2007 in American television
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In American television in 2007, notable events included television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and new channel launches.
Notable events[edit]
January[edit]
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 8 | i: Independent Television debuts the national Qubo channel. |
| 29 | i: Independent Television was relaunched as ION Television. |
February[edit]
| 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] |
| 13 | Singer Julie Roberts appeared in the game show Wheel of Fortune and along with contestant Peter Buccellato, raising $124,250 cash & prizes (including the standard $100,000 grand prize) to her charity for St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital.[2] |
| 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[edit]
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1 | NBC Universal launches Chiller, the first US cable/satellite channel devoted to horror programming. |
| 17 | Cartoon Network's Toonami commemorates its 10th anniversary. |
| 31 | Playhouse Disney rebrands with a new look; monkeys Ooh and Ahh become the official hosts of the block. |
April[edit]
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1 | NBC Nightly News weekend anchor John Seigenthaler retires after 6 years. |
| 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[edit]
| 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, NBC's New York flagship station, revives the "We're 4 New York" campaign after they return for a brief time during 2002 Winter Olympics. The song promos was stopped after the 2008 Summer Olympics in 2008 in the wake of the "Lend America" incident. |
| 20 | Fox airs the 18th-season finale of The Simpsons, "You Kent Always Say What You Want". With this episode, The Simpsons reaches the landmark 400 episode milestone. |
| 23 | On Fox, Jordin Sparks wins the 6th season of the popular singing competition American Idol; Blake Lewis is the runner up. |
| 27 | ABC's New York flagship station, WABC-TV, is knocked off the air due to a newsroom studio fire that happened minutes before its scheduled 11:00 ;p.m. newscast. The station briefly returned to carry an ABC West Coast flagship feed and a rebroadcast of ABC World News. |
June[edit]
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 14 | Trace Gallagher resigns as anchorman of Fox Report Weekend on the Fox News Channel and is replaced by Laurie Dhue. Studio B Weekend, which was also anchored by Gallagher, has already been pulled from the schedule. |
| 15 | 83 year-old Bob Barker hosts The Price Is Right for the 6,727th and last time, ending his 34-year tenure on the show and a 50-year run on television. (His last ever Pricing Game was his first: Any Number.) 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, at which two of the network's soap operas share honors for Outstanding Drama Series (Guiding Light and The Young and the Restless)). |
| 24 | Professional wrestler Chris Benoit murders his wife Nancy and son Daniel before taking his own life by hanging himself. WWE cancels Raw the following night and is replaced with a tribute to Benoit. |
| 25 | WWE replaces that day's scheduled Raw episode with a 3-hour tribute to Chris Benoit who murdered his wife and son the night before and hung himself. |
| 25 | Four Points Media Group took over LMAs of mid-sized CBS and CW affiliates. |
| 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[edit]
| 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[edit]
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 7 | On the premiere episode of the CBS game show Power of 10, contestant Jamie Sadler wins $1,000,000. This was the first time that a contestant won $1,000,000 or more on the first episode of an American game show. |
| 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. A preview episode of Phineas and Ferb premieres afterwards. |
| 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[edit]
| 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 an 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, which was initially co-founded by Sesame Workshop and Nickelodeon, ends its relationship with Sesame Workshop. |
| Nick Jr. received yet another rebrand. The block's bumpers encouraged preschoolers to "Play With Us" and featured the Nick Jr. logo in the form of two stuffed animals animated in stop-motion. | |
| 15 | CBS' Saturday morning cartoon block, KOL Secret Slumber Party, is renamed KEWLopolis. |
| 16 | The 59th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony airs on Fox. |
| 21 | Former CBS Evening News anchor, Dan Rather, files for bankruptcy. |
| Australian TV Series, Play School makes an American Play School celebrates its 30th anniversary. |
October[edit]
| 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. | |
