# 1992 in American television

In American television in 1992, notable events included television series debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel initiations, closures and rebrandings, as well as information about controversies and disputes.

## Events

| Date | Event |
| January 6 | The weekly overnight news program World News Now debuts on ABC. |
| January 19 | The World Wrestling Federation holds the fifth annual Royal Rumble event on pay-per-view. In the main event, Ric Flair wins the Royal Rumble match and the vacant WWF World Heavyweight Championship. |
| January 26 | During halftime of CBS' telecast of Super Bowl XXVI, Fox counter-programs with a special live-edition of the sketch comedy program In Living Color. |
| January 26 | In a 60 Minutes interview, Bill and Hillary Clinton deny the allegations made against Bill in an interview that was viewed by millions. |
| February 8 | The opening ceremonies for the Winter Olympics from Albertville, France is broadcast on CBS. This is the first of three consecutive Olympic Winter Games that CBS will broadcast, concluding with the 1998 Winter Olympics from Nagano, Japan. It's also the first time that CBS would televise the Olympics (either Winter or Summer) since the 1960 Summer Games from Rome, Italy. |
| February 14 | Green Bay Fox station WXGZ goes dark, and former Green Bay independent station WGBA-TV took the Fox affiliation. |
| February 22 | Barbra Streisand makes a surprise cameo appearance during a "Coffee Talk" sketch with Mike Myers, Madonna, and Roseanne Barr on NBC's Saturday Night Live. |
| February 24 | CBS acquires the assets of Midwest Communications, owners of the network's dominant affiliate in the Twin Cities, WCCO-TV. This also results in an affiliation swap in both Marquette, Michigan and Green Bay, Wisconsin: WJMN-TV, the Midwest-owned satellite station of Green Bay's ABC affiliate WFRV-TV, swaps its own ABC affiliation with primary CBS/secondary NBC affiliate WLUC-TV on this date, while WFRV-TV itself swaps with CBS affiliate WBAY-TV on March 15. (The delay in Green Bay occurs since WBAY-TV wanted to swap on or near March 17, the 39th anniversary of its first sign-on.) |
| February 29 | Full Moon Over Miami, a one-off programming block of a three-way, two-hour crossover event airs on NBC. It involves three television sitcoms created by Susan Harris: The Golden Girls, Empty Nest and Nurses. The event depicts a fictional full moon on Leap Day storming into the storylines of the three series set in Miami, Florida. |
| March 28 | CBS broadcasts the East Regional men's basketball final between Duke and Kentucky. With 2.1 seconds remaining in overtime, Christian Laettner hit a jumper as time expired to give Duke the 104–103 win. The game which was called by Verne Lundquist and Len Elmore, has since been considered by many to be the greatest college basketball game ever played. |
| April 4 | TBS' Saturday afternoon/early evening World Championship Wrestling program is renamed WCW Saturday Night. The main event is Steve Austin defeating The Z-Man in a 2-out-of-3 falls match for the WCW World Television Title. |
| April 18 | Sean McDonough makes his debut as the new lead play–by–play announcer for Major League Baseball telecasts on CBS. Replacing Jack Buck, who was dismissed by the network following the 1991 World Series, McDonough would serve in that capacity alongside analyst Tim McCarver for the final two years of CBS' contract with Major League Baseball. |
| April 25 | ABC broadcasts the series finales of Who's the Boss?, Growing Pains, and MacGyver. |
| April 29 | Batman (1989 film) makes its broadcast television premiere on CBS. |
| April 30 | The Nickelodeon time capsule was buried at Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, Florida. |
| May 1 | Sesame Street broadcasts its 3,000th episode. |
| May 19 | Vice President of the United States Dan Quayle speaks at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. During his speech, he criticizes the Murphy Brown character for "mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone". |
| May 22 | After 30 years, 66-year-old Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show on NBC for the 4,531st and last time. |
| May 25 | Jay Leno debuts as host of NBC's The Tonight Show. |
| May 26–June 1 | SportsChannel America airs the last of four consecutive Stanley Cup Finals. |
| June 1 | In New York City, NBC's flagship television station WNBC dropped the "-TV" suffix from its call letters (following the sale in 1988 of its sister radio station WNBC-AM by NBC's then-parent company General Electric) in favor of the new branding slogan "4 New York". The accompanying station image campaign was titled "We're 4 New York" and featured a musical theme composed by Edd Kalehoff. The campaign is revived two times, one is during the 2002 Winter Olympics and once again in 2007. |
| June 3 | Presidential candidate Bill Clinton appears on The Arsenio Hall Show and sits in with the house band on saxophone. |
| June 6 | The music video for Guns N' Roses' power ballad "November Rain" premieres on MTV's Headbangers Ball. November Rain is one of the most expensive music videos ever. In July 2018, the music video would become the first video created prior to YouTube to surpass one billion views. And in February 2023, the music video would reach another milestone after it surpassed two billion views and remaining the oldest song (from the early 1990s) to achieve that feat. |
| June 10 | The first ever edition of the MTV Movie Awards is broadcast. |
| June 23 | Another World broadcasts its first and only primetime episode on NBC, named Summer Desire, right before the Daytime Emmy Awards. |
| August 7 | After Growing Pains actress Tracey Gold loses a massive amount of weight due to anorexia nervosa, she is placed in hospital care. As a result, she is written out of most of the ABC sitcom's final episodes. |
| August 15 | Nickelodeon begins a Saturday night programming block called SNICK. |
| August 16 | Ron Simmons defeats Big Van Vader for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship on WCW Main Event to become the first recognized black world champion in professional wrestling history. |
