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The following is a list of events affecting American television in 2021. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, and cancellations; channel launches, closures, and re-brandings; stations changing or adding their network affiliations; and information about controversies and carriage disputes.
Notable events[edit]
January[edit]
Date | Event | Source |
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8 | Jeopardy! airs the final episode (pushed back from Christmas Day) of Alex Trebek's hosting tenure, recorded 10 days before his November 8, 2020 death from stage IV pancreatic cancer. Starting with the January 11 episode and for the rest of the season, a series of guest hosts, the first being highest-winning Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings, fill in at the host lectern Trebek had occupied for 36 years. | [1] |
10 | While sister network CBS airs an NFL playoff between the Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints, Nickelodeon airs a special children-oriented version of the game. The broadcast added classic Nickelodeon gags such as CGI-created slime cannons "spraying" the end zones after touchdowns; prerecorded explanations of penalties, offered by Young Sheldon star Iain Armitage; and announcer and former NFL star Nate Burleson analogizing successful plays with such childhood activities as staying in school. Although the game was aimed at younger, new-to-football viewers, it was reportedly enjoyed more so by Generation X and millennial parents who grew up watching the channel in its 1980s/1990s heyday. | [2] |
The 1st Critics' Choice Super Awards, an event honoring films in the science fiction, action, horror and superhero genres, airs on The CW. | [3] | |
22 | Tom Brokaw announces his retirement from NBC News. A special correspondent and commentator since ending a 22-year run as Nightly News anchor in 2004, Brokaw spent 55 years with NBC, including roles as anchor/reporter at O&O KNBC/Los Angeles, White House correspondent, co-anchor of Today and even briefly as moderator of Meet The Press in 2008 after moderator Tim Russert's death. | [4] |
23 | Food Network pulls all content related to season 20 of Worst Cooks in America from its linear, streaming and social platforms (including discovery+), after season winner Ariel Robinson and her husband were charged in the January 14 death of their adopted 3-year-old daughter at their Simpsonville, South Carolina home. | [5] |
25 | Two top executives of the CBS Television Stations group, division president Peter Dunn and Senior VP/News David Friend, are suspended after a Los Angeles Times investigation reveals, among other allegations, their discriminatory and disparaging behavior concerning Black and female news employees at the station level, in particular at KYW-TV/Philadelphia. CBS would announce a third-party investigation into the matter on January 29. | [6][7][8] |
February[edit]
Date | Event | Source |
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1 | Gray Television announces its intent to acquire Quincy Media's broadcasting properties for $925 million. The deal—expected to be finalized in the second or third quarter of 2021—will have Gray acquire eleven television (and two radio) stations, expanding its portfolio to 198 stations in 102 markets with a collective reach of 25.4% of U.S. television households. Gray will divest six other Quincy stations—NBC affiliates KVOA/Tucson and KWWL/Cedar Rapids, and ABC affiliates (including corresponding satellites of) WKOW/Madison, WXOW/La Crosse, WAOW/Wausau and WSIL/Paducah—to alleviate market conflicts with existing Gray properties. Quincy's newspaper holdings will be sold to a separate buyer prior to the Gray transaction's closure. | [9][10] |
Marilyn Manson is dropped from future episodes of American Gods and Creepshow due to multiple abuse allegations against him. The following day, Creative Artists Agency announced that it had dropped Manson by the agency as a client. | [11] | |
3 | Country music channel CMT joins numerous country radio stations, including those owned by Cumulus Media and iHeartMedia among others, in pulling Morgan Wallen's music from its video library after he was captured on video saying a racial slur that was posted by TMZ. In addition, he was dropped from his record labels, Big Loud and Republic Records along with being pulled from consideration for the Academy of Country Music Awards. | [12] |
5 | Fox Business cancels Lou Dobbs Tonight, the network's highest-rated show. The cancellation came one day after its host, Lou Dobbs, was one of several Fox hosts – and Fox itself – were sued for $2.7 billion by electronic voting system producer Smartmatic for defamation, regarding Dobbs and others' role in spreading conspiracy theories about the 2020 United States presidential election. Fox News hosts Maria Bartiromo and Jeanine Pirro and frequent Fox News guests and ex-President Donald Trump's former lawyers Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell were also named in the suit. | [13][14] [15][16] |
7 | The Tampa Bay Buccaneers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs to win Super Bowl LV and become the first team to win the championship game in their home stadium. The game aired on CBS in English and ESPN Deportes in Spanish. The game was watched by 90.8 million people on linear television and another 5.6 million people on streaming platforms. It was the smallest audience since Super Bowl XXXIX in 2005. | [17][18] |
10 | Gina Carano is fired from The Mandalorian due to her controversial social media posts, with Lucasfilm announcing that they are ending their relationship with her. Carano is also dropped by United Talent Agency as a client. | [19] |
