2004 in American television
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The following is a list of events affecting American television during 2004. Events listed include television series debuts, finales, cancellations, and new channel initiations included 6teen, Atomic Betty, The Backyardigans, Battlestar Galactica, Blue's Room, Blue Collar TV, Brandy & Mr. Whiskers, The D.A., Danny Phantom, Dave the Barbarian, Deadwood, Dragon Booster, Drake & Josh, Drawn Together, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Higglytown Heroes, House M.D., LazyTown, Lost, Maya & Miguel, Megas XLR, Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends, Nanny 911, Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Peppa Pig, Phil of the Future, Postcards from Buster, ToddWorld, Winx Club, W.I.T.C.H. and Zero Hour
Events
February
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy occurs on CBS. As a result, the Federal Communications Commission strengthened its rules concerning certain types of indecency. |
| 14 | Jetix was introduced on Toon Disney and ABC Family, making it the first trade-name to be introduced as an anime-based block. |
| 22 | Sex and the City broadcasts its final episode on HBO, "An American Girl in Paris, Part Deux." |
March
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1 | On CBS, The Price Is Right broadcasts its 6,000th episode. |
| 8 | Tiffany, host of BET.com Countdown, and Young Sir, host of The Center, switch places to each other shows. |
| 15 | Game Show Network began fraying out the rebranding known as GSN. |
April
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 12 | KLSB-TV in Nacogdoches, Texas, a satellite station of NBC affiliate KETK-TV, separates from its parent station to become a CBS affiliate, returning CBS to the Tyler-Longview market for the first time since KLMG-TV became Fox affiliate KFXK-TV in April 1991. The next day, the Federal Communications Commission approves KLSB-TV's call letter change to the current KYTX. |
May
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 6 | Friends ends its run after 10 years, broadcasting the final episode, The Last One, on NBC. A spinoff, Joey, debuts on NBC the following season. |
| 11 | NBC Universal is founded by General Electric and Vivendi Universal. |
| 13 | Frasier broadcasts its final episode on NBC, "Goodnight Seattle". |
| 15 | Jimmy Fallon makes his last appearance as a cast member of NBC's Saturday Night Live, for its season finale. |
| 26 | Fantasia Barrino wins the third season of Fox's American Idol. Also, this was the first time when the series became a #1 hit in the television ratings of this season. |
| 28 | TechTV merges with G4 to form G4techTV, one of the most controversial mergers of television history as less than a year later, the merged network becomes G4 once again. |
June
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 2 | Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah, begins a long run as Jeopardy! champion. |
| 10 | TBS reintroduces its Very Funny campaign. |
| 14 | Cartoon Network reveals its new logo and cn city |
| 18 | Rodney Dangerfield (who appeared more than seventy times as a guest on The Tonight Show) makes his final appearance as a talk show guest on The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn. |
August
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 9 | David Muir resigns as co-anchor of World News Now and is replaced by Ron Corning. |
| 27 | Craig Kilborn ends his five-year run as host of The Late Late Show. |
| 28 | PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch ended. |
| Nickelodeon's successful Saturday night block, SNICK, is discontinued after 12 years. It would then be revamped as a Saturday night edition of TEENick for the 2004-2005 television season and onward until the TEENick name was dropped in February 2009. |
September
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 19 | The 56th Primetime Emmy Awards are given out on ABC. |
| 21 | Drew Daniel is the winner of the American version of Big Brother 5 on CBS. Runner-Up Michael "Cowboy" Ellis wins $50,000. |
| 28 | Longtime veteran Marcy Walker makes her final appearance on the ABC soap opera All My Children after two decades of being affiliated with the program. |
October
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 2 | Amy Poehler succeeds Jimmy Fallon as Tina Fey's co-anchor of NBC's Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update skit, making the first Weekend Update female duos. |
