In American television in 2022, notable events included television show debuts, finales, and cancellations; channel launches, closures, and re-brandings; stations changing or adding their network affiliations; information on controversies, business transactions, and carriage disputes; and deaths of those who made various contributions to the medium.
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| 1 | Fox affiliate WDKY/Danville–Lexington, Kentucky, launches an in-house news department, ending a news outsourcing agreement—one of the longest such agreements in American television history—that it had maintained with Gray-owned CBS affiliate WKYT (which debuted a separate prime time newscast for its CW-affiliated DT2 subchannel on that night) since its 10:00 p.m. newscast premiered in January 1995; WDKY employed its own anchors to present the WKYT-produced broadcasts, all of whom were retained for the new operation (accompanied by reporters, sportscasters and meteorologists hired for the in-house productions) as were some feature segments that originated on the outsourced newscasts. The switch to an in-house production follows the physical expansion and equipment upgrade of WDKY's studios by Nexstar Media Group (which acquired the station in September 2020 through a settlement over previous owner Sinclair's failed acquisition of Tribune Media, of which Nexstar acquired most assets in 2019). An expanded weekday morning newscast (increased to four hours from its previous one-hour runtime as a WKYT production) and a new half-hour early evening newscast subsequently debuted on January 3. | [1] |
| 3 | The Major League Baseball-owned MLB Network declines to renew the contract of insider Ken Rosenthal; it is believed to be the result of Rosenthal's criticisms of league commissioner Rob Manfred's handling of the pandemic-altered 2020 season. Rosenthal retains positions as MLB reporter for Fox Sports and writer for The Athletic (where he penned his critiques of Manfred). | [2] |
| Art Rascon retires from broadcasting after 36 years, 23 of which were with KTRK-TV/Houston (serving as a midday and 5:00 p.m. anchor and field reporter). On his final day at the ABC O&O, Rascon co-anchors its 11:00 a.m. newscast alongside son Jacob (previously with rival NBC affiliate KPRC), who made his KTRK debut as an anchor/reporter on that date. | [3][4] [5] | |
| 4–6 | Two late-night talk shows pause production after their hosts test positive for COVID-19: NBC's Late Night cancels its scheduled tapings through January 6 in the wake of host Seth Meyers' positive test one day after their January 3 return from a holiday production hiatus (Meyers' guests for that show joined in remotely). On the 6th, CBS' Late Late Show also goes dark through January 18 due to James Corden's own positive test. Meyers' and Corden's diagnoses come after Jimmy Fallon, whose The Tonight Show tapes in the same building as Late Night, revealed he tested COVID-positive after his show's December 17 taping, just before Tonight's own holiday hiatus; Fallon (who was fully vaccinated, as are Meyers and Corden) fully recovered before production resumed on January 3, meaning Tonight did not have to face postponements. However, Fallon was revealed to have been intended to make a cameo on Saturday Night Live's December 18 episode, and thus may have contributed to the episode's emergency reformatting. Late Night would return with Meyers hosting remotely for the week of January 10–13 with most crew members working from home or in-studio, before returning to the studio. | [6][7] [8][9] [10][11] |
| 5 | Thirteen current and former female staffers file a gender discrimination lawsuit against the Black News Channel in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, claiming that management paid female employees significantly less than male staffers, harbored a misogynistic work culture that forced them to conform to behavioral gender stereotypes, and retaliated against those who complained about the pay disparities and personal treatment. Two of the plaintiffs in the amended lawsuit had filed a prior complaint against BNC in August 2021. | [12] |
| After Kevin Porter Jr. hits a game-winning three-pointer, Washington Wizards broadcaster Glenn Consor remarks on the NBC Sports Washington broadcast that the Houston Rockets star, "like his dad, pulled the trigger at the right time." But Consor's comment draws the ire on social media, from LeBron James and others, as Porter's father went to prison after pleading guilty in the 1993 shooting death of a 14-year-old girl. In apologizing for the incident, Consor claimed he thought Kevin Porter Jr. was related to former Washington player Kevin Porter. | [13] | |
| 7 | The Magnolia Network, which replaced DIY Network three days before, pulls the home renovation series Home Work from their schedule and Discovery+ presence (where it had streamed since the summer of 2021), following allegations from three subject families of not meeting timelines, high additional costs, and lack of communication by the show's hosts, Andy and Candis Meredith. The show would be returned to the lineups on January 13. | [14][15] |
| By earning $42,220 in her 28th victory, Amy Schneider becomes the first female contestant and fourth overall to win over $1 million in regular gameplay on Jeopardy!. Schneider would go on to surpass Matt Amodio for the second-most consecutive wins in the game show's history with her 39th victory on January 24. Her win streak ended at 40 two days later. (Ken Jennings, who has presided over Schneider's win streak as part-time interim host, holds the most consecutive wins with 74 during his streak as Jeopardy! champion in 2004.) | [16][17] [18] | |
| 9 | The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) hands out the 79th Golden Globe Awards, with notable TV winners including Succession (Best Drama Series), Hacks (Best Comedy Series), and Pose's Mj Rodriguez (the first openly trans person to win a Globe, for Best Actress in a Drama Series). The Globes are distributed in a private, non-televised ceremony (and winners announced via press release and the HPFA's social media channels) in light of broadcast rightsholder NBC's support of a boycott by various media organizations, actors, and other creatives over the HFPA's inadequate efforts to address the membership diversity of the organization (NBC carried the final game of the NFL regular season played between the Los Angeles Chargers and Las Vegas Raiders on this evening). | [19][20] [21][22] |
| 12 | Richard Burgi confirms in an Instagram post that he was fired from The Young and the Restless for an inadvertent breach of distributor Sony Pictures Television's COVID-19 protocols, disclosing that he isolated for five days after testing COVID-positive during the CBS soap opera's holiday production hiatus in December—in accordance with prior CDC guidelines, revised that month to a five-day isolation period—rather than the SPT requirement for personnel to isolate for ten days which had not been revised. He then returned to the set five days early, testing negative twice. In contrast to other soap actors that were fired for COVID policy violations in 2021, some of whom publicly criticized their studios and networks, Burgi expressed sincere regret for his judgement. Robert Newman, known for playing Josh Lewis on Guiding Light off-and-on from 1981 until its 2009 conclusion, assumed the role of Ashland Locke (which Burgi had played since the character debuted in March 2021) on the February 9 episode, and portrayed the character on-screen until July 25. | [23][24] |
| 14 | DirecTV announces it would cease carriage of One America News Network and AWE when the namesake satellite provider and sister service U-verse TV's contract with parent company Herring Networks expires on April 4. The radicalist-leaning, conservative OAN has received criticism for pushing conspiracy theories (particularly involving COVID-19 vaccines and health restrictions, and debunked claims of electoral fraud during the 2020 presidential election and left-wing involvement in the January 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol) while gaining support from former president Donald Trump. Wealth culture-focused AWE has had issues involving the low overall appeal of its programming during economic recessions (most recently during the COVID-19 recession), and aggressive carriage demands. Seven months later on July 21, Verizon Fios, which became the network's largest remaining pay-TV carrier after the DirecTV removal, announced it would drop OAN on July 31, after failing to agree on a new contract; this relegates OAN's distribution to smaller cable providers and OTA subchannels in select markets, ad-supported live-TV streaming platforms (including Pluto TV and Xumo), and its proprietary subscription streaming service. | [25][26] [27] |
| 19 | WSAZ/Huntington, West Virginia, multimedia journalist Tori Yorgey is struck by an SUV while reporting live from the scene of a water main break in Dunbar during that night's 11:00 p.m. newscast. Yorgey—who conducted the report roadside in wet and icy conditions, and continued with the report afterward—was uninjured, but was taken to a local hospital for observation as a precaution. (The accident occurred during Yorgey's last week at WSAZ; she became a reporter for ABC affiliate WTAE/Pittsburgh on February 1.) | [28] |
| 24 | Deadline Hollywood reports ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global) halted its proposed reformatting of the general entertainment Paramount Network as the primarily film-focused Paramount Movie Network, citing the success of original drama series Yellowstone and COVID-related production delays of its planned telefilm output. First announced in September 2020, the reformatted channel was to offer original made-for-cable movies (including 52 new films per year), limited scripted series and miniseries (at least one per quarter), and films from the Paramount Pictures library. In preparation for the change, several of the network's original unscripted programs were either canceled outright or moved to its sister channels or to Paramount+ during late 2020 and 2021. | [29] |
| 25 | Bravo fires Jennie Nguyen from the cast of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City after racially offensive comments and memes, including many mocking the Black Lives Matter movement, that she shared on Facebook during the 2020 anti-police brutality protests had resurfaced on social media. | [30] |
| 26 | TLC fires Alina Kozhevnikova from the cast of 90 Day Fiancé (as well as spin-offs Before the 90 Days and the upcoming 90 Day Fiancé: Tell All) after past social media posts mocking various races and religions resurfaced (among them, a now-deleted 2014 post in which she used "nigga" eight times when describing a party she had been invited to in her native Russia, and one from 2015 mocking Hugh Grant's eldest daughter, who is half-Chinese, for being "kinda Asian."). | [31] |
| 27 | Stephanie Ruhle is named permanent anchor of The 11th Hour. In addition to her usual 9:00 a.m. ET slot (absorbed by Morning Joe upon her move), she had been serving as one of several rotating hosts of the MSNBC program since original anchor Brian Williams's departure from the network in December. It took effect on March 2. | [32][33] |
| 31 | During a discussion on The View about the controversy surrounding the McMinn County, Tennessee school district's January 10 ban of the Holocaust-focused graphic novel Maus, moderator Whoopi Goldberg claims that the Holocaust was about "man's inhumanity to man" and not based on race (appearing to characterize race—as she clarified during her appearance on that night's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert—in the narrower construct of ethnicity/skin color, rather than the broader outgroup context in line with Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party's view of Jews as an "inferior race" on religious grounds). Goldberg later apologized for the remarks amid widespread criticism from Jewish groups, and was placed on a two-week suspension by ABC News on February 1; she returned to The View on February 14. | [34][35] [36] |
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| 2 | Jeff Zucker resigns as President of CNN, a role he held since 2013, after admitting that he failed to disclose his romantic relationship with CNN Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Allison Gollust, a former aide to ex-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in the wake of the sexual harassment allegations that led to Cuomo's resignation the year prior. The scandal also led to the December 2021 firing of Cuomo Prime Time host Chris Cuomo for assisting in his brother's defense against the allegations. Gollust would resign on February 15, after the investigation's findings that they all violated company policy was released. On February 26, it was reported Chris Licht, co-creator of Morning Joe and executive producer of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, would become CNN's new president upon formation of Warner Bros. Discovery. | [37][38] [39] |
| Deadline Hollywood reports that The Masked Singer judges Robin Thicke and Ken Jeong walked off a taping of the Fox series the previous week after Rudy Giuliani was revealed to be a contestant. The other judges, Jenny McCarthy and Nicole Scherzinger, remained on stage and spoke with the former New York City mayor who was among the allies of Donald Trump challenging the results of the 2020 election. The episode aired on April 20, the seventh week of the competition. | [40][41] | |
| 3[42]–20 | The 2022 Winter Olympics took place in Beijing, China, and aired on NBC and its U.S. cable networks as well as streaming on Peacock. The event marked the first time that NBC has broadcast the Olympics in back-to-back years, having aired the 2020 Summer Olympics less than seven months prior due to the COVID-19 pandemic delaying the event from its original July 2020 start date. (The Summer and Winter Olympics—for which NBC assumed exclusive broadcast rights in 1988 and 2002, respectively—have typically alternated every two years within each four-year interval since 1994, and occurred in the same calendar year during each interval from 1924 to 1992, outside of World War II-prompted cancellations.) It also marks the first time that NBCUniversal will provide full streaming coverage without requiring a pay-TV subscription, as Peacock will provide live coverage of all Olympic events, with replays made available upon each event's conclusion, as well as ancillary content (including opening, closing and medal ceremonies, and NBC's prime time and studio programming) via its subscription tiers. (NBC previously restricted access to most event livestreams via provider login through its dedicated Olympics website and app; however, Peacock provided limited live event coverage without such a requirement for the 2020 games.) On January 19, NBC Sports announced that all announcing talent for the games would be based out of its studios in Stamford, Connecticut, in response to the Omicron variant. | [43][44] [45] |
| 5 | Andrea Bordeaux is fired from the Starz series Run the World, after she refused to comply with the show's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Bordeaux's character, Ella McFair, will not be recast. | [46] |
| 7 | Bertram van Munster, co-creator and executive producer of The Amazing Race, is sued on multiple complaints (including fraud, breach of oral contract and misappropriation of trade secrets) filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court by former CBS executive Leigh Collier, who alleged that van Munster recreated New Media Collective, a production company that they originally co-founded in 2014 before dissolving two years later, without her knowledge. Collier is seeking a share of profits and a 33% interest in the company. | [47] |
| 9 | In a first for ESPN's NBA coverage, this evening's broadcast of a Golden State Warriors–Utah Jazz NBA game is headed by an all-female on-air crew, including play-by-play announcer Beth Mowins, analyst Doris Burke, and sideline reporter Lisa Salters. Additionally, the broadcast's directing chair and 33 other production positions in Salt Lake City (where the game is played) and ESPN's Bristol, Connecticut control room are occupied by female staffers. | [48] |
| 13 | The Los Angeles Rams defeat the Cincinnati Bengals 23–20 in Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, on NBC. The game—which was the first Super Bowl to take place on a calendar date falling within the scheduled date range of an ongoing Olympics event—was originally going to be aired on CBS, but it was traded to NBC (under an agreement reached in March 2019) so that it could be paired with the Winter Olympics to avoid potential dilution of viewership and advertising revenue for the two events. The switch also affected the NFL Honors, which occurred on February 10 broadcast on ABC and ESPN. The halftime show was headlined by rappers Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar with appearances by 50 Cent and Anderson .Paak. The game marked the last for Al Michaels as NBC's lead play-by-play broadcaster. He will remain with NBC in an emeritus capacity while also joining Prime Video as its play-by-play broadcaster for Thursday Night Football beginning with the 2022 season (Mike Tirico becomes the primary NBC Sunday Night Football announcer in the process). The Super Bowl is also the final NBC Sports assignment for sideline reporter Michele Tafoya, who left to pursue a career as a conservative commentator and political consultant. It is also Pepsi's last sponsored halftime show following the expiration of their 10-year contract. | [49][50] [51][52] [53][54] [55] |
| 14 | Friends of WLRN Inc., which has served as the fundraising arm of School Board of Miami-Dade County's public broadcasting operations since 1974, agrees to take over full-management of secondary PBS member station WLRN-TV and its news/talk FM sister (including its digital channels and satellite FM station WKWM/Marathon). The group had clashed with the school board in recent years after Miami-Dade County Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho and a committee recommended that a competing bid by South Florida PBS (which operates WPBT/Miami and WXEL/West Palm Beach) be selected. | [56] |
| 16 | ViacomCBS changes its name to Paramount Global. The rebranding—which draws from its flagship studio Paramount Pictures and namesake streaming service Paramount+—retires the Viacom name after 52 years, dating back to the original company (originally formed as the CBS-owned syndication unit CBS Television Film Sales in 1952) and carried over to its successor entity following the 2006 separation of CBS and the original Viacom's assets. | [57] |
| 17 | Former 9-1-1 star Rockmond Dunbar sues 20th Television and parent The Walt Disney Company over its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, and their rejection of the religious exemptions he sought which led to his abrupt departure from the series in November. He claims discrimination and career sabotage. | [58] |
| Everett Fitzhugh (filling in for regular play-by-play announcer John Forslund) and J. T. Brown call this date's Seattle Kraken-Winnipeg Jets game for Root Sports Northwest, and in doing so make history as the first all-Black duo to call a National Hockey League TV broadcast. | [59] | |
| 22 | Standard General and Apollo Global Management announce their intent to acquire Tegna Inc. for $5.4 billion; a Standard General affiliate company would assume voting equity in Tegna, while Cox Media Group and Apollo (through funding managed by an Apollo affiliate firm) would hold securities not attributable to voting interests. Concurrently, Cox (which is majority owned by Apollo) would acquire Tegna-owned stations in Austin (KVUE), Dallas–Fort Worth (WFAA and KMPX) and Houston (KHOU and KTBU), and Standard-owned stations in Paducah–Cape Girardeau (KBSI and WDKA), Lincoln (KLKN) and Providence (WLNE); Standard would acquire WFXT/Boston from Cox in turn. Deb McDermott would have been appointed as Tegna's CEO after the sale's closure, which was expected to occur during the second half of 2022; however, the sale was aborted on May 22, 2023. | [60][61][62] |
| 24 | CNN announces it will cut back the use of its "squeezeback" ad units, which allow for commercials to play without cutting away from live coverage; the network's move follows juxtaposition of upbeat ads, including one from Applebee's against footage of air raid sirens sounding across Kyiv, coming out of its coverage of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine (Applebee's would pull its ads from the network altogether). | [63][64] |
| California–Oregon Broadcasting Inc. announces its intent to sell its Eugene, Oregon, duopoly of Fox affiliate KLSR-TV and MyNetworkTV affiliate KEVU-CD to Cox Media Group; the purchase price was not initially disclosed. Following its expected completion during the second quarter of the year, the sale will leave NBC affiliate KOBI/Medford and its Klamath Falls satellite KOTI as California–Oregon Broadcasting's only remaining television properties. | [65] | |
| 27 | KCRG-TV/Cedar Rapids, Iowa, announces the termination of its morning anchor Jay Greene for an undisclosed incident the station determined violated its code of conduct. The firing leaves the Gray Television-owned ABC affiliate with two anchor openings, as evening anchor Chris Earl departed for a position in Florida earlier in the month. | [66] |
| The 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards air on TBS and TNT from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California. It would end up being the final ceremony aired on the networks (see May 4 entry). Noted TV-related winners include the casts of Succession and Ted Lasso (Outstanding Drama and Comedy Series Ensembles), as well as Lee Jung-jae and HoYeon Jung (Outstanding Male and Female Drama Series Actors) of Squid Game, the first non-English language TV series to win SAG Awards. | [67] | |
| 28 | A group representing owners and executives of the original United States Football League (fronted by Larry Csonka, acting in his capacity as former general manager of that league's Jacksonville Bulls), files a federal lawsuit against Fox Sports and subsidiary National Spring Football League Enterprises Co, LLC, seeking an injunction to prevent a new, Fox-owned USFL from using the trademarks associated with the original league (which operated from 1983 to 1986 and was officially dissolved in 1990). On April 14, a judge rules that, though the plaintiffs were "likely to prevail" on their trademark infringement claim, there was little risk of "irreparable harm" in allowing the new USFL and its eight initial teams to proceed play two days later (see April 16 entry) using league and team names and insignias employed by the original league. | [68][69] [70][71] |