| August 31 | The fifth annual SummerSlam event airs on pay-per-view. Taking place in Wembley Stadium, London, England, two days prior, this was the first major World Wrestling Federation pay-per-view to take place outside of North America. The main event saw The British Bulldog defeating Bret Hart to win the WWF Intercontinental Championship. |
| September 2 | TBS airs World Championship Wrestling's Clash of the Champions XX from the Center Stage Theater in Atlanta. The event was not only the 20th time WCW held a Clash of the Champions show but also marked the 20th anniversary of professional wrestling being shown on TBS as Mid-Atlantic Wrestling in 1972. It also was the final wrestling TV appearance for André the Giant, who died several months later. The main event saw the team of Rick Rude, Jake Roberts, Super Invader, and Big Van Vader defeated the team of Sting, Nikita Koloff, and The Steiner Brothers. |
| September 4 | Scared Silent: Ending and Exposing Child Abuse, a one-hour live special hosted by Oprah Winfrey, is simulcast on CBS and NBC. Two nights later, the special is rebroadcast on ABC. |
| September 5 | Batman: The Animated Series premieres on Fox Kids in a 4:30 p.m. afternoon timeslot. It's soon hailed as a groundbreaking superhero show receiving praise for its writing, art design, voice acting, orchestrated soundtrack, and modernization of its title character's source material. The acclaim led to multiple Daytime Emmy Awards, as well as the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Programming. In December, just three months after its debut, Fox also begins airing episodes of the series on prime-time Sunday evenings (followed by the live-action sitcom Shaky Ground); however, the TV ratings fell short (as the show aired opposite the perennial favorite 60 Minutes), and the series was removed from this time slot in March 1993. |
| September 12 | NBC is the first network to cancel all their Saturday morning cartoons in favor of four shows, Saved By The Bell, California Dreams, NBA Inside Stuff, and Name Your Adventure under the TNBC banner. A weekend version of Today, which debuted on August 1, is also added. Animated programming would not return to NBC until 2006. |
| September 14 | Pamela Anderson makes her first appearance as C. J. Parker on Baywatch. |
| September 27 | Marlon Wayans and Alexandra Wentworth join the cast of the Fox sketch comedy show In Living Color. Wayans only joins the cast for 13 episodes, but Wentworth stays full-time for both this and the next season (which would turn out to be the show's fifth and final season). |
| October 1 | Cartoon Network begins its broadcasts with a one-hour special titled Droopy's Guide to the Cartoon Network. The Merrie Melodies short Rhapsody Rabbit was the very first cartoon to be shown on the channel. |
| October 3 | Sinéad O'Connor causes controversy when she rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on NBC's Saturday Night Live. |
| October 10 | Michael Jackson's concert Live in Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour airs on HBO. |
| October 11 | George Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot participate in the first 1992 presidential debate hosted by Jim Lehrer of PBS. |
| October 12 | James Doohan guest stars as Montgomery Scott in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. |
| October 13 | Hal Bruno of ABC News moderates the 1992 Vice Presidential debate at Georgia Tech. |
| October 15 | Carole Simpson hosts the second of the 1992 presidential debates (becoming the first woman of color to do so). President George H. W. Bush is criticized for checking his watch on camera while being asked a question. |
| October 17 | Kristy McNichol's last episode of Empty Nest, entitled "The Boomerang Affair", is broadcast on NBC. (McNichol would return for the series finale in 1995.) |
| October 17–24 | The World Series is broadcast on CBS for the third consecutive year. The Toronto Blue Jays would ultimately defeat the Atlanta Braves in six games to claim their first ever world championship, as well as the first World Series title for a Canadian based Major League Baseball team. |
| October 31 | The first part of the pilot episode for X-Men, "Night of the Sentinels", airs on Fox Kids as a "sneak preview". The second part would air on November 7. South Korean studio AKOM was hired to animate episodes. X-Men was originally set to premiere over Labor Day weekend in September; however, due to production delays, it was delayed to the end of October. When AKOM turned in the first episode, it contained several animation errors, which they refused to fix. Because of time constraints, the episode was aired in an unfinished form; when Fox re-aired the pilot in early 1993, the errors were corrected. The second episode was submitted just before the deadline, with 50 scenes missing and a single day reserved for editing. |
| November 1 | Texas billionaire Ross Perot acquires blocks of TV time for his presidential campaign. |
| November 14 | Nickelodeon broadcasts the Kids' Choice Awards live for the first time. |
| November 17 | Dateline NBC airs an hour-long investigative report titled "Waiting to Explode," which focused on allegations that General Motors' Rounded-Line Chevrolet C/K-Series pickup trucks exploded upon impact when involved in collisions due to the poor design of the vehicle model's fuel tanks. It is also later revealed that the Dateline report had been dishonest about the fuel tanks rupturing and the alleged 30 miles per hour (48 km/h) speed at which the collision was conducted. The actual speed was found to be higher than stated, around 40 miles per hour (64 km/h), and after x-ray examination of the fuel tanks from the C/K pickups used in the televised collision, it was found that they had not ruptured and were intact. GM subsequently filed an anti-defamation/libel lawsuit against NBC after conducting an extensive investigation. |
| November 18 | The Seinfeld episode "The Contest" is broadcast on NBC. Despite its controversy, the episode will win an Emmy Award and be named as the number one episode of all time by TV Guide. |
| November 21 | An episode of Captain Planet and the Planeteers titled "A Formula for Hate" becomes the first episode in an American children's animated series to directly deal with the HIV/AIDS pandemic. |
| December 1 | On CBS, The Young and the Restless broadcasts its 5,000th episode. In celebration of this, a Y&R-themed Showcase is presented on The Price is Right, which also airs on CBS. |

