1987 in American television
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The year 1987 in television involved some significant events. This is a list of notable events in the United States.
Events
| Date | Event |
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| January 3 | After being canceled by CBS at the end of the 1984–85 season, Charles in Charge resurfaces in first-run syndication, where it would run for an additional four seasons. |
| January 5 | Remington Steele is resumed by NBC after a six-month hiatus. During the hiatus, the series' main actor Pierce Brosnan won the film role of James Bond, only to lose the role when NBC unexpectedly renewed the television series. Remington Steele adopts a TV-movie length format but only runs for a few installments before being canceled permanently. |
| January 17 | NBC announces purchase of CBS affiliate WTVJ, and stripped off WSVN, thus the switch did not take effect until two years later. |
| January 22 | R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself at a televised press conference. The decision by some companies to broadcast the footage results in a debate concerning journalistic ethics. |
| January 25 | college football coverage during this game, as well as its open that was used through 1990 .
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| February 2 | PBS broadcasts the critically acclaimed series Eyes on the Prize. |
| February 7 | In the very special episode of Valerie titled "Bad Timing", David and a former girlfriend debate whether to have sex.[2][3] The episode featured the first use of the word condom on a prime time television program.[4] Parental advisory warnings were issued in ads for the episode and NBC placed an advisory warning before the episode aired stating that parents may want to watch the episode with their children. Because of the episode's subject matter, some of NBC's affiliates either aired the show outside of prime time or refused to air it at all. The episode was later released to home video, especially for teachers and health educators to use as a tool to promote safe sex. |
| February 14 | Pee-wee Herman guest stars on the NBC sitcom 227. |
| February 15 | USSR, was broadcast on ABC .
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| February 20 | David Hartman anchors ABC's Good Morning America for the final time. He would be succeeded by Charles Gibson, who would anchor the program alongside Joan Lunden. |
| February 24 | James Coco makes his final recurring appearance as Tony Micelli's father–in–law, Nick Milano on the ABC sitcom Who's the Boss? Just one day later, Coco would die of a heart attack at the age of 56. The Season 4 episode "A Farewell to Nick" would later be produced in Coco's honor. |
| February 25 | Magnum P.I. , in what would be his last credited screen performance.
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| March 9 | KETK-TV in Jacksonville, Texas signs on the air, giving the Tyler market its first full-time NBC affiliate. (NBC had previously been shared on KLTV with CBS (until KLMG-TV signed on in 1984), and later ABC which KLTV retains as a full-time affiliate.) |
| March 12 | " DGA Award .
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| March 19 | Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as the host of The PTL Club after involvement in a sex scandal.
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| March 23 | The first ever Soul Train Music Awards is broadcast in syndication. |
| The soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful debuts on CBS. | |
| March 27 | On The Price Is Right surpasses Concentration as the longest-running daytime game show in history.
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| March 28 | The forerunner to the Kids' Choice Awards, dubbed 'The Big Ballot', airs on Nickelodeon. The Big Ballot was actually aired over four consecutive weeks (with the movie winners, TV winners, music winners, and finally sports winners being announced for each week) as part of the movie review program Rated K: For Kids by Kids. |
| March 29 | In front of 93,173 fans WWF World Heavyweight Championship at WrestleMania 3 at the Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan defeating his former friend André The Giant .
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| March 30 | CBS Sports uses the song "One Shining Moment" for the first time during the highlight package at the end of their coverage of NCAA men's basketball tournament final .
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| March 31 | On Moonlighting, Maddie and David consummate their relationship after two and a half years of romantic tension. |
| April 5 | The Fox TV network makes its prime-time debut, marking the first time since 1955 that there were four U.S. networks with prime-time programming. The network debuted two shows, Married... with Children and The Tracey Ullman Show, which are broadcast three times each during the night so that viewers watching other networks can switch over and sample the shows. |
| April 6 | During an episode of the black field or general managers in MLB. Campanis would be fired two days later.
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| April 17 | Bill Murray announces a Chicago Cubs-Montreal Expos game at Wrigley Field on WGN. Working alongside color analyst Steve Stone, Murray was filling in while broadcaster Harry Caray was recovering from a stroke. Caray would eventually return to the booth on May 19. |
| April 19 | Matt Groening's The Simpsons debuts as a series of short animated segments as part of The Tracey Ullman Show on Fox. |
| April 29 | Independent station in New York City, WOR-TV changes its call sign to WWOR-TV .