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| 1 | Turner Sports obtains the English-language rights to United States men's and women's national soccer team matches beginning in 2023. Through the United States Soccer Federation's eight-year deal with the WarnerMedia division, HBO Max will stream more than 20 matches, with TNT or TBS simulcasting select matches. Turner's Bleacher Report website also gains rights to expanded content through the agreement. | [72] |
| Production on Season 7 of Nailed It! is permanently suspended after staffers on the Netflix baking competition go on strike, an effort to win a union contract between the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and the show's production company, Magical Elves. The four episodes that had been finished are expected to run on Netflix in the fall, to coincide with the season's Halloween theme. | [73] | |
| 7 | The 57th Academy of Country Music Awards are broadcast on Amazon Prime Video from Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada. Hosted by Dolly Parton, it is one of the first major awards ceremonies on U.S. television to move exclusively to a subscription video on demand (SVOD) streaming service. (Prime Video replaced previous rightsholder CBS, which had aired the ACMs from 1998 to 2021.) With two wins each, Miranda Lambert ("Entertainer of the Year", and "Video of the Year" for "Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home)" in collaboration with Elle King), Carly Pearce ("Female Artist of the Year", and "Music Event of the Year" for "Never Wanted to Be That Girl" in collaboration with Ashley McBryde) and Lainey Wilson ("Song of the Year" for "Things a Man Oughta Know", and "New Female Artist of the Year") were tied for the most awards. | [74][75] [76] |
| 8 | Apple TV+ announces a deal with Major League Baseball to air a weekly doubleheader of Friday night games, a package that will launch with the 2022 season. Its first broadcasts will be April 8, with the New York Mets against the Washington Nationals and the Houston Astros against the Los Angeles Angels. The exclusive broadcasts—which will be produced by MLB and feature pre-game, post-game, and other ancillary programming—will be the first foray into live-streaming sporting events for Apple TV+. | [77][78] |
| 13 | The 27th Critics' Choice Awards aired simultaneously on both TBS and The CW (the latter network is a joint venture between Paramount Global and WarnerMedia, thus the ability to simulcast with TBS, in an arrangement announced on October 26, 2021). The ceremony—co-hosted by Taye Diggs and Nicole Byer, and coinciding with the 75th BAFTA Awards—took place at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The awards were postponed from its original January 9 date on December 22, 2021, due to safety concerns related to the COVID Omicron variant. With four awards, Ted Lasso had the most wins among television nominees ("Best Comedy Series", Jason Sudeikis for "Best Actor in a Comedy Series", Brett Goldstein for "Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series", and Hannah Waddingham for "Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series"). | [21][79] [80][81] [82][83] |
| 14 | Fox News says its state department correspondent Benjamin Hall was injured while reporting on the war in Ukraine near Kyiv. Hall's cameraman, Pierre Zakrzewski and consultant Oleksandra "Sasha" Kuvshynova were killed by the blast that leaves Hall with severe injuries to his legs, a hand, and an eye, as well as damage to his hearing. | [84][85] [86] |
| 16 | Confirming an earlier report by the New York Post's Andrew Marchand, ESPN announces that Joe Buck will join the network as play-by-play announcer for Monday Night Football beginning in the 2022 NFL season, working alongside Fox Sports partner Troy Aikman, who had earlier agreed to join ESPN in a separate five-year deal. One of Fox Sports' original on-air hires when it began operations in 1994, Buck had been its lead voice for Major League Baseball, USGA golf, and, with Aikman as analyst since 2002, NFL football. In exchange for granting Buck a release from the final year of his contract with Fox, the network receives from ESPN the rights to an extra Big Ten Conference football game for the 2022 college football season. | [87][88] [89] |
| 17 | Amazon closes its acquisition of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, an $8.5 billion deal first announced in May 2021, which included ownership of MGM Television, and pay television channels Epix, Screenpix and MGM HD, and management interests in Sinclair-owned multicast networks Charge! and Comet. In addition to maintaining the studio's existing planned productions and scheduled releases, Amazon will not relegate MGM's television and film content exclusively to Prime Video and IMDb TV, allowing the studio to continue licensing its titles to linear television networks and competing streaming services. | [90] |
| 27 | The 94th Academy Awards air on ABC from the Dolby Theatre, and was co-hosted by Wanda Sykes, Amy Schumer and Regina Hall. The ceremony's later-than-usual date avoided a conflict with the Winter Olympics. CODA won Best Picture, becoming the first streaming-exclusive film to win the award, and Apple TV+ the first streaming service to do so; it also won for Best Supporting Actor (Troy Kotsur, the first deaf actor to win the category) and Best Adapted Screenplay. Ariana DeBose won Best Supporting Actress for her role in West Side Story, becoming the first queer woman of color and first Afro-Latina to win a major Oscar category. During the Best Documentary Feature presentation, Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on-stage after the comedian ad-libbed a joke about Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith's, shaved head during his monologue. (Pinkett Smith was diagnosed with alopecia areata in 2018.) ABC muted most of the audio from the confrontation, which aired in full on many international broadcasters, omitting Smith's remarks for Rock to "keep [Jada's] name out [of his] fucking mouth"; Smith apologized for the altercation in his Best Actor acceptance speech (for his role in King Richard) later in the ceremony and to Rock on Instagram the next day. The telecast ran for nearly four hours, despite a controversial attempt to trim its length by offloading eight awards to pre-recorded segments. | [91][92] [93][94] [95][96] |
| 29 | Mick Mulvaney, former White House Chief of Staff under Donald Trump, is hired by CBS News as a contributor to provide analysis on political matters. Mulvaney's addition draws backlash within the network for his dismissal of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Trump-Ukraine scandal. Most notably, Stephen Colbert used his monologue on March 31's Late Show to criticize CBS over the hiring. | [97][98] |
| 30 | Cox Media Group announces its intent to sell 18 television stations in 12 small and mid-sized markets (including the former Northwest Broadcasting stations, along with Fox affiliate WHBQ-TV/Memphis, dual CBS/NBC affiliate KYMA-DT/Yuma, and the Tulsa duopoly of Fox affiliate KOKI-TV and MyNetworkTV affiliate KMYT-TV) to Imagicomm Communications, a shell company affiliated with INSP parent Inspiration Ministries, for $488 million. The sale would be completed on August 1, and marked INSP's first foray into broadcast television. | [99][100] |
| Date | Event | Source |
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| 1 | In an April Fools' Day prank on their audiences, late night's "Jimmys" swap shows: Jimmy Fallon travels to Los Angeles to host ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live!, while Kimmel hosts NBC's Tonight Show from New York City. Justin Timberlake appears on Kimmel Live! initially as Matt Damon, while the Red Hot Chili Peppers appear as musical guests on both shows (their Kimmel Live! performance being pre-taped in Hollywood one day earlier). | [101][102] |
| Citing sources, Axios reports that White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki is in discussions with MSNBC to host a program for NBCUniversal's streaming platform Peacock. She would also appear on the main MSNBC network as a contributor. She steps down as Press Secretary on May 13, succeeded by Karine Jean-Pierre. On May 24, the agreement is made official, and she would join the network in the fall, with her Peacock program is expected for a 2023 debut. | [103][104] [105] | |
| 2 | In a move to streamline production and newsgathering resources for the daily PBS newscast, WETA-TV/Washington, D.C., takes over production responsibilities for the PBS NewsHour's Saturday and Sunday editions from fellow member station WNET/Newark–New York City, which had produced the half-hour weekend broadcasts since their September 2013 debut. Now based in Washington and rechristened PBS News Weekend, the half-hour newscasts are anchored by former NBC/MSNBC correspondent Geoff Bennett; he succeeds original weekend anchor Hari Sreenivasan, who will remain a New York-based correspondent for the weekday broadcasts and serve as a contributor for Amanpour & Company. | [106] |
| 3 | The 64th Annual Grammy Awards air on CBS from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, with Trevor Noah hosting, and big winners including Silk Sonic (four awards, including Record and Song of the Year for "Leave the Door Open") and Jon Batiste (Album of the Year for We Are). This Grammy ceremony had been postponed from January 31 due to safety concerns related to the Omicron variant, while scheduling conflicts at its original venue, Los Angeles' Crypto.com Arena, prompted its move to Vegas. Its only the second time a Grammy ceremony was not held in L.A. or New York (the 15th edition took place in Nashville in 1973). | [107][108] [109] |
| 4 | The Kansas Jayhawks defeat the North Carolina Tar Heels in the championship game of the 2022 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. The TBS broadcast from New Orleans' Caesars Superdome marks the last CBS Sports assignment for longtime director Bob Fishman, who retires from CBS after a 50-year career (47 with its sports division) that included, among various assignments, 39 of the 40 Final Fours CBS produced and/or aired since first obtaining tournament broadcast rights in 1982 (the tournament has been a CBS/Turner Sports partnership since 2011). This is also the last Men's final four to be overseen by President Mark Emmert for the NCAA. Though he remains a consultant for the NCAA until June 2023. Emmert steps back from college basketball after overseen 11 tournaments since his appointment as NCAA President in 2010. Charlie Baker will succeed Emmert as NCAA president in March 2023. | [110][111] [112] [17][18] |
| Ryman Hospitality Properties announces that it will sell a combined 30% interest in Opry Entertainment—which operates the Grand Ole Opry concert stage show, Nashville venue Ryman Auditorium, radio station WSM and 50% of multicast network Circle (the other half owned by Gray Television)—to a joint partnership of NBCUniversal and investment company Atairos for $293 million. Ryman will retain 70% equity in Opry Entertainment. | [113] | |
| 6 | On the heels of its deal with Apple TV+ (see March 8 entry), Major League Baseball announces a second live-streaming deal with the NBCUniversal-owned Peacock. Beginning with a Chicago White Sox/Boston Red Sox game on May 8, Peacock will air games for 18 consecutive Sunday mornings (thru September 4) that start at 11:30 a.m. ET (12 noon ET from June 19 onward). The MLB Sunday Leadoff games are exclusive to Peacock (save for that May 8 broadcast, which was simulcast on NBC), and also feature pre- and post-game coverage; exclusive carriage of the All-Star Futures Game; and access to MLB's vault of highlights, classic games, and documentaries. The deal is a reuniting of MLB with NBC Sports, which covered the game from the 1930s thru 1989, and was also involved in The Baseball Network (1994–1995) and postseason and All-Star Game broadcasts with Fox Sports (1996–2000). | [114] |
| 8 | With Joe Buck and Troy Aikman having departed for ESPN (see March 16 entry), Fox Sports formally names Joe Davis as the new lead play-by-play announcer on its Major League Baseball broadcasts, where he will work alongside analyst John Smoltz. Later on May 31, the network would announce Kevin Burkhardt and former tight end Greg Olsen as their new lead NFL announcers for the 2022 season. | [115][116] |
| The WarnerMedia-Discovery, Inc. merger closes, resulting in the formation of Warner Bros. Discovery. Discovery CEO David Zaslav takes over as CEO of the combined company, while Discovery chief lifestyle brands officer Kathleen Finch assumes oversight of most of the company's U.S. linear entertainment, lifestyle and factual networks (including, among others, TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, Discovery Channel, TLC, HGTV and Food Network) and the new Warner Bros. Discovery Sports unit (formed through a reorganizational split of the former WarnerMedia News & Sports division and includes Turner Sports and AT&T SportsNet, the former of which has an executive vacancy); Warner Bros. Television chief Channing Dungey, and Home Box Office, Inc. and HBO Max chief content officer Casey Bloys (who will also oversee Magnolia Network, which reported directly to Zaslav under Discovery) maintain their existing roles. (Chris Licht, who was appointed as CEO of the rechristened CNN Global shortly before the merger's completion, will take over as CEO in May.) | [117] | |
| 11 | The 2022 CMT Music Awards air on CBS from the Nashville Municipal Auditorium, and was hosted by Anthony Mackie, Kelsea Ballerini (who hosted and performed virtually due to testing positive for an asymptomatic case of COVID-19) and Kane Brown (who stepped in as a co-host following Ballerini's diagnosis). It is the first time the event, previously shown on CBS' cable sibling CMT, has aired on broadcast television, a move announced in June 2021 to fill the void left by CBS' loss of the Academy of Country Music Awards (see March 7 entry). The event was also bumped from April 3 by the rescheduled Grammy Awards. Jason Aldean, Carrie Underwood (both winning "Video of the Year" and "Collaborative Video of the Year" for their duet, "If I Didn't Love You") and Cody Johnson (for "Male Video of the Year" for "'Til You Can't" and "Digital-First Performance of the Year" for "Dear Rodeo") were the top winners at the ceremony, each earning two awards. | [118][119] [109][120] |
| Returning to her MSNBC primetime show after a two-month hiatus, Rachel Maddow announces that beginning in May, she will host only one night per week, Mondays (and additional nights when the news warrants), to allow her "more time to work on some of this other stuff I've got cooking" for MSNBC and NBC News. Come May, the network would replace the void Maddow leaves at the 9:00 p.m. ET Tuesday-thru-Friday slot with a rotation of guests hosts helming MSNBC Prime, an arrangement that lasted until August (see June 27 entry). | [121] | |
| For the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic began, Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Trevor Noah records before a studio audience at its longtime home, NEP Studio 52 at 733 11th Avenue in New York City. During the previous 25 months, The Daily Show's episodes had originated audience-free from either Noah's home (as The Daily Social Distancing Show) or ViacomCBS' Times Square studios. It is the last American late-night show to resume regular in-studio production with a live audience. | [122] | |
| 13 | Frank Langella is fired from the Netflix miniseries The Fall of the House of Usher following an investigation into misconduct, eventually revealed as an inappropriate and unwelcome touch of the leg of an actor playing his wife during a love scene, and the refusal to follow specific commands from the show's intimacy coordinator. Set to play the lead role of Roderick Usher, he would be recast with Bruce Greenwood on April 29. Langella would claim in a Deadline Hollywood guest editorial detailing his view of the incident on May 5 that he was 'canceled'. | [123][124] [125] |
| 14 | Pat Foley retires from sports broadcasting after calling his final Chicago Blackhawks telecast for NBC Sports Chicago. A suburban Chicago native, Foley's broadcasting career spanned more than four decades, and was primarily spent calling play-by-play for the NHL's Blackhawks on radio and/or television since 1980 (with a two-year break from 2006 to 2008, during which called play-by-play for the AHL's Chicago Wolves). | [126] |
| 16 | Fox and NBC simulcast the first game of the new United States Football League, a 28–24 victory by the Birmingham Stallions over the New Jersey Generals. The broadcast, produced by Fox (with halftime content by NBC) and attracting an estimated three million total viewers, is the first pro football game to be carried simultaneously by two broadcast networks since 2007 (NBC and CBS picked up NFL Network's coverage of a Patriots-Giants NFL game), and the first carried by two broadcast networks exclusively since 1967 (Super Bowl I, also by NBC and CBS). The new USFL's first-season games air on Fox, NBC, FS1, USA Network, and the Peacock streaming service. | [127][128] [129] |
| 20 | Southeastern Ohio Broadcasting System, Inc.—whose owners, the Littick family, have owned the TV station since its 1953 founding—announces its intent to sell NBC affiliate WHIZ-TV/Zanesville, Ohio (as well as sister radio stations WHIZ-AM/FM, WZVL and WWLG) to Marquee Broadcasting for an undisclosed price. The sale was completed on July 15. | [130][131] [132] |
| 21 | This evening's episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is cancelled after host Stephen Colbert tests positive for COVID-19. Though it was the only episode to be missed until May 2 (thanks to a previously scheduled production hiatus), the CBS show goes dark again for the week of May 9 after Colbert experiences "symptoms consistent with a recurrence" of the virus. He is reported COVID-free on May 15. | [133][134] [135] |
| 23 | Showtime and Paramount Television sever ties with producer David Hollander following an investigation into allegations of unspecified misconduct. Hollander had been developer and show-runner of the upcoming series American Gigolo for Showtime and Paramount (a show that had completed seven episodes of its 10-episode order at the time of his ouster), and had previously produced Ray Donovan and its follow-up movie for the network. | [136] |
| 26 | Warner Bros. Discovery cuts original scripted programming development at cable networks TNT and TBS. The move, which is not immediately expected to impact both networks' respective current scripted programming slates, is estimated to save the media conglomerate $3 billion in operational and content spending. | [137] |
| 28 | James Corden announces that he will be stepping down as host of The Late Late Show in mid-2023, after 81⁄2 years at the helm of the CBS late night talk show. The announcement comes after Corden secured a one-year contract extension with the network to conclude his run on the show. | [138] |
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| 2 | Jimmy Kimmel announces that he has tested positive for COVID-19; as a result, this date's episode of ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! is cancelled, with Mike Birbiglia filling in for Kimmel starting on May 3. While he would return for the week of May 9, he would test positive again the week of May 16, and so had Andy Samberg and John Mulaney fill in, in addition to being guests, for a live May 18 show. | [139][140] |
| 4 | Amid a content restructuring of its Turner Networks unit, Warner Bros. Discovery announces it will not renew its contract with SAG-AFTRA to telecast the Screen Actors Guild Awards, which had been airing on TNT since 1998 and simulcast on TBS since 2007. On January 11, 2023, it was announced that the awards would air on Netflix's YouTube channel as a stopgap before a multi year deal to stream on Netflix itself begins the following year, as part of the service's push into live streaming. | [141][142] |
| 6 | 20th Television announces that Fred Savage has been relieved of his duties as an executive producer and director on ABC's The Wonder Years following an investigation into three separate allegations of inappropriate on-set conduct by the star of the original series. Savage previously faced misconduct claims in March 2018, when Youngjoo Hwang, a costumer on his 2015–16 Fox sitcom The Grinder, filed a lawsuit alleging he engendered a hostile on-set environment for female staffers (including, in one incident, allegedly hitting her arm and yelling at her while she dusted his outfit). | [143] |
| 15 | The 2022 Billboard Music Awards air on NBC and Peacock from MGM Grand Garden Arena. Olivia Rodrigo was the most-awarded artist of the night, scoring seven wins (including Top New Artist). Other major winners included Drake (with five awards, including Top Artist), BTS (with three awards, including Top Duo/Group, surpassing Destiny's Child as the most-awarded group in BBMA history with 12 wins overall), Justin Bieber (who became the first two-time Top Hot 100 Song Award winner since the category's 1990 inception) and Mary J. Blige (who was honored with the Icon Award). | [144] |
| 17 | The XFL announces a five-year exclusive deal with The Walt Disney Company, granting broadcast rights for the league's 43-game package (40 regular season games, two semifinal playoff games and the championship) to ABC, ESPN and FX starting in 2023, when the XFL resumes operations after a two-year hiatus. (The initial 2020 revival of the league, which has since been acquired by a group led by Dwayne Johnson, was shortened by the COVID-19 pandemic.) | [145] |
| 21 | The finale of Saturday Night Live's 47th season marks the departures of Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson, Kate McKinnon, and Kyle Mooney. Each had been with the NBC sketch comedy series for at least eight seasons, their last as part of the largest single-season cast in SNL history. Their departures were later followed by those of fellow cast members Aristotle Athari (who had joined SNL that season as a featured player), Melissa Villaseñor and Alex Moffat (both of whom had been with the show since season 42) on September 1, and of Cecily Strong (who had been with the show since season 38) following the 48th season's fall finale on December 17. | [146][147] [148] |
| 24 | Hours after the Robb Elementary School shooting in Uvalde, Texas, CBS pulls the fourth season finale of FBI, an episode titled "Prodigal Son" (which centered on an investigation into a school shooting plot), from this evening's planned airing; a rerun of an earlier Season 4 episode ("Under Pressure," which originally aired February 1) is aired in its place. The episode would later air on October 4, as part of the show's fifth season. | [149] |
