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The following is a list of events affecting American television in 2020. 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.

For extended information about the effects of the coronavirus epidemic on the television industry, see Impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on television#United States.

Notable events

January

Date Event Source
1 FuboTV drops the Fox Sports Networks after failing to reach a deal with the regional network group's owners, the Sinclair Broadcast Group/Entertainment Studios joint venture Diamond Sports Group. Representatives with the virtual MVPD service stated that the decision was based on the rates "not being consistent with its mission to provide value and keep costs low to consumers". The move comes a day after FuboTV dropped Disney-owned entertainment networks FX, FXX, FXM and National Geographic, citing concerns over the cost of the full Disney networks bundle resulting in increased subscriber rates. [1]
3 Hearst Television removed its 34 stations from AT&T's pay television services (DirecTV, AT&T U-verse and AT&T TV Now) at 3:00 p.m. EST that afternoon, after failing to come to terms on a new retransmission consent agreement, affecting viewers in 26 television markets. The dispute is settled in less than two days for undisclosed terms. [2]
5 The 77th Golden Globe Awards airs on NBC, hosted by Ricky Gervais for the fifth time. In television, Succession, Fleabag, and Chernobyl were the most awarded, with two awards each. Among television performers, Succession's Brian Cox and The Crown's Olivia Colman won actor and actress honors for Best Performance in a Television Series – Drama, while Ramy's Ramy Youssef and Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge each received honors for Best Performance in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy. [3][4]
6–10 As long-time host Pat Sajak continues to recover from last November's intestine surgery, his daughter, country singer Maggie Sajak, co-hosts Wheel of Fortune this week, turning letters while Vanna White continues to fill in for him. [5]
7–14 Brad Rutter, Ken Jennings, and James Holzhauer play against each other in the Jeopardy! The Greatest of All Time tournament, a prime time special which aired on ABC. Jennings won the tournament and its $1 million prize after winning the fourth game of the tournament (based on a three-game win structure), eventually regaining the honor on the largest winnings record in the history of American and international television for the first time since Rutter retook the title back in 2014. It also marked the first time both Jennings and Rutter amassed more than $5 million total in terms of their overall game show winnings. [6][7]
14 CNN and its political correspondent Abby Phillip receive criticism from supporters of Bernie Sanders as well as some media outlets (among them, political talk hosts long criticized by progressives for coverage slanted against Sanders) and journalism organizations (such as the Poynter Institute, which called the moment "stunning in its ineptness, and stunning in its unprofessionalism") for a question Phillip asked during the seventh Democratic presidential debate. The question appeared to dismiss or imply lack of believability of Sanders's denial of a January 13 story by CNN, which claimed that he had told fellow progressive candidate Elizabeth Warren, who asserted validity to the claim despite lack of evidence, that a woman could not win the presidential election during a meeting with her in 2018. Sanders stated the conversation had touched upon the role sexism would play in the 2020 presidential campaign, specifically regarding President Donald Trump's history of verbal attacks against female politicians including Warren; Sanders's campaign alleged Warren and her staff had embellished the details of the discussion. Warren and Sanders were also caught on a hot mic accusing each other of lying on national television. [8][9][10]
15 Nexstar Media Group announces plans to launch a three-hour, nightly prime time newscast on its recently acquired cable channel WGN America. The program, titled "News Nation," will be based out of the studios of Nexstar-owned WGN-TV/Chicago, compiling reports from that station and the group's 109 other local news operations nationwide into a cohesive program featuring straight news and feature reporting. (News Nation will be the first national newscast to air on WGN America since the then-superstation feed of WGN-TV carried the similarly formatted 1980–90 syndicated program Independent Network News, distributed by former parent Tribune Broadcasting.) [11]
18 After 30 years, Hank Azaria announces he will no longer voice The Simpsons character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon. This comes after the 2017 documentary The Problem with Apu by comedian Hari Kondabolu in which he claimed the show portrayed "outdated" Indian American cultural stereotypes, racial microaggressions and slurs. [12]
Cox Media Group removes stations in ten markets (all affected stations were formerly owned by Northwest Broadcasting) from Dish Network and Sling TV at 7:00 p.m. EST that evening, after failing to come to terms on a new retransmission consent agreement. Dish alleges that Cox Media parent Apollo Global Management was seeking to increase its retransmission payments by double the amount they were receiving and had turned down an offer to extend the existing agreement, specifically to allow viewers in Binghamton (WICZ-TV), Syracuse (WSYT), Medford (KMVU-DT), Spokane (KAYU-TV) and Tri-CitiesYakima (KFFX-TV/KCYU-LD) to watch Fox's coverage of the January 19 NFC Championship Game and Super Bowl LIV on February 2. Dish was also granted a temporary restraining order to prevent a blackout involving the 14 Cox Media stations that Apollo jointly owns with Cox Enterprises, despite a multi-year agreement covering those stations it signed in 2019. On March 16, 2020, all Cox signals are restored to Dish through a mutual agreement in order to disseminate coronavirus news and information, though a new retransmission agreement remains unsigned. [13][14]
21 CMT launches an "equal play" initiative in which, effective immediately, songs by female country music artists will be guaranteed to make up 50% of the videos featured as part of the network's overnight and morning music video blocks. (CMT estimates that it previously offered a 40/60 ratio of music videos featuring female artists compared to those by male artists, itself a larger share of female-led songs than averaged to receive airplay on country radio stations nationwide [accounting for 13% of songs played].) The move is praised by veteran female music artists in the genre (including Sheryl Crow, Brandi Carlile and Mickey Guyton) and listeners, while some country fans on social media criticized the move to suggest videos would be based on gender instead of song quality. [15][16]
26 The 62nd Grammy Awards—held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles—aired on CBS with Alicia Keys as the host. Billie Eilish (alongside her brother, songwriter/producer Finneas O'Connell) received the most Grammys, with five wins each, becoming the first artist to win Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best New Artist in the same year since Christopher Cross in 1981. In light of the death of retired Los Angeles Lakers shooting guard Kobe Bryant (whose former team uses the Staples Center as its home venue) in a helicopter crash that morning, several tributes to Bryant were featured during the telecast, including a performance of Boyz II Men's "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday" by Keys and group members Shawn Stockman, Wanya and Nathan Morris, while Lil Nas X (who won two awards), Lizzo (who won three awards) and DJ Khaled included tributes to Bryant within their performances. The telecast was watched by 18.7 million people, the lowest amount in 12 years. [17][18]
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In reporting on the aforementioned death of Kobe Bryant, MSNBC anchor Alison Morris referred to the basketball star's former team as the "Los Angeles Nakers." Morris claims she misspoke, combining the Lakers' team nickname with that of the New York Knicks. However, the slip-up led to accusations that Morris used a racial epithet and calls for her firing. [21][22]
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27 Sinclair Broadcast Group discloses through an SEC filing that it reached a $60-million cash and asset settlement with Nexstar Media Group pertaining to a lawsuit filed in concurrence with the August 2018 termination of the deal by Tribune Media (which merged with Nexstar in September 2019) over its aborted 2017 purchase by Sinclair. Tribune terminated the deal after the FCC designated it for hearing by an administrative judge over concerns about Sinclair's proposed sales of Tribune stations in certain markets (including those where Sinclair had existing station properties) to sidecar licensees in an attempt to comply with FCC national and local ownership rules. Through the settlement, Nexstar will acquire Fox affiliate WDKY-TV/Lexington, Kentucky and certain non-license assets of KGBT-TV/Harlingen, Texas from Sinclair (which will remain owner of the latter's license but relinquished its programming inventory—including its CBS affiliation—to Nexstar-owned NBC affiliate and new outsourcing agreement partner KVEO-TV on January 28), and modifications will be made to Nexstar's affiliation agreements with Sinclair multicast networks Comet and TBD (which Nexstar largely inherited through the Tribune purchase). [24]
Ion Media announces its purchase of Azteca América affiliate KMCC/Laughlin, Nevada from Entravision Communications for a yet-disclosed price. The deal—which will give the company 71 full-power stations in 62 markets (including 41 based in the 50 largest markets)—will give Ion a Las Vegas-area O&O for its flagship network Ion Television (which has been affiliated locally with KBLR-DT3 since 2016 through an agreement with station parent NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group unit) and sister properties Ion Plus and Qubo (neither of which have local broadcast carriage). It will also break up a duopoly formed between KMCC and Univision affiliate KINC in 2018 (by way of Entravision's purchase of KMCC from Cranston Acquisition LLC in March 2017). [25]
28 ABC affiliate KVII-TV/Amarillo fires morning anchor Anthony Pittman following his January 24 arrest in Randall County, Texas on solicitation and prostitution charges, a class B misdemeanor which carries a 180-day jail sentence and a $2,000 fine. The Sinclair Broadcast Group station also removed his profile from the website the same day. Pittman had worked at KVII since 2013 and prior to that was a fixture as a sports reporter at Fox-affiliated sister station KABB/San Antonio from 2000 to 2010. [26]
29 Winemiller Television, LLC announces it will sell WSCG/BaxleySavannah to Tri-State Christian Television affiliate company Radiant Life Ministries for $3 million. The sale follows Winemiller's failed sale of the station—a primary Heroes & Icons affiliate with 11 additional subchannel services (including Ion Television, Court TV Mystery, HSN and Cozi TV)—to HC2 Broadcasting in November 2019. Upon completion, the station will likely become the Savannah market's first full-power religious station as an O&O of the religious TCT Network. [27][28]
ABC News suspends chief national correspondent Matt Gutman over a false statement he made on-air on January 26 following the death of Kobe Bryant, where Gutman had erroneously reported that all four of Bryant's daughters were on board the helicopter that crashed into the hills of Calabasas, California in a breaking news aired after the start of the 2020 Pro Bowl. Bryant's other three children were not on board the aircraft with their father and 13-year-old sister Gianna, who also perished; Gutman would later apologize for the error. In a statement from ABC News, "Reporting the facts accurately is the cornerstone of our journalism... "As he acknowledged on Sunday, Matt Gutman's initial reporting was not accurate and failed to meet our editorial standards." [29]
30 Sony closes its virtual MVPD television service, PlayStation Vue, after under five years of operation. Increasing carriage costs for broadcast and cable-originated networks are blamed by the company for Vue's closure. [30]
31 Zap2it (which has been owned by Nexstar since its acquisition of Tribune in September 2019) discontinues updates of its TV By the Numbers website after over a decade in operation. [31]