24 | NBC pulls from digital distribution an episode of the medical drama Nurses that aired on the network February 9. Titled "Achilles Heel," a plotline in the episode features an Orthodox Jewish patient and his father objecting to a bone graft from a cadaver to treat a leg injury; the characters' depiction received criticism from Jewish rights groups for "demonizing" those of the Jewish faith, and of the ethical quandary presented in the plot being completely fictional. The episode of the Canadian-produced Nurses had already aired in that country in February 2020 (host network Global would follow NBC's suit in pulling "Achilles Heel" from its own digital platforms). | [20][21] |
28 | The 78th Golden Globe Awards aired on NBC with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler as the hosts. The COVID-19 pandemic moved it from its usual first Sunday of January berth, along with film awards season in general. Jane Fonda was honored with the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award. Norman Lear was honored with the Carol Burnett Award. This was the first Golden Globe Awards ceremony to go bicoastal with Fey co-hosting from the Rainbow Room in New York City, and Poehler co-hosting from The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California. | [22][23] [24][25] |
March[edit]
Date | Event | Source |
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7 | TV series Ted Lasso and The Crown and the motion picture Nomadland are among notable winners at the 26th Critics' Choice Awards. The event airs on The CW, with Taye Diggs hosting for the third consecutive year. | [26] |
In a two-hour special airing on CBS, Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, talk with Oprah Winfrey about their separation as working members of, and relationships with, the British royal family. | [27] | |
10 | The National Hockey League announces a new seven-year deal with ESPN, covering the 2021–22 thru 2027–28 seasons. The deal includes 25 games each season on ESPN or ABC; 75 games on ESPN+ (which will replace NHL.tv as the league's out-of-market streaming home); and rights to the All-Star Game and Skills Competition, half of the Stanley Cup Playoffs each season, and four Stanley Cup Final series exclusively. It's a reuniting of the NHL with ESPN, which last carried the league in 2003–04 and will share rights with another broadcaster to be determined (incumbent NBC Sports' exclusive deal with the league ends with the truncated 2021 season). | [28] |
12 | WLS-TV/Chicago and sports anchor Mark Giangreco announced they have come to a separation agreement. A long-time Chicago TV/radio personality (and a 27-year veteran of the ABC O&O), Giangreco had been on administrative leave since a January 28 newscast in which, while presenting video of a house being painted by a hockey player on roller skates, he equated fellow anchor Cheryl Burton to a "ditzy, combative interior decorator" of a hypothetical DIY Network home improvement show, with Burton asking for some kind of action to be taken after he had done the same previously. | [29] |
13 | The 2021 Kids' Choice Awards air on Nickelodeon with simulcasts on TeenNick, Nicktoons and Nick Jr.. Kenan Thompson serves as the host. | [30] |
14 | The 63rd Grammy Awards air on CBS with Trevor Noah as the host. The awards were originally scheduled to be held on January 31, but were moved to March after Los Angeles County began experiencing a surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations. | [31][32] [33] |
Future events[edit]
April[edit]
Date | Event | Source |
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18 | The 56th Academy of Country Music Awards will air on CBS from three locations in Nashville: the Grand Ole Opry House, the Ryman Auditorium, and the Bluebird Café. Keith Urban and Mickey Guyton will be the hosts for the show. | [34][35] [36] |
25 | The 93rd Academy Awards will air on ABC, moved from February 28, and the latest date in its history. | [37] |
May[edit]
Date | Event | Source |
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23 | The 2021 Billboard Music Awards will air on NBC. | [38] |
July[edit]
Date | Event | Source |
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13 | All remaining analog television stations will be required, by FCC mandate, to shut off their analog signals and only broadcast in digital. This transition comes twelve years and one month after the digital transition for full-power television stations in 2009; only existing low-power broadcasters have been allowed to broadcast in analog since then. The few remaining analog low-power stations are mostly distant rural translators in large geographical television markets and a few urban-area stations operating primarily as radio stations on 87.7 FM; digital television is incompatible with either digital or analog radio, which will force the 87.7 stations to cease their radio operations. | [39] |
23–August 8 | The 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, are scheduled to take place after their 1-year postponement was made on March 24, 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. NBC and its cable networks will carry coverage in the United States. Although the International Olympic Committee stated it would be held as scheduled, postponement of the Summer Olympics to the following year was made in March. The new opening/closing ceremony date range was announced on March 30, 2020. | [40][41] [42][43] |
September[edit]
Date | Event | Source |
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19 | The 73rd Primetime Emmy Awards will air on CBS. | [44] |
TBD[edit]
Date | Event | Source |
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Early | Peter Roth will step down as the chairman of Warner Bros. Television Group and be succeeded by Channing Dungey. | [45][46] |