| KQET/Watsonville (the satellite of KTEH) switched programming sources from KTEH to KQED. | |
| Cartoon Network celebrates its 15th anniversary. | |
| 12 | Wizards of Waverly Place debuts on Disney Channel. |
| 15 | Fox Business Network launches. |
| Drew Carey replaces Bob Barker as the new host on The Price Is Right and airs his first show. | |
| 22 | The new studio and new format of NBC Nightly News and joined MSNBC. |
| 28 | Game 4 of the World Series is broadcast on Fox. The Boston Red Sox sweep the Colorado Rockies, winning their second title since the historic 2004 series and seventh in franchise history. |
| 29 | Hulu subscription video on demand service launches. |
November[edit]
| 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. |
| Kathleen Herles leaves as the voice of Dora the Explorer for 7 years since 2000. | |
| 12 | Nickelodeon airs 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 the CBS drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. |
| 19 | Firebrand, a nightly television program broadcast television advertising from around the world, debuts on Ion Television. |
December[edit]
| 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 sister network Disney Channel's High School Musical 2. |
| 4 | The 2007 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show is broadcast on CBS. 7.4 million people tune in.[3][4][5][6] |
| 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 the ABC game show 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 | Nick GAS leaves the air (although it stays on Dish Network until April 23, 2009, when it is replaced by the west coast feed of Cartoon Network) and is replaced by a 24-hour version of Noggin's teen-targeted block, "The N." |
Programs[edit]
Debuts[edit]
Returning this year[edit]
| Show | Previous network | Last aired | New network | Returning |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| King of the Hill | Fox | 2006 | Same | January 28 |
| Ed, Edd n Eddy | Cartoon Network | April 16 | ||
| Unfabulous | Nickelodeon | August 10 |
Ending this year[edit]
Shows changing networks[edit]
Made-for-TV movies and television specials[edit]
| Date of airing | Title | Channel |
|---|---|---|
| January 12 | Jump In! | Disney Channel |
| January 14 | The Big Field Trip | Cartoon Network |
| February 18 | Camp Lazlo: Where's Lazlo? | |
| March 20 | Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey's Great Clubhouse Hunt | Playhouse Disney |
| March 30 | Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure | |
| June 8 | Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board | Disney Channel |
| June 9 | Shredderman Rules | Nickelodeon |
| July 20 | The Last Day of Summer | Nickelodeon |
| August 3 | Really Big Shrimp | |
| August 17 | High School Musical 2 | Disney Channel |
| October 6 | Battle of the Bands | Nickelodeon |
| October 12 | Twitches Too | Disney Channel |
| October 30 | Roxy Hunter and the Mystery of the Moody Ghost | Nickelodeon |
| November 21 | Ben 10: Race Against Time | Cartoon Network |
| December 31 | Groovy Noggin: Memories Can Be | Nickelodeon |
Entering syndication this year[edit]
| Show | Seasons | In Production | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cold Case | 4 | Yes | |
| Family Guy | 7 | Yes | |
| George Lopez | 5 | No | |
| Half & Half | 4 | No | |
| Law & Order: Criminal Intent | 6 | Yes | |
| Reno 911! | 4 | Yes | |
| Two and a Half Men | 4 | Yes |
Networks and services[edit]
Network launches[edit]
| Network | Type | Launch date | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ion Life | Cable television | February 19 | ||
| KET ED: The Education Channel | Over-the-air multicast and local cable (Kentucky) | August | Created as a merger of KET3 and KET4, KET ED provides instructional television programming tailor-made for schools and libraries, operating with the same duties as the service's predecessors KET Star Channels 703 and 704. |
Television stations[edit]
Station launches[edit]
Network affiliation changes[edit]
| Date | City of License/Market | Station | Channel | Old affiliation | New affiliation | Notes/Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 13 | Charlottesville, Virginia | WVIR-DT2 | 29.2 | The CW Plus | NBC Weather Plus | CW+ moves to DT3 subchannel |
| July | Marquette, Michigan | WBKP | ABC | The CW | ||
| October 1 | Marquette, Michigan | WLUC-DT2 | 6.2 | The Tube Music Network | NBC Weather Plus | |
| November 9 | Hagåtña, Guam (Agana) | K28HS | 28 | TBN | NBC | Became an LPTV translator of KUAM-TV |
| K30HB | 30 | |||||
| K32GB | 32 | |||||
| K36GJ | 36 | |||||
| Unknown date | Rehoboth Beach, Delaware (Dover, Delaware/Salisbury, Maryland) |
WRDE-LP | 59 | America One | Retro Television Network (primary) MyNetworkTV (secondary) |
Station closures[edit]