February

Date Event Source
2 The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the San Francisco 49ers, 31-20, to win Super Bowl LIV, which aired live from Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida on Fox (English) and Fox Deportes (Spanish). Singers Jennifer Lopez and Shakira headlined the halftime show. 102 million viewers watched the telecast across Fox's broadcast and digital properties, and the NFL and Verizon's respective digital properties, up slightly from the cumulative 100.7 million that watched 2019's Super Bowl LIII; accounting only for network viewership, Super Bowl LIV was watched by 99.9 million viewers (a 41.6 rating) on Fox and 757,000 viewers on Fox Deportes. An investigation by WFAA/Dallas-Fort Worth later found that viewers filed more than 1,300 complaints to the Federal Communications Commission over the content of the halftime show, which included suggestive dancing by the performers. [32][33]
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3 LBI Media rebrands as Estrella Media, borrowing its new name from flagship Spanish-language network Estrella TV. The move is part of a corporate reorganization through its October 2019 emergence from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection that saw company founder Lenard Liberman divest his equity in the company. [36]
4 Alphabet Inc. announces the discontinuation of the Google Fiber IPTV service to new customers after under nine years of operation in order to focus on the provider's gigabit-based broadband Internet service. The company will transition customers to YouTube TV or competing virtual MVPD fuboTV as part of a new partnership with Google. Existing customers will still have access to the Google Fiber IPTV service for the foreseeable future. [37][38]
CBS News releases an excerpt from an interview in which Gayle King asks Lisa Leslie whether rape allegations made against Kobe Bryant complicated the recently passed NBA star's legacy. After facing criticism from 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg and other social media users, King blamed CBS for selecting a "salacious" portion of the interview to share without context. For its part, the network said that the excerpt was not reflective of the "thoughtful, wide-ranging interview" that King had conducted. [39]
8 ESPN basketball analyst Barry Booker receives criticism for referring to female gymnasts as "scantily clad girls" in a sidebar with lead announcer Richard Cross—both of whom were presiding over that night's college basketball game between the Arkansas Razorbacks and the Missouri Tigers—while promoting SEC Network's February 14 telecast of an AlabamaArkansas women's gymnastics meet. ESPN, the Southeastern Conference and former Arkansas gymnast Sydney McGlone (the latter of whom noted the remark sexualized gymnastics as the sport continues to deal with sexual abuse scandals involving trainers and physicians of gymnasts at the collegiate and professional levels) denounced Booker's comments; Booker later apologized for the remark. [40]
9 The 92nd Academy Awards, presented from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, airs on ABC. This was the second consecutive year that the broadcast did not have a host. The South Korean-language comedy thriller Parasite made history, winning for Best Picture, Best International Feature Film, Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, becoming the first South Korean film to receive Academy Award recognition, as well as the first film not in the English language to win Best Picture. Netflix, which set a record for having the most nominations from a streaming service and studio with 24, surpassing the 15 it received for the previous year's event, took home only two; its heavily touted The Irishman, which was nominated in ten categories, was shut out in every single one. Meanwhile, just two days prior to the airing of the event, AMPAS and ABC came under fire for rejecting a commercial for Frida Mom which depicted a postpartum mother changing her own, visibly wet, absorbent pad in the middle of the night; the academy felt it was too graphic to air during the telecast, citing guidelines laid out in AMPAS that state that, among other items, "feminine hygiene products (and) adult diapers" could not be advertised on the telecast. The rejection sparked outrage from women's groups and from Busy Philipps, who posted the rejected ad on her Instagram account. Ratings wise, this telecast would average at least 23.6 million viewers and a 5.3 rating among the key ad-sales demo of adults 18–49, down 20 percent year-over-year in viewers and 31 percent in adults 18–49. [41][42]
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11 The Conners aired a special live episode the night of the New Hampshire primary on ABC, which incorporated voting results reported by ABC News as they became available into the storyline. The episode was performed twice for Eastern/Central and Pacific Time viewers, the latter of which aired as Bernie Sanders was projected as the primary's winner, finishing at a 1.4 percentage point margin ahead of Pete Buttigieg, and was delayed two minutes—starting less than 10 seconds before the cast was set to start performing that version—to allow a live election update. [45][46]
12 Altice USA announces its intent to acquire the Sussex County and northern Warren County, New Jersey operations of telecommunications provider Service Electric for $150 million. The deal—which does not include Service Electric's systems in eastern Pennsylvania, and Hunterdon and southern Warren counties in New Jersey, which will continue to be owned by the children of company founder John Walson Sr.—is expected to be completed in the early fall of 2020. [47]
Former National Hockey League player Jeremy Roenick announces via Twitter that he had been terminated by NBC Sports as an analyst on their NHL coverage two months after an appearance on a Barstool Sports podcast in which he made inappropriate comments about wife and NBC colleague Kathryn Tappen, and fellow NBC NHL analyst Patrick Sharp. [48]
17 The Price Is Right suspends production for the week following the death of host Drew Carey's former fiancé, family/sex therapist Amie Harwick, who died from injuries sustained in a fall off a balcony, allegedly at the hands of ex-boyfriend Gareth Pursehouse, against whom Harwick had a restraining order that expired one week prior to her death. Harwick and Carey began dating in 2017, and were engaged from January 2018 until calling off their engagement in November 2019. [49][50]
20 ViacomCBS unveils plans to expand flagship SVOD service CBS All Access—which offers mainly original content, and CBS's current and library programs—later in the year, incorporating movies and TV series from Paramount Pictures and CBS Television Distribution's respective libraries, programming from the company's cable networks (including MTV, Nickelodeon [which already supplies some programming to CBSAA], Comedy Central, BET and Smithsonian Channel), and expanded live news and sports offerings. ViacomCBS plans to maintain its other existing ad-supported and subscription streaming services—focusing primarily on a service tier encompassing Pluto TV (which will continue operating as a standalone service available for free to existing users, while incorporating some of its curated channels onto CBSAA's platform), CBS All Access and the Showtime OTT service (which was not confirmed to be available as a CBSAA add-on, despite initial reports on the relaunch plans suggesting so)—while marketing the new CBS All Access to users of the other services. [51][52]
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22 Following Bernie Sanders' wide-margin win in the Nevada Democratic caucuses that night, MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews faces criticism (including from fellow contributor Anand Giridharadas) and calls for his resignation and firing over remarks comparing Sanders' win to Nazi Germany's invasion of the Ardennes and the Low Countries of France in May 1940. The remarks occurred as Sanders, members of his campaign staff and other progressives have expressed discontent over MSNBC's negative coverage of Sanders and his supporters (including by Sanders himself to network president Phil Griffin, who was later reported to be considering pivoting its coverage in order to reflect Sanders' front-runner status in the primaries), with many critics noting that the remarks were particularly offensive given Sanders—who is Jewish—had lost most of his antecedent family members in the Holocaust. Matthews apologized during the February 24 edition of Hardball, describing the invasion reference as a "bad" analogy and stating he would try to do a better job discussing Sanders' candidacy during the campaign season. [54][55]
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24 In a television first, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon records an entire episode from a moving train, a New York City Subway F train, capped by a performance from South Korean boy band BTS inside Grand Central Terminal. [58]
25 Searchlight Capital and fledgling investment firm ForgeLight announce their acquisition of Saban Capital Group, Madison Dearborn Partners and Providence Equity Partners's combined 64% majority interest in Univision Communications (owner of namesake flagship network Univision, UniMás and their 65 respective O&O stations, and cable networks like Galavisión, TUDN and Fusion TV) for an undisclosed sum. Mexican media company and Univision program supplier Televisa will retain a 36% stake in the company. ForgeLight founder/CEO Wade Davis (who formed the company shortly after his December 2019 departure as Viacom CEO upon its re-merger with CBS) will succeed Vince Sadusky as Univision Communications's CEO upon the deal's closure. [59][60]
Comcast announces its intent to acquire AVOD streaming service Xumo—which will operate as an independent business within the Comcast Cable division upon closure—from Panasonic and Viant Technology for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition will likely see Xumo be used to market Xfinity and other Comcast services (such as programming from its cable networks, and upcoming streaming service Peacock), and provide infrastructure for Comcast's streaming VOD technology. The purchase comes as Comcast's NBCUniversal unit is also in discussions to purchase Walmart-owned VOD service Vudu. [61]
ABC News suspends correspondent David Wright and reassigns him from political reporting over non-neutral remarks he made in a video by conservative group Project Veritas, including criticism of its cross-promotion of ABC parent Disney's TV and film content (primarily on its overnight and morning news programs, Good Morning America, World News Now and America This Morning), and aspects of its White House and presidential campaign coverage. The suspension is criticized by fellow journalists due to Veritas' past reputation for trying to damage the careers of journalists investigating conservative causes as well as ongoing issues with mainstream news organizations restricting journalists' personal political opinions in the current political climate. [62][63]
28 CBS Television Studios and Jerry Bruckheimer Productions announce a temporary suspension of production of the 33rd season of The Amazing Race due to the coronavirus pandemic that had recently spread into Europe. Filming had already been completed on the season's first three episodes (which were all filmed in the United Kingdom), after which all contestants and production staff were forced to return to the United States as a precautionary measure even though none of the personnel involved experienced any signs of the coronavirus. [64][65]
Telecommunications provider Cincinnati Bell, which serves mainly portions of the Cincinnati area and has offered IPTV service since 2009, announces its intent to merge with Toronto-based Brookfield Infrastructure Partners for $2.75 billion in stock and cash. [66]
Lead NFL on CBS analyst Tony Romo comes to terms with the network to remain the network's #1 play-by-play analyst with Jim Nantz, with a contract paying the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback $17 million annually over a minimum of three years, making Romo the highest-paid sports analyst in television history and keeping him within the ViacomCBS fold. ESPN had also sought Romo to move to their network as the two companies begin the process of renewing their NFL broadcast rights. [67][68]