Spring | Longtime KSAT reporter Paul Venema will retire after 47 years. | [47] |
TBD | The 2021 iHeartRadio Music Awards will air on Fox after the 2020 ceremony was cancelled due to that year's COVID-19 pandemic. | [48] |
The 74th Tony Awards are to air on CBS. Originally scheduled for June 7, 2020 from Radio City Music Hall, the ceremony was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic on March 25. Since then, an early June nominations announcement was postponed due to the George Floyd riots, and Broadway theatre has shut down for the remainder of 2020, rendering any traditional ceremony with full cast performances and attendance likely impossible. On August 21, 2020, it was announced the ceremony will be held virtually sometime in the fall, with nominations revealed October 15 and ceremony details to be announced on a later date. The ceremony would later be postponed to early 2021 as a result of the continued uncertainty of the pandemic. | [49][50] [51][52] [53] |
Television shows[edit]
Shows debuting in 2021[edit]
Shows changing networks[edit]
Milestone episodes and anniversaries[edit]
Show | Network | Episode # | Episode title | Episode airdate | Source |
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Teen Titans Go! | Cartoon Network | 300th Episode | "Justice League's Next Top Talent Idol Star: Dance Crew Edition" | January 8 | [71] |
Saturday Night Live | NBC | 900th episode | "Dan Levy/Phoebe Bridgers" | February 6 | [72] |
Let's Make a Deal | CBS | 2000th Episode | "Episode 2000" | February 19 | [citation needed] |
American Housewife | ABC | 100th Episode | "Getting Otto with The Franks" | February 24 | [citation needed] |
The Simpsons | Fox | 700th Episode | "Manger Things" | March 21 | [73][74] |
Shows returning in 2021[edit]
The following shows will return with new episodes after being canceled or ended their run previously:
Shows ending in 2021[edit]
Networks and services[edit]
Launches[edit]
Network | Type | Launch date | Notes | Source |
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Discovery+ | OTT streaming | January 4 | A streaming service featuring original and archival content from the networks of Discovery, Inc. and the former networks of Scripps Networks Interactive. | [171] |
Twist | OTA multicast | Spring | On February 24, Tegna announced plans to launch Twist, an over-the-air multicast network (to join True Crime Network and Quest as the company's third overall) focusing on factual lifestyle and reality programming targeted at women, slated to debut that Spring. The network—which derives its name from the "exciting reveals" featured at the end of most of the reality shows being acquired by the network—will feature home- and food-oriented lifestyle series and reality shows sourced mainly from NBCUniversal Lifestyle Network Group and A&E Networks. | [172] |
Defy TV | July 1 | E. W. Scripps Company announced plans on March 2 to add two new networks to its digital broadcast portfolio. Defy and Doozy will respectively target men and women in the 25-54 age range with factual lifestyle and reality programming. | [173] | |
Doozy | ||||
G4 | Digital and linear | Summer | On July 24, 2020, the Twitter accounts of G4TV and G4's Attack of the Show! and X-Play, reactivated to post a teaser video of a G4 revival in some form, slated for 2021 (the form of distribution, whether as a return as a wireline network or a digital component of a service such as Peacock, was not divulged). The teasers were timed for Comic-Con@Home, the first virtual streaming edition of the annual fan convention, San Diego Comic-Con International. Consequently, G4's website also redirected to a nonstop game of Pong (which if won, redirects to a mailing list sign up for updates), once again reflecting back to the network's original launch in 2002 and their shutdown in 2014. | [174][175] |
Conversions and rebrandings[edit]
Old network name |
New network name |
Type | Conversion date | Notes | Source |
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Urban Movie Channel | Allblk | OTT streaming | January 6 | AMC Networks rebranded Urban Movie Channel – launched in 2014 as the first streaming service dedicated to television programs and films aimed at Black audiences, and content made by Black filmmakers – as Allblk, citing the original name no longer fit the brand, its audience or culture (several "urban"-branded broadcasters, along with radio stations formerly under the urban contemporary banner, switched to other descriptive terms throughout 2020). The service will also increase original programming, with five new series initially slated to debut in 2021. | [176][177] |
Light TV | TheGrio.TV | Over-the-air multicast/ OTT streaming |
January 15 | Following its acquisition of the network's satellite slot from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Allen Media Group relaunched the former channel space of family-oriented digital multicast network Light TV as TheGrio.TV (branded after the Black cultural news and entertainment website acquired by parent company Entertainment Studios in 2016), adopting a focus around movies, television series, news and lifestyle content aimed at African American audiences. There has been some confusion however, as Light TV continues to run on some affiliates and online, while some former Light TV affiliates have stopped carrying the network in the run-up to TheGrio.tv. | [178] |
