1992 in American television
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American television
in 1992, notable events included television series debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel initiations, closures and rebrandings, as well as information about controversies and disputes.
Events
Date | Event |
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January 6 | The weekly overnight news program World News Now debuts on ABC. |
January 10 | The Days of Our Lives nighttime special One Stormy Night is broadcast by NBC. |
January 19 | The . |
January 26 | During halftime of CBS' telecast of Super Bowl XXVI, Fox counter-programs with a special live-edition of the sketch comedy program In Living Color. |
In a 60 Minutes interview, Bill and Hillary Clinton deny the allegations made against Bill in an interview that was viewed by millions.[1] | |
February 14 | Fox affiliation .
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February 22 | . |
February 24 | Twin Cities, WCCO-TV. This also results in an affiliation swap in both Marquette, Michigan and Green Bay, Wisconsin: WJMN-TV, the Midwest-owned satellite station of Green Bay's ABC affiliate WFRV-TV, swaps its own ABC affiliation with primary CBS/secondary NBC affiliate WLUC-TV on this date, while WFRV-TV itself swaps with CBS affiliate WBAY-TV on March 15. (The delay in Green Bay occurs since WBAY-TV wanted to swap on or near March 17, the 39th anniversary of its first sign-on.)
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February 29 | sitcoms created by Susan Harris: The Golden Girls, Empty Nest and Nurses. The event depicts a fictional full moon on Leap Day storming into the storylines of the three series set in Miami, Florida .
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March 28 | East Regional men's basketball final between Duke and Kentucky. With 2.1 seconds remaining in overtime, Christian Laettner hit a jumper as time expired to give Duke the 104–103 win. The game which was called by Verne Lundquist and Len Elmore, has since been considered by many to be the greatest college basketball game ever played.[2][3]
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April 4 | TBS' Saturday afternoon/early evening World Championship Wrestling program is renamed WCW Saturday Night. The main event is Steve Austin defeating The Z-Man in a 2-out-of-3 falls match for the WCW World Television Title. |
April 6 | Barney & Friends debuts on PBS. |
April 18 | Sean McDonough makes his debut as the new lead play–by–play announcer for Major League Baseball telecasts on CBS. Replacing Jack Buck, who was dismissed by the network following the 1991 World Series, McDonough would serve in that capacity alongside analyst Tim McCarver for the final two years of CBS' contract with Major League Baseball. |
April 25 | ABC broadcasts the series finales of Who's the Boss?, Growing Pains, and MacGyver. |
April 29 | Batman (1989 film) makes its broadcast television premiere on CBS. |
April 30 | The Cosby Show airs its series finale on NBC. |
The Nickelodeon time capsule was buried at Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, Florida. | |
May 1 | Sesame Street broadcasts its 3,000th episode. |
May 19 | Vice President of the United States Dan Quayle speaks at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. During his speech,[4] he criticizes the Murphy Brown character for "mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone".[5][6][7][8] |
May 22 | After 30 years, 66-year-old Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show on NBC for the 4,531st and last time. |
May 25 | Jay Leno debuts as host of NBC's The Tonight Show. |
May 26–June 1 | SportsChannel America airs the last of four consecutive Stanley Cup Finals. |
May 30 | The final Hee Haw airs in syndication. |
June 1 | In WNBC-AM by NBC's then-parent company General Electric) in favor of the new branding slogan "4 New York". The accompanying station image campaign was titled "We're 4 New York" and featured a musical theme composed by Edd Kalehoff. The campaign is revived two times, one is during the 2002 Winter Olympics and once again in 2007.
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June 3 | Presidential candidate Bill Clinton appears on The Arsenio Hall Show and sits in with the house band on saxophone. |
June 10 | The first ever edition of the MTV Movie Awards is broadcast. |
June 23 | Daytime Emmy Awards .
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June 29 | On CBS, Family Feud with Ray Combs becomes the hour-long Family Feud Challenge. |
July 16 | The hit TV3 .