| Nickelodeon and its affiliated channels begin debuting special educational programming, Worldwide Day of Play, after the Let's Just Play campaign. | |
| 11 | PBS Kids debuts a programming block targeted at children aged 6-10 entitled PBS Kids Go!, with new shows Maya & Miguel and an Arthur spinoff, Postcards from Buster, debuting on this day with Cyberchase and Arthur moving to PBS Kids Go! from PBS Kids. |
November
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1 | The Young and the Restless broadcasts its 8,000th episode on CBS. |
| 7 | Dallas airs a third TV movie, Dallas Reunion: The Return to Southfork, on CBS. |
| 9 | Tiffany resigns as host of BET's The Center and is replaced by Julissa. |
| 15 | Young Sir resigns as host of BET.com Countdown and is replaced by recording artist Ray J. |
| 23 | Longtime CBS News anchor and manager editor Dan Rather announces he will step down in March. |
| 30 | After seventy-four consecutive wins, Ken Jennings finally loses on Jeopardy!, to competitor Nancy Zerg. Jennings' final cash winnings total is $2,522,700 making him the richest winner of American television history. |
December
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 2 | Tom Brokaw resigns as anchorman of NBC Nightly News and is replaced by Brian Williams. |
| 15 | CNN's financial news channel, CNNfn, is ended. |
| 16 | All My Children broadcasts its 9,000th episode. |
| 29 | Rogers Media buys remaining 20% ownership of Rogers Sportsnet from Fox. |
| General Electric, owner of NBC, purchases Universal Studios from Vivendi, leaving all six U.S. broadcast networks part of a company which also owns a movie studio. | |
| For the first time in its history, Nielsen Media Research, the official American television ratings service, began counting original shows on pay Television premium channels in its prime-time ratings.[1] At the time, most of these were broadcast by competitors HBO and Showtime, but Starz has since begun producing original shows. |
Programs
Debuts
Returning this year
| Show | Previous network | Last aired | New network | Returning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Codename: Kids Next Door | Cartoon Network | 2003 | Same | May 21 |
| The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy | June 11 |
Ending this year
| Date | Show | Debut |
|---|---|---|
| January 25 | 10-8: Officers on Duty | 2003 |
| January 28 | Becker | 1998 |
| January 29 | Threat Matrix | 2003 |
| January 30 | Boston Public | 2000 |
| Fillmore! | 2002 | |
| The Handler | 2003 | |
| February 3 | Sabrina's Secret Life | |
| February 6 | Ed | 2000 |
| Little Bill | 1999 | |
| February 7 | Scout's Safari | 2002 |
| February 12 | All About the Andersons | 2003 |
| February 14 | Lizzie McGuire | 2001 |
| February 22 | Sex and the City | 1998 |
| February 27 | Lloyd in Space | 2001 |
| February 29 | The Weekenders | 2000 |
| March 7 | Teamo Supremo | 2002 |
| March 13 | Hack | |
| March 20 | The Tracy Morgan Show | 2003 |
| March 23 | The Berenstain Bears | |
| March 25 | The Chris Isaak Show | 2001 |
| Good Morning, Miami | 2002 | |
| March 27 | What's New, Scooby-Doo? (returned in 2005) | |
| April 2 | Game Over | 2004 |
| April 4 | Home Movies | 1999 |
| April 6 | It's All Relative | 2003 |
| April 9 | Life with Bonnie | 2002 |
| April 12 | Space Ghost Coast to Coast | 1994 |
| April 14 | Karen Sisco | 2003 |
| April 16 | The Help | 2004 |
| April 20 | Happy Family | 2003 |
| Whoopi | ||
| April 22 | Like Family | |
| April 23 | Married to the Kellys | |
| April 27 | I'm with Her | |
| April 29 | The Jamie Kennedy Experiment | 2002 |
| April 30 | Living It Up! With Ali & Jack | 2003 |
| May 1 | The District | 2000 |
| May 4 | The Guardian | 2001 |
| May 6 | Friends | 1994 |
| May 7 | Run of the House | 2003 |
| May 10 | The Parkers | 1999 |
| May 13 | Frasier | 1993 |
| May 16 | The Practice | 1997 |
| May 17 | Mutant X | 2001 |
| May 19 | Angel | 1999 |
| May 21 | Ricki Lake | 1993 |
| The Wayne Brady Show | 2001 | |
| May 22 | Static Shock | 2000 |
| May 25 | Rock Me Baby | 2003 |
| May 26 | Soul Food | 2000 |
| May 28 | The Sharon Osbourne Show | 2003 |
| May 29 | Justice League | 2001 |
| May 30 | Line of Fire | 2003 |
| June 4 | Hollywood Squares | 1966 |
| June 8 | Hey Arnold! | 1996 |
| June 11 | The Wild Thornberrys | 1998 |
| June 19 | The Man Show | 1999 |
| July 5 | Ozzy & Drix | 2002 |