WGN America | NewsNation | Cable and satellite | March 1 | On January 25, 2021, Nexstar Media Group announced it would relaunch the entertainment-oriented WGN America (a name traced to its existence as a superstation feed of WGN-TV/Chicago from the channel's launch in November 1978 until its content separation from WGN-TV in December 2014) as the news-centric NewsNation, named after the prime time newscast that the channel debuted in September 2020, effective March 1. The rebrand coincides with a gradual expansion of its news programming that initially includes the additions of an hour-long early-evening newscast, the hour-long Donlon Report (a prime-access newscast fronted by NewsNation anchor Joe Donlon) and a weeknight news/interview program hosted by Ashleigh Banfield, as well as a condensed version of the retitled NewsNationPrime (to be reduced from three hours to two). A reduced schedule of entertainment programs in its inventory will continue to be featured in daytime and overnight slots (along with early morning paid and religious programming), which will be replaced with news content once syndication contracts expire. | [179][180] |
CBS All Access | Paramount+ | OTT streaming | March 4 | CBS All Access adopts the Paramount+ name used in certain international markets. The rebranding occurs amid an ongoing expansion of the service — originally developed as a subscription platform for CBS featuring original programs, content from the CBS television network and its syndication arm CBS Media Ventures, and live streams of local CBS stations, CBS' ad-supported OTT services and events from CBS Sports – to include content from other television and film brands owned by ViacomCBS (including Paramount Pictures, MTV, BET, Comedy Central and Nickelodeon). | [181][182] |
Fox Sports Networks | Bally Sports | Cable and satellite | March 31 | Sinclair Broadcast Group, as part of a partnership with Entertainment Studios, acquired the regional networks formerly owned by Fox Sports parent News Corporation in 2019 (Disney was required to divest the channels during its acquisition of 21st Century Fox). Sinclair reached a cross-partnership with gaming company Bally's Corporation in November 2020, which will result in the channels shedding the "Fox Sports" brand in favor of "Bally Sports." | [183][184] |
Vix | PrendeTV | OTT streaming | TBD | On January 12, Univision Communications announced it would launch PrendeTV, a free, ad-supported Spanish-language streaming service aimed at U.S. Hispanics and Latinos in the first quarter of the year. The platform, which will be the first AVOD platform dedicated exclusively to Spanish content, will offer over 30 curated channels (similar to those featured on services like Pluto TV, Peacock and Xumo) and approximately 20,000 hours of Spanish-language movies and television series for video-on-demand viewing from Univision and various content partners to be announced. The service will be built off the infrastructure of and inherit content from Pan-American streaming service Vix, which Univision bought from a consortium of Batanga Media, Discovery Inc. and HarbourVest Partners on February 1. | [185][186] [187] |
Paramount Network | Paramount Movie Network | Cable & satellite | Paramount Network will convert from a mix of movies, original unscripted programs, and off-network shows to an all-movie channel (consisting of both new original productions and content from the Paramount Pictures library). The renamed Paramount Movie Network will continue to carry at least one scripted series or miniseries each quarter (among them, existing drama series Yellowstone, which will modify its episode format to meet the network's new focus). Along with discontinuing unscripted programming, certain Paramount Network original programs (such as Bar Rescue and Lip Sync Battle) will move to other ViacomCBS-owned cable channels. | [188] |
Closures[edit]
Network | Type | End date | Notes | Source |
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DC Universe | OTT streaming | January 21 | In September 2020, DC announced that the DC Universe streaming service would be folded into DC Universe Infinite as a solely digital comics subscription service on January 21, 2021. DC Universe subscriptions would automatically transfer over to DC Universe Infinite. Original programs Young Justice, Titans, Doom Patrol, and Harley Quinn are moving to HBO Max as Max Original series starting their new seasons, while Stargirl is moving to The CW with its second season. | [189][190][56] |
Ion Plus | Over-the-air multicast | February 28 | Following the completion of its acquisition of Ion Media, on January 14, the E. W. Scripps Company announced that it will shutter three Ion networks – Ion Plus (a secondary schedule of programming from Ion's content distributors), Ion Shop (all-paid programming) and Qubo (children's programming) – and allocate their spectrum space on Ion Media's stations to offer networks from existing Scripps subsidiary Katz Broadcasting (consisting of Court TV, Court TV Mystery, Bounce TV, Laff and Grit). This will eventually consolidate Ion's operations into Katz and replace expiring contracts with other broadcasters that carried the Katz networks outside of mainstream Scripps markets (albeit with affiliate duplication in the interim due to the structure of Katz's subchannel-leasing arrangements), while offloading those networks on mainstream Scripps stations with limited spectrum capacity during the ATSC 3.0 transition. (Ion's namesake flagship channel will continue as a Scripps-owned network.) Qubo, Ion Plus and Ion Shop were replaced by selected Katz networks on Ion affiliates (consisting mainly of former O&Os spun off by Scripps to Inyo Broadcast Holdings) on February 27, and were replaced on Scripps-owned Ion stations post-shutdown on March 1. | [191] |
Qubo | ||||
Ion Shop | ||||
WWE Network | OTT streaming | March 18 (United States) |
On January 25, WWE announced it would discontinue the standalone WWE Network service in the United States and merge it into the offerings of Peacock. All paying Peacock subscribers will have access to the WWE Video Library and no-cost access to WWE pay-per-view events in the same manner as current WWE Network subscribers. WWE Network will remain unchanged outside of the United States. | [192][193] |