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August 7 | After Growing Pains actress Tracey Gold loses a massive amount of weight due to anorexia nervosa, she is placed in hospital care. As a result, she is written out of most of the ABC sitcom's final episodes. |
August 10 | Children's television series Shining Time Station goes to air on Channel 2 in New Zealand. The Thomas stories had previously aired on Channel 2 as a stand-alone program after airing on TV3 for two years prior to its American spinoff series airing in the country. |
August 15 | Nickelodeon begins a Saturday night programming block called SNICK. |
August 16 | Ron Simmons defeats Big Van Vader for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship on WCW Main Event to become the first recognized black world champion in professional wrestling history.[9] |
August 31 | The fifth annual SummerSlam event airs on pay-per-view. Taking place in Wembley Stadium, London, England, two days prior, this was the first major World Wrestling Federation pay-per-view to take place outside of North America. The main event saw The British Bulldog defeating Bret Hart to win the WWF Intercontinental Championship. |
September 2 | The Steiner Brothers .
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September 4 | Scared Silent: Ending and Exposing Child Abuse, a one-hour live special hosted by Oprah Winfrey, is simulcast on CBS and NBC. Two nights later, the special is rebroadcast on ABC.[10] |
September 5 | Batman: The Animated Series premieres on Fox Kids. |
September 8 | NY1, a 24-hour news channel dedicated to New York City, launches. |
September 12 | Today , which debuted on August 1, is also added. Animated programming would not return to NBC until 2006.
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September 14 | Pamela Anderson makes her first appearance as C. J. Parker on Baywatch. |
September 21 | Square One TV begins its fifth and final season on PBS .
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September 24 | The Sci-Fi Channel launches with a broadcast of Star Wars. |
September 27 | next season (which would turn out to be the show's fifth and final season).
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October 1 | The Turner Broadcasting System's Cartoon Network goes on the air. The Merrie Melodies short, Rhapsody Rabbit, was the very first cartoon to be broadcast on the network. |
October 3 | Sinéad O'Connor causes controversy when she rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on NBC's Saturday Night Live. |
October 10 | Michael Jackson's concert Live in Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour airs on HBO. |
October 12 | Montgomery Scott in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation .
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October 14 | The A Bunch of Munsch's first regular episode "The Paper Bag Princess" is broadcast on Showtime for the Showtime's Fall 1992 lineup opposite of the series debut of American Heroes & Legends, as part of the network's hour long block of kiddie-oriented programming. |
October 17 | Empty Nest, entitled The Boomerang Affair, is broadcast on NBC . (McNichol would return for the series finale in 1995.)
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October 17–24 | The World Series is broadcast on CBS for the third consecutive year. The Toronto Blue Jays would ultimately defeat the Atlanta Braves in six games to claim their first ever world championship, as well as the first World Series title for a Canadian based Major League Baseball team. |
October 31 | The first part of the . The second part would air on November 7. |
November 1 | Texas billionaire Ross Perot acquires blocks of TV time for his presidential campaign. |
November 14 | Nickelodeon broadcasts the Kids' Choice Awards live[11] for the first time. |
November 18 | The number one episode of all time by TV Guide .)
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November 21 | An episode of Captain Planet and the Planeteers titled "A Formula for Hate" becomes the first episode in an American children's animated series to directly deal with the HIV/AIDS pandemic.[12] |
November 27 | The TV movie Saved by the Bell: Hawaiian Style is broadcast by NBC .
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December 1 | On The Price is Right , which also airs on CBS.
