1995 in American television

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In American television in 1995, notable events included television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel initiations, closures and rebrandings, as well as information about controversies and disputes.

Date		Event	2	5	11	16	24
The 1994–96 United States broadcast TV realignment continues in two major markets: as a by-product of an affiliation deal between ABC and The E.W. Scripps Company, and a related deal between CBS and Westinghouse Broadcasting, Westinghouse-owned WBZ-TV (channel 4) in Boston, Massachusetts switches from NBC to CBS, while NBC aligns with former CBS affiliate WHDH (which will remain affiliated with the network until New Year's Eve 2016). In Baltimore, CBS switches affiliations to Westinghouse-owned WJZ-TV (channel 13) after 46 years as an ABC affiliate, while ABC joins Scripps-owned WMAR (channel 2) and NBC reunites with WBAL-TV (channel 11) after 13 years as a CBS affiliate. Later that year, Westinghouse acquires CBS, making both WBZ-TV and WJZ-TV CBS owned-and-operated stations.
G-Force: Guardians of Space, the second American adaptation of the Japanese anime series Science Ninja Team Gatchaman (the first being Battle of the Planets) becomes the first-ever anime to air on Cartoon Network. On January 29, Robot Carnival, Vampire Hunter D, and Twilight of the Cockroaches also debut, followed in February of next year by Speed Racer. This predates the March 1997 debut of Toonami, which will go on to popularize anime on the network and in the West.
All My Children celebrates its 25th anniversary and broadcasts a prime-time special on ABC.
In an interview with Kathleen Gingrich, mother of Republican politician Newt Gingrich, on CBS' Eye to Eye, Mrs. Gingrich said she could not say what her son thought about First Lady Hillary Clinton on the air. Connie Chung asked Mrs. Gingrich to "just whisper it to me, just between you and me," and Mrs. Gingrich's microphone volume was turned up as she replied "He thinks she's a bitch." Many people interpreted Chung's suggestion that if Mrs. Gingrich would whisper this statement it would be promised that the statement would be off the record. Bill Carter for The New York Times reported, "Ms. Chung had become the object of some of the most ferocious criticism, justified or not, ever directed at any network anchor as a result of her now infamous interview with Speaker Newt Gingrich's mother, Kathleen." The interview was also parodied on Saturday Night Live.
The WB, a joint venture between Warner Bros. Television and Tribune Broadcasting in conjunction with original network CEO Jamie Kellner, launches. Among the programs offered are four situation comedies (two family-oriented, one family-focused but adult-targeted and one adult-oriented soap opera-inspired satire): The Wayans Bros. (starring former In Living Color DJ/cast member Shawn Wayans and his younger brother, Marlon Wayans), The Parent 'Hood (starring Robert Townsend), Unhappily Ever After and Muscle. While the former three series wound up lasting five seasons, Muscle fails to survive its first season. In addition to being available on around 70 affiliates, The WB is also initially distributed directly to cable and satellite providers via the superstation feed of Chicago charter affiliate WGN-TV (owned by Tribune) to serve markets where the lack of available independent stations or stations that passed over the network in favor of fellow fledgling network UPN prevented The WB from maintaining an exclusive affiliation at launch. (This ended in August 1999, as a result of The WB gaining full-time affiliates in some underserved mid-sized markets and a small-market cable feed being launched to serve smaller markets.)
The United Paramount Network (UPN) launches, with a two-hour premiere of Star Trek: Voyager. This results in an affiliation change in San Antonio between Fox affiliate KRRT (now KMYS) and independent station KABB, as KRRT leaves Fox for the new network (due to its then-ownership by Paramount Pictures, UPN's part-owner) and KABB assumes the Fox affiliation.
The 1994–96 United States broadcast TV realignment continues in the Flint/Tri-Cities, Michigan market, as NBC affiliate WNEM-TV in Bay City and CBS affiliate WEYI-TV in Saginaw swap affiliations. The move is deemed necessary by CBS to restore coverage in areas underserved by its then-new affiliate WGPR in adjacent Detroit, since WNEM-TV's signal is stronger than that of WEYI-TV.
Live broadcasts of the O. J. Simpson trial begin; as a result, many network soap operas are partially pre-empted, more or less, for nine months.

Date		Event	6	13	31
Deborah Norville begins assuming her duties as host of Inside Edition.
The Jenny Jones Show taped an episode titled "Revealing Same Sex Secret Crush", in which the secret admirers of six guests were revealed. Three days after the episode was taped, one of the guests, Jonathan Schmitz, murdered his secret admirer, Scott Amedure.
The 1994–96 United States broadcast TV realignment continues in Seattle-Tacoma, as Gaylord Broadcasting-owned KSTW joins CBS for the third time while former CBS affiliate KIRO-TV joins the UPN network.
All major U.S. networks interrupt their regular programming to break the news regarding the murder of Tejano music superstar Selena Quintanilla-Pérez. The lead item on national television network evening news programs in Corpus Christi, Texas had been the end of the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike. Within thirty minutes of its announcement, Selena's murder became the lead item on all television stations in South Texas. Univision and Telemundo are among the first national news stations to arrive at the crime scene. Coverage of the singer's death and the murder trial would dominate American newscasts in 1995.