CNN Airport | Cable and satellite | March 31 | On January 12, CNN announced that it would shut down the CNN Airport network, which was available in numerous airports across the United States. The network, which carried a mixture of family-friendly news and entertainment programs from select WarnerMedia networks (as well as some high-profile sporting events), had been seeing declining viewership since the financial crisis of 2007–08 as a result of the increased proliferation of Wi-Fi-enabled devices which themselves allow access to the mainline CNN network; the decline was accelerated in 2020 when global commercial air travel declined greatly as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. | [194] |
NBCSN | Q4 | On January 22, NBC Sports Group announced it was shutting down NBCSN, which launched in 1995 as the Outdoor Life Network and later rebranded as Versus before becoming the NBC Sports Network in 2012 and adopting its current name in 2013. Its programming, which includes the Premier League and NASCAR races, will move to NBC and USA Network along with some programming moving to the Peacock streaming service; its National Hockey League contract (a cornerstone of the network's programming) expires at the end of the abbreviated 2021 season. | [195] |
Television stations[edit]
Subchannel launches[edit]
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Date | Market | Station | Channel | Affiliation | Source |
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January 1 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | KFXA | 28.5 | Comet | [citation needed] |
Charleston, West Virginia | WCHS | 8.3 | Antenna TV | [196] | |
WVAH-TV | 11.4 | Charge! | [197] | ||
11.5 | TBD | ||||
Columbus, Ohio | WSYX | 6.4 | Antenna TV | [citation needed] | |
Dayton, Ohio | WRGT-TV | 45.5 | TBD | ||
45.6 | Stadium | ||||
Idaho Falls-Pocatello, Idaho | KIFI-TV | 8.5 | Telemundo | ||
February 4 | Sioux City, Iowa | KMEG | 14.4 | Stadium | |
March 1 | Columbus, Ohio | WSFJ-TV | 51.2 | Grit | [198] |
Los Angeles, California | KPXN-TV | 30.4 | Court TV Mystery | ||
Kansas City, Missouri | KSHB-TV | 41.4 | GetTV | ||
Raleigh, North Carolina | WRPX-TV | 47.4 | Grit | ||
TBA | Los Angeles | KWHY-TV | 22.8 | Spanish News | [199] |
Stations changing network affiliations[edit]
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- This section outlines affiliation changes involving English and Spanish networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, PBS, The CW, Univision, etc.), and format conversions involving independent stations. Digital subchannels will only be mentioned if the prior or new affiliation inolves a major English and Spanish broadcast network or a locally programmed independent entertainment format.
Date | Market | Station | Channel | Prior affiliation | New affiliation | Notes | Source |
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January 1 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | KGAN | 2.2 | GetTV | Fox | When KGAN began simulcasting KFXA for a 1-month transition period, GetTV moved to a KGAN's third digital subchannel. | [citation needed] |
2.3 | Comet | GetTV | |||||
Charleston, West Virginia | WCHS-TV | 8.2 | Antenna TV | Fox | When WCHS-TV began simulcasting WVAH-TV for a 1-month transition period, Antenna TV moved to a new third digital subchannel of WCHS-TV. | ||
Columbus, Ohio | WSYX | 6.3 | When WSYX began simulcasting WTTE for a 1-month transition period, Antenna TV moved to a new fourth digital subchannel of WSYX. | [200] | |||
Dayton, Ohio | WKEF | 22.2 | Stadium | When WKEF's second digital subchannel dropped Stadium on January 1, 2021, it temporarily simulcasted WRGT-TV for a 1-month transition period. | [201] | ||
Idaho Falls-Pocatello, Idaho | KIDK | 3.1 | CBS | Dabl | In December 2020, KIDK's parent company, VistaWest Media, LLC announced that most of its CBS programming along with its syndicated programing, and its KIDK Eyewitness News 3 news operation to the second channel of the News-Press & Gazette Company-owned ABC affiliated station KIFI-TV effective January 1. Meanwhile, the former station will switched to the Dabl diginet (which is also seen on its sister Fox affiliated station KXPI-LD), while the latter will moved its Telemundo programming to the new fifth digital subchannel. | [citation needed] | |
KIFI-TV | 8.2 | Telemundo | CBS | ||||
Port Arthur-Beaumont, Texas | KFDM | 6.3 | Charge! | Fox | When KFDM's third digital subchannel dropped Charge! on December 31, 2020, it temporarily simulcasted KBTV-TV for a 1-month transition period. | [202][203] | |
Santa Barbara-Santa Maria, California | KCOY-TV | 11.1 | CBS | Dabl | In December 2020, KCOY-TV's parent News-Press & Gazette Company announced that the station affiliation with CBS will end after 51 years since its 1969 sign-on, with most of its network programming, syndicated programming and its news operation to the second subchannel of its co-owned ABC affiliated station KEYT-TV effective January 1, marking the return of CBS affiliation for the first time. Following the switch, the former will transition to the Dabl diginet and latter will moved the MyNetworkTV part-time affiliation to the third subchannel replacing Bounce TV and the news branding will merged as NewsChannel 3/12. | [204] | |
KEYT-TV | 3.2 | MyNetworkTV | CBS | ||||
3.3 | Bounce TV | MyNetworkTV | |||||
January 7 | Albany-Schenectady-Troy, New York | WYPX-TV | 55.5 | QVC | Laff | An immediate effect of E. W. Scripps Company's acquisition of Ion Media is the termination of channel carriage agreements with QVC to carry Laff, a network from Scripps' Katz Broadcasting division. In several markets where a Scripps station or other broadcaster carries Laff, it duplicates a pre-existing affiliate of the network. | [205] |
