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2020 in American television

In American television in 2020, notable events included television show debuts, finales, and cancellations; channel launches, closures, and re-brandings; stations changing or adding their network affiliations; and information about controversies and carriage disputes.

Category/Organization	78th Golden Globe AwardsFebruary 28, 2021	11th Critics' Choice Television AwardsMarch 7, 2021	Producers Guild and Screen Actors Guild AwardsMarch 24–April 4, 2021	73rd Primetime Emmy AwardsSeptember 19, 2021
Best Drama Series	The Crown
Best Comedy Series	Schitt's Creek	Ted Lasso	Schitt's Creek	Ted Lasso
Best Limited Series	The Queen's Gambit
Best Actor in a Drama Series	Josh O'ConnorThe Crown	Jason BatemanOzark	Josh O'ConnorThe Crown
Best Actress in a Drama Series	Emma CorrinThe Crown	Gillian AndersonThe Crown	Olivia ColmanThe Crown
Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	—.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px;white-space:nowrap}N/a	Michael K. WilliamsLovecraft Country	—N/a	Tobias MenziesThe Crown
Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series	Gillian AndersonThe Crown	—N/a	Gillian AndersonThe Crown
Best Actor in a Comedy Series	Jason SudeikisTed Lasso
Best Actress in a Comedy Series	Catherine O'HaraSchitt's Creek	Jean SmartHacks
Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series	—N/a	Dan LevySchitt's Creek	—N/a	Brett GoldsteinTed Lasso
Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series	—N/a	Hannah WaddinghamTed Lasso	—N/a	Hannah WaddinghamTed Lasso
Best Actor in a Limited Series	Mark RuffaloI Know This Much Is True	John BoyegaSmall Axe	Mark RuffaloI Know This Much Is True	Ewan McGregorHalston
Best Actress in a Limited Series	Anya Taylor-JoyThe Queen's Gambit	Kate WinsletMare of Easttown
Best Supporting Actor in a Limited Series	John BoyegaSmall Axe	Donald SutherlandThe Undoing	—N/a	Evan PetersMare of Easttown
Best Supporting Actress in a Limited Series	—N/a	Uzo AdubaMrs. America	—N/a	Julianne NicholsonMare of Easttown

Show	Moved from	Moved to
Dirty John	Bravo	USA Network
Vice	HBO	Showtime
Vice News Tonight	Vice on TV
NAACP Image Awards	TV One	BET
The Family Business	BET	BET+
Cobra Kai	YouTube Premium	Netflix
One Day at a Time	Netflix	Pop and TV Land (premieres)/CBS (repeats)
The Rich Eisen Show	Audience	NBCSN
Doom Patrol	DC Universe	DC Universe/HBO Max
Sesame Street	HBO	HBO Max
Esme & Roy
Search Party	TBS
Summer Camp Island	Cartoon Network
Infinity Train
Where's Waldo?	Universal Kids	Peacock
A.P. Bio	NBC
Curious George	PBS Kids
Harry and His Bucket Full of Dinosaurs	Qubo
The Dan Patrick Show	Audience/AT&T SportsNet
Disney's Fairy Tale Weddings	Freeform	Disney+
Manhunt	Discovery Channel	Spectrum Originals
Bellator MMA	Paramount Network	CBS Sports Network
WWE Tribute to the Troops	NBC	Fox