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December 2 | The final episode of A Bunch of Munsch is broadcast on Showtime. |
Television programs
Debuts
Returning this year
Show | Last aired | Previous network | New title | New network | Returning |
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The Ben Stiller Show | 1990 | MTV | Same | Fox | September 27 |
Ending this year
Date | Show | Debut |
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January 3 | Pacific Station | 1991 |
January 4 | P.S. I Luv U | |
January 24 | Best of the Worst | |
March 2 | James Bond Jr. | |
March 5 | Drexell's Class | |
March 13 | Candid Camera (returned in 1996) | 1948 |
Hearts Are Wild | 1992 | |
Fish Police | ||
Scorch | ||
March 14 | Capitol Critters | |
April 3 | Nightmare Cafe | |
April 12 | Eerie, Indiana | 1991 |
April 17 | Tequila and Bonetti | 1992 |
April 25 | Growing Pains | 1985 |
Who's the Boss? | 1984 | |
April 30 | The Cosby Show | |
May 6 | Jake and the Fatman | 1987 |
Sibs | 1991 | |
May 9 | The Golden Girls | 1985 |
May 13 | The Royal Family | 1991 |
May 17 | Superboy | 1988 |
Stand By Your Man
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1992 | |
May 21 | MacGyver (rebooted in 2016) | 1985 |
May 22 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1962 |
May 30 | The Trials of Rosie O'Neill | 1990 |
May 31 | Night Court (returned in 2023) | 1984 |
The Adventures of Mark & Brian | 1991 | |
June 1 | NHL on SportsChannel America | 1988 |
June 3 | Anything but Love | 1989 |
June 26 | Club MTV | 1987 |
July 4 | Billy | 1992 |
Julie | ||
July 13 | Man of the People | 1991 |
July 14 | Mann & Machine | 1992 |
July 22 | Dear John | 1988 |
July 24 | The Dennis Miller Show | 1992 |
August 8 | The Howard Stern Show
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1990 |
September 12 | Salute Your Shorts | 1991 |
October 24 | Rhythm & Blues | 1992 |
November 1 | Donald Duck Presents | 1983 |
November 5 | Saturday Night's Main Event (returned in 2006) | 1985 |
November 6 | Square One TV
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1987 |
Nick Arcade | 1992 | |
November 26 | The Heights | |
November 28 | Good Morning, Mickey! | 1983 |
The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys | 1992 | |
November 29 | Great Scott! | |
December 1 | Wild & Crazy Kids (returned in 2002) | 1990 |
December 2 | A Bunch of Munsch | 1991 |
December 5 | Fievel's American Tails | 1992 |
Goof Troop | ||
Raw Toonage | ||
December 6 | Woops! | 1992 |
December 12 | The Plucky Duck Show | 1992 |
Darkwing Duck | 1991 | |
December 26 | Back to the Future: The Animated Series
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Entering syndication this year
A list of programs (current or canceled) that have accumulated enough episodes (between 65 and 100) or seasons (3 or more) to be eligible for off-network syndication and/or basic cable runs.
Show | Seasons |
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Murphy Brown | 4 |
Roseanne | 4 |
Changes of network affiliation
The following shows aired new episodes on a different network than previous first-run episodes:
Made-for-TV movies and miniseries
Premiere date | Title | Channel |
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March 16 | Doing Time on Maple Drive | Fox |
March 23 | Broadway Bound | ABC |
May 3 | Day-O | NBC |
May 31 | Still Not Quite Human | Disney Channel |
September 27 | Obsessed | ABC |
November 15–18 | The Jacksons: An American Dream | |
December 6 | The Man Upstairs | CBS |
To Grandmother's House We Go | ABC | |
December 13 | Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After | |
December 26–27 | Lincoln |
Networks and services
Launches
Network | Type | Launch date | Notes | Source |
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CNN Checkout Channel | Cable television | February 20 | ||
New England Cable News | Cable television | March 2 | ||
Flix
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Satellite television | August 1 | ||
ACIS-VISN | Cable television | September | ||
MOR Music TV | Cable television | September 1 | ||
NY1 | Cable television | September 8 | ||
Sci-Fi Channel | Cable television | September 24 | ||
Cartoon Network | Cable television | October 1 |
Conversions and Rebrandings
There are no conversions and rebrandings of Cable and satellite television channels in this year.