| July 29 | 106 & Park: Prime | 2003 |
| July 30 | Rocket Power | 1999 |
| August 1 | Rugrats | 1991 |
| August 8 | The Brothers Garcia | 2000 |
| August 27 | Johnny Bravo | 1997 |
| September 8 | The Drew Carey Show | 1995 |
| September 12 | Oliver Beene | 2003 |
| September 25 | Samurai Jack (returned in 2017) | 2001 |
| September 27 | Out of the Box | 1998 |
| October 2 | Da Boom Crew | 2004 |
| October 6 | Hawaii | |
| October 11 | SpongeBob SquarePants (returned in 2005) | 1999 |
| October 16 | Jackie Chan Adventures (returned in 2005) | 2000 |
| October 22 | Evil Con Carne | 2003 |
| October 25 | The Benefactor | 2004 |
| October 29 | Dr. Vegas | |
| All About Me | 2002 | |
| October 31 | Dead Like Me | 2003 |
| November 11 | Unscrewed with Martin Sargent | |
| November 14 | He's a Lady | 2004 |
| November 20 | Power Rangers Dino Thunder | |
| November 26 | Stanley | 2001 |
| November 27 | The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (returned in 2005) | 2002 |
| November 28 | Doc | 2001 |
| December 15 | Wonderfalls | 2004 |
Entering syndication this year
| Show | Seasons | In Production | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | 4 | Yes | [2] |
| Girlfriends | 4 | Yes | |
| Malcolm in the Middle | 4 | Yes | [3] |
| Yes, Dear | 4 | Yes |
Changes of network affiliation
| Show | Transferred from | Transferred to |
|---|---|---|
| Arthur | PBS Kids | PBS Kids Go! |
| Cyberchase | ||
| As Told by Ginger | Nickelodeon | Nicktoons |
| Fillmore! | Disney Channel | Toon Disney |
| The Surreal Life | The WB | VH1 |
| National Geographic Explorer | MSNBC | National Geographic Channel |
| Project Greenlight | HBO | Bravo |
Births
| Date | Name | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| January 7 | Sofia Wylie | Actress (Andi Mack) |
| January 26 | Addison Riecke | Actress (The Thundermans) |
| March 10 | Mace Coronel | Actors (Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn) |
| April 6 | Casey Simpson | |
| April 17 | Kyla Drew Simmons | |
| May 22 | Peyton Elizabeth Lee | Actress (Andi Mack) |
| June 4 | Mackenzie Ziegler | Actress (Dance Moms) |
| June 8 | Francesca Capaldi | Actress (Dog with a Blog) |
| December 12 | Sky Katz | Actress (Raven's Home) |
Deaths
| Date | Name | Age | Credibility |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 17 | Noble Willingham | 72 | Actor (C.D. Parker on Walker, Texas Ranger) |
| January 19 | Jerry Nachman | 57 | MSNBC editor-in-chief |
| January 23 | Bob Keeshan | 76 | Children's show host (Captain Kangaroo) |
| January 27 | Jack Paar | 85 | Host of (The Tonight Show) |
| January 29 | Mary-Ellis Bunim | 57 | Producer and co-creator of (The Real World) |
| February 15 | Jan Miner | 86 | Actress (Madge the Manicurist) |
| February 23 | Carl Anderson | 58 | Actor (Another World) |
| February 24 | John Randolph | 88 | Actor (Grand) |
| March 7 | Paul Winfield | 64 | Actor (King, 227) |
| March 8 | Robert Pastorelli | 49 | Actor (Murphy Brown) |
| March 17 | J.J. Jackson | 62 | MTV VJ |
| March 26 | Jan Sterling | 82 | Actress |
| March 27 | Art James | 74 | Game show host and announcer |
| April 1 | Carrie Snodgress | 58 | Actress |
| May 9 | Alan King | 76 | Comedian and actor |
| May 17 | Tony Randall | 84 | Actor (Felix on The Odd Couple) |
| May 21 | Gene Wood | 78 | Announcer of (Family Feud and other game shows) |
| May 22 | Richard Biggs | 44 | Actor |
| June 5 | Ronald Reagan | 93 | Actor and U.S. president; host of General Electric Theater and Death Valley Days |
| July 9 | Isabel Sanford | 86 | Actress (Louise "Weezie" Mills Jefferson on The Jeffersons) |
| July 28 | Eugene Roche | 75 | Actor (Soap, Webster, more) |
| August 13 | Julia Child | 91 | Host of The French Chef on PBS |
| September 15 | Johnny Ramone | 55 | Singer-songwriter (Ramones) |
| October 5 | Rodney Dangerfield | 82 | Actor and comedian (The Dean Martin Show, frequent Tonight Show guest) |
| October 10 | Christopher Reeve | 52 | Actor |
| November 7 | Howard Keel | 85 | Actor, singer (Clayton Farlow on Dallas) |
| December 28 | Jerry Orbach | 69 | Actor (Lennie Briscoe on Law & Order) |
See also
References
- ↑ Mike Reynolds. "Multichannel News 12/16/2008: Dexter's Third Season Finale's A Killer – Series Delivers Best Original Series Viewership Since 2004". Archived from the original on May 16, 2009. Retrieved 2009-04-14.
- ↑ from Broadcasting & Cable
- ↑ from Broadcasting & Cable
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