| 25 | A technical glitch is blamed for WFAA/Dallas–Fort Worth not carrying the opening monologue of that night's Jimmy Kimmel Live!, in which Kimmel commented on the Uvalde shooting and called on Congressional lawmakers (including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who opposes such measures) to pass legislation to curb gun violence. The ABC affiliate noted that the program was scheduled to run later than its normal 10:35 p.m. Central slot due to a special edition of its late newscast focusing on the shooting; however, its automated master control system ended up playing a commercial break instead of Kimmel. WFAA management apologized for the error, which Kimmel did not believe to be intentional, and a clip of the monologue from the show's YouTube channel was embedded to the station's website. | [150] |
| 27 | MSNBC airs a special episode of The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle titled "Enough Is Enough" that discusses gun culture in the United States three days after the Uvalde shooting. | [151] |
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| 7 | Chrisley Knows Best stars Todd and Julie Chrisley are convicted by a federal jury on eight counts of bank fraud (including conspiracy to defraud banks out of more than $30 million in personal loans) and two counts of tax evasion as well as additional counts that Julie solely faced for wire fraud and obstruction of justice. Despite the conviction, the ninth season of their USA Network reality series (which completed filming before the trial) resumed as scheduled on June 23. The couple were indicted by the Georgia Department of Revenue in August 2019, but subsequently reached a settlement on state charges; a trial on the federal counts began at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia in Atlanta on May 17. On November 21, the Chrisleys were respectively sentenced to twelve and seven years in prison, along with three years of supervised probation. USA subsequently cancelled Chrisley Knows Best and spin-off Growing Up Chrisley, although episodes from the former's previously renewed tenth season that were filmed prior to the trial will air as scheduled in 2023. | [152][153] [154][155] |
| 9 | The Walt Disney Company fires Peter Rice as Chairman of Disney General Entertainment Content; he is succeeded by Dana Walden. | [156] |
| Broadcast networks ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS, along with cable's CNN and MSNBC, and free streaming channels NBC News NOW and LiveNOW from Fox pre-empt prime time programming to broadcast live coverage of the first of a series of public hearings by the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack. The Fox broadcast network and Fox News Channel carry their normal lineups, however, with the former's affiliates being allowed to pick up Fox Business' coverage on an individual basis. This night's hearing attracts at least an estimated (by Nielsen) 20 million viewers across traditional television, a number on par with NBC Sunday Night Football and the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. | [157] | |
| 12 | The 75th Tony Awards, hosted by Ariana DeBose, air on CBS and Paramount+ from Radio City Music Hall, and are broadcast live coast to coast for the first time. | [158][159] |
| 14 | Major League Soccer announces a 10-year deal, beginning with its 2023 season, with Apple, Inc. that will see the tech giant own all global TV rights to MLS and Leagues Cup matches as well as ancillary content on Apple TV+ through a league-based streaming app. Though non-exclusive rights would be granted to linear broadcasters (see December 13 entry), the minimum $250 million/year deal with Apple marks the first time a major U.S. sports league has awarded its TV rights exclusively to a digital media company. | [160] |
| 16 | The U.S. Capitol Police arrests seven members of a film crew from The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, among them Robert Smigel, reprising his Triumph the Insult Comic Dog character. The crew (who would be later released, with all charges dropped against them on July 18) was at a congressional office building to film footage for a Late Show segment about the January 6 Capitol attack hearings; though Capitol Police say the crew was unescorted without Congressional ID and had been asked to leave the building earlier in the day, CBS says in a statement that they were previously authorized to conduct pre-arranged interviews, and stayed behind to film stand-up footage for the segment. | [161][162] [163] |
| 17 | Vince McMahon agrees to relinquish his duties as CEO and chairman of WWE; daughter Stephanie McMahon becomes the company's interim CEO/chair, but would permanently take those titles at Vince's July 22 retirement (with Paul "Triple H" Levesque taking on the Head of Creative title Vince had still retained). A misconduct investigation by the WWE board is the reason for the elder McMahon's departure, with reports indicating that he had paid more than $12 million over a 16-year period to four former WWE employees, an effort to keep suppressed allegations of acts of sexual misconduct and adulterous relationships between McMahon and the women. McMahon, who would remain WWE's largest shareholder, returned to the company as executive chairman through a January 2023 shakeup of its board of directors. | [164][165] [166][167] [168] |
| 18 | Production is suspended on Netflix's The Chosen One following an auto accident that killed two actors and injured six other cast and crew. The series, adapted from Mark Millar's American Jesus comic book series, had been filming in Mexico, and the accident occurred during travel from Santa Rosalía to a local airport. | [169] |
| 23 | VH1 cuts ties with Black Ink Crew: New York cast member Caesar Emanuel after video surfaces of him abusing a dog. Emanuel had been part of the reality show since its premiere in 2013, and VH1's statement suggests his firing may not impact its 10th season, which is close to wrapping production. | [170] |
| 24 | The 49th Daytime Emmy Awards, co-hosted by Entertainment Tonight anchors Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner, air on CBS from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, with notable series winners including General Hospital (Outstanding Drama Series), Jeopardy! (Outstanding Game Show), and The Kelly Clarkson Show (Outstanding Talk Show Entertainment), and individual winners including The Young and the Restless' Mishael Morgan (the first Black woman to win Outstanding Lead Drama Series Actress) and Days of Our Lives veteran John Aniston (Lifetime Achievement Award). This ceremony is the first affected by a major Daytime/Primetime Emmy realignment where, in response to the growth of streaming television, the two ceremonies' scopes now revolve more around factors such as a show's theme, format, and style, instead of strictly dayparts (talk shows, for instance, are now generally divided between the ceremonies based on common formats). | [171][172] [173][174] |
| 27 | MSNBC announces that Alex Wagner will become the permanent host in the Tuesday-Friday 9:00 p.m. ET timeslot relinquished by Rachel Maddow (see April 11 entry). Alex Wagner Tonight debuted on August 16, which replaced the MSNBC Prime guest host rotation in place from the beginning of May to mid August. | [175][176] |
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| 6 | Cheerleading coach and Cheer star Jerry Harris is sentenced to 12 years in federal prison, followed by eight years of court-supervised probation, for soliciting sex from minors and production of child pornography. He had been arrested in September 2020 and pled guilty in February. | [177] |
| 9 | After appearing disoriented and slurring her speech during that day's 6:00 p.m. newscast, WRGB/Schenectady suspends weekend anchor Heather Kovar, who cites exhaustion and sleep deprivation (from a recent bereavement leave, and working both weekend morning and evening shifts at the Sinclair-owned CBS affiliate due to staffing vacancies) as contributors to her performance during the broadcast. (The day prior, Kovar had informed management that she would be leaving WRGB when her contract expires on July 31.) | [178] |
| 11 | Nexstar Media Group's Washington duopoly of WDVM (Ind.) and WDCW (CW) launches a joint news operation—branded as "D.C. News Now"—utilizing WDVM's existing news staff to present the expanded broadcasts. WDVM began producing a 10:00 p.m. newscast for WDCW (debuting on July 25 as its first prime time newscast since a prior effort produced by former sister station WTVR/Richmond from 2016 to 2018; WDVM's existing 10:00 newscast moved to 9:00 as a result), along with extending its weekday morning newscast by one hour (to 31⁄2 hours) and adding a new nightly 11:00 p.m. sports discussion show (replacing a Northern Virginia-focused late newscast). The expansion of WDVM's news production to WDCW—which Nexstar acquired through its 2019 purchase of Tribune Media—follows the physical expansion of the latter's Glover Park facility to accommodate WDVM's news operations and offices. (WDVM's former Hagerstown studio was converted into a news bureau, joining those in Frederick, Maryland, and Chantilly, Virginia.) | [179][180] |
| In an agreement with federal prosecutors for New York's Southern District, Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Jen Shah pleads guilty to a wire fraud conspiracy charge for her involvement in a nationwide telemarketing scheme, one that sold (and refused refunds on purchases for) various "essentially non-existent" services and targeted senior citizens and the computer illiterate. Shah had initially pleaded not guilty to wire fraud and money laundering charges in March 2021. As a result of her plea change, Shah would be sentenced in January 2023 to 6+1⁄2 years in prison and ordered to pay $6.5 million in forfeitures and $6.64 million in restitution. | [181][182] | |
| 14 | The Los Angeles Police Department arrests Eric Weinberg on multiple charges of sexual assault and rape, and hold him on $3.2 million bail, pending arraignment. Weinberg, a writer/producer whose TV credits include Scrubs, Veronica's Closet, Californication and Graves, is alleged to have lured at least five women (who were in their 20s and 30s when the incidents occurred between 2012 and 2019) to his Los Feliz residence under the premise that he was a photographer and wanted to conduct photo shoots with them. After being charged on 18 felony counts (including rape, sexual battery by restraint, false imprisonment by use of violence, and attempted forcible penetration with a foreign object), Weinberg was arrested on October 4 and subsequently released on a $5 million bond; he is scheduled to be arraigned on October 25. | [183][184] |
| 15 | Alfonso Ribeiro is named co-host of Dancing with the Stars effective with its 31st season in the fall (coinciding with the dance competition series' move to Disney+ from ABC), alongside returning host Tyra Banks. The Season 19 winner and former Fresh Prince of Bel-Air star will continue as host of ABC's America's Funniest Home Videos while moonlighting on DWTS, as Ribiero's AFV predecessor Tom Bergeron had done from 2005 to 2015. | [185] |
| 16 | In a bumper graphic during Fox Sports' telecast of a prime time Boston Red Sox–New York Yankees game, the logos of both Major League Baseball teams are placed within the reflecting pools at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, which sit at the exact location where the towers of the original World Trade Center had stood. After receiving backlash on social media, the network apologized for "poor judgment on the use of a graphic." | [186] |
| 18 | CBS News and Stations launches "hybrid, local-to-national multiplatform" prime time newscasts—under the "Now" brand—on 10 of the group's CW, MyNetworkTV and independent stations. The broadcasts include new and relaunched locally originated broadcasts on WLNY/Riverhead–New York City (produced by WCBS), WSBK/Boston (produced by WBZ), WPSG/Philadelphia (produced by KYW), KTXA/Dallas–Fort Worth (produced by KTVT), WBFS/Miami (produced by WFOR) and KBCW/San Francisco (produced by KPIX) as well as outsourced newscasts on four CW stations without an in-house news department (WUPA/Atlanta, WKBD/Detroit, KSTW/Seattle–Tacoma and WTOG/Tampa) incorporating local segments produced by either KPIX or KTVT, with reporters based at each station's facility. (The KSTW broadcast is the station's first news effort since the 2005 cancellation of a KIRO-produced 10:00 newscast; KSTW previously maintained an in-house news operation from 1953 to 1998.) National segments for all Now broadcasts originate from WCBS's New York studios. | [187][188] |
| 19 | Johnny Pizarro, a freelancer for the Broadway Stage Company who was assigned to conduct parking enforcement for Law & Order: Organized Crime, is fatally shot three times in the face and neck by an unknown assailant while sitting in his car in Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood, where scenes from an upcoming third-season episode of the NBC drama were scheduled to be filmed that day. Pizarro was pronounced dead upon arrival at Woodhull Hospital. Universal Television—which produces the Law & Order spin-off—stated it is cooperating with police to find the suspect, who remains at large. | [189][190] |
| 20 | Allen Media Group receives approval from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Florida to acquire Black News Channel—which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on March 28—from majority shareholder Shahid Khan for $11 million. The company wound down BNC's operations on August 1, with its linear pay television carriage and transponder slot integrated into its existing OTA multicast network TheGrio (see BNC's closure entry in the "Networks and Services" section for further details). | [191][192] [193] |
| 22 | During a Weather Channel Local on the 8s segment shown that evening over Mediacom's Des Moines system, the introductory message screen inadvertently included a racial slur, reading "Hello Des Moines, This is your weather my Niggers." (The message was circulated on Twitter via a screenshot posted by a local journalist with the offending slur—added onto one of the IntelliStar's default LOT8s greetings—partially censored.) Allen Media Group, TWC's Black-owned parent company, apologized for the incident (which originated not with the company, but, as programming and maintenance of TWC's WeatherStar systems is mainly conducted at the local system level, at Mediacom's headend operations), and stated it would investigate how the message made it on-air. | [194][195] |
| 29 | NBC legal correspondent Pete Williams known for covering the Supreme Court and the Justice Department retires. | [196][197] |
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| 4 | Following earlier indications by company management of a consolidation of its two major streaming services, Warner Bros. Discovery announces it will combine HBO Max and Discovery+ into a single, yet-to-be-named service in mid-2023. Citing HBO Max's technical issues since its May 2020 rollout (as it runs on the infrastructure originally used for predecessor services HBO Go and HBO Now, which was designed to support the even smaller content selection and technical demands of HBO Max), the combined offering will run on Discovery+'s existing app infrastructure and utilize that service's technical operations. The planned merger later results in the removal of 36 titles from HBO Max plus all films in the Harry Potter film series and nearly 200 episodes of children's series Sesame Street. The plans to fully merge the services is abandoned in February 2023, leaving Discovery+ alone as a standalone service. However, the programming changes will not be undone as a direct result, and rebranding HBO Max is still planned. | [198][199][200] |
| 7 | With CBS Sports' final broadcast of the 2021–22 season, Nick Faldo resigned after 16 years as lead analyst for the network's PGA Tour golf coverage. Trevor Immelman will succeed Faldo in 2023. | [201][202] |
| 10 | As part of their shift from "time-based" to "genre-based" awards (see June 24 and September 12 entries), the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announce that Emmy Award categories for game shows will move from the former organization's Daytime Emmy Awards to the latter's Primetime Emmy Awards, effective with the 75th Primetime Emmys in 2023. | [203] |
| 11 | During that night's edition of The Late Show, host Stephen Colbert announces that Jon Batiste has departed as the CBS late-night program's bandleader, a decision made by the Oscar and Grammy Award winner so he could pursue other projects. The band's guitarist Louis Cato, who assumed the role of bandleader during the summer, was announced as the new permanent leader of the rechristened Late Show Band, which had been known as Stay Human under Batiste's leadership. | [204] |
| 15 | Nexstar Media Group announces it will acquire a 75% controlling interest in The CW from Paramount Global and Warner Bros. Discovery, which will each retain 12.5% shares in the network in exchange for Nexstar assuming $100 million in losses incurred by its original co-parents. Nexstar, which would close its purchase on October 3, plans to reduce The CW's operating costs, intending to make the network profitable by 2025, and acquire programming of broader appeal to viewers outside of its existing 18–34 target demographic; it will also allow Paramount and WBD to continue producing scripted programs for The CW, with the option of extending the content deal past the 2022–23 season. | [205][206] |
| 18 | The Big Ten Conference announces new deals (their total sum reportedly surpassing $7 billion) with Fox Sports, CBS Sports, and NBC Sports that will see those networks, beginning in the 2023–24 academic year, share rights to Big Ten football and men's basketball games, most notably the creation of a football triple-header among the networks and exclusive broadcasts of select football games on NBC's Peacock streaming service. The additions of NBC and CBS to the Big Ten broadcast mix, alongside incumbent Fox, means the end of a long-standing agreement between the conference and ESPN, which balked at the estimated $380 million price tag to retain a share of the rights, and will, barring a possible sublicense agreement, part ways after the 2022–23 athletic season with the conference it had broadcast rights to since 1982 (corporate sibling ABC's relationship with the conference dates back to 1966). | [207][208] |
| 22 | Star Jones takes over as presiding judge/arbiter of Divorce Court, as the series begins the 24th season of its current syndicated iteration (and its 40th season overall); she succeeds Faith Jenkins, who became the show's arbitrator in September 2020. It marks a return to the syndicated court show genre for the lawyer, legal analyst and original co-host of ABC's The View: Jones was herself the first African-American court show arbiter, as judge for the 1994–95 series Jones & Jury. | [209][210] |
| 23 | Monumental Sports & Entertainment, already a 33% owner of NBC Sports Washington, announces it will buy the remainder of the regional sports network from NBCUniversal, with NBCU providing transitional corporate, technical, and distribution support for up to 18 months after the sale is completed (expected by the end of September). A rebrand to Monumental is expected for the network, which already carries broadcasts of the NHL's Washington Capitals and NBA's Washington Wizards, both Monumental-owned teams. | [211] |
| 25 | FanDuel Group announces plans to rebrand TVG Network as FanDuel TV in September to complement the company's sports betting initiatives. Kay Adams, the former anchor of Good Morning Football on NFL Network, will headline programming with a daily talk show, while Pat McAfee and The Ringer contribute additional content. Live horse racing will remain a key part of the network's lineup, with coverage of basketball from Australia, China, France, and Germany joining it. | [212] |
| 26 | Production for the upcoming Apple TV+ series Lady in the Lake is temporarily halted after on-location producers and crew in downtown Baltimore are approached by a group threatening violence unless they receive a $50,000 extortion payment. The producers report the incident to the Baltimore Police Department and seek out a new filming location with increased security. | [213] |
| 28 | The 2022 MTV Video Music Awards air on MTV and its related digital and linear platforms. Originating from Newark's Prudential Center, Taylor Swift won three awards (including Video of the Year) for the short film of her song All Too Well, becoming the first person to win this award three times. Jack Harlow won the most awards with four and co-hosted the show with LL Cool J and Video Vanguard Award recipient Nicki Minaj. | [214] |
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| 3 | KJRH/Tulsa weekend morning anchor Julie Chin suffers the early stages of a stroke during the Scripps-owned NBC affiliate's Saturday morning newscast, while presenting a story about an event being held that weekend at the Tulsa Air and Space Museum & Planetarium. Chin—who experienced partial loss of vision in one eye that impaired her ability to view the teleprompter, garbled speech and numbness in one of her arms—said in a Facebook post that she had no indicative symptoms before the broadcast; she is expected to recover. | [215][216] |
| 7 | Dish Network removes Game Show Network from the lineups of its namesake satellite service and vMVPD provider Sling TV after failing to reach a renewal agreement with network parent Sony Pictures Television. The network returned to Dish and Sling on September 27, after Sony and Dish reached a new carriage agreement. | [217][218] |
| 8 | Buckingham Palace announces the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. When her death is announced at 18:30 BST (13:30 EST and 10:30 PST), the three major broadcast networks (ABC, NBC, and CBS) and all major cable news networks (including CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News) break into regular programming to provide coverage. | |
| 9 | Days of Our Lives airs for the final time on NBC after 57 years, with the episode's final moments being interrupted in some markets in the Eastern and Central Time Zones by NBC News' coverage of King Charles III's first official speech as the United Kingdom's reigning monarch. With Days' move to NBCUniversal-owned Peacock on September 12, NBC becomes the first Big Three network to cease offering serials or any other entertainment programming within its daytime lineup (a first for NBC since it commenced regular weekday daytime programming in 1949); it fills the schedule void with a new one-hour midday newscast, NBC News Daily (which is also simulcast on NBC News Now). | [219][220] [note 1] |
| 11 | Shannon Bream becomes the new permanent moderator of Fox News Sunday, occupying the role Chris Wallace vacated when he left Fox News in December 2021 to join CNN. (A series of guest hosts had filled in on the Fox network political talk show since Wallace's departure.) Bream, who retains her duties as chief legal correspondent for Fox News, moves over to Fox News Sunday from the host role at Fox News Channel's Fox News @ Night. | [221] |