Birmingham, Alabama | WPXH-TV | 44.5 | |||||
Boise, Idaho | KTRV-TV | 12.5 | |||||
Boston, Massachusetts | WBPX-TV | 68.5 | |||||
Chicago, Illinois | WCPX-TV | 38.5 | |||||
Columbia, South Carolina | WRBU | 46.5 | |||||
Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas | KPXD-TV | 68.5 | |||||
Denver, Colorado | KPXC-TV | 59.5 | |||||
Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, North Carolina | WGPX-TV | 16.5 | |||||
Greenville-New Bern, North Carolina | WEPX-TV | 38.5 | |||||
WPXU-TV | 35.5 | ||||||
Houston, Texas | KPXB-TV | 49.5 | |||||
Jacksonville, Florida | WPXC-TV | 21.5 | |||||
Los Angeles, California | KPXN-TV | 30.5 | |||||
Manchester, New Hampshire | WPXG-TV | 21.5 | |||||
Milwaukee, Wisconsin | WPXE-TV | 55.5 | |||||
Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota | KPXM-TV | 41.5 | |||||
Nashville, Tennessee | WNPX-TV | 28.5 | |||||
New Orleans, Louisiana | WPXL-TV | 49.5 | |||||
New York, New York | WPXN-TV | 31.5 | |||||
Norfolk-Portsmouth-Newport News, Virginia | WPXV-TV | 49.5 | |||||
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma | KOPX-TV | 62.5 | |||||
Orlando, Florida | WOPX-TV | 56.5 | |||||
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | WPPX-TV | 61.5 | |||||
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | WINP-TV | 16.5 | |||||
Portland, Maine | WIPL | 35.5 | |||||
Portland, Oregon | KPXG-TV | 22.5 | |||||
Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville, North Carolina | WRPX-TV | 47.5 | |||||
Roanoke-Lynchburg, Virginia | WPXR-TV | 38.5 | |||||
Sacramento | KSPX-TV | 29.5 | |||||
St. Louis, Missouri | WRBU | 46.5 | |||||
Salt Lake City, Utah | KUPX-TV | 29.5 | |||||
San Antonio, Texas | KPXL-TV | 26.5 | |||||
San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, California | KKPX-TV | 65.5 | |||||
Scranton-Wilkes-Barre-Hazleton, Pennsylvania | WQPX-TV | 64.5 | |||||
Seattle-Tacoma, Washington | KWPX-TV | 33.5 | |||||
Syracuse, New York | WSPX-TV | 56.5 | |||||
Tulsa, Oklahoma | KTPX-TV | 44.5 | |||||
Wausau-Rhinelander, Wisconsin | WTPX-TV | 46.5 | |||||
February 1 | Dothan, Alabama | WDHN | 18.4 | Cozi TV | Antenna TV | Nexstar Media Group continues the process it launched in the fall of 2020 of phasing out subchannel carriage agreements with Cozi and MeTV, competitors in the classic television subchannel space, in order to increase exposure and publicity for Antenna TV on its existing stations, which it acquired in 2019 as part of the Tribune Broadcasting merger. | [206] |
Terre Haute, Indiana | WTWO | 2.4 | |||||
Monroe, Louisiana | KARD-TV | 14.4 | |||||
Joplin, Missouri | KSNF | 16.4 | |||||
Amarillo, Texas | KAMR-TV | 4.4 | |||||
Wichita Falls, Texas | KFDX-TV | 3.4 | |||||
Charleston, West Virginia | WVAH-TV | 11.1 | Fox | Decades | In December 2020, WVAH's parent company Sinclair Broadcast Group announced that most of its Fox network programming, syndicated programing and its 10PM Eyewitness News newscast produced by ABC affiliated sister station WCHS-TV along with the Fox 11 branding to the second subchannel of WCHS-TV beginning February 1, with a month long transition period beginning January 1, meaning they will end its 34-year affiliation with said network (since its 1987 national launch). After the transition, the station will joined the Weigel Broadcasting-owned Decades diginet on its main signal. | [citation needed] | |
Port Arthur-Beaumont, Texas | KBTV-TV | 4.1 | Dabl | In December 2020, KBTV's parent company Sinclair Broadcast Group announced they will parted ways with Fox after 13 years of affiliation (as well as 67 years of station affiliation of major networks, the other was with NBC from its 1953 sign on until 2008), the station will switched to Dabl diginet effective February 1, with the Fox network schedule, its syndicated programming, the 5:30PM and 9PM newscasts produced by sister station KFDM and the Fox 4 branding moving to the third subchannel of KFDM on this date, with a 1-month transition period in January. Following this, KFDM will be the second station in North Texas to carrying programming from both major networks (the other was KBMT which carry programming from ABC on the main channel and NBC on the second subchannel). | [202][203] | ||
4.5 | Dabl | Charge! | |||||
February 2 | Cedar Rapids, Iowa | KFXA | 28.1 | Fox | Dabl | [citation needed] | |
February 3 | Columbus, Ohio | WTTE | 28.1 | Fox | TBD | In December 2020, WRGT and WTTE's parent company Sinclair Broadcast Group announced that both stations will ending its 34-year relationship with Fox which is began in 1987 following its national debut (a notable occurrence was in 2004, which the former, along with CBS affiliate WHIO-TV did not make their affiliation swaps due to the swap involving WDTN and WKEF). WRGT's network affiliation, its syndication programming, the 7:00AM morning and 10:00PM nightly newscasts and the Fox 45 branding will be moved to the second subchannel of its co-owned ABC affiliated station WKEF effective February 4, with a 33-day transition period beginning January 1 of that year, Following the switch, the part-time MyNetwork TV/Dabl affiliation will move to the main channel. Meanwhile, WTTE's network affiliation, its syndication programming, the 7:00AM morning and 10:00PM nightly newscasts and the Fox 28 branding also moved to the third subchannel of its co-owned ABC affiliated station WSYX on February 3, with a 32-day transition period starting January 1, after this, the station will switch to TBD diginet. | [207] |
28.2 | TBD | Stadium | |||||
February 4 | Dayton, Ohio | WRGT-TV | 45.1 | Fox | MyNetworkTV/Dabl | [201] | |
45.2 | MyNetworkTV/Dabl | TBD | |||||
45.5 | TBD | Stadium | |||||