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| May 4 | Valerie Harper makes her final appearance as Valerie Hogan on what was initially called Valerie. After Harper was fired from the series following contractual disputes, the series was renamed Valerie's Family and finally, The Hogan Family come the fourth season. |
| May 6 | Mr. Belvedere is canceled after three seasons; however criticism causes ABC executives to rethink the decision and renew the series for a fourth season. (Since the fall programming schedules were already set, Mr. Belvedere would not premiere until late October.) |
| May 7 | Shelley Long makes her final regular appearance as Diane Chambers on Cheers. She would appear once more in the series finale in 1993. |
| May 15 | . |
| May 17 | The Return of the Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman, which features Lee Majors and Lindsay Wagner reprising their roles as Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers respectively, airs on NBC. This would be followed by two more television movies, Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman (1989) and Bionic Ever After? (1994). |
| June 4 | CBS becomes the last American network to cease a chime intonation at the beginning of telecasts; satellite feeds have made the tones obsolete (their function was to signal to the affiliates to start broadcasting the network feed in synchronization with the others). |
| June 30 | U.S. daytime television was interrupted for the Iran-Contra hearings. |
| July 15 | Genie Francis, of General Hospital fame, starts a new soap opera role as Diana Colville on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives, which she will play until 1989. |
| July 17 | The initial major television network for cable TV. After one season on Disney Channel, Good Morning, Miss Bliss would be retooled into Saved by the Bell, which would air as part of NBC's Saturday morning line-up .
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| July 28 | Actor Crispin Glover appears on Late Night with David Letterman to promote River's Edge.[5] To the surprise of Letterman and the audience, Glover appears wearing platform shoes and a wig. During the interview, Glover behaves erratically and nearly kicks Letterman in the face, causing Letterman to walk off the set.[5][6] Four years later, the film Rubin & Ed premiered, in which Glover has a starring role as titular character Rubin Farr. After the release of Rubin & Ed, some speculated that Glover was acting in-character as Rubin Farr during his appearance on Late Night.[5][6][7][8] |
| July 31 | Movietime, forerunner to E!, goes on the air. |
| August 1 | ABC affiliate KRCR-TV in Redding, California launches full-time satellite KAEF-TV in Arcata, California, giving the Eureka market its first full-time ABC affiliate. |
| August 31 | CBS airs the special Michael Jackson: The Magic Returns, which features the broadcast premiere of Jackson's 18 minute long music video "Bad". |
| August 31 | independent station WWAT-TV goes in the air.
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| September 5 | Dick Clark's American Bandstand is broadcast for the 2,751st and last time by ABC, after 30 years on the network. (It continued in syndication, then on cable for 2 more years.) |
| September 7 | The original series of Disney's well known animated series DuckTales begins airing on ITV in the UK before being shown in its normal country. |
| September 7 | CBS begins broadcasting its prime time programs with stereo sound dubbed CBS StereoSound. |
| September 11 | Dan Rather of the CBS Evening News leaves the newscast when a televised tennis match runs two minutes over. He is missing for six minutes. |
| September 12 | The final episode of Down and Out in Beverly Hills, an adaptation of the 1986 film of the same name, airs on Fox. It has the distinction of being the first ever show to be cancelled by Fox; 5 of the 13 produced episodes did not air.[9] |
| September 14 | Filmation's final animated series BraveStarr has its broadcast premiere in syndication. |
| September 18 | DuckTales finally begins airing in the U.S. for the first time ever in syndication. |
| September 19 | Prime Time Begins at 7:30". The shows included are Marblehead Manor (airing Mondays), She's the Sheriff (airing Tuesdays), a series adapted from the George S. Kaufman play You Can't Take It with You (airing Wednesdays), Out of This World (airing Thursdays), and a revival of the short-lived 1983 NBC series We Got It Made closing out the week on Fridays.
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| September 22 | Long-running sitcom Full House created by Jeff Franklin debuts on ABC. |
| September 24 | Kirstie Alley makes her debut as Rebecca Howe in the sixth-season premiere of Cheers. |
| September 26 | The Gaddafi's death (on October 20, 2011) occurred within three months of the "predicted" date and was from the same cause (multiple gunshot wounds).[10]
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| September 28 | The premieres in syndication .