Closures
Network | Type | End date | Notes | Sources |
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SportsChannel Los Angeles | Cable and satellite | December 31 |
Television stations
Sign-ons
Network affiliation changes
Date | Market
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Station | Channel | Old affiliation | New affiliation | Notes/Ref. |
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April 1 | Bowling Green, Kentucky | WKNT (recalled from WQQB) |
40 | Independent
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Fox | [13] |
Unknown date | Auburn, Indiana | W07CL
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7 | Main Street TV | Network One | |
March 15 | Green Bay, Wisconsin | WBAY-TV | 2 | CBS | ABC | |
WFRV-TV | 5 | ABC | CBS | |||
February 24 | Marquette, Michigan | WJMN-TV | 3 | ABC | CBS | |
WLUC-TV | 6 | CBS | ABC |
Births
Deaths
Date | Name | Age | Notability |
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January 7 | Richard Hunt | 40 | Puppeteer (The Muppet Show) |
January 26 | José Ferrer | 80 | Actor (Newhart recurring role) |
February 2 | Bert Parks | 77 | Longtime host of the Miss America beauty pageant |
February 20 | Dick York | 63 | Actor (the 1st Darren Stephens on Bewitched) |
March 6 | Hugh Gibb | 76 | English drummer and bandleader |
March 25 | Nancy Walker | 69 | Actress (Ida on Rhoda, Rosie the Bounty lady) |
April 10 | Sam Kinison | 38 | Comedian and actor (Charlie Hoover) |
May 12 | Robert Reed | 59 | Actor ( Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch )
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May 17 | Lawrence Welk | 89 | Accordionist and bandleader (The Lawrence Welk Show) |
June 6 | Larry Riley | 38 | Actor (Knots Landing) |
June 15 | Chuck Menville | 52 | Animator and writer (The Smurfs) |
June 22 | Chuck Mitchell | 64 | Actor (General Hospital) |
July 9 | Eric Sevareid | 79 | News commentator |
October 16 | Shirley Booth | 94 | Actress (Hazel) |
October 22 | Cleavon Little | 53 | Actor (Temperatures Rising) |
November 7 | Jack Kelly | 65 | Actor (Bart Maverick on Maverick) |
November 10 | Chuck Connors | 71 | Actor (Lucas McCain on The Rifleman) |
November 22 | Sterling Holloway | 87 | Actor (original voice of Winnie-the-Pooh) |
December 18 | Mark Goodson | 77 | Producer of game shows ( The Price Is Right )
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December 24 | Peyo | 64 | Also known as "Peyo"; Belgian creator of (The Smurfs) |
See also
References
- ^ "'Not Sittin' Here as Some Little Woman:' Looking Back at Hillary and Bill Clinton's 60 Minutes Interview". Peoplemag. Retrieved 2023-06-12.
- ^ Matthew Waxman = 16 Greatest Games Sports Illustrated (On Campus), March 10, 2004
- ^ Mike Douchant – Greatest 63 games in NCAA Tournament history. The Sports Xchange, published in USA Today, March 25, 2002
- ^ "Hoover Institution Commonwealth Club Database". Hoohila.stanford.edu. Archived from the original on June 13, 2011. Retrieved January 16, 2011.
- ^ Excerpts from Dan Quayle's speech Archived 2021-04-10 at the Wayback Machine, at Forerunner.com
- ^ Rosenthal, Andrew (September 4, 1992). "THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Murphy Brown; Get Ready, America: Murphy Responds". The New York Times. Retrieved August 10, 2010.
- ^ Carter, Bill (July 20, 1992). "Back Talk From 'Murphy Brown' to Dan Quayle". The New York Times. Retrieved August 10, 2010.
- ^ "Dan Quayle vs. Murphy Brown". The New York Times. June 1, 1992. Archived from the original on October 16, 2007. Retrieved August 15, 2010.
- ^ "Twenty-Three Years Ago, Ron Simmons Became the First African-American Professional Wrestling World Heavyweight Champion". Complex.
- ^ Work, Deborah (September 3, 1992). "OPRAH WINFREY DOCUMENTARY BREAKS SILENCE OF CHILD ABUSE". Sun Sentinel. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
- ^ "KCA Fun Facts - Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2007 Press Kit". Nickelodeon. Archived from the original on August 4, 2020. Retrieved February 28, 2021.
- ^ Mendoza, N.F. (November 21, 1992). "'Capt. Planet' Tackles the AIDS Crisis". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved February 8, 2022.
- ^ "BG TV station to begin airing Fox programs". Park City Daily News. April 1, 1992. p. 5B – via Google Books.
- ^ Mink, Casey (2015-05-01). "Clark Beckham". Hollywood Life. Retrieved 2024-02-21.
- ^ "Clark Beckham". Genius. Retrieved 2024-02-21.