Jung | 74 | Actor and stuntman (guest roles on The A-Team and Falcon Crest) | [521] |
April 26 | Al Schmitt | 91 | Recording engineer and record producer | [522] |
April 29 | Martin Bookspan | 94 | Announcer, commentator, and author. Was the announcer on the PBS series Live from Lincoln Center from its beginnings in 1976 until his retirement in 2006. | [523] |
Johnny Crawford | 75 | Actor, singer, and musician best known for his role of Mark McCain in The Rifleman (other roles include The Lone Ranger, The Loretta Young Show, Whirlybirds, NBC Matinee Theater, The Adventures of William Tell) | [524] | |
Billie Hayes | 96 | Actress best known for her comic portrayals of Witchiepoo in H.R. Pufnstuf | [525] | |
Frank McRae | 80 | Actor and professional football player. | [526] |
May
Date | Name | Age | Notability | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
May 1 | Olympia Dukakis | 89 | Actress, director, producer, teacher, and activist (Search for Tomorrow, Tales of the City, Touched by an Angel, Center of the Universe, Bored to Death, Sex & Violence, Forgive Me, TripTank) | [527] |
May 2 | Bob Abernethy | 93 | Journalist, best known for serving various roles during a 42-year career with NBC News. He later co-created, and was executive editor and host of Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, which aired on PBS from 1997 until 2017. | [528] |
May 7 | Ernest Angley | 99 | Televangelist (host of The Ernest Angley Hour) and station owner (WBNX-TV/Akron, OH) | [529] |
Tawny Kitaen | 59 | Actress, comedian, and media personality, best known for her appearances in several Whitesnake music videos. Also the host of America's Funniest People; recurring roles on The New WKRP in Cincinnati and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys; and appearances in the reality shows The Surreal Life, Botched, and Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew. | [530] | |
May 11 | Norman Lloyd | 106 | Actor (most notably Dr. Daniel Auschlander on St. Elsewhere) and producer (Alfred Hitchcock Presents) | [531] |
May 14 | Jay Barbree | 87 | Correspondent for NBC News, focusing on space travel. He was the only journalist to have covered every non-commercial human space mission in the United States until 2011. | [532] |
New Jack | 58 | Professional wrestler (most notably with Extreme Championship Wrestling) | [533] | |
May 18 | Charles Grodin | 86 | Actor (main role as the second Matt Crane Stevens on The Young Marrieds; recurring role on Louie; and appearances in the mini-series Madoff and Fresno) and CBS News commentator (60 Minutes II) | [534] |
May 19 | Paul Mooney | 79 | Actor, comedian, and writer (Real Husbands of Hollywood, Chappelle's Show, The Larry Sanders Show, In Living Color, Pryor's Place, The Richard Pryor Show, Saturday Night Live, Good Times, Sanford and Son). | [535] |
May 24 | Samuel E. Wright | 74 | Voice actor best known as Sebastian the Crab on The Little Mermaid. | [536] |
May 26 | Paul Soles | 90 | Canadian voice actor best known as the voice of Hermey in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the title character in the 1960s version of Spider-Man | [537] |
May 29 | Gavin MacLeod | 90 | Actor best known as Murray Slaughter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Captain Merrill Stubing on The Love Boat, and Seaman Joseph "Happy" Hanes on McHale's Navy. | [538] |
Joe Lara | 58 | Actor best known as the title character in Tarzan: The Epic Adventures. Husband of Gwen Shamblin Lara, who also died in the same crash. | [539] | |
May 31 | Arlene Golonka | 85 | Actress best known as Millie Hutchins/Millie Swanson on The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry R.F.D. (other roles include The Doctors, The Doctors and the Nurses, The Big Valley, Get Smart, That Girl, Love, American Style, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Barnaby Jones, Maude, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, The Streets of San Francisco, Joe & Valerie, Fantasy Island, The Love Boat, Gimme a Break!, Growing Pains, Murder, She Wrote, Matlock, The King of Queens) | [540] |
June
Date | Name | Age | Notability | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
June 3 | Ernie Lively | 74 | Character actor (guest spots on The Waltons, The Dukes of Hazzard, The Beverly Hillbillies, The X-Files, That '70s Show, and The West Wing). | [541] |
John Sacret Young | 75 | Writer/producer/director, most notably on China Beach, The West Wing and Firefly Lane | [542] | |
June 4 | Clarence Williams III | 81 | Actor, best known as Det. Linc Hayes on The Mod Squad | [543] |
June 7 | Douglas S. Cramer | 89 | Producer (various series/miniseries including Bridget Loves Bernie, Wonder Woman, and QB VII) and studio executive (Paramount Television, Aaron Spelling Productions) | [544] |
Larry Gelman | 90 | Actor best known as Dr. Bernie Tupperman on The Bob Newhart Show and Vinnie on The Odd Couple (other roles include The Monkees, Maude, Kojak, Free Country, Eight Is Enough, One Day at a Time, Barney Miller, Archie Bunker's Place, Cagney & Lacey, Grand Slam, Night Court, Freakazoid!) | ||