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| October 3 | Once a Hero, the show's lowest rated program of the season holds its last aired episode on ABC. The following week, specials replaced it until the debut of Sable in its time period on November 7. |
| October 4 | On the final day of the Major League Baseball season, the Detroit Tigers clinch the American League East title against their divisional rivals the Toronto Blue Jays. The game was broadcast on Sunday afternoon on ABC with Al Michaels, Jim Palmer and Tim McCarver on the call. |
| October 12 | Valerie .
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| October 14 | make its name .
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| October 15 | The Price is Right for the first time with white hair. He is given a minute-long standing ovation by the audience.
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| October 16 | Pursuit of Happiness will replace Headroom two weeks later, on October 30 on its Friday night time period.
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| October 24 | Metrodome , the game took place under artificial illumination all the same).
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| October 26 | Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome was being used for Game 7 of the World Series. Gary Bender and Lynn Swann would call this special contest from Minnesota while the rest of the nation sees the Los Angeles Rams face off against the Cleveland Browns .
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| October 30 | The third season of Punky Brewster begins after the series was off the air for over a year and a half. After NBC cancelled it at the end of the 1985–86 season, the show would continue production throughout the 1986–87 season leading up to its return to the air via first-run syndication. |
| November 8 | ESPN broadcasts its first ever Sunday night National Football League game, a contest between the New York Giants and New England Patriots. It marked the first time that a cable television outlet broadcast an NFL game. |
| November 9 | Fox's Salt Lake City affiliate KSTU moves its channel allocation from UHF channel 20 to VHF channel 13.[11] |
| November 13 | Sonny & Cher reunite for a performance on NBC's late-night talk show Late Night with David Letterman. |
| November 15 | The animated crossover The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones premieres in syndication .
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| November 22 | During a showing of the Max Headroom mask being spanked. The similar incident (for 15–20 seconds) occurred during WGN-TV 's newscast when it showed the mask moving up and downwards.
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Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back makes its network broadcast television premiere on NBC .
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| November 26 | The very first supercard event. Jim Crockett Promotions had previously aired Starrcade only on closed-circuit television. To compete with Starrcade, the WWF introduced the Survivor Series event, and held it on the same night as Starrcade. The WWF also limited the amount of pay-per-view providers that would carry Starrcade by not allowing providers to carry WrestleMania IV if they did not carry Survivor Series exclusively. Only a small amount of providers carried Starrcade, and it drew a 3.30 buy rate while Survivor Series drew a 7.0 buy rate.
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| December 16 | San Antonio television station KABB goes on the air. |
| December 27 | Through a short stint with play-by-play for an NFL regular season football game when she called a game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Kansas City Chiefs .
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| December 28 | The first ever Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series premieres in syndication starting off with the first four episodes. |
Programs
Debuting this year
Resuming this year
| Title | Final aired | Previous network | New title | Returning network | Date of return |
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| Charles in Charge | 1985 | CBS | Same | Syndication
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January 3 |
| Blockbusters | 1982 | NBC | Same | January 5 | |
| Concentration | 1978 | Syndication | Classic Concentration
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NBC | May 4 |
We Got it Made
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1984 | NBC | Same | Syndication | September 11 |