March

Date Event Source
2 AT&T expands distribution of its virtual MVPD service AT&T TV nationwide, after initially operating in five markets within its local telephone service territory. AT&T TV, which is sold on a contractual basis (at $50/month for its base package) similar to traditional multichannel television services, utilizes Android TV-based set-top boxes (which include streaming apps such as Netflix) that are rented to subscribers. Although initially sold as part of bundles with AT&T's internet services, with the national rollout, customers can subscribe without being subscribed to AT&T's internet or wireless telephone services and the service will not count against data caps set by the company. Coinciding with this, AT&T announced it was "wind[ing] down" its IPTV service AT&T U-verse, ceasing to accept new subscribers online and directing them to AT&T TV, and merging its social media accounts into those of AT&T TV. (U-verse TV will remain available to the service's existing subscribers and will continue to accept new subscribers only via telephone calls.) [69][70]
Chris Matthews announces his retirement from broadcasting and the ending of his 26-year run as host of MSNBC's Hardball. Matthews announced the decision in a five-minute opening of the show, then departed the Washington studio, leaving Steve Kornacki in New York to unexpectedly finish the show after it returned from commercial. The move came after weeks of listening to comments and feedback from viewers over remarks he made, especially about Bernie Sanders, for whom he apologized to after comparing his rise in the 2020 campaign to the German invasion of France, and his notable absence during the network's coverage of the South Carolina Democratic Primary on February 29, where reports surfaced that a female guest made claims that he attempted to sexually harass her. The series' hosting slot is left vacant with MSNBC reporters filling the role. Matthews' show aired over three of NBC's cable networks, launching on MSNBC predecessor America's Talking in 1994, then airing on CNBC from 1996 until 1999, with the remainder of its run being on MSNBC. [71]
On the same day that Fox cancelled the drama series Almost Family, a series of sexual assault allegations against actor Timothy Hutton (who played Leon Bechley, a fertility doctor whose actions brought together the rest of the show's lead characters) were revealed in a Buzzfeed News investigation, as a Canadian ex-model and child actor—who waited until 2019 to file the complaint—claimed that Hutton had raped her in 1983, when she was 14 years old, while was he was working on the film Iceman in Vancouver; the victim alleges a friend of Hutton's watched the rape, before later also raping her. Hutton has denied the charges against him. Almost Family was unlikely to return in any case, as the low-rated and critically panned series quietly ended its first season with its finale being burned off on a Saturday night a week before. [72][73]
3 Nexstar Media Group announces it has completed deals to trade Fox-affiliated KCPQ and MyNetworkTV-affiliated KZJO in Seattle and Fox-affiliated WITI in Milwaukee to Fox Television Stations in exchange for Fox's Charlotte duopoly (WJZY and WMYT-TV) and cash. In Milwaukee, the sale returns WITI to the Fox portfolio after Local TV LLC purchased it and others from Fox in 2007, and finally gives Fox a longtime quest to enter the Seattle television market after six years, where it attempted to acquire a station (that would have stripped KCPQ of its affiliation) that lead to a standoff between Fox and then-owner Tribune Broadcasting that later resulted in a renewal deal for KCPQ and Fox abandoning the sale at the last minute. [74]
5 On the same day YouTube TV signed a long-term renewal deal with Fox Sports Networks joint-venture parent Diamond Sports Group (co-owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group and Entertainment Studios), the provider drops three of the group's regional sports networks, Fox Sports West, Prime Ticket and YES Network, which collectively hold rights to eight Los Angeles- and New York-based teams across the NBA, WNBA, NHL, Major League Soccer and Major League Baseball. The renewal for the 13 unaffected Fox Sports Networks services follows a temporary contract extension signed on February 28, during distribution negotiations between the companies, and amid Dish Network/Sling TV and FuboTV having dropped all of the group's networks—which hold the local rights to 43 teams across the NBA, NHL, and MLB—from their lineups. [75][76]
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6 The government of Austin, Texas announces the cancellation of the 2020 edition of the South by Southwest conference (which was scheduled to be held from March 13 to March 22) due to the aforementioned Coronavirus pandemic, which had recently spread into the state of Texas. Prior to the announcement, the owners of certain streaming services (including Netflix, Apple TV+, and Amazon Prime Video) announced that they had pulled out of the conference, resulting in the cancellation of numerous television show and film premieres. [78]
According to a report by Reuters, Gray Television makes an offer to purchase Tegna Inc. at a price of $8.5 billion. Later in the day, Apollo Global Management matched Gray's offer at $20 per share in what would be an all-cash transaction, an offer matched by Allen Media Broadcasting on March 11. A successful bid by Gray would put the owner of mostly smaller-market stations in cities such as Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, Washington, D.C., and its home-base of Atlanta, but would require Gray to sell stations in some markets, including Louisville and Columbia. Gray pulls the offer on March 19 after its stock price is halved due to coronavirus-related market volatility. [79][80]
10 The effects of the coronavirus pandemic continue to grow, especially for live and taped talk shows and upcoming series. 20th Century Fox Television shut down production on Fox's upcoming NeXt after a crew member came in contact with the coronavirus and might have affected other employees on the Chicago-based set, leaving a delay for the mid-season series possible despite much of its first season already being in the can. Dr. Phil and The Wendy Williams Show both then announce that their shows will now tape without audiences, with Williams especially vulnerable due to a number of recent health issues. The daytime series of ABC and Disney–ABC Domestic Television then followed suit, with Good Morning America, The View, Live with Kelly and Ryan, Tamron Hall and Strahan, Sara and Keke all now taping without studio audiences. Disney+ later announced that Marvel Studios' The Falcon and the Winter Soldier would shut down production in both Prague and Atlanta due to the outbreak until further notice, leaving its upcoming debut in question after it was announced for a 2020 debut on the streaming service. [81][82]
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11 Riverdale suspends production during the 20th episode of its 22-episode season after production staff found out an undisclosed staffer with the Vancouver-based CW series had contact with a COVID-19 patient. [85]
The Nickelodeon 2020 Kids' Choice Awards, originally scheduled for March 22 at The Forum, are also postponed due to the pandemic (surrounding events, including the tie-in music and entertainment festival Slimefest, had already been cancelled due to public health concerns). [86][87]
CBS News and CBS Sports close their headquarters at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City until the end of the week for disinfection, due to two positive COVID-19 diagnoses among their employees. Programs produced by those divisions will originate from outside New York until disinfection is completed; CBS Sports Network switched to carrying content from CBS Sports HQ (which was unaffected as that service operates from facilities in Stamford and Fort Lauderdale) in order to provide some non-live event programming to viewers, while CBSN switched to originating content from locally based CBSN services operated by CBS-owned stations. Fellow CBS O&Os WBZ-TV/Boston, KPIX-TV/San Francisco and KCBS-TV/Los Angeles also temporarily assert production responsibilities for WCBS-TV and CBSN New York's newscasts due to the disinfection, which also cause the prime time newscast WCBS has produced (since February) for CW O&O WUPA/Atlanta to be placed on a temporary hiatus. The CBS-syndicated Inside Edition is also forced from the CBS Broadcast Center, with the newsmagazine's March 12 and 13 editions being compiled from outside of New York and Deborah Norville performing hosting duties from her own kitchen. Operations at Broadcast Center begin resuming on March 14, with that day's edition of CBS This Morning Saturday originating there after the parent program broadcast from CBS News' Washington, D.C. studio since the disinfection began, only to resume largely originating elsewhere (with This Morning temporarily originating from the Late Show's Ed Sullivan Theater studio) as a precaution days later. (WCBS/CBSN New York and Inside Edition resumed limited production operations from Broadcast Center during the week of March 23.) [88]
The NBA suspends the remainder of its 2019–20 season "until further notice" after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert (and later on March 12, fellow player and shooting guard Donovan Mitchell) tested presumptive positive for the coronavirus, resulting in the cancellation—just prior to tip-off—of a game in which the Jazz were facing the host city Oklahoma City Thunder at Chesapeake Energy Arena (all personnel associated with the Jazz organization, as well as teams they played within the last 10 days [including the Thunder], are quarantined until they are cleared), effectively leaving a large scheduling hole for NBA TV, ESPN, TNT and the league's regional sports network partners. Ironically, two days earlier, Gobert jokingly touched equipment belonging to the media during a press conference after the Jazz's loss to the Toronto Raptors, along with reports from other players who came into contact with him, putting its last ten road games the Jazz played against its opponents in question due to the possibility of more people being infected through Gobert. [89]
12 Following the NBA's lead of the day prior, several other sports leagues across the United States announce a temporary suspension of play in an attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Major League Soccer suspends all games for 30 days, while the NHL announces an indefinite suspension of league activity, which was later followed in the day by Major League Baseball's announcement that it has suspended its spring training games and delayed the start of their 2020 regular season (originally scheduled to begin March 26) by at least two weeks. The suspension of the three leagues adds another large schedule void for NBC Sports, ESPN, Fox Sports, Univision, and the leagues' regional sports network partners. In addition, several NCAA basketball conference tournaments are canceled, including Division I basketball tournaments from the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and the SEC; the Big East was the only major NCAA athletic conference to initially go forward with that day's tournament play, before later canceling its tournament as well. Later that day, all scheduled NCAA tournaments for their winter and spring sports were canceled outright, including the men's and women's basketball tournaments which were set to be broadcast by CBS/Turner Sports and ESPN respectively. Later that evening officials with the PGA Tour announced that after the completion of The Players Championship it will cancel the next three events on the PGA Tour schedule, including the Valspar Championship, the WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play and the Valero Texas Open, emptying the schedule for Golf Channel; on March 13, the 2020 Masters Tournament would become the latest event to announce its postponement, yet another setback for ESPN and its international broadcasts partners. The revived XFL officially ended its season and canceled the remainder of its games, but plans to return in 2021 and has not ruled out holding its championship game if conditions allow; the league announced on April 10 that it was suspending operations indefinitely. [90][91]
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The coronavirus pandemic results in three series produced by Universal TelevisionNetflix's Russian Doll, Apple TV+'s Little America and Peacock's Rutherford Falls — being postponed, leaving their future in question as they have yet to start production. Both Doll and America were scheduled to start their second season in 2020, while Falls is slated to debut this year. Hours later, another Apple TV+ series, The Morning Show, announces that it would suspend production on its second-season episodes as a precautionary measure, likewise for ABC's Grey's Anatomy, Amazon's Carnival Row, Apple TV+'s Foundation and Netflix's Grace and Frankie, which all shut down production on their shows. Anatomy was expected to be idle for two weeks but later announced that the April 9 episode will be the official season finale and will resume production in the Fall, while having a cast whose ages are at risk to contract the virus (most notably for Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin) played a factor in Grace and Frankie's decision. Both Foundation and Carnival Row are being shot in Europe and have suspended filming indefinitely. [98][99]
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Due to the statewide coronavirus pandemic in New York and a citywide emergency declaration by Mayor Bill de Blasio which closes Broadway theatres, NBC decides to record The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon without an audience (with a last minute appearance by Dr. Mehmet Oz, plus two other previously scheduled guests), with CBS also going without an audience for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (which instead aired footage from rehearsal with Dr. Sanjay Gupta as his sole guest after Maria Bamford canceled), while Late Night with Seth Meyers only records an Internet-exclusive "A Closer Look" segment after that night's guests cancel. All three shows will go on hiatus starting March 16. Wendy also decides to stop taping altogether indefinitely, while Joy Behar (who, at 77, is within the 60+ age group of highest complication risk) will take a break from The View to avoid illness. The ban lasts until April 12 by order of Governor Andrew Cuomo as part of a statewide emergency declaration which disallows crowds of 500 or more people. [104][105]
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Pop's One Day at a Time becomes the first prime-time multi-camera sitcom that will film episodes without an audience due to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States. Likewise, two Comedy Central shows: Lights Out with David Spade and Tosh.0, and MTV's Ridiculousness will shoot upcoming episodes without an audience. All shows are broadcast by cable networks owned by ViacomCBS and are shot in Los Angeles. [108]
13 CBS Television Studios stops production on several drama series as the coronavirus pandemic continues to become a serious issue, with their remaining episodes that were scheduled to be completed this season being pushed back and potentally causing implications pertaining to the May sweeps period. Among the affected series includes CBS' NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans, and Bull, The CW's Dynasty, and The Good Fight for CBS All Access. At the same time, the studio's multi-camera sitcom The Neighborhood was scheduled shoot its last episode of the season without a studio audience, but later announced that it would scrap those plans. The CW also announced that it is delaying the series finale of Supernatural just as they are in post production. The move comes just a day after two major studios decided to start placing a hold on all production. [109][110]
Universal makes an announcement that production on more than 35 shows and a handful of pilots produced by the studio are either being postponed or delayed due to the crisis. Hours after CBS' announcement, two more followed suit: WarnerMedia's entertainment units (which includes Warner Bros. Television, Warner Bros. Television Distribution, and DC Entertainment) and Sony Pictures Television placed all their current and upcoming shows on ice. Later in the day, Apple TV+ halts all production on its series until further notice, followed by news that a series of emergency declarations have resulted in more television series and upcoming projects across the board in both the United States and Canada being ordered by networks (like Netflix and FX) and studios to shut down immediately, putting an array of programs with upcoming seasons like Stranger Things and Fear The Walking Dead in limbo and leaving an uncertain future as to when they will resume production. [111][112]
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Disney's television unit (ABC Studios, Walt Disney Television, Marvel Studios and 20th Century Fox Television) also halts or delays production on 16 shows that are currently in production or had been green lighted to protect staff from contracting the coronavirus. Among the shows affected are ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live!—which previously intended to continue production absent a live studio audience—which will go on hiatus until March 30, and General Hospital—the first soap opera and the first daytime network program to suspend production over coronavirus concerns—which is currently expected to resume production until April 10. In the latter case, although its episodes are taped only one month ahead of their initial broadcast, the network does not anticipate interruptions in General Hospital's airing schedule. [118][119]
Fox Business Network announces it has placed Trish Regan Primetime and Kennedy on hiatus during the coronavirus pandemic. Comments made by Regan calling the COVID-19 a scheme by the Democratic Party and the media to discredit President Donald Trump (echoing a statement he first made two weeks prior at a campaign rally before he deflected the comments to make it look like it was made up by Democrats and media, not him) led to her placement on hiatus, while Kennedy was reassigned to assist in further network coverage of the pandemic. The Fox Business primetime schedule will consist of long-form programming in the interim. On March 27, the network announced that it has cancelled Trish Regan Primetime and parted ways with Regan. [120]
14 Due to the coronavirus pandemic that resulted in the shutdown of television production, America Ferrera, who on February 28 announced that she would be leaving her role as both star and producer on Superstore, confirms that her last episode that was scheduled for April 16, in which her character Amy Sosa will make an exit from Cloud 9 after working there for over 10 years, will not go into production and will have only 21 episodes completed, short of the 22 ordered. Instead, her departure will take place in the Fall, when the NBC workplace sitcom reaches its 100th episode, which would allow a closure for the character to take place and leave a door open for Ferrera to make recurring appearances. Superstore joins a list of series with unfinished episode orders (American Housewife with a couple left that might be scrapped), let alone a scheduled season date that could be pushed back (Queen of the South, The Resident and Pose are in the same dilemma), while producers working on the final season of Empire announces that it would not complete all of its episode orders and confirmed that its 18th episode (which will include scenes from a unfinished 19th episode) scheduled to air on April 21 will be the last but left open room for a proper ending in the future. [121][122]
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15 More television series announce that the continuation of the coronavirus pandemic has forced them to shut down indefinitely with no timetable as to when they will complete or start their upcoming season, let alone return to production. At MGM Television, Elisabeth Moss has confirmed that her directorial and starring duties on the upcoming fourth season of Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale is being postponed and a few completed episodes may not air until later or held back for the following year, which is also being played out over at the studio's other series, leaving uncertainty for Fargo and Survivor. HBO also placed a pair of its news/discussion programs on indefinite hiatus: Bill Maher announces that his March 13 airing of Real Time with Bill Maher was the last one until the crisis dies down, while Last Week Tonight with John Oliver's broadcast on this date—which was moved to a stand-in studio instead of the CBS Broadcast Center, due to the aforementioned temporary shutdown of that building—will be a shortened episode before going on hiatus. A planned no-audience taped episode for the eighth-season finale of Last Man Standing is scrapped as is further production on The Orville, the latter delaying its third season return on its new home at Hulu. [124][125]
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16 NBC orders Today co-anchors Al Roker and Craig Melvin to quarantine and all members of its third-hour editorial team to work from home after a staffer for the morning show's third hour working at 30 Rockefeller Plaza tested positive for the novel coronavirus. NBC News President Noah Oppenheim emailed employees the day prior to inform them that the unnamed staffer was receiving medical care for "mild symptoms" and division staff will identify personnel who had close contact with the employee for self-isolation. As a precaution, main co-anchors Savannah Guthrie (who would anchor the program from home two days later due to a potentially unrelated illness) and Hoda Kotb exercised social distancing practices for the first two hours of the program, sitting four feet apart from one another to limit potential contact. [127][128]
Following General Hospital's lead, the three other daytime serials, CBS' The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful, and NBC's Days of Our Lives, all announced that they will suspend production due to the coronavirus pandemic. The CBS serials will go into repeats features fan-favorite storylines starting April 27 until a announcement is made regarding continued production. In the case of Days, the recently renewed soap opera, which was supposed to start production on new episodes at the end of March, will wait until further notice to resume, but has enough taped episodes to last until October as it has a wider tape-to-broadcast window (roughly seven to eight months) out of the four network soaps. Days also has a larger number of cast members and principal staff in the 60+ age group of highest complication risk (among them, 14 of its main and recurring actors including Deirdre Hall; Suzanne Rogers; Drake Hogestyn; Josh Taylor; John Aniston; Susan Seaforth Hayes; and Bill Hayes, and collectively about half of its producing, writing and directing staffs including executive producer/showrunner Ken Corday). [129][130]
17 Fremantle announces that the coronavirus pandemic has played a factor in the live production on ABC's American Idol being postponed, resulting in the suspension of all prep work and rehearsals with the finalists and contestants and staff being sent home to be with their families. During this time, ABC airs taped auditions that will conclude April 19. [131]
Fox Corporation announced that it would acquire the free, advertiser-supported streaming service Tubi for $440 million. The deal, which is expected to be completed by the beginning of the summer, will allow the company to expand its streaming content library including adding content from Fox's television properties. [132]
20–22 Hallmark Channel aired its Christmas movies early, in the hopes of lifting viewers' spirits in the wake of the growing coronavirus pandemic that has kept Americans home or quarantined. [133]
31 Chris Cuomo, the host of CNN's Cuomo Prime Time, and whose brother is New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, confirmed that he has tested positive for the coronavirus and has quarantined himself at his home. (His wife, magazine editor Cristina Greeven, was later revealed to have also tested positive for the virus during the program's April 15 edition.) Chris will continue to host his show during his isolation, which was evident during the March 30 broadcast, when both brothers began bickering over why Chris was broadcasting his show from his basement, which doubles as his workspace when he isn't at CNN's New York studios. [134]
The NFL officially announced that it will expand its playoffs from a 12-team to 14-team format, with CBS and NBC paying around $70 million each to broadcast the two new postseason games. Nickelodeon will also air a separately produced telecast of corporate sibling CBS' game that will be tailored to a younger audience. [135][136]

