2008 in American television

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The following is a list of events affecting American television in 2008. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and new channel launches.

Contents

Events

January

Date Event
1 CourtTV is rebranded as TruTV.
2 An interim agreement between Worldwide Pants Incorporated and the Writers Guild of America allows The Late Show with David Letterman and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson to return with their full writing staffs, in spite of the ongoing WGA strike. By contrast, NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, and Last Call with Carson Daly and ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, which are all produced by their respective networks, went back on the air without writers (except for Jay Leno, who writes his own material).
7 Due to the writers strike, plans to hold the 65th Golden Globe Awards ceremony were scrapped. A press conference which announced the winners was substituted for the program.
23 Konnie Huq presents her last episode of Blue Peter after over ten years, having become the longest-running female presenter and third longest-running overall in the shows' 50 year history.

February

Date Event
2 VH1 Uno is discontinued by MTV Networks to expand distribution of mtvU beyond college campuses and onto regular cable systems.
3 Fox's telecast of Super Bowl XLII surpasses Super Bowl XXX as the most watched Super Bowl game on television (up to this point). It also becomes the second most watched television program trailing the 1983 M*A*S*H series finale and the highest rated telecast in Nielsen ratings since Super Bowl XXXIV.
8 The CW Television Network and the WWE announced that WWE Friday Night SmackDown would leave the CW prime time schedule at the end of the 2007–2008 season. The news stepped in after negotiations between the CW and WWE failed to reach a deal to keep the show on the CW lineup. Three weeks later on February 26, MyNetworkTV announced that they would pick up the program and would add it to its lineup in September.
9 Both the Writers Guild of America and Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers reach a tentative deal resolving the strike. Members vote three days later to end the strike.
17 The conversion of NTSC analog channels to DT channels using the ATSC system begins in the United States, with TV stations making last minute filings and their intentions about when they will start their switchover ahead of the February 17, 2009, mandatory date. Also, the US government starts mailing out (USD)$40.00 coupons/rebates to consumers to use in buying DTV converters before the switchover.

And in a 2 Hour TV Movie- Knight Rider returned to NBC with a new KITT being portrayed as a black 2008 Ford Shelby GT500KR Mustang- and voiced by acting legend, Val Kilmer.

18 Nickelodeon celebrates the revival of its hit show The Fairly OddParents with the TV movie Fairly OddBaby. This has been the first new episode since 2006.
24 ABC's telecast of the 80th Academy Awards draws record low ratings in the history of the ceremony's telecast surpassing the ratings from the ceremony that took place in 2003. 31.76 million on average watched the show over its entire run with a Nielsen rating of 18.66 households watching.

March

Date Event
7 Press Your Luck's own Michael Hanes wins $1,127,062 on The Price is Right.
12 The USA T.V. website Hulu goes live today.
26 CBS soap The Young and the Restless celebrates its 35th Anniversary.

April

Date Event
1 ABC soap General Hospital celebrates its 45th Anniversary.
28 The WB Television Network, a former television channel launches again as an online website only.

May

Date Event
11 Former model Parvati Shallow was announced the winner of Survivor: Micronesia. It was also announced that the next season will be filmed in high definition.
16 The Wilmington, North Carolina television market is selected by the FCC to be the first television market in the United States to sign off their analog channels for ATSC early, starting September 8.
21 David Cook is selected as the winner of seventh season of American Idol.
24 After over thirteen years, Kids' WB! ceases airing and becomes The CW4Kids. Kids' WB! would later launch again as an online website only on the same day.

June

Date Event
1 A large fire damages portions of Universal Studios Hollywood near Los Angeles.
17 The third season premiere of NBC's America's Got Talent.
19 Big Ten Network and Comcast announced a carriage agreement deal. The channel was added to Comcast on August 15.
28 The premiere of the very first episode of Saturday Night Live was reaired following the death of its very first host and comedian George Carlin who died 6 days earlier on June 22.