June 11 | John Gabriel | 90 | Actor best known as Seneca Beaulac on Ryan's Hope (other roles include Men of Annapolis, General Electric Theater, Hawaiian Eye, The Lawless Years, The Untouchables, 77 Sunset Strip, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Loving, Kate & Allie, Generations, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, What's New, Scooby-Doo?) | [545] |
June 12 | Dennis Berry | 76 | American-French director (Highlander: The Series, Highlander: The Raven, Crossbow) | |
June 13 | Ned Beatty | 83 | Actor best known as Stanley Bolander on Homicide: Life on the Street and the Nick Szysznyk on Szysznyk | [546] |
June 14 | Lisa Banes | 65 | Actress best known as Doreen Morrison on The Trials of Rosie O'Neill and Mayor Anita Massengil on Son of the Beach | [547] |
June 16 | Frank Bonner | 79 | Actor best known as Herb Tarlek on WKRP in Cincinnati and The New WKRP in Cincinnati. Recurring role as Father Robert Hargis on Just the Ten of Us. Also directed several shows, most notably City Guys. | [548] |
Norman Powell | 86 | Producer (most notably on 24 and Washington: Behind Closed Doors), network executive (CBS), and director (The New Dick Van Dyke Show and others) | [549][550] | |
June 18 | Billy Fuccillo | 64 | Automobile dealer known for his television commercials | [551] |
June 20 | Joanne Linville | 93 | Character actress (guest spots on Twilight Zone, Star Trek, Decoy, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Have Gun Will Travel, Coronado 9, Checkmate, Adventures in Paradise, Empire, Gunsmoke, Dr. Kildare, Ben Casey, Route 66, The Eleventh Hour, I Spy, Bonanza, The Fugitive, The F.B.I., The Invaders, Felony Squad, Hawaii Five-O, Kojak, Colombo, The Streets of San Francisco, Nakia, Barnaby Jones, Switch, Charlie's Angels, CHIPS, Mrs. Columbo, Dynasty, L.A. Law, and Bus Stop; and the TV movies House on Greenapple Road, Secrets, The Critical List, The Users, The Right of the People, and Behind the Screen). | [552] |
June 26 | John Langley | 78 | Reality television producer, most notably serving as creator/producer of Cops | [553] |
June 27 | Alison Greenspan | 48 | Film/TV producer, most notably on the series For Life | [554] |
June 29 | Stuart Damon | 84 | TV/stage actor best known for playing Alan Quartermaine on General Hospital and Port Charles | [555] |
July
Date | Name | Age | Notability | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
July 5 | Richard Donner | 91 | Film and television director (Wanted Dead or Alive, The Rifleman, Have Gun – Will Travel, Sam Benedict, The Twilight Zone, Mr. Novak, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Gilligan's Island, Perry Mason, 12 O'Clock High, The Wild Wild West, The Felony Squad, Cannon, Kojak, Tales from the Crypt) | [556] |
July 11 | Charlie Robinson | 75 | Actor best known as Macintosh "Mac" Robinson on Night Court and Abe Johnson on Love & War. Also recurring roles on Love in the Time of Corona, Mom, The Guest Book, Hart of Dixie, Buddy Faro, Home Improvement, Ink, Buffalo Bill, and Flamingo Road. | [557] |
July 12 | Paul Orndorff | 71 | WWE Hall of Fame professional wrestler | [558] |
July 24 | Jackie Mason | 93 | Actor and comedian (host of The Jackie Mason Show, frequent guest spots on The Ed Sullivan Show, recurring role as Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky on The Simpsons, and the starring role of Jackie Fisher on the short-lived sitcom Chicken Soup). Three-time Emmy winner. | [559] |
July 26 | David Von Ancken | 56 | Director and producer (Hell on Wheels, Code Black, Californication, Tut, CSI: NY, Cold Case, Salem, The Order, The Vampire Diaries) | [560] |
July 28 | Ron Popeil | 86 | Gadget salesman and inventor, founder of Ronco (multiple self-produced infomercials, appearances on The Weird Al Show and Late Night with Conan O'Brien) | [561] |
July 29 | Tony Mendez | 76 | Cue card man on the Late Show with David Letterman and eponymous host of the Web series The Tony Mendez Show | [562] |
July 30 | Jay Pickett | 60 | Actor best known for playing Frank Scanlon on Port Charles. Also played Chip Lakin on Days of Our Lives and David Harper on General Hospital; guest spots on Dexter and NCIS: Los Angeles. | [563] |
Thea White | 81 | Actress best known for voicing Muriel on Courage the Cowardly Dog. | [564] |
August
Date | Name | Age | Notability | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
August 4 | Bobby Eaton | 62 | Professional wrestler | [565] |
August 6 | Herbert Schlosser | 95 | President and CEO of NBC who oversaw the start of Saturday Night Live. Also oversaw The Midnight Special, co-founded A&E, and was involved in bringing Johnny Carson to The Tonight Show. | [566] |
August 7 | Markie Post | 70 | Actress best known as Terri Michaels on The Fall Guy, Christine Sullivan on Night Court, and Georgie Anne Lahti Hartman on Hearts Afire. | [567] |