| 12 | The 74th Primetime Emmy Awards air on NBC, with Kenan Thompson as host. The first Primetime Emmy ceremony (and the second Emmy ceremony overall after the June 24 Daytime Emmys) to focus toward themes, format, and style, instead of strictly dayparts, these Primetime Emmys featured Outstanding Series wins for Succession (Outstanding Drama Series), Ted Lasso (Outstanding Comedy Series), and The White Lotus (Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series). Other noteworthy wins include Squid Game's Lee Jung-jae for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series and Hwang Dong-hyuk for Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series (Squid Game was the first non-English series to earn Primetime Emmy nominations); and Abbott Elementary's Sheryl Lee Ralph for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, becoming the second Black female to win in the category (after 227's Jackée Harry in 1987). | [222][171] [172][223] [224] |
| 14 | Production on a Season 11 episode of Chicago Fire is temporarily halted after a suspect fired his gun several times near the location of a scene being filmed on Chicago's West Side (near the Oak Park city limits). No one involved with the production of the NBC drama series was injured. | [225] |
| 15 | Saturday Night Live announces the hiring of new featured castmembers Marcello Hernandez, Molly Kearney, Michael Longfellow, and Devon Walker for its 48th season (which debuted on October 1); Kearney makes SNL history as the show's first non-binary cast member. | [226] |
| The Kansas City Chiefs defeat the Los Angeles Chargers, 27–24, in Amazon Prime Video's official debut as the exclusive broadcaster of Thursday Night Football, part of the streaming service's rights deal with the National Football League. While the broadcast earns praise for the pairing of veteran NFL play-by-play broadcaster Al Michaels with college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit, and for its production and graphics quality, some viewers report technological issues with the game's stream, including pixelated images and audio/video being out of sync. Nielsen estimates an average audience of 13 million viewers for the broadcast, though Amazon puts it at 15 million when factoring in its own data. | [227][228] [229] | |
| 16 | A St. Louis jury convicts James "Tim" Norman on all counts of murder-for-hire and conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud in the March 2016 killing of his nephew, Andre Montgomery. Both Norman and Montgomery were regulars on the reality series Welcome to Sweetie Pie's, which ran on OWN from 2011 to 2018. | [230] |
| 17 | During a segment of the station's weekend morning newscast, KTLA/Los Angeles anchor Mark Mester emotionally goes off-script and apologizes, on the station's behalf, for what he calls their "cruel" and "inappropriate" handling of co-anchor Lynette Romero's abrupt departure earlier in the week. (It was later revealed that Romero would join NBC O&O KNBC in October as weekday co-anchor of its morning newscast, Today in L.A.) KTLA would suspend Mester over his actions on September 19, and would announce his dismissal from the Nexstar-owned CW affiliate on September 22. | [231][232] |
| 19 | Erick Adame announces he has been terminated from his meteorologist position at New York City cable news channel NY1 after images of him performing virtual sex acts were sent to his employer. Adame, who filed a lawsuit to discover the identity of the individual who shared the visuals, apologized for what he called unprofessional conduct but would not "apologize for being openly gay or sex-positive." | [233] |
| 13 major TV networks across the United States, including all major cable news networks and the Big Three Television Networks broadcast the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. | ||
| 20 | Thirteen years after the NBA franchise's last regular local over-the-air game telecast, the Los Angeles Clippers reach an agreement with KTLA/Los Angeles to air 15 games from its 2022–23 schedule (four preseason and 11 regular season) on the Nexstar-owned CW affiliate. The sub-licensing agreement with Bally Sports SoCal, which renewed its contract with the team on October 7 and will air the remainder of its local game telecasts, includes carriage of team-related programs on KTLA and its KTLA+ streaming channel, and regional simulcasts on sister stations KSWB/San Diego, KGET/Bakersfield and KSEE/Fresno. (The team's first broadcast under the deal was a September 30 exhibition game against the Israeli National League's Maccabi Ra'anana.) KTLA previously aired live Clippers games from 1985 to 1991 and from 2002 to 2009. | [234][235] |
| 23 | The ABC business reality program Shark Tank premieres its 14th season with its first-ever live episode, featuring a studio audience and online polls for home viewers. | [236] |
| 28 | Fort Myers Broadcasting Company and affiliate company Sun Broadcasting's shared broadcasting facility in downtown Fort Myers, Florida, is inundated by storm surge flooding caused by Hurricane Ian (which made landfall in Cayo Costa earlier that day) from nearby Billy Creek. The companies’ respective TV and radio properties (including FMBC-owned CBS affiliate WINK-TV and its CW-affiliated SSA partner WXCW, which is owned by Sun) were knocked off the air early that evening, after the building lost generator power; employees that remained in the building were evacuated by local firefighters later that night. WINK returned to the air on September 30 from a makeshift studio at its transmitter site north of Fort Myers Shores. | [237][238] |
| 29 | Telling his audience "My time is up," Trevor Noah announces that he will be stepping down as host of The Daily Show on December 8, reportedly to focus more on his stand-up comedy and other projects. Noah makes his announcement one day after his seven-year anniversary as host of the Comedy Central satirical news/talk program (he took over from Jon Stewart on September 28, 2015). | [239][240] |
| Date | Event | Source |
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| 1 | The Walt Disney Television suite of networks (including Disney Channel, ESPN, Freeform, FX, National Geographic, and eight ABC-owned local stations) are dropped from Dish Network and vMVPD provider Sling TV, one day after Dish and Disney fail to renew a carriage deal that expired on September 30. The networks return to Dish and Sling on October 2, after what Disney terms a "handshake agreement" to work toward a new retransmission pact between the two sides. | [241][242] |
| 3 | On the day Nexstar Media Group closes its purchase of controlling interest in The CW (see August 15 entry), Mark Pedowitz announces that he would step down as The CW's chairman and CEO, departing the network after an 11+1⁄2-year run. Longtime media executive Dennis Miller is appointed to succeed Pedowitz as The CW's president, concurrently moving down from his seat on Nexstar's board of directors. | [243] |
| Former U.S. president Donald Trump sues CNN for defamation, seeking $475 million in punitive damages on allegations that the network carried out a "campaign of libel and slander" against him. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, asserts on-air references to Trump's allegations that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him as the "Big Lie" drew comparisons between him and Adolf Hitler (who coined the term in his 1925 book Mein Kampf). The suit was dismissed by Judge Raag Singhal (whom Trump nominated to the court in 2019) on July 28, 2023, ruling that the network's statements was an opinion that does not “[plausibly infer] that Trump advocates the persecution and genocide of Jews or any other group of people.” | [244][245] | |
| 11 | Warner Bros. Discovery announces the layoffs of 125 employees (totaling 26% of personnel) within its Warner Bros. Television Group unit. The company will also combine the creative development and programming teams of Warner Horizon Unscripted Television and Telepictures, and the development and production teams of Warner Bros. Animation and Cartoon Network Studios. It also announced the shutdowns of digital short-form programming division Stage 13 and writing/directing diversity initiative Warner Bros. Television Workshop, though it reversed its decision on the latter later that day after criticism from talent and industry executives, choosing instead to move the workshops to WBD's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion unit. | [246][247] [248] |
| After a two-year agreement with PBS Kids expires, Wildbrain again pulls the three major Peanuts television specials off linear television and makes them exclusive to Apple TV+. It is the second effort to move the specials from traditional TV to streaming, after an earlier attempt in 2020 was aborted in the face of public outcry, resulting in Apple sub-licensing the specials to PBS. As a result, A Charlie Brown Christmas will not be televised over-the-air for the first time in 57 years; the special had aired annually since its 1965 debut on CBS, ABC, or PBS. | [249] | |
| 15 | Nexstar Media Group removes 13 television stations it owns and/or operates (WPIX/New York City, WPHL/Philadelphia, WTEN–WXXA/Albany, WIVB–WNLO/Buffalo, WPRI–WNAC/Providence, WRIC/Richmond, WHTM/Harrisburg, WAVY–WVBT/Norfolk, and WDCW–WDVM/Washington, D.C.) and its news/entertainment channel NewsNation from Verizon Fios, one day after Verizon and Nexstar fail to renew their expired carriage agreement. | [250] |
| 20 | 23 stations owned by Mission Broadcasting (including WXXA/Albany, WLAJ/Lansing, KLRT–KASN/Little Rock, WTVW/Evansville, and KMSS/Shreveport) are removed from DirecTV, DirecTV Stream and U-verse TV, after the Nexstar Media Group affiliate company and DirecTV fail to renew a carriage agreement that expired the day prior. The blackout occurred nearly two weeks after DirecTV entered into a separate dispute with Nexstar-affiliated White Knight Broadcasting, which pulled WVLA/Baton Rouge and KFXK/Longview from the former's television services on October 7. | [251][252] |
| Newsmax TV bans journalist Lara Logan from future appearances on the conservative news network, after an on-air rant during an October 19 interview on Eric Bolling: The Balance, in which the former CBS News correspondent and Fox Nation host pushed conspiratorial talking points associated with the far-right Q-Anon movement. Logan—who claimed she talked to a man with documents claiming he had infiltrated "the global cabal" at the United Nations—made references to the "Great Replacement" immigration theory, suggested open borders are "Satan's way of taking control of the world" through immigration, and invoked claims of blood libel. In a statement, Newsmax TV condemned Logan's statements as "reprehensible." | [253][254] | |
| 22 | Formula One formally announces the extension of its U.S. media rights deal with ESPN through 2025; no monetary terms are expressed in the announcement, though reports in June indicated the network agreed to pay $75–90 million annually in the new deal (an increase from the current deal's $5 million/year fee). | [255][256] |
| 30 | The Big 12 Conference announces a new six-year media rights deal with ESPN and Fox Sports for $2.28 billion (an annual average of $380 million), the deal will run from the 2025–26 to the 2030–31 academic years following the end of the current deal that expires in 2024–25. ESPN will have the "A" package, for which it will get the top four picks, six of the top eight picks, eight out of the top 12 picks and twelve out of the top 20 picks for its football telecasts. It will also gain the rights to all of the conference's tournament championships including the football championship, which will remain on ABC; all other tournament championships (including the men's and women's basketball tournaments) will be televised on ESPN's linear channels, with ESPN+ retaining supplementary streaming rights to most Big 12 conference sports (including football) and ABC retaining broadcast television rights. Fox Sports will have the "B" package, which includes 26 football games on Fox and FS1, while adding a slate of men's and women's basketball games for the first time that will air on both networks. | [257] |
| Date | Event | Source |
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| 1 | YouTube launches Primetime Channels, a channel store—intended to compete with similar channel platforms operated by Apple, Prime Video and Roku—offering an initial slate of 34 streaming services (including Paramount+, Showtime, Starz, Epix, AMC+ and ViX+) that can be purchased through the YouTube Movies & TV hub. Initially available only to U.S. users, the launch of Primetime Channels comes more than a month after YouTube TV began allowing users the option to subscribe to most of its premium add-ons (including a few not initially available on Primetime Channels such as HBO Max, Cinemax, MLB.tv and NBA League Pass) without signing up for the live TV service's base channel package. | [258][259] [note 2] |
| 3 | Netflix launches an ad-supported version of its basic subscription plan in the U.S. and seven international countries, offering an average of four to five minutes of commercials per hour that will appear before and during titles, along with upgrading the basic plan's video quality (for both its ad-supported and existing ad-free versions) from 480i SD to 720p HD. (The "Basic with Ads" plan first launched in Canada and Mexico two days prior.) Subscribers of the ad-supported plan will not initially be able to view certain movies and TV series in Netflix's catalog due to licensing restrictions preventing ads from being inserted into those titles, and will not be able to download titles for offline viewing. | [260][261] |
| A change to the schedule in the 2022 World Series between the Houston Astros and Philadelphia Phillies due to rain earlier in the week leads to Game 5 being played directly opposite Amazon Prime Video's broadcast of a Thursday Night Football game featuring both cities' NFL teams (the Texans and Eagles respectively). Estimates from Nielsen Media Research show the baseball game drew an average of five million more viewers, with a share of at least 50 in both Philadelphia and Houston. Meanwhile, the football game, originally scheduled to air on the Fox O&Os in both markets (KRIV and WTXF, respectively) per NFL rules, moved to other stations. The Astros would go on to win their second World Series championship in franchise history two days later on November 5, defeating the Phillies, 4–1, in Game 6. | [262][263] | |
| 9 | The 56th Annual Country Music Association Awards air on ABC from the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee, with Luke Bryan and Peyton Manning as hosts. Luke Combs (who won Entertainer of the Year, and Album of the Year for Growin' Up), Cody Johnson (who won Single of the Year and Music Video of the Year for "'Til You Can't") and Lainey Wilson (who won Female Vocalist of the Year and New Artist of the Year) were the night's top winners, with two awards each. Two-time Entertainer of the Year honoree Alan Jackson received the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award. | [264][265] [266] |
| After being operated under Paramount Media Networks (and its previous iterations) and jointly managed alongside MTV since its January 1985 launch, Paramount Global shifts oversight of VH1 to BET Media Group (under the purview of BETMG CEO Scott Mills). The network has had success in recent years with reality series aimed at African-American audiences (such as Basketball Wives, Black Ink Crew and Love & Hip Hop), along with incorporating Black sitcoms from the 1990s and 2000s (such as The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, My Wife and Kids and Martin) onto its schedule starting in the late 2010s. According to 2022 estimates by Nielsen, VH1 ranks second among U.S. cable networks in Black viewership, behind sister network BET. | [267] | |
| Two years after Sling Media discontinued the device, the Slingbox becomes obsolete as all servers powering supported models are decommissioned. Created in 2002 by brothers Blake and Jason Krikorian, the pioneering streaming device allowed users to stream live TV content out-of-home via either a pay television service's set-top box or a DVR linked to the unit; this concept led to a complaint by Major League Baseball and a 2014 lawsuit by Fox (the latter was settled in 2016, after a federal court ruled Sling technology utilized by parent Dish Network's Hopper units did not violate copyright law) that contended the device illegally transmitted their programming online. | [268][269] | |
| 10 | Conference USA announces a new five-year media rights deal with CBS Sports and ESPN that will run from the 2023–24 to 2028–29 academic years. CBS, as the primary rightsholder, will have right of first refusal to higher-profile football and men's and women's basketball games as well as broadcast rights to all of the conference's tournament championships; CBS and ESPN will also share rights to the conference's baseball, softball, and Olympic events. The new deal will see C-USA's football games during October shift to Tuesday and Wednesday nights to provide national expsoure. All C-USA broadcasts will be exclusive to the CBS Sports Network, while ESPN, in addition to televising selected events on its linear channels, will obtain streaming rights to C-USA sports for its ESPN+ streaming service. | [270][271] [272] |
| 11 | Judy Woodruff announces she will step down as main anchor of the PBS NewsHour on December 30; she will remain with the public broadcaster as host of Judy Woodruff Presents: America at a Crossroads, a series of news specials examining America's political divisions that will air on PBS through the 2024 election cycle. Woodruff—who served as a correspondent from 1982 to 1993 and from 2006 to 2009—was appointed part-time anchor of the NewsHour in December 2009, before being promoted to co-anchor and co-managing editor alongside Gwen Ifill (as part of the first female anchor team on an American evening network newscast) in August 2013; she became sole anchor following Ifill's death from breast and endometrial cancer in November 2016. On November 16, chief correspondent Amna Nawaz and PBS News Weekend anchor/chief Washington, D.C., correspondent Geoff Bennett—both of whom will remain in their respective roles as contributors for NBC News and MSNBC—were named to succeed Woodruff on the weeknight broadcasts effective January 2, 2023; this was followed on December 8 by Supreme Court correspondent John Yang being appointed to succeed Bennett as weekend anchor effective December 31. | [273][274] [275][276] [277] |
| 12 | Dish Network removes Standard General's four television stations (KLKN/Lincoln, KBSI–WDKA/Paducah–Cape Girardeau and WLNE/Providence), after the station group and satellite provider were unable to renew their expired carriage agreement. | [278] |
| 15 | NBC News suspends Today correspondent Miguel Almaguer pending an internal investigation, following a since-retracted November 4 report—citing an unnamed source, contradicting statements by prosecutors and police—that suggested Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, did not "declare an emergency" or try to leave when police responded to the couple's San Francisco home on October 28, and walked back to suspect David DePape, who allegedly attacked Paul with a hammer. (DePape has pled not guilty to federal and state charges of attempted murder, burglary, elder abuse and assault.) Conservative media personalities cited the report, suggesting that Pelosi allegedly knew his attacker. | [279][280] |
| 16 | As part of a "restructuring and realignment of leadership" in its entertainment division, CBS announces that Kelly Kahl will step down as the division's president at the end of the year, with Amy Reisenbach stepping up from her role as head of current programming to succeed him. Kahl departs after 26 years with CBS, spending much of that time developing and scheduling such shows as Survivor, CSI, and The Big Bang Theory for the network. | [281][282] |
| 20 | The 50th Annual American Music Awards airs on ABC from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, with Wayne Brady as host. Taylor Swift had the most wins of the night, winning all six categories for which she was nominated (including Artist of the Year), extending her existing record as the most-awarded artist in AMA history, with 40 total wins. Lionel Richie was honored with the Icon Award, and Yola was honored with the inaugural Song of Soul award. | [283][284] [285] |
| 21 | Social media personality Charli D'Amelio and her pro partner Mark Ballas are crowned champions of Season 31 of Dancing with the Stars in what marked Len Goodman's final appearance on the show's judge panel. Goodman, who announced his departure on the semifinal broadcast of November 14, had served as lead judge on the Disney+ reality competition series since its debut on ABC in 2005; he died from bone cancer, which Goodman did not disclose at the time of his departure, six months later on April 22, 2023. Cheryl Burke, who had been with the show since 2006 and announced her departure on November 20, also ended her run as a pro partner with the season finale. (Burke and her Season 31 partner, former Good Morning America meteorologist Sam Champion, were eliminated fourth on October 10.) | [286][287] [288][289] |
| 22 | A Robinson R44 news-gathering helicopter operated by CBS affiliate WBTV/Charlotte, North Carolina, crashes around 12:20 p.m. ET near an intersection of Interstate 77 on the city's south side. WBTV early-evening meteorologist Jason Myers and helicopter pilot Chip Tayag, who were both on board the aircraft, are killed; three other people were taken to the hospital for observation, although no vehicles were hit on that section of I-77, as Tayag maneuvered the helicopter to crash in a grassy area just off the interstate's southbound lane. | [290][291] |
| 24 | A late Thanksgiving afternoon (4:30 p.m. ET) National Football League game between the NFC East divisional rivals New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys attracts 42 million total viewers on Fox and its streaming platforms, breaking a record for a singular NFL regular season game (41.5 million watched a Giants/San Francisco 49ers Monday Night Football game in December 1990). Earlier on this same day, a Buffalo Bills/Detroit Lions game on CBS attracts 31.63 million viewers, itself a record for the early (12:30 p.m. ET) NFL Thanksgiving time slot. | [292] |
| 28 | Dish Network removes 12 of Cox Media Group's 13 television stations (WSB/Atlanta, KIRO/Seattle, WFXT/Boston, WFTV–WRDQ/Orlando, WPXI/Pittsburgh, WSOC–WAXN/Charlotte, WFOX/Jacksonville, WHIO/Dayton and KLSR–KEVU/Eugene), after the satellite provider and Cox fail to agree on terms to renew their expired carriage agreement. | [293][note 3] |
| Date | Event | Source |