July

Date Event
7 The Jewelry Channel, a US home shopping service that was shown mostly on DirecTV and Dish Network, launches a going-out-of-business sale for its remaining items that was shown on the channel that would last until December 1. From December 1 onwards, TJC is now doing business as "The Liquidation Channel".
21 MGM Television and Weigel Broadcasting announce the launching of a new DT2 subchannel in the United States called This TV.

August

Date Event
1 Fox affiliate XETV/Tijuana and CW affiliate KSWB-TV/San Diego switch network affiliations: KSWB to Fox, XETV to The CW.
7 The Florence/Myrtle Beach, South Carolina television market gets its own NBC affiliate, WMBF-TV.
8 After 50 years of being served by WTAE-TV/Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, CBS affiliate WTRF/Wheeling, West Virginia (covering the Wheeling-Stubenville TV market) and sister station WBOY-TV/Clarksburg, West Virginia (an NBC affiliate covering the Clarksburg-Fairmont TV market) add ABC to their DT2 subchannels. Both stations had been ABC secondary affiliates in the past.
28 ESPNU launches its HD version to only five American cable television or satellite carriers.[1]
Big Ten Network reached carriage deal agreements with Time Warner Cable, Charter Communications, Brighthouse Networks, Mediacom and Cox Communications, ending the "cable carriage controversies" that the network had in its first year of existence. The network is now on all major cable TV systems in The Big Ten Region.

September

Date Event
1 Music: High Definition (MHD) is renamed Palladia.
5 Stand Up to Cancer, an event designed to raise cancer awareness, airs on ABC, CBS, NBC and E! in the United States, and on CTV, Citytv and Global in Canada.
8 The Wilmington, North Carolina television market officially becomes the first TV market in the United States to have all of its stations broadcast exclusively in digital, using the ATSC system.
15 WTMJ-TV/Milwaukee, Wisconsin drops all of its syndicated shows, featuring a lineup that consists of local news (including a four-hour afternoon news block from 3 to 7 pm, a first in the United States Central Time Zone) and NBC programming.
20 After an 11-year run on the Cartoon Network, the action-adventure block, Toonami, has been cancelled, effective 11 pm EST.
21 60th Primetime Emmy Awards broadcasts on ABC.

October

Date Event
7 NBC announces that NBC Weather Plus would sign off at the end of the year
17 United States Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota 6th) makes headlines when she asks for an investigation into whether of members of the United States Congress are anti-American during a live interview on Hardball with Chris Matthews.
24 Barack Obama airs a 30-minute infomercial that airs on CBS, NBC, Fox, BET, Univision, MSNBC and TV One. The infomercial is seen by 33.6 million viewers.

November

Date Event
4 CNN becomes the first channel in the history to use hologram technology on television, during the 2008 United States Presidential Election. CNN's Jessica Yellin became the first person ever to be transmitted via hologram, followed by Will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas.[2]
19 Flint, Michigan PBS affiliate WFUM-TV (a.k.a. Michigan Television) permanently turned off its analog signal and is now broadcasting exclusively in digital, 9 months before the federally mandated analog shut off date of June 12, 2009, becoming the first station in its market, as well as the first PBS station in Michigan, to broadcast in digital only.[3][4]
20 The CW announces that it has terminated its Sunday Night deal with Media Rights Capital

December

Date Event
1 WBQC-CA/Cincinnati, Ohio asks the FCC permission to change its callsign to WKRP in honor of the television series that was set in the city.
4 For the first time ever, a live music special is used to announce the nominees for the 51st Grammy Awards.
8 HD versions of American cable channels The Style Network, E! Entertainment Television and G4 were scheduled to launch, but did not launch, leaving many people with unanswered questions. Golf Channel and Versus are identified as their own separate HD versions instead (as 12/8/08, they no longer share HD channel space, they now broadcast 2 separate HD programs at the same time).[5]
The Tribune Company, owners of WGN-TV/Chicago and KTLA/Los Angeles, among other properties, files for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
27 After over 18 years, Fox drops children's programming. Its final children's programming block, 4Kids TV, goes off the air, and 4Kids Entertainment directs its programming to The CW4Kids. 4Kids TV would later launch as an online-only website on the same day.
31 Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks announce they are no longer carrying Viacom channels unless they come to an agreement with Viacom, and they did.
NBC Weather Plus is acquired and replaced by The Weather Channel.