Date		Event	7	9	12	21	24
Jurassic Park makes its network broadcast television premiere on NBC.
CBS broadcasts Deadline for Murder: From the Files of Edna Buchanan, starring Elizabeth Montgomery. This turned out to be Montgomery's final live-action acting role (her final acting role in general was in a voice-over role on Batman: The Animated Series) as she would die on May 18.
As the World Turns broadcasts its milestone 10,000th episode on CBS.
Above Suspicion starring Christopher Reeve premieres on HBO. In it, Reeve plays a paralyzed cop who plots to murder his wife. Six days after Above Suspicion first airs, Reeve is seriously injured in a fall while riding on horseback, resulting in him becoming a quadriplegic for the remainder of his life.
ABC announces that an episode of the soap opera All My Children was deleted from broadcasting due to the then-recent Oklahoma City bombing; in the story, villainess Janet Green was supposed to explode the church in which her ex Trevor Dillon was to marry her rival Laurel Banning.

Date		Event	24
Fox broadcasts the fourth game of the Stanley Cup Finals between the New Jersey Devils and Detroit Red Wings. This marks the first time that a clinching game from the Stanley Cup Finals is broadcast on American network television since the sixth game of the 1980 Finals on CBS.

Date		Event	4	7	14	17	21	22
Shortly after CBS' affiliation agreement with Westinghouse Broadcasting, its flagship station at that time, KDKA-TV finally brings back the program CBS This Morning after a few years of preempting.
NBC wins the rights to broadcast the 2002 Winter Olympics from Salt Lake City, Utah for $545 million.
ABC affiliate in Rockford, WREX-TV and NBC affiliate WTVO swaps network affiliations due to a group deal with Quincy Newspapers.
On the series finale of Yo! MTV Raps, numerous high-profile names in the world of hip-hop close the show out with a freestyle rap session.
The Tribune Company acquired a 12.5% limited partnership interest in The WB for $12 million; the deal gave Tribune an option to increase its stake in the network up to a 25% interest; Tribune would eventually increase its ownership share in the WB to 22.5% on March 31, 1997.
As a result of the 1994–96 United States broadcast TV realignment, longtime NBC affiliate WLUK-TV in Green Bay becomes the first of four "Big three" affiliates that SF Broadcasting (a joint venture of Savoy Communications and Fox Broadcasting) has purchased from Burnham Broadcasting to switch its affiliation to Fox. NBC eventually aligns with former Fox affiliate WGBA-TV. Two more NBC-affiliated stations (WALA-TV in Mobile, Alabama, and KHON-TV in Honolulu), along with ABC affiliate WVUE in New Orleans switch their affiliations to Fox on January 1, 1996. NBC again swaps affiliations with the former Fox affiliates in Mobile and Honolulu (WPMI and KHNL respectively), while ABC joins WB affiliate WGNO and former Fox affiliate WNOL joins The WB.
Larry Hagman, former main actor of Dallas and I Dream of Jeannie, undergoes a liver transplant.

Date		Event	4	5	6	8	9	10	17	22	27	30
The very first edition of WCW Monday Nitro airs from the Mall of America in Minneapolis, Minnesota on TNT.
Alan Kalter becomes the second announcer of the Late Show with David Letterman replacing Bill Wendell.
In front of a nationwide audience watching on ESPN and on HTS in the Baltimore market, Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken Jr. surpasses New York Yankees legend Lou Gehrig on Major League Baseball's list for most consecutive games played.
The 1994–96 United States broadcast TV realignment continues when longtime ABC affiliate WGHP-TV (channel 8) in High Point, North Carolina is sold directly to Fox (acquired via New World Communications from Citicasters, along with WBRC-TV in Birmingham, Alabama due to ownership conflicts) and as a result, becomes a Fox-owned station. Former Fox affiliates WNRW-TV (channel 45)/WGGT-TV (channel 48, now MyNetworkTV affiliate WMYV-TV) assume the ABC affiliation, and WNRW-TV changes its callsign to WXLV-TV to reflect the new affiliation. Both stations retain a secondary UPN affiliation until WGGT-TV leaves its WXLV-TV simulcast to become a full-time UPN affiliate the next year.
With the cancellation of the 1988 incarnation of Family Feud, The Price Is Right becomes the last remaining Goodson-Todman show on the air until a revival of Match Game three years later.
Kids' WB debuts on The WB, anchored by Animaniacs, which transfers over from Fox's children's programming block, Fox Kids. It debuted on Fox Kids 2 years before.
A major compensation deal between NBC and CBS after the Westinghouse-Group W/CBS deal as a result of the 1994–96 United States broadcast TV realignment becomes effective: two NBC O&O's (KCNC-TV in Denver and KUTV-TV in Salt Lake City) and the network's Philadelphia affiliate KYW-TV become CBS-affiliated stations (and quickly after that CBS-owned stations after Westinghouse merged with CBS), while former CBS affiliate KSL-TV in Salt Lake City joins NBC and CBS O&O WCAU in Philadelphia becomes an NBC-owned station. Meanwhile, in Miami, CBS-owned WCIX (channel 6) and NBC-owned WTVJ (channel 4) swap channel positions, with WCIX becoming WFOR-TV as a result of the change. Two related swaps also occur in Denver, as former ABC affiliate KUSA-TV joins NBC, and former CBS affiliate KMGH-TV switches to ABC as a result of an affiliation deal between the network and McGraw-Hill, KMGH's owners.
The 47th Primetime Emmy Awards are aired on Fox.
CBS acquires ABC affiliate WPRI-TV from Narragansett Television and swaps affiliations with WLNE-TV, thus reversing a swap that took place in 1977.
UPN Kids launches on UPN, featuring two new series, Space Strikers and Teknoman.
As part of a deal between Outlet Communications and NBC, WB affiliate WNCN-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina switches to NBC, ending WNCN's 9-month affiliation with The WB. Former NBC affiliate WRDC elevates its UPN affiliation to full-time status, while WRAZ, which had signed on three days earlier, joins the WB.
Part 2 of "Who Shot Mr. Burns?" serves as the Season 7 premiere of The Simpsons on Fox. An America's Most Wanted special, "Springfield's Most Wanted", precedes the episode.
KASW signs on the air in Phoenix, Arizona, as part of a LMA with, and taking The WB from, KTVK which becomes independent. In addition, KASW also assumes the local broadcast rights to Fox Kids, which Fox affiliate KSAZ-TV is pre-empting in favor of news.
Jennifer Love Hewitt joins the cast of Party of Five, after appearing in three failed shows as a cast member, the Fox series Shaky Ground and the ABC series The Byrds of Paradise and McKenna.
Will Ferrell, Cheri Oteri, and Darrell Hammond join the cast of NBC's Saturday Night Live.