Show	Network	Episode #	Episode title	Episode airdate
The First 48	A&E	15th Anniversary	"Chain of Death"	January 1
Survivor	CBS	20th Anniversary	"Survivor at 40: Greatest Moments and Players"	February 5
Impractical Jokers	TruTV	200th episode	"Hollywood"	February 13
The Real	First-run syndication	1,000th episode	N/A	February 17
Supergirl	The CW	100th episode	"It's a Super Life"	February 23
The Steve Wilkos Show	First-run syndication	2,000th episode	N/A	February 24
Power Rangers	Nickelodeon	900th episode	"Game On!"	March 7
Mom	CBS	150th episode	"A Judgy Face and Your Grandma's Drawers"	March 12
Chicago Med	NBC	100th episode	"The Ghosts of the Past"	March 18
Curb Your Enthusiasm	HBO	"The Spite Store"	March 22
RuPaul's Drag Race	VH1	150th episode	"Gay's Anatomy"	March 27
Ben 10	Cartoon Network	"Wind Some, Lose Some"	March 29
Empire	Fox	100th episode	"We Got Us"	April 7
Modern Family	ABC	250th episode	"Finale Part Two" (series finale)	April 8
The Blacklist	NBC	150th episode	"Brothers"	May 1
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee	TBS	150th episode	"May 6, 2020"	May 6
If Loving You Is Wrong	Oprah Winfrey Network	100th episode	"Taken"	June 2
Late Night with Seth Meyers	NBC	1,000th episode	Guest: Regina King	June 11
All That	Nickelodeon	200th episode	"1130" (Jamie Lynn Spears and cast of Zoey 101, New Hope Club)	July 11
Blindspot	NBC	100th episode	"Iunne Ennui" (series finale)	July 23
Robot Chicken	Adult Swim	200th episode	"Endgame"	July 26
Big Brother	CBS	20th Anniversary	Big Brother 22 season premiere	August 5
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer	CNN	15th Anniversary	"August 7, 2020"	August 7
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver	HBO	200th episode	N/A	August 16
Family Guy	Fox	350th episode	"Stewie's First Word"	September 27
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell	MSNBC	10th anniversary	"September 28, 2020"	September 28
The 100	The CW	100th episode	"The Last War" (series finale)	September 30
Superstore	NBC	"California: Part 2"	November 5
Bob's Burgers	Fox	200th episode	"Bob Belcher and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Kids"	November 15
Chicago P.D.	NBC	150th episode	"White Knuckle"	November 18
Snapped	Oxygen	500th episode	"Dana Flynn"	November 22
NCIS	CBS	400th episode	"Everything Starts Somewhere"	November 24
On the Case with Paula Zahn	Investigation Discovery	300th episode	"Crime and Injustice"	November 29
American Dad!	TBS	"Yule. Tide. Repeat"	December 21
Craig of the Creek	Cartoon Network	100th episode	"Snow Day"	December 31

The following shows returned with new episodes after being canceled or previously ending their run:

A list of programs (current or canceled) that have accumulated enough episodes (between 65 and 100) or seasons (three or more) to be eligible for off-network syndication and/or basic cable runs.

Show	Seasons	In Production	Notes	Source
Schitt's Creek	6	No

Network	Type	Launch date	Notes
Circle	Over-the-air multicast/OTT streaming	January 1	Circle, which focused on country music and its related lifestyle, was a Nashville-based venture between Gray Television and the Opry Entertainment division of Ryman Hospitality Properties. It was Gray's first owned entry into the multicast arena, while it brings Ryman (formerly Gaylord Entertainment) back to television network ownership after it sold cable's The Nashville Network and Country Music Television to CBS in 1997. Gray and CBS-owned stations form the major launch groups for Circle, whose schedule includes the return of the weekly Grand Ole Opry broadcast to television. The network has a limited group of affiliates which exclusively carry the Opry on their main channel as a tape-delayed offering on late Saturday nights, due to lack of room for the full subchannel.
Yahoo! Finance	Cable (via Verizon FiOS)/OTT streaming	January 27	Verizon Media extends its Yahoo Finance business and financial news website into a 24-hour linear news channel initially available on Verizon FiOS channel 604, serving as a competitor to CNBC, Fox Business and Cheddar; Yahoo Finance's bell-to-bell stock market programming is also streamed live from 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. ET on the site's webpage.
Black News Channel	Cable and digital	February 10	Founded by former Oklahoma U.S. Representative J. C. Watts, the network devoted itself to covering the African American community in news, sports and entertainment.
Marquee Sports Network	Cable and digital	February 22(on-air launch);July 24(full launch)	A regional sports network venture between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Major League Baseball's Chicago Cubs, Marquee becomes the team's exclusive primary broadcaster from NBC Sports Chicago, WGN-TV and WLS-TV, along with surrounding team programming and other sports content. The launch was tied to the start of the team's spring training, but full operations did not start until the COVID-19 delayed Cubs season started on July 24; that day also saw a situation averted where the Chicago market's major cable provider, Xfinity (which is owned by Comcast, the owners of NBC Sports Chicago), agreed to terms to carry the network.
Quibi	OTT streaming	April 6
Peacock	April 15(Xfinity subscribers);July 15(full launch)	Peacock is an ad-supported companion service to NBC with exclusive and original content. The service has three tiers; a free tier, a premium tier which is available to both paid subscribers or those who subscribe to an offered cable service such as Xfinity, and a near-fully ad-free option for extra cost. The company concurrently retains its 30% stake in Hulu.
LX	Over-the-air multicast/OTT streaming	May 19	Announced by NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations on September 23, 2019, LX (an abbreviation for Local X, and adapted from the name of its sister lifestyle production subsidiary LXTV) is a digital news service building on experimental news offerings and research by NBCUniversal-owned stations available through a streaming service and over-the-air multicast network, providing original local news content aimed at young adults 18–45 who traditionally do not watch news on conventional television. (LX originally began providing news content via a dedicated website and on various social media networks such as YouTube on the date of the launch announcement.) While the broadcast version based out of the Dallas–Fort Worth duopoly of NBC O&O KXAS-TV and Telemundo O&O KXTX-TV, which produces three-hour daily morning and prime time newscasts for LX ad-supported, commercial breaks on LX are fewer and of shorter length than other conventional television platforms.
HBO Max	OTT streaming	May 27	HBO Max is a paid subscription streaming service that features original content as well as content from Warner Bros., New Line Cinema, CNN, TNT, TBS, Cartoon Network, Crunchyroll and other WarnerMedia brands and programs being transferred from HBO (consisting of children's programs from the Sesame Workshop library) and Audience, which shut down several days before HBO Max launched, along with former original programming from the DC Universe service, which wss converted to a comic book archive-centric service. Due to compensation disputes, the service was unavailable on Amazon Fire TV and Roku digital media players and televisions until November 17 and December 17, respectively. HBO Max replaced HBO Go (TV Everywhere) and HBO Now (direct-to-consumer OTT), two standalone streaming services that exclusively featured HBO content (including current and library original programming, and films broadcast on HBO's linear primary and multiplex channels during their contractual durations).
Fave TV	Over-the-air multicast	December 15	Launched by CBS Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of ViacomCBS. The network's programming is mostly taken from the program archives of ViacomCBS's non-children's networks, along with carrying repeat syndicated sitcoms also carried by networks such as MTV2, BET and Logo TV.