Debuts (including scheduled)

Date Debut
January 5 Transformers: Animated on Cartoon Network
January 9 Ghost Hunters International on Sci Fi Channel
January 13 Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles on Fox
January 20 Breaking Bad on AMC
January 22 The Guard on Global
January 23 The Moment of Truth on Fox
January 28 In Treatment on HBO
January 31 Eli Stone on ABC
February 4 The Mr. Men Show on Cartoon Network
February 4 Welcome to The Captain on CBS
February 7 Ashes to Ashes on BBC One
February 7 Lipstick Jungle on NBC
February 7 Ni Hao, Kai-Lan on Nickelodeon
February 7 Survivor: Micronesia on CBS
February 18 Power Rangers: Jungle Fury on Toon Disney/Jetix
March 2 Unhitched on Fox
March 4 New Amsterdam on Fox
March 7 Kid vs Kat on Cartoon Network
March 8 The Spectacular Spider-Man on The CW
March 10 Canterbury's Law on Fox
March 14 The Return of Jezebel James on Fox
March 16 John Adams on HBO
March 18 Miss/Guided on ABC
March 30 Tracey Ullman's State of the Union on Showtime
April 12 Groomer Has It on Animal Planet
April 18 Ben 10: Alien Force on Cartoon Network
April 22 The Big Green Help on Nickelodeon
April 22 A Shot at Love 2 with Tila Tequila on MTV
April 26 The Mighty B! on Nickelodeon
April 30 Farmer Wants a Wife on The CW
May 24 Denise Richards: It's Complicated on E!
May 24 Living Lohan on E!
June 1 Million Dollar Password on CBS
June 5 Big Brother 9 on channel 4.
June 5 The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack on Cartoon Network
June 5 Swingtown on CBS
June 24 I Survived a Japanese Game Show on ABC
June 24 Wipeout on ABC
July 1 The Secret Life of the American Teenager on ABC Family
July 11 Queen Bees on The N
July 11 Flashpoint on CBS
July 13 Generation Kill on HBO
July 14 The Wendy Williams Show on Syndication
July 15 Must Love Kids on TLC
July 29 Jurassic Fight Club on History Channel
August 3 Pam: Girl on the Loose! on E!
August 15 Outsider's Inn on CMT
August 21 The Principal's Office on truTV
September 1 Raising the Bar on TNT
September 2 90210 on The CW
September 3 Sons of Anarchy on FX
September 7 True Blood on HBO
September 8 The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC
September 8 Family Court With Judge Penny in syndication (US and Canada)
September 8 The Doctors in syndication (US and Canada)
September 9 Privileged on The CW
September 9 Fringe on Fox
September 10 Do Not Disturb on Fox
September 13 Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's on The CW4Kids
September 15 My Family's Got GUTS on Nickelodeon
September 18 Survivor: Gabon on CBS
September 21 In Harm's Way on The CW
September 21 Valentine on The CW
September 21 Easy Money on The CW
September 22 Worst Week on CBS
September 23 Opportunity Knocks on ABC
September 23 The Mentalist on CBS
September 24 Gary Unmarried on CBS
September 24 Knight Rider on NBC
September 25 Life on Mars on ABC
September 26 The Suite Life on Deck on Disney Channel
September 28 Little Britain USA on HBO
September 29 My Own Worst Enemy on NBC
September 30 Paris Hilton's My New BFF on MTV
October 3 The Ex-List on CBS
October 3 The Secret Saturdays on Cartoon Network.
October 3 Star Wars: The Clone Wars on Cartoon Network
October 3 Sanctuary on SCI FI
October 4 Making Fiends on Nicktoons Network
October 7 The Real Housewives of Atlanta on Bravo
October 9 Kath & Kim on NBC
October 9 Eleventh Hour on CBS
October 9 SNL Thursday Night Live on NBC
October 9 Testees on FX
October 13 Unsolved Mysteries on Spike
October 17 Crash on Starz
October 17 Crusoe on NBC
October 22 Stylista on The CW
October 23 6teen on Cartoon Network
October 25 D.L. Hughley Breaks the News on CNN
October 27 Dead Set on E4
November 14 Batman: The Brave and the Bold on Cartoon Network
November 28 The Penguins of Madagascar on Nickelodeon
December 7 Leverage on TNT
December 29 The City on MTV