| Snorks | 1985 | Same | September 12 | ||
| High Rollers | 1980 | Syndication | September 14 | ||
| Truth or Consequences | 1978 | Syndication | |||
| The Jetsons | 1963 | ABC | October 19 |
Ending this year
| Date | Title | Debut |
|---|---|---|
| January 10 | Heart of the City | 1986 |
| February 6 | Dads | |
| February 9 | Gung Ho | |
| February 7 | Too Close for Comfort | 1980 |
| February 27 | The Love Boat | 1977 |
| March 1 | The New Adventures of Jonny Quest | 1986 |
| March 3 | Silver Spoons | 1982 |
| March 7 | The Berenstain Bears | 1985 |
| March 8 | The A-Team | 1983 |
| March 12 | The Wizard | 1986 |
| March 20 | Capitol | 1982 |
| March 25 | Harry | 1987 |
| March 26 | The Colbys | 1985 |
| March 27 | Zoobilee Zoo | 1986 |
| March 30 | You Again? | |
| Fraggle Rock | 1983 | |
| April 8 | Roxie | 1987 |
| April 10 | Amazing Stories | 1985 |
| April 17 | Remington Steele | 1982 |
| April 24 | Together We Stand | 1986 |
| April 29 | Easy Street | |
| May 1 | Blockbusters | 1980 |
| May 2 | Starman | 1986 |
| May 8 | Stingray | 1985 |
| May 12 | Gimme a Break! | 1981 |
| The Tortellis | 1987 | |
| May 13 | The New Mike Hammer
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1984 |
| May 15 | Roomies | 1987 |
| May 18 | Fame | 1982 |
| May 19 | Hill Street Blues | 1981 |
| May 28 | Scarecrow and Mrs. King | 1983 |
Our World
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1986 | |
| May 30 | Outlaws | |
| June 3 | Nothing in Common | 1987 |
| June 13 | Sidekicks | 1986 |
| June 19 | Nightlife | |
| June 27 | Gung Ho | |
| July 8 | Sweet Surrender | 1987 |
| August 7 | Airwolf | 1984 |
| September 7 | The Ellen Burstyn Show | 1986 |
| September 11 | Split Second | 1972 |
| September 12 | Down and Out in Beverly Hills | 1987 |
| Karen's Song | ||
| September 14 | Photon | 1986 |
| September 23 | My Little Pony | 1984 |
| October 1 | First Impressions | 1987 |
| October 3 | Once a Hero | |
| October 25 | Maxie's World | |
| November 7 | Everything's Relative | |
| Leg Work | ||
| Teen Wolf | 1986 | |
| November 11 | The Transformers | 1984 |
| November 12 | The Jetsons | 1962 |
| November 28 | The New Adventures of Beans Baxter | 1987 |
| December 7 | New Monkees | |
| December 11 | Dinosaucers | |
| December 12 | Popeye and Son | |
The P.T.L. Club
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1976 | |
| December 18 | Beverly Hills Teens | 1987 |
| Spiral Zone | ||
| December 19 | My Pet Monster | |
| Pound Puppies | 1986 |
Changing networks
| Show | Moved from | Moved to |
|---|---|---|
| Airwolf | CBS | USA Network |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | NBC | |
| Candid Camera | CBS | |
We Got it Made
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Syndication | |
| High Rollers | ||
| Punky Brewster | ||
| Charles in Charge | CBS | |
| Webster | ABC | |
| American Bandstand | ||
| Concentration | Syndication | NBC |
| Inspector Gadget | Nickelodeon |
Made-for-TV movies and miniseries
| Title | Network | Premiere date |
|---|---|---|
| Amerika | ABC | February 8 |
| The Facts of Life Down Under | NBC | February 15 |
| LBJ: The Early Years | February 1 | |
| Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story | November 16 | |
| Roman Holiday | December 28 |
Networks and services
Launches
| Network | Type | Launch date | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Travel Channel | Cable television | February 8 | ||
| Fox | Cable television | April 5 | Previously had a "soft launch" on October 9, 1986 | |
| Movietime | Cable television | July 31 | ||
| Harmony Premiere Network | Cable television | Unknown |
Conversions and rebrandings
| Old network name | New network name | Type | Conversion Date | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NetSpan | Telemundo | Cable television | Unknown | ||
| Spanish International Network | Univision | Cable and satellite | Unknown | ||
| SuperStation WTBS | SuperStation TBS | Cable television | Unknown |
Closures
| Network | Type | Closure date | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home Theater Network | Cable television | January 31 | ||
| Operation Prime Time | Cable television | Unknown |
Television stations
Station launches
| Date | Market
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Station | Channel | Affiliation | Notes/Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 11 | Bartlesville/Tulsa, Oklahoma | KDOR-TV | 17 | TBN | |
| February | Hattiesburg/Laurel, Mississippi | WHLT | 22 | CBS | Semi-satellite of WJTV/Jackson |
| February 2 | Marshalltown/Des Moines, Iowa | K39AS | 39 | ||
| February 7 | Orlando, Florida | WLSY | 43 | Independent | |