Sioux City, Iowa | KMEG | 14.1 | CBS | Dabl | Earlier in January, KMEG's parent company Sinclair Broadcast Group announced that the CBS affiliation will let go after 53 years from its 1967 sign-on, with most of its network programming, syndicated programming and its SiouxLand News news operation, as well as the KMEG 14 branding to the third subchannel of its co-owned Fox/MyNetwork TV affiliated station KPTH beginning February 4. The stations meanwhile will also swap its Dabl, TBD and Charge! diginets on the said date. | [208] | |
14.2 | TBD | Charge! | |||||
KPTH | 44.2 | Dabl | TBD | ||||
44.3 | Charge! | CBS | |||||
March 1 | Atlanta, Georgia | WPXA-TV | 14.2 | Qubo | Court TV | With the end of Ion Plus, Qubo and Ion Shop, the following Ion-owned and affiliated stations converted their channel map to carrying other networks in Katz Broadcasting's subchannel suite, along with several other stations which carried Ion Plus as their main channel. | [209] |
14.3 | Ion Plus | Laff | |||||
14.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Boston, Massachusetts | WDPX-TV | 58.1 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||
WBPX-TV | 68.2 | Qubo | Court TV Mystery | ||||
68.3 | Ion Shop | Bounce TV | |||||
Buffalo, New York | WPXJ-TV | 51.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
51.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
51.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
Cleveland, Ohio | WDLI-TV | 17.1 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||
WVPX-TV | 23.2 | Qubo | Grit | ||||
23.3 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Columbus, Ohio | WSFJ-TV | 51.1 | Ion Plus | Bounce TV | |||
Des Moines, Iowa | KFPX-TV | 39.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
39.3 | Ion Plus | Laff | |||||
39.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Detroit, Michigan | WPXD-TV | 31.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
31.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
31.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Grand Rapids, Michigan | WZPX-TV | 43.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
43.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
43.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
43.5 | QVC | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Hartford, Connecticut | WHPX-TV | 26.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | |||
26.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
26.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
Houston, Texas | KPXB-TV | 49.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
49.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
49.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Indianapolis, Indiana | WCLJ-TV | 42.1 | Ion Plus | Bounce TV | |||
WIPX-TV | 63.2 | Qubo | Court TV | ||||
63.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Jacksonville, Florida | WPXC-TV | 21.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
21.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV Mystery | |||||
21.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
Kansas City, Missouri | KMCI-TV | 38.4 | Court TV | HSN | |||
KPXE-TV | 50.2 | Qubo | Court TV | ||||
50.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
50.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
Knoxville, Tennessee | WPXK-TV | 54.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
54.3 | Ion Plus | Laff | |||||
54.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Lexington, Kentucky | WUPX-TV | 67.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
67.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
67.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
Los Angeles, California | KPXN-TV | 30.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
KILM | 64.1 | Ion Plus | Grit | ||||
Madison, Wisconsin | WIFS | 57.1 | Ion Television | ||||
57.5 | Qubo | Laff | |||||
57.6 | Laff | Court TV Mystery | |||||
57.7 | Court TV Mystery | Grit | |||||
Manchester, New Hampshire | WPXG-TV | 21.2 | Qubo | Court TV Mystery | |||
21.3 | Ion Shop | Bounce TV | |||||
Memphis, Tennessee | WPXX-TV | 50.2 | Qubo | Court TV Mystery | |||
50.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
50.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
Miami-Ft. Lauderdale, Florida | WPXM-TV | 35.2 | Qubo | Court TV Mystery | |||
35.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
35.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota | KPXM-TV | 41.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | |||
41.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
41.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Nashville, Tennessee | WNPX-TV | 28.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
28.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
28.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
New York, New York | WPXN-TV | 31.2 | Qubo | Grit | |||
31.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV Mystery | |||||
31.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV | |||||
Orlando, Florida | WOPX-TV | 56.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | |||
56.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV Mystery | |||||
56.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | WPPX-TV | 61.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
61.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
61.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | WINP-TV | 16.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | |||
16.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
16.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Providence, Rhode Island | WLWC | 28.1 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||
WPXQ-TV | 69.2 | Qubo | Laff | ||||
69.4 | Ion Shop | Bounce TV | |||||
Raleigh, North Carolina | WRPX-TV | 47.3 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||