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| 1 | CNN announces the layoffs of up to around 400 staffers (including correspondents Alison Kosik, Martin Savidge, Alex Field and Mary Ann Fox, political analyst Chris Cillizza and several paid contributors) across its worldwide operations and cuts to selected programs as part of a broader effort by parent Warner Bros. Discovery to reduce operational costs by $1.1 billion. HLN bore the brunt of the changes, cancelling the morning newscasts Morning Express and Weekend Express (which were replaced on December 6 by a simulcast of CNN This Morning and reruns of Forensic Files, with the former fulfilling contractual obligations for HLN to air a net minimum of news content per week) and terminating their Atlanta-based production teams (including longtime Express anchor Robin Meade), while reassigning the network's operations from CNN Global to WBD U.S. Networks Group. (Sister channel Investigation Discovery, which operates under the latter subdivision, will add HLN's true crime programs to its schedule.) Express's cancellation marks the end of original live news programming on HLN after 40 years: the network debuted (as CNN2) in January 1982 with a 24-hour "news wheel" format that lasted until February 2005, when rolling news coverage was confined to daytime as it debuted a nighttime block of opinion and personality-based talk shows; HLN began scaling back news content outside of mornings in 2016 as it refocused around true crime programs. CNN will also begin relying more on experts over general contributors to discuss certain topical subjects, reduce or combine staff for its daytime and weekend programs, replace the CNN International late-afternoon newscast The Global Brief with a half-hour simulcast of CNN U.S.’s The Lead, and add unscripted programming onto CNN en Español's lineup. | [294][295] [296][297] |
| 5 | ABC News president Kimberly Godwin notifies staffers that T. J. Holmes and Amy Robach would be temporarily pulled from their anchor duties on GMA3: What You Need to Know, with substitutes anchoring the afternoon news program in the interim (correspondents Gio Benitez and Stephanie Ramos fill in on this date's broadcast). The move comes as the network determines the impact of a romantic relationship between Holmes and Robach that was revealed in a Daily Mail exposé published on November 30; ABC News leadership called the affair between the anchors—who separated from their respective spouses, attorney Marilee Fiebig and actor Andrew Shue, in August—"an internal and external disruption" though not a violation of company policy. By the end of January, both anchors would be exiting the network entirely. | [298][299][300] |
| Prior to this night's telecast of a home game against the Oklahoma City Thunder at State Farm Arena, veteran Atlanta Hawks play-by-play announcer Bob Rathbun experiences convulsions and briefly loses consciousness on-air while co-hosting Bally Sports Southeast's pregame show with color analyst Dominique Wilkins. Rathbun was treated by arena medical personnel for dehydration and taken to Emory University Hospital Midtown for evaluation. Hawks radio broadcaster Mike Conti would substitute for Rathbun on the regional sports network's December 7 and December 9 broadcasts (against the New York Knicks and Brooklyn Nets, respectively). | [301][302] | |
| 6 | The 48th People's Choice Awards airs simultaneously on NBC and E! from the Barker Hangar at Santa Monica Airport, with Kenan Thompson hosting. Among television nominees, Stranger Things had the most honors with three awards each (with the Netflix series being honored as "Show of 2022" and "Sci-Fi/Fantasy Show of 2022," while co-star Noah Schnapp was named "Male TV Star of 2022"). Also with three wins each, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness had the most wins among film nominees (the film itself winning "Movie of 2022", while Elizabeth Olsen was named "Action Movie Star of 2022" and "Female Movie Star of 2022") and Taylor Swift had the most wins among the music categories (Swift herself winning "Female Artist of 2022", with "Midnights" named "Album of 2022" and "Anti-Hero" named "Music Video of 2022"). | [303][304] |
| Warner Bros. Discovery announces a deal with Amazon to resume selling HBO Max through Prime Video Channels starting that day; the add-on features ad-free access to the full HBO Max content library within the Prime Video app, along with live feeds of HBO's seven linear channels (which are not offered in the native HBO Max app). The agreement allows Prime Video to sell WBD's planned Max–Discovery+ combination service (see August 4 entry) when it launches in 2023. Under a deal signed in November 2020 that brought the HBO Max app to Fire tablets and Fire TV devices, Prime Video's original HBO add-on was removed in September 2021 as part of a direct-to-consumer strategy by former parent WarnerMedia that saw it shift away from selling HBO Max through third-party channel stores (resulting in those operated by Apple TV and Roku also removing their HBO add-ons) so it could control user data through its dedicated app, a move estimated to have cost HBO Max around five million subscribers. | [305][306] [note 4] | |
| 8 | Disney+ launches an ad-supported plan that offers an average of four minutes of commercials per hour before and during most titles, with prohibitions for political and alcohol advertising, any ads during preschool-targeted programs, and ads within kids’ user profiles. The "Disney+ Basic" plan costs US$7.99/month, the previous rate of the ad-free version (now known as "Disney+ Premium"), which concurrently received a US$3 price increase (along with corresponding increases for that plan's bundles with Hulu and ESPN+). However, as distribution deals do not yet cover the AVOD plan, users of the service's Roku and Windows apps could not subscribe to the "Disney+ Basic" plan and all bundles including it—among them, a standalone "duo" bundle with Hulu introduced with the ad-supported tier—at launch. The ad-supported plan will be rolled out to international markets during 2023. | [307][308] [309] |
| ABC cancels its scheduled December 14 broadcast of A Very Backstreet Holiday, a Christmas variety special starring the musical group Backstreet Boys, after a woman filed a sexual battery lawsuit accusing BSB member Nick Carter of raping her and infecting her with HPV in a February 2001 incident, when the woman was 17 and Carter (who denies the allegations) was 21. | [310] | |
| 10–11 | The 1st Children's and Family Emmy Awards are held at the Wilshire Ebell Theater in Los Angeles; JoJo Siwa hosted the Creative Arts ceremony (held on the 10th) and Jack McBrayer hosted the main ceremony (held on the 11th). Heartstopper won four of Netflix's 15 total awards (the most earned by a single linear network or streaming platform during the inaugural ceremony), including "Outstanding Young Teen Series," "Outstanding Lead Performance in a Preschool, Children's or Young Teen Program" (for Kit Connor) and "Outstanding Guest Performance in a Preschool, Children's or Young Teen Program" (for Olivia Colman); LeVar Burton received a Lifetime Achievement Award for his work on PBS's Reading Rainbow and reading advocacy efforts for children. This ceremony was created in November 2021 to account for the heavily increased quantity and quality of children's and family programming, after all dayparts for children's programming fell under NATAS jurisdiction with the previous Daytime Emmys ceremony. | [173][311] |
| 13 | Major League Soccer announces a four-year deal with Fox Sports that will see Fox, FS1, and Fox Deportes simulcast 34 MLS-produced regular season broadcasts, eight playoff contests, and the MLS Cup championship game each season beginning in 2023. Fox will also share simulcast privilges on the Leagues Cup competition with Spanish language broadcaster TelevisaUnivision over the same four-year period. The deals assure that MLS will keep a presence on traditional television in the wake of its exclusive deal with Apple (see June 14 entry). It also brings to a close MLS' relationship with ESPN, which lasted from the league's first game in April 1996 through the 2022 season. | [312] |
| PBS, in its first third-party carriage deal with a free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) service, reaches a multi-year agreement with Allen Media Group to distribute live feeds of the non-commercial public broadcaster's member stations and state/sub-regional networks, and its national children's network PBS Kids 24/7 over Local Now. Participating PBS stations will be added to the news and entertainment service's live TV platform through 2023. The deal expands upon a partnership between PBS and AMG that began on March 2, when PBS Digital Studios added its dedicated streaming network to Local Now's channel lineup. (PBS began offering live streams of its stations for free via its dedicated website and mobile app in 2020.) | [313][314] | |
| 19 | NFL Network indefinitely suspends analyst Willie McGinest, pending investigation into his involvement in a December 9 fight at the Delilah nightclub in West Hollywood, in which the former New England Patriots and Cleveland Browns linebacker and several of his acquaintances violently assaulted a man sitting at a nearby table. The suspension came hours after McGinest's arrest on charges of committing assault with a deadly weapon; he was released later that day on a $30,000 bond. | [315][316] |
| 21 | Jim Gardner anchors WPVI-TV/Philadelphia's Action News for the final time, retiring from the ABC O&O after 46 years. Brian Taff replaced him as anchor of its 6:00 p.m. newscast the following day. Gardner joined WPVI as an assignment reporter in June 1976, and became solo anchor of the station's 6:00 and 11:00 p.m. newscasts in May 1977 (he stepped down from the latter broadcast on January 11, succeeded there by longtime anchor/reporter Rick Williams). | [317] |
| FuboTV and Diamond Sports Group reach an agreement to resume carriage of Bally Sports's 19 regional networks on the vMVPD's base tier, ending a nearly two-year-long dispute that began in January 2020. (Hulu and YouTube TV removed the RSNs—then branded as Fox Sports Networks—ten months after they were dropped by Fubo, leaving DirecTV Stream as its only streaming distributor until the June 23 launch of the Bally Sports+ OTT service.) The deal comes amid uncertainty over Bally Sports's future, as Major League Baseball, the NBA and the NHL reportedly rejected an offer to jointly acquire the RSNs to help Diamond avoid bankruptcy (Diamond would likely seek to terminate Bally Sports's broadcast contracts, the majority of which were losing revenue, during bankruptcy proceedings) and majority owner Sinclair Broadcast Group disclosed in November that Diamond did not have enough financial resources to service its operations and $9 billion debt load beyond 2023 and had been generating cash flow at half of initial 2022 projections (with net losses of $1.2 billion and revenue of $684 million in Q3, respectively up 809% and down 10% from the year prior). Two days later, Fubo renewed a deal with Marquee Sports Network (which Sinclair co-owns with the Chicago Cubs) that would offer its national feed to subscribers outside the Chicago market. | [318][319] [320][321] | |
| 22 | The National Football League and Google announce that the league's NFL Sunday Ticket package will move exclusively to Google-owned YouTube TV and YouTube Primetime Channels beginning with the 2023 season, making Sunday Ticket available for purchase as a standalone add-on for the first time. Reports indicate that Google will pay approximately $2 billion in annual rights fees under the initial seven-year agreement, which also extends YouTube TV's existing carriage agreements for NFL Network and NFL RedZone. The out-of-market sports package, which carries all Sunday afternoon games not telecast on a viewer's local CBS and Fox stations, had been carried on DirecTV since its launch in 1994. | [322][323] |
| ABC News fires freelance producer Kristen Hentschel after an NPR report published the day prior revealed that she had been hired by Montgomery, Alabama-based political consulting firm Matrix LLC as a paid operative, using her ABC credentials on at least three occasions to conduct unflattering pieces on Florida politicians whose positions on environmental regulations went against the interests of Florida-based corporations represented by Matrix (including among others, Florida Power & Light) and surveil corporate competitors of the firm's clients (such as the Southern Company). Hentschel had been working with the news division since 2016, primarily producing stories for Good Morning America. | [324][325] | |
| 31 | The AMC Networks suite of linear and streaming channels (including AMC, IFC, SundanceTV, We TV, BBC America, BBC World News, and streaming networks AMC Premiere, El Gourmet and Mas Chic) are dropped from Fubo TV, as the vMVPD provider and AMC fail to renew a carriage agreement expiring on that date. | [326] |
| Meridian, Idaho-based vMVPD provider Evoca TV shuts down, after the company unsuccessfully attempted to secure additional funding to continue operations into 2023 (including a Change.org petition launched earlier in the month aimed at pressuring Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche owner Stan Kroenke, who also owns Denver-based regional sports network Altitude Sports and Entertainment, into investing in the provider). Launched in 2020 by founder/CEO Todd Achilles, Evoca TV—which operated in several markets in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, and Michigan—transmitted using the internet protocol-based ATSC 3.0 standard, offering a 60-channel lineup of local broadcast stations, selected cable-originated networks and RSNs over available broadcast spectrum. | [327] |
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Main article: List of 2022 American television debuts |
| Show | Moved from | Moved to | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Next Influencer | AwesomenessTV | Paramount+ | [328] |
| Blood & Treasure | CBS | [329] | |
| The Real Love Boat | [330] | ||
| MTV Unplugged | MTV | [331] | |
| AEW Dynamite | TNT | TBS | [332] |
| Promised Land | ABC | Hulu | [333] |
| The Orville | Fox | [334][335] | |
| Duncanville | [336] | ||
| Power Rangers | Nickelodeon | Netflix[note 5] | [337] |
| The Shop | HBO | YouTube | [338] |
| The Courtship | NBC | USA Network | [339] |
| Scripps National Spelling Bee | ESPN | Ion | [340][341] |
| MTP Daily[note 6] | MSNBC | NBC News NOW | [342] |
| Chrissy's Court | Quibi | The Roku Channel | [343] |
| All-Star Futures Game | MLB Network | Peacock | [344] |
| Days of Our Lives | NBC | [345] | |
| Love Island | CBS | [346] | |
| Growing Up Chrisley | USA Network | E! | [347] |
| Harley Quinn | DC Universe | HBO Max | [348][349] |
| Pennyworth | Epix | [350] | |
| Thursday Night Football | Fox/NFL Network/Amazon Prime Video | Amazon Prime Video[note 7] | [351] |
| Dancing with the Stars | ABC | Disney+ | [352] |
| Who's Talking to Chris Wallace? | CNN+ | CNN/HBO Max | [353] |
| Tooning Out the News | Paramount+ | Comedy Central | [354] |
| Show | Network | Episode # | Episode title | Episode airdate | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ridiculousness | MTV | 800th episode | "Chanel and Sterling CDXIII" | January 7 | [355] |
| American Greed | CNBC | 200th episode | "Theranos CEO on Trial" | January 12 | [356] |
| Today | NBC | 70th anniversary | "January 14, 2022" | January 14 | [357] |
| Ask This Old House | PBS | 20th anniversary | N/A | January 20 | [358] |
| Lone Star Law | Discovery | 100th episode | "Lake Saviors" | January 22 | [359] |
| Late Night | NBC | 40th anniversary | "David Letterman/Adam Duritz" | February 1 | [360] |
| Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir | Disney Channel | 100th episode | "Qilin" | February 12 | [361] |
| The Goldbergs | ABC | 200th episode | "The Wedding" | March 2 | [362] |
| Victor and Valentino | Cartoon Network | 100th episode | "An Evening with Mic and Hun" | March 9 | |
| The Talk | CBS | 2,500th episode | N/A | March 11 | [363] |
| Blue Bloods | 250th episode | "Guilt" | [364] | ||
| Evil Lives Here | Investigation Discovery | 100th episode | "He Kept Her in a Tree Stump" | March 13[note 8] | [365] |
| The Bold and the Beautiful | CBS | 35th anniversary | "#8736" | March 24 | [366] |
| Young Sheldon | 100th episode | "A Solo Peanut, a Social Butterfly and the Truth" | March 31 | [367] | |
| Morning Joe | MSNBC | 15th anniversary | "April 4, 2022" | April 4 | [368] |
| S.W.A.T. | CBS | 100th episode | "The Fugitive" | April 10 | [369] |
| This Is Us | NBC | "Katoby" | April 12 | [370] | |
| Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel | HBO | 300th episode | "April 2022" | April 19 | [371] |
| American Idol | ABC | 20th anniversary | "The Great Idol Reunion" | May 2 | [372] |
| NCIS: Los Angeles | CBS | 300th episode | "Work & Family" | May 8 | [373] |
| Grey's Anatomy | ABC | 400th episode | "You Are the Blood" (season finale) | May 26 | [374][375] |
| Fear the Walking Dead | AMC | 100th episode | "Amina" | May 29[note 9] | [376] |
| The View | ABC | 25th anniversary | "Thursday, June 2, 2022" | June 2 | [377] |
| Dynasty | The CW | 100th episode | "Vicious Vendetta" | June 3 | [378] |
| Ridiculousness | MTV | 900th episode | "Chanel and Sterling DII" | June 15 | [355] |
| South Park | Comedy Central | 25th anniversary | "The South Park 25th Anniversary Concert" | August 13 | [379] |
| Doc McStuffins | Disney Junior | 10th anniversary | "The Doc is 10!" | August 26 | [380] |
| Raven's Home | Disney Channel | 100th episode | "Keeping It 100" | October 14 | [381] |
| SEAL Team | Paramount+ | "Watch Your 6" | October 23 | [382] | |
| The Resident | Fox | "For Better or Worse" | October 25 | [383] | |
| Ridiculousness | MTV | 1,000th episode | "Chanel and Sterling DLXXXVI" | November 11 | [355] |
| The Good Doctor | ABC | 100th episode | "Hot and Bothered" | November 21 | [384] |
| Around the Horn | ESPN | 20th anniversary | Around The Horn – 20th Anniversary Special | December 13 | [385] |
The following shows will return with new episodes after being canceled or ended their run previously:
| Show | Last aired | Type of return | Previous channel | New Title | New/returning/same channel | Return date | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dirty Jobs | 2012 | Revival | Discovery | Same | same | January 2 | [386] |
| Joe Millionaire | 2003 | Fox | Joe Millionaire: For Richer or Poorer | January 6 | [387][388] | ||
| Fraggle Rock | 1987 | Reboot | HBO | Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock | Apple TV+ | January 21 | [389] |
| Person to Person | 2012 | Revival | CBS | Same | CBS News | January 25 | [390] |
| Celebrity Big Brother | 2019 | New season | same | February 2 | [391][392] | ||
| Real Husbands of Hollywood | 2016 | Revival | BET | Real Husbands of Hollywood: More Kevin, More Problems | BET+ | February 10 | [393] |
| The Proud Family | 2005 | Disney Channel | The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder | Disney+ | February 23 | [394] | |
| Law & Order | 2010 | NBC | Same | same | February 24 | [395][396] | |
| CBS Reports | CBS | CBS News | February 25 | [390] | |||
| Mystery Science Theater 3000 | 2018 | New season | Netflix | Gizmoplex | March 4 | [397][398] | |
| Reading Rainbow | 2006 | Revival | PBS | Reading Rainbow Live | Looped | March 6 | [399][400] |
| Anderson Cooper Full Circle | 2020 | New season | CNN Digital | Same | CNN+ | March 29 | [401] |
| The Wonder List with Bill Weir | 2017 | CNN | April 21 | [402] | |||
| The Quest | 2014 | Revival | ABC | Disney+ | May 11 | [403] | |
| Don't Forget the Lyrics! | 2011 | First-run syndication | Fox | May 23 | [404][405] | ||
| Yo! MTV Raps | 1995 | MTV | Paramount+ | May 24 | [331][406] | ||
| All Rise | 2021 | New season | CBS | OWN | June 7 | [407] | |
| College Hill | 2009 | Revival | BET | BET+ | June 27 | [408] | |
| Who Do You Think You Are? | 2018 | New season | TLC | NBC | July 10 | [409][410] | |
| Live PD | 2020 | Revival | A&E | On Patrol: Live | Reelz | July 22 | [411] |
| Beavis and Butt-Head | 2011 | MTV | Same | Paramount+ | August 4 | [412][413] | |
| Password | 2009 | CBS | NBC | August 9 | [414][415] | ||
| Bee and PuppyCat | 2016 | New season | YouTube | Netflix | September 6 | [416][417] | |
| Ink Master | 2020 | Paramount Network | Paramount+ | September 7 | [418][419] | ||
| Quantum Leap | 1993 | Revival | NBC | same | September 19 | [420] | |
| The Mole | 2008 | Reboot | ABC | Netflix | October 7 | [421][422] | |
| Step Up | 2018 | New season | YouTube Premium | Starz | October 16 | [423][424] | |
| Inside Amy Schumer | 2016 | Comedy Central | Paramount+ | October 20 | [425][426] | ||
| The Surreal Life | 2006 | VH1 | same | October 22 | [427] | ||
| Manifest | 2021 | NBC | Netflix | November 4 | [428][429] | ||
| E! News | 2020 | Revival | E! | same | November 14 | [430] | |
| Criminal Minds | New season | CBS | Criminal Minds: Evolution | Paramount+ | November 24 | [431] |
| End date | Show | Channel | First aired | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 7 | Johnny Test | Netflix | 2021 | Ended | [432] |
| Search Party | HBO Max | 2016 | [433] | ||
| January 14 | The Expanse | Amazon Prime Video | 2015 | [434] | |
| The Dr. Oz Show | First-run syndication | 2009 | [435] | ||
| Archive 81 | Netflix | 2022 | Canceled | [436] | |
| January 15 | Watters' World | Fox News | 2015 | Ended | [437][438] |
| January 21 | As We See It | Amazon Prime Video | 2022 | Canceled | [439] |
| January 22 | Justice with Judge Jeanine | Fox News | 2011 | Ended | [440] |
| January 23 | Legends of the Hidden Temple | The CW | 2021 | Canceled | [441] |
| January 24 | Ordinary Joe | NBC | [442] | ||
| January 25 | Our Kind of People | Fox | [443] | ||
| January 31 | Kenan | NBC | [444] | ||
| February 1 | Raising Dion | Netflix | 2019 | [445] | |
| February 3 | Kid Cosmic | 2021 | Ended | [446][447] | |
| February 6 | Claws | TNT | 2017 | [448][449][450] | |
| February 11 | Dollface | Hulu | 2019 | Canceled | [451] |
| February 14 | Adults Adopting Adults | A&E | 2022 | [452] | |
| Black Market with Michael K. Williams | Vice | 2016 | Ended | [453][454] | |
| 4400 | The CW | 2021 | Canceled | [455] | |
| February 15 | Queens | ABC | [456] | ||
| February 17 | Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs | HBO Max | [457][458][459][460] | ||
| February 18 | Space Force | Netflix | 2020 | [461] | |
| Muppet Babies | Disney Junior | 2018 | Ended | [462] | |
| Fancy Nancy[note 10] | [463] | ||||
| February 21 | Arthur | PBS Kids | 1996 | [464][465] | |
| February 24 | Keiser Report | RT America | 2009 | Canceled | [466] |
| February 25 | Reno 911! | The Roku Channel | 2003 | [467] | |
| February 28 | Dennis Miller + One | RT America | 2020 | [468] | |
| March 2 | Legends of Tomorrow | The CW | 2016 | [469] | |
| Batwoman | 2019 | [470] | |||
| March 3 | Little Ellen | HBO Max | 2021 | [471] | |
| March 10 | B Positive | CBS | 2020 | [472] | |
| Pivoting | Fox | 2022 | [473] | ||
| March 17 | Raised by Wolves | HBO Max | 2020 | [474] | |
| Curious George | Peacock | 2006 | |||
| Flip or Flop | HGTV | 2013 | Ended | [475] | |
| March 24 | The World Tonight with Kelly Wright & Nayyera Haq | Black News Channel | 2020 | Canceled | [476][477] |