April

Date Event Source
3 Another CNN anchor, Brooke Baldwin, has confirmed that she has tested positive for the coronavirus after having experienced symptoms the previous day despite having practiced social distancing but notes that she'll recover. Baldwin joins fellow CNN anchor Chris Cuomo in having contracted COVID-19 within a week, and like Cuomo, continued to do her newscasts but on advice from her doctor due to check ups she took a leave of absence until she is cleared to return to work. [137]
4 Griffin Communications CBS affiliate KOTV/Tulsa and Sinclair ABC affiliate WEAR/Pensacola, Florida are both forced to temporarily shut down their facilities and outsource their newscasts to sister stations (fellow CBS affiliate KWTV/Oklahoma City for KOTV, and NBC affiliate WPMI/Mobile, Alabama for WEAR) due to employees testing positive for coronavirus and disinfection procedures being required. WEAR maintained limited operations as the master control facilities at its Pensacola studios also handle MyNetworkTV-affiliated sister WFGX/Fort Walton Beach, WPMI and its sister independent WJTC/Pensacola. (Sinclair operates WPMI/WJTC through an LMA with Deerfield Media, as part of a cross-market virtual quadropoly with WEAR/WFGX.) KOTV resumed Tulsa operations the next afternoon, while WEAR/WFGX resumed Pensacola operations on April 9. [138][139]
4–5 WrestleMania 36 took place over two nights on a tape-delay basis at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida with no fans attending. It was originally scheduled to take place at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida but was relocated due to the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. The event was filmed on March 25–26. [140]
11 Saturday Night Live resumes production on its 45th season with Tom Hanks, who had been diagnosed with coronavirus the month prior and has since recovered, hosting a special episode featuring cast members and guest stars performing remotely from their homes. A second episode in the format aired on April 26, with Brad Pitt playing Dr Anthony Fauci in the cold open and several guest stars also appearing during that episode. The real Dr. Fauci jokingly said Pitt should play him when asked during a CNN interview on April 10. [141][142]
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13 Good Morning America anchor George Stephanopoulos is the latest news personality to confirm that he has tested positive for coronavirus, as he has been caring for his wife Ali Wentworth as she recovers from the virus. Although he admitted to being asymptomatic, Stephanopoulos has shown no signs of having a fever or cold and has been working from home since April 1, when he and Wentworth went public with the latter's diagnosis. [144]
President Donald Trump's re-election campaign files a lawsuit against Rockfleet Broadcasting-owned NBC affiliate WJFW/Rhinelander, Wisconsin for airing a campaign ad by Democratic Super PAC Priorities USA, titled "Exponential Threat," criticizing Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic. The Trump campaign had issued a cease and desist letter warning other stations airing the ad in five swing states of legal action—even potential revocation of their FCC licenses, a move that would violate First Amendment protections applying to political advertising—on March 25 on grounds that the commercial falsely portrayed that Trump considered the pandemic a "hoax". (The ad—which the Trump campaign claimed aired on WJFW eleven times since the C&D letter's issuance—used a clip from a February 28 South Carolina campaign rally of Trump claiming alleged efforts by Democrats to politicize the coronavirus amounted to such, among other comments he made that initially downplayed the respiratory virus's impact; Priorities USA and media outlets who had reported on this ad have verified the claims as factual and not fabricated, although some fact checking organizations have noted the ad interpreted Trump's statement as denying the virus's existence rather than him making an unverifiable theory on its politicization.) [145][146]
18 Late night talk show hosts Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, and Stephen Colbert hosted One World: Together at Home to help raise awareness about COVID-19, as well as raise funds needed to help combat COVID-19. The event aired across NBC, ABC, CBS, Univision and (in a rare Saturday pime time telecast for the network) The CW, as well as a number of domestic multicast and pay television as well as international networks. The event featured a slew of A-list stars, and was curated by Lady Gaga. It was put together by social action platform Global Citizen and the World Health Organization to build on a series of live online concerts, organized by Global Citizen. [147]
23–25 The 2020 NFL Draft aired live on ABC, ESPN, and NFL Network. This year's event has all team selections taking place via videoconferencing from their homes due to the original scheduled event that was set to take place in Paradise, Nevada canceled because of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic. [148]
24 RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race an extension of the RuPaul's Drag Race franchise premiered on VH1. The series features a trio of celebrities getting some help from beloved past contestants — deemed "Queen Supremes" in competing in fan-favorite challenges and step onto the runway in their new looks. [149]
26 American Idol went live from various locations, as the show's 20 finalists competed via remote video, while judges Luke Bryan, Katy Perry, and Lionel Richie, as well as host Ryan Seacrest and in-house mentor Bobby Bones also appeared from their homes. [150]

