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The following is a list of events affecting American television in 2011. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel launches, closures and rebrandings, as well as information about controversies and carriage disputes.

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Noteworthy Events

January

Date Event
1 Discovery Health Channel leaves the air and becomes OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network, with the former Discovery Health programming split between OWN and FitTV.[1]
Antenna TV, a digital subchannel network owned by Tribune Broadcasting, makes its debut; the network, whose programming is dedicated to classic television series and films, launches mainly on stations owned-or-operated by Tribune and Local TV LLC.[2]
PBS member station KCET/Los Angeles becomes an independent public/educational station. KOCE-TV/Huntington Beach, a secondary PBS affiliate serving nearby Orange County, replaces KCET as the LA market's primary PBS member station, rebranding as PBS SoCal.[3]
Dish Network and Frontier Radio Management fail to reach a new carriage agreement, leaving Macon customers without both ABC and Fox, where both networks come from WGXA.[4]
DirecTV removes the stations of Northwest Broadcasting due to a carriage dispute.[5] The sides reach a temporary deal on February 1, in time for Super Bowl XLV.[6]
Comedy Central retires the skyscraper-and-globe-themed logo, which it used in one form or another since its 1991 debut, and adopts a new logo mark featuring two "C"'s (which resemble a copyright symbol), with one of them and the word "Central" turned upside-down.[7]
3 The Second Circuit Court of Appeals throws out a fine the FCC levied against ABC for a 2003 episode of NYPD Blue in which Charlotte Ross' character was viewed with a bare back.[8]
ESPN fires play-by-play announcer Ron Franklin for making derogatory remarks to colleague Jeannine Edwards during prep work for a December 31, 2010 telecast of the Chick-fil-A Bowl. Prior to the firing, Franklin was pulled from ESPN Radio's January 1 coverage of the Fiesta Bowl over the incident.[9]
7 History announces that its first scripted miniseries, The Kennedys, will not air on the network, with a spokesperson stating, "This dramatic interpretation is not a fit for the History brand."[10] The content of the 8-part multi-million dollar project (produced in Canada in partnership with History's Canadian counterpart, History Television) had been the source of controversy; various sources claimed inaccuracies in the script,[11][12][13] while the miniseries' director and production company countered that History officials gave approval on the final draft script and final cuts before dropping their broadcast plans.[14][15] The producers would then begin shopping the production around to other networks, and on February 1 reached a deal with ReelzChannel, which would air the miniseries in April (this after Showtime, Starz, FX, and Audience Network took a pass).[16][17]
Both Joan and Melissa Rivers announce that they will no longer do red carpet specials.[18]
15 After a lengthy dispute and two deadline extensions, Sinclair Broadcast Group and Time Warner Cable reach an agreement in principle to keep 28 Sinclair-owned-or-operated stations in 17 markets on Time Warner cable TV systems.[19] A more formal agreement would be announced on February 2, which includes plans for TWC to produce newscasts for Sinclair's ABC affiliate in the Greensboro market, WXLV-TV, beginning in 2012.[20]
17 Citing lack of air time, Marissa Jaret Winokur announces she will leave CBS' daytime series The Talk.[21]
Piers Morgan Tonight, the replacement for the long-running Larry King Live, debuts on CNN, with Oprah Winfrey as Morgan's first guest.[22]
18 Turner Broadcasting System announces it will turn over day-to-day control of its Atlanta station WPCH-TV to Meredith Corporation, who will operate the station through its WGCL-TV. Additionally, production for Atlanta Braves broadcasts on WPCH (45 per year) will be handled by cable rights-holders Fox Sports South and SportSouth, making 2011 the first Braves season since 1972 in which Turner Sports will not produce local Braves telecasts.[23][24]
After a lengthy review process, the FCC and Department of Justice approve (with conditions) Comcast's purchase of a controlling share of NBC Universal.[25] The deal officially closes before midnight on January 28, with Comcast owning 51% of NBCU and General Electric 49%.[26] GE completed a purchase of Vivendi's 12.3% share of NBCU on January 26.[27]
20 Houston PBS outlet KUHT announces that they will merge their operations with its FM sister station to become Houston Public Media.[28]
The American version of Skins premieres on MTV. The series' controversial content prompts the Parents Television Council to ask the show's producers be charged with child pornography and exploitation, alleging a violation of 18 USC 1466A.[29] The controversy also leads major advertisers to pull their advertising from the program, among them Taco Bell, Wrigley Company, General Motors, Subway, H&R Block and Schick.[30][31][32] MTV would cancel the show in June after one season.[33]
21 Countdown with Keith Olbermann airs for the final time on MSNBC after its titular host abruptly departs the network.[34]
25 U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his second State of the Union Address, which is followed by not one but two opposition responses: the official Republican Party rebuttal from Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin 1st) and a Tea Party response by Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota 6th). CNN is the only major network to carry Bachmann's response live, during which she does not speak directly to the TV camera.[35]
28 CBS announced that Two and a Half Men would go on a production hiatus after series star Charlie Sheen is admitted into a rehabilitation center, one day after his hospitalization for a hernia condition.[36]

February

Date Event
1 FitTV rebrands as Discovery Fit & Health, reflecting the migration of programming from the former Discovery Health Channel since that network's conversion to OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network exactly one month earlier.[37]
2 Several American reporters are attacked during the protests in Egypt: Anderson Cooper is kicked and punched, Katie Couric gets rocks thrown at her, and several others are harassed, held or beaten by the angry mobs.[38]
3 After ten weeks, Comcast SportsNet California and Dish Network end their carriage dispute, and the regional sports network is returned to the satellite provider.[39]
Una Vez Mas purchases two Texas stations from the bankrupt Johnson Broadcasting, KNWS/Houston and KLDT/Dallas. The stations' call signs are respectively changed to KYAZ and KAZD, and their affiliations also change to Azteca America.[40]
6 The Green Bay Packers's 31-25 defeat of the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl XLV attracts 111 million viewers, making the Fox broadcast the most-watched program in American TV history, surpassing the previous record of 106.5 million viewers for Super Bowl XLIV one year earlier.[41]
8 Current TV announces that Keith Olbermann will join the network as the its Chief News Officer and will have an equity stake in the network's parent company, Current Media. Olbermann will also anchor and executive produce a nighttime broadcast for the network; that show, which would start on June 20, bears the same name as his former MSNBC show, Countdown.[42]
11 Fox Entertainment Group announces that its MyNetwork TV service has been renewed for three more years, through 2014.[43]
13 Sony, IMAX and Discovery Communications launch 3net, a new 3DTV channel.[44]
14 Disney Channel's daily morning program block for preschoolers, Playhouse Disney, rebrands as Disney Junior; the network plans to expand the Disney Junior brand to a 24-hour preschool-oriented network in February 2012, to replace SOAPnet due to many soap operas ending in the last three years.[45]
ESPN 3D is upgraded to a 24-hour channel.[46]
Time Warner Cable announces the formation of two new Southern California-based regional sports networks (one in English, one in Spanish) that will launch in 2012; the networks will serve as exclusive local TV homes of basketball's Los Angeles Lakers for 20 years beginning with the 2012-2013 NBA season.[47]
14-16 The Watson supercomputer built by IBM competes on the game show Jeopardy! and defeats two well-known Jeopardy! champions, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.[48]
20 Xfinity 3D, a Comcast-owned 24-hour 3DTV channel, commences programming with coverage of the 2011 Heritage Classic.[49]
22 NBC announces deals to broadcast all three races in the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing—the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, and Belmont Stakes—through 2015. The deals reunite all three Triple Crown races on NBC for the first time since 2005, and will also include coverage on Versus of the races' Friday and Saturday undercards, including the Kentucky Oaks and Black-Eyed Susan Stakes. (ABC had aired the Belmont since 2006, while the undercards had aired on ESPN for several years.)[50]
23-24 A unique daytime-primetime crossover airs involving ABC's All My Children and TV Land's Hot in Cleveland; the premise involves Wendie Malick's Cleveland character, Victoria Chase, landing a bit role on AMC as a housekeeper. Malick (as Victoria) appears on the AMC broadcast of the 24th; AMC castmembers Susan Lucci, Darnell Williams and Michael E. Knight appear on Cleveland's episode of the 23rd.[51]
24 Following a series of angry public rants by star Charlie Sheen, including comments directed at his employers, CBS and Warner Bros. announce that production on Two and a Half Men will be canceled for the remainder of the season.[52]
25 CNN announces that Parker Spitzer co-host Kathleen Parker will leave the show to concentrate on writing her syndicated news column (though she will continue to be a CNN contributor). On February 28, the show is revamped and retitled In the Arena, with sole host Eliot Spitzer presiding over roundtable discussions with journalists and contributors.[53]
26 The seventh season of Game Show Network's High Stakes Poker premieres, with a 3D television simulcast on N3D, the first for a serial program.[54]

March

Date Event
3 Portsmouth, NH-based Carlisle One Media, Inc. announces an agreement to purchase WZMY-TV/Derry, New Hampshire from ShootingStar Broadcasting of New England.[55] The deal for the MyNetworkTV and Universal Sports station, which is operated by New Age Media, would close in May, when the station changes call sign to WBIN-TV.[56]
4 Twenty-seven stations owned and operated by LIN TV Corporation that serve 17 markets vanish from Dish Network at midnight after the two companies fail to reach a retransmission consent deal. The stations are restored by March 13, when the companies reach a new deal.[57]
7 After a week of interviews in which he continues criticizing his employers, but also appears at times rambling and incoherent, Charlie Sheen is officially fired from Two and a Half Men.[52]
14 Aflac fires Gilbert Gottfried as the voice of its Aflac Duck after he tweets "insensitive" comments on the earthquake and tsunami in Japan three days prior.[58]
15 The 2011 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament begins play, as does a multi-year broadcast partnership with CBS Sports and Turner Sports that will allow, for the first time, nationwide broadcasts of all tournament games in their entirety on CBS, TBS, TNT, and TruTV (it's the first sports programming for the latter network, which is known for true crime and reality programming).[59]
18 Netflix announces a deal with Media Rights Capital for North American distribution of the original drama series House of Cards, which will premiere on the online film service beginning in late 2012. It will be the first foray into distributing original episodic content for Netflix, which already distributes previous seasons of several network TV series.[60]
As part of an effort to end state funding of South Carolina ETV and turn over operations to private interests, South Carolina Republican Governor Nikki Haley replaces the entire board of directors that oversee the radio/TV network.[61]
19 Tribune-owned CW affiliate KIAH/Houston converts its hour-long 5 and 9 p.m. evening newscasts to NewsFix, a new format that de-emphasizes the traditional use of anchors and reporters, uses voiceover narration (by local radio personality Greg Onofrio) for continuity, and emphasizes visual storytelling, including graphics and camerawork.[62]
22 A court-appointed receiver approves the sale of insolvent WLNE-TV/New Bedford, Massachusetts to Citadel Communications. Citadel, whose purchase attempt gained the approval of ABC (of which WLNE is an affiliate), close on the sale on June 1.[63][64]
25 Amanda Knox, an American woman who was appealing her conviction of the 2007 murder of her roommate in Italy, filed an injunction to block a television film based on her case from airing on Italian television, claiming the movie (which premiered in the U.S. on Lifetime on February 22) left her "exploited" and "very disturbed." Knox also sought to block the film from running on the internet; YouTube has obliged by removing clips of and references to the movie from its website.[65] On October 4, an Italian jury overturned her conviction and Knox was freed. As a result, Lifetime announced that it will alter the TV movie to reflect the outcome.[66]
28 BBC World News America moves from BBC America to sister network BBC World News and is shortened from 60 to 30 minutes in length. The move is part of an effort to expand BBC News' U.S. operations (including efforts to increase cable/satellite carriage of BBC World News in the U.S.), as well as to more clearly define BBC America as an entertainment channel (content from BBC World News still airs on BBC America during the early morning hours, while WNA still airs on several public television stations).[67]
29 AMC announces that the new season of Mad Men, its fifth, will be delayed into early 2012, the side effect of ongoing contract negotiations between AMC, Lions Gate Entertainment, and series creator/producer Matthew Weiner. Weiner would ink a deal to continue as Mad Men showrunner on March 31.[68]
30 Avoiding a blackout, LIN TV Corporation reaches a retransmission deal with cable provider Cox Communications, covering 9 LIN stations in 5 markets.[69]
31 New York City regional sports network SNY announces they are in a carriage dispute with Dish Network.[70] The dispute comes to light the same day as the 2011 Major League Baseball season commences play (SNY is the cable home of the New York Mets). SNY was later removed from Dish Network,[71] prompting SNY to take out ads attacking Dish Network and encouraging their customers to switch providers.[72]
Time Warner Cable removes 12 cable networks owned by Discovery Communications, Fox Cable Networks and Viacom from its iPad streaming video app after the companies complain their addition on the app was a violation of their distribution agreements with TWC. Animal Planet, FX, and MTV are among the networks removed from the app.[73] The next day it replaces them with 17 new channels, among them those owned by The Walt Disney Company, NBC Universal, and AMC Networks.[74]
After nearly two years on the air, KTKB-LD/Hagåtña, Guam ceased operations due to financial problems, leaving the US territory without an outlet for The CW Television Network and Universal Sports.[75]
New York City based regional sports network YES Network (cable home of the New York Yankees and New Jersey Nets) informed DirecTV customers of a carriage dispute, which would have resulted in a loss of the channel beginning April 2. [76] After a week of good faith negotiations and a temporary agreement that allowed the channel to remain on DirecTV for another six days, [77] a new long-term carriage agreement was reached on April 7 with no interruption of service. [78]