## Television programs
### Debuts

| Date | Show | Network |
| January 4 | Nick Arcade | Nickelodeon |
| January 6 | World News Now | ABC |
| January 10 | Hearts Are Wild | CBS |
| January 17 | Tequila and Bonetti | CBS |
| January 20 | The Dennis Miller Show | Syndication |
| January 25 | MTV Sports | MTV |
| January 27 | Inside Politics | CNN |
| January 29 | Nightmare Cafe | NBC |
| January 31 | Billy | ABC |
| January 31 | Capitol Critters | ABC |
| February 23 | I Witness Video | NBC |
| February 26 | Bodies of Evidence | CBS |
| February 28 | Scorch | CBS |
| February 28 | Fish Police | CBS |
| February 29 | The Boys of Twilight | CBS |
| March 4 | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | ABC |
| March 7 | The Powers That Be | NBC |
| March 24 | Room for Two | ABC |
| March 31 | Dateline NBC | NBC |
| April 5 | Mann & Machine | NBC |
| April 5 | Stand By Your Man | Fox |
| April 6 | Barney & Friends | PBS |
| April 17 | The Fifth Corner | NBC |
| April 18 | Nick News W-5 | Nickelodeon |
| May 21 | The Real World | MTV |
| May 25 | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | NBC |
| May 30 | Julie | ABC |
| May 30 | Vinnie & Bobby | Fox |
| June 15 | Doctor Dean | NBC |
| June 15 | Grapevine | CBS |
| June 19 | Raven | CBS |
| June 20 | On the Air | ABC |
| June 21 | Down the Shore | Fox |
| June 27 | Red Shoe Diaries | Showtime |
| June 29 | The Grind | MTV |
| July 1 | Def Comedy Jam | HBO |
| July 8 | Melrose Place | Fox |
| July 20 | Human Target | ABC |
| August 11 | Freshman Dorm | CBS |
| August 15 | The Larry Sanders Show | HBO |
| August 15 | Are You Afraid of the Dark? | Nickelodeon |
| August 15 | Roundhouse | Nickelodeon |
| August 16 | Secret Service | NBC |
| August 23 | 2000 Malibu Road | CBS |
| August 25 | Covington Cross | ABC |
| August 27 | The Heights | Fox |
| August 27 | Martin | Fox |
| August 31 | Vicki! | Syndication |
| September 1 | Going to Extremes | ABC |
| September 5 | Batman: The Animated Series | Fox Kids |
| September 5 | Goof Troop | Syndication and ABC |
| September 10 | Lamb Chop's Play-Along | PBS |
| September 11 | Likely Suspects | Fox |
| September 11 | The Little Mermaid | CBS Kid TV |
| September 12 | Fievel's American Tails | CBS Kid TV |
| September 12 | The Addams Family | ABC |
| September 12 | Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa | ABC |
| September 12 | California Dreams | TNBC |
| September 12 | Name Your Adventure | TNBC |
| September 12 | Eek! The Cat | Fox Kids |
| September 12 | Super Dave: Daredevil for Hire | Fox Kids |
| September 13 | Flying Blind | Fox |
| September 13 | Frannie's Turn | CBS |
| September 13 | King Arthur and the Knights of Justice | Syndication |
| September 13 | Conan the Adventurer | Syndication |
| September 14 | Hearts Afire | CBS |
| September 14 | Crossroads | ABC |
| September 14 | That's Amore | Syndication |
| September 14 | Rush Limbaugh: The Television Show | Syndication |
| September 14 | The Whoopi Goldberg Show | Syndication |
| September 14 | ComicView | BET |
| September 15 | American Justice | A&E |
| September 15 | Delta | ABC |
| September 16 | The Hat Squad | CBS |
| September 16 | Beakman's World | Syndication |
| September 18 | Bob | CBS |
| September 18 | The Golden Palace | CBS |
| September 18 | Picket Fences | CBS |
| September 18 | Camp Wilder | ABC |
| September 18 | Final Appeal | NBC |
| September 18 | The Round Table | NBC |
| September 19 | The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys | CBS |
| September 19 | Raw Toonage | CBS |
| September 19 | Renegade | Syndication |
| September 19 | Nickelodeon Guts | Nickelodeon |
| September 19 | The Plucky Duck Show | Fox Kids |
| September 19 | The Edge | Fox |
| September 19 | Here and Now | NBC |
| September 19 | Out All Night | NBC |
| September 21 | Love & War | CBS |
| September 22 | Hangin' with Mr. Cooper | ABC |
| September 23 | Mad About You | NBC |
| September 24 | Street Stories with Ed Bradley | CBS |
| September 24 | Rhythm & Blues | NBC |
| September 25 | What Happened? | NBC |
| September 26 | Dog City | Fox Kids |
| September 27 | Woops! | Fox |
| September 28 | Stunt Dawgs | Syndication |
| September 30 | Laurie Hill | ABC |
| October 1 | ToonHeads | Cartoon Network |
| October 4 | Ghostwriter | PBS |
| October 4 | Great Scott! | Fox |
| October 5 | Born Lucky | Lifetime |
| October 14 | American Heroes & Legends | Showtime |
| October 31 | X-Men | Fox Kids |
| December 1 | The Jackie Thomas Show | ABC |
| December 27 | Shaky Ground | Fox |

