2007 in American television
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The following is a list of events affecting American television in 2007. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and new channel launches.
Notable events
January
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 29 | i: Independent Television was relaunched as ION Television. |
February
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1 | NBC affiliate WNKY in Bowling Green, Kentucky signs-on WNKY-DT2 as a CBS affiliate, giving the Bowling Green market its first locally based CBS affiliate.[1] |
| 22 | The O.C.'s season finale airs on Fox. |
| 23 | After 8 years, Cartoon Network ends its Friday night block, Fridays. The block originally began as Cartoon Cartoon Fridays in June 1999, becoming Summer Fridays in May 2003 before being known simply as Fridays in late September of the same year. |
March
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1 | NBC Universal launches Chiller, the first US cable/satellite channel devoted to horror programming. |
| Sportscaster George Michael retires from Washington, D.C. TV station WRC-TV; his syndicated The George Michael Sports Machine, which originated from WRC, aired for the final time on March 25. | |
| 10 | Playhouse Disney rebrands with all new mascots which are named Ooh and Ahh. |
| 17 | Cartoon Network's Toonami commemorates its 10th anniversary. |
April
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 11 | MSNBC announces its simulcast of radio's Imus in the Morning would be canceled, effective immediately, after public outcry against host Don Imus' derogatory remarks about the Rutgers University women's basketball team. Imus' relationship with his show's radio distributor, CBS Radio, would be terminated later in the spring over the same incident. |
May
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1 | A headend, owned by Comcast, accidentally replaces an episode of Handy Manny on the Disney Channel with footage of graphic pornography for viewers in Lincroft, New Jersey. The incident is reported to Comcast, which investigates, but no findings are announced to the public. |
| 5 | For the first time in 5 years, WNBC New York revives the We're 4 New York campaign after they return for brief time during 2002 Winter Olympics. The song promos was stopped after 2008 Summer Olympics in 2008 in the wake of the "Lend America" incident. |
| 20 | The Simpsons reaches the landmark 400 episode milestone. |
| 23 | Jordin Sparks wins the 6th season of the popular singing competition American Idol; Blake Lewis is the runner up. |
| 27 | Flagship station WABC-TV Channel 7 New York is knocked off the air due to a newsroom studio fire at the 11PM newscast with Joe Torres and Sandra Bookman. The station briefly returned to carry an ABC West Coast flagship feed and a rebroadcast of ABC World News. |
June
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 14 | Trace Gallagher resigns as anchorman of Fox Report Weekend and is replaced by Laurie Dhue. As a result, Studio B Weekend, which was also anchored by Gallagher, is canceled. |
| 15 | Bob Barker hosts The Price Is Right for the final time, ending his 35-year tenure on the show and 50 years on television. CBS airs Barker's final episode in both its regular daytime slot and in prime time, the latter airing as a lead-in to the 34th Daytime Emmy Awards. |
| For the first time ever, two soap operas share honors for Outstanding Drama Series at the Daytime Emmy Awards (Guiding Light and The Young and the Restless). | |
| 26 | In an on-air protest over trivial journalism (specifically MSNBC producers ranking Paris Hilton's release from jail ahead of developments in the Iraq War), newsreader Mika Brzezinski attempts to set fire to a news script, tears up a second, and shreds a third. |
| During installation of a new satellite receiver in Illinois, the Emergency Alert System is accidentally activated at 7:35 AM CDT. An Emergency Action Notification is issued for the United States, followed by dead air. This was played on almost every television and radio station in the Chicago area and throughout large portions of the state. The signal then switched to WGN radio. Garry Meier, then the announcer for WCKG, comes on the air, not knowing what has happened. |
July
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 6 | Cartoon Network announces its new Friday night block, Fried Dynamite. |
| 23 | Drew Carey is announced as the new host of The Price Is Right; his first episode as host aired on October 15. |
August
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 17 | The Disney Channel's premiere showing of High School Musical 2 becomes the most-watched made-for-cable movie ever, drawing in 17.24 million viewers. |
| 30 | The Big Ten Network formally launches, but its debut is marred by its failure to reach carriage agreements with Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Charter Cable, and several other smaller providers serving the conference's geographical footprint. The dispute goes unsolved for nearly a year, causing millions of fans to miss several games seen in previous years via local syndication, public broadcasting stations connected to universities, and ESPN's family of networks. |
September
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1 | In one of the first football games to air on the Big Ten Network, Appalachian State University upsets the University of Michigan, 34–32, at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, the first time a NCAA Division I FCS school defeats an AP-ranked school from the Bowl subdivision. |