Old networkname	New networkname	Type	Conversion date	Notes
JUCE TV	Positiv	Over-the-air multicast/Cable and satellite	January 26	On January 26, the Trinity Broadcasting Network relaunched its youth-oriented multicast service JUCE TV, which had been moved to a 24-hour DT5 feed on TBN's owned-and-operated stations on January 1, after being placed in a time-share with sister children's network Smile concurrent with the June 2015 launch of TBN Salsa on that feed, as Positiv. The relaunched network, which, unusual for a service whose over-the-air broadcasts are transmitted exclusively over non-commercial stations, is partially ad-supported, features family and faith-based films (including many in TBN's existing library that aired on the network under its JCTV/JUCE TV format). TBN continued to use the "JUCE" brand in a dedicated YouTube channel offering original short-form content aimed at Christian youth, which the ministry launched on October 23, 2019.
Live Well Network	Localish	Over-the-air multicast	February 17	On January 21, ABC Owned Television Stations announced that Live Well Network, which has been carried exclusively on ABC's eight O&O stations since it retracted from national distribution in 2014, rebranded on February 17, as a television extension of the Localish digital lifestyle brand launched by ABC in September 2018. The relaunched network features long-form variants of several programs already featured on the Localish website, which focuses on short-form series focusing on local storytelling, food, leisure and health. It also serves as a de facto overflow feed for ABC's network programming on its O&Os during sports and breaking news coverage.
Showtime Beyond	SHO×BET	Premium cable and satellite	July 15	On February 20, ViacomCBS announced that Showtime's third multiplex channel, the former channel space for Showcase, which, since its July 2001 rebranding, has focused on theatrical and first-run feature films from parent network Showtime's various film distributors as well as Showtime's library of original made-for-cable films, documentaries and comedy specials, would be relaunched as SHO×BET, an African American-oriented service co-branded with sister basic cable network BET. Upon the July 15 relaunch, however, SHO×BET replaced sister multiplex channel Showtime Beyond, which had focused mainly around paranormal and science fiction films since its September 1999 launch, instead, while Showcase remained a standalone channel. (Both networks swapped channel placements on select systems.) SHO×BET, the second premium cable co-branding effort to have involved BET, former co-owner of Starz multiplex channel BET Movies: Starz! (now Starz In Black) from its 1997 launch until Viacom opted BET Networks out of the venture in 2001, offers movies and series (including original scripted content from Showtime and BET's respective libraries) aimed at Black audiences.
Justice Network	True Crime Network	Over-the-air multicast	July 27	Announced on July 13, the Tegna-owned multicast network rebranded as True Crime Network on July 27, in preparation for the launch of a free companion OTT streaming service offering true crime series from the network's programming library and true crime podcasts distributed by co-owned subsidiary Vault Studios to launch later in the summer. Along with its existing archive programming, True Crime Network also offers original programming based on true crime and investigative content from the libraries of Tegna's television stations as well as the safety PSAs from the "BeSafe" campaign (hosted by Atlanta Police Sergeant and former actor Ralph Woolfolk) that have aired since the network first launched.
Spectrum News Austin	Spectrum News 1 (Texas)	Regional cable	October 16	On October 6, Charter Communications announced the relaunch of regional cable news channel Spectrum News Austin, which launched in September 1999, and added a subfeed for the San Antonio market in June 2014, as Spectrum News 1, a quasi-statewide network serving all eight of the provider's systems throughout Texas, on October 16. In addition to its existing staff in Austin and San Antonio, Spectrum News 1 employs around 20 additional reporters assigned to file reports in each of the six new markets: Dallas–Fort Worth, Wichita Falls, El Paso, Corpus Christi, Waco and Harlingen–McAllen–Brownsville.