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* = Was supposed to air its seventh season on January 13, but because of the WGA strike, it was postponed to January 11, 2009.

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Television movies (including scheduled)

Debut Name Network Director Starring
January 25 Minutemen Disney Channel Lev L. Spiro Jason Dolley, Chelsea Staub, J.P. Manoux
March 16 The Cutting Edge 3: Chasing the Dream ABC Family Stuart Gillard Matt Lanter, Francia Raisa
April 20 Princess ABC Family Mark Rosman Nora Zehetner, Kip Pardue
June 8 The Circuit ABC Family Billy Campbell and Michelle Trachtenberg
June 20 Camp Rock Disney Channel Matthew Diamond The Jonas Brothers, Demi Lovato, Meaghan Jette Martin
July 13 Picture This ABC Family Stephen Herek Ashley Tisdale and Robbie Amell
August 22 The Cheetah Girls: One World Disney Channel Paul Hoen The Cheetah Girls
September Samurai Girl ABC Family
September 12 Gym Teacher: The Movie Nickelodeon Paul Dinello Nathan Kress, Christopher Meloni, Amy Sedaris and David Alan Grier
October 18 Living Proof Lifetime Dan Ireland a.o. Harry Connick, Jr., Amanda Bynes, Bernadette Peters
Fall Happy Campers ABC Family Gil Junger Kay Panabaker, French Stewart
Au Pair III ABC Family Mark Griffiths

Changes of Network Affiliation

Show Moved from Moved to
The Contender ESPN Versus
Emeril Live Food Network Fine Living
Friday Night Lights NBC The 101 Network
(later reair on NBC as of 1/2009)
Futurama Fox Comedy Central
High School Reunion The WB TV Land
Inside the NFL HBO Showtime
Jon & Kate Plus 8 Discovery Health TLC
Nashville Star USA NBC
One Piece Toonami Funimation Channel and [1]
Paradise Hotel Fox MyNetworkTV
World Poker Tour Travel Channel GSN
World Poker Tour GSN Fox Sports Net
WWE Friday Night SmackDown The CW MyNetworkTV
The Weakest Link BBC Two BBC One
Out of the Blue BBC One BBC Two
Neighbours BBC One Five
QI BBC Two BBC One
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Cartoon Network 4Kids TV
Viva Piñata 4Kids TV The CW4Kids
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 TV series) 4Kids TV The CW4Kids
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX 4Kids TV The CW4Kids
Dinosaur King 4Kids TV The CW4Kids
1st and 10 ESPN ESPN2

Returning this year

Show Network (Last Aired) Last aired Network (New/Returning) Returning
Paradise Hotel Fox 2003 MyNetworkTV February
The Bachelorette ABC 2005 ABC May
The Mole ABC 2004 ABC June