Ongoing events

March–TBD

Date Event Source
16–TBD Several talk shows based in New York City: late night show Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen (which planned to conduct episodes from host/executive producer Andy Cohen's apartment and interviews via video chat starting March 22 until those plans were shelved following the announcement of his coronavirus diagnosis two days prior); and daytime shows Rachael Ray and Today with Hoda & Jenna began taping episodes without audiences due to the state's coronavirus pandemic and concerns of communicable transmission of the illness among large crowds. TBS' Full Frontal with Samantha Bee will also resume taping episodes without audiences starting March 25. The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, which also tapes in New York, along with Los Angeles-based daytime shows The Talk and The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and late night shows, including Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Late Late Show with James Corden, originally planned to also temporarily forego audiences effective March 16 before suspending production outright at the behest of their originating production studios due to the coronavirus pandemic in California. (Kimmel taped its March 12 episode—guest hosted by former Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg due to Jimmy Kimmel's hosting duties for ABC's upcoming Who Wants to Be a Millionaire event series revival—without an audience. Kimmel, along with The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, The Daily Show and The Late Late Show with Stephen Colbert, elected to produce digital-exclusive monologues for their respective YouTube channels or special episodes/monologue segments—in Tonight's case, at-home monologues were tacked onto repeats of recent episodes—conducted from the host's homes.) Shortly after this, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah also begins making episodes filmed live at Trevor's home using a webcam and is temporarily renamed to The Daily Social Distancing Show with Trevor Noah as a result. With Kimmel pushed into reruns, starting March 17, ABC temporarily moved Nightline—which had been focusing its broadcasts on coverage of the worldwide pandemic since the previous week—to the 11:35 p.m. Eastern slot it formerly occupied from its March 1980 premiere until it switched timeslots with Kimmel in January 2013. [151][152]
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30–TBD TBS' late night talk show Conan resumes producing new episodes from host Conan O'Brien's Los Angeles residence, utilizing an iPhone to shoot the series without an audience or the use of their traditional studio. [157]

Future events

May

Date Event Source
3 For the first time since 2005, CBS will begin airing theatrical films (albeit temporarily) on Sunday nights, utilizing titles from its co-owned Paramount Pictures library in order to fill a void left by several productions shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic. Among the movies scheduled to air during the five Sundays include two films from the Indiana Jones series, Forrest Gump, Mission: Impossible, and Titanic. [158]
4 An all-virtual episode of the CBS legal drama All Rise is slated to air. The episode marks the first primetime scripted series to attempt anything resembling production since shows began shutting down in mid-March will use FaceTime, WebEx, and Zoom, and other available social media and online technology to produce an episode about how the pandemic and social distancing are impacting the criminal justice system. Virtual footage being shot in each of the series regular's homes, and producers planning to use VFX to create the necessary backgrounds. In addition, a cinematographer operating solo from a vehicle will capture exterior footage that reflects the desolate environment that currently exists on the streets and in the neighborhoods of Los Angeles. The entire episode will be shot abiding by social distancing rules and technologies taking place in the world. [159]
13 The two-hour live finale and the reunion show of the milestone fortieth season (titled Winners at War) of Survivor will be conducted via video chatting instead of the traditional live audience as in a response on health and safety concerns due to the coronavirus pandemic. Due to the season's entire cast that featured 20 previous winners (from Africa and David vs. Goliath), the finale would crown its second two-time 'Sole Survivor' (after Sandra Diaz-Twine had done so in seasons seven and twenty nearly a decade ago; Diaz-Twine was eliminated on the sixth episode and left the competition on the next episode due to the 'Edge of Extinction' twist first featured two seasons ago); at a grand prize of US$2 million, it marked its largest prize money awarded for a CBS reality television and in the history of the entire franchise of Survivor. [160]

June

Date Event Source
30 Telecommunications provider Rainbow Communications, which serves mostly rural portions of northeastern Kansas (including its headquarters of Everest), will discontinue its cable television service to its customers within the state after 67 years, citing a migration among its customers to television viewing via streaming services (which it accounted for 80% of Rainbow's internet traffic). The company will continue to offer telephone and broadband internet services to its customers, and initiate a "Streaming Care" program in February to assist remaining cable customers who wish to transition to streaming. [161]

July

Date Event Source
3 The "repack" of the broadcast spectrum stemming from the FCC's spectrum incentive auction will finish its tenth and final phase. All U.S. television channels will have settled into their final frequencies by this date. [162]

August

Date Event Source
13 Fox is scheduled to air the MLB at Field of Dreams game, which will be the first ever Major League Baseball game broadcast from Dyersville, Iowa, taking place at the same cornfield location that was depicted in the 1989 film Field of Dreams. The Chicago White Sox, whose controversial 1919 team was fictionally portrayed in the film, is planned to serve as the home team against the 'visiting' New York Yankees. [163]

September

Date Event Source
16 The 55th Academy of Country Music Awards are scheduled to air on CBS from three locations in Nashville: the Grand Ole Opry House, the Ryman Auditorium, and the Bluebird Café, hosted by Keith Urban. Originally scheduled for April 5, the ceremony was postponed on March 15 due to coronavirus-related public assembly restrictions in Las Vegas. [164][165]
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20 The 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards are scheduled to air on ABC from the Microsoft Theater, live in all time zones. [168]

TBD

Date Event Source
TBD The 2020 iHeartRadio Music Awards are to air on Fox with Usher as the host. Originally scheduled for March 29, the show lost its venue, the Shrine Auditorium, due to coronavirus-related public assembly restrictions on March 12, and iHeartMedia officially postponed the ceremony on March 16. In its place, the iHeart Living Room Concert for America aired on March 29 in a portion of its original timeslot. [169][170]
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The 2020 Billboard Music Awards are to air on NBC. Kelly Clarkson will host for the third consecutive year. Originally scheduled for April 29, the ceremony was postponed due to coronavirus-related public assembly restrictions on March 17. [173][174]
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The 74th Tony Awards are to air on CBS from the Radio City Music Hall. Originally scheduled for June 7, the ceremony was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic on March 25. [176][177]
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Television programs

Programs debuting in 2020

Programs changing networks

Show Moved from Moved to Source
Dirty John Bravo USA Network [179]
Vice HBO Showtime [180]
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars VH1 Showtime/VH1 [181][182]
NAACP Image Awards TV One BET [183]
One Day at a Time Netflix Pop & TV Land (premieres)/CBS (repeats) [184][185]
Where's Waldo? Universal Kids Peacock [186]
A.P. Bio NBC [187]
Curious George PBS Kids [188]
Doom Patrol DC Universe DC Universe/HBO Max [189]
Sesame Street HBO/PBS HBO Max/PBS [190]
Esme & Roy
Search Party TBS HBO Max [191]
Gen:Lock Rooster Teeth [192]
Disney's Fairy Tale Weddings Freeform Disney+ [193]
The Orville Fox Hulu [194]
Thomas & Friends Nick Jr. Netflix [195]

Milestone episodes and anniversaries

Show Network Episode # Episode title Episode airdate Source
The First 48 A&E 15th Anniversary "Chain of Death" January 1 [196]
Survivor CBS 20th Anniversary "Survivor at 40: Greatest Moments and Players" February 5 [197]
Impractical Jokers TruTV 200th episode "Hollywood" February 13 [198]
The Real First-run syndication 1,000th episode N/A February 17 [199]
Supergirl The CW 100th episode "It's a Super Life" February 23 [200]
The Steve Wilkos Show First-run syndication 2,000th episode N/A February 24 [201]
Power Rangers Nickelodeon 900th episode "Game On!" March 7 [202]
Mom CBS 150th episode "A Judgy Face and Your Grandma's Drawers" March 12 [203]
Chicago Med NBC 100th episode "The Ghosts of the Past" March 18 [204]
Curb Your Enthusiasm HBO "The Spite Store" March 22 [205]
RuPaul's Drag Race VH1 150th episode "Gay's Anatomy" March 27 [citation needed]
Empire Fox 100th episode "We Got Us" April 7 [206][207]
Modern Family ABC 250th episode "Finale Part Two" (series finale) April 8 [208]
The Blacklist NBC 150th episode "Brothers" May 1 [209][210][211]
Big Brother CBS 20th Anniversary & 750th episode TBA Summer [citation needed]
The 100 The CW 100th episode "TBA" (series finale) [212]
Superstore NBC "TBA" Fall [213]
American Dad! TBS 300th episode "300" September 14 [214][215]

Programs returning in 2020

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/returning/same channel Return date Source
Supernanny 2011 Revival ABC Lifetime January 1 [216][217]
Steve
(as Steve on Watch)
2019 First-run syndication Facebook Watch January 6 [218]
Party of Five 2000 Reboot Fox Freeform January 8 [219]
The Biggest Loser 2016 NBC USA Network January 28 [220]
Manhunt: Unabomber
(as Manhunt: Deadly Games)
2017 Revival Discovery Channel Spectrum Originals February 3 [221]
XFL 2001 Reboot NBC/TNN/UPN ESPN/ABC/Fox/FS1 February 8 [222]
The Soup 2015 Revival E! same February 12 [223][224]
Disney's Fairy Tale Weddings 2018 New season Freeform Disney+ February 14 [193][225]
Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 2012 Revival ABC HGTV February 16 [226]
Star Wars: The Clone Wars 2014 New season Netflix Disney+ February 21 [227][228][229][230]
Forensic Files
(as Forensic Files II)
2011 Revival Court TV/TruTV HLN February 23 [231]
Bride & Prejudice
(as Bride & Prejudice: Forbidden Love)
2016 FYI Lifetime February 26 [232]
Opry 2009 New season GAC Circle [233][234]
Amazing Stories 1987 Reboot NBC Apple TV+ March 6 [235]
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
(as Cosmos: Possible Worlds)
2014 New season Fox/National Geographic same March 9 [236]
The Wall 2018 NBC March 15 [237]
One Day at a Time 2019 Netflix Pop/TV Land/CBS March 24 [184][238][239]
Vice 2018 HBO Showtime March 29 [180][240]
Legends of the Hidden Temple 1995 Reboot Nickelodeon Quibi April [241]
Punk'd 2015 BET April 6 [242]
Celebrity Ghost Stories 2014 Revival LMN A&E April 8 [243][244]
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire 2019 New season First-run syndication ABC [245]
Club MTV
(as Club MTV Presents #DanceTogether with D-Nice)
1992 Special MTV same April 25 [246]
Parks and Recreation
(as A Parks and Recreation Special)
2015 NBC April 30 [247]
Reno 911! 2009 Revival Comedy Central Quibi May 4 [248][249][250]
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
(as Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend)
2019 Special Netflix same May 12 [251][252]
Search Party 2017 New season TBS HBO Max May [191]
Dirty John
(as Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story)
2019 Bravo USA Network June 2 [253]
The Fugitive 2001 Reboot CBS Quibi July [254]
Singled Out 2019 MTV/YouTube Spring [242][255]
Top Gear America 2017 BBC America Motor Trend [256]
Supermarket Sweep 2003 Revival PAX ABC [257]
12 oz. Mouse 2018 New season Adult Swim same Summer [258][259]
A.P. Bio 2019 NBC Peacock [187]
Saved by the Bell 1993 Revival [260]
Punky Brewster 1988 First-run syndication [261]
Tyler Perry's House of Payne 2012 TBS BET [262]
Animaniacs 1998 Kids' WB Hulu Fall [263][264]
Walker, Texas Ranger
(as Walker)
2001 Reboot CBS The CW [265][266]
The Boondocks 2014 Adult Swim HBO Max [267][268]
Adventure Time
(as Adventure Time: Distant Lands)
2018 Specials Cartoon Network TBA [269]
Gossip Girl 2012 Revival The CW [270]
Eco-Challenge
(as World's Toughest Race: Eco-Challenge Fiji)
2002 USA Network Amazon Prime Video [271]
Monster Garage 2006 Discovery Channel TLC [272]
Lizzie McGuire 2004 Disney Channel Disney+ [273]
Rugrats Nickelodeon same [274]
What Not to Wear 2013 TLC [275]
Making the Band 2009 MTV [276]