April

Date Event
1 Four Fox Sports Net-affiliated regional sports networks serving Pittsburgh, the Pacific Northwest, the Rocky Mountains and Utah, adopt a new branding, Root Sports. The networks, all owned by DirecTV Sports Networks, continue programming relationships with FSN as well as their own local team contracts.[79]
Citing the station's lack of financial viability, the owners of Orlando PBS affiliate WMFE-TV announce that the station will be sold; the buyer is religious broadcaster Daystar Television Network, who plans to eventually WMFE to a Daystar station upon FCC approval.[80][81]
SJL Broadcasting completes its reacquisition of WJRT-TV/Flint and WTVG/Toledo from ABC.[82]
2 Elton John hosts Saturday Night Live and is the musical guest as well. It was John's first appearance on the NBC show in almost 30 years.[83]
4 In an effort to expand its programming beyond college athletics, CBS College Sports Network rebrands as CBS Sports Network.[84]
Cablevision unveils its own iPad app, featuring 300 live channels streaming over its own proprietary Advanced Digital Cable network.[85] In response, YES Network claims its inclusion on the app is a violation of their distribution agreement.[86] Viacom files a similar complaint on April 7.[87]
5 Dish Network buys bankrupt video rental chain Blockbuster Inc. for $320 million at auction.[88]
6 Fox News Channel and Glenn Beck announce that Beck's self-titled show will end later in the year (June 30 would be its final airing), although Beck plans to develop new content for the network.[89][90]
7 Nexstar Broadcasting Group announces its purchase of CBS affiliates WFRV-TV/Green Bay and WJMN-TV/Marquette, a deal that would close on July 2; it also reveals its intentions for a separate local newscast on the latter station, which currently simulcasts news from the former.[91]
WWE announces its plans to launch its own 24-hour cable channel in 2012.[92]
11 Hearst Corporation announces it will purchase a stake in reality producer Mark Burnett's eponymous production company.[93]
14 ABC announces the cancellation of two of its long-running daytime dramas—All My Children, which will end its 41-year run in September, and One Life to Live, whose 43-year run will end in January 2012; both shows will be replaced by lifestyle and talk programming.[94] The moves will leave General Hospital as ABC's last remaining daytime drama.
Cellular phone company Verizon Wireless announces it will phase out its famous "Can You Hear Me Now?" campaign; the catchphrase had been uttered on Verizon commercials since 2002 by the "Verizon Test Guy" (actor Paul Marcarelli), who last appeared in February promos for Verizon's iPhone 4.[95]
The studios of WDIV-TV/Detroit are evacuated after a suspicious package is left in the station foyer; though no explosives are discovered, the scare forces the station's 11 p.m. newscast to be delayed by 15 minutes.[96]
18 In protest over ABC's cancellation of All My Children and One Life to Live, floor care company Hoover announces it will pull all advertising from the network as of April 22 and start a campaign to save both shows.[97]
GSN, ESPN, and Fox Sports Net begin to pare down or cancel airings of poker broadcasts and poker website advertising in the wake of United States v. Scheinberg, in which websites Full Tilt Poker and PokerStars are seized by federal authorities. ESPN and FSN would pull broadcasts of PokerStars-sponsored events, while GSN would reduce the number of weekly airings of High Stakes Poker, airing them without any mentions of poker website sponsorship.[98][99]
George Gray, former host of the syndicated version of The Weakest Link, officially becomes the fourth announcer of CBS' The Price Is Right.[100]
19 NBC Sports and the National Hockey League reach a new 10-year broadcast deal, running through the 2020-2021 season; the new deal will include national broadcasts of all Stanley Cup playoff games on NBC or sister channel Versus.[101]
20 20th Television announces that it will develop a new talk show for Ricki Lake, which will debut in September 2012.[102]
Dave Willis announces that after 10 years on air, the title Aqua Teen Hunger Force, the longest running series on Cartoon Network's program block Adult Swim, would officially be changed to Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1. The first official episode of the series to premiere as an Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1 eventually aired on May 8, 2011.[103]
21 DirecTV launches its Home Premiere pay-per-view service, which allows subscribers to watch movies only 60 days after their theatrical release at a price of $29.99 each.[104]
25 Public broadcasting station KCET/Los Angeles, beset by drops in ratings and revenues after disaffiliating with PBS, announces it will sell its longtime Sunset Boulevard studios to the Church of Scientology;[105] in June, KCET would announce plans to move to a smaller studio in suburban Burbank by April 2012.[106]
28 The CW names Mark Pedowitz as its new president, replacing Dawn Ostroff, who will leave the network at the end of May.[107]
In a "supersized" episode (from 30 to 50 minutes), Steve Carell makes his last appearance as a regular on The Office.[108]
29 An estimated 22.8 million viewers in 18.6 million American households watch live coverage from Great Britain of the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, which airs in the U.S. at 6 a.m. (EDT).[109]

May

Date Event
1 In an interview with 60 Minutes colleague Scott Pelley, CBS' Lara Logan recounts her sexual assault by male protestors in Cairo's Tahrir Square while covering the Egyptian protests the previous February.[110]
A special crossover storyline involving Family Guy, The Cleveland Show and American Dad! is pulled by Fox in the wake of a recent series of devastating storms and tornadoes that destroyed portions of the Southeastern United States. The planned episodes had the characters in all three shows bracing for a hurricane that was headed their way.[111]
The major networks break into prime time programming to report the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces in Pakistan, which is confirmed by a late night (11:30PM ET) address from the White House by President Obama.[112]
2 Dish Network and EchoStar announce that it will pay TiVo $500 million to settle their seven-year-long patent infringement battle over DVR technology used by Dish.[113]
3 An estimate released by Nielsen indicates that the number of households with television sets will decrease in 2012 for the first time in 20 years.[114]
4 The soon-to-be Pacific-12 Conference announces a broadcast deal with ESPN and Fox Sports that goes into effect in 2012. The agreement will feature game broadcasts on ESPN's and Fox's sister networks (including ABC and FX), as well as their sharing broadcast duties for the conference's football and men's basketball championships on an alternating basis.[115]
5 Judy McGrath announces her resignation as chairman/CEO of MTV Networks.[116]
Fox News Channel ends the contracts of two of its political contributors, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum; both men, who were suspended by Fox on March 2, failed to meet a network-imposed May 1 deadline for their decisions on not running for President. (Gingrich would formally declare his candidacy on May 11, Santorum on June 6.)[117]
6 OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network CEO Christina Norman is dismissed and replaced on an interim basis by Peter Liguori, the chief operating officer of OWN's co-owner Discovery Communications.[118] Winfrey would move into the CEO position in the fall.[119]
Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS) acquires KTBU/Conroe, Texas from USFR Media Group for $16 million. Upon the completion of the sale, KTBU will join SBS-TV.[120][121]
8 With contract negotiations finishing at the last minute, Paula Abdul formally joins the judging panel on Fox's The X Factor for this date's taping of the first judging session.[122]
13 CBS announces that Ashton Kutcher will replace the fired Charlie Sheen on Two and a Half Men.[123]
14 At the closing of his weekly Fox News program, Mike Huckabee announces that he will not run for U.S. President in 2012.[124]
16 After seriously flirting with the idea for months, businessman and The Apprentice host Donald Trump announces that he will not run for U.S. President in 2012.[125] Eight months later on December 23, Trump switches his party affiliation from Republican to Independent due to a possible opening to enter the race as a third-party candidate.[126]
NBC and its affiliates reach a "proxy" agreement that would see the network handle cable/satellite retransmission negotiations for any consenting affiliates; NBC, in exchange, would receive a percentage of the retrans fees the stations receive.[127]
Charlie Ergen steps down from his position as CEO of Dish Network; he will be succeeded in June by Joe Clayton.[128][129]
Fox announces that Seth MacFarlane will create a new version of the classic animated series The Flintstones; production will begin in Fall 2011 for a projected 2013 premiere.[130]
17 Telemundo announces that Cristina Saralegui will host a weekend talk show on the Spanish-language network beginning later in 2011. Saralegui had hosted a long-running talk show on competitor Univision until its cancellation in November 2010.[131]
19 After failing to reach a new contract with owner Comcast, Dick Ebersol announces his resignation as chairman of NBC Sports after 22 years, with Mark Lazarus, who heads NBC Sports Cable Group, being tapped to replace Ebersol.[132] (Ebersol's second-in-command, NBC Sports president Ken Schanzer, would announce his retirement one week later on May 26, effective at the end of summer.)[133]
Katie Couric ends her less-than-5-year tenure as anchor of the CBS Evening News.[134]
20 After 29 years, Mary Hart anchors Entertainment Tonight for the final time.[135]
24 ACME Communications announces it has completed the sale of 3 of its stations: WBXX-TV/Knoxville (to Lockwood Broadcasting Group), WCWF/Green Bay (to LIN TV Corporation), and WBDT/Dayton (to WBDT Television, LLC, which will have LIN TV operate the station).[136]
ABC announces that it will turn over its Saturday morning kids' programming block to Litton Entertainment, who will launch a new lineup billed as Litton's Weekend Adventure on September 3.[137]
Nancy Grace steps down as host of Swift Justice with Nancy Grace to remain in Atlanta and continue with her eponymous HLN show. Former Las Vegas judge Jackie Glass will take over as host for the show's second season, which will relocate from Atlanta to Los Angeles.[138]
25 After 25 years in syndication, Oprah Winfrey hosts the final original episode of her eponymous program, a guest-free retrospective and "thank you" to her viewers.[139]
MSNBC talk host Ed Schultz takes a one-week unpaid leave from his MSNBC primetime show for comments directed at conservative commentator Laura Ingraham on his syndicated radio program the previous day, in which Schultz twice referred to Ingraham as a "slut".[140] Schultz addresses the remarks and makes an on-air apology to Ingraham during the opening four minutes of this evening's broadcast, after which he turns it over to MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts and begins his leave.[141] Schultz returned as host of his primetime program on June 6.
26 The University of Central Florida's Board of Trustees approves a TV partnership with Brevard Community College, operator of WBCC/Cocoa, Florida; the partnership, which will be branded as WUCF-TV, will become Orlando's full-time PBS affiliate on July 1, when WMFE-TV disaffiliates from PBS and moves up V-me from a subchannel to its main channel while Daystar awaits FCC approval of its purchase of WFME.[81]

June

Date Event
1 DirecTV rebrands The 101 Network as Audience Network.[142]
6 ABC announces it has signed Katie Couric to host a eponymous daytime talk show that will be distributed by the network's syndication arm and premiere in September 6, 2012; at that time, ABC is expected to turn over the 3-4PM (ET/PT) hour of its daytime network schedule back to its affiliates (General Hospital currently airs in that time slot, and its future after September 2012 has yet to be determined). Also as part of the deal, Couric will contribute to ABC News programming.[143][144]
Fox confirms that Cheryl Cole has been dropped as a judge on The X Factor; Nicole Scherzinger, who was originally tapped to co-host the show with Steve Jones, will fill Cole's void on the judging panel alongside Paula Abdul, Simon Cowell, and L.A. Reid (Jones will remain as solo host).[145]
Scott Pelley takes over as anchor of the CBS Evening News.[146]
Jim Lehrer steps down as a regular anchor of PBS NewsHour after 36 years, although he continue to make contributions to the program.[147]
7 NBCUniversal outbids ESPN/ABC and Fox to retain rights to air the Olympic Games through 2020. The deal between NBC and the International Olympic Committee is valued at $4.38 billion.[148]
8 Science Channel rebrands with a new logo, graphics, and name, going as simply "Science."[149]
It is reported that the UFC was in talks to buy G4 from Comcast / NBCUniversal.[150]
Meredith Vieira anchors her final broadcast of Today after five years. Ann Curry, the NBC show's newsreader since 1997, moves into the co-host role with Matt Lauer the following day.[151]
13 NBC affiliate KSL-TV/Salt Lake City announces they would not air the drama The Playboy Club when it premieres in September, citing the station's policy to screen content its audience may find objectionable (KSL's parent company, Bonneville International, is owned by the The LDS Church).[152] The show will air instead on the market's MyNetworkTV station, KMYU/St. George, and its Salt Lake City simulcast, KUTV-DT2.[153] NBC later canceled the series after airing only three episodes. [154]
Comcast SportsNet Bay Area begins providing daily sports reports for KNTV/San Jose; it is the first instance since Comcast's takeover of NBCUniversal that a Comcast regional sports network provides sportscasts for a NBC O&O in the same market (CSN-produced broadcasts of San Francisco Giants games have aired on KNTV since 2008).[155]
15 NBC's broadcast of Game 7 of the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals, in which the Boston Bruins defeat the Vancouver Canucks to win their first Stanley Cup in 39 years, is watched by 8.5 million viewers, the largest audience for a NHL game in the U.S. since 1973.[156]
20 NBC issues an apology for running an opening montage during its U.S. Open broadcast the previous day that featured a partially redacted recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.[157]
Citing a Major League Baseball rule that forbids franchises to borrow on future assets in order to pay current bills, MLB Commissioner Bud Selig rejects a proposed local TV contract between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Fox Sports Net's Prime Ticket;[158] as a result, the Dodgers would file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy a week later. [159] (Dodgers owner Frank McCourt had been in a protracted divorce case, the settlement of which was contingent on MLB's approval of the team's deal with Fox.)
23 Viacom sues Cablevision over the latter company's iPad app, claiming it is in violation of their distribution agreement.[160]
24 The State of Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs issues a 15-year cable franchise license to Hawaiian Telcom, thus ending Oceanic Time Warner's 35-year monopoly as the state's sole cable TV provider.[161] Hawaiian Telcom launched the service on July 1, after a year of testing in the Honolulu area, with statewide expansion to start in 2012.[162]
27 New Moon Communications, a minority-owned broadcasting company based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, announces it will acquire four LPTV stations, all of them former TBN affiliates, from The Minority Media and Telecommunications Council. The stations—WDON/Dothan, Alabama, WZMC/Jackson, Tennessee, KJNE/Jonesboro, Arkansas and KUMK/Ottumwa, Iowa—will all become NBC affiliates starting in September, and will be the first NBC outlets ever in those markets.[163]
30 Five months after joining Univision as its Executive Vice President and COO,[164] Randy Falco is promoted to the President and CEO positions at the network.[165]
MSNBC analyst Mark Halperin calls President Obama a "dick" during a live broadcast of Morning Joe; Halperin warned he was about to use the vulgarity and asked for a 7-second delay so it could be censored, but the show's new executive producer didn't know how to do so and the profanity was aired uncensored. Though Halperin would issue an on-air apology, he would be suspended by the network.[166]