Network	Type	End date	Notes
ESPN Goal Line & Bases Loaded	Cable and satellite	January 13 (de facto)June 30 (formal closure)	On March 13, one day after the NCAA cancelled its Division I baseball tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ESPN sent notice to cable and satellite providers that Goal Line & Bases Loaded would be formally discontinued on June 30, the contractual end of its latest agreement. The NFL RedZone-style channel carried live highlight coverage of college football across ESPN's networks, along with similar coverage of the NCAA softball and baseball tourneys (and until 2017, Wednesday night college basketball coverage under the "Buzzer Beater" branding). ESPN's building emphasis on its ESPN+ streaming service, along with continuous staffing reductions at ESPN and overall issues with a lack of compelling coverage on the channel, are likely to blame for the network's closure. The channel's final program was a "datacast" of the 2020 College Football Playoff National Championship (as part of ESPN's Megacast coverage of the game); from March 13 until its closure, the channel space carried a looping video of the ESPN logo.
MHz WorldView	Over-the-air multicast	March 1	MHz Networks announced on January 8, 2020, that MHz Worldview would close as they prepare to transition to two digital streaming services, MHz Choice (paid subscription) and MHz Now (free and ad-supported). After its closure, many stations that carried MHz Worldview switched to other networks including First Nations Experience, World Channel, Deutsche Welle, and NHK World.
Audience	Cable/satellite (DirecTV/U-verse/AT&T TV-exclusive)	May 23	AT&T announced on January 8 that Audience, a network exclusive to AT&T platforms, would close, eventually transitioning to a barker channel that advertises and previews programming found on HBO Max. The prime daily programs for Audience, simulcasts of sports radio programs hosted by Dan Patrick and Rich Eisen, ended on the network on February 28.
HBO Go	TV Everywhere video on demand streaming service	July 31	On June 12, 2020, WarnerMedia announced that the HBO Go platform would be discontinued on July 31, 2020. Providers that had not yet made an HBO Max deal continued to allow customer access to HBO Go (mainly Altice USA's brands, Mediacom and smaller cable providers yet to come to terms with WarnerMedia on HBO Max carriage, and closed-circuit university television systems which had not had personnel available during the COVID-19 pandemic to negotiate a new contract for HBO Max), though only through the HBO Go desktop website.
Quibi	OTT streaming	December 1	Only having launched in April, it was reported on October 21, 2020, that Quibi would be shutting down. This was after the short-form streamer made numerous accessibility concessions having launched with a mobile only focus. Its library would be acquired by The Roku Channel in January 2021.
HBO Now	December 17	On December 16, WarnerMedia reached an agreement with Roku to offer HBO Max beginning the following day on digital media players and television sets supporting Roku's operating systems, effectively closing HBO Now (which, like with HBO Go shutting down in contrast to the more expansive HBO Max, narrowly focused on content from the linear HBO television service). The shutdown of HBO Now (which was renamed as simply "HBO" on August 1) completed WarnerMedia's discontinuation of HBO Now and HBO Go, which began with the replacement of apps for both legacy services with those of HBO Max on iOS and Android platforms upon the latter's May 27 launch.
El Rey Network	Cable and digital	December 31	Following carriage disputes on AT&T's platforms and Spectrum systems, as well as Univision Communications's withdrawal as a minority partner as part of their own corporate upheaval, the English-language Latino-oriented channel announced on December 8 that it would shutter as a linear cable/satellite channel. However, the network relaunched as a streaming service in August 2021.