Programs ending in 2020

End date Show Channel First aired Status Source
January 1 Messiah Netflix 2020 Canceled [277]
Spinning Out [278]
January 10 AJ and the Queen [279]
Harvey Girls Forever! 2018 Ended [280]
January 19 Ray Donovan Showtime 2013 Canceled [281]
January 23 October Faction Netflix 2020 [282]
January 24 The Ranch 2016 Ended [283]
January 26 Star Wars Resistance Disney Channel/Disney XD 2018 [284][285]
January 28 Arrow The CW 2012 [286]
January 29 Homicide Hunter Investigation Discovery 2011 [287][288]
January 30 The Good Place NBC 2016 [289][290]
New Looney Tunes Boomerang 2015 [291]
January 31 BoJack Horseman Netflix 2014 [292]
February 9 Power Starz [293][294]
February 19 Criminal Minds CBS 2005 [295][296]
February 21 Fresh Off the Boat ABC 2015 [297]
February 22 Almost Family Fox 2019 Canceled [72]
March 1 Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure Disney Channel 2017 Ended [298][299]
March 2 Hardball with Chris Matthews MSNBC 1997 [71]
March 4 Party of Five Freeform 2020 Canceled [300]
March 12 Lights Out with David Spade Comedy Central 2019 [301]
March 14 Trish Regan Primetime Fox Business 2015 [302]
March 21 Henry Danger Nickelodeon 2014 Ended [303][304]
March 26 Deputy Fox 2020 Canceled [305]
March 27 Steven Universe Future Cartoon Network 2019 Ended [306]
April 1 The Magicians Syfy 2015 [307]
April 3 Future Man Hulu 2017 [308][309][310]
Hawaii Five-0 CBS 2010 [311]
April 8 Modern Family ABC 2009 [312][313]
April 17 Strike Back Cinemax 2011 [314][315]
April 18 Doc McStuffins Disney Junior 2012 [316][317][318]
April 21 Empire Fox 2015 [206][319]
April 23 The House of Flowers Netflix 2018 [320]
Will & Grace NBC 1998 [321][322][323]
April 24 Sister Circle TV One/Tegna O&Os 2017 Canceled [324]
April 26 God Friended Me CBS 2018 [325]
Homeland Showtime 2011 Ended [326][327]
May 4 Star Wars: The Clone Wars Disney+ 2008 Ending [328][329][330]
May 6 Brockmire IFC 2017 [331][332]
May 14 How to Get Away with Murder ABC 2014 [333][334]
May 15 She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Netflix 2018 [335]
May 31 Vida Starz [336][337]
Summer Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ABC 2013 [338][339]
Blindspot NBC 2015 [340]
TBA Supernatural The CW 2005 [341][286]
Shameless Showtime 2011 [342]
Vikings History 2013 [343]
The 100 The CW 2014 [344]
If Loving You Is Wrong Oprah Winfrey Network [345]
You Me Her Audience 2016 [346]
Goliath Amazon Prime Video [347]
Van Helsing Syfy [348]
Fuller House Netflix [349]
Lucifer [350]
13 Reasons Why 2017 [351]
GLOW [352]
Dear White People [353]
Claws TNT [354]
Corporate Comedy Central 2018 [355]
Trinkets Netflix 2019 [356]
The Mel Robbins Show Syndication Canceled [357]

Entering syndication in 2020

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
Schitt's Creek 6 No [358]

Networks and services

Launches

Network Type Launch date Notes Source
Circle Over-the-air multicast/
OTT streaming
January 1 Circle, which focuses on country music and its related lifestyle, is a Nashville-based venture between Gray Television and the Opry Entertainment division of Ryman Hospitality Properties. It's Gray's first owned entry into the multicast arena, while it brings Ryman (formerly Gaylord Entertainment) back to TV network ownership after it sold cable's The Nashville Network and Country Music Television to CBS in 1997. Gray and CBS-owned stations form the major launch groups for Circle, whose schedule will include the return of the weekly Grand Ole Opry broadcast to television. [359][360]
[361][362]
Yahoo! Finance Cable (via Verizon FiOS)/
OTT streaming
January 27 Verizon Media extends its Yahoo Finance business and financial news website into a 24-hour linear news channel initially available on Verizon FiOS channel 604, serving as a competitor to CNBC, Fox Business and Cheddar; Yahoo Finance's bell-to-bell stock market programming is also streamed live from 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. ET on the site's webpage. [363]
Black News Channel Cable and digital February 10 Founded by former Oklahoma U.S. Representative J. C. Watts, the network will be devoted to covering the African American community in news, sports and entertainment. [364]
Marquee Sports Network Cable and digital February 22 A regional sports network venture between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Major League Baseball's Chicago Cubs, Marquee will take over as the team's exclusive primary broadcaster from NBC Sports Chicago, WGN-TV and WLS-TV, along with surrounding team programming and other sports content. The launch was tied to the start of the team's spring training, but full operations will not start until the coronavirus-delayed Cubs season starts. [365][366]
LX Over-the-air multicast/
OTT streaming
April Announced by NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations on September 23, 2019, LX (an abbreviation for Local X, and adapted from the name of its sister lifestyle production subsidiary LXTV) is a digital news service—building on experimental news offerings and research by NBCUniversal-owned stations—that will be available through a streaming service and over-the-air multicast network, which will provide original local news content aimed at young adults 18-45 who traditionally do not watch news on conventional television. (LX originally began providing news content via a dedicated website and on various social media networks such as YouTube on the date of the launch announcement.) While the broadcast version—which will be based out of the DallasFort Worth duopoly of NBC O&O KXAS-TV and Telemundo O&O KXTX-TV, which will produce three-hour daily morning and prime time newscasts for LX—will be ad-supported, commercial breaks on LX will be fewer and of shorter length than other conventional television platforms. [367][368]
Peacock OTT streaming April 15
(Xfinity subscribers);
July 15
(full launch)
Peacock will be ad-supported, and access will reportedly be free for linear TV subscribers, while those without a provider can pay separately for a subscription. An ad-free version will also be available at an additional cost. The company will concurrently retain its 30% stake in Hulu. [369][261]
HBO Max OTT streaming May 27 HBO Max will be a paid subscription streaming service featuring original content as well as content from Warner Bros., New Line Cinema, CNN, TNT, TBS, Cartoon Network, Crunchyroll and other WarnerMedia brands and programs being transferred from HBO (consisting of children's programs from the Sesame Workshop library) and the soon-to-close Audience. [370][371]
[372]

Conversions and rebrandings

Old network
name
New network
name
Type Conversion date Notes Source
JUCE TV Positiv Over-the-air multicast/
Cable and satellite
January 26 On January 26, the Trinity Broadcasting Network relaunched its youth-oriented multicast service JUCE TV—which had been moved to a 24-hour DT5 feed on TBN's owned-and-operated stations on January 13, after being placed in a time-share with sister children's network Smile concurrent with the June 2015 launch of TBN Salsa on that feed—as Positiv. The relaunched network—which, unusual for a service whose over-the-air broadcasts are transmitted exclusively over non-commercial stations, is partially advertiser-supported—features family and faith-based films (including many in TBN's existing library that aired on the network under its JCTV/JUCE TV format). TBN relegated the "JUCE" brand to a dedicated YouTube channel offering original short-form content aimed at Christian youth, which the ministry launched on October 23, 2019. [373]
Live Well Network Localish Over-the-air multicast February 17 On January 21, ABC Owned Television Stations announced that Live Well Network—which has been carried exclusively on ABC's eight O&O stations since it retracted from national distribution in 2014—will be rebranded on February 17, as a television extension of the Localish digital lifestyle brand launched by ABC in September 2018. The relaunched network will feature long-form variants of several programs already featured on the Localish website, which focuses on short-form series focusing on local storytelling, food, leisure and health. [374][375]
Showcase Sho*BET Premium cable and satellite Summer
(Date TBD)
On February 20, ViacomCBS announced that Showtime's tertiary multiplex channel, Showcase—which, since its July 2001 rebranding, has focused on theatrical and first-run feature films from parent network Showtime's various film distributors as well as Showtime's library of original made-for-cable films, documentaries and comedy specials—will be relaunched as Sho*BET, an African American-oriented service co-branded with sister basic cable network BET. The channel will offer movies and series (including original scripted content from Showtime and BET's respective libraries) aimed at black audiences. Sho*BET will be the second premium cable co-branding effort involving BET, which previously owned BET Movies: Starz! (now Starz In Black) in a joint venture with Showtime rival Starz from the multiplex channel's 1997 launch until 2001, when BET Networks opted out of the venture following its purchase by Viacom. [376][181]
DIY Network Magnolia Network Cable and satellite TBD 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. Discovery announced on January 16 it would launch October 4. 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. [377][378][379]

Closures

Network Type End date Notes Source
MHz WorldView Over-the-air multicast March 1 MHz Networks announced on January 8, 2020 that MHz Worldview will cease operations as they prepare to transition to MHz Choice, MHz Network's paid-subscription digital streaming service, and MHz Now, its free ad-supported streaming service. After the closure, many stations that carried MHz Worldview switched to First Nations Experience, World Channel, as well as Deutsche Welle, and NHK World among others. [380]
Audience DirecTV/U-verse/AT&T TV-exclusive May 22 On January 8, 2020, it was announced by AT&T that Audience, a network exclusive to AT&T platforms, would be discontinued and will transition to a barker channel advertising and previewing programming found on the upcoming HBO Max SVOD service. The prime daily programs for the network, simulcasts of sports radio programs hosted by Dan Patrick and Rich Eisen, departed the network on February 28. [381][382][383]