Date		Event	2	3	8	15	18	20	21	28
In Major League Baseball's first "do or die" tie-breaker game since 1980, the Seattle Mariners defeat the California Angels 9–1 to clinch the American League West title and their first ever postseason berth. The game is nationally televised on ESPN with Jon Miller and Joe Morgan on the call.
More than 150 million people tune in to watch the verdict in the O.J. Simpson murder trial, which ends with Simpson being found not guilty of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. The verdict is met with both praise and criticism.
Game 5 of the American League Division Series between the Seattle Mariners and New York Yankees is broadcast on ABC/The Baseball Network with Brent Musburger and Jim Kaat on the call. With Seattle down by the score of 5–4 going into the bottom of the 11th inning, Edgar Martínez lines a double to the left field fence off of New York reliever Jack McDowell, scoring both Joey Cora and Ken Griffey Jr. to send the Mariners to the League Championship Series for the first time. Martinez's game-winning hit and the aftermath remains the Mariners' most famous moment. During 1995, there were rumors that the Mariners might relocate to the Tampa area. Their success this season leads to renewed local interest in the team and the building of Safeco Field, which opened in July 1999.
ABC affiliate W58BT goes on the air and former ABC affiliate WSJV-TV switches to Fox.
In the Michiana region of Indiana, Elkhart-based ABC affiliate WSJV swaps affiliations with South Bend-based Fox affiliate W58BT (which will become WBND-LP by the end of the year). The rush for W58BT to switch to ABC (at the insistence of network executives, who didn't want to wait for W58BT to sign-on a new transmitter) causes a partial transmitter failure, which is fixed within a few days.
Robert MacNeil anchors The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour on PBS for the last time.
ABC and NBC begin their unprecedented shared coverage of the World Series through their soon to be concluding revenue sharing joint-venture with Major League Baseball called The Baseball Network. ABC, who last broadcast a World Series in 1989 airs Games 1, 4, and 5 (with Al Michaels, Jim Palmer and Tim McCarver on the call) while NBC, who last broadcast a World Series in 1988, airs Games 2, 3 and the decisive Game 6 (with Bob Costas, Joe Morgan and Bob Uecker on the call). (A seventh game, if necessary, would have been televised by ABC.) While NBC will continue to hold some MLB rights for the next few years, Game 5 on October 26 would prove to be the last Major League Baseball game to be broadcast by ABC until Game 1 of the 2020 American League Wild Card Series between the Houston Astros and Minnesota Twins.
In Toledo, Ohio, NBC affiliate WTVG swaps affiliations with ABC affiliate WNWO and becomes an ABC owned-and-operated station.
The Atlanta Braves win the 1995 World Series in six games over the Cleveland Indians, making them the first Major League team to win a championship for three different cities (first being Boston in 1914 and then Milwaukee in 1957). It is also the final broadcast for The Baseball Network, which as previously mentioned, was a joint-venture between Major League Baseball, ABC, and NBC.

Date		Event	1	2	7	13	20
Clear Channel Communications, owners of recently purchased WHP-TV in Harrisburg, entered into a local marketing agreement with Gateway Communications, owners of WLYH-TV in Lancaster to start operating the station. As a result, WLYH-TV's news operation has been discontinued.
Characters from various NBC comedies appear on different shows. The lead character from Caroline in the City appears on Friends, while Friends characters Ross appears on The Single Guy and Chandler appears on Caroline in the City.
Major League Baseball reaches a television deal with Fox and NBC, allowing the former to obtain MLB game rights. Fox paid $575 million for the five-year contract, a fraction less of the amount of money that CBS had paid for the Major League Baseball television rights for the 1990–1993 seasons.
ABC's 30-minute soap opera Loving is turned into The City.
On ABC, One Life to Live broadcasts its 7,000th episode and debuts a new opening sequence.
ROX and Computer Chronicles are broadcast via the Internet—these are the first Internet broadcasts in the history of television.