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This section outlines affiliation changes involving English and Spanish language networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, PBS, The CW, Univision, etc.), and format conversions involving independent stations. Digital subchannels will only be mentioned if the prior or new affiliation involves a major English and Spanish broadcast network or a locally programmed independent entertainment format.

Date	Market	Station	Channel	Prior affiliation	New affiliation	Notes
January 1	Mayagüez, Puerto Rico	WORA	5.1	Telemundo	ABC	On June 27, 2019, WORA-TV announced that it would end an affiliation agreement with WKAQ-TV by December 31, leaving Telemundo without a western affiliate after more than four years. Later, Hemisphere Media Group, the owners of WAPA-TV, announced that Telemundo would air on a subchannel of WNJX-TV by January 1, 2020. On December 18, WORA-TV announced that it would move ABC programming to channel 5.1 on January 1, with the Televisión Española news channel 24H airing on 5.2 from that date on.
January 28	Harlingen/McAllen/Brownsville, Texas	KGBT-TV	4.1	CBS	Temporarily silent	With Nexstar Media Group acquiring the non-license assets of KGBT from Sinclair Broadcast Group through the settlement of Tribune Media's 2018 lawsuit against Sinclair, Nexstar—which assumed the rights to KGBT's programming and news operation—decides to move KGBT's CBS schedule to a subchannel on the KVEO spectrum; the move results in KGBT ending its affiliation with CBS after 66 years and its main channel going temporarily silent until replacement programming is added. KVEO's former subchannel affiliations with Estrella TV, Court TV Mystery and Grit also move to the KGBT spectrum (on three new subchannels) to accommodate additional bandwidth needed for KVEO to transmit the former KGBT CBS programming feed on its DT2 subchannel.
4.4	New subchannel	Estrella TV
4.5	New subchannel	Grit
4.6	New subchannel	Court TV Mystery
KVEO-TV	23.2	Estrella TV	CBS
July 31	Anchorage, Alaska	KYES-TV	5.1	MyNetworkTV	CBS	Earlier in 2020, GCI/Denali Media Holdings, the majority cable provider for the state of Alaska, announced that it would sell its broadcast holdings to focus on other areas, in particular providing data, mobile, video, voice and managed services. On July 31, Denali announced the sale of KTVA's non-license assets, including its news operation and CBS affiliation, to Gray Television, owners of NBC affiliate KTUU-TV and what had been MyNetworkTV affiliate KYES-TV. Denali retains ownership of the KTVA license since Gray cannot legally own and/or operate the station (it already owns two full-power stations in Anchorage). The KTVA assets were transferred to KYES-TV the same day, while KTVA temporarily simulcasted KYES-TV for the benefit of viewers until it wound down its news operation on August 28, with KTUU taking some of KTVA's former staff for a combined "Alaska's News Source" operation between KTUU and KYES. KYES's former primary schedule and MyNetworkTV schedule was shifted to a newly created fourth subchannel. KTVA went dark on September 3, 2020, as GCI looks for a sale partner.
5.4	New subchannel	MyNetworkTV
KTVA	11.1	CBS	Dark
November 2	Sioux Falls, South Dakota	KDLT-TV	46.2	Antenna TV	Fox	Earlier in September, Independent Communications, owner of KTTW and its Huron satellite station KTTM announced it sell the non-license assets of the station along with the studio space, its translators, the Fox affiliation and the Cozi TV subchannel to Gray Television, parent of NBC affiliated station KDLT-TV and its Mitchell satellite station KDLV and ABC affiliated station KSFY-TV; ending its 33 years affiliation with the network on November 2. After the sale, a local company plans to buy the stations and they carry This TV on the second subchannel for the interim while the main channel went temporary dark (Later on February 11, 2021, Radiant Life Ministries, parent company of the Christian broadcaster TCT Network brought the stations for $1 million, pending FCC sale). To accompany the Fox and Cozi TV programming, KDLT had moved the Antenna TV subchannel to 46.3 and KDLV meanwhile moves the KSFY signal to 5.3, displacing The CW Plus and MeTV affiliations.
46.3	New subchannel	Antenna TV
46.4	New subchannel	Cozi TV
KTTW	7.1	Fox	Dark
7.2	Cozi TV	This TV (moved from 7.3)
Mitchell, South Dakota	KDLV (satellite of KDLT-TV)	5.2	The CW Plus	Fox
5.3	MeTV	ABC (simulcast of KSFY-TV)
Huron, South Dakota	KTTM (satellite of KTTW)	12.1	Fox	Dark
12.2	Cozi TV	This TV (moved from 7.3)