Ending this year

Date Show Debut
January 1 Mission: Man Band 2007
January 6 I Love New York 2007
January 7 Higglytown Heroes 2004
January 18 Game Head 2005
January 21 Codename: Kids Next Door 2002
January 23 Power of 10 2007
January 24 Big Shots 2007
January 27 Shorts in a Bunch 2007
January 28 Madre Luna 2007
January 30 Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants 2007
February 1 Star Jones 2007
February 3 Life Is Wild 2007
February 8 Flash Gordon 2007
February 11 Girlfriends 2000
February 11 Notes from the Underbelly 2007
February 15 Las Vegas 2003
February 20 Cashmere Mafia 2008
February 22 1 vs. 100 2006
February 23 Ultra Galaxy Mega Monster Battle 2007
February 24 CW Now 2007
February 29 About a Girl 2007
March 1 Eon Kid 2007
March 3 The Palace 2008
March 3 Welcome to The Captain 2008
March 4 Carpoolers 2007
March 8 Endurance 2002
March 8 The Batman 2004
March 9 Quarterlife 2008
March 9 The Wire 2002
March 10 October Road 2007
March 13 The NightCap 2008
March 14 Tucker 2005
March 15 Control Room Presents 2007
March 15 Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue! 2006
March 21 The Return of Jezebel James 2008
March 22 Tom and Jerry Tales 2006
March 23 Blood+ 2007
March 23 Frisky Dingo 2006
March 25 Jericho 2006
March 27 Camp Lazlo 2005
March 28 How Much Is Enough? 2008
March 28 In the Loop with iVillage 2006
March 29 The Mint 2007
March 30 Unhitched 2008
April 3 Miss Guided 2008
April 5 Legion of Super Heroes 2006
April 5 Just Jordan 2007
April 6 Here Come the Newlyweds 2008
April 7 My Dad Is Better Than Your Dad 2008
April 8 Secret Talents of the Stars 2008
April 11 Amnesia 2008
April 13 Dirt 2007
April 14 New Amsterdam 2008
April 15 Ben 10 2005
April 18 Canterbury's Law 2008
April 20 Oprah's Big Give 2008
April 23 Pussycat Dolls Present: 2007
April 28 High School Confidential 2008
April 29 The Riches 2007
May 2 Zoey 101 2005
May 9 Merv Griffin's Crosswords 2007
May 13 Beauty and the Geek 2005
May 13 Women's Murder Club 2007
May 14 Back to You 2007
May 15 Lil' Bush 2007
May 16 The Montel Williams Show 1991
May 16 Moonlight 2007
May 18 Aliens in America 2007
May 19 Paradise Hotel 2003
May 20 Shark 2006
May 25 Class of 3000 2006
May 26 Flavor of Love 2006
May 26 Wildfire 2005
May 29 Out of Jimmy's Head 2007
May 30 WWE Heat 1998
May 31 My Kid's a Star 2008
May 31 The Rich List 2007
June 5 HolbyBlue 2007
June 11 Men in Trees 2006
June 13 Pecados Ajenos 2007
June 13 Temptation 2007
June 14 World of Quest 2008
June 21 Dance on Sunset 2008
June 25 Farmer Wants a Wife 2008
June 30 Robson Arms 2005
July 4 Death Note 2007
July 4 Just In 2008
July 6 Assy McGee 2006
July 11 Dance Machine 2008
July 11 Duel 2007
July 19 Avatar: The Last Airbender 2005
July 29 Celebrity Family Feud 2008
August 4 American Gladiators 2008
August 7 Passions 1999
August 11 The Mole 2001
August 17 All Grown Up! 2003
August 17 Code Monkeys 2007
August 17 Fat Guy Stuck in Internet 2007
August 22 Richard & Judy 2001
August 23 ChalkZone 2002
September 1 The Suite Life of Zack & Cody 2005
September 5 Judge Maria Lopez 2006
September 5 Northwest Afternoon 1984
September 5 Swingtown 2008
September 13 El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera 2007
September 15 Grange Hill 1978
September 17 Wayside 2007
September 20 Kappa Mikey 2006
September 20 Toonami 1997
September 23 E!'s Pam: Girl on the Loose! 2008
September 24 Do Not Disturb 2008
September 27 My Family's Got GUTS 2008
October 2 MTV's Top Pop Group 2008
October 11 Tutenstein 2003
October 21 General Hospital: Night Shift 2007
October 21 The Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency 2006
October 24 The Ex List 2008
October 25 America's Toughest Jobs 2008
October 25 Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion 2008
October 26 In Harm's Way 2008
October 29 Rap City 1989
November 1 Digimon Data Squad 2007
November 1 Making Fiends 2008
November 3 Power Rangers: Jungle Fury 2008
November 16 Total Request Live 1998
November 20 The Emperor's New School 2006
November 25 The Shield 2002
November 27 My Gym Partner's a Monkey 2005
November 29 Tak and the Power of Juju 2007
December 8 Boston Legal 2004
December 12 South of Nowhere 2005
December 15 My Own Worst Enemy 2008
December 17 Stylista 2008
December 18 Moral Orel 2005