Date		Event	1	11	16	18	31
The 1994–96 United States broadcast TV realignment continues as WHBQ-TV (channel 13) in Memphis, Tennessee ends its ABC affiliation after 45 years. WHBQ-TV is acquired by Fox Television Stations from Communications Corporation of America and joins Fox, while former Fox affiliate WPTY-TV (channel 24) joins ABC.
On NBC, The Today Show becomes the highest-rated morning news program (and would remain so until 2012).
WLYH-TV in Lancaster ends its affiliation with CBS following a local marketing agreement with WHP-TV, and as a result, WLYH-TV became a primary UPN affiliate, cutting back the programming hours within the programming schedule.
As part of the Monday Night War, World Championship Wrestling booker Eric Bischoff has WWF performer Alundra Blayze (now going by the name Madusa) appear on TNT's WCW Monday Nitro, where she throws her WWF Women's Championship into a trash can.
Cartoon Network broadcasts the World Premiere Toons Countdown Call-In Show, a three-hour marathon during New Year's Eve where viewers decide to vote and call for their favorite What a Cartoon! short. The Dexter's Laboratory pilot (later known as "Changes"), was chosen the winner of the special as the network could later greenlit as a full animated series premiering in 1996.

Date	Show	Network	January 1	January 2	January 4	January 8	January 9	January 11	January 14	January 15	January 16	January 17	January 18	January 23	January 26	January 29	January 31	February 20	March 4	March 5	March 8	March 10	March 11	March 13	March 14	March 21	March 22	March 23	March 26	March 31	April 1	April 2	April 8	April 10	April 14	April 18	May 27	May 28	June 5	July 12	July 19	August 7	August 8	August 20	August 23	August 28	August 29	August 31	September 2	September 4	September 5	September 6	September 8	September 9	September 10	September 11	September 12	September 13	September 14	September 15	September 16	September 17	September 18	September 19	September 21	September 22	September 23	September 24	September 28	October 1	October 2	October 8	October 14	October 16	October 21	October 22	October 27	October 28	October 30	November 3	November 4	November 6	November 13	December 3	December 9
Taxicab Confessions	HBO
Cybill	CBS
The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show	Syndication
Washington Journal	C-SPAN
Double Rush	CBS
Women of the House
House of Buggin'	Fox
A Whole New Ballgame	ABC
The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder	CBS
Muscle	The WB
Unhappily Ever After
The Wayans Bros.
Fudge	ABC
Get Smart	Fox
Modern Marvels	The History Channel
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys	Syndication
Vanishing Son
The Puzzle Place	PBS Kids
Star Trek: Voyager	UPN
Marker
The Watcher
Golf Central	Golf Channel
The Parent 'Hood	The WB
Pig Sty	UPN
Platypus Man
Pointman	PTEN
Extreme	ABC
The Marshal
What a Cartoon!	Cartoon Network
NHL 2Night	ESPN2
The Great Defender	Fox
The George Wendt Show	CBS
VR.5	Fox
The Office	CBS
Medicine Ball	Fox
Under One Roof	CBS
NewsRadio	NBC
Pride & Joy
Sliders	Fox
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Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child	HBO
The Outer Limits	Showtime
The Wright Verdicts	CBS
Amazing Grace	NBC
Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel	HBO
The Maxx	MTV
In the House	NBC
Colby's Clubhouse	TBN
Legend	UPN
Bringing up Jack	ABC
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist	Comedy Central
My Wildest Dreams	Fox
Singled Out	MTV
20th Century with Mike Wallace	The History Channel
Road Rules	MTV
Squawk Box	CNBC
Aeon Flux	MTV
Exit 57	Comedy Central
Kirk	The WB
Nowhere Man	UPN
Live Shot
The Crew	Fox
Wild About Animals	Syndication
Bananas in Pyjamas
WCW Monday Nitro	TNT
Xena: Warrior Princess	Syndication
Deadly Games	UPN
Carnie!	Syndication
Timon & Pumbaa	Syndication and CBS
Gadget Boy & Heather	Syndcation
Earthworm Jim	Kids' WB
Freakazoid!
Pinky and the Brain
The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries
The Preston Episodes	Fox
Hang Time	NBC
Cleghorne!	The WB
First Time Out
Simon
Space Strikers	UPN Kids
Danny!	Syndication
Day & Date
Gabrielle
LAPD: Life on the Beat
Lauren Hutton and...
The Mark Walberg Show
Tempestt
Ned & Stacey	Fox
Partners
Bless This House	CBS
The Monroes	ABC
Central Park West	CBS
Courthouse
The Drew Carey Show	ABC
The Naked Truth
Charlie Grace
Maybe This Time	ABC
Strange Luck	Fox
The Stephanie Miller Show	Syndication
Santo Bugito	CBS
The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat
Masked Rider	Fox Kids
Brotherly Love	NBC
Minor Adjustments
Night Stand with Dick Dietrick	Syndication
U.S. Customs: Classified
Almost Perfect	CBS
The Client
Can't Hurry Love
George & Alana	Syndication
Hudson Street	ABC
Murder One	ABC
The Pursuit of Happiness	NBC
Caroline in the City	NBC
The Single Guy
American Gothic	CBS
Dweebs
Bonnie
8-Track Flashback	VH1
JAG	NBC
Space: Above and Beyond	Fox
New York News	CBS
Misery Loves Company	Fox
Too Something
Inspiration, Please!	Faith & Values Channel
Flipper	Syndication
Family Challenge	The Family Channel
Wild Animal Games
Wishbone	PBS
Mad TV	Fox
Littlest Pet Shop	Syndication
Street Fighter: The Animated Series	USA Network
The Little Lulu Show	HBO
Goosebumps	Fox Kids
Dumb and Dumber	ABC
High Society	CBS
Mr. Show with Bob and David	HBO
The Adventures of Hyperman	CBS
Little Bear	Nick Jr.
The City	ABC
What's So Funny?	Fox
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective	CBS