### Returning this year

| Show | Last aired | Previous network | New title | New network | Returning |
| The Ben Stiller Show | 1990 | MTV | Same | Fox | September 27 |

### Ending this year

| Date | Show | Debut |
| January 3 | Pacific Station | 1991 |
| January 4 | P.S. I Luv U | 1991 |
| January 24 | Best of the Worst | 1991 |
| March 2 | James Bond Jr. | 1991 |
| March 5 | Drexell's Class | 1991 |
| March 13 | Candid Camera (returned in 1996) | 1948 |
| March 13 | Hearts Are Wild | 1992 |
| March 13 | Fish Police | 1992 |
| March 13 | Scorch | 1992 |
| March 14 | Capitol Critters | 1992 |
| April 3 | Nightmare Cafe | 1992 |
| April 12 | Eerie, Indiana | 1991 |
| April 17 | Tequila and Bonetti | 1992 |
| April 25 | Growing Pains | 1985 |
| April 25 | Who's the Boss? | 1984 |
| April 30 | The Cosby Show | 1984 |
| May 6 | Jake and the Fatman | 1987 |
| May 6 | Sibs | 1991 |
| May 9 | The Golden Girls | 1985 |
| May 13 | The Royal Family | 1991 |
| May 17 | Superboy | 1988 |
| May 17 | Stand By Your Man | 1992 |
| May 21 | MacGyver (rebooted in 2016) | 1985 |
| May 22 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1962 |
| May 30 | The Trials of Rosie O'Neill | 1990 |
| May 31 | Night Court (returned in 2023) | 1984 |
| May 31 | The Adventures of Mark & Brian | 1991 |
| June 1 | NHL on SportsChannel America | 1988 |
| June 3 | Anything but Love | 1989 |
| June 26 | Club MTV | 1987 |
| July 4 | Billy | 1992 |
| July 4 | Julie | 1992 |
| July 13 | Man of the People | 1991 |
| July 14 | Mann & Machine | 1992 |
| July 22 | Dear John | 1988 |
| July 24 | The Dennis Miller Show | 1992 |
| August 8 | The Howard Stern Show | 1990 |
| September 12 | Salute Your Shorts | 1991 |
| October 24 | Rhythm & Blues | 1992 |
| November 5 | Saturday Night's Main Event (returned in 2006) | 1985 |
| November 6 | Square One TV | 1987 |
| November 6 | Nick Arcade | 1992 |
| November 26 | The Heights | 1992 |
| November 28 | Good Morning, Mickey! | 1983 |
| November 28 | The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys | 1992 |
| November 29 | Great Scott! | 1992 |
| December 1 | Wild & Crazy Kids (returned in 2002) | 1990 |
| December 2 | A Bunch of Munsch | 1991 |
| December 5 | Fievel's American Tails | 1992 |
| December 5 | Goof Troop | 1992 |
| December 5 | Raw Toonage | 1992 |
| December 6 | Woops! | 1992 |
| December 12 | The Plucky Duck Show | 1992 |
| December 12 | Darkwing Duck | 1991 |
| December 26 | Back to the Future: The Animated Series | 1991 |
| December 26 | Widget | 1990 |