| February 9 | Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas
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KDTX-TV | 58 | TBN (O&O) | |
| February 13 | Williamsport, Pennsylvania | W39BT | 39 | TBN | |
| February 14 | Biloxi/Gulfport, Mississippi | WXXV-TV | 25 | Fox | |
| February 15 | San Juan, Puerto Rico | WSJN-TV | 24 | Independent
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| March 9 | Charlotte, North Carolina | WJZY | 46 | Independent | |
| Tyler, Texas | KETK | 56 | NBC | ||
| March 23 | Toledo, Ohio | W48AP | 48 | Independent | |
| April | Redwood Falls, Minnesota | KRWF
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43 | ABC | Semi-satellite of KSTP-TV |
| April 7 | Mobile, Alabama | WFGX | 35 | Independent | |
| April 18 | Atlanta, Georgia
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WNGM-TV | 34 | Independent | |
| May | Los Angeles, California | KDDE (recalled as KEEF-TV in June) |
68 | Educational independent | |
| May 6 | Springfield, Massachusetts | W11BT
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11 | Independent | |
| May 13 | Buffalo, New York | WNEQ-TV | 23 | PBS | |
| May 22 | Terre Haute, Indiana | W65BK
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65 | TBN | |
| May 25 | Cleveland/Chattanooga, Tennessee | WFLI-TV | 53 | Independent
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| May 29 | Sioux Falls, South Dakota | KTTW | 7 | Fox | |
| June 18 | Cocoa/Orlando, Florida | WRES | 68 | Educational independent | |
| June 30 | Kalamazoo/Battle Creek/Grand Rapids, Michigan | WLLA | 64 | Christian independent | |
| July 1 | Clairemore/Tulsa, Oklahoma | KXON-TV | 35 | Educational independent | |
| July 2 | Darien, Connecticut | W33BS
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33 | Audio-only independent | Pulse 87 |
| July 4 | Frederick, Maryland (Washington, D.C.) |
WFPT
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62 | PBS | Part of the Maryland Public Television network |
| July 16 | Houston, Texas
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KETH
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14 | TBN (O&O) | |
| August 1 | Arcata/Eureka, California | KREQ | 23 | Fox | |
| August 5 | Baton Rouge, Louisiana | W49KG | 49 | Independent | |
| August 10 | Rochester, Minnesota (Mason City, Iowa) |
KXLT-TV | 47 | Independent | Originally a satellite of Minneapolis
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| August 14 | Merrimack/Manchester, New Hampshire | WGOT
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60 | Independent | |
| August 15 | Barstow/Los Angeles, California | KVVT | 64 | Independent | |
| August 24 | Columbus, Ohio | WOCB-CD (original callsign unknown) |
39 | Religious independent | |
| August 27 | Bloomington, Indiana | WCLJ-TV | 42 | TBN | |
| August 28 | Cheyenne, Wyoming | KKTU | 39 | NBC | |
| August 31 | Columbus, Ohio | WWAT | 53 | Independent | |
| September | Buffalo, New York | WNYB-TV | 49 | Independent | |
| September | Silver City, New Mexico | KOVT | 10 | ABC | Satellite of KOAT-TV/Albuquerque |
| September 1 | Bozeman/Butte, Montana | KCTZ
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7 | ABC | |
| September 2 | Denver, Colorado
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KUBD | 59 | Independent | |
| September 5 | Albuquerque, New Mexico | KLUZ
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41 | Univision | |
| September 18 | Houston, Texas
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KXLN | 45 | Univision | |
| September 21 | New Orleans, Louisiana
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K59DG | 59 | Daystar
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| September 28 | Bridgeport, Connecticut (New York City) |
WBCT-TV | 43 | Independent | |
| October 12 | Albuquerque, New Mexico | KAZQ | 34 | Religious independent | |
| October 18 | Richland, Washington | KTNW | 31 | PBS | Satellite of KWSU-TV/Spokane |
| October 19 | Tamuning, Guam | KTGM | 14 | ABC (primary) CBS (secondary) |
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Indianapolis, Indiana
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WMCC | 23 | Independent | ||
| October 28 | Chicago, Illinois
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W54AP | 54 | Independent | |
| W54AP | 54 | ||||
| October 29 | Tampa, Florida | W57BA | 57 | Channel America | |
| November 12 | Stockton, California (Sacramento/Modesto, California) |
KFTL | 64 | Independent | |
| November 15 | Gary, Indiana (Chicago, Illinois) |
WYIN | 56 | PBS | |
| December 2 | South Bend, Indiana | W12BK (original) | 12 | Independent | Chicago