Deaths

Date Name Age Notability
January 6 Bob LeMond 94 Radio and TV announcer (Ozzie and Harriet, Leave it to Beaver)
January 16 Allan Melvin 84 Actor (Magilla Gorilla, The Brady Bunch, All in the Family)
January 18 Lois Nettleton 80 Actress (In the Heat of the Night)
January 19 Suzanne Pleshette 70 Actress (The Bob Newhart Show)
January 25 Jahna Steele 49 Transgendered entertainer (Was "outed" on A Current Affair in 1992 and made a guest starring role on NYPD Blue in 1995)
February 1 Shell Kepler 49 Actress and presenter (General Hospital, HSN host)
February 4 Augusta Dabney 89 Actress (Another World, A World Apart, Loving)
February 7 John McWethy 61 News reporter/journalist (ABC News correspondent from 1979 to 2006; Was inside the Pentagon when it was struck by the hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 during the September 11, 2001 attacks)
February 10 Ron Leavitt 60 writer and producer (Happy Days, Married with Children)
February 10 Roy Scheider 75 Actor (seaQuest)
February 12 David Groh 68 Actor (Rhoda)
February 14 Bill Currie 85 Sportscaster/commentator for KDKA-TV/Pittsburgh from 1970 to 1981
February 16 Steve Gerber 60 Illustrator/animator (Thundarr The Barbarian)
February 16 Perry Lopez 78 Character actor (Star Trek)
February 19 Claude "Grits" Gresham 85 Outdoor sportscaster (The American Sportsman)
February 27 William F. Buckley, Jr. 82 Host and commentator (Firing Line)
February 27 Myron Cope 79 Sportscaster at WTAE/Pittsburgh and color commentator for the Pittsburgh Steelers broadcasts
February 28 Dick Fletcher 66 Weathercaster/meteorologist at WTSP/St. Petersburg-Tampa, Florida
March 16 Ivan Dixon 76 Actor, producer and director (Hogan's Heroes)
April 5 Charlton Heston 84 Actor (The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur, The Colbys)
April 8 Stanley Kamel 65 Actor (Monk)
May 1 Jim Hager 66 One half of the Hager Twins and a regular on Hee Haw
May 3 Beverlee McKinsey 67 Soap opera actress (Another World, Texas, Guiding Light)
May 11 Richard Towne "Dick" Sutcliffe 90 Christian children's' TV producer/animator (Davey and Goliath)
May 15 Alexander Courage 88 Composer (Star Trek theme song)
May 18 Joseph Pevney 96 Actor (Bonanza)
May 24 Dick Martin 86 Comedian and director (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In)
May 25 Earle Hagen 88 Music composer/musician (The Andy Griffith Show)
May 25 Mitch Mullany 39 Actor (Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher)
May 27 Sydney Pollack 73 Producer/director and actor (The Fugitive, Will & Grace, The Sopranos and host of The Essentials on Turner Classic Movies)
May 29 Harvey Korman 81 Actor/comedian (The Carol Burnett Show, The Flintstones)
June 2 Mel Ferrer 90 Actor, producer and director (Falcon Crest, Return of the Saint)
June 7 Jim McKay 87 Sportscaster, journalist, narrator, and commentator for ABC, CBS and NBC Sports
June 13 Tim Russert 58 Journalist for NBC News and host of Meet the Press from 1991 to 2008
June 13 Charlie Jones 77 Sportscaster for NBC and ABC Sports; Play-by-play TV announcer for AFL and NFL games
June 14 Neil MacNeil 85 Journalist (Washington Week in Review)
June 16 Tony Schwartz 85 Sound archivist/ad executive and creator of Barry Goldwater's 1964 "Daisy" political ad
June 17 Cyd Charisse 86 Actress, singer and dancer (The Love Boat, Frasier, Fantasy Island, Burke's Law)