### Entering syndication this year

A list of programs (current or canceled) that have accumulated enough episodes (between 65 and 100) or seasons (3 or more) to be eligible for off-network syndication and/or basic cable runs.
| Show | Seasons | In production | Notes |
| American Gladiators | 3 | Yes | Cable syndication on USA Network. |
| Life Goes On | 3 | Yes | Cable syndication on The Family Channel. |
| Murphy Brown | 4 | Yes | |
| Quantum Leap | 4 | Yes | Cable syndication on USA Network. |
| Roseanne | 4 | Yes | |
| Unsolved Mysteries | 4 | Yes | Cable syndication on Lifetime. |
| The Young Riders | 3 | No | Cable syndication on The Family Channel. |
| The Wonder Years | 5 | Yes | |

### Changes of network affiliation

The following shows aired new episodes on a different network than previous first-run episodes:
| Show | Moved from | Moved to |
| Monday Night Baseball | ABC | ESPN |
| Hi Honey, I'm Home! | ABC | Nick at Nite |
| Davis Rules | ABC | CBS |
| In the Heat of the Night | NBC | CBS |
| Matlock | NBC | ABC |
| Tiny Toon Adventures | Syndication | Fox Kids |
| The Ben Stiller Show | MTV | Fox |

### Made-for-TV movies and miniseries

| Premiere date | Title | Channel |
| March 16 | Doing Time on Maple Drive | Fox |
| March 23 | Broadway Bound | ABC |
| May 3 | Day-O | NBC |
| May 31 | Still Not Quite Human | Disney Channel |
| September 27 | Obsessed | ABC |
| November 15–18 | The Jacksons: An American Dream | ABC |
| November 27 | Saved by the Bell: Hawaiian Style | NBC |
| December 6 | The Man Upstairs | CBS |
| December 6 | To Grandmother's House We Go | ABC |
| December 13 | Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After | ABC |
| December 26–27 | Lincoln | ABC |

## Networks and services
### Launches

| Network | Type | Launch date | Notes |
| CNN Checkout Channel | Satellite television | February 20 | |
| New England Cable News | Cable television | March 2 | |
| Flix | Cable television | August 1 | |
| VISN/ACTS | Cable television | September | |
| MOR Music TV | Cable television | September 1 | |
| NY1 | Cable television | September 8 | |
| Sci-Fi Channel | Cable television | September 24 | The Sci-Fi Channel launches with a broadcast of Star Wars. |
| Cartoon Network | Cable television | October 1 | The Merrie Melodies short, Rhapsody Rabbit, was the very first cartoon to be broadcast on the network. |

### Closures

| Network | Type | End date | Notes | Sources |
| SportsChannel Los Angeles | Cable and satellite | December 31 | | |

## Television stations
### Sign-ons

| Date | City of License/Market | Station | Channel | Affiliation | Notes/Ref. |
| January | Lafayette, Louisiana | W40AV | 40 | Independent | |
| January 1 | Flagstaff, Arizona | KKTM | 13 | Independent | |
| January 18 | Twin Falls, Idaho | KIPT | 13 | PBS | Part of Idaho Public Television |
| February 21 | Bristol, Virginia (Tri-Cities, TN/VA) | W56CT | 56 | America One | |
| February 22 | Bullhead City, Arizona | K25HD | 25 | Cornerstone TV | |
| April 20 | Fairbanks, Alaska | K07UU | 7 | Fox | |
| May 11 | Ellendale, North Dakota | KJRE | 19 | PBS | Part of Prairie Public Television |
| June 30 | Greenville, North Carolina (New Bern/Washington, North Carolina) | WYDO | 14 | Fox | |
| April 2 | Providence, Rhode Island | WOST-TV | 69 | Independent | |
| April 3 | Springfield, Missouri | K08LX | 8 | Classified ads The Box | |
| April 9 | Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan | WFUP | 45 | Fox | Satellite of WFQX/Traverse City |
| May 6 | Fresno, California | KKAK | 61 | Independent | |
| July 1 | Tucson, Arizona | KHRR | 40 | Telemundo | |
| July 8 | Rocky Mount, North Carolina (Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina) | WRMY | 47 | Independent | |
| August 3 | Omaha, Nebraska | K65FL | 65 | HSN | |
| August 13 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | WGTW-TV | 48 | Independent | |
| August 16 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | W07CB | 7 | Channel America / Family Net | |
| September 11 | Fresno, California | KGMC | 43 | The Box | |
| September 24 | Utica, New York | W27BJ | 27 | Cornerstone Television | |
| September 24 | Hendersonville/Nashville, Tennessee | WPGD-TV | 50 | TBN | |
| October 5 | Charleston, South Carolina | WCTP | 36 | Independent | |
| October 12 | McAllen, Texas (Brownsville/Harlingen, Texas, United States/Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico) | KNVO | 48 | Univision | |
| October 15 | Miami, Florida | WMLB-TV | 35 | Independent | |
| November 1 | Indio/Palm Springs, California | K40DB | 40 | CBS | Translator of KECY/El Centro |
| November 1 | Medford, Oregon | K49DH | 49 | Main Street TV HomeNet | |
| December 12 | Longview/Tyler, Texas | K10NT | 10 | Inspiration Channel | Now KLGV-LD channel 38 |
| Unknown date | Abilene, Texas | K54DT | 54 | Fox | |
| Unknown date | Bozeman, Montana | KDBZ-CD | 42 | NBC | Translator of KTVM |
| Unknown date | Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands | WBIV-LP | 38 | Independent | |
| Unknown date | Colorado Springs, Colorado | K51CE | 51 | LeSEA | |
| Unknown date | Lafayette, Louisiana | K46DG | 46 | Channel America | |
| Unknown date | Madison, Wisconsin | W08CK | 8 | Independent | |
| Unknown date | Wichita, Kansas | K55FS | 55 | Independent | |