WFPX-TV | 62.1 | Ion Plus | Court TV | ||||
San Francisco, California | KKPX-TV | 65.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | |||
65.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
65.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania | WQPX-TV | 64.2 | Qubo | Bounce TV | |||
64.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV | |||||
64.4 | Ion Shop | Grit | |||||
Syracuse, New York | WSPX-TV | 56.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
56.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
56.4 | Ion Shop | Court TV Mystery | |||||
Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida | WXPX-TV | 66.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
66.3 | Ion Plus | Grit | |||||
66.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
West Palm Beach, Florida | WPXP-TV | 67.2 | Qubo | Court TV | |||
67.3 | Ion Plus | Court TV Mystery | |||||
67.4 | Ion Shop | Laff | |||||
67.5 | QVC | Grit |
Station closures[edit]
Station | Channel | Affiliation | Market | Date | Notes | Source |
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XHRIO | 15.1 | The CW | Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico (Rio Grande Valley, Texas) |
December 31 | In late 2019, when owner Entravision Communications released its third-quarter earnings, it announced that it would not pay the 20-year lump sum renewal for the station's license. As a result, the station is expected to cease operations at the end of its concession in December 2021 after broadcasting as an English language station for most of its 42-year history. The closure of XHRIO-TDT leaves Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon to depend on American television stations for English-language content. | [210] |
WVTA | 41.# | PBS | Windsor, Vermont | TBD | Vermont PBS announced on February 17, 2017, that it will sell the broadcast license for WVTA, which transmits from Mount Ascutney, for $56 million in the FCC spectrum auction. In a statement, the member network said that its other signals will be upgraded to cover the viewing area (southeastern Vermont and southwestern New Hampshire) served by WVTA. | [211] |
Deaths[edit]
January[edit]
February[edit]
Date | Name | Age | Notability | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
February 1 | Dustin Diamond | 44 | Actor best known as Samuel "Screech" Powers in the Saved by the Bell franchise | [246] |
Jamie Tarses | 56 | Television executive (ABC Entertainment) and producer (Friends, Frasier, Happy Endings, My Boys, Franklin & Bash, The Wilds, Saturday Night Live, Perfect Strangers, Hawthorne, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Marry Me, Men at Work) | [247] | |
February 5 | Christopher Plummer | 91 | Canadian Emmy, Oscar, and Tony Award-winning actor (TV credits include Omnibus, The Moneychangers, Jesus of Nazareth, Little Gloria... Happy at Last, The Thorn Birds, The Cosby Show, Counterstrike, Winchell, Nuremberg, American Tragedy, Departure, and Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight; voice work on Madeline; video clue presenter on Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time) | [248] |
Butch Reed | 66 | Former WWE and WCW professional wrestler | [249] | |
February 7 | Pedro Gomez | 58 | American sports journalist who primarily covered baseball for ESPN, appearing on SportsCenter and Baseball Tonight | [250] |
February 10 | Katherine Creag | 47 | American newscaster at WNYW and WNBC in New York City | [251] |
February 11 | Joan Weldon | 90 | American actress | [252] |
February 12 | Christopher Pennock | 76 | American actor best known as Gabriel Collins on Dark Shadows | [253] |
Lynn Stalmaster | 93 | American casting director | [254] | |
February 17 | Rush Limbaugh | 70 | American radio personality and political commentator; TV work included eponymous Rush Limbaugh from 1992 to 1996, along with contributions to The 1/2 Hour News Hour and Sunday NFL Countdown. Also several voice appearances as himself on Family Guy. | [255] |
February 18 | Frank Lupo | 66 | Writer/producer, most notably (in partnership with Stephen J. Cannell) on The A-Team, Hunter and Wiseguy | [256] |
February 20 | Douglas Turner Ward | 90 | American playwright, actor, director, and theatrical producer. He was noted for being a founder and artistic director of the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC). | [257] |
February 23 | Geoffrey Scott | 79 | American actor best known for appearing on the television series Dynasty for two seasons (1982 to 1984) as Mark Jennings. | [258] |
February 28 | Irv Cross | 81 | Football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Los Angeles Rams) and sportscaster (The NFL Today). First Black network sports anchor. | [259] |
March[edit]
Date | Name | Age | Notability | Source |
---|---|---|---|---|
March 2 | Gil Rogers | 87 | American actor (recurring roles as Hawk Shayne on Guiding Light, Ray Gardner on All My Children, and Dr. Martin Brandt on The Doctors). Guest roles included General Hospital. | [260] |
March 6 | Carmel Quinn | 95 | Irish-American entertainer who appeared on Broadway, television and radio after immigrating to the United States in 1954 | [261] |
March 9 | Roger Mudd | 93 | Reporter and anchor for CBS News and NBC News as well for PBS' MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and History Channel | [262] |
Cliff Simon | 58 | Actor best known for his role as Ba'al on Stargate SG-1. | [263] | |
March 13 | Yaphet Kotto | 81 | Actor best known for his role as Lt. Al Giardello on Homicide: Life on the Street | [264] |
March 14 | Henry Darrow | 87 | Puerto Rican actor (several series, including The High Chaparral, Harry O, All My Children, One Life to Live, Santa Barbara, General Hospital, and Zorro) | [265] |
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