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| December 7 | Houston, Texas
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KTMD | 47 | Telemundo | |
| December 8 | Chicago, Illinois
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W46AO | 46 | TBN | |
| Lenoir City/Knoxville, Tennessee | W38AQ
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38 | FamilyNet/America One
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| December 14 | Albany, New York | WOCD | 55 | Independent | |
| December 15 | Elkhart/South Bend, Indiana | W24AI
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24 | TBN | |
| Hopkinsville, Kentucky (Clarksville, Tennessee) |
W22CH
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22 | |||
| December 16 | San Antonio, Texas
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KABB | 29 | Independent | |
| Unknown date | Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands | WAIG | 43 | Independent | |
| WVGI | 17 | ||||
| Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands | WMEG | 15 | Religious independent | ||
| Panama City, Florida | W46AN | 46 | Tourist information |
Network affiliation changes
| Date | Market
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Station | Channel | Old affiliation | New affiliation | Notes/Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 19 | Boston, Massachusetts
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WFXT | 25 | Independent
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Fox | |
| April 5 | Davenport, Iowa (Quad Cities) | KLJB-TV
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18 | |||
| Evansville, Indiana | WEVV-TV | 44 | ||||
| Memphis, Tennessee | WMKW-TV | 30 | ||||
| Nashville, Tennessee | WCAY-TV | 30 | ||||
| Tri-Cities, Tennessee/Virginia | WEMT | 38 | ||||
| July 6 | Columbus, Georgia | WXTX | 54 | [13] | ||
| Jackson, Mississippi | WDBD | 40 | ||||
| Knoxville, Tennessee | WKCH-TV | 43 | [14] | |||
| September 7 | Cape Girardeau, Missouri (Paducah, Kentucky/Harrisburg, Illinois) |
KBSI | 23 | [15][16] | ||
| October 19 | Hagatna, Guam
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KUAM-TV | 8 | NBC (primary) CBS/ABC/Fox (secondary) |
NBC (primary) CBS/Fox (secondary) |
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| Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands | WSZE-TV | 10 | Satellite of KUAM-TV/Hagtna, Guam | |||
| December 5 | Huntsville/Decatur/Florence, Alabama | WZDX | 54 | Independent | Fox | [17][18] |
Births
Deaths
| Date | Name | Age | Notability |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 1 | Lloyd Haynes | 52 | Actor (Room 222) |
| February 4 | Liberace | 67 | American pianist, singer and actor |
| February 22 | David Susskind | 66 | Commentator and producer (The David Susskind Show) |
| February 25 | James Coco | 56 | Actor |
| March 3 | Danny Kaye | 76 | Actor & comedian (The Danny Kaye Show) |
| March 21 | Dean Paul Martin | 35 | Actor (Misfits of Science) and singer (Dino, Desi & Billy) |
| March 28 | Patrick Troughton | 67 | Actor (the Second Doctor on Doctor Who from 1966 to 1969) |
| April 17 | Dick Shawn | 63 | Actor |
| April 19 | Milt Kahl | 78 | Animator |
| May 4 | Cathryn Damon | 56 | Actress (Mary on Soap) |
| May 14 | Rita Hayworth | 68 | Actress and singer |
| May 31 | Roy Winsor | 75 | Soap opera writer (Search for Tomorrow) |
| June 22 | Fred Astaire | 88 | Actor and singer |
| June 24 | Jackie Gleason | 71 | Actor (The Honeymooners, The Jackie Gleason Show) |
| August 11 | Clara Peller | 85 | Where's the Beef? ad campaign)
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| August 19 | Hayden Rorke | 76 | Actor (Dr. Bellows on I Dream of Jeannie) |
| September 5 | Quinn Martin | 65 | Executive producer (The Fugitive and many others) |
| September 11 | Lorne Greene | 72 | Actor (Ben Cartwright on Bonanza) |
| September 22 | Dan Rowan | 65 | Comedian (co-host of Laugh-In )
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| Carman Maxwell | 84 | Voice actor (Bosko on Looney Tunes) | |
| September 25 | Mary Astor | 81 | Actress[21] |
Television debuts
- Patricia Arquette – Daddy
- Billy Crudup – General College
- Chris Elliott – Miami Vice
- Juliette Lewis – Home Fires
- Brad Pitt – Another World
- Joely Richardson – Kin of the Castle
- Chris Rock – Miami Vice
See also
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The movie starred Crispin Glover as Rubin - he was actually in the Rubin character the infamous night he nearly karate-kicked off David Letterman's nose.
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