July

Date Event
1 Control of public television's New Jersey Network shifts from the State of New Jersey to a subsidiary of WNET/New York City, which rebrands the stations as NJTV while the state retains the stations' licenses.[167] The changeover comes 4 days after the New Jersey Senate, by one vote, fails to block the plan.[168]
Cablevision completes its spinoff of Rainbow Media, changing its name to the publicly held company AMC Networks. [169] On the same day, the new company shuts down Wedding Central. [170]
3 NBC airs Wimbledon for the 43rd and final time, with the network stating later in the day that they have been outbid for future US broadcast rights to the annual British tennis tournament.[171] The winning bidder would be ESPN, who has carried early round coverage since 2003 and will carry all rounds exclusively (and live to all time zones) until 2023.[172]
4 OTA Broadcasting wins the bankrupt independent station KFFV/Seattle from North Pacific International Television, Inc., with a bid of $5.2 million in auction.[173]
6 NBC transfers the ownership of one of its three O&Os in Los Angeles, Spanish Independent KWHY-TV, to local businessman Alex Meruelo, who had acquired the station for $43 million in January. The station will remain Spanish Independent.[174]
7 Media/production company Prospect Park announces it has picked up the license to produce and air new episodes of All My Children and One Life to Live on an in-develoment website similar to Hulu after the shows conclude their runs on ABC.[175] Prospect Park would be unable to reach deals with all parties involved (from actors to financial backing), and by November 23 would announce it would shut down production development on both soaps,[176] thus preventing both from being the first of the genre to transfer their first-run broadcasts from conventional TV to online broadcasting.
The Philadelphia-based 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals rules in favor of the Federal Communications Commission over their 2008 decision to keep the cross-ownership rules for TV/radio stations as it is. The ruling also includes keeping current limits on local ownership rules, including the "sub-caps" for AM and FM stations, and that the Commission was correct in not counting HD Radio simulcasts against the ownership limits.[177]
11 Bahakel Communications announces its purchase (subject to FCC approval) of Montgomery's CW affiliate, WBMM, from SagamoreHill Broadcasting, as well as a shared services agreement to operate SagamoreHill's ABC affiliate, WNCF; both stations will be operated through Bahakel's CBS affiliate, WAKA.[178]
Law & Order: LA airs its series finale on NBC,[179] leaving the network's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as the last remaining show in the Law & Order franchise.
17 The United States women's national soccer team's shootout loss to Japan in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup Final gives ESPN its highest ratings ever for a soccer telecast, with an average of nearly 13.5 million viewers.[180]
18 Citing fatigue in the position and difficulty with boxing broadcast negotiations, Ross Greenburg announces he will leave as president of HBO Sports after 11 years in the position and 33 years with the network.[181]
20 After a six-month stint as a fill-in for MSNBC's 6 pm timeslot, The Young Turks' Cenk Uygur turns down a deal to sign with the network and parts ways.[182] Al Sharpton, who took his spot and saw the ratings for his appearance increased, took over the hour on a permanent basis and was later given his own show called PoliticsNation, which premiered August 29.[183]
21 Nexstar Broadcasting Group announces that it will put all of its 65 television stations, including 15 stations operated by Mission Broadcasting, up for sale.[184]
25 Nickelodeon launches a block of reruns of its 1990s programming to cater to its twentysomething viewers; dubbed The '90s Are All That, the block airs on its older-skewing sister channel, TeenNick.
26 The Parents Television Council sends letters to all NBC affiliates urging them to not air the new series The Playboy Club. [185] NBC later canceled the series after airing only three episodes. [154]
27 Both MSNBC and host Rachel Maddow are sued by conservative preacher-musician Bradlee Dean (the founder of the religious group You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International) for $50 million in damages, claiming that Maddow took his comments that homosexuals should be executed in accordance with Islamic Sharia law out of context during a segment on her show in 2010, despite a disclaimer about his personal views (including a posted retraction by Dean about the statement) made by Maddow. MSNBC has stated that Dean's lawsuit has no merit.[186]
The Pacific-12 Conference announces it will launch a group of one national and six regional networks dedicated to airing sporting events featuring the conference's schools. The networks are set to debut in August 2012.[187]
28 Una Vez Mas acquires KFTY/Santa Rosa, California from High Plains Broadcasting (operated through a joint sales agreement with Newport Television) for $5.2 million.[188] By September 29, the station will end 39-years as an English-language independent station (and 3 months with MeTV) and become the San Francisco Bay Area's Azteca America affiliate (under the new call sign KEMO-TV).
31 Johnathan A. Rodgers steps down as president and CEO of TV One.[189] Wonya Lucas replaces him.[190]

August

Date Event
1 Starz Entertainment makes several changes and additions to its Encore premium multiplex service: an eighth channel, Encore Español, launches as a Spanish-language simulcast of the primary Encore channel; Encore Mystery and Encore WAM are rebranded as Encore Suspense and Encore Family respectively; and high definition feeds of Encore Action and Encore Drama launch. Additionally, MoviePlex discontinues its rotating daily simulcasts of programming from Encore's multiplex channels and becomes a standalone channel.[191] On this date and August 2, Encore aired its first ever original programming: the mini-series Moby Dick. [192] Additional original programs scheduled for Encore this year are the mini-series The Take[192] and the documentary Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis.[193]
The Fox affiliation in Fort Wayne, Indiana moves from WFFT-TV to WISE-DT2, a subchannel of Fort Wayne's NBC affiliate that retains secondary affiliation with MyNetworkTV.[194] WFFT-TV becomes an independent station, which was its status from its 1977 launch until joining Fox in 1986.[195] The swap occurs 6 days after WFFT owner Nexstar, which had been going through a falling out with Fox in several of its markets, files a federal antitrust lawsuit against WISE owner Granite Broadcasting over Granite's monopolization of operating 2 TV stations with 4 network affiliations in the Fort Wayne market (Granite operates, through an LMA, ABC/CW affiliate WPTA, which is owned by Malara Broadcasting).[196]
MTV celebrates the 30th anniversary of its launch; sister network VH1 Classic joins in by airing the channel's original first hour (including the original commercials and technical difficulties) in addition to some of the network's most memorable shows and moments throughout the weekend. [197]
PBS announces that it is launching a PBS-branded channel in the United Kingdom in November.[198] [199]
Comcast and NBCUniversal announce that Versus will be rebranded as NBC Sports Network on January 2, 2012.[200]
4 Comcast sues DirecTV for false advertising for ads that claim its exclusive out of market sports package NFL Sunday Ticket is now free for new customers. [201] Comcast dropped the case on August 19 after DirecTV altered the ads to remove the word "free". [202]
8 Verizon Communications accuses striking workers of vandalizing its systems. [203]
10 Major League Soccer announces a 3-year deal, effective in 2012, with NBC Sports that will see MLS regular season and playoff games, as well as United States men's national soccer team games, carried by NBC and NBC Sports Network;[204] the deal will replace MLS' relationship with Fox Soccer and Fox Deportes that dates back to 2003 (deals with ESPN and Univision will remain in place).
12 Cinemax, the Time Warner-owned premium cable channel known for running mainstream feature films and late night adult programming under the "Max After Dark" banner, expands its original programming into mainstream content[205] with the U.S. launch of the primetime British action series Strike Back (the series, which will be aired in the United States for the first time, originally debuted on Sky1 in the U.K. in 2010, with first-run episodes set to air on Cinemax being from the second season).[206] Additional action series Transporter: The Series, [207] The Sector, [208] Banshee, [209] and Sandbox [210] are in production and are scheduled to premiere in 2012. Earlier in the month on August 1, the channel retired its logos that have been used since 1997 (the logo in use at the time, a modification of the 1997 version, dates back to 2008), changing to a new ones with a different font and color scheme.
15 Fox will begin next-day streaming of its shows to paying customers of approved cable and satellite distributors. People who want to see the episodes the following day for free on Hulu will have to wait eight days after the first-run telecasts.[211]
NBCUniversal rebrands its crime-and-mystery-oriented channel Sleuth as Cloo. The reason for the unusual spelling is to allow the company to own the trademark, as Hasbro owns the trademark rights to the name with their board game Clue. The newly branded channel launched its first ever original program, the non-fictional murder investigation series Killer Instinct, on September 17, 2011. [212]
Time Warner Cable announces it will buy out Insight Communications for $3 billion.[213]
17 Christine O'Donnell becomes the first guest to walk out on Piers Morgan Tonight after the host asked her questions on her views on same-sex marriage, which she thought were rude.[214]
18 CBS announces that both Holly Robinson Peete and Leah Remini will no longer be co-hosts of The Talk when the second season starts.[215] Kris Jenner has been tapped as a temporary co-host while comedienne Sheryl Underwood is expected to be a permanent regular.[216]
19 Bravo announces it will reedit the upcoming season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills after Russell Armstrong, husband of Taylor Armstrong, is found dead from an apparent suicide; the couple was reportedly having marital problems. [217]
26 Longhorn Network, a 24-hour cable channel dedicated to the The University of Texas at Austin launches, [218] with Verizon FiOS as the only major provider to reach a carriage deal. [219]
29 Univision-owned WUVC-DT/Raleigh premieres a weeknight half-hour 6 p.m. newscast, titled Noticias 40; it is the first Spanish-language local newscast in the state of North Carolina.[220]

September

Date Event
1 Mediacom fails to reach a new carriage agreement with LIN Media, resulting in LIN stations in Mobile, Pensacola, Grand Rapids, Fort Wayne, Green Bay, Terre Haute and Lafayette being removed from Mediacom systems.[221] The signals would be restored by October 15, when the two sides reach a retransmission agreement.[222]
4 Tennis Channel removes its signal from Cablevision and Verizon FiOS due to carriage disputes with both providers. [223]
Major changes take place on the MDA Labor Day Telethon: The show is shortened to six hours (less than ⅓ its previous length), airs live only on the East Coast, and abandons its nominal and traditional carryover to Labor Day (instead airing only on this date); it also does not include any live appearance by Jerry Lewis, the telethon's founder and host since its inception, although a tribute to him is featured in the telecast's opening and closing segments (Lewis was "released" from his post at the Muscular Dystrophy Association on August 3).[224]
8 Sinclair Broadcasting Group announces its acquisition of 7 TV stations from Four Points Media Group for $200 million, a deal that closes the first week of January 2012. The stations involved in the transaction are KUTV and KMYU/Salt Lake City, KEYE/Austin, WTVX, WWHB and WTCN/West Palm Beach, and WLWC/Providence. The deal brings Sinclair into these four TV markets for the first time.[225][226]
The same day the 2011 NFL regular season kicks off, ESPN extends its contract for Monday Night Football for another eight seasons, giving it rights to the broadcasts until 2021. The new deal, valued between $14.2 billion and $15.2 billion, also gives them rights to expanded highlights, international and digital rights, and possibly a Wildcard game;[227] the deal also draws rebukes from cable operators over the its cost and the likelihood of an increase in ESPN's already record-high retransmission consent fees.[228]
After his original date (September 7) is turned down by House leadership, President Barack Obama delivers a speech on jobs to the United States Congress on this date. The speech is delivered at an unusual time for a Presidential speech to Congress: the prime time "access" slot of 7PM (ET), so as to avoid potential conflict with the NFL's season opener between New Orleans and Green Bay; the President's speech finishes well before the game's start time of 8:30PM (ET).[229][230]
11 Broadcast and cable networks air programming to mark the 10th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks. Notable programs include live coverage of the dedication of the 9/11 Memorial on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City plus memorial services at The Pentagon and Shanksville, Pennsylvania[231], and the real-time airing of the documentary 102 Minutes That Changed America across A&E Television Networks at 8:46 a.m. EDT.[232]
12 Seeking to expand the network's coverage and possibly add HD content, NBC Sports announces it will move its Universal Sports from an over-the-air digital multicast network to a cable/satellite network, beginning in early 2012.[233] DirecTV already offers the channel on its national lineup.
Wichita CBS affiliate KWCH begins producing half-hour 4 and 9 p.m. newscasts for CW affiliate KSCW (both stations are owned by Schurz Communications); the latter KSCW newscasts will compete with an existing 9 p.m. newscast KWCH produces for Fox affiliate KSAS-TV, owned by Newport Television, since 2004 (KSAS' news share arrangement with KWCH will expire at the end of the year). As a result, KWCH will become the first U.S. television station to simultaneously produce newscasts for four stations in the same market (in addition to its own newscasts and the outsourced news programs for KSCW and KSAS, it also produces a newscast for Univision affiliate KDCU-DT) and the first U.S. station to produce competing outsourced primetime newscasts for two stations in the same market.[234]
13 Journal Communications announces that they will drop The Cool TV from their stations and plan to sue parent company Cool Music Network for $257,500, claiming that they were not paid for broadcasting services prior to June 1. The channels will be replaced with programming from other providers, such as Live Well Network and Me-TV.[235]
18 The 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards airs on Fox. This telecast, which was produced for the first time by Mark Burnett, is part of an eight-year renewal deal with all four OTA networks (ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC), ending speculations that it would move to cable.[236]
25 The Wendy's fast food chain brings back its famous "Where's the beef?" ad campaign, finally answering its own question with "Here's the beef". [237]
26 Bounce TV, an over-the-air digital broadcast television network aimed at an African-American audience, commences programming.[238]
A&E Networks rebrands History International as H2, and moved newer documentary programming to it from parent channel History. [239]
27 ALN is rebranded as Youtoo TV, with a new format featuring Internet based programs as well as viewer contributed videos via social networking sites.[240]
28 The Price Is Right airs its 7,500th CBS daytime episode.[241]