### Network affiliation changes

| Date | City of License/Market | Station | Channel | Old affiliation | New affiliation |
| February 24 | Marquette, Michigan | WJMN-TV | 3 | ABC | CBS |
| February 24 | Marquette, Michigan | WLUC-TV | 6 | CBS | ABC |
| March 15 | Green Bay, Wisconsin | WBAY-TV | 2 | CBS | ABC |
| March 15 | Green Bay, Wisconsin | WFRV-TV | 5 | ABC | CBS |
| April 1 | Bowling Green, Kentucky | WKNT (recalled from WQQB) | 40 | Independent | Fox |
| Unknown date | Auburn, Indiana | W07CL | 7 | Main Street TV | Network One |

## Births

| Date | Name | Notability |
| January 1 | Aaron James Murphy | Actor |
| January 17 | Nate Hartley | Actor (Zeke and Luther) |
| January 19 | Logan Lerman | Actor (Jack & Bobby) |
| January 19 | Mac Miller | Rapper, reality television star (Mac Miller and the Most Dope Family). Performed on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Today, Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore (d. 2018) |
| January 22 | James Newman | Actor |
| January 26 | Mercedes Moné | Actress (The Mandalorian) and pro wrestler |
| January 31 | Colby Minifie | Actress |
| February 1 | Kelli Goss | Actress (Big Time Rush, The Young and the Restless, The Ranch) |
| February 6 | Dylan Efron | Actor |
| February 8 | Karle Warren | Actress (Judging Amy) |
| February 9 | Avan Jogia | Canadian actor (Victorious, Twisted) |
| February 10 | Lexi Atkins | Actress |
| February 10 | Karen Fukuhara | Actress (Craig of the Creek, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, The Boys) |
| February 11 | Taylor Lautner | Actor (Danny Phantom, Cuckoo, Scream Queens, The Twilight Saga) |
| February 14 | Freddie Highmore | Actor (Bates Motel, The Good Doctor) |
| February 15 | Greer Grammer | Actress (Awkward.) and daughter of Kelsey Grammer |
| February 17 | Meaghan Martin | Actress (10 Things I Hate About You, Awkward.) and singer |
| February 17 | Laivan Greene | Actress (All of Us) |
| February 17 | Ziwe Fumudoh | Writer |
| February 18 | Logan Miller | Actor (I'm in the Band, Ultimate Spider-Man) |
| February 18 | Melinda Shankar | Canadian actress |
| February 18 | Juliana Canfield | Actress |
| February 18 | Jacqueline Toboni | Actress |
| February 19 | Kaili Thorne | Actress |
| February 19 | Camille Kostek | Actress |
| February 19 | Paulina Gaitán | Actress |
| February 26 | Toby Sebastian | Actor |
| February 28 | Annie Bovaird | Canadian voice actress (Caillou) |
| February 29 | Caitlin EJ Meyer | Actress |
| February 29 | James Cullen Bressack | Film producer |
| February 29 | Majesty Rose | Singer |
| February 29 | Jessie T. Usher | Actor (Level Up, The Boys) |
| March 2 | Maisie Richardson-Sellers | English actress (Legends of Tomorrow, Of Kings and Prophets) |
| March 7 | Justin Kelly | Canadian actress |
| March 9 | Luis Armand Garcia | Actor (George Lopez) |
| March 10 | Emily Osment | Actress (Hannah Montana, Cleaners, Young & Hungry, Mom, Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil, Family Guy) |
| March 11 | Austin Swift | Actor |
| March 13 | Kaya Scodelario | English actress (Skins) |
| March 14 | Kailyn Lowry | TV personality |
| March 15 | Anna Shaffer | English actress (Harry Potter) |
| March 15 | Sosie Bacon | Actress |
| March 16 | Brett Davern | Actress (Cold Case, Awkward) |
| March 17 | John Boyega | Actor |
| March 23 | Vanessa Morgan | Canadian actress |
| March 25 | Elizabeth Lail | Actress (Once Upon a Time, Dead of Summer) |
| March 26 | Haley Ramm | Actress (Without a Trace, Chasing Life) |
| March 28 | Daisy Bevan | Actress |
| March 30 | Caitlin Carver | Actress (The Fosters) |
| April 4 | Alexa Nikolas | Actress (Zoey 101, The Walking Dead) |
| April 8 | Shelby Young | Actress (Days of Our Lives) |
| April 10 | Daisy Ridley | British actress |
| April 13 | Emma Degerstedt | Actress (Unfabulous) |
| April 18 | Chloe Bennet | Actress (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) |
| April 19 | James Scully | Actor |
| April 24 | Doc Shaw | Actor (Tyler Perry's House of Payne, The Suite Life on Deck, Pair of Kings) |
| April 24 | Joe Keery | Actor (Stranger Things) |
| April 24 | Jack Quaid | Actor (The Boys, My Adventures with Superman, Star Trek: Lower Decks, Harvey Girls Forever!) |
| April 28 | Catherine Wayne | Actress |
| May 4 | Courtney Jines | Actress |
| May 4 | Grace Phipps | Actress (The Nine Lives of Chloe King, The Vampire Diaries, Baby Daddy, Scream Queens, Z Nation) and singer |
| May 4 | Ashley Rickards | Actress (One Tree Hill, Awkward, The Flash) |
| May 7 | Alexander Ludwig | Canadian actor (Vikings) |
| May 8 | Ana Mulvoy-Ten | English actress (House of Anubis) |
| May 8 | Olivia Culpo | Actress |
| May 12 | Ali Sepasyar | Actor (Dude, What Would Happen) |
| May 12 | Malcolm David Kelley | Actor (Lost) and rapper |
| May 15 | Clark Beckham | Singer (American Idol) |
| May 18 | Spencer Breslin | Actor (Teamo Supremo, Center of the Universe) |
| May 19 | Sam Smith | English singer |
| May 20 | Jack Gleeson | Irish actor (Game of Thrones) |
| May 20 | Enes Kanter | Basketball player |
| May 21 | Hutch Dano | Actor (Zeke and Luther) |
| May 21 | Olivia Olson | Voice actress (Phineas and Ferb, Adventure Time, The Powerpuff Girls) |
| May 24 | Travis T. Flory | Actor (Everybody Hates Chris) |