Date	Market	Station	Channel	Prior affiliation	New affiliation
January 1	Birmingham, Alabama	WBRC	6.3	Grit (moved to 6.5)	Circle
Huntsville, Alabama	WAFF	48.3	Grit (moved to 48.5)
Panama City, Florida,	WECP-LD	18.3	Heroes & Icons (moved to 18.4)
Evansville, Indiana	WFIE	14.3	Grit (moved to 14.4)
Ottumwa, Iowa/Kirksville, Missouri	KYOU-TV	15.3	Grit (moved to 15.5)
New Orleans, Louisiana,	WVUE-DT	8.3	Grit (moved to 8.5)
Shreveport, Louisiana,	KSLA	12.2	Grit (moved to 12.4)
Flint/Saginaw/Bay City, Michigan,	WJRT-TV	12.3	WeatherNation TV(moved to 12.6)
Cincinnati, Ohio,	WCPO-TV	9.3	Laff	Bounce TV
WXIX-TV	19.2	Bounce TV (moved to WCPO-DT 9.3)	Heroes & Icons
19.3	Grit	Circle
19.4	Ion Television (moved to 19.5)	Grit
WBQC-LD	25.9	Heroes & Icons	Start TV
Charleston, South Carolina,	WCSC-TV	5.3	Grit (moved to 5.4)	Circle
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina,	WMBF-TV	32.3	Grit (moved to 32.5)
Memphis, Tennessee,	WMC-TV	5.3	Grit (moved to 5.4)
Belton, Texas(Waco/Temple/Bryan)	KNCT	46.2	MeTV (simulcast of KWTX-DT 10.3)
Burlington, Vermont	WCAX-TV	3.5	Ion Television (moved from 3.3)
Richmond, Virginia,	WWBT	12.2	Court TV Mystery (moved to 12.3)
Roanoke, Virginia,	WDBJ	7.2	Heroes & Icons (moved to 7.3)
Green Bay, Wisconsin	WBAY-TV	2.3	Ion Television (moved to 2.6)
January 13	Lake Charles, Louisiana,	KVHP	29.3	Ion Television (moved to 29.4)

Station	Channel	Affiliation	Market	Date	Notes
KYMA-DT	11.#	NBC	Yuma, Arizona	January 13	On January 13, 2020, the KYMA-DT program streams and intellectual unit were moved to the channel 13 facility, which changed call letters from KSWT to KYMA-DT. The former KYMA-DT's license was surrendered eight days later as a condition of the acquisition of Northwest Broadcasting by Apollo Global Management in 2019. The virtual channel numbering of the former KYMA streams remains the same.
WNYS-TV	43.#	MyNetworkTV	Syracuse, New York	The same license surrender situation occurs in Syracuse, with WNYS's license turned in, and its intellectual unit becoming the third subchannel of sister Fox affiliate WSYT. It also retains its existing virtual channels.
WLFM-LP	6 (audio on 87.7 FM)	radio programming	Cleveland	June 30	One of the remaining analog channel 6 television stations used to broadcast FM audio at 87.7 FM (so-called "Franken FM" stations) in existence, owner Murray Hill Broadcasting announced that it is ending their LMA with TSJ Media, which moves the station's Spanish CHR audio format to a digital-only presence; the station ended its analog operations and presence on FM radio at the same time. WLFM moved to digital channel 20 in the UHF band in the ongoing TV repack and flash-cut to digital; under the new call sign WLFM-LD, the license is broadcasting Jewelry Television on virtual channel 6.1. The remaining analog channel 6 stations meet the same fate over the course of the year.
W47CK	47	MyNetworkTV	Wilmington, North Carolina	December 11	The station's license was canceled on this date.

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