October

Date Event
1 AT&T Uverse removes NHL Network due to a carriage dispute.[242]
2 Ending a 33-year run, and just one month before his November 4 death, Andy Rooney makes his last appearance as a commentator on 60 Minutes.[243][244]
3 ESPN pulls Hank Williams Jr.'s longtime opening intro to its Monday Night Football telecast after the singer makes remarks on Fox and Friends earlier in the day comparing President Obama to Adolf Hitler.[245] Although Williams later apologized for the comments, Williams and ESPN mutually agreed to no longer use the song as the theme for Monday Night Football.[246][247]
4 HD Theater is rebranded as Velocity to more naturally fit its increased focus on male-targeted programming involving high-end automobiles and sports.[248]
11 Roberts Broadcasting, whose portfolio includes four CW affiliates and one My Network TV affiliate, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy due to the company defaulting on payments to Warner Bros. Television Distribution that resulted in the latter pulling their properties from Roberts' stations, and an earlier lawsuit of the same from CBS Television Distribution.[249]
14 After talk of putting it up for the sale in June, News Corporation, The Walt Disney Company, Comcast and Providence Equity Partners decide to continue their joint ownership of Hulu and pull it from sale.[250]
The FCC orders that Madison Square Garden, Inc. has to make a carriage agreement with Verizon FiOS and AT&T Uverse for the high definition feeds of regional sports networks MSG and MSG Plus by October 22, and launch them on the providers by November 14.[251]
18 Inspired by actor Zachary Quinto's decision to come out as a gay man, ABC World News Now anchor Dan Kloeffler announces on air that he is also coming out as a gay man as well.[252]
20 CBS commemorates the 60th anniversary of its famous eye logo.[253]
21 FIFA, soccer's governing body, reaches U.S. broadcast deals with Fox Sports (English language) and Telemundo (Spanish language) for FIFA championship events from 2015-2022, including the 2018 and 2022 Mens' World Cup championships. Fox's bid surpasses those from incumbent ESPN and NBC Sports, while Telemundo's bests Spanish incumbent Univision.[254]
27 14 years after ending its original run, Beavis and Butt-head returned to MTV with its all new season 8 premiere, the combined episode Werewolves of Highland/Crying.[255]
31 Averting a midnight deadline, DirecTV reaches a carriage agreement with News Corporation to preserve the signals of News Corp-owned channels FX, National Geographic Channel, Speed, Fuel TV, Fox Soccer, Fox Soccer Plus, Fox Movie Channel, Fox Deportes and the 19 Fox Sports Net channels, which would have gone dark on DirecTV had the deal not been reached; the agreement also covers Fox Business Network, Fox News Channel, National Geographic Wild, and the Fox owned and operated local broadcast stations, which were part of a separate deal that expired at years-end.[256] (DirecTV filed a complaint with the FCC Media Bureau on October 27 about News Corp's false claims that the Fox broadcast stations were part of the networks' dispute.)[257] In a separate deal, DirecTV reaches a carriage deal with Belo for that company's broadcast stations, which also would have been removed on November 1 had that deal not been reached.[258]

November

Date Event
2 Sinclair Broadcasting Group makes its second station purchase of 2011, acquiring the eight stations (mainly ABC and CBS affiliates) put up for sale by Freedom Communications earlier in the year; the deal (pending FCC approval) is worth $385 million.[259]
NBCUniversal announces that is reorganizing its local NBC Nonstop digital broadcast channels carried on ten of the 11 NBC stations owned by the company's NBC-Owned Television Stations division into one national network; the national NBC Nonstop, which will feature news and lifestyle programming (along with locally-produced content by its affiliates) is set to launch in early 2012, and will also be made available for distribution to NBC affiliates not owned by NBCUniversal (it will be the second news and information digital multicast network venture by NBC, the weather-focused NBC Weather Plus operated from 2004 to 2008).[260]
3 Bounce TV announces an affiliation deal with Fox Television Stations Group; the digital multicast network will initially be available to Fox's MyNetworkTV stations in Los Angeles (KCOP) and New York City (WWOR-TV), with eventual subchannel carriage on additional Fox-owned MNT stations. The deal is FTSG's first subchannel venture, and makes Bounce TV the second outside-owned multicaster to reach an affiliation agreement with a major O&O group (The Local AccuWeather Channel was carried on ABC's O&O stations from 2006 to 2010).[261]
Conan O'Brien ends his week-long return to New York City by officiating what is believed to be the first televised same-sex marriage between a staff member and his partner on Conan.[262]
7 ABC affiliate WBBJ/Jackson, Tennessee announces that they have signed a affiliation deal with CBS and will carry their programs on their HD2 subchannel, beginning January 1, 2012. This will be the first time since 1968 that WBBJ carried CBS programming when it was WDXI-TV (as it was a CBS affiliate from its 1955 sign on until its network switch to ABC that year).[263]
9 At approximately 2:00 PM EST, all TV and radio stations in the Emergency Alert System are tested simultaneously, the first ever nationwide test of the system since its 1997 inception.[264]
14 NBC announces that it has signed Chelsea Clinton to their news division as their special correspondent.[265]
15 Belo Corporation and Raycom Media announces a shared services agreement for their Tucson outlets. As a result of this deal, Raycom's CBS affiliate KOLD will take over the programming and newscasts operations of Belo's Fox outlet KMSB and sister My Network TV affiliate KTTU, starting in February 2012. Belo will continue to own KMSB and KTTU and retain their sales department.[266]
18 After 28 years, Regis Philbin appears on Live! for the last time.[267]
20 The American Music Awards airs, with the program being led into by its first ever official red carpet pre-show with a performance by Hot Chelle Rae.[268]
24 Actor-director Hugh Laurie announces that he will retire from performing on television after 30 years in the business; Laurie states that he will transition more into directing and big-screen roles once his Fox series House M.D. concludes its run (Fox has not yet made a decision on whether the series will continue after its current eighth season).[269]

December

Date Event
1 A station sale and shared services agreement announced on August 8[270] takes effect in the Evansville, Indiana market: Nexstar acquires ABC affiliate WEHT from Gilmore Communications, while selling independent WTVW to Mission Broadcasting. Both stations combine operations on this date out of WEHT's studios, and WEHT's sports subchannel affiliated with Wazoo Sports is discontinued completely; additionally, their news operations are combined under one banner, Eyewitness News.[271]
2 ABC announces that Brian Frons, who has served as the president of the network's ABC Daytime division since August 2002 and faced criticism over the April cancellation of longtime soap operas All My Children and One Life to Live, will step down from the position upon the expiration of his contract with ABC in January 2012; Vicki Dummer, currently serving as ABC's Senior Vice President of Current Series and Specials, will take over as president of the division, which will be internally renamed within the company as Times Square Studios.[272]
5 Citing its "different business model" as an independent station (it lost its Fox affiliation on September 1), KTRV-TV/Boise suspends its news operations.[273]
12 CBS Corporation announces it will purchase Long Island-based independent station WLNY-TV/Riverhead, NY from WLNY Limited Partnership; the sale, if approved by the FCC, would give CBS a duopoly with its O&O flagship WCBS-TV and allow it to expand WLNY's on-air staff and local news programming.[274]
Disney XD announces that actor/singer Mitchel Musso will not return for the third season of Pair of Kings, with Adam Hicks (star of fellow Disney XD series Zeke and Luther) replacing Musso in a new role.[275] The move comes after Musso's October 16 arrest and December 9 arraignment on 2 misdemeanor counts of DUI (for which a not guilty plea was entered in a Burbank district court).[276][277] Additionally, his monthly Disney Channel series PrankStars has not aired new episodes in the United States since his arrest.
13 Citing a desire to return to international reporting, ABC announced that Christiane Amanpour will step down as host of This Week, but will continue to work for both ABC and prior employer CNN, where she will host a daily show for CNN International, where she hosted a show until 2010. George Stephanopoulos, whom Amanpour succeeded as host, will return to hosting This Week in January 2012 while continuing as co-host on Good Morning America.[278]
14 The National Football League announces an extension of its contracts with broadcast partners CBS (AFC package), Fox (NFC package), and NBC (Sunday Night Football) through the 2022 season at an average total fee of $3 billion/year (the networks' current deals do not expire until 2013).[279]
15 Howard Stern confirms he will join the judges panel of America's Got Talent in 2012,[280] replacing Piers Morgan, who announced his departure from the show on November 9 in order to focus on his CNN program.[281]
20 ESPN on ABC announces changes to its NBA Countdown pregame show, including the elimination of the host position (leaving out Hannah Storm and Stuart Scott), a reliance on color commentators (including Magic Johnson), and a shift in production from ESPN's Bristol, CT headquarters to its facility at LA Live.[282]
22 The FCC puts forth a proposal that would loosen cross-ownership restrictions, including a move to allow allow common ownership of radio, TV, and print outlets in the top 20 U.S. markets (where restrictions are already tighter), and modifications to existing rules, including radio-TV ownership in smaller markets.[283]
Melanie Amaro is crowned the first U.S. winner of The X Factor, beating out Chris Rene and Josh Krajcik.[284]
30 The E.W. Scripps Company completes its $212 million purchase of McGraw-Hill's portfolio of TV stations.[285]

Programs Premiering in 2011

Premiere dates subject to change.

Date Show Network Source
January 1 Dan Vs. The Hub [286]
January 1 House of Anubis Nickelodeon [287]
January 3 Wild Kratts PBS [288]
January 9 Bob's Burgers Fox [289]
January 9 The Cape NBC [290]
January 9 Shameless Showtime [291]
January 9 Episodes Showtime [292]
January 11 Lights Out FX [293]
January 11 Onion SportsDome Comedy Central [294]
January 12 Off The Map ABC [295]
January 13 Beyond Scared Straight A&E [296]
January 17 Being Human SyFy [297]
January 17 Harry's Law NBC [290]
January 17 Piers Morgan Tonight CNN [298]
January 17 Skins MTV [299]
January 19 Retired at 35 TV Land [300]
January 20 Fairly Legal USA Network [301]
January 21 Portlandia IFC [302]
January 21 Onion News Network IFC [303]
January 21 Spartacus: Gods of the Arena Starz [304]
January 21 Ebert Presents at the Movies PBS [305]
January 23 Kourtney and Kim Take New York E! [306]
January 24 Bubble Guppies Nickelodeon [307]
January 25 Kitchen Boss TLC [308]
January 28 Working Class CMT [309]
February 1 One Born Every Minute Lifetime [310]
February 1 Seriously Funny Kids Lifetime [310]
February 1 Must Love Cats Animal Planet [311]
February 7 Power Rangers Samurai Nickelodeon [312]
February 7 The Chicago Code Fox [313]
February 8 Traffic Light Fox [314]
February 9 Quad Squad Lifetime [310]
February 9 Glamour Belles Lifetime [310]
February 9 Mr. Sunshine ABC [315]
February 11 Bar Karma Current TV [316]
February 14 Babar and the Adventures of Badou Disney Channel [317]
February 14 Mad Love CBS [318]
February 16 Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior CBS [319]
February 28 Martin Bashir MSNBC [320]
February 28 In the Arena CNN [53]
March 6 Coming Home Lifetime [321]
March 6 Breakout Kings A&E [322]
March 6 Taking on Tyson Animal Planet [323]
March 7 All About Aubrey Oxygen [324]
March 22 Brian the Fortune Seller TruTV [325]
March 29 Body of Proof ABC [326]
March 29 All on the Line Sundance Channel [327]
April 1 Camelot Starz [328]
April 1 Chaos CBS [329]
April 3 The Borgias Showtime [330]
April 3 The Kennedys ReelzChannel [17]
April 3 The Killing AMC [331]
April 4 Dr. Drew HLN [332]
April 5 Pregnant in Heels Bravo [333]
April 6 Breaking In Fox [314]
April 6 Tori & Dean: sTORIbook Weddings Oxygen [324]
April 7 Gigolos Showtime [334]
April 8 CMT's Next Superstar CMT [335]
April 10 The Dance Scene E! [336]
April 10 Supah Ninjas Nickelodeon [337]
April 10 Khloé & Lamar E! [338]
April 11 Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza GSN [339]
April 12 Sinbad's Family Affair WE tv [340]
April 12 Police P.O.V. TruTV [325]
April 13 Happy Endings ABC [315]
April 14 The Paul Reiser Show NBC [341]
April 17 Game of Thrones HBO [342]
April 26 The Voice NBC [343]
April 26 Repo Games Spike TV [344]
May 3 The Looney Tunes Show Cartoon Network [345]
May 6 A.N.T. Farm Disney Channel [346]
May 7 Pretty Hurts Logo [347]
May 8 Why Not? with Shania Twain OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network [348]
May 9 The Amazing World of Gumball Cartoon Network [349]
May 30 Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition ABC [350]
May 30 Platinum Hit Bravo [333]
May 31 Million Dollar Decorators Bravo [333]
May 31 Love Handles Lifetime [351]
June 1 Haunted Collector SyFy [352]
June 1 The World According to Paris Oxygen [324]
June 1 Franklin & Bash TNT [353]
June 2 Love Bites NBC [354]
June 5 So Random! Disney Channel [355]
June 5 Teen Wolf MTV [356]
June 6 Switched at Birth ABC Family [357]
June 12 The Protector Lifetime [358]
June 12 Ice Loves Coco E! [359]
June 13 Almost Naked Animals Cartoon Network [360]
June 13 The Glee Project Oxygen [324]
June 13 Sidekick Cartoon Network [361]
June 14 The Nine Lives of Chloe King ABC Family [357]
June 15 Happily Divorced TV Land [362]
June 15 Rocco's Dinner Party Bravo [333]
June 19 Falling Skies TNT [363]
June 23 Wilfred FX [364]
June 23 Suits USA Network [365]
June 23 Expedition Impossible ABC [366]
June 27 My Babysitter's a Vampire Disney Channel [367]
June 27 Winx Club Nickelodeon [368]
June 29 Necessary Roughness USA Network [365]
June 29 State of Georgia ABC Family [357]
June 29 Love in the Wild NBC [369]
July 1 Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures Nickelodeon [337]
July 8 Say Yes to the Dress: Bridesmaids TLC [370]
July 11 Alphas SyFy [352]
July 11 The Five Fox News Channel [371]
July 13 The Franchise Showtime [372]
July 13 Legend Quest SyFy [352]
July 13 Roseanne's Nuts Lifetime [373]
July 14 Sweet Home Alabama CMT [374]
July 14 Texas Women CMT [374]
July 17 Bar Rescue Spike TV [344]
July 19 Web Therapy Showtime [375]
July 19 It's Worth What? NBC [376]
July 31 Against the Wall Lifetime [377]
August 2 Take the Money and Run ABC [378]
August 7 Curiosity Discovery Channel [379]
August 12 Strike Back Cinemax [380]
August 15 The Lying Game ABC Family [357]
August 28 PoliticsNation with Al Sharpton MSNBC [183]
August 29 Carfellas Discovery Channel [379]
July 19 Ludo Bites America Sundance Channel [327]
September 3 Litton's Weekend Adventure ABC [381]
September 7 Paranormal Witness SyFy [352]
September 12 Anderson Syndication [382]
September 12 Excused Syndicated [383]
September 12 We the People With Gloria Allred Syndicated [384]
September 13 Ringer The CW [385]
September 14 H8R The CW [386]
September 14 Up All Night NBC [387]
September 14 Free Agents NBC [387]
September 15 The Secret Circle The CW [385]
September 17 Killer Instinct Cloo [212]
September 19 2 Broke Girls CBS [388]
September 19 The Bill Cunningham Show Syndicated (selected markets) [389]
September 19 The Jeremy Kyle Show Syndicated [390]
September 19 Lifechangers The CW [391]
September 19 The Playboy Club NBC [392]
September 20 The New Girl Fox [393]
September 20 Unforgettable CBS [394]
September 21 The X Factor Fox [395]
September 21 Revenge ABC [396]
September 22 Person of Interest CBS [388]
September 22 Charlie's Angels ABC [396]
September 22 Whitney NBC [387]
September 22 Prime Suspect NBC [387]
September 23 A Gifted Man CBS [394]
September 24 On the Spot Syndicated [397]
September 25 Dirty Soap E! [398]
September 25 Pan Am ABC [396]
September 26 The Chew ABC [399]
September 26 Terra Nova Fox [400]
September 26 Emeril's Table Hallmark Channel [401]
September 26 Hart of Dixie The CW [385]
September 26 Secret Mountain Fort Awesome Cartoon Network [349]
September 26 Last Shot with Judge Gunn Syndicated [402]
September 28 Suburgatory ABC [396]
September 29 How to Be a Gentleman CBS [394]
September 30 Jessie Disney Channel [403]
September Search for the Worst Dressed Style Network [404]
October 2 Around the World in 80 Ways History [405]
October 3 Erin Burnett OutFront CNN [406]
October 5 American Horror Story FX [407]
October 5 Penn & Teller Tell A Lie Discovery Channel [379]
October 10 Enlightened HBO [408]
October 10 The Rosie Show OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network [409]
October 10 OWN Your Life (The Oprah Class) OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network [409]
October 10 The A-List: Dallas Logo [410]
October 11 Reed Between the Lines BET [411]
October 11 Last Man Standing ABC [396]
October 18 Man Up ABC [396]
October 21 Boss Starz [412]
October 23 Once Upon a Time ABC [396]
October 24 Monster In-Laws A&E [413]
October 28 Grimm NBC [387]
October 30 Allen Gregory Fox [393]
October 31 Rock Center with Brian Williams NBC [154]
October Glam Factory Style Network [404]
November 6 Hell on Wheels AMC [414]
November 7 Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness Nickelodeon [415][416]
November 25 Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse TBS [417]
November 30 I Hate My Teenage Daughter Fox [393]
November 30 The Exes TV Land [418]
December 1 Weed Wars Discovery Channel [379]
December 2 Austin & Ally Disney Channel
December 11 Luck (Series Preview only) HBO [419]
December 19 Who's Still Standing? NBC [376]
Fall Sex Rx Logo [410]
Fall Re-Modeled The CW [385]
Fall Inside the DHS AMC [420]
TBA Forever Young TV Land [421]
TBA Love Scouts Oxygen [324]
TBA Dance Complex Oxygen [324]
TBA Smoke Jumpers Current TV [316]
May 26 4th and Forever Current TV [316]
TBA Untitled Snooki/JWoww reality series MTV [422]
TBA Garo Unleashed Sundance Channel [327]
TBA Quirky Sundance Channel [327]
TBA Shoebox Sessions Sundance Channel [327]
TBA Diva of Distressed Sundance Channel [327]
TBA The Indestructibles National Geographic Channel [423]
TBA Rocket Men National Geographic Channel [423]
TBA American Knights in the U.S. National Geographic Channel [423]
TBA CSI Me National Geographic Channel [423]
TBA Bush Cowboy with Matt Wright National Geographic Wild [424]
TBA America the Wild with Casey Anderson National Geographic Wild [424]
TBA Animal Superpowers National Geographic Wild [424]
TBA Battlestar: Blood and Chrome SyFy [352]
TBA Me and Lee SyFy [352]
TBA In the Dark SyFy [352]
TBA Three Inches SyFy [352]
July 17 Big Rich Texas Style Network [404]
TBA Untitled Cedric the Entertainer sitcom (aka Hot in Cleveland spin-off) TV Land [425]
December 20 Best in the Business Discovery Channel [370]
May 10 Swamp Brothers Discovery Channel [370]
June 22 Life on a Wire Discovery Channel [370]
TBA Randy to the Rescue TLC [370]
TBA Homecoming TLC [370]
TBA I Kid TLC [370]
TBA Big Fat Gypsy Wedding TLC [370]
TBA Romance is Dead Animal Planet [370]
TBA Sweet Avenger Animal Planet [370]
TBA Saved Animal Planet [370]
TBA Real Crime/Reel Story Investigation Discovery [370]
TBA Homicide Hunter: Lt. Joe Kenda Investigation Discovery [370]
TBA Real Streets Miami Investigation Discovery [370]
TBA Hostage: Do or Die Investigation Discovery [370]
TBA Hunting Justice with William Phelps Investigation Discovery [370]
TBA Crimes of Passion Investigation Discovery [370]
TBA Deadly Sins Investigation Discovery [370]
TBA Unraveled: Countdown to a Kill Investigation Discovery [370]
TBA Confronting... OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network [426]
TBA I Owe You My Life OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network [426]
TBA Louie Spence Dance Project OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network [426]
TBA My Mom and Me OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network [426]
TBA Sweetie Pies OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network [426]
TBA Unfaithful: Stories of Betrayal OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network [426]
September 14 Storage Wars: Dallas A&E [427]
January 10, 2012 Shipping Wars A&E [427]
TBA Boar Hunters A&E [427]
December 9 Invention USA History [405]
TBA Full Metal Jousting History [405]
TBA United Stats of America History [405]
TBA Silent Partner USA Network [428]
TBA On We Go USA Network [428]
TBA M. Diety USA Network [428]
TBA The Special USA Network [428]
TBA Big in Japan USA Network [428]
TBA We the Jury USA Network [428]
TBA TGIM USA Network [428]
TBA The Enclave USA Network [428]
TBA The Exceptions USA Network [428]
TBA Hard Cover USA Network [428]
TBA Winslow USA Network [428]
TBA Regular Einstein USA Network [428]
TBA Amsale Girls WE tv [429]
TBA Texas Multi Mamas WE tv [429]
TBA The Willis Clan WE tv [429]
TBA The Sheriff Spike TV [430]
TBA Pawn Games Spike TV [430]
TBA Hungry Men at Work Spike TV [430]
TBA World's Worst Tenants Spike TV [430]
TBA Auction in My House Spike TV [430]
TBA The Hustler Spike TV [430]