June 21 Kermit Love 91 Puppeteer, costume designer, and TV actor (Sesame Street)
June 22 George Carlin 71 Actor, writer, director and comedian (The George Carlin Show, Shining Time Station)
June 22 Dody Goodman 93 Actress (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman)
June 29 Don S. Davis 65 Actor (Stargate SG-1, Twin Peaks)
July 3 Larry Harmon 83 Entertainer (Bozo the Clown)
July 4 Jesse Helms 86 Congressman, senator and former television anchor/reporter/commentator for WRAL-TV/Raleigh, North Carolina
July 12 Tony Snow 53 Commentator (Fox News Sunday) and former White House Press Secretary.
July 17 Larry Haines 89 Actor (Search for Tomorrow)
July 21 Khia "K-Swift" Edgerton 29 Club radio DJ, Hip-Hop producer and remixer (The Wire, BET's Rap City)
July 22 Estelle Getty 84 Actress (The Golden Girls)
August 7 Bernie Brillstein 77 Producer and agent (Buffalo Bill, ALF, The Larry Sanders Show, NewsRadio)
August 8 John K. Cooley 81 Journalist and author (ABC News)
August 9 Bernie Mac 50 Actor and comedian (The Bernie Mac Show)
August 10 John Esmonde 71 British scriptwriter (The Good Life)
August 10 Isaac Hayes 65 Singer/songwriter and voiceover artist (South Park)
August 15 "Engineer Bill" Stulla 97 Children's TV show host ("Cartoon Express" on KHJ-TV/Los Angeles, California from 1954 to 1966)
August 19 Julius Carry 56 Actor (Doctor, Doctor, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.)
September 1 Don LaFontaine 68 Voiceover announcer (Entertainment Tonight)
September 2 Ike Pappas 75 News reporter (CBS News)
September 2 "Captain" Mike Ambrose 69 Weatherman at KGTV/San Diego, California
September 3 Jerry Reed 71 Actor and singer (The New Scooby-Doo Movies, The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour, The Concrete Cowboys, Hee Haw)
September 12 George Putnam 94 News personality
September 28 John Harden Norris 88 Former owner of WGCB-TV/Red Lion, Pennsylvania, whose former AM sister station was the center of a dispute over the Fairness Doctrine, one that he eventually lost, in 1964.
October 9 Lloyd Thaxton 81 Host and producer (The Lloyd Thaxton Show, Fight Back! With David Horowitz)
October 11 Neal Hefti 85 Theme music composer (Batman, The Odd Couple (Both the film and the TV series))
October 15 Jack Narz 85 Game show host (Beat the Clock, Concentration)
October 25 Anne Pressly 26 Anchorwoman and special assignment reporter for KATV/Little Rock, Arkansas
November 4 Michael Crichton 66 Author and screenwriter (ER)
November 7 Herb Score 75 Baseball player and TV/Radio play-by-play announcer for the Cleveland Indians
December 1 Paul Benedict 70 Character actor, writer and director (The Jeffersons, Sesame Street)
December 5 Beverly Garland 82 Actress, singer and businesswoman (My Three Sons, Scarecrow and Mrs. King)
December 8 Robert Prosky 77 Actor (Hill Street Blues)
December 11 Maddie Blaustein 48 Voice actress (Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Dinosaur King)
December 12 Van Johnson 92 Actor and singer (Batman, Here's Lucy, The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957 TV movie))
December 18 Majel Barrett 76 Actress (Star Trek: The Original Series)
December 25 Eartha Kitt 81 Actress, dancer and singer (Batman)


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