Jane Withers | 95 | Actress whose best-known television work was an 11-year run as Josephine the Plumber for Comet | [568] | |
Trevor Moore | 41 | Actor, comedian, writer, and director (one of the co-founders of the sketch comedy group The Whitest Kids U' Know and a star on its eponymous IFC TV series) | [569] | |
August 9 | Bob Jenkins | 73 | Motorsports announcer, most known as lead voice of NASCAR on ESPN/ABC (1981-2000) and IndyCar Series on ESPN/ABC (1999 to 2001) & Versus/NBCSN (2009-2012), as well as work in various roles for the IMS Radio Network. | [570] |
August 20 | Tom T. Hall | 85 | Country singer-songwriter (hosted Pop! Goes the Country from 1980 to 1982, appeared on the Grand Ole Opry from 1971 to 1996, appeared as a spokesman in commercials for Chevrolet) | [571] |
August 19 | William Clotworthy | 95 | Network censor for NBC (Saturday Night Live, Late Night with David Letterman) | [572] |
August 21 | Nickolas Davatzes | 79 | Cable television executive (founder of A&E and The History Channel; CEO Emeritus of A&E Networks) | [573] |
August 22 | Lloyd Dobyns | 85 | Journalist/anchor, most notably at NBC News (Weekend and NBC News Overnight) | [574] |
Micki Grant | 80 | Actress best known as Peggy Harris Nolan on Another World. Also played Mrs. Remington on All My Children; guest spots on Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Ed. | [575] | |
August 23 | Michael Nader | 76 | Actor best known as Dex Dexter on Dynasty and Dimitri Marick on All My Children. Also played Alexi Theophilus on Bare Essence and Enzio Bonnatti on Lucky Chances; guest spots on Magnum, P.I., Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Cold Case. | [576] |
August 29 | Ed Asner | 91 | Actor and voice actor best known as Lou Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spinoff Lou Grant which won him five Emmy Awards. Also won Emmys for his roles on the miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man and Roots. Guest spots/recurring roles on numerous other shows. | [577] |
Peggy Farrell | 89 | Film and television costume designer (Holocaust, Seize the Day, The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story, Against Her Will: An Incident in Baltimore, The Stepford Husbands, My Body, My Child, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Ruby Bridges) | [578] | |
August 31 | Michael Constantine | 94 | Film and television actor best known as Principal Seymour Kaufman on Room 222. Also played Jack Ellenhorn on Hey, Landlord, Judge Matthew Sirota on Sirota's Court, Ben Savitch on 79 Park Avenue, Jess Wingate on The Night That Panicked America, Harry Bergen on Summer of My German Soldier, and Gus on My Big Fat Greek Life. | [579] |
September
Date | Name | Age | Notability | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
September 1 | Allison Payne | 57 | News anchor for WGN-TV/Chicago | [580] |
Daffney Unger | 46 | Former female wrestler for World Championship Wrestling and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling | [581] | |
September 4 | Willard Scott | 87 | Legendary weather and feature reporter for NBC's The Today Show. Also appeared in TV commercials for Days Inn hotels and was the creator and original portrayer of McDonald's mascot Ronald McDonald. | [582] |
September 6 | Michael K. Williams | 54 | Actor best known as Omar Little on The Wire and Chalky White on Boardwalk Empire. Also played Freddy Knight on The Night Of, Bobby McCray on When They See Us, Montrose Freeman on Lovecraft Country, Leonard Pine on Hap and Leonard, Ken Jones on When We Rise, and Quincy on The Kill Point; guest spots on The Sopranos, Third Watch, Boston Legal, CSI: NY, Detroit 1-8-7, and Deadline. | [583] |
September 13 | Don Collier | 92 | American actor best known for Western films and NBC television shows such as The High Chaparral, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, and Outlaws as Marshal Will Foreman. | [584] |
September 14 | Norm Macdonald | 61 | Canadian comedian, best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, on which hosted Weekend Update and created Celebrity Jeopardy! (in which he parodied Burt Reynolds). Also starred in The Norm Show, A Minute with Stan Hooper, Norm Macdonald Live, Sports Show and Norm Macdonald Has a Show. | [585] |
September 16 | Jane Powell | 92 | American singer and actress (recurring role on The Red Skelton Show, numerous guest star spots) | [586] |
See also
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on television in the United States
References
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rebel: 36 hours (#110) [1st season finale]
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van helsing: tba (#513) [series finale]
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mr. inbetween tba (#309) [series finale]
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haves and the have nots, the tba (#816) [series finale]
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brooklyn nine-nine tba (#810) [series finale]
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