Continuing shows

The following shows continued their run into this year.

See also: 2010–11 United States network television schedule and 2011–12 United States network television schedule

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Programs changing networks

Show Moved From Moved To Source
Damages FX Audience Network [432]
Secret Millionaire Fox ABC [433]
The Game The CW BET [434]
Power Rangers ABC Kids Nickelodeon [435]
Torchwood BBC America Starz [436]
Deliver Me Discovery Health Channel OWN [437]
Mystery Diagnosis Discovery Health Channel OWN [437]
Dr. G: Medical Examiner Discovery Health Channel Discovery Fit & Health [438]
911: The Bronx Discovery Health Channel Discovery Fit & Health [438]
I'm Pregnant and... Discovery Health Channel Discovery Fit & Health [438]
Untold Stories of the ER Discovery Health Channel Discovery Fit & Health [438]
BBC World News America BBC America BBC World News [67]
Lou Dobbs Tonight CNN Fox Business Network [439]
Miss America TLC ABC [440]
Countdown with Keith Olbermann MSNBC Current TV [42]
Flashpoint CBS Ion [441]
Dangerous Encounters with Brady Barr National Geographic Channel National Geographic Wild
America's Most Wanted Fox Lifetime [442]

Programs Returning in 2011

The following shows will return with new episodes after being canceled previously:

Show Last Aired Previous Network Retitled as/Same New/Returning/Same Network Returning Source
Lou Dobbs Tonight 2009 CNN Same Fox Business Network March 14 [439]
WWE Tough Enough 2004 UPN Same USA Network April 4 [443]
Billboard Music Awards 2006 Fox Same ABC May 22 [444]
Lingo 2007 GSN Same Same June 6 [445]
120 Minutes 2003 MTV and MTV2 Same MTV2 July 30 [446]
Beavis and Butt-head 1997 MTV Same Same October 27 [447]
Pop-Up Video 2002 VH1 Same Same October 3 [448]
Fear Factor 2006 NBC Same Same December 12 [449]
Punk'd 2007 MTV Same Same December 31 [450][451]

Programs Ending in 2011

Dates subject to change.

Date Show Debut Source Status
January 2 Sonny with a Chance 2009 [452] Ended
January 4 Caprica 2010 [453] Canceled
January 9 Sarah Palin's Alaska 2010 [454] Canceled
January 16 Hannah Montana 2006 [453] Ended
January 18 Life Unexpected 2010 [455] Canceled
January 18 Glory Daze 2010 [456] Canceled
January 21 Medium 2005 [457] Canceled
January 31 Lie to Me 2009 [458] Canceled
February 9 Human Target 2010 [459] Canceled
February 9 Friday Night Lights 2006 [460] Ended
February 13 Ooh, Aah & You 2007 [461] Ended
February 17 Shit My Dad Says 2010 [462] Canceled
March 7 Greek 2007 [463] Ended
March 11 The Cape 2011 [464] Canceled
March 11 The Defenders 2010 [462] Canceled
March 15 V 2009 [465] Canceled
March 18 Supernanny 2005 [466] Ended
March 20 Detroit 1-8-7 2010 [465] Canceled
March 20 Big Love 2006 [453] Ended
March 21 Skins 2011 [33] Canceled
March 24 Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? 2009 [467] Canceled
April 1 Working Class 2011 [468] Canceled
April 5 Lights Out 2011 [469] Canceled
April 5 No Ordinary Family 2010 [465] Canceled
April 6 Off the Map 2011 [465] Canceled
April 6 Mr. Sunshine 2011 [465] Canceled
April 7 Perfect Couples 2011 [341] Canceled
April 9 Sym-Bionic Titan 2011 [470] Canceled
April 21 The Paul Reiser Show 2011 [471] Canceled
April 22 Gigantic 2010 [472] Canceled
May 1 America's Next Great Restaurant 2011 [473] Canceled
May 6 The Suite Life on Deck 2008 [474] Ended
May 8 Brothers & Sisters 2006 [465] Canceled
May 9 Stargate Universe 2009 [475] Canceled
May 11 Better with You 2010 [465] Canceled
May 12 Outsourced 2010 [476] Canceled
May 13 Smallville 2001 [477] Ended
May 13 Silent Library 2008 [478] Canceled
May 16 Mad Love 2011 [462] Canceled
May 17 Hellcats 2010 [479] Canceled
May 21 Chase 2010 [480] Canceled
May 21 Running Wilde 2010 [481] Canceled
May 23 The Event 2010 [482] Canceled
May 23 The Chicago Code 2011 [483] Canceled
May 25 Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior 2011 [484] Canceled
May 25 The Oprah Winfrey Show 1986 [139] Ended
May 27 Don't Forget the Lyrics! 2007 [467] Canceled
May 30 The Hard Times of RJ Berger 2010 [485] Canceled
June 3 Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza 2011 [486] Canceled
June 10 Camelot 2011 [487] Canceled
June 18 The Mighty B! 2008 [488] Canceled
June 20 United States of Tara 2009 [489] Canceled
June 24 Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution 2010 [490] Canceled
June 26 Law & Order: Criminal Intent 2001 [491] Ended
June 30 Glenn Beck 2006 [90] Ended
July 6 Men of a Certain Age 2009 [492] Canceled
July 11 Law & Order: LA 2010 [179] Canceled
July 21 Love Bites 2011 [493] Canceled
August 4 In the Arena 2010 [494] Canceled
August 11 Lopez Tonight 2009 [495] Canceled
August 16 The Nine Lives of Chloe King 2011 [496] Canceled
August 16 Hawthorne 2009 [497] Canceled
August 16 Memphis Beat 2010 [498] Canceled
August 17 State of Georgia 2011 [499] Canceled
August 20 True Jackson, VP 2008 [500] Ended
September 6 Rescue Me 2004 [501] Ended
September 9 Friends with Benefits 2011 [502] Cancelled
September 11 Entourage 2004 [503] Ended
September 12 Kate Plus 8 2010 [504] Canceled
September 15 LA Ink 2007 [505] Canceled
September 16 Judge Jeanine Pirro 2008 [506] Canceled
September 23 All My Children 1970 [507] Canceled
September 24 Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood 2010 Ended
October 3 The Playboy Club 2011 [154] Canceled
October 5 Free Agents 2011 [508] Canceled
October 5 H8R 2011 [509] Canceled
October 15 How to Be a Gentleman 2011 [510] Canceled
November 10 Charlie's Angels 2011 [511] Canceled
November 12 Back at the Barnyard 2007 Ended
November 18 Batman: The Brave and the Bold 2008 [512] Ended
November 18 Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns 2009 Ended
December 6 Man Up 2011 [513] Canceled
December 9 I'm in the Band 2009 [514] Canceled
December 15 The Joy Behar Show 2009 [515] Ended
December 30 American Morning 2001 [516] Canceled

Stations changing network affiliation

The following is a list of television stations making noteworthy network affiliation changes during 2011.