| May 29 | Gregg Sulkin | British actor (Wizards of Waverly Place, Faking It, Runaways) |
| June 3 | Jade Cargill | Pro wrestler |
| June 4 | Lux Pascal | Actress |
| June 6 | DeAndre Hopkins | Football player |
| June 7 | Sara Lee | Contestant and winner of WWE Tough Enough (died 2022) |
| June 10 | Kate Upton | Actress and model |
| June 11 | Eugene Simon | English actor (House of Anubis) |
| June 12 | Allie DiMeco | Actress (The Naked Brothers Band) |
| June 12 | Ryan Malgarini | Actor (Gary Unmarried) |
| June 14 | Daryl Sabara | Actor (Weeds, Wizards of Waverly Place, Generator Rex, Ultimate Spider-Man, Ben 10) |
| June 21 | Max Schneider | Actor (How to Rock) |
| June 23 | Kate Melton | Actress (Scooby-Doo) |
| June 24 | Raven Goodwin | Actress (Just Jordan, Good Luck Charlie) |
| June 26 | Jennette McCurdy | Actress (iCarly, Sam & Cat, Between) |
| July 3 | Nathalia Ramos | Spanish actress (House of Anubis) |
| July 5 | Ellen Tamaki | Actress |
| July 7 | Toni Garrn | German model |
| July 13 | Dylan Patton | Actor (Days of Our Lives) |
| July 17 | Billie Lourd | Actress (Scream Queens) and daughter of Carrie Fisher |
| July 17 | Harrison Chad | Voice actor (Dora the Explorer, Little Einsteins) |
| July 20 | Jordan Rodrigues | Australian actor (Dance Academy, The Fosters) |
| July 20 | Paige Hurd | Actress |
| July 22 | Selena Gomez | Actress (Barney & Friends, Hannah Montana, Wizards of Waverly Place) and singer |
| July 28 | Spencer Boldman | Actor (Lab Rats) |
| August 2 | Hallie Eisenberg | Actress (Pepsi commercials) |
| August 2 | Jelani Alladin | Actor |
| August 3 | Karlie Kloss | Model |
| August 4 | Dylan Sprouse | Actors (Grace Under Fire, Friends, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, The Suite Life on Deck, Riverdale) |
| August 4 | Cole Sprouse | Actors (Grace Under Fire, Friends, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, The Suite Life on Deck, Riverdale) |
| August 8 | Casey Cott | Actor (Riverdale) |
| August 9 | Burkely Duffield | Canadian actor (House of Anubis) |
| August 11 | Tomi Lahren | Host |
| August 12 | Cara Delevingne | English actress, model |
| August 20 | Demi Lovato | Actress (Barney & Friends, As the Bell Rings, Sonny with a Chance, Glee, The X Factor) and singer |
| August 20 | Alex Newell | Actor (Glee) and singer |
| August 21 | Brad Kavanagh | Actor (House of Anubis) |
| August 21 | RJ Mitte | Actor |
| August 22 | Ari Stidham | Actor (Scorpion) |
| August 22 | Erin Unger | Actress |
| August 27 | Blake Jenner | Actor (Glee) |
| August 31 | Talon Warburton | Actor |
| September 12 | Alexia Fast | Actress |
| September 16 | Nick Jonas | Actor (Jonas, Scream Queens) and singer (Jonas Brothers) |
| September 22 | Lauren Patten | Actress |
| September 27 | Sam Lerner | Actor (The Secret Saturdays, Suburgatory, The Goldbergs, Trolls: The Beat Goes On!) |
| September 27 | Jake Burbage | Actor (Dora the Explorer, Grounded for Life) |
| September 28 | Keir Gilchrist | Actor (United States of Tara) |
| September 28 | Skye McCole Bartusiak | Actress (died 2014) |
| September 30 | Ezra Miller | Actor |
| October 1 | Christopher O'Shea | Actor |
| October 6 | Rhyon Nicole Brown | Actress |
| October 9 | Tyler James Williams | Actor (Everybody Hates Chris, Abbott Elementary, Batman: The Brave and the Bold) |
| October 11 | Cardi B | Rapper |
| October 12 | Josh Hutcherson | Actor |
| October 15 | Vincent Martella | Actor (Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Everybody Hates Chris, Phineas and Ferb, Milo Murphy's Law) |
| October 17 | Jacob Artist | Actor (Glee) |
| October 18 | Barry Keoghan | Actor |
| October 19 | Taylor Masamitsu | Voice actor (Eubie on Higglytown Heroes) |
| October 22 | Sofia Vassilieva | Actress (Medium) |
| October 26 | Beulah Koale | Actor |
| October 27 | Charles Cottier | Australian actor (Home and Away) |
| October 28 | Lexi Ainsworth | Actress (General Hospital) |
| October 30 | Tequan Richmond | Actor (Everybody Hates Chris, General Hospital) and rapper |
| October 31 | Vanessa Marano | Actress (The Young and the Restless, Scoundrels, Switched at Birth) |
| November 2 | London Elise Moore | Actress |
| November 4 | Jessa Duggar Seewald | Actress (19 Kids and Counting, Counting On) and television personality |
| November 7 | Christopher Tavarez | Actor |
| November 7 | Andrea Londo | Actress |
| November 12 | Macey Cruthird | Actress (Hope & Faith, Two and a Half Men) |
| November 18 | John Karna | Actor (Scream Valley of the Boom) |
| November 18 | Nathan Kress | Actor (iCarly, Star Wars Rebels, Pinky Malinky) |
| November 23 | Miley Cyrus | Actress (Hannah Montana, The Emperor's New School), singer and daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus |
| November 25 | Zack Shada | Actor |
| November 28 | Adam Hicks | Actor (Titus, Zeke and Luther, Jonas, Pair of Kings, Texas Rising, Freakish) |
| November 28 | Cameron Ansell | Canadian voice actor (The Save-Ums!, Arthur, Time Warp Trio) |
| December 14 | Tori Kelly | American singer |
| December 18 | Bridgit Mendler | Actress (Wizards of Waverly Place, Good Luck Charlie, Undateable) and singer |
| December 23 | Spencer Daniels | Actor (Mom) |
| December 25 | Rachel Keller | Actress (Fargo) |
| December 30 | Michael Eric Reid | Actor (Victorious) |