Show		Last aired		Previous network		New title		Returning
Square One TV

Date	Show	Debut	January 1	January 6	January 21	January 26	January 27	January 28	February 1	February 2	February 13	February 19	February 25	February 28	March 3	March 6	March 12	March 13	March 15	March 25	March 27	April 4	April 6	April 12	April 23	May 7	May 11	May 12	May 15	May 16	May 20	May 21	May 22	May 23	May 28	June 7	June 10	June 11	June 14	June 16	June 17	June 19	June 23	June 24	June 30	July 1	July 4	July 10	July 26	July 31	August 15	August 17	August 18	August 27	September 2	September 8	September 15	October 13	October 19	October 28	November 9	November 9	November 10	November 15	November 24	November 25	November 27	December 3	December 8	December 9	December 16	December 17	December 22	December 25	Unknown date
Liquid Television	1991
SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron	1993
Wild C.A.T.s	1994
My So-Called Life
The New Price Is Right
The Boys Are Back
Hearts Afire	1992
My Brother and Me	1994
2 Stupid Dogs	1993
Ghostwriter	1992
Get Smart	1995
Free Willy	1994
Me and the Boys
M.A.N.T.I.S.
Models Inc.
The Brothers Grunt
A Whole New Ballgame	1995
All-American Girl	1994
The 5 Mrs. Buchanans
The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show	1995
On Our Own	1994
Extreme	1995
The Pink Panther	1993
The Cosby Mysteries	1994
Double Rush	1995
The George Wendt Show
House of Buggin'
Matlock	1986
Muscle	1995
VR.5
Pig Sty
Marker	1995
In the Heat of the Night	1988
Star Search	1983
Sirens	1993
Blossom	1991
Taz-Mania
The Critic	1994
Full House (returned in 2016)	1987
Tiny Toon Adventures	1990
The Watcher	1995
The Mommies	1993
McGee and Me!	1989
Earth 2	1994
Supermarket Sweep (returned in 2000)	1965
Empty Nest	1988
Madman of the People	1994
The Maxx	1995
The Jon Stewart Show	1993
Bringing up Jack	1995
Love Connection	1983
The State	1993
Thunder Alley	1994
Platypus Man	1995
Northern Exposure	1990
The Great Defender	1995
Marker
Yo! MTV Raps (returned in 2022)	1988
Love & War	1992
WWF Wrestling Challenge	1986
Name Your Adventure	1992
Family Feud (returned in 1999)	1976
Women of the House	1995
Batman: The Animated Series	1992
Quicksilver	1994
Charlie Grace	1995
The Monroes
The Preston Episodes
Dweebs
The Moxy Show	1993
Loving	1983
Courthouse	1995
Legends of the Hidden Temple (returned in 2021)	1993
Aladdin	1994
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers	1993
Space Strikers	1995
Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills	1994
The Baby Huey Show
Bump in the Night
Fudge	1995
Cleghorne!	1995
First Time Out
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?	1991
The Marshal	1995
Return to the Sea	1991

Show		Seasons		In Production		Source
America's Funniest Home Videos
America's Most Wanted
Beyond Reality
Blossom
Dinosaurs
The Hitchhiker
Home Improvement
Melrose Place
Seinfeld
Step by Step
Tales from the Crypt

Show	Moved from	Moved to
Animaniacs	Fox Kids	Kids' WB
The Busy World of Richard Scarry	Showtime	Nick Jr. Channel
G-Force: Guardians of Space	TBS	Cartoon Network
Madeline	The Family Channel	ABC
TV Nation	NBC	Fox
The Critic	ABC
Sister, Sister	The WB
One West Waikiki	CBS	First-run syndication

Show		Network		Episode #		Episode title		Episode airdate		Source
Home Improvement

Premiere date	Title	Channel	January 7	April 3	May 14	September 17	October 29
Fudge-a-Mania	ABC
Danielle Steel's Vanished	NBC
The Langoliers	ABC
Danielle Steel's Zoya	NBC
Degree of Guilt