Date Market Station Channel Prior Affiliation New Affiliation Source
January 1 Los Angeles KCET-TV 28.1 PBS Public independent [3]
April 18 Salinas/Monterey KSBW 8.2 independent ABC [517]
April 27 Albany, GA WALB-DT2 10.2 This TV ABC [518]
May 1 Toccoa, GA WUGA-TV 32.1 independent (as WNEG-TV) PBS/GPB [519]
July 1 Evansville, IN WEVV-DT2 44.2 MyNetworkTV Fox (primary); MyNetworkTV (secondary) [520]
July 1 Evansville, IN WTVW 7.1 Fox independent [521]
July 1 Orlando WMFE-TV 24.1 PBS V-me [81]
August 1 Buffalo, NY WBBZ-TV 67.1 This TV (as WNGS) MeTV [522]
August 1 Fort Wayne, IN WFFT-TV 55.1 Fox independent [194]
August 1 Fort Wayne, IN WISE-DT2 33.2 MyNetworkTV Fox (primary); MyNetworkTV (secondary) [194]
September 1 Boise, ID KNIN-TV 9.1 The CW Fox [520]
September 1 Boise, ID KTRV-TV 12.1 Fox independent [523]
September 1 Springfield, MO KOZL-TV 27.1 Fox (as KSFX-TV) independent [524]
September 1 Springfield, MO KRBK 49.1 MyNetworkTV Fox (primary); MyNetworkTV (secondary) [194]
September 1 Terre Haute, IN WAWV 38.1 Fox (as WFXW) ABC [525]
September 1 Terre Haute, IN WTHI-DT2 10.2 TheCoolTV Fox (primary); MyNetworkTV (secondary) [526]
September 12 Boise, ID KYUU-LP
KBOI-DT2		 35
2.2		 RTV The CW [527]
September 12 Victoria, TX KUNU-LP
KAVU-DT3		 41
25.3		 MyNetworkTV CBS [528]
September 19 Derry, NH WBIN-TV 50.1 MyNetworkTV independent [529]
September 19 Boston, MA WSBK-TV 38.1 independent station MyNetworkTV [529]
September 29 Santa Rosa, CA KEMO-TV 50.1 MeTV (as KFTY) Azteca America [188]

Television station sign-on and sign-offs

Sign-Ons

Date Market Station Channel Affiliation Source
September 1 Juneau, AK KJUD 8.3 ABC [530]

Sign-Offs

Date Market Station Channel Affiliation Sign-on debut Source
March 31 Hagatna, Guam KTKB 26 The CW/Universal Sports April 20, 2009 [531]

Deaths

Date Name Age Notability Source
January 2 Anne Francis 80 American television and film actress (Honey West, Dallas, Riptide) [532]
January 3 Pete Postlethwaite 64 British television, film, and stage actor (Alice in Wonderland) [533]
January 11 David Nelson 74 American television/radio/film actor and producer (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet) [534]
January 12 Paul Picerni 88 American film and television actor (The Untouchables). [535]
January 12 Margaret Whiting 86 American singer-songwriter and actress (Those Whiting Girls) [536]
January 13 John Dye 47 American television, film and theater actor (Touched by an Angel) [537]
January 13 Dan Filie 56 Screenwriter (Spartacus: Blood and Sand), producer (Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess) [538]
January 16 Susannah York 72 British actress (A Christmas Carol, Emmy-nominated appearance in Jane Eyre, guest appearance on The Love Boat) [539]
January 17 Don Kirshner 77 American music executive, producer, songwriter and TV/radio personality (Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, ABC In Concert, The Monkees, The Archie Show) [540]
January 19 Bob Young 87 American news reporter/anchor (ABC Evening News, WCBS-TV) [541]
January 20 Liz Dribben 73 American radio and television journalist (Dialing for Dollars on WKBW-TV, CBS News). [542]
January 23 Jack LaLanne 96 American television personality and fitness guru (The Jack LaLanne Show) [543]
January 24 David Frye 77 American political impressionist and comedian (The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour) [544]
January 25 Bruce Gordon 94 American film and television actor (The Untouchables). [545]
January 26 Stefanie Kowal 69 Former production executive with Universal Television (Centennial, The Four Seasons) [546]
January 27 Charlie Callas 83 American actor and comedian (Love, American Style; Switch; Hart To Hart) [547]
January 30 John Barry 77 British music composer (James Bond theme, Eleanor and Franklin; Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years; Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy; USA Today: The Television Show) [548]
February 5 Marcia Adams 75 Cooking expert & author (host of Public TV's Marcia Adams' Kitchen) [549]
February 5 Peggy Rea 89 American television character actress (The Waltons and The Dukes of Hazzard) [550]
February 9 Robert F. Schenkkan, Sr. 93 Public broadcasting executive (Co-founder of KLRN) and advocate (advised President Johnson on Public Broadcasting Act of 1967) [551]
February 10 Jon Petrovich 63 Former local news reporter (WHAS-TV), news director (WDIV-TV, WBAL-TV), and executive with CNN [552]
February 11 Tom Carnegie 91 Indianapolis radio/TV sportscaster (WFBM/WRTV, 1953–1985), public address voice of Indianapolis Motor Speedway [553]
February 12 Betty Garrett 91 American television, film and stage actress, singer, dancer and comedienne (Laverne & Shirley and All in the Family) [554]
February 12 Kenneth Mars 75 American television and film comedic actor (Malcolm in the Middle, Fernwood Tonight, He & She) and animation voice actor (The Jetsons, Uncle Croc's Block, The Little Mermaid) [555]
February 14 John Strauss 90 Film/TV musician (composed themes to Car 54, Where Are You? and The Phil Silvers Show; Emmy winner for sound editing on The Amazing Howard Hughes) [556]
February 16 Len Lesser 88 Film/TV/stage actor (Uncle Leo on Seinfeld) [557]
February 17 Bill Monroe 90 Washington, D.C. bureau chief for NBC News, moderator of Meet the Press [558]
February 18 Nancy Carr 50 American television and PR executive for CBS, Fox and Hallmark Channel [559]
February 22 Dwayne McDuffie 49 American comic book and TV series writer (Ben 10, Ben 10: Alien Force, Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, Static Shock, Justice League/Justice League Unlimited) [560]
February 28 Jane Russell 89 American film actress and TV spokesperson for Playtex [561]
March 3 Al Morgan 91 Novelist/playwright, producer of Today from 1961 to 1968 [562]
March 4 Frank Chirkinian 84 Director/producer for CBS Sports (worked on numerous events, including 38 years on Masters golf telecasts) [563]
March 9 David Broder 81 American political columnist (panelist on Meet The Press from 1960 to 2008) [564]
March 15 Nathaniel "Nate Dogg" Hale 41 American Hip-Hop singer and actor (guest appearances on The Sopranos and The Boondocks, 2002 contestant on The Weakest Link) [565]
March 15 James Pritchett 88 Soap opera and stage actor (As the World Turns, The Doctors, Guiding Light) [566]
March 17 Ferlin Husky 85 American Country music singer, actor, and radio personality (Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, Kraft Television Theatre) [567]
March 22 Barry Ackerley 76 Former Chairman/CEO of Ackerley Group (TV/radio station ownership) [568]
March 23 Elizabeth Taylor 79 British-American actress and humanitarian (starring roles on TV included Malice in Wonderland, These Old Broads, and Divorce His, Divorce Hers; supporting roles on General Hospital, All My Children and North and South; guest appearances on Here's Lucy and The Nanny; voiced baby Maggie's only word to date on The Simpsons) [569]
March 24 Lanford Wilson 73 American playwright (his play The Hot l Baltimore was adopted for a 1975 TV series, while his play Fifth of July was adapted for a 1982 episode of American Playhouse). [570]
March 26 Geraldine Ferraro 75 American politician and television political analyst/commentator (Crossfire) [571]
March 26 Larry Fraiberg 89 American TV executive (VP/GM of WTTG and WNEW-TV, president of Metromedia and Group W) [572]
March 26 Jobie Martin 93 American television/radio personality, businessman, and educator (host of The Jobie Martin Show at WLBT/Jackson, Mississippi) [573]
March 27 Corey "DJ Megatron" McGriff 32 American television/radio personality, presenter, musician and remixer (106 & Park) [574]
March 28 David Smith 55 President/CEO of Mission Broadcasting [572]
April 9 Sidney Lumet 86 American film/broadway/television/stage producer, director, playwright, and screeenwriter (Danger, Mama, You Are There, Playhouse 90, Kraft Television Theatre) [575]
April 14 Jon Cedar 80 Actor (Corporal Langenscheidt on Hogan's Heroes) [576]
April 16 Sol Saks 100 Comedy series writer (My Favorite Husband, Mr. Adams and Eve, I Married Joan, creator of Bewitched) [577]
April 18 Michael Sarrazin 70 Canadian actor (TV work including The Christmas Choir, "The Quickening" episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, 1978 guest host on Saturday Night Live) [578]
April 20 Madelyn Pugh Davis 90 Comedy series writer/producer (I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show, The Mothers-in-Law, Here's Lucy, Alice, Life With Lucy) [579]
April 20 Hubert Schlafly 91 Satellite television pioneer, inventor of the teleprompter [580]
April 21 William J. McCarter, Jr. 81 Public television executive (WETA-TV/Washington, WTTW/Chicago), creator of Washington Week in Review and The McLaughlin Group [581]
April 25 Phoebe Snow 60 American singer and songwriter (appearances on Reading Rainbow, Roseanne, Saturday Night Live; wrote and performed WDIV/Detroit's "Go 4 It" promos) [582]
April 26 John Cossette 54 Executive producer for the Grammy Award telecasts [583]
April 26 Roger Gimbel 86 Emmy-winning producer (A War of Children, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman) [584]
April 27 Marian Mercer 75 American film, stage and television actress (Nancy Bebe on It's a Living) [585]
April 29 Howard J. Brown 87 Owner, president and founder of United Communications Corporation, an owner of TV stations and newspapers [586]
May 3 Jackie Cooper 88 Actor (The People's Choice, Hennesey), executive with Screen Gems, director (Hennesey, M*A*S*H, The White Shadow) [587]
May 4 Sada Thompson 83 Actress (Kate Lawrence on Family, Mrs. Gibbs in 1977 TV production of Our Town) [588]
May 9 Jeff Gralnick 83 News reporter/producer for CBS; news executive for ABC, NBC, and CNN; executive producer for ABC World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News [589]
May 10 Mia Amber Davis 36 American plus-size model, television producer, style consultant, and actress (appearances in The Tyra Banks Show and Rip the Runway; stand-in for Queen Latifah in the in 2007 HBO TV film Life Support) [590]
May 10 Burt Reinhardt 91 First president of CNN [591]
May 10 Norma Zimmer 87 American vocalist, best known as the "Champagne Lady" on The Lawrence Welk Show [592]
May 11 Tina Gulland 62 Reporter for Washington, D.C. area radio and TV stations and former head of television and radio projects for the Washington Post and co-owned Post-Newsweek Stations. [593]
May 12 Daryl Hawks 38 Sportscaster, WMAQ-TV/Chicago, among other stations [594]
May 14 Joseph Wershba 90 Reporter/producer with CBS News (See It Now, 60 Minutes) [595]
May 15 Barbara Stuart 81 Actress (I Led Three Lives, Pete and Gladys, Gomer Pyle, USMC, Our Family Honor, Huff) [596]
May 19 Phyllis Avery 88 Actress (TV roles including Meet Mr. McNutley and The Secret Storm) [597]
May 20 Randy Savage 58 American wrestler (WWE/F and WCW, as "Macho Man Randy Savage"), actor and television personality (appearances in Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Duck Dodgers, Family Guy, The Weird Al Show, Mad About You, Baywatch, The Jeff Foxworthy Show), commercial spokesperson (Slim Jim) [598]
May 24 Mark Haines 65 American journalist (co-anchor of CNBC's Squawk on the Street and Squawk Box) [599]
May 25 Paul Splittorff 64 American pitcher and TV color commentator, both for the Kansas City Royals [600]
May 26 Flick Colby 65 American-born British dancer and choreographer (co-founder/creator of Pan's People, Ruby Flipper, Legs & Co. and Zoo during her tenure on the BBC 1 chart show Top of the Pops and The John Denver Show) [601]
May 27 Jeff Conaway 60 American actor (Taxi, Babylon 5, Wizards and Warriors) and reality show participant (Celebrity Fit Club, Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew) [602]
May 30 Robert Foster 72 Writer/producer (Run for Your Life, The Bold Ones, Kojak, Knight Rider) [603]
May 30 Clarice Taylor 93 American television, film and stage actress (Anna Huxtable on The Cosby Show, Harriet on Sesame Street) [604]
June 3 James Arness 88 American actor (Marshal Matt Dillon in Gunsmoke, How the West Was Won, McClain's Law) [605]
June 3 Andrew Gold 59 American singer and songwriter, wrote theme songs to The Golden Girls and Mad About You [606]
June 7 Leonard B. Stern 87 American television producer, director and writer (Get Smart, McMillan and Wife) [607]
June 10 Jim Rodnunsky 54 Camera pioneer (inventor of the cablecam) [608]
June 15 Bob Banner 89 Director/producer (The Dinah Shore Chevy Show, The Carol Burnett Show, Candid Camera, Solid Gold, Star Search) [609]
June 18 Clarence Clemons 69 Saxophonist and actor (Appeared in Super Bowl XLIII halftime show as member of E Street Band, guest appearances on Diff'rent Strokes, The Wire, My Wife and Kids) [610]
June 20 Ryan Dunn 34 American reality television participant, stuntman, presenter and actor (Jackass, Viva La Bam, Homewrecker, Bam's Unholy Union, Bam's World Domination, Proving Ground, Minute to Win It) [611]
June 23 Peter Falk 83 Emmy-winning American actor (Columbo) [612]
June 23 Fred Steiner 88 American television composer (Perry Mason, Star Trek, The Twilight Zone) [613]
June 25 Nick Charles 64 American sportscaster (co-anchor of Sports Tonight; boxing analyst for Showtime) [614]
June 27 Elaine Stewart 81 Actress (appearances on Bat Masterson, Burke's Law and Perry Mason) and game show hostess (Gambit, High Rollers) [615]
July 1 B. Donald "Bud" Grant 79 Programming executive with NBC and CBS, independent producer [616]
July 8 Sam Denoff 83 American comedy television screenwriter, creator and producer (co-writer for The Dick Van Dyke Show, McHale's Navy and The Joey Bishop Show; co-creator of That Girl and Good Morning, World, the latter inspired by his early radio career) [617]
July 12 Sherwood Schwartz 94 American television producer and writer (creator of Gilligan's Island and The Brady Bunch) [618]
July 21 Bruce Sundlun 91 American politician (Governor of Rhode Island) and former CEO of The Outlet Company, which later became Outlet Communications [619]
July 22 Tom Aldredge 83 American film, stage and television actor (The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, Ryan's Hope, Daytime Emmy Award-winner for playing William Shakespeare in the 1978 "The CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People" presentation "Henry Winkler meets William Shakespeare") [620]
July 23 Amy Winehouse 27 Grammy Award-winning British singer-songwriter (Appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman and MTV Movie Awards) [621]
July 24 G. D. Spradlin 90 American film and television actor (Gomer Pyle, USMC, I Spy, Dragnet, War and Remembrance) [622]
July 26 Elmer Lower 98 American journalist and news executive (president of ABC News, 1963-1974) [572]
August 3 Bubba Smith 66 American football player (as member of the Baltimore Colts, including their win in Super Bowl V against the Dallas Cowboys), actor (appearances in Married... With Children) and spokesperson (Miller Lite's "Great Taste, Less Filling" ad campaign) [623]
August 3 Annette Charles 63 American actress and dancer (Appearances in Man from Atlantis, Centennial, Magnum, P.I., The Flying Nun, Gunsmoke, Barnaby Jones and The Bionic Woman) [624]
August 8 Carolyn Chambers 79 Founder/CEO of Chambers Communications Corporation, founder of Liberty Communications [572]
August 13 Vic Dunlop 62 American comedian, actor and television personality (Harper Valley PTA, Make Me Laugh) [625]
August 19 Lane Venardos 67 Emmy-Award winning television news producer for CBS News and consultant on CBS' reality-based programs [626]
August 20 Patricia Hardy 80 American actress (The Loretta Young Show, Perry Mason, Lassie, Schlitz Playhouse of Stars) [627]
August 24 Mike Flanagan 59 Cy Young Award winning pitcher and announcer for the Baltimore Orioles. [628]
September 5 Charles Dubin 92 Director (Omnibus, Twenty-One, Lou Grant, M*A*S*H, Square One TV) [629]
September 6 Donald F. Taffner, Sr. 80 Producer and distributor (Three's Company, Too Close For Comfort, The Benny Hill Show) [630]
September 8 Mary Fickett 83 Emmy Award-winning actress (All My Children) [631]
September 11 Andy Whitfield 39 Welsh actor (Spartacus: Blood and Sand) [632]
September 15 Frances Bay 92 Canadian-born American actress (Seinfeld, Happy Days, The Middle) [633]
October 3 Don Lapre 47 American television infomercial pitchman [634]
October 3 Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr. 92 President (1957-1975) and chairman (1975-1983) of the ACNielsen ratings and marketing research service [635]
October 4 Joe Aceti 76 Director for ABC Sports, CBS Sports, and Fox Sports [636]
October 5 Steve Jobs 56 Founder, and later CEO, of Apple Inc. (Oversaw the creation of, and helped adapted, television programs and other media platforms, for use on Apple's iPod, iPad, Apple TV, and iPhone devices) [637]
October 5 Charles Napier 75 American character actor (Star Trek, Murder, She Wrote, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide) and voice actor (The Simpsons, The Critic) [638]
October 6 Doris Belack 85 American television actress (One Life To Live, Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) [639]
October 16 Sue Mengers 81 German-born American entertainment talent/booking agent and manager for television, film and music performers. [640]
October 16 Dan Wheldon 33 British IndyCar Series auto racer (two-time Indianapolis 500 winner), part-time IRL analyst for Versus, guest voice appearance in Hot Wheels Battle Force 5 (Died from injuries suffered in a crash at an IRL race in Las Vegas) [641]
October 22 Robert Pierpoint 86 Correspondent for CBS News (1951-1990), voiceover appearance on M*A*S*H's series finale [642]
October 26 Dan Burke 82 Former President and CEO of Capital Cities Communications and ABC [643]
October 31 Gilbert Cates 77 Executive Producer for the Academy Awards telecasts and a member of the Academy's Board of Governors, president of the Directors Guild of America, composer, and dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television [644]
November 2 Sid Melton 94 American television actor (Green Acres, Make Room for Daddy, Captain Midnight) [645]
November 4 Andy Rooney 92 American journalist and writer (60 Minutes) [244]
November 8 Dwight Arrington "Heavy D" Myers 44 Jamaican born-American rapper/singer-songwriter, music producer, record label executive, and actor (composed and performed the theme songs to In Living Color and Mad TV; acting credits include Boston Public and Living Single) [646]
November 8 Hal Bruno 83 American television reporter and political correspondent for ABC News from 1978 to 1999 [647]
November 21 Jean Yoo 36 Korean-born American television anchorwoman for KSCI/Los Angeles [648]
November 23 Tim Cuprisin 53 Television/radio critic and reviewer for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and OnMilwaukee.com [649]
December 1 Alan Sues 85 American comedian and actor (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In) [650]
December 7 Harry Morgan 96 American actor (M*A*S*H, Dragnet, Pete and Gladys, December Bride, Hec Ramsey) [651]
December 11 Susan Gordon 62 American actress (Notable role as the handicapped girl in the 1962 Twilight Zone episode "The Fugitive") [652]
December 11 Bonnie Prudden 97 American physical fitness instructor, author, and health advocate (Host of her own series and contributor to The Today Show) [653]
December 28 Kaye Stevens 79 Singer/actress (appearances on The Tonight Show, regular role on Days of Our Lives) [654]
December 30 Doug Sellars 50 Producer and executive with Fox Sports [655]