| 7 | The soap opera Passions airs for the final time on NBC, only to resurface on September 17 as an exclusive presentation of DirecTV's 101 Network. The cancellation leaves Days of Our Lives as the last remaining soap opera on NBC. |
| 8 | The original Live at Five aired its final news broadcast on WNBC. After 25 years it was renamed. |
| 10 | Noggin ends its relationship with Sesame Workshop, though new or older shows would continue to air on some PBS stations or on PBS Kids Sprout. |
| 15 | KOL Secret Slumber Party was renamed KEWLopolis. |
| 16 | The 59th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony aired. |
October
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1 | TBS becomes exclusively a national cable network after WTBS, the Atlanta, Georgia "superstation" from which it was born, becomes an Atlanta-only TV station as WPCH-TV (Peachtree TV). |
| Trinity Broadcasting Network begins airing the long-awaited God Rocks state of the art cartoon series. | |
| The Tube Music Network officially ceases broadcasting. | |
| 15 | Fox Business Network launches. |
| Drew Carey replaces Bob Barker as the new host on The Price Is Right and airs his first show. |
November
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 5 | The Writers Guild of America commences a strike against television and movie production studios; the strike lasts until February 2008, but not before production on TV shows are halted and networks' schedules are severely disrupted. |
| 12 | Nickelodeon promotes its very first SpongeBob SquarePants TV movie, Atlantis SquarePantis, attracting 8.8 million viewers. |
| 15 | Jorja Fox appears for the last time as a regular cast member as investigator Sara Sidle on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. |
| 19 | Firebrand, a nightly television program broadcast television advertising from around the world, debuts on Ion Television. |
December
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 3 | ESPN's Monday Night Football telecast of the unbeaten New England Patriots and the Baltimore Ravens draws 17.52 million viewers, breaking the basic cable viewership record set earlier in the year by Disney Channel's High School Musical 2. |
| 23 | Ashlee Register wins the $1,720,000 jackpot, along with a banked total of $75,000, for a grand total of $1,795,000 on Duel. She becomes the second female contestant to win $1,000,000 or more on a game show and sets the record for the highest amount of money won on a game show by a woman. |
| 29 | After weeks of political pressure (and, to a lesser extent, acknowledging the limited reach of the NFL Network), the National Football League allows that network's broadcast of the game between the New England Patriots and New York Giants to be simulcast nationally on league broadcast partners CBS and NBC. The Patriots would win the game to become the first team in NFL history to go undefeated in a 16-game regular season. (The teams would meet again later in Super Bowl XLII, where the Giants won the NFL title and prevented the Pats from going 19–0.) |
| 31 | Nickelodeon Games and Sports for Kids leaves the air (although it stayed on Dish Network until April 23, 2009, when it was replaced by the west coast feed of Cartoon Network) and is replaced by The N, allowing that kids-oriented network and its sister channel Noggin to air on a 24/7 basis after previously sharing the same channel space. |
Programs
Debuts
Returning this year
| Show | Previous network | Last aired | New network | Returning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fox Online | Fox News Channel | 2007 | Same | July 14 |
Ending this year
Changes of Network Affiliation
Made-for-TV movies
| Date of airing | Title | Channel |
|---|---|---|
| January 12 | Jump In! | Disney Channel |
| June 8 | Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board | |
| June 9 | Shredderman Rules | Nickelodeon |
| August 17 | High School Musical 2 | Disney Channel |
| October 12 | Twitches Too |
Births
| Date | Name | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| June 6 | Aubrey Anderson-Emmons | Actress (Modern Family) |
| August 28 | August Maturo | Actor (Girl Meets World) |
Deaths
| Date | Name | Age | Notability |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 14 | Darlene Conley | 72 | Actress (The Bold and the Beautiful) |
| January 16 | Benny Parsons | 65 | Race car driver, TV announcer / analyst |
| January 22 | Doug Blasdell | 44 | Personal trainer (Work Out) |
| January 30 | Sidney Sheldon | 89 | Writer, creator (I Dream of Jeannie) |
| January 31 | Lee Bergere | 88 | Actor (Dynasty) |
| February 8 | Anna Nicole Smith | 39 | Model and actress (The Anna Nicole Show) |
| April 11 | Roscoe Lee Browne | 81 | Actor (voice of Kingpin on Spider-Man) |
| May 7 | Nicholas Worth | 69 | Actor |
| May 15 | Jerry Falwell | 73 | Pastor, televangelist |
| May 25 | Charles Nelson Reilly | 76 | Actor and game show panelist (The Match Game) |
| May 27 | Gretchen Wyler | 75 | Actress |
| June 21 | Carlos Romero | 80 | Actor |
| June 24 | Chris Benoit | 40 | Professional wrestler and star of ECW(WWE) |
| July 29 | Tom Snyder | 71 | Talk show host (Tomorrow Show) |
| November 14 | Ronnie Burns | 72 | Actor (The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show) |
References
- ↑ Breaking news - CBS Signs Long-Term Affilation Agreement with Max Media for Station in Bowling Green, Kentucky | TheFutonCritic.com (October 11, 2006)
- ↑ Bill Keveney (2007-08-20). "'Bionic Woman' remake plugs into modern mind-set". USA Today. Retrieved 2010-02-23.
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