## Deaths

| Date | Name | Age | Notability |
| January 7 | Richard Hunt | 40 | Puppeteer (The Muppet Show) |
| January 26 | José Ferrer | 80 | Actor (Newhart recurring role) |
| February 2 | Bert Parks | 77 | Longtime host of the Miss America beauty pageant |
| February 20 | Dick York | 63 | Actor (the 1st Darren Stephens on Bewitched) |
| March 6 | Hugh Gibb | 76 | English drummer and bandleader |
| March 25 | Nancy Walker | 69 | Actress (Ida on Rhoda, Rosie the Bounty lady) |
| April 10 | Sam Kinison | 38 | Comedian and actor (Charlie Hoover) |
| May 12 | Robert Reed | 59 | Actor (Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch) |
| May 17 | Lawrence Welk | 89 | Accordionist and bandleader (The Lawrence Welk Show) |
| June 6 | Larry Riley | 38 | Actor (Knots Landing) |
| June 15 | Chuck Menville | 52 | Animator and writer (The Smurfs) |
| June 22 | Chuck Mitchell | 64 | Actor (General Hospital) |
| July 9 | Eric Sevareid | 79 | News commentator |
| October 16 | Shirley Booth | 94 | Actress (Hazel) |
| October 22 | Cleavon Little | 53 | Actor (Temperatures Rising) |
| November 7 | Jack Kelly | 65 | Actor (Bart Maverick on Maverick) |
| November 10 | Chuck Connors | 71 | Actor (Lucas McCain on The Rifleman) |
| November 22 | Sterling Holloway | 87 | Actor (original voice of Winnie-the-Pooh) |
| December 18 | Mark Goodson | 77 | Producer of game shows (Match Game, Blockbusters, The Price Is Right) |
| December 24 | Peyo | 64 | Also known as "Peyo"; Belgian creator of (The Smurfs) |