Notes

  1. ^ The World Poker Tour was launched in 2002, but the first season was not televised until 2003.

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  467. ^ a b "Don’t Forget The Lyrics!" and "Fifth Grader" Cancelled". Buzzerblog. http://buzzerblog.flashgameshows.com/dont-forget-the-lyrics-and-fifth-grader-cancelled/. Retrieved 25 March 2011. 
  468. ^ CMT Cancels Sitcom 'Working Class'
  469. ^ FX Cancels ‘Light's Out' Multichannel News March 24, 2011
  470. ^ Cartoon Network Cancels 'Sym-Bionic Titan' "Cartoon Brew March 25, 2011
  471. ^ NBC Cancels 'The Paul Reiser' Show TV By The Numbers April 22, 2011
  472. ^ Final week of #gigantic people. - Tony Oller Twitter account
  473. ^ America’s Next Great Restaurant: NBC Series Cancelled, No Season Two TV Series Finale May 216, 2011
  474. ^ Gorman, Bill (April 26, 2011). "'The Suite Life On Deck' Series Finale Premieres May 6 On Disney Channel". TV by the Numbers. http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/04/26/the-suite-life-on-deck-series-finale-premieres-may-6-on-disney-channel/90638. Retrieved April 26, 2011. 
  475. ^ 'Stargate Universe' Canceled TV By The Numbers December 16, 2010
  476. ^ NBC Picks Up Four Comedies, Renews Chuck for Fifth and Final Season TV Guide May 13, 2011
  477. ^ Smallville: Canceled or Just Ending? Either Way, No Season 11 TV Series Finale May 13, 2010
  478. ^ Silent Library Facebook page
  479. ^ 'Nikita,' 'One Tree Hill' Renewed; Hellcats Cancelled by CW TV By The Numbers May 17, 2011
  480. ^ Final Chase Episodes to Air Saturdays
  481. ^ Final Four Episodes of Fox's "Running Wilde" Will Be Burned Off on FX TV By The Numbers April 18, 2011
  482. ^ 'The Event' Has Been Cancelled by NBC, But Is There Still Hope? Gather.com' May 13, 2011
  483. ^ Exclusive: Fox cancels 'The Chicago Code' HitFix May 10, 2011
  484. ^ CSI: NY Renewed; Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior Canceled By CBS TV By The Numbers May 17, 2011
  485. ^ 'The Hard Times of RJ Berger' Canceled by MTV TV By The Numbers August 12, 2011
  486. ^ "Drew Carey's Twitter". https://twitter.com/#!/DrewFromTV/status/106901847700291584. Retrieved 2011-08-25. 
  487. ^ Camelot: Starz TV Series Cancelled, No Season Two TVSeriesFinale.com July 1, 2011
  488. ^ Seidman, Robert (2010-03-11). "Nickelodeon To Launch 6 New Series; New Seasons of 16 Existing Series". TV By the Numbers. http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/03/11/nickelodeon-to-launch-6-new-series-new-seasons-of-16-existing-series/44667. Retrieved 2010-05-31. 
  489. ^ United States of Tara: Showtime Comedy Cancelled; No Season Four TV Series Finale May 23, 2011
  490. ^ "Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution chopped from American TV in yet another blow to his crusade". London: Daily Mail. May 5, 2011. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1383582/Jamie-Olivers-Food-Revolution-chopped-American-TV-blow-crusade.html?ito=feeds-newsxml. Retrieved 5 May 2011. 
  491. ^ "Show Tracker". The Los Angeles Times. September 21, 2010. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/09/law-order-criminal-intent-renewed-vincent-donofrio-returning.html. 
  492. ^ TNT Drops 'Men Of A Certain Age' Multichannel News July 15, 2011
  493. ^ Exclusive: NBC to Wrap "Love Bites" on July 21, Leaving One Episode Shelved The Futon Critic July 11, 2011
  494. ^ CNN Shakeup: 'AC360' Moved to 8 p.m.; ‘In the Arena' Off Schedule Multichannel News July 6, 2011
  495. ^ TBS Cancels Lopez Tonight TV By The Numbers August 10, 2011
  496. ^ 'The Nine Lives Of Chloe King' Canceled By ABC Family TV By The Numbers September 15, 2011
  497. ^ 'Hawthorne' Canceled By TNT TV By The Numbers September 2, 2011
  498. ^ "TNT Cancels Jason Lee's Memphis Beat" from TV Line (October 14, 2011)
  499. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (September 16, 2011). "UPDATE: ABC Family Renews ‘Make It Or Break It’, Gives Back Order To ‘Lying Game’, Picks Up 4 Pilots, Cancels ‘State Of Georgia’". Deadline.com. http://www.deadline.com/2011/09/abc-family-renews-make-it-or-break-it-gives-back-order-to-lying-game-and-picks-up-4-pilots-2-dramas-2-comedies/. 
  500. ^ It’s Not Over…..It’s Just The Beginning, August 6, 2011, Keke Palmer's (the star of True Jackson, VP) blog post from official website
  501. ^ “Rescue Me” will conclude its run on Sept. 6 Hollywood News January 15, 2011
  502. ^ DailyPreliminary BroadcastCable FinalsBroadcast Finals. "TV Ratings Friday: 'Dateline' Leads NBC Win; 'Friends With Benefits' Finale, 'Karaoke Battle' Rise - Ratings | TVbytheNumbers". Tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com. http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/09/12/friday-final-broadcast-ratings-friends-with-benefits-finale-dateline-adjusted-down/103271/. Retrieved September 12, 2011. 
  503. ^ Entourage: Kevin Connolly to Direct Series' Penultimate Episode TV Guide May 31, 2011
  504. ^ Kate Gosselin's reality show cancelled by TLC: End of an era! Entertainment Weekly August 15, 2011
  505. ^ Gonzalez, Sandra (August 18, 2009). "TLC cancels 'LA Ink'". Entertainment Weekly. http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/08/18/tlc-cancels-la-ink/. Retrieved August 19, 2011. 
  506. ^ Broadcasting & Cable: "'Dr. Phil' Becomes Syndie's Top-Talker as 'Oprah' Waves Goodbye", June 14, 2011.
  507. ^ Huffington Post: "'All My Children', 'One Life To Live' Canceled By ABC", April 14, 2011.
  508. ^ Updated: NBC Cancels 'Free Agents' TV By The Numbers October 6, 2011
  509. ^ H8R Canceled by CW TV By The Numbers October 6, 2011
  510. ^ "'How to Be a Gentleman' Now More Canceled Than Ever, Pulled from CBS's Saturday Lineup" from TV By The Numbers (October 18, 2011)
  511. ^ ABC Cancels Charlie's Angels IsMyShowCanceled.com October 14, 2011
  512. ^ Dan Iverson (2010-07-23). "SDCC 10: The Joker Finally Kills Batman - TV News at IGN". Tv.ign.com. http://tv.ign.com/articles/110/1108206p1.html. Retrieved 2011-01-02. 
  513. ^ "'Man Up!' Pulled From ABC's Schedule, Replaced By 'Last Man Standing' Repeats" from TV By The Numbers (December 8, 2011)
  514. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (April 28, 2011). "Disney XD Cancels Comedy 'I'm In The Band'". Deadline.com. http://www.deadline.com/2011/04/disney-xd-cancels-comedy-im-in-the-band/. Retrieved April 29, 2011. 
  515. ^ Joy Behar To Leave HLN At Year End TV By The Numbers November 16, 2011
  516. ^ CNN 'American Morning' Signs Off
  517. ^ "Local ABC affiliate coming soon," from Santa Cruz Sentinel, 4/8/2011
  518. ^ WALB to carry ABC programs on 2nd Channel WALB April 27, 2011
  519. ^ Station officially changes hands Red and Black May 2, 2011
  520. ^ a b "Fox Inks New Affiliation Agreements, Scraps Others," from Broadcasting & Cable, 5/11/2011
  521. ^ "WTVW To Debut Expanded Local Lineup," from TVNewsCheck, 6/28/2011
  522. ^ Pergament, Alan (July 26, 2011). WNGS owner hopes to create buzz with WBBZ. Stilltalkintv.com. Retrieved July 29, 2011.
  523. ^ "Fox Affiliate KTRV Boise Going Independent," from Broadcasting & Cable, 6/14/2011
  524. ^ KSFX Becomes KOZL "Ozarks Local" on September 1
  525. ^ "Nexstar's WFXW Switching From Fox to ABC," from Broadcasting & Cable, 6/28/2011
  526. ^ Fox Lines Up New Terre Haute Affiliate, TVNewsCheck, August 25, 2011.
  527. ^ "CW lands with Fisher in Boise," from RBR.com, 6/13/2011
  528. ^ CBS signs affiliation with KXTS in Victoria, The Victoria Advocate, August 17, 2011.
  529. ^ a b "WSBK Boston Partners With MyNet," from Broadcasting & Cable, 6/20/2011
  530. ^ "Fox Inks Affiliate in Tiny Juneau," from Broadcasting & Cable, 6/1/2011
  531. ^ Iriarte, Hannah Cho (April 1, 2011). "No more gossip, models and vampires: CW4 television channel ceases operations". Pacific Daily News. http://www.guampdn.com/article/20110401/LIFESTYLE/104010339/No-more-gossip-models-vampires-CW4-television-channel-ceases-operations. Retrieved April 30, 2011. 
  532. ^ "'Forbidden Planet' star Anne Francis dies at 80" from MSNBC.com (January 3, 2011)
  533. ^ "'Oscar-nominated star Pete Postlethwaite dies at 64" from Yahoo.com (January 3, 2011)
  534. ^ "'David Nelson dies at 74; last surviving member of the TV sitcom family" from Los Angeles Times (January 12, 2011)
  535. ^ "Paul Picerni, Actor in ‘Untouchables,’ Dies at 88" from New York Times (January 20, 2011)
  536. ^ "'Singer Margaret Whiting Passes" from All Access (January 13, 2011)
  537. ^ "'Touched by an Angel' star John Dye has died; was former Memphian" from The Commercial Appeal (January 13, 2011)
  538. ^ "Writer-Producer Dan Filie Dies", from hollywoodreporter.com, 1/17/2011
  539. ^ "Susannah York, British Actress, Dies at 72" from New York Times (January 17, 2011)
  540. ^ "Pop/Rock Impresario Don Kirshner Passes" from All Access (January 18, 2011)
  541. ^ Obituary for Bob Young from NorthJersey.com, 1/25/2011
  542. ^ "Radio Remembers: CBS News' Liz Dribben; station owner John Anderson". Radio-Info.com. January 22, 2011. http://www.radio-info.com/news/radio-remembers-cbs-news-liz-dribben-station-owner-john-anderson. 
  543. ^ "Fitness Guru Jack LaLanne Dies at Age 96". KTLA. 23 January 2011. http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-jack-lalanne-obit,0,6090474.story. Retrieved 24 January 2011. 
  544. ^ Grimes, William (29 January 2011). "David Frye, Perfectly Clear Nixon Parodist, Dies at 77". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/29/arts/29frye.html?_r=1. Retrieved 29 January 2011. 
  545. ^ "Bruce Gordon, TV Mobster, Dies at 94" from New York Times, 1/26/2011
  546. ^ Obituary for Stefanie Kowal from The Hollywood Reporter, 2/2/2011
  547. ^ "Comedian Charlie Callas dies in Las Vegas" from Los Angeles Times (January 28, 2011)
  548. ^ "John Barry, 1933-2011" from Boston Globe (January 30, 2011)
  549. ^ Obituary for Marcia Adams from current.org, posted 2/6/2011
  550. ^ "Dukes of Hazzard" actress Peggy Rea dies, age 89 from Yahoo via Reuters (February 11, 2011)
  551. ^ Obituary for Robert Schenkkan from current.org, posted 2/10/2011
  552. ^ Obituary for Jon Petrovich from tvnewscheck.com, 2/11/2011