Network	Type	Launch date
America One	Cable and satellite	Unknown
Free Speech TV	Cable television	Unknown
HTV	Cable	January 1
The History Channel	Cable and satellite	January 1
The WB	Cable and satellite	January 11
UPN	Cable and satellite	January 16
The Golf Channel	Cable and satellite	January 17
Classic Sports Network	Cable and satellite	May 6
Outdoor Life Network	Cable and satellite	July 31
CNNfn	Cable and satellite	December 29
Speedvision	Cable and satellite	December 31
Great American Country	Cable television	December 31

Old network name	New network name	Type	Conversion Date
La Cadena Deportiva Prime Ticket	Prime Deportiva	Cable television	Unknown
BBC World Service Television	BBC World	Cable television	January 26
TV! Channel	INTRO Television	Cable and satellite	September

Network	Type	End date	Notes	Sources
Prime Sports Upper Midwest	Cable and satellite	December 31

Date		City of license/Market
Grundy, VA	WLFG	68	Religious Independent
Ashland, WI (Duluth, MN)	W25CA	25	America One
Tice/Fort Myers, FL	WRXY-TV	49	CTN
Baltimore, MD	W61BT	61	The WB
Macon, GA	WPGA-TV	58	Fox
Oklahoma City, OK	K19EA	19	The Box
Ketchikan, AK	KUBD	4	TBN
Boston, MA	W32AY	32	Telemundo
Hartford-New Haven, CT	WTVU	59	The WB
Hot Springs/Little Rock, AR	KVTH	26	Victory Television Network
Sitka, AK	K05KH	5	Fox
Reno, NV	K47CO	47	Univision
New Orleans, LA	WUPL	54	UPN
Houston, TX	KZJK	61	Shop at Home Network
Littleton, NH	WMUR-LP	29	Fox
Omaha, NE	KXVO	15	The WB
Sioux Falls, SD	KCSD-TV	23	PBS / SDPB
Phoenix, AZ	K69HJ	69	ACN
Austin, TX	K09VR	9	Independent (Texas Student Media)
Fort Myers, FL	W59CY	59	Daystar
Joplin, MO	K44ER	44	unknown
Laredo, TX	K39EL	39	TBN Enlace USA
Abilene, TX	K40BM	40	Telemundo
Kalispell, MT	K52EQ	52	ABC
Manhattan, KS	K21ER	21	Independent
North Platte, NE	K11TW	11	UPN
Wake Forest, NC (Raleigh/Durham)	WRAY-TV	30	Independent
Bluefield-Beckley, WV	WVGV-TV	59	The WB
Cedar Rapids, IA	KFXA	28	Fox
Bangor, ME	WBGR-LP	33	The WB
Concord, NH	WNBU	21	Independent
Raleigh, NC	WRAZ	50	The WB
Phoenix, AZ	KASW	61
Albuquerque, NM	K45DL	45	Religious independent
Albuquerque/Santa Fe, NM	KASY-TV	50	UPN/The WB
Tamuning, GU	K26HK	26	Independent
South Bend, IN	W58BT	58	ABC
Hagåtña, GU	KUAM-LP	20	CBS
Nashville, TN	WNAB	58	The WB

Date	City of license/Market		Station		Channel
Baltimore, MD	WMAR-TV	2	NBC	ABC
WBAL-TV	11	CBS	NBC
WJZ-TV	13	ABC	CBS
Boston, MA	WBZ-TV	4	NBC	CBS
WHDH-TV	7	CBS	NBC
Phoenix, AZ	KTVK	3	ABC	Independent
KNXV-TV	15	Independent	ABC
Flint/Saginaw, MI	WNEM-TV	5	NBC	CBS
WEYI-TV	25	CBS	NBC
San Antonio, TX	KABB	29	Independent	Fox
KRRT	35	Fox	UPN
Terre Haute, IN	WBAK-TV	38	ABC	Fox
Sacramento/Stockton, CA	KXTV	10	CBS	ABC
KOVR	13	ABC	CBS
Seattle/Tacoma, WA	KIRO-TV	7	CBS	UPN
KSTW	11	Independent	CBS
Austin, TX	KTBC	7	CBS	Fox
KBVO-TV	42	Fox	CBS
Dallas/Fort Worth, TX	KDFW	4	CBS	Fox
KTVT	11	Independent	CBS
KDAF	33	Fox	The WB
KXTX-TV	39	The WB	Independent
Providence, RI/New Bedford, MA	WLNE-TV	6	CBS	ABC
WPRI-TV	12	ABC	CBS
St. Louis, MO	KTVI	2	ABC	Fox
KDNL-TV	30	Fox	ABC
Dubuque, IA	KFXB-TV	40	ABC	Fox
Rockford, IL	WREX	13	ABC	NBC
WTVO	17	NBC	ABC
Green Bay/Appleton, WI	WLUK-TV	11	NBC	Fox
WGBA-TV	26	Fox	NBC
Greensboro/Winston-Salem, NC	WGHP	8	ABC		Fox
WXLV-TV	45	Fox	ABC
WGGT-TV	48
Greenville/Spartanburg, SC	WFBC-TV	40	ABC	Independent
Raleigh/Durham/Goldsboro, NC	WNCN	17	The WB	NBC
WRDC	28	NBC	UPN
Denver, CO	KCNC-TV	4	NBC	CBS
KMGH-TV	7	CBS	ABC
KUSA	9	ABC	NBC
Philadelphia, PA	KYW-TV	3	NBC	CBS
WCAU-TV	10	CBS	NBC
Salt Lake City, UT	KUTV	2	NBC	CBS
KSL-TV	5	CBS	NBC
West Point, MS	WLOV-TV	27	ABC	Fox
South Bend, IN	WSJV	28	ABC	Fox
Toledo, OH	WTVG	13	NBC	ABC
WNWO-TV	24	ABC	NBC
Memphis, TN	WHBQ-TV	13	ABC	Fox
WPTY-TV	24	Fox	ABC
Evansville, IN	WTVW	7	ABC	Fox
WEHT	25	CBS	ABC
WEVV-TV	44	Fox	CBS
Harrisburg/Lancaster, PA	WLYH-TV	15	CBS	UPN