| AMplified with Aisha Mills | 2021 | ||||
| Black News Tonight with Marc Lamont Hill | |||||
| Making the Case with Yodit | |||||
| Prime with Charles Blow | |||||
| March 25 | Start Your Day with Sharon and Mike | ||||
| DC Today | 2020 | ||||
| BNC Live | |||||
| March 28 | Snowpiercer | TNT | |||
| March 29 | Promised Land | Hulu | 2022 | [333][478] | |
| March 30 | Astrid & Lilly Save the World | Syfy | [479] | ||
| March 31 | The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder | Paramount+ | [480] | ||
| Warped! | Nickelodeon | [481] | |||
| April 7 | Close Enough | HBO Max | 2020 | [482] | |
| April 8 | Woke | Hulu | [483] | ||
| Green Eggs and Ham | Netflix | 2019 | Ended | [484] | |
| Undercover Boss | CBS | 2010 | Canceled | [485] | |
| April 11 | Robot Chicken | Adult Swim | 2005 | Ended | |
| April 19 | Pacific Rim: The Black | Netflix | 2021 | [486] | |
| Black-ish | ABC | 2014 | [487][488] | ||
| April 22 | Reliable Sources Daily | CNN+ | 2022 | Canceled | [489] |
| The Source with Kasie Hunt | [490] | ||||
| The Don Lemon Show | [491] | ||||
| April 24 | Jake Tapper's Book Club | [492] | |||
| April 25 | Rex Chapman | [493] | |||
| Interview Club | [494] | ||||
| Long Slow Exhale | Spectrum | [495] | |||
| Better Things | FX | 2016 | Ended | [496][497] | |
| April 27 | 5 Things with Kate Bolduan | CNN+ | 2022 | Canceled | [498] |
| Go There | [499] | ||||
| Big Picture with Sara Sidner | [500] | ||||
| The Newscast with Wolf Blitzer | [501] | ||||
| April 28 | Anderson Cooper Full Circle | [502] | |||
| April 29 | Grace and Frankie | Netflix | 2015 | Ended | [503][504][505] |
| Ozark | 2017 | [506][507] | |||
| Right This Minute | First-run syndication | 2011 | Canceled | [citation needed] | |
| May 2 | The Endgame | NBC | 2022 | [508] | |
| May 4 | Good Sam | CBS | [509] | ||
| May 6 | The Wilds | Amazon Prime Video | 2020 | [510] | |
| May 10 | Naomi | The CW | 2022 | [455] | |
| May 12 | The Garcias | HBO Max | [511] | ||
| May 14 | Amphibia | Disney Channel | 2019 | Ended | [512][513][514] |
| May 17 | Mr. Mayor | NBC | 2021 | Canceled | [444] |
| May 18 | Beyond the Edge | CBS | 2022 | [515] | |
| May 19 | Made for Love | HBO Max | 2021 | [516] | |
| United States of Al | CBS | [517] | |||
| How We Roll | 2022 | [509] | |||
| May 20 | Night Sky | Amazon Prime Video | [518] | ||
| May 22 | Saints & Sinners | Bounce | 2016 | Ended | [519] |
| May 23 | Three Busy Debras | Adult Swim | 2020 | Canceled | [520] |
| May 24 | This Is Us | NBC | 2016 | Ended | [521][522][523] |
| May 25 | The Good Dish | First-run syndication | 2022 | Canceled | [524] |
| May 26 | The Ellen DeGeneres Show | 2003 | Ended | [525][526] | |
| Bull | CBS | 2016 | [527][528] | ||
| Tig n' Seek | HBO Max | 2020 | [529] | ||
| The Flight Attendant | Canceled | [530] | |||
| May 27 | Nick Cannon | First-run syndication | 2021 | [531][532] | |
| June 3 | The Real | 2013 | [533] | ||
| June 8 | The Real World Homecoming | Paramount+ | 2021 | [534] | |
| June 9 | Legendary | HBO Max | 2020 | [535] | |
| Young Justice | 2010 | [536][537] | |||
| Queer as Folk | Peacock | 2022 | [538] | ||
| June 10 | Charmed | The CW | 2018 | [455] | |
| First Kill | Netflix | 2022 | [539] | ||
| June 13 | Gentleman Jack | HBO | 2019 | [540] | |
| June 15 | Love, Victor | Hulu | 2020 | Ended | [541] |
| June 16 | Rutherford Falls | Peacock | 2021 | Canceled | [542] |
| Legacies | The CW | 2018 | [543] | ||
| Rat in the Kitchen | TBS | 2022 | [544] | ||
| June 17 | The Wendy Williams Show | First-run syndication | 2008 | Ended | [545] |
| June 19 | The Time Traveler's Wife | HBO | 2022 | Canceled | [546] |
| The First Lady | Showtime | [547] | |||
| I Love That for You | [548] | ||||
| June 20 | Mira, Royal Detective | Disney Junior | 2020 | Ended | [549] |
| June 22 | Snowflake Mountain | Netflix | 2022 | Canceled | [550] |
| June 23 | Gordita Chronicles | HBO Max | [551] | ||
| Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS | 2016 | [552] | ||
| Desus & Mero | Showtime | 2019 | [553] | ||
| June 24 | Come Dance with Me | CBS | 2022 | ||
| June 30 | Madagascar: A Little Wild | Hulu/Peacock | 2020 | Ended | [554] |
| Side Hustle | Nickelodeon | Canceled | [555][556] | ||
| July 3 | The Man Who Fell to Earth | Showtime | 2022 | [557] | |
| July 6 | Maggie | Hulu | [558] | ||
| July 8 | Odd Squad | PBS Kids | 2014 | Ended | [citation needed] |
| Pause with Sam Jay | HBO | 2021 | Canceled | [559] | |
| July 9 | Would I Lie to You? | The CW | 2022 | [560] | |
| July 14 | Resident Evil | Netflix | [561] | ||
| July 15 | Farzar | [562] | |||
| July 19 | Dancing with Myself | NBC | [563] | ||
| July 21 | Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous | Netflix | 2020 | Ended | [564] |
| July 28 | Players | Paramount+ | 2022 | Canceled | [565] |
| July 29 | Amber Brown | Apple TV+ | [566] | ||
| Paper Girls | Amazon Prime Video | [567] | |||
| August 2 | Tom Swift | The CW | [568][569][570] | ||
| August 4 | Moonhaven | AMC+ | [571] | ||
| August 5 | Daily Mail TV | First-run syndication | 2017 | [572] | |
| August 7 | Becoming Elizabeth | Starz | 2022 | [573] | |
| August 8 | The Doctors | First-run syndication | 2008 | [574] | |
| August 10 | Locke & Key | Netflix | 2020 | Ended | [575][576] |
| August 11 | Trolls: TrollsTopia | Hulu/Peacock | [577] | ||
| August 12 | A League of Their Own | Amazon Prime Video | 2022 | Canceled | [578] |
| August 13 | Outside the Lines | ESPN | 1990 | [579] | |
| August 14 | Westworld | HBO | 2016 | [580] | |
| Bridge and Tunnel | Epix | 2021 | [581] | ||
| August 15 | Better Call Saul | AMC | 2015 | Ended | [582][583][584] |
| August 18 | Sweet Life: Los Angeles | HBO Max | 2021 | Canceled | [585] |
| August 21 | Reliable Sources | CNN | 1992 | [586] | |
| Flatbush Misdemeanors | Showtime | 2021 | [587] | ||
| August 22 | Judge Jerry | First-run syndication | 2019 | [588] | |
| August 23 | Motherland: Fort Salem | Freeform | 2020 | Ended | [589][590] |
| August 26 | Victor and Valentino | Cartoon Network | 2019 | [591][592][593] | |
| Partner Track | Netflix | 2022 | Canceled | [594] | |
| August 27 | Black Love | Oprah Winfrey Network | 2017 | Ended | [595][596] |
| August 28 | Animal Kingdom | TNT | 2016 | [597][598][599] | |
| August 29 | Tuca & Bertie | Adult Swim | 2019 | Canceled | [600] |
| September 5 | Roswell, New Mexico | The CW | [455][601][602] | ||
| In the Dark | [603][601][604] | ||||
| September 7 | Everything's Trash | Freeform | 2022 | [605] | |
| September 8 | Maury | First-run syndication | 1991 | Ended | [606] |
| The Imperfects | Netflix | 2022 | Canceled | [594] | |
| September 9 | Daily Pop | E! | 2017 | [607] | |
| September 15 | Zerlina | MSNBC/Peacock | 2020 | [608] | |
| September 16 | Dynasty | The CW | 2017 | [455][601][609] | |
| Fate: The Winx Saga | Netflix | 2021 | [610] | ||
| September 17 | Snake in the Grass | USA Network | 2022 | [611] | |
| September 18 | The Final Straw | ABC | [612] | ||
| September 22 | Nightly Pop | E! | 2018 | [607] | |
| September 25 | City on a Hill | Showtime | 2019 | [613] | |
| September 29 | DreamWorks Dragons: Rescue Riders | Peacock | Ended | [614] | |
| September 30 | The Casagrandes | Nickelodeon | Canceled | [615][616] | |
| October 2 | Blood & Treasure | Paramount+ | [617] | ||
| October 5 | Bling Empire | Netflix | 2021 | [618] | |
| October 7 | Don Lemon Tonight | CNN | 2014 | Ended | [619] |
| The Midnight Club | Netflix | 2022 | Canceled | [620] | |
| October 10 | Kevin Can F**k Himself | AMC | 2021 | Ended | [621][622] |
| October 12 | Big Shot | Disney+ | Canceled | [623] | |
| October 13 | Pantheon | AMC+ | 2022 | [624] | |
| Dead End: Paranormal Park | Netflix | [625] | |||
| October 14 | See | Apple TV+ | 2019 | Ended | [626][627] |
| October 16 | Chesapeake Shores | Hallmark Channel | 2016 | [628] | |
| October 18 | Duncanville | Hulu | 2020 | Canceled | [629][630] |
| October 19 | Growing Up Chrisley | E! | 2019 | [155] | |
| October 20 | One of Us Is Lying | Peacock | 2021 | [631] | |
| Xplay | G4 | 1998 | [632] | ||
| October 21 | Attack of the Show! | 2005 | |||
| Los Espookys | HBO | 2019 | [633] | ||
| October 25 | Reboot | Hulu | 2022 | [634] | |
| October 26 | Jay Leno's Garage | CNBC | 2015 | [635] | |
| October 27 | Family Reunion | Netflix | 2019 | Ended | [636][637] |
| Vampire Academy | Peacock | 2022 | Canceled | [631] | |
| October 29 | The Cross Connection with Tiffany Cross | MSNBC | 2020 | [638] | |
| October 30 | American Gigolo | Showtime | 2022 | [639] | |
| Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy | CNN | 2021 | [640] | ||
| October 31 | New Day | 2013 | Ended | [641] | |
| November 2 | The News with Shepard Smith | CNBC | 2020 | Canceled | [642] |
| November 3 | Blockbuster | Netflix | 2022 | [643] | |
| November 10 | The Good Fight | Paramount+ | 2017 | Ended | [644][645] |
| Inside Amy Schumer | 2016 | Canceled | [646] | ||
| Warrior Nun | Netflix | 2020 | [647] | ||
| Atlanta | FX | 2016 | Ended | [648][649] | |
| November 11 | Back on the Record with Bob Costas | HBO | 2021 | Canceled | [650] |
| Ultra Violet & Black Scorpion | Disney Channel | 2022 | [651] | ||
| November 17 | Dead to Me | Netflix | 2019 | Ended | [652][653] |
| November 18 | Inside Job | 2021 | Canceled | [654] | |
| November 20 | The Walking Dead | AMC | 2010 | Ended | [655][656][657] |
| November 23 | Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin | Peacock | 2022 | Canceled | [658] |
| November 24 | Pennyworth | HBO Max | 2019 | [659] | |
| November 28 | Avenue 5 | HBO | 2020 | [660] | |
| November 29 | Queen Sugar | Oprah Winfrey Network | 2016 | [661] | |
| November 30 | The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers | Disney+ | 2021 | [662] | |
| December 2 | The Peripheral | Amazon Prime Video | 2022 | [663] | |
| December 5 | Morning Express with Robin Meade | HLN | 2005 | [664] | |
| December 6 | Monarch | Fox | 2022 | [665] | |
| December 7 | Stargirl | The CW | 2020 | [666] | |
| The Mysterious Benedict Society | Disney+ | 2021 | [667] | ||
| December 9 | The Mighty Ones | Hulu/Peacock | 2020 | Ended | [668] |
| December 11 | Let the Right One In | Showtime | 2022 | Canceled | [639] |
| December 13 | Kindred | Hulu | [669] | ||
| December 15 | Hell of a Week with Charlamagne tha God | Comedy Central | 2021 | [670] | |
| December 16 | Paradise PD | Netflix | 2018 | Ended | [671] |
| Shantaram | Apple TV+ | 2022 | Canceled | [672] | |
| December 18 | Step Up | Starz | 2018 | [673] | |
| December 19 | Red Table Talk | Facebook Watch | [674] | ||
| December 23 | Three Pines | Amazon Prime Video | 2022 | [675] | |
| December 25 | Ziwe | Showtime | 2021 | [676] | |
| Dangerous Liaisons | Starz | 2022 | [677] | ||
| December 26 | His Dark Materials | HBO | 2019 | Ended | [678] |
| December 28 | Money Court | CNBC | 2021 | Canceled | [679] |
| December 29 | South Side | HBO Max | 2019 | [680] | |
| December 30 | The Wheel | NBC | 2022 | [681] |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9-1-1 | 6 | Yes | [682] | |
| The Good Doctor | Yes | |||
| Fuller House | No | GAC Family's acquisition of the 2016–20 Netflix sitcom (which joined the network's lineup on February 28) marks the first time that Fuller House has been carried on the same platform as its parent series, Full House (which began airing on GAC Family on February 7). | [683] | |
| American Housewife | 5 | Network syndication in addition to cable reruns | [684] | |
| The Rookie | 4 | Yes | ||
| The Neighborhood | ||||
| Wahlburgers | 10 | No | [685] |
| Network | Type | Launch date | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CBS News Miami | OTT streaming | January 24 | CBS News and Stations launched CBS News Miami, utilizing news resources from and originating out of the Doral studios of CBSNS's Miami–Fort Lauderdale duopoly of CBS O&O WFOR-TV and MyNetworkTV affiliate WBFS-TV. The service—the 13th CBS News Local property to launch—offers simulcasts and encores of WFOR/WBFS's newscasts, original content and additional newscasts produced exclusively for the service as well as national programming from the parent CBS News Streaming network. | [686] |
| Story Television | OTA multicast | March 28 | On February 14, Weigel Broadcasting announced that it would launch Story Television on March 28. The network—which is Weigel's sixth national network and its seventh network overall (counting MeTV+, which has its availability limited to select Weigel stations), and the group's first multicast network to focus on unscripted programming—features historical and factual programming drawing primarily from the A&E Networks program library (mainly featuring series originated on A&E and History). In addition to carriage on Weigel-owned stations, Story Television was initially available on stations owned by Hearst Television, Marquee Broadcasting and Maranatha Broadcasting Company. | [687][688] |
| CNN+ | OTT streaming | March 29 | Announced in July 2021 by then-parent WarnerMedia News & Sports (now operating as CNN Global under Warner Bros. Discovery), the subscription companion streaming service to CNN—which is available as an add-on within CNN's apps and websites—features exclusive and original programs including talk shows providing analysis of news and current events, and specialty genre programming (including live shows anchored by Wolf Blitzer, Brian Stelter and Chris Wallace, and additional series hosted by Don Lemon, Jake Tapper and Anderson Cooper) as well as original series and documentaries from CNN's library (such as Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown), and interactive programming. | [689][690] |
| The Weather Channel en Espaňol | May 2 | Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the English network's launch, Allen Media Group launches a Spanish language version of The Weather Channel, operating as a 24-hour streaming network initially available on the network's website and mobile app and on co-owned AVOD service Local Now. The Weather Channel en Español offers local and national forecasts (including live and computer-automated forecast programs) as well as selected content from The Weather Channel and its climate and environment initiative/OTT network Pattrn. | [691] | |
| The Weather Channel TV App | Also coinciding with TWC's 40th anniversary, Allen Media Group quietly launched The Weather Channel TV App, a direct-to-consumer streaming service—to be sold for $4.99/month—initially available for Roku and Xfinity Flex devices, and Amazon Fire TV, Android TV and Samsung Smart TV models. The service, which is structurally similar to TWC's TV Everywhere app, offers a live linear feed of the channel as well as local weather information (conceptually similar to TWC's interactive weather apps for DirecTV and Dish Network), on-demand clips from its forecast-based shows and unscripted original programming. It is unclear if the service is intended as a replacement for Weather Channel Plus, a broader subscription streaming service announced by AMG on June 30, 2021, and originally announced for a Q4 2021 launch, that was to 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 Local Now), along with a likely merger of Entertainment Studios Networks's "SmartTV.com" Roku service (which offers streams and content from ESN's seven entertainment networks) that pre-dated AMG's purchase of The Weather Channel. | [692][693] | ||
| NESN 360 | June 1 | The New England Sports Network (NESN)—home to Major League Baseball's Boston Red Sox and the NHL's Boston Bruins, among other sports teams in the region—becomes the first regional sports network to offer a standalone, direct-to-customer streaming service, featuring livestreams of NESN's main and overflow linear channels and a VOD library of its original studio and sports talk programs. Available only to customers in New England (due to MLB owning its own out-of-market streaming rights), the service is based on NESN's legacy app and TV platforms. | [694] | |
| Bally Sports+ | June 23 (in select markets); September 26 (nationwide) |
First announced in December 2020, Diamond Sports Group will soft-launch Bally Sports+, a direct-to-customer streaming service offering livestreams and market-specific studio and sports talk programs from regional Bally Sports networks, in five markets where the RSN group maintains in-market Major League Baseball broadcast rights (Kansas City, Detroit, Miami, Milwaukee, and Florida). The service—which will be based on the network's legacy app and TV platforms, initially on smartphones and tablet devices and subsequently becoming available on Roku devices by the 2022 MLB All-Star Game—expanded to the remainder of Bally Sports’ regional markets on September 26 (and is limited to customers residing within those service areas due to MLB owning its own out-of-market streaming rights). Optional bundles providing access to content from multiple Bally Sports networks serving markets where coverage of its individual linear channels overlap were made available to customers following the national launch. | [695][696] | |
| NFL+ | July 25 | On May 25, Sports Business Journal reported the NFL planned to launch an SVOD streaming service in July, which would stream live in-market games as well as additional content (which may include radio broadcasts, podcasts and team-produced content) on smartphones and tablets. The launch of the service follows previous streaming agreements and formats with Yahoo! and Verizon, which expired at the end of the 2021 season. | [697][698] | |
| AFN Now | September 20 (test launch at DOD Asia-Pacific bases); November 7 (all DOD worldwide bases) |
On July 19, the American Forces Network announced plans to launch an international streaming service, which would provide VOD content (consisting of network newscasts, sports, daytime and late-night talk shows, soap operas, children's programs, and other scripted and unscripted entertainment programming sourced from various U.S.-based television networks) and livestreams of AFN's linear networks free-of-charge to U.S. military personnel and their family members, military retirees, and Department of Defense civilian residents stationed or assigned overseas. On-demand availability of sports events—initially set to include Major League Baseball and NHL games, soccer matches, and NASCAR and IndyCar races—will be limited at launch, pending agreements with additional sports leagues. AFN Now soft-launched at DOD military installations in Japan and South Korea on September 20, before expanding to the remainder of the department's overseas installations when it formally launched on November 7. | [699][700] [701][702] [703] |
| Old network name |
New network name |
Type | Conversion date | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hillsong Channel | TBN Inspire | OTA multicast and cable/satellite/IPTV | January 1 | Trinity Broadcasting Network renamed their joint venture network with Hillsong Church on January 1, a change announced in mid-November 2021, as the American Hillsong Church and Australian mother church have come under controversies involving their personnel, past and present, including the issues of former American church leader Carl Lentz's infidelity and allegations of founder Frank Houston's sexual abuse of children coming to light. Although only planned to be an American-only change, by April, TBN rebranded the network worldwide after Brian Houston resigned from the church after infidelity allegations were brought forward against him and dropped all Hillsong programming. | [704][705] |
| DIY Network | Magnolia Network | Cable and satellite | January 5 | Chip and Joanna Gaines of Fixer Upper fame announced in an interview on the November 9, 2018, edition of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon they were returning to the fold of the former Scripps Networks Interactive networks now owned by Discovery, Inc. to launch a new full-time network based on their Magnolia lifestyle brand after taking a year's hiatus to consider other offers outside of HGTV. The Gaines will have the minority stake in the network. The launch was then oft-moved; Discovery announced on January 16, 2020, it would launch October 4 in the same year, but coronavirus-caused filming restrictions that would affect the network's debut lineup forced Discovery to delay the network's launch date indefinitely on April 21, 2020, with some programming launched as a part of Discovery+ starting on January 4, 2021, instead to build word-of-mouth for the linear network launch. More Magnolia Network content was placed on Discovery+ in mid-July of that year, with the transition of the wireline DIY Network to Magnolia Network occurring on January 5, 2022. After the Discovery properties were folded into Warner Bros. Discovery post-merger, the network was placed under the direct purview of Home Box Office, Inc. (All other Discovery networks were assigned to the Warner Bros. Discovery Networks unit within the company's corporate structure.) | [706][707] [708][709] [710] |
| CBSN | CBS News Streaming | OTT streaming | January 24 | CBS News announced the rebrand of its CBSN streaming channel in November 2021, in an attempt to unify branding and newsgathering resources with the division. In addition to retaining daily rolling news blocks and content sourced from and simulcasts of CBS News programs (such as 60 Minutes and Face the Nation), the renamed CBS News Streaming Network incorporated additional original programming including The Uplift (hosted by CBS Mornings co-anchor Tony Dokoupil), a revival of Person to Person (hosted by Norah O'Donnell), Here Comes the Sun (a spin-off of CBS Sunday Morning), and The Dish (an extension of the cooking segments featured on CBS Saturday Morning, featuring that program's anchors). Concurrent with the national network's rebranding and the launch of its Miami service, CBS Television Stations concurrently rebranded its 12 existing local CBSN services under the CBS News Local umbrella. | [686] |
| Court TV Mystery | Ion Mystery | OTA multicast and cable/satellite | February 24 | On February 23, the E. W. Scripps Company announced it would rebrand the true crime and mystery-focused multicast network as an extension of Ion Television effective February 24; Scripps considered the Ion branding more fitting for Mystery, which mainly offers scripted police procedural and mystery series as well as selected true crime documentary series, than that of co-owned Court TV as the main Ion network has aired similarly formatted scripted programs—as was the case, incidentally, during the latter years of Court TV's indirect cable predecessor—for most of its history. (Mystery—which, ironically, is not carried on the same station as the local Ion outlet in many of its markets as of the rebranding date—was among the five existing Scripps-owned subchannel networks that had their local affiliations moved to Ion-owned stations following the company's 2021 acquisition of Ion Media.) | [711] |