  553. ^ "'Voice of the Speedway' Tom Carnegie dies at 91", from Indianapolis Star, 2/11/2011
  554. ^ "'Betty Garrett, versatile comedic actress, dies at 91", from Los Angeles Times, 2/13/2011
  555. ^ "'PASSINGS: Kenneth Mars", from Los Angeles Times, 2/13/2011
  556. ^ Obituary for John Strauss from New York Times, 2/17/2011
  557. ^ "'Seinfeld's' Uncle Leo, Len Lesser, Dies", from Hollywood Reporter, 2/16/2011
  558. ^ "Ex-'Meet the Press' moderator Bill Monroe dies" from the Washington Post "Post Mortem" blog, 2/17/2011
  559. ^ "PR Veteran Nancy Carr Dies at 50" from the Hollywood Reporter, 2/18/2011
  560. ^ Milestone Creator Dwayne McDuffie has Died from the Comic Book Resource, 2/22/2011
  561. ^ "Jane Russell, film siren who sizzled on-screen in 'The Outlaw,' dies at 89" from Washington Post (February 28, 2011)
  562. ^ Obituary for Al Morgan from The New York Times, 3/14/2011
  563. ^ Obituary for Frank Chirkinian from The New York Times, 3/5/2011
  564. ^ "David Broder, 81, dies; set 'gold standard' for political journalism" from Washington Post, 3/10/2011
  565. ^ "Rapper Nate Dogg Dies at 41: Report" from Billboard (March 15, 2011)
  566. ^ Obituary for James Pritchett from The Hollywood Reporter, 3/30/2011
  567. ^ "Ferlin Husky, Country Music Pioneer, Dead At 85" from Billboard (March 18, 2011)
  568. ^ Obituary for Barry Ackerley from Radio-Info, 3/21/2011
  569. ^ "Film legend Elizabeth Taylor dies at 79" from Yahoo! via AP (March 15, 2011)
  570. ^ Playwright Lanford Wilson Dies at 73 Broadway World March 24, 2011
  571. ^ First female VP candidate Ferraro dies at 75 Yahoo! March 26, 2011
  572. ^ a b c d Source: 2011 Honor Roll from TVNewsCheck, 12/21/2011
  573. ^ Jobie Martin, 93, killed in wreck The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS) March 26, 2011
  574. ^ "DJ Megatron shot and killed in Staten Island; BET host pronounced dead early Sunday" from New York Daily News (March 27, 2011)
  575. ^ "Lumet, '12 Angry Men' and 'Network' director, dies (AP)" from Yahoo/AP (April 9, 2011)
  576. ^ Obituary for Jon Cedar from Hollywood Reporter, 4/19/2011
  577. ^ Obituary for Sol Saks from Hollywood Reporter, 4/19/2011
  578. ^ Actor Michael Sarrazin dies at 70 from CBC News, (April 18, 2011)
  579. ^ Obituary for Madelyn Pugh Davis from Los Angeles Times, 4/22/2011
  580. ^ Hubert 'Hub' Schlafly, Teleprompter Inventor, Dies at 91 Multichannel News April 27, 2011
  581. ^ "A giant passes..." from Time Out Chicago, 4/22/2011
  582. ^ "Phoebe Snow Passes At 58" from All Access (April 26, 2011)
  583. ^ "Grammy Producer John Cossette Dead At 54" from All Access (April 27, 2011)
  584. ^ "Emmy-Winning Producer Roger Gimbel Dies At 86," from TVNewsCheck, 4/28/2011
  585. ^ Hevesi, Dennis (May 4, 2011). "Marian Mercer, Actress With Zany Streak, Is Dead at 75". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/05/theater/marian-mercer-actress-with-zany-streak-dies-at-75.html. 
  586. ^ WWNY mourns loss of station owner Howard Brown. WWNY-TV. Retrieved 2011-04-29.
  587. ^ Obituary for Jackie Cooper from Los Angeles Times, 5/5/2011
  588. ^ Obituary for Sada Thompson from The New York Times, 5/5/2011
  589. ^ Obituary for Jeff Gralnick from Hollywood Reporter, 5/10/2011
  590. ^ Actress-model Mia Amber Davis dead at 36. UPI.com (May 12, 2011)
  591. ^ Former CNN president Burt Reinhardt dies at 91 from CNN, 5/11/2011
  592. ^ Norma Zimmer, TV's 'Champagne Lady,' dies at 87 from Yahoo/AP, 5/11/2011
  593. ^ Tina Gulland, Former Head Of Washington Post's Radio And TV Projects, Dead At 62. from All Access (May 13, 2011).
  594. ^ Sportscaster, originally from Buffalo, found dead in Atlanta. WBEN. Retrieved 2011-05-13.
  595. ^ "CBS News Pioneer Joseph Wershba Dies," from Associated Press via TVNewsCheck, 5/16/2011
  596. ^ Obituary for Barbara Stuart from The New York Times, 5/19/2011
  597. ^ Obituary for Phyllis Avery from Hollywood Reporter, 5/23/2011
  598. ^ Report: ‘Macho Man’ Randy Savage dies in a car crash Yahoo Sports, (May 20, 2011)
  599. ^ CNBC anchor Mark Haines dies at 65 Salon.com May 25, 2011
  600. ^ Kerkhoff, Blair. "Royals great Paul Splittorff dies," The Kansas City (MO) Star, Thursday, May 26, 2011.
  601. ^ Pan's People co-founder Flick Colby dies aged 65
  602. ^ "EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Conaway Dead At 60". Radar Online. http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2011/05/breaking-news-jeff-conaway-dead-60. Retrieved 27 May 2011. 
  603. ^ Obituary for Robert Foster from Hollywood Reporter, 6/16/2011
  604. ^ Hevesi, Dennis (June 2, 2011). "Clarice Taylor Dies at 93; TV’s Cosby Called her Mom". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/arts/television/clarice-taylor-dies-at-93-tvs-cosby-called-her-mom.html. Retrieved 2 June 2011. 
  605. ^ "'Gunsmoke' Star James Arness Dies At 88". TVNewsCheck. http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/2011/06/03/51656/james-arness-of-gunsmoke-dies-at-88. Retrieved 3 June 2011. 
  606. ^ "Andrew Gold" passes at 59" from All Access (June 6, 2011)
  607. ^ "Writer-producer-director Leonard Stern dies at 87", Mercurynews (June 8, 2011)
  608. ^ Obituary for Jim Rodunsky from Hollywood Reporter, 6/16/2011
  609. ^ Obituary for Bob Banner from The Wrap, 6/15/2011
  610. ^ Greene, Andy (June 18, 2011). "E Street Band's Clarence Clemons Dies at 69". http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/e-street-bands-clarence-clemons-dies-at-69-20110618. Retrieved June 18, 2011. 
  611. ^ Huffington Post. "Ryan Dunn Dead: 'Jackass' Star Dies In Car Crash". http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/20/ryan-dunn-dead-jackass-star-car-crash_n_880322.html. Retrieved 20 June 2011. 
  612. ^ ABC News. "Peter Falk, 'Columbo' Actor, Dies at 83". http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/columbo-star-peter-falk-dies-83/story?id=13922090. Retrieved 24 June 2011. 
  613. ^ Film Music Reporter. "Ryan Dunn Dead: 'Jackass' Star Dies In Car Crash". http://filmmusicreporter.com/2011/06/24/fred-steiner-passes-away-at-88/. Retrieved 24 June 2011. 
  614. ^ Renowned CNN sports broadcaster Nick Charles dies at 64 CNN June 25, 2011
  615. ^ Obituary for Elaine Stewart from Associated Press via TVNewsCheck, 6/28/2011
  616. ^ "Memorial for longtime CBS exec Bud Grant set," from the Los Angeles Times Company Town blog, posted 8/17/2011
  617. ^ "TV Comedy Writer Sam Denoff Dies; Got Start At WNEW/New York" from All Access (July 11, 2011)
  618. ^ Sherwood Schwartz, Creator of 'Gilligan's Island' and 'The Brady Bunch,' Dies (Video) The Hollywood Reporter July 12, 2011
  619. ^ "Former Rhode Island Governor, Outlet Communications Chief Bruce Sundlun Dies" From All Access (July 26, 2011)
  620. ^ "Tom Aldredge, Character Actor, Dies at 83" New York Times (July 26, 2011)
  621. ^ "Police: Singer Amy Winehouse Dies at Age 27" Yahoo! Music (July 23, 2011)
  622. ^ "Veteran TV and Movie Star G.D. Spradlin Dies, Aged 90" AOL TV (July 28, 2011)
  623. ^ "Legendary NFL defender Bubba Smith passes away at age 66" Yahoo! Sports (August 3, 2011)
  624. ^ Barnes, Mike (August 4, 2011). "‘Grease’ Actress Annette Charles Dies at 63". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on August 4, 2011. http://www.webcitation.org/60hMcg77j. 
  625. ^ "Standup Comic Vic Dunlop Dies at 62" from The Hollywood Reporter (August 17, 2011)
  626. ^ "Emmy-Winning CBS News Producer Lane Venardos Dies" from All Access (July 22, 2011)
  627. ^ "Actress Patricia Hardy Dies at 80" from The Hollywood Reporter (August 30, 2011)
  628. ^ Orioles Great, MASN Broadcaster Mike Flanagan Dies Multichannel News August 25, 2011
  629. ^ Obituary for Charles Dubin from New York Daily News, 9/8/2011
  630. ^ Obituary for Donald F Taffner, Sr. from Hollywood Reporter, 9/6/2011
  631. ^ Mary Fickett, a Pillar of All My Children, Dies at 83 from The New York Times, 09/12/2011
  632. ^ 'Spartacus' Star Whitfield Dies Multichannel News September 11, 2011
  633. ^ "Frances Bay dies: Remembering comedian, classic 'Seinfeld' scene" From Los Angeles Times (September 19, 2011)
  634. ^ "Phoenix-based TV pitchman dies in federal custody" from Yahoo!/ABC News (October 3, 2011)
  635. ^ Obituary for Arthur C. Nielsen Jr.] from The New York Times, 10/4/2011
  636. ^ Obituary for Joe Aceti from The New York Times, 10/10/2011
  637. ^ "Steve Jobs dies: Apple chief created personal computer, iPad, iPod, iPhone" from Yahoo! (October 5, 2011)
  638. ^ "Character actor Charles Napier dies at 75" from Yahoo (October 6, 2011)
  639. ^ "Doris Belack, Veteran TV Actress, Dead at 85" from AOLtv (October 6, 2011)
  640. ^ "Influential Hollywood Agent Sue Mengers Dies" from TV Guide (October 16, 2011)
  641. ^ "IndyCar driver Dan Wheldon dies in wreck," from Palm Beach Post (October 16, 2011)
  642. ^ Obituary for Robert Pierpoint from Associated Press/Yahoo News, 10/23/2011
  643. ^ ABC Icon Dan Burke Dies, 82 Multichannel News October 26, 2011
  644. ^ "Oscar Producer Gilbert Cates Dead at 77" from The Wrap (November 1, 2011)
  645. ^ "Sid Melton, Comic Actor of Film and TV, Dies at 94" from New York Times (November 6, 2011)
  646. ^ "Heavy D dies at 44" from Yahoo (November 8, 2011)
  647. ^ "Hal Bruno of ABC News Dies at 83" from ABC News (November 9, 2011)
  648. ^ "Local LA News Anchor Dead in Apparent Suicide" form KoreAm (November 23, 2011)
  649. ^ "Longtime Milwaukee Radio/TV Columnist Tim Cuprisin Dies At 53" from All Access (November 28, 2011)
  650. ^ "Alan Sues, a ‘Laugh-In’ Cast Mainstay, Dies at 85" from New York Times (December 2, 2011)
  651. ^ 'MASH' star Harry Morgan dies at age 96 WJRT-TV via Associated Press December 7, 2011
  652. ^ "Susan Gordon, Child Actress of the ’50s and ’60s, Dies at 62" from The Hollywood Reporter (December 14, 2011)
  653. ^ "Bonnie Prudden, 97, Dies; Promoted Fitness for TV Generation" from New York Times (December 19, 2011)
  654. ^ Obituary for Kaye Stevens from Associated Press/TVNewsCheck, 12/30/2011
  655. ^ "Fox Sports EVP of Production Doug Sellars Dies at Age 50," from Sports Video Group, 1/1/2012


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