Date	City of license/Market		Station		Affiliation		Prior channel		New channel	September 10
Miami/Fort Lauderdale, FL	WTVJ	NBC
WCIX → WFOR-TV	CBS	6

Date		Name		Notability	January 4	January 8	January 9	January 13	January 24	January 27	January 30	February 8	February 23	February 24	February 28	March 2	March 7	March 10	March 27	March 29	April 1	April 9	April 12	April 15	April 21	April 23	May 1	May 4	May 6	May 12	June 2	June 20	June 21	July 2	July 7	July 9	July 13	July 26	August 4	August 7	August 12	August 18	August 19	August 20	August 26	August 28	September 5	September 12	September 16	September 17	September 18	September 19	September 20	October 3	October 10	October 15	October 23	October 25	October 30	October 31	November 2	November 3	November 13	November 16	November 22	November 29	December 12	December 18	December 29
Maddie Hasson	Actress (The Finder, Twisted)
Ryan Destiny	Actress
Nicola Peltz	Actress (Bates Motel)
Natalia Dyer	Actress (Stranger Things)
Qaasim Middleton	Actor (The Naked Brothers Band)
Dylan Everett	Canadian actor (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
Callan McAuliffe	Actor
Malika Andrews	American sports journalist
Danielle Campbell	Actress (The Originals)
Jordan Todosey	Canadian actress (Degrassi: The Next Generation)
Zion Moreno	Actress (Control Z, Gossip Girl)
Brittany Raymond	Actress
Quinn Shephard	Actress
Veronica Dunne	Actress (K.C. Undercover)
Haley Lu Richardson	Actress (Ravenswood, Recovery Road)
Grace Victoria Cox	Actress (Under the Dome)
Taylor Atelian	Actress (According To Jim)
Marc Musso	Actor
Logan Paul	Actor and pro wrestler (Logan Paul VS., Foursome, WWE)
Cierra Ramirez	Actress (The Secret Life of the American Teenager, The Fosters, Good Trouble)
Miguel Luciano	Actor (Talia in the Kitchen)
Cody Christian	Actor (Pretty Little Liars, Teen Wolf)
Thomas Doherty	Scottish actor (The Lodge, Descendants, Gossip Girl)
Gigi Hadid	Actress (The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills)
Jake Cannavale	Actor
Shameik Moore	Actor (Incredible Crew, The Get Down)
Tiera Skovbye	Canadian actress (Riverdale)
Kenton Duty	Actor (Shake It Up)
Luke Benward	Actor (Ravenswood)
Sawyer Sweeten (d.2015)	Actors (Everybody Loves Raymond)
Sullivan Sweeten
Sterling Beaumon	Actor (Lost, The Killing)
Serayah	Actress (Empire)
Aidan Drummond	Canadian actor (The Collector)
Andrew Dismukes	Comedian
Nicole Alyse Nelson	Actress (I Am Frankie)
Chloe Greenfield	Actress (ER)
Georgie Henley	Actress (The Chronicles of Narnia)
Sam Straley	Actor (The Kids Are Alright)
Tessa Blanchard	Pro wrestler (WWE, TNA)
Jessica Sanchez	Singer (American Idol)
Kris Statlander	Pro wrestler (AEW)
Austin Zajur	Actor
Parker McKenna Posey	Actress (My Wife and Kids)
Patrick Clark	Pro wrestler and contestant on Tough Enough
Lulu Antariksa	Actress (How to Rock)
Gracie Dzienny	Actress (Supah Ninjas)
Ben Petry	Actor
Caroline Sunshine	Actress (Shake It Up)
Ryan Potter	Actor (Supah Ninjas, Lab Rats: Elite Force, Titans), voice actor (Big Hero 6: The Series)
Victory Van Tuyl	Actress (Marvin Marvin)
Patrick Mahomes	Football player
Megan Lee	Actress (Make It Pop)
Natalia Wójcik	Voice actress (Annie on Little Einsteins)
Sammi Hanratty	Actress
Ayo Edebiri	Actress (Big Mouth, The Bear)
Da'Vinchi	Actor and rapper (All American, BMF)
Billy Unger	Actor (Lab Rats, Lab Rats: Elite Force)
Ireland Baldwin	Actress and daughter of Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger
Conchita Campbell	Actress (The 4400)
Rachel Hilson	Actress (Love, Victor)
Mateo Arias	Actor (Kickin' It)
Brandon Soo Hoo	Actor (Incredible Crew, From Dusk till Dawn: The Series)
Kendall Jenner	Actress (Keeping Up with the Kardashians)
Stella Hudgens	Actress
Noah Gray-Cabey	Actor (My Wife and Kids, Heroes)
Katherine McNamara	Actress and singer (Shadowhunters)
Laura Marano	Actress (Without a Trace, The X's, Back to You, Austin & Ally)
C.J. LeBlanc	Actor (NCIS: New Orleans, Queen Sugar)
Elizabeth Stanton	Actress
Ross Lynch	Actor (Austin & Ally, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) and singer (R5)
Nick Merico	Actor (Every Witch Way)