| IMDb TV | Amazon Freevee | OTT streaming | April 28 | On April 13, Amazon announced it would rebrand its ad-supported VOD streaming service, IMDb TV, as Amazon Freevee on April 27. Branded as an extension of co-owned online film and TV database IMDb since its founding, the service was launched in January 2019 as IMDb Freedive, before adopting the IMDb TV moniker six months later. The rebrand ended up occurring a day later than announced. | [712] |
| GAC Family | Great American Family | Cable/satellite | August 20 | On July 19, it was announced that GAC Media would rebrand as Great American Media as part of a corporate rebranding. As part of the rebranding, GAC Family and GAC Living were renamed as Great American Family and Great American Living, respectively. | [713] |
| GAC Living | Great American Living | ||||
| TVG Network | FanDuel TV | September 1 | Betfair, which had acquired the then-daily fantasy sports site FanDuel in mid-2018 and transferred the name to its American subsidiary (which included the Television Gaming, or TVG, networks, acquired from Macrovision in 2008), completes the process of re-branding and expanding the horse racing-specific networks to the FanDuel brand with the ongoing legalization of sports gambling across a number of states after the Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association decision struck down the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 in 2018, with the oncoming 2022 NFL season. Both networks will continue to offer horse racing (along with some greyhound racing, which will only run in West Virginia by the end of 2022), with the addition of general sports gaming-specific discussion and debate shows added to the schedule, along with former Good Morning Football host Kay Adams hosting programs for the network. The dropping of the TVG brand also severs the remaining ties to founding owner TV Guide and released the network from a brand licensing agreement with that latter for that initialized name. | [714] | |
| TVG2 | FanDuel Racing | ||||
| MSG+ MSG+2 |
MSG Sportsnet MSG Sportsnet 2 |
September 26 | The regional sports network (and its overflow)’s rebrand did not have an officially announced reason, but has been speculated to be to clear up customer confusion as the "Plus" suffix has seen become commonly used for streaming services. | [715] |
| Network | Type | End date | Notes | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NickRewind | Programming block | January 31 | TeenNick discontinued the overnight block of Nickelodeon's 1990s and 2000s original series on this date, replacing it with more recent Nickelodeon series already carried on its schedule (such as the original iCarly). Airing under multiple brands since its 2011 premiere, NickRewind had seen most of its programming shift to other ViacomCBS/Paramount streaming venues—including Pluto TV and Paramount+—since 2019. | [716] |
| RT America | Cable and satellite | March 3 | The Washington-based arm of Russian state-funded news channel RT ceased operations in the wake of widespread opposition to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with production partner T&R Productions discontinuing all live programming and laying off its entire staff. The shutdown occurred two days after its removal by DirecTV, co-owned U-verse TV, and Roku. Outside of its YouTube channel, Dish Network and its Sling TV service were RT America's only remaining linear distributors. (DirecTV had been considering removing RT America prior to the invasion once its contract expired mid-year, while Roku's initial removal of RT's apps in Europe was related to E.U. sanctions on Russian state media outlets.) Ora Media, one of the network's production partners, had also paused production of programs hosted by Dennis Miller (who was among the few on-air hosts to have resigned from the network in protest of the invasion) and William Shatner. | [717][718] [468] |
| Fox Life | Cable and satellite | March 31 | The American version of Fox Life, a Spanish-language network carrying mainly instructional home programming imported from Latin and South America, and Spanish-language dubs of American reality programming, was discontinued on this date, as The Walt Disney Company continued to wind down extraneous and declining assets from their acquisition of much of the assets of 21st Century Fox, especially those requiring payment of brand licensing fees to Fox Corporation. The network had launched as the U.S. version of Utilisma in 2001, becoming Fox Life in 2013; other international versions of Fox Life had already been wound down through 2020 and 2021 (five other regional versions in Western Europe and Japan were closed or relaunched under new brands and formats under News Corp/Fox ownership between 2009 and 2016), leaving its services in Greece and India as the only remaining Fox Life-branded networks in operation following the U.S. version's closure. The Latin American version of Fox Life, since rebranded as Star Life, also closed on the same date, along with several spin-off networks of National Geographic and Disney in the region. | [719][720] |
| CNN+ | OTT streaming | April 28 | Following its March 29 launch, the CNN streaming offshoot only attained 100,000 subscribers and 10,000 daily viewers after its first week. Executives with Discovery, Inc. (which merged with CNN parent company WarnerMedia to form Warner Bros. Discovery on April 8) were skeptical of CNN's estimated $1 billion investment in CNN+ through 2025, its broader strategy with the service (preferring to incorporate CNN content into HBO Max) and WarnerMedia's decision to launch it weeks before the merger's completion, citing Discovery's experience with launching similar niche streaming services prior to the 2021 launch of Discovery+. Most original programming would migrate over to either HBO Max or the linear CNN cable television channel. Warner Bros. Discovery's CNN Global division announced the shutdown on April 21; its cessation likely resulted in CNN+ becoming the shortest-lived American streaming service to date. | [721][722] |
| Real | Cable and satellite | July 15 | As part of a transition to a new satellite and the reduction of overall bandwidth for The Erotic Networks, TEN owner New Frontier Media notified providers that it would discontinue its adult pay-per-view network Real on July 15. That network mainly featured unscripted and amateur sexual content. | [723] |
| Cinemax Go | TV Everywhere website service | July 31 | On April 28, Warner Bros. Discovery notified providers that it would sunset the Cinemax Go service on July 31. The TV Everywhere platform—available to subscribers of Cinemax's linear channel tier—had been operating as a web-only service since May 2020, when WBD (then WarnerMedia) discontinued its mobile and smart TV apps as then-owner AT&T ramped up promotion of HBO Max over disparate TVE services. Most of the premium channel's previous original programming has already transitioned to HBO Max, along with its month-to-month film rights. On-demand content from the network remains available through its streaming add-ons and cable/satellite VOD service. | [724][725] |
| Black News Channel | Cable/satellite and OTT streaming | August 1 | Launched in February 2020 as a linear/streaming news channel targeted at African-Americans, BNC—co-founded by former congressman J.C. Watts and media executive Bob Brillante—ceased operations on August 1, following Allen Media Group's acquisition of the network from majority shareholder Shahid Khan (see July 20 entry); its carriage agreements and satellite feed were transferred over to Allen's existing entertainment-focused OTA multicast network, TheGrio, which will incorporate news and commentary programs into its schedule to comply with BNC's carriage deals. BNC suspended live programming on March 25, after failing to meet payroll amidst a class action lawsuit filed in January against parent company BNC Services, LLC and the withdrawal of Khan's funding, and subsequently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on March 28. (Documentaries and other recorded content, including taped rolling news from as early as January, aired in the interim, before the network resumed a limited live daytime schedule on May 9.) BNC had suffered from persistently low viewership (it ranked 123rd out of 124 networks by average viewership according to 2021 Nielsen cable estimates, with a per-program average of 4,000 viewers), and underwent a series of layoffs and voluntary staff departures that had affected 120 employees since December 2021. | [191][476] [726][192] [193] |
| Digi-TV | OTA multicast | August 1 | Citing "economic decisions beyond our control," Digi-TV ceased operations after 11 months, making it one of the shortest-lived American OTA multicast networks. Primarily airing on subchannels of stations owned and operated by TelevisaUnivision (among other affiliation agreements), Digi-TV featured scripted, reality, knowledge and lifestyle programs imported from Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. | [727][728] |
| Olympic Channel | Cable and satellite | September 30 | On July 1, NBC Sports Group announced it was shutting down the U.S. version of Olympic Channel, which launched in partnership with the International Olympic Committee in July 2017 (replacing the general entertainment Universal HD, which had succeeded Bravo HD+ in 2004) to provide supplemental coverage of Olympic sports and qualifying events, along with original programming produced by the United States Olympic Committee and archival events. Its programming moves to other NBCUniversal-owned properties (including the Peacock streaming service), with a formal announcement concerning plans for its existing programming and broadcast rights expected in the fall. | [729][730] |
| G4 | Cable and satellite | November 18 | Citing low viewership, on October 16, Comcast Spectacor announced it would sunset G4 for the second time, almost a year after relaunching the gaming-focused pop culture network in November 2021, reportedly due to it failing to meet a $19 million annual revenue goal as well as very low viewership (it ranked last out of 124 networks by average viewership according to Q3 2022 Nielsen cable estimates, with both total day and prime time averages of 1,000 viewers); 45 employees were laid off as a consequence of the planned shutdown. The original incarnation of the network—which was co-developed as a venture of Comcast and NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment—launched in April 2002 (eventually merging with technology news network TechTV in May 2004) and operated for 12 years until it was shut down in December 2014. | [731][732] [733][734] [735] |
| Weatherscan | Cable and satellite | December 9 | The Weather Channel's automated 24-hour cable and satellite channel Weatherscan was announced in October 2022 to be shutting down "no later than December 9". The service was dropped by multiple cable providers in preceding years due to declining viewership, the availability of smartphone weather apps, and the age of the technology that Weatherscan runs on. | [736] |
| Azteca América | OTA Spanish-language network | December 31 | On October 21, INNOVATE Corp. announced it would shut down Azteca America on December 31, after 22 years of operation as a competitor to leading Spanish networks Univision and Telemundo. Prior to the announcement, INNOVATE (previously known as HC2 Holdings Inc. until 2021) had been selling most of the full-power stations operated by Azteca America, and began notifying affiliates and advertising partners of the network's planned closure. In addition, Azteca had entered into a content and co-production agreement with competitor Estrella TV that will see its news and entertainment programming blended onto that network's schedule. | [737][738] |
| Evoca | Subscription OTA network | December 31 | Evoca, which operated on a network of ATSC 3.0 broadcasters that required a set-top box (based on Android) to decrypt the signal, closed down December 31, due to lack of funding. Its primary programming was to relay regional sports networks in smaller bundles (and thus lower prices) than cable, satellite or subscription over-the-top services. Evoca users, who are concentrated in the northwestern United States, will be allowed to keep their set-top boxes to use them for over-the-top service apps. | [739] |
| Date | Market | Station | Channel | Affiliation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1 | Panama City, Florida | W20DX-D | 20.1 | MeTV |
| Date | Market | Station | Channel | Affiliation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 21 | Marquette, Michigan | WZMQ | 19.7 | Ion Television | [740] |
| March 1 | Pensacola, Florida/Mobile, Alabama | WJTC | 44.2 | Rewind TV | |
| March 15 | San Diego, California | KSWB-TV | 69.5 | ||
| April 1 | Reno, Nevada | KRXI-TV | 11.4 | ||
| May 8 | Washington, D.C. | WDDN-LD | 23.3 | Jewelry Television | |
| July 6 | Memphis, Tennessee | WLMT | 30.8 | Rewind TV | |
| July 11 | Boise, Idaho | KTVB | 7.8 | ||
| August 4 | Minneapolis/St. Paul | KMSP-TV | 9.8 | Story Television | |
| September 12 | Charleston, South Carolina | WGWG | 4.5 | Heroes & Icons | [741] |
| September 28 | Columbus, Georgia | WXTX | 54.4 | Dabl | |
| 54.5 | Heroes & Icons | ||||
| 54.6 | Start TV | ||||
| December 27 | Bowling Green, Kentucky | WBKO | 13.4 | Circle |
| Date | Market | Station | Channel | Prior affiliation | New affiliation | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 1 | Salinas–Monterey– Santa Cruz, California |
KCBA | 35.1 | Fox | CW+ | In December 2021, the News-Press & Gazette Company, owner of CBS affiliate KION-TV, purchased the rights to Fox network and syndicated programming held by KCBA (owned by Seal Rock Broadcasters and operated by Entravision Communications via an LMA). On January 1, KCBA's former intellectual unit—including the Fox affiliation—moved permanently to KION-DT2 (which retained the former's prior "Fox 35" brand and took over KCBA's former channel slots on local cable and satellite providers), while KCBA affiliated with The CW Plus, which relocated from the KION subchannel. The move resulted in the "Big Four" affiliations in the Salinas–Monterey market becoming controlled by only two commercial stations (Hearst-owned NBC affiliate KSBW has carried ABC over its DT2 feed since April 2011). | [742] |
| KION-TV | 46.2 | CW+ | Fox | ||||
| January 3 | Bakersfield, California | KUVI-DT | 45.1 | True Crime Network | Twist | ||
| January 21 | Marquette, Michigan | WJMN-TV | 3.1 | CBS | MyNetworkTV (primary); Antenna TV (secondary) |
On January 20, Lilly Broadcasting—as part of affiliation renewals involving sister stations WENY/Elmira, New York, and WSEE/Erie, Pennsylvania—announced that WZMQ would take over as the Upper Peninsula's CBS affiliate effective the following day, replacing Nexstar Media Group-owned WJMN-TV, which had carried the network's programming since February 1992, a byproduct of CBS's purchase of the station and Green Bay sister WFRV (of which WJMN served as a semi-satellite from its October 1969 sign-on until the CBS disaffiliation) from Midwest Television and Radio. WJMN affiliated with MyNetworkTV (previously on WZMQ) and added programming from Nexstar-owned Antenna TV to fill vacated overnight/early morning and weekend slots, while retaining most of its syndicated content and expanding its twice-daily evening newscasts to one hour each. CBS was relegated to WZMQ-DT2 (displacing both Start TV to WZMQ-DT4 and that subchannel's former Ion Television affiliation to the newly launched WZMQ-DT7), while adding morning weather inserts and evening newscasts produced primarily out of WSEE/WICU's Erie News Now operation in downtown Erie. (As MeTV remained on WZMQ's main feed, the switch marked the first known instance of a "Big Four" network maintaining a subchannel-only affiliation with a station primarily affiliated with a network intended for subchannel distribution.) | [743][740] [note 11] |
| WZMQ | 19.2 | Start TV | CBS | ||||
| January 25 | Alpena, Michigan | WBKB-TV | 11.2 | Fox/MyNetworkTV (moved to 11.4) | NBC | On January 24, Marks Radio Group announced that WBKB-DT2 would switch to NBC the following day. In turn, the subchannel's former Fox, MyNetworkTV and syndicated programming inventory was moved to a new DT4 subchannel of that station. The addition of NBC programming results in the "Big Four" affiliations in the Alpena market becoming controlled by the market's sole commercial station (WBKB-TV has been a primary CBS affiliate since its September 1975 sign-on and has also carried ABC on its DT3 feed since January 2013) and gave NBC local broadcast outlets in all 210 Nielsen DMAs. (The CW, affiliated with cable-only CW Plus outlet "WBAE", is the only remaining major network not available over-the-air within the Alpena DMA.) Previously, NBC programming had been provided to the area on cable and satellite via WTOM-TV/Cheboygan, which provides fringe over-the-air coverage to Alpena. | [745] |
| January 31 | Honolulu, Hawaii | KIKU | 20.1 | ShopHQ | Multicultural Independent | On January 31, Allen Media Broadcasting took over ownership of KIKU, thus making the 39-year-old independent a sister station of ABC affiliate KITV. It also brought back its previous multicultural schedule of Japanese, Chinese, and Tagalog-language programming that was removed by its then-owner WRNN-TV Associates in favor of a controversial deal with ShopHQ started on July 1, 2021, to exploit their must-carry coverage across all their stations (a network already universally available through cable and satellite, and only 15 channels away from KIKU's channel position on Oceanic Spectrum, the state's major cable provider), which especially sparked outrage from local viewers and the station's own management (which will remain under Allen ownership) for removal of local-targeted programming in favor of a low-rated Mainland shopping network. In addition, KIKU will also serve as a secondary ABC affiliate for KITV, including simulcasting its newscasts (as well as adding an extra hour of its morning newscast) and regular syndicated programming. | [746][747] |
| April 15 | San Francisco, California | KOFY-TV | 20.1 | Independent | Grit | KOFY ended all efforts to program as an independent station on its main channel on this date, and become a Grit affiliate. | |
| May 8 | Washington, D.C. | WDME-CD | 48.1 | Jewelry Television | MeTV | WAZT-CD, a station sold to Weigel Broadcasting in October 2021 by Venture Technologies Group for $3 million, finishes up its existing Jewelry Television affiliation agreement, changing its calls on April 21, to WDME-CD. On May 8, 2022, it moves onto becoming the market's O&O for MeTV, replacing WTTG-DT2, along with adding Weigel's other networks to its subchannels. | |
| June 1 | Las Vegas, Nevada | KHSV | 21.1 | Heroes & Icons | On June 1, KLAS-TV moved Rewind TV from 8.4 to 8.2, and added Shop LC on 8.4, sending MeTV to KHSV's main subchannel, displacing Heroes & Icons and Decades to subchannels 21.2 and 21.6 respectively. | ||
| June 3 | Appleton–Green Bay, Wisconsin | WACY-TV | 32.1 | MyNetworkTV | Independent | On June 3, 2022, WACY disaffiliated with MyNetworkTV with no public notice, and returned to being an unaffiliated independent station for the first time since January 1995. | |
| July 28 | Anaheim-Los Angeles, California | KDOC-TV | 56.1 | Independent | TCT | After the sale by Ellis Communications to TCT for $41 million and a farewell special, KDOC-TV becomes the Christian television network's West Coast flagship station, though its other subchannels remain associated with their previous networks. | |
| September 1 | Abilene, Texas | KTES-LD | 40.1 | MeTV | Comet | ||
| Bowling Green, Kentucky | WBGS-LD | 34.1 | ABC (as a WBKO translator) | Telemundo | WBKO simulcast moves to WBGS's second digital subchannel. | ||
| Nashville, Tennessee | WTNX-LD | 15.1 | NBC (as a WSMV-TV translator) | WSMV simulcast moves to WTNX's second digital subchannel | |||
| September 12 | Charleston, South Carolina | WGWG | 4.1 | Heroes & Icons | MeTV | [741] | |
| September 19 | Boston, Massachusetts | WSBK-TV | 38.1 | MyNetworkTV | Independent | On September 19, CBS News and Stations-owned WSBK and WBFS quietly disaffiliated from MyNetworkTV with the start of the new television season and replace the timeslots that the service's programming occupied with syndicated programs and local newscasts produced by their sister stations (WBZ-TV and WFOR-TV, respectively). The absence of any replacement affiliates for MyNetworkTV in Miami and Boston leaves the programming service with its largest loss of TV households by market rank. | |
| Miami, Florida | WBFS-TV | 33.1 | |||||
| November 2 | Tijuana, Baja California-San Diego, California | XHAS-TDT | 33.1 | Azteca América | Spanish independent | It was announced in October 2022 that Intermedia, owner of XHILA-TDT in Mexicali, would take over programming for the station on 2 November, to be called "Canal 33". | [748] |
| November 10 | Abilene, Texas | KTES-LD | 40.1 | Comet | TBD | ||
| November 13 | Chattanooga, Tennessee | WDSI-TV | 61.1 | This TV | True Crime Network | ||
| November 14 | Zanesville, Ohio | WHIZ-TV | 18.2 | Cozi TV (moved to 18.3) | Fox (primary); MyNetworkTV (secondary) |
On October 24, Marquee Broadcasting-owned NBC affiliate WHIZ-TV, the only full-power commercial station in the small Zanesville market, moved its DT2 subchannel's affiliation Cozi TV to DT3 and announced that DT2 would be joining Fox and MyNetworkTV effective November 14 (DT2 simulcasted WHIZ-TV's main subchannel in the interim). This left Glendive, Montana, the smallest media market in the country, as the only Nielsen DMA without either a locally based Fox affiliate. Previously, Fox was shown on the DT3 subchannel of ABC affiliate WSYX, and before that WTTE, while WSYX's DT2 subchannel showed MyNetworkTV, all in nearby Columbus, had served the Zanesville area on local cable and satellite systems. | [749] |
| Station | Channel | Affiliation | Market | Date | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WYCC | 20.1 | First Nations Experience | Chicago, Illinois | June 1 | Chicago's former official second member station for PBS, WYCC, sees its license returned by its owners and signs off permanently. The station, which had launched as WXXW by Window to the World Communications (founders and owners of primary PBS station WTTW) in 1965, had a history of 'secondhand' status in the Chicago market, being neglected in its first WTTW ownership and going silent in 1974 due to transmitter disrepair. Sold to the City Colleges of Chicago in 1983, it returned to the air as a city-focused educational service with a popular afternoon homework helpline program, other local programming, and British import programming and secondary PBS content filling its schedule, but also faced the whims of Chicago politics, with mayors and city councils varying their funding over the years. It (along with Northwest Indiana PBS member station WYIN) also faced continued hostility from Window to the World, which continually angled to be the exclusive PBS member station for Chicagoland and disallowed any attempt by either station to diversify and compete, using their role as a national programming provider to stop any such attempts for both stations.