Television stations

Subchannel launches

Date Market Station Channel Affiliation Source
January 1 Birmingham, Alabama WBRC 6.5 Grit (moved from 6.3) [384]
Huntsville, Alabama WAFF 48.5 Grit (moved from 48.3) [385]
Montgomery, Alabama WSFA 12.3 Circle [citation needed]
Anchorage, Alaska KTUU-TV 2.3 [citation needed]
Tucson, Arizona KOLD-TV 13.3 [386]
Los Angeles, California KCAL-TV 9.3 [citation needed]
Sacramento, California KMAX-TV 31.5 [citation needed]
San Francisco, California KBCW 44.5 [citation needed]
Dover, Delaware (Salisbury, Maryland) WMDE 36.4 [citation needed]
Gainesville/Ocala, Florida WCJB-TV 20.4 [citation needed]
Miami/Fort Lauderdale, Florida WBFS-TV 33.5 [citation needed]
Panama City, Florida WECP-LD 18.4 Heroes & Icons (moved from 18.3) [citation needed]
Sarasota, Florida WWSB 40.2 Circle [citation needed]
St. Petersburg/Tampa, Florida WTOG 44.5 [citation needed]
West Palm Beach, Florida WFLX 29.3 [citation needed]
Albany, Georgia WALB 10.5 [citation needed]
WGCW-LD 36.2 [citation needed]
Augusta, Georgia WRDW-TV 12.4 [387]
Columbus, Georgia WTVM 9.3 [citation needed]
Savannah, Georgia WTOC-TV 11.3 [citation needed]
Thomasville, Georgia
(Tallahassee, Florida)
WCTV 6.3 [citation needed]
Honolulu, Hawaii KGMB 5.2 [citation needed]
Caldwell/Boise, Idaho KNIN-TV 9.4 [citation needed]
Evansville, Indiana WFIE 14.4 Grit (moved from 14.3) [388]
South Bend, Indiana WNDU-TV 16.3 Circle [389]
Cedar Rapids, Iowa KCRG-TV 9.6 [citation needed]
Ottumwa, Iowa/Kirksville, Missouri KYOU-TV 15.5 Grit (moved from 15.3) [citation needed]
Topeka, Kansas WIBW-TV 13.3 Circle [citation needed]
Hutchinson/Wichita, Kansas KWCH-DT 12.4 [citation needed]
Hazard, Kentucky WYMT-TV 57.3 [390]
Lexington, Kentucky WKYT-TV 27.3 [citation needed]
Louisville, Kentucky WAVE 3.3 [citation needed]
Baton Rouge, Louisiana WAFB 9.3 [citation needed]
New Orleans, Louisiana WVUE-DT 8.5 Grit (moved from 8.3) [391]
Shreveport, Louisiana KSLA 12.2 Grit (moved from 12.4) [citation needed]
Bangor, Maine WABI-TV 5.4 Circle [392]
Boston, Massachusetts WSBK-TV 38.5 [citation needed]
Detroit, Michigan WKBD-TV 50.5 [citation needed]
Flint/Saginaw/
Bay City, Michigan
WJRT-TV 12.6 WeatherNation TV
(moved from 12.3)
[393]
Onondaga/Lansing, Michigan WILX-TV 10.3 Circle [394]
Jackson, Mississippi WLBT 3.3 [395]
Cape Girardeau, Missouri/
Paducah, Kentucky
KFVS-TV 12.3 [396]
Springfield, Missouri KYTV 3.5 [citation needed]
Grand Island/Hastings, Nebraska KGIN 11.5 [citation needed]
Lincoln, Nebraska KOLN 10.5 [citation needed]
Reno, Nevada KOLO-TV 8.4 [citation needed]
Secaucus, New Jersey
(New York City)
WWOR-TV 48.2 [citation needed]
Riverhead, New York
(New York City)
WLNY-TV 55.5 [citation needed]
Charlotte, North Carolina WBTV 3.3 [citation needed]
Greenville/New Bern/
Washington, North Carolina
WITN-TV 7.6 [397]
Wilmington, North Carolina WECT 6.3 [citation needed]
Bismarck, North Dakota KFYR-TV 5.4 [citation needed]
Dickinson, North Dakota KQCD-TV 7.4 [citation needed]
Minot, North Dakota KMOT 10.4 [citation needed]
Williston, North Dakota KUMV-TV 8.4 [citation needed]
Cincinnati, Ohio WCPO-TV 9.5 Laff [398]
WXIX-TV 19.5 Ion Television
Shaker Heights/Cleveland, Ohio WOIO 43.2 Circle [citation needed]
Toledo, Ohio WTVG 13.4 [citation needed]
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania WPSG 57.5 [citation needed]
Jeannette/Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania WPCW 19.5 [citation needed]
Ponce, Puerto Rico WTIN-TV 2.11 Telemundo [399]
Mayaguez, Puerto Rico WNJX-TV 2.12
San Juan, Puerto Rico WAPA-TV 4.3 Local weather [citation needed]
Charleston, South Carolina WCSC-TV 5.4 Grit (moved from 5.3) [400]
Columbia, South Carolina WIS 10.3 Circle [citation needed]
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina WMBF-TV 32.5 Grit (moved from 32.3) [401]
Lead, South Dakota KHSD-TV 11.2 Circle [citation needed]
Rapid City, South Dakota KOTA-TV 3.2 [citation needed]
Knoxville, Tennessee WVLT-TV 8.4 [402]
Memphis, Tennessee WMC-TV 5.4 Grit (moved from 5.3) [403]
Borger/Amarillo, Texas KEYU 31.3 Circle [citation needed]
Fort Worth/Dallas, Texas KTXA 21.4 [citation needed]
Lubbock, Texas KCBD 11.2 [404]
Tyler/Longview, Texas KLTV 7.2 [citation needed]
Burlington, Vermont WCAX-TV 3.5 Ion Television (moved from 3.3) [405]
Harrisonburg, Virginia WSVW-LD 30.3 Circle [citation needed]
Richmond, Virginia WWBT 12.4 Court TV Mystery (moved from 12.3) [406]
Roanoke, Virginia WDBJ 7.3 Heroes & Icons (moved from 7.2) [407]
Tacoma/Seattle, Washington KSTW 11.5 Circle [citation needed]
Huntington/Charleston, West Virginia WSAZ-TV 3.3 [408]
Weston/Clarksburg, West Virginia WDTV 5.4 [citation needed]
Green Bay, Wisconsin WBAY-TV 2.6 Ion Television (moved from 2.3) [409]
January 6 Colorado Springs, Colorado KKTV 11.3 Circle [410]
January 7 Fort Kent, Maine (Presque Isle) WWPI-LD 16.1 NBC [411]
January 13 Lake Charles, Louisiana KVHP 29.4 Ion Television (moved from 29.3) [citation needed]
Wichita Falls, Texas/Lawton, Oklahoma KAUZ-TV 6.3 Circle [citation needed]
April 1 Lafayette, Louisiana KLWB 50.3 Telemundo [412]
TBA Los Angeles KWHY-TV 22.8 Spanish News [413]

Stations changing network affiliation

Major affiliation changes

This section outlines affiliation changes involving English and Spanish language 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 involves a major English and Spanish broadcast network or a locally programmed independent entertainment format.
Date Market Station Channel Prior affiliation New affiliation Notes Source
January 1 Mayagüez, Puerto Rico WORA 5.1 Telemundo ABC On June 27, 2019, WORA-TV announced that it will end an affiliation agreement with WKAQ-TV by December 31, leaving Telemundo without a western affiliate after more than four years. Later, Hemisphere Media Group, the owners of WAPA-TV, announced that Telemundo would air on a subchannel of WNJX-TV by January 1, 2020. On December 18, WORA-TV announced that it will move ABC programming to channel 5.1 on January 1, with the Televisión Española news channel 24H airing on 5.2 from that date on. [414]
January 28 Harlingen/McAllen/
Brownsville, Texas
KGBT 4.1 CBS Temporarily silent With Nexstar Media Group acquiring the non-license assets of KGBT from Sinclair Broadcast Group through the settlement of Tribune Media's 2018 lawsuit against Sinclair, Nexstar—which assumed the rights to KGBT's programming and news operation—decides to move KGBT's CBS schedule to a subchannel on the KVEO spectrum; the move results in KGBT ending its affiliation with CBS after 66 years and its main channel going temporarily silent until replacement programming is added. KVEO's former subchannel affiliations with Estrella TV, Court TV Mystery and Grit also move to the KGBT spectrum (on three new subchannels) to accommodate additional bandwidth needed for KVEO to transmit the former KGBT CBS programming feed on its DT2 subchannel. [415][416]
4.4 New subchannel Estrella TV
4.5 New subchannel Grit
4.6 New subchannel Court TV Mystery
KVEO 23.2 Estrella TV CBS

Subchannel affiliation

Date Market Station Channel Prior affiliation New affiliation Source
January 1 Birmingham, Alabama WBRC 6.3 Grit (moved to 6.5) Circle [384]
Huntsville, Alabama WAFF 48.3 Grit (moved to 48.5) [385]
Panama City, Florida WECP-LD 18.3 Heroes & Icons (moved to 18.4) [citation needed]
Evansville, Indiana WFIE 14.3 Grit (moved to 14.4) [388]
Ottumwa, Iowa/Kirksville, Missouri KYOU-TV 15.3 Grit (moved to 15.5) [citation needed]
New Orleans, Louisiana WVUE-DT 8.3 Grit (moved to 8.5) [391]
Shreveport, Louisiana KSLA 12.2 Grit (moved to 12.4) [citation needed]
Flint/Saginaw/
Bay City, Michigan
WJRT-TV 12.3 WeatherNation TV
(moved to 12.6)
[417][393]
Cincinnati, Ohio WCPO-TV 9.3 Laff Bounce TV [398]
WXIX-TV 19.2 Bounce TV (moved to WCPO-DT 9.3) Heroes & Icons
19.3 Grit Circle
19.4 Ion Television (moved to 19.5) Grit
WBQC-LD 25.9 Heroes & Icons Start TV
Charleston, South Carolina WCSC-TV 5.3 Grit (moved to 5.4) Circle [400]
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina WMBF-TV 32.3 Grit (moved to 32.5) [401]
Memphis, Tennessee WMC-TV 5.3 Grit (moved to 5.4) [403]
Belton, Texas
(Waco/Temple/Bryan)
KNCT 46.2 MeTV (simulcast of KWTX-DT 10.3) [citation needed]
Burlington, Vermont WCAX-TV 3.5 Ion Television (moved from 3.3) [405]
Richmond, Virginia WWBT 12.2 Court TV Mystery (moved to 12.3) [406]
Roanoke, Virginia WDBJ 7.2 Heroes & Icons (moved to 7.3) [407]
Green Bay, Wisconsin WBAY-TV 2.3 Ion Television (moved to 2.6) [418]
January 13 Lake Charles, Louisiana KVHP 29.3 Ion Television (moved to 29.4) [citation needed]