Date		Name
Doug McClure	59	Actor (The Virginian)
David Wayne	81	Actor (Ellery Queen)
Ed Flanders	60	Actor (St. Elsewhere)
Hugh O'Connor	32	Actor (Lonnie Jamison on In the Heat of the Night)
Howard Cosell	77	Sports journalist/commentator (Monday Night Football)
Art Fleming	70	Original host of (Jeopardy!)
Elizabeth Montgomery	62	Actress (Samantha Stephens on Bewitched)
Friz Freleng	88	Animator (Looney Tunes)
Gale Gordon	89	Actor (The Lucy Show)
Eva Gabor	76	Hungarian-born actress (Lisa Douglas on Green Acres)
Ida Lupino	77	Actress & director
Phil Harris	91	Actor (The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show)
Gary Crosby	62	Actor (Adam-12)
Linda Gary	50	Actress, Voice Actress (Spider-Man)
Fred Holliday	59	Actor
Roxie Roker	66	Actress (The Jeffersons)
Dean Martin	78	Singer, actor and host (The Dean Martin Show)

Anthony Anderson – In the House
Justin Chambers- Another World
Michael Clarke Duncan – The Bold and the Beautiful
Mike Epps – Def Comedy Jam
Lee Evans – The World of Lee Evans
Will Ferrell – Saturday Night Live
Darrell Hammond – Saturday Night Live
Chris Kattan – NewsRadio
Ron Livingston – JAG
Cheri Oteri – Saturday Night Live
Anna Nicole Smith – The Naked Truth
Dave Willis – Cartoon Planet

Seinfeld broadcasts its 100th episode on NBC.

What a Cartoon! (also known as World Premiere Toons) launches on TBS, TNT and Cartoon Network simultaneously as part of the Space Ghost Coast to Coast special "1st Annual World Premiere Toon-In". The first short, "The Powerpuff Girls in Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins", was shown at the end of the special. The series will prove to launch the careers of many prominent animators such as Butch Hartman, Craig McCracken, Genndy Tartakovsky, and Seth MacFarlane.

Ted Danson reprises his role as Sam Malone from Cheers in an episode of its spin–off Frasier on NBC.

In what would be his final television appearance, George Burns is presented with the very first SAG Lifetime Achievement Award by the Screen Actors Guild.

{{youtube. vecw539MjWM. Newt Gingrich: Hillary "She's A Bitch"
Carter, Bill. (May 22, 1995). "The Empty Chair". The New York Times.
"SNL Transcripts: Jeff Daniels: 01/14/95". SNL Transcripts.
Peyser, Marc. (March 19, 1995). "Making A Killing On Talk Tv".
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(January 1, 1996). "Selena Dominated Headlines, in '95". The Odessa American.
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[https://www.wired.com/1995/12/the-real-real-world/ The Real Real World]''Wired''. Dec. 1995. Retrieved May 13, 2022
[https://groups.google.com/group/misc.activism.progressive/msg/b322355dc9b987e9 Break out your bong; kill your TV. Usenet. April 18, 1995].
Flint, Joe. (1995-05-29). "AFFILS IN FINE FEATHER AT NBC MEET IN HAWAII".
(April 21, 1995). "ABC out, Fox in at WSJV". [[The News-Sentinel]].
(October 19, 1995). "Rocky Start for New South Bend ABC Affiliate". Times-Union.
(1995-11-02). "New operator pulls plug on WLYH news team". [[Lebanon Daily News.
Nidetz, Steve. (November 7, 1995). "BASEBALL'S NEW TV PACKAGE INCLUDES OLD FAVORITES". Chicago Tribune.
Stewart, Larry. (6 November 1995). "Fox Gets Baseball; NBC Is Part of Deal". Los Angeles Times.
Prisbell, Eric. (October 12, 2020). "Fox and MLB: Quarter-century of culture change". Sports Business Journal.
Jim McConville. (November 6, 1995). "MLB sews up deal with Fox, NBC. (Major League Baseball, National Broadcasting Co., Fox Broadcasting Co.)". HighBeam Research.
James McConville. (November 13, 1995). "Baseball's new TV rights contract.(Major League Baseball contract)(Brief Article)". HighBeam Research.
(1995-12-09). "WLYH-TV dropping CBS affiliation, joining UPN". [[Lebanon Daily News.
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