| Date | City of license/Market | Station | Channel | Affiliation | Sign-on date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 8 | Florence, Alabama | WYLE | 26 | Jewelry Television Shop at Home Network |
April 19, 1986 |
Births[edit]
| Date | Name | Notability |
|---|---|---|
| January 19 | Jackson Dollinger | Actor (Sydney to the Max) |
| Lidya Jewett | Actress (WITS Academy) | |
| January 24 | Peyton Z. Basnight | Actress (Saturdays) |
| January 28 | That Girl Lay Lay | Actress (That Girl Lay Lay) |
| January 31 | Tex Hammond | Actor (Lincoln Loud on The Loud House (Episode 114 onwards)) |
| February 23 | Leah Mei Gold | Actress (The Casagrandes, Pretty Freekin Scary) |
| February 28 | Scarlet Spencer | Actress (Cousins for Life) |
| March 4 | Miya Cech | Actress (Are You Afraid of the Dark?, The Astronauts) |
| March 6 | Lili Brennan | Actress (Drama Club) |
| March 10 | Malachi Barton | Actor (Stuck in the Middle, Fancy Nancy) |
| March 25 | Will Buie Jr | Actor (Bunk'd) |
| March 28 | Luke Roessler | Actor |
| April 20 | Terrence Little Gardenhigh | Actor (Danger Force) |
| April 21 | Bryan Blanco | Actor (Ultra Violet & Black Scorpion) |
| May 1 | Artyon Celestine | Actor (Drama Club) |
| May 21 | Keith L. Williams | Actor (The Astronauts) |
| June 6 | Aubrey Anderson-Emmons | Actress (Modern Family) |
| July 17 | Callan Farris | Actor (Gabby Duran and the Unsittables) |
| July 24 | Elie Samouhi | Actor (Bizaardvark) |
| July 28 | Danielle Jalade | Actress (Saturdays) |
| July 31 | Angelica Hale | Singer (America's Got Talent) |
| August 16 | Seth Carr | Actor (Knight Squad) |
| August 22 | Raphael Alejandro | Actor (Bunk'd) |
| August 25 | Noah Cottrell | Actor (Punky Brewster) |
| August 27 | Ariana Greenblatt | Actress (Stuck in the Middle) |
| August 28 | August Maturo | Actor (Girl Meets World) |
| August 31 | Jason Maybaum | Actor (Raven's Home, Blue Bloods) |
| September 9 | Mitchell Berg | Actor (Side Hustle) |
| September 25 | Zelia Ankrum | Actress (Ultra Violet & Black Scorpion) |
| October 16 | Kaylin Hayman | Actress (The Mick, Just Roll with It) |
| November 8 | Micah Abbey | Actor (Cousins for Life) |
| November 20 | Havan Flores | Actress (Danger Force) |
| November 30 | Kayden Grace Swan | Actress (The Astronauts) |
| December 4 | Scarlett Estevez | Actress (Bunk'd, Ultra Violet & Black Scorpion) |
| December 21 | Daria Johns | Actress (The Upshaws, Saturdays) |
| December 26 | Christian J. Simon | Voice actor (Darwin on The Amazing World of Gumball (2018–present), Sydney to the Max) |
Deaths[edit]
| Date | Name | Age | Notability |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 8 | Yvonne De Carlo | 84 | Actress (Lily Munster on The Munsters) |
| 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 5 | Mark St. John | 51 | Singer (Kiss) |
| April 7 | Barry Nelson | 89 | Actor (James Bond on Climax!) |
| 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 12 | Don Herbert | 89 | Creator and host of Watch Mr. Wizard |
| June 21 | Carlos Romero | 80 | Actor |
| June 24 | Chris Benoit | 40 | Professional wrestler and star of ECW (WWE) |
| July 11 | Lady Bird Johnson | 94 | First Lady of the United States and spouse of President Lyndon B. Johnson |
| July 29 | Tom Snyder | 71 | Talk show host (Tomorrow Show) |
| August 28 | Miyoshi Umeki | 78 | Japanese actress (The Courtship of Eddie's Father) |
| August 29 | Richard Jewell | 44 | Man falsely accused of the Centennial Olympic Park bombing by the press |
| September 10 | Jane Wyman | 90 | Actress (Falcon Crest) |
| September 21 | Alice Ghostley | 84 | Actress, singer (Bewitched, Mayberry R.F.D., Designing Women) |
| November 14 | Ronnie Burns | 72 | Actor (The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show) |
| December 10 | Ashleigh Aston Moore | Actress (Weinerville) |
References[edit]
- ↑ "Breaking news - CBS Signs Long-Term Affiliation Agreement with Max Media for Station in Bowling Green, Kentucky". The Futon Critic. October 11, 2006.
- ↑ "Fortunate "Wheel" Winner". The State. February 14, 2007. Retrieved February 23, 2009.
- ↑ "Will.I.Am Replaces Kanye At VS Show". San Jose Mercury News. November 17, 2007. Retrieved March 15, 2009.
- ↑ Korb, Michael (December 2, 2007). "Model behavior on CBS' ' Victoria's Secret Fashion Show 2007'". Charleston Gazette. Retrieved March 7, 2009.
- ↑ "The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show (2007)". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved March 7, 2009.
- ↑ Rosenthal, Phil (December 9, 2007). "Models can't make hard sell look attractive". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved March 7, 2009.
- ↑ Cetawayo, Ameerah (February 2, 2007). "Insight lineup changes as WNKY adds CBS affiliate". Bowling Green Daily News. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