Station closures

Station Channel Affiliation Market Date Notes Source
KYMA 11.# NBC Yuma, Arizona January 13 On January 13, 2020, the KYMA-DT program streams and intellectual unit were moved to the channel 13 facility, which changed call letters from KSWT to KYMA-DT. The former KYMA-DT's license was surrendered eight days later as a condition of the acquisition of Northwest Broadcasting by Apollo Global Management in 2019. The virtual channel numbering of the former KYMA streams remains the same. [419][420]
WNYS 43.# MyNetworkTV Syracuse, New York The same license surrender situation occurs in Syracuse, with WSYT's license turned in, and its intellectual unit becoming the third subchannel of sister Fox affiliate WSYT. It also retains its existing virtual channels.
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. [421]

Deaths

January

Date Name Age Notability Source
January 1 David Stern 77 Commissioner of the National Basketball Association from 1984–2014 who oversaw the launches of NBA TV and NBA League Pass. [422]
Barry ZeVan 82 American television weathercaster at Minneapolis–St. Paul stations KARE and KSTP-TV and Washington, D.C. station WJLA-TV [423]
January 3 Robert Blanche 57 American film and television actor best known as Patrick Bonanno on Leverage [424]
January 7 Silvio Horta 45 American film and television writer (co-creator of Ugly Betty; creator of Jake 2.0 and The Chronicle) [425]
January 8 Buck Henry 89 American actor, comedian, producer, writer, and director (co-creator and writer for Get Smart, Captain Nice and Quark; regular on The New Steve Allen Show and That Was The Week That Was, recurring guest host on Saturday Night Live, guest roles in Murphy Brown and Will and Grace, and recurring roles on 30 Rock and Hot in Cleveland) [426]
Edd Byrnes 87 American actor/singer, best known for playing Kookie on 77 Sunset Strip [427]
January 12 William Bogert 83 American actor, best known for his semi-regular role as Brandon Brindle on Small Wonder, Kent Wallace from Chappelle's Show's Frontline spoofs, William Bellamy in Centennial, and the "Confessions of a Republican" ad for Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1964 U.S. Presidential election (and later on reprised the role for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign) [428]
January 15 Rocky Johnson 75 WWE Hall of Fame professional wrestler; father of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. [429]
January 18 Jack Van Impe 88 American televangelist, host of Jack Van Impe Presents [430]
January 19 Gene London 88 American children's show host and puppeteer at WCAU/Philadelphia, New York City stations WABD and WABC-TV, and NBC [431]
January 20 Len Goorian 100 Longtime producer and Hall of Fame broadcaster at WCPO-TV in Cincinnati [432]
January 23 Jim Lehrer 85 American television journalist (anchor of PBS NewsHour from 1975 to 2011 and co-creator of the program, moderator of twelve United States presidential debates from 1988 to 2012) [433][434]
Tyler Gwozdz 29 American entrepreneur and contestant on season 15 of The Bachelorette [435]
January 26 Leo Fernández III 60 Puerto Rican reporter and paparazzo, worked at WKAQ-TV, WAPA-TV, WLII and WJPX [436]
Kobe Bryant 41 American Oscar-winning and Olympic Gold medalist basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers), author, producer, and documentarian. (Contributor for NBA TV programs and specials; guest appearances on All That, Sister, Sister and Ridiculousness; commercial work included Sprite, McDonald's, Nutella, Nike, and Nintendo) [437][438]
January 27 Jack Burns 86 American actor, comedian, writer, and voice actor (regular role as Deputy Sheriff Warren Ferguson on The Andy Griffith Show, voice roles as Ralph Kane in Wait Till Your Father Gets Home, and Sid the Squid in Animaniacs, co-host of The Burns and Schreiber Comedy Hour, writer for Hee Haw and The Muppet Show, co-writer/recurring regular on Fridays, guest hosted Saturday Night Live, and the voice of Larry, one half of the crash test dummies in the Ad Council's seat belt advertising campaign. [439]
January 28 Marj Dusay 83 American actress best known as the second Alexandra Spaulding on Guiding Light, Monica Warner on The Facts of Life, and a guest starring role as Kara in the Star Trek episode "Spock's Brain". [440]
January 30 Fred Silverman 82 American television executive with all of the Big Three television networks between 1963 and 1981 (vice president of CBS from 1970 to 1975, president of ABC from 1975 to 1978 and president of NBC from 1978 to 1981); founder of The Fred Silverman Company. Also producer on Scooby-Doo, The Waltons, Charlie's Angels, Rich Man, Poor Man, Roots, and Shōgun. [441]
January 31 Anne Cox Chambers 100 American media proprietor (Cox Enterprises), daughter of James M. Cox [442]

February

Date Name Age Notability Source
February 3 Bob Griffin 85 Longtime Ark-La-Tex television sports and news anchor (KSLA, KTBS-TV)
February 4 Gene Reynolds 96 Longtime television producer and director (M*A*S*H, Lou Grant) [443]
February 5 Kirk Douglas 103 American actor (TV work includes guest spots on The Jack Benny Program, The Johnny Cash Show, Tales from the Crypt, The Simpsons, Touched by an Angel, and Saturday Night Live; and the TV movies Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1973), Victory at Entebbe, Mousey, Draw!, Amos, Queenie, The Secret, Take Me Home Again, and Empire State Building Murders) [444]
February 7 Orson Bean 91 American actor, comedian, panelist, and activist (best known for his role in The Twilight Zone episode "Mr. Bevis", regular roles on Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman and Desperate Housewives, recurring roles in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and The Facts of Life, game show appearances include To Tell The Truth, Match Game, and Super Password, guest appearances include Superstore, Hot In Cleveland and Grace & Frankie) [445]
February 8 Robert Conrad 84 American actor best known as James T. West in The Wild Wild West and Tom Lopaka on Hawaiian Eye. Also starred on The D.A., Assignment Vienna, Centennial, and Baa Baa Black Sheep. [446]
February 14 Lynn Cohen 86 American actress best known as Magda on Sex and the City and Judge Elizabeth Mizener on Law & Order [447]
February 16 Jason Davis 35 American actor best known as the voice of Mikey Blumberg on Recess [448]
February 17 Ja'Net DuBois 87 Actress best known as Willona Woods on Good Times, Florence Avery on The PJs, and Grandma Ellington on The Wayans Bros. Also sang The Jeffersons theme song. [449]
February 19 Bob Cobert 95 American composer (composed theme songs to Dark Shadows, Password, Blockbusters, Chain Reaction and many others) [450]
February 20 Sy Sperling 78 American consumer products executive, founder and spokesman of Hair Club [451]
February 22 B. Smith 70 American model, publisher, author, lifestyle designer, chef, and television personality (host of B. Smith With Style, and made two appearances on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood) [452]
February 25 Lee Phillip Bell 91 American television producer (The Bold and the Beautiful, The Young and the Restless) [453]

March

Date Name Age Notability Source
March 2 James Lipton 93 American actor, writer, and host of Inside the Actors Studio. Other TV credits include The Simpsons, Arrested Development, and Glee [454]
March 3 Bobbie Battista 67 Anchor for WRAL-TV/Raleigh, North Carolina, CNN, and HLN; host of CNN's TalkBack Live [455]
March 6 Danny Tidwell 35 American jazz dancer; runner-up of the third season of So You Think You Can Dance [456]
March 9 Lorenzo Brino 21 American child actor (7th Heaven) [citation needed]
March 13 Arch Deal 88 American television reporter at WFLA-TV, WLCY-TV and WTVT in the Tampa Bay area [457]
March 16 Stuart Whitman 92 American actor (starred in Cimarron Strip) [458]
March 17 Lyle Waggoner 84 American actor; announced The Carol Burnett Show from 1967 to 1974 and portrayed Steve Trevor on Wonder Woman [459]
March 20 Kenny Rogers 81 Country music singer and songwriter. Guest appearances included Daniel Watkins on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Denny Byle on Touched by an Angel, and a Kindly Book Narrator on How I Met Your Mother [460]
March 26 Mark Blum 69 American actor (Sweet Surrender, Mozart in the Jungle, You) [461]
Curly Neal 77 American basketball player and entertainer. Member of The Harlem Globetrotters (1963–85) during its tenure that included lending his voice to the Harlem Globetrotters and The Super Globetrotters cartoons series, appearing in The Harlem Globetrotters Popcorn Machine, and co-starring in The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island, among his credits. [462]
March 31 Julie Bennett 88 American actress, voice actress. (The Yogi Bear Show, McHale's Navy, Cattanooga Cats, Spider-Man) Best known as the voice of Hanna-Barbera's Cindy Bear on The Yogi Bear Show and its feature-film spin-off, Yogi's Treasure Hunt, Yogi and the Invasion of the Space Bears and The New Yogi Bear Show. [463]

April

Date Name Age Notability Source
April 1 Adam Schlesinger 52 American musician (Fountains of Wayne, Ivy, Tinted Windows, and Fever High) and songwriter (TV work includes T.U.F.F. Puppy, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Big Time Rush, and Sesame Street). Three-time Emmy-winner (2012, 2013, 2019), and Grammy-winner (2010). [464]
April 6 James Drury 85 Actor best known as the title character of The Virginian [465]
Al Kaline American Hall of Fame baseball player, broadcaster, and executive. Served as the Detroit Tigers TV color commentator from 1975–2002. [466]
April 14 Gary Drapcho 63 Longtime sports anchor at WICU-TV and WSEE-TV in Erie [467]
April 15 Willie Davis 85 Professional football player (Green Bay Packers, Cleveland Browns), broadcaster (founder of All Pro Broadcasting), and color commentator for NFL on NBC; father of actor Duane Davis [468]
Brian Dennehy 81 Actor (recurring roles on several series including The Fighting Fitzgeralds, Public Morals, The Blacklist, Hap and Leonard, and Star of the Family). Golden Globe winner for his role as Willy Loman in the 2000 TV movie Death of a Salesman. [469]
April 16 Mike Buchanan 78 Longtime television journalist at WUSA and WJLA-TV in Washington, DC [470]
Gene Deitch 95 American expatriate animator (TV work included several adaptations of King Features Syndicate comics such as Popeye, Beetle Bailey and Krazy Kat) [471]
Howard Finkel 69 Longtime WWE Hall of Fame ring announcer [472]
Eugene Kane 63 American journalist (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) and commentator (Alumnus of WTMJ-TV and host of Black Nouveau on WMVS/WMVT from 2002 to 2006) [473]
April 20 Tom Lester 81 American actor, businessman, and evangelist, best known for his role as Eb Dawson on Green Acres, and was the last original surviving cast member of the 1965-71 sitcom. [474]
April 21 Mike Anderson 67 Anchorman, reporter, and commentator for WISN-TV Milwaukee (and its sister Hearst Television outlets) from 1981 to 2017; also a alumnus of KIRO-TV Seattle. [475]
Jerry Bishop 84 Longtime announcer of Judge Judy [476]
April 22 Shirley Knight 83 Actress (recurring roles in Buckskin, Maggie Winters, and Desperate Housewives) [477]
April 23 Dimitri Diatchenko 52 Character actor (brief recurring roles on General Hospital, Sons of Anarchy, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and guest spots on numerous shows). [478]

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