By 2017, the City Colleges sold WYCC's spectrum during the FCC spectrum auction for nearly $16 million, intending for it to sign off by the end of 2017, but was pressured to sell to another party to preserve its format. Window to the World re-acquired the station's license by March 2018, entering into a technical channel sharing agreement with WTTW to keep WYCC alive, but did not rehire any WYCC staff, and soon reduced it to an unpublicized passthrough of the FNX Native American-focused network. WTTW ran into its own funding issues during the pandemic and decided to relinquish the WYCC license to save the money being used for WYCC's regulatory compliance, along with the FNX affiliation. In technicality, the launch of World Channel on WYCC's former spectrum share as WTTW-DT5 replaced it. |
[751] |
| WVTA | 41.# | PBS | Windsor, Vermont | November 23 | On February 17, 2017, Vermont PBS announced that it had sold the WVTA broadcast license for $56 million in the FCC's spectrum auction. In a statement, the network said that its other signals would be upgraded to cover the area served by WVTA. The WVTA license, which continued on the WVER multiplex, was then surrendered for cancellation on November 23, 2022. | [752] |
| Date | Name | Age | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 3 | Jay Wolpert | 79 | American screenwriter and producer, whose television work was most associated with game shows (1969 Jeopardy! Grand Champion, did production work on The Price Is Right, created Whew!, Hit Man, Blackout and Rodeo Drive) | [753] |
| January 4 | Joan Copeland | 99 | American actress, whose television work included regular, recurring and guest roles in several soap operas (Search for Tomorrow, Love of Life, The Edge of Night, How to Survive a Marriage, As the World Turns, Loving, All My Children, One Life to Live, Santa Barbara, Another World) and the 1960 live production of The Iceman Cometh as well as guest roles in Suspense, The Patty Duke Show, Naked City, Law & Order, Chicago Hope, NYPD Blue, The Defenders, All in the Family, Cagney & Lacey, American Playhouse and ER. | [754] |
| January 6 | Sidney Poitier | 94 | Bahamian-American actor/film director, was the first Black person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor (1964); television credits include the made-for-TV movies Separate but Equal, To Sir, with Love II, Mandela and de Klerk, and The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn. | [755] |
| January 8 | Marilyn Bergman | 93 | American songwriter and composer (Bracken's World, Maude, Good Times, Alice, Brooklyn Bridge, and In the Heat of the Night) | [756] |
| January 9 | Dwayne Hickman | 87 | American actor and television executive, producer and director. Hickman portrayed Chuck MacDonald, Bob Collins' girl-crazy teenage nephew, in the 1950s The Bob Cummings Show and the title character in the 1960s sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, and later served as a programming executive at CBS from 1977 to 1988. | [757] |
| Bob Saget | 65 | Actor and comedian best known as Danny Tanner on Full House and Fuller House, the first host of America's Funniest Home Videos, and the narrator, older Ted Mosby, on How I Met Your Mother. Other TV credits include hosting the game show 1 vs. 100; lead roles in Raising Dad, Surviving Suburbia and the telefilm Father and Scout; and directing the telefilms For Hope and Becoming Dick. | [758] | |
| January 10 | Robert Durst | 78 | Subject of HBO's The Jinx miniseries, in which he accidentally confessed to murder on a hot mic, which led to his conviction on first-degree homicide in the death of longtime friend Susan Berman. | [759] |
| January 15 | Ralph Emery | 88 | Country music radio/TV personality, and host of the syndicated Pop! Goes the Country and The Nashville Network's Nashville Now | [760] |
| January 18 | Peter Robbins | 65 | Child actor best known for originating the voice of Charlie Brown, from A Charlie Brown Christmas through It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown | [761] |
| André Leon Talley | 73 | Fashion journalist and stylist; served as a judge on America's Next Top Model, and as a contributor for Entertainment Tonight. | [762] | |
| January 19 | Gaspard Ulliel | 37 | French actor (Moon Knight) | [763] |
| January 20 | Meat Loaf | 74 | Singer and actor; TV credits include musical guest appearances on Saturday Night Live (in 1978 and 1981), and starring as Doug Rennie in Ghost Wars. | [764] |
| January 21 | Louie Anderson | 68 | Actor and comedian, best known for Emmy-winning role as Christine Baskets on Baskets. Other notable TV credits include serving as creator and star of Life with Louie, host of the syndicated version of Family Feud (from 1999 to 2002), and appearing as a regular panelist on Funny You Should Ask. | [765] |
| January 22 | Kathryn Kates | 73 | American actress; TV credits include recurring and guest roles in Seinfeld, Orange Is the New Black, Lizzie McGuire, Shades of Blue and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Other guest starring portrayals included Guiding Light, Santa Barbara, General Hospital, Bewitched, Saved by the Bell, and The Nanny. | [766] |
| January 25 | David G. Mugar | 82 | American businessman (founder of WHDH-TV/Boston and creator of the Boston Pops Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular) | [767] |
| January 26 | Morgan Stevens | 70 | Actor, best known as David Reardon in Fame, Jack Gardner in A Year in the Life and Nick Diamond in Melrose Place. | [768][769] |
| Moses J. Moseley | 31 | Actor (The Walking Dead) | [770] | |
| January 28 | Donald May | 92 | Actor, best known as Sam Colt Jr. on Colt .45 and Adam Drake on The Edge of Night. Made guest starring roles on other soap operas (All My Children, One Life to Live, Santa Barbara). | [771] |
| January 29 | Howard Hesseman | 81 | Actor best known as DJ John "Dr. Johnny Fever" Caravella on WKRP in Cincinnati and its sequel The New WKRP in Cincinnati, Sam Royer on One Day at a Time, and Charlie Moore on Head of the Class | [772] |
| January 30 | Cheslie Kryst | 30 | Miss USA 2019 winner and correspondent for Extra | [773] |
| Date | Name | Age | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 1 | Conrad Janis | 94 | Actor best known as Fred McConnell on Mork & Mindy and Otto Bob Palindrome on Quark. Guest star roles included Cagney & Lacey, Laverne & Shirley, Happy Days, The Oprah Winfrey Show | [784] |
| March 2 | Johnny Brown | 84 | Regular cast member of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, played Nathan Bookman on Good Times. | [785] |
| March 3 | Tim Considine | 81 | Writer and actor best known as Mike Douglas on My Three Sons | [786] |
| March 4 | Elsa Klensch | 92 | Fashion journalist and host of CNN's Style with Elsa Klensch | [787] |
| Mitchell Ryan | 88 | Actor best known as Burke Devlin on Dark Shadows and Edward Montgomery on Dharma & Greg | [788] | |
| Jim Owens | 84 | American producer best known for his country music programming for The Nashville Network; husband of and collaborator with Lorianne Crook | [789] | |
| March 9 | Jimmy Lydon | 98 | American actor and television producer whose career dates back to the 1930s (The Life of Riley, The First Hundred Years, Rocky Jones, Space Ranger, So This Is Hollywood, Love That Jill, The Gale Storm Show, Wagon Train) | [790] |
| John Korty | 85 | Animator (Vegetable Soup, Sesame Street) and director (Go Ask Alice, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman) | [791] | |
| March 10 | Emilio Delgado | 81 | Actor, best known as Luis Rodriguez on Sesame Street, who he played from 1971 to 2016. Appeared on Hawaii Five-O, Law & Order, Falcon Crest and House of Cards | [792] |
| March 11 | Traci Braxton | 50 | Singer (Braxton Family Values) | [793] |
| March 13 | William Hurt | 71 | Emmy-nominated actor for roles in the series Damages and the TV movie Too Big to Fail. Also appeared in Goliath and Condor. | [794] |
| March 14 | Scott Hall | 63 | WWE Hall of Fame wrestler (as Razor Ramon), also wrestled in World Championship Wrestling | [795] |
| Marilyn Miglin | 83 | Longtime host on HSN | [796] | |
| March 16 | Merri Dee | 85 | News anchor and staff announcer for WGN-TV/Chicago | [797] |
| March 18 | John Clayton | 67 | ESPN NFL insider from 1995 to 2017, appeared in several This is SportsCenter ads | [798] |
| March 19 | Scoey Mitchell | 92 | Comedian (The Ed Sullivan Show, The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour), actor (Barefoot in the Park, Rhoda), game show panelist, and writer/director/producer (13 East, Me & Mrs. C) | [799] |
| March 25 | Kathryn Hays | 88 | Actress, best known for her role as Kim Sullivan Hughes on the CBS soap opera As the World Turns and Elizabeth Reynolds on the NBC western series The Road West. Some guest roles included The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, Guiding Light, The Young and the Restless | [800] |
| March 28 | Marvin J. Chomsky | 92 | Director, best known for work on the miniseries Roots, Holocaust, and Inside the Third Reich as well as series including Star Trek and Hawaii Five-O | [801] |
| Barrie Youngfellow | 75 | Actress best known as Jan Hoffmeyer Gray on It's a Living, made guest appearances on I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched, Murder, She Wrote, Trapper John, M.D., It Takes Two, Good Time Harry, Paris, Three's Company, The Jeffersons, WKRP in Cincinnati, and The Eddie Capra Mysteries | [802] | |
| March 29 | Donald Shaffer | 92 | Korean War veteran who served as the model for Radar O'Reilly in the film and TV series MASH | [803] |
| March 30 | Tom Parker | 33 | British singer for The Wanted, chronicled in The Wanted Life | [804] |
| March 31 | Patricia MacLachlan | 84 | Author, wrote Hallmark Hall of Fame television films Sarah, Plain and Tall, Skylark, and Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End, based on her novels. | [805] |
| Date | Name | Age | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1 | Bill Fries | 93 | Advertising executive for Bozell & Jacobs best known for creating the character of C. W. McCall for Old Home Bread commercials; was also part of the team that coined the phrase "Corinthian leather" | [806] |
| April 2 | Estelle Harris | 93 | Actress best known as Estelle Costanza on Seinfeld. Other roles include Muriel on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, voice roles on Dave the Barbarian, Kim Possible, Family Guy, Fanboy & Chum Chum, House of Mouse, and Futurama, and guest roles on iCarly, Cybill, Living Single, and Moesha. | [807] |
| April 12 | Gilbert Gottfried | 67 | Actor and comedian who starred on Saturday Night Live '80, co-hosted USA Up All Night, participated in five Comedy Central Roasts and was a regular panelist on the 1998-2004 iteration of Hollywood Squares. Voice credits include Iago in Aladdin, Digit on Cyberchase, Mister Mxyzptlk on Superman: The Animated Series and Justice League Action and the Aflac duck in commercials from 1999 to 2011. | [808] |
| April 14 | Rio Hackford | 51 | Actor (credits include Treme, American Crime Story, The Mandalorian, Pam & Tommy) | [809] |
| April 15 | Liz Sheridan | 93 | Actress who played Raquel Ochmonek on ALF and Helen Seinfeld on Seinfeld | [810] |
| April 17 | Jim Hartz | 82 | Anchor/reporter for KOTV/Tulsa, WNBC-TV/New York, NBC News, and WRC-TV/Washington, DC; host of NBC's Today as well as PBS' Over Easy, Innovation, and Asia Now | [811] |
| April 20 | Robert Morse | 90 | Actor, portrayed Bert Cooper on Mad Men, Dominick Dunne on The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story, with guest roles in The Fall Guy, Love, American Style, Murder, She Wrote, One Day at a Time, The Twilight Zone and Trapper John, M.D.. Voiced Santa Claus for Teen Titans Go!. | [812] |
| April 27 | David Birney | 83 | Actor, known for roles on Bridget Loves Bernie, The Adams Chronicles, Serpico, and St. Elsewhere | [813] |
| April 30 | Naomi Judd | 76 | Country music singer of The Judds, judge on Can You Duet and the 2003 iteration of Star Search, contestant on My Kitchen Rules | [814] |
| Date | Name | Age | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1 | Robb Hanrahan | 60 | Former news anchorman at WHP-TV, WFOR-TV, WSVN, and WABC-TV. | [835] |
| July 2 | Mike Reynolds | 92 | Actor and voice actor; voice of various villains in the Power Rangers franchise from 1993 to 2002, most notably Captain Mutiny in 1999's Power Rangers Lost Galaxy; also provided voices in VR Troopers | [836] |
| July 4 | Hank Goldberg | 82 | ESPN NFL reporter and analyst, horse racing handicapper | [837] |
| July 5 | Lenny Von Dohlen | 63 | Actor best known as Harold Smith on Twin Peaks | [838] |
| July 6 | James Caan | 82 | Actor best known as Brian Piccolo on Brian's Song, Ed Deline on Las Vegas and Terry Gannon on Back in the Game, guest starred on The Simpsons and Family Guy | [839] |
| July 7 | Adam Wade | 87 | Singer, actor (appearances on shows including Search for Tomorrow and Sanford & Son), and the first African American game show host on American television (1975's Musical Chairs) | [840] |
| July 8 | Gregory Itzin | 74 | Actor best known as President Charles Logan on 24 and Henry Wilcox on Covert Affairs | [841] |
| Tony Sirico | 79 | Actor best known as Paulie Gualtieri on The Sopranos, also guest starred on The Fairly OddParents, Family Guy and American Dad! | [842] | |
| Larry Storch | 99 | Actor and comedian best known as Mr. Whoopee on Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales, Corporal Randolph Agarn on F Troop and Eddie Spencer on The Ghost Busters | [843] | |
| July 9 | L. Q. Jones | 94 | Actor (Cheyenne, Rawhide, Gunsmoke, Laramie, Wagon Train, The Big Valley and The Virginian) | [844] |
| July 14 | Jak Knight | 28 | Actor (Big Mouth, Bust Down) | [845] |
| July 18 | Rebecca Balding | 73 | Actress best known as Carol David on Soap and Elise Rothman on Charmed | [846] |
| July 19 | Kevin Rooney | 71 | Comedian (appearances on Late Night with David Letterman) and writer (several shows including The Naked Truth and Dennis Miller Live) | [847] |
| July 21 | Taurean Blacque | 82 | Actor, best known as Detective Neal Washington on Hill Street Blues and Henry Marshall on Generations | [848] |
| July 23 | Bob Rafelson | 89 | Film/video director (including the video for Lionel Richie's "All Night Long") and TV producer (The Monkees) | [849] |
| July 24 | David Warner | 80 | English actor (voiced Ra's al Ghul in Batman: The Animated Series, The Lobe in Freakazoid!, and Dr. Frankenstein in Toonsylvania) | [850] |
| July 25 | Paul Sorvino | 83 | Actor known for TV roles as Officer Ike Porter on The Oldest Rookie and Sgt. Phil Cerreta on Law & Order | [851] |
| July 27 | Mary Alice | 85 | Stage/TV actor known for TV roles on A Different World and I'll Fly Away | [852] |
| Tony Dow | 77 | Actor (best known as Wally Cleaver on Leave It to Beaver and The New Leave It to Beaver) and director (various series including The New Lassie and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) | [853] | |
| Burt Metcalfe | 87 | Actor (most notably in "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" episode of The Twilight Zone), producer/writer/director (M*A*S*H) and executive (Warner Bros. Television, MTM Enterprises) | [854] | |
| July 30 | Pat Carroll | 95 | Actress best known as Bunny Halper on The Danny Thomas Show, Hope Stinson on The Ted Knight Show, Gussie Holt on She's the Sheriff and the voice of Ursula in The Little Mermaid | [855] |
| Nichelle Nichols | 89 | Actress best known as Lt. Nyota Uhura on Star Trek: The Original Series, also guest starred on Futurama and The Simpsons | [856] |
| Date | Name | Age | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2 | Vin Scully | 94 | Sportscaster for the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers for 67 seasons (1950–2016); also worked NFL and golf broadcasts for CBS Sports (1975–1982) and Major League Baseball on NBC (1983–1989) | [857] |
| August 5 | Clu Gulager | 93 | Actor known for TV roles as Billy the Kid on The Tall Man and Deputy Sheriff Emmett Ryker on The Virginian | [858] |
| August 7 | Roger E. Mosley | 83 | Actor best known as Theodore "T.C." Calvin on the original Magnum, P.I. (1980–1988) | [859] |
| August 8 | Olivia Newton-John | 73 | Musician and actress (noted TV appearances including Glee, American Idol, Ru-Paul's Drag Race) | [860] |
| Uma Pemmaraju | 64 | Indian-American journalist and news anchor (Fox News) | [861] | |
| August 10 | Leslie Griffith | 66 | Journalist and anchor for KTVU/Oakland | [862] |
| August 11 | Bill Pitman | 102 | Guitarist and session musician (Bonanza, The Deputy, The Wild Wild West) | [863] |
| Anne Heche | 53 | Actress best known as Vicky Hudson / Marley Love on Another World, Marin Frist on Men in Trees, Jessica Haxon on Hung, and the voice of Suyin Beifong on The Legend of Korra | [864] | |
| August 13 | Denise Dowse | 64 | Actress best known as Vice-Principal Yvonne Teasley on Beverly Hills, 90210, Judge Rebecca Damsen on The Guardian and Dr. Rhonda Pyne on Insecure | [865] |
| Robyn Griggs | 49 | Actress best known for Stephanie Hobart on One Life to Live and Maggie Cory on Another World. | [866] | |
| August 20 | Tom Weiskopf | 79 | Professional golfer (winner of the 1973 Open Championship) and PGA Tour analyst for CBS Sports and ABC Sports/ESPN | [867] |
| August 24 | Len Dawson | 87 | Hall of Fame football quarterback (most notably with the Kansas City Chiefs), sportscaster with KMBC-TV/Kansas City, and analyst with NFL on NBC and HBO's Inside the NFL | [868] |
| William Reynolds | 90 | Actor best known for Special Agent Tom Colby on The F.B.I.. | [869] | |
| August 28 | Tucker Wiard | 80 | Television editor (Alice, The Carol Burnett Show and Murphy Brown) | [870] |
| Date | Name | Age | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 7 | David A. Arnold | 54 | Stand-up comedian, sitcom writer, producer, and actor (writer and producer of Fuller House and The Rickey Smiley Show, creator and showrunner of That Girl Lay Lay) | [871] |
| Anne Garrels | 71 | TV/radio journalist, most notably as Moscow correspondent for ABC News and State Department correspondent for NBC News | [872] | |
| Bernard Shaw | 82 | Journalist, most notably as chief anchor for CNN from 1980 to 2001 | [873] | |
| September 8 | Queen Elizabeth II | 96 | Queen Regnant of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth realms; her coronation was one of the first transatlantic television broadcasts, and she appeared frequently on American television | [874] |
| September 9 | Mark Miller | 97 | Actor best known as Bill Hooten on Guestward, Ho!, Jim Nash on Please Don't Eat the Daisies and J.R. Barnett on Days of Our Lives | [875] |
| September 10 | Jack Ging | 90 | Actor best known as Lt. Dan Ives on Mannix, General Harlan "Bull" Fulbright on The A-Team, and Lt. Ted Quinlan on Riptide. Guest roles included All My Children, One Life to Live, General Hospital, and Knight Rider. | [876] |
| September 19 | Robert Brown | 95 | Actor best known as Jason Bolt on Here Come the Brides | [877] |
| September 23 | Zack Estrin | 51 | Producer and screenwriter (Charmed, Dawson's Creek, Tru Calling, and Lost in Space) | [878] |
| September 27 | Joan Hotchkis | 95 | Actress best known as Dr. Nancy Cunningham on The Odd Couple | [879] |
| September 28 | Bill Plante | 84 | Journalist and correspondent for CBS News | [880] |
| Coolio | 59 | Rapper and actor (TV work includes voice roles as Kwanzaabot in Futurama and as Wax Coolio in Gravity Falls, a regular panelist role on Match Game ‘98, and performing the theme song for Kenan & Kel). | [881] | |
| September 29 | Al Primo | 87 | Television news executive credited with developing the Eyewitness News format (which he created in 1965 as news director at KYW-TV/Philadelphia); also served as vice president of news for ABC Owned Television Stations and co-creator of the syndicated educational program Teen Kids News | [882][883] |
| September 30 | Roger Welsch | 85 | Humorist, contributed "Postcards from Nebraska" features to CBS News Sunday Morning | [884] |
| Date | Name | Age | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 5 | Bernard McGuirk | 64 | Radio producer and antagonist to host Don Imus on Imus in the Morning, instigated the comments that got the show cancelled from MSNBC in 2007 | [885] |
| Sara Lee | 30 | Pro wrestler and contestant who won season 6 of WWE's Tough Enough | [886] | |
| October 6 | Judy Tenuta | 72 | Comedian, voice-over actress and game show panelist | [887] |
| October 8 | Gabrielle Beaumont | 80 | British director (work on several American series including Dynasty, Hill Street Blues, and M*A*S*H) | [888] |
| October 11 | Angela Lansbury | 96 | Actress best known as Jessica Fletcher on Murder, She Wrote | [889] |
| Willie Spence | 23 | Singer and runner-up on season 19 of American Idol | [890] | |
| October 20 | Ron Masak | 86 | Actor (several series, most notably as Sheriff Mort Metzger on Murder, She Wrote, and commercial roles including the voice of "The Vlasic Stork") | [891] |
| October 23 | Michael Kopsa | 66 | Voice actor (notable roles include Char Aznable in the English dub of Mobile Suit Gundam, Commander Volcott O'Huey on Galaxy Angel, Beast on X-Men: Evolution, and Roger Baxter on Littlest Pet Shop) | [892] |
| October 24 | Leslie Jordan | 67 | Actor and comedian (supporting roles on Hearts Afire, Will & Grace, American Horror Story, The Cool Kids, Call Me Kat) | [893] |
| October 25 | Jules Bass | 87 | Director, producer, composer, lyricist, author, and co-founder of Rankin/Bass Productions which created the holiday specials The Little Drummer Boy, Frosty the Snowman, Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town, Here Comes Peter Cottontail, The Year Without a Santa Claus, and Jack Frost | [894] |
| Date | Name | Age | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1 | Max Maven | 71 | Magician and mentalist, television appearances included The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Mork & Mindy, and General Hospital | [895] |
| November 4 | David Davis | 86 | Television producer and writer (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, The Bob Newhart Show, and Taxi) | [896] |
| November 5 | Aaron Carter | 34 | Singer, television appearances included House of Carters, Lizzie McGuire, All That, Figure it Out and Rocket Power | [897] |
| November 9 | Fred Hickman | 66 | Journalist and sports anchor, most notably with CNN's Sports Tonight as well as with YES Network and ESPN | [898] |
| November 10 | Kevin Conroy | 66 | Actor best known as the voice of Bruce Wayne/Batman on Batman: The Animated Series, Chase Kendall on Search for Tomorrow, Captain Lloyd Hamilton on Ohara, Bart Fallmont on Dynasty, and Rusty Wallace on Tour of Duty | [899] |
| November 11 | John Aniston | 89 | Actor and father of Jennifer Aniston, best known as Martin Tourneur on Search for Tomorrow and Victor Kiriakis on Days of Our Lives | [900] |
| Gallagher | 76 | Stand-up comedian best known for his watermelon-smashing "Sledge-O-Matic" routine (14 specials for Showtime) | [901] | |
| November 15 | Gene Perret | 85 | Comedy writer and producer, most known for work on The Carol Burnett Show and Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In and for Bob Hope | [902] |
| November 16 | Nicki Aycox | 47 | Actress best known as Christina Rush on Cold Case, Meg Masters on Supernatural, and Jamie Allen on Dark Blue | [903] |
| Robert Clary | 96 | Actor best known as Corporal Louis LeBeau on Hogan's Heroes, Robert LeClair on Days of Our Lives, Pierre Roulland on The Young and the Restless, and Pierre Jourdan on The Bold and the Beautiful | [904] | |
| November 17 | Michael Gerson | 58 | Journalist and speechwriter who made appearances as a commentator for the PBS NewsHour and Face the Nation | [905] |
| November 18 | Bruce L. Christensen | 79 | Public television executive (general manager of KUED/Salt Lake City, president/CEO of PBS) | [906] |
| November 19 | Jason David Frank | 49 | Actor best known as Tommy Oliver in various entries in the Power Rangers franchise | [907] |
| November 26 | Freddie Roman | 85 | Stand-up comedian and actor best known as Herb on Red Oaks, also guest appearance on Law & Order: Criminal Intent | [908] |
| November 28 | Clarence Gilyard | 66 | Actor best known as Officer Benjamin Webster on CHiPs, Conrad McMasters on Matlock, and James Trivette on Walker, Texas Ranger | [909] |
| November 29 | Brad William Henke | 56 | Actor and former American football player best known as Henry "Hank" Ungalow on Going to California, Bram on Lost, Owen Dennis Rowan on October Road, Cooper Bennett on Justified, and Desi Piscatella on Orange Is the New Black | [910] |
| Date | Name | Age | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2 | Al Strobel | 83 | Actor best known as Mike on Twin Peaks | [911] |
| December 4 | June Blair | 90 | Actress best known as June Nelson on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet | [912] |
| Bob McGrath | 90 | Singer/actor best known as Bob Johnson on Sesame Street | [913] | |
| December 5 | Kirstie Alley | 71 | Actress best known as Rebecca Howe on Cheers and Veronica Chase on Veronica's Closet | [914] |
| Terrence O'Hara | 76 | Actor/director, most noted for directing work on NCIS, Smallville and Angel | [915] | |
| December 6 | Mills Lane | 85 | American boxing referee and judge (Celebrity Deathmatch and Judge Mills Lane) | [916] |
| December 7 | Helen Slayton-Hughes | 92 | Actress best known as Ethel Beavers on Parks and Recreation | [917] |
| December 9 | Grant Wahl | 49 | Sports journalist and soccer analyst for Fox Sports and CBS Sports | [918] |
| December 11 | Angelo Badalamenti | 85 | Composer (Twin Peaks and Inside the Actors Studio) | [919] |
| December 12 | Stuart Margolin | 82 | Actor best known as Evelyn "Angel" Martin on The Rockford Files and Philo Sandeen on Bret Maverick | [920] |
| December 13 | Stephen "tWitch" Boss | 40 | So You Think You Can Dance runner-up, DJ on The Ellen DeGeneres Show from 2014 to 2022. | [921] |
| December 15 | James J. Murakami | 91 | Art director and production designer best known for work on Deadwood | [922] |
| December 17 | Drew Griffin | 60 | Journalist and investigative correspondent for CNN | [923] |
| December 19 | Sonya Eddy | 55 | Actress best known as Epiphany Johnson on General Hospital | [924] |
| December 20 | Quinn Redeker | 86 | Actor best known as Alex Marshall on Days of Our Lives and Rex Sterling on The Young and the Restless | [925] |
| December 21 | Diane McBain | 81 | Actress best known as Daphne Dutton on Surfside 6 and socialite Pinkie Pinkston on Batman | [926] |
| December 30 | Barbara Walters | 93 | Journalist of over 60 years, host of Today and ABC Evening News (the first female host of both), and 20/20. Created and co-hosted The View from 1997 to 2014 | [927] |
| Don West | 59 | Color commentator for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling | [928] |