2022 in American television

The following is a list of the events affecting American television in 2022. Events listed include 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.

Notable events

January

Date	Event	Source
1	Fox affiliate WDKY/Danville–Lexington, Kentucky launches an in-house news department, ending a news outsourcing agreement—one of the longest such agreements in American television history—that it had maintained with Gray-owned CBS affiliate WKYT (which debuted a separate prime time newscast for its CW-affiliated DT2 subchannel on that night) since its 10:00 p.m. newscast premiered in January 1995; WDKY employed its own anchors to present the WKYT-produced broadcasts, all of whom were retained for the new operation (accompanied by reporters, sportscasters and meteorologists hired for the in-house productions) as were some feature segments that originated on the outsourced newscasts. The switch to an in-house production follows the physical expansion and equipment upgrade of WDKY's studios by Nexstar Media Group (which acquired the station in September 2020 through a settlement over previous owner Sinclair's failed acquisition of Tribune Media, of which Nexstar acquired most assets in 2019). An expanded weekday morning newscast (increased to four hours from its previous one-hour runtime as a WKYT production) and a new half-hour early evening newscast subsequently debuted on January 3.
3	The Major League Baseball-owned MLB Network declines to renew the contract of insider Ken Rosenthal; it is believed to be the result of Rosenthal's criticisms of league commissioner Rob Manfred's handling of the pandemic-altered 2020 season. Rosenthal retains positions as MLB reporter for Fox Sports and writer for The Athletic (where he penned his critiques of Manfred).
	Art Rascon retires from broadcasting after 36 years, 23 of which were with KTRK-TV/Houston (serving as a midday and 5:00 p.m. anchor and field reporter). On his final day at the ABC O&O, Rascon co-anchors its 11:00 a.m. newscast alongside son Jacob (previously with rival NBC affiliate KPRC), who made his KTRK debut as an anchor/reporter on that date.
4–6	Two late-night talk shows pause production after their hosts test positive for COVID-19: NBC's Late Night cancels its scheduled tapings through January 6 in the wake of host Seth Meyers' positive test one day after their January 3 return from a holiday production hiatus (Meyers' guests for that show joined in remotely). On the 6th, CBS' Late Late Show also goes dark through January 18 due to James Corden's own positive test. Meyers' and Corden's diagnoses come after Jimmy Fallon, whose The Tonight Show tapes in the same same building as Late Night, revealed he tested COVID-positive after his show's December 17 taping, just before TonightTemplate:'s own holiday hiatus; Fallon (who was fully vaccinated, as are Meyers and Corden) fully recovered before production resumed on January 3, meaning Tonight did not have to face postponements. However, Fallon was revealed to have been intended to make a cameo on Saturday Night Live's December 18 episode, and thus may have contributed to the episode’s emergency reformatting. Late Night would return with Meyers hosting remotely for the week of January 10–13 with most crew members working from home or in-studio, before returning to the studio.
5	Thirteen current and former female staffers file a gender discrimination lawsuit against the Black News Channel in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, claiming that management paid female employees significantly less than male staffers, harbored a misogynistic work culture that forced them to conform to behavioral gender stereotypes, and retaliated against those who complained about the pay disparities and personal treatment. Two of the plaintiffs in the amended lawsuit had filed a prior complaint against BNC in August 2021.
	After Kevin Porter Jr. hit a game-winning three-pointer, Washington Wizards broadcaster Glenn Consor remarked on NBC Sports Washington that the Houston Rockets star, "like his dad, pulled the trigger at the right time." Porter's father went to prison after pleading guilty in the 1993 shooting death of a 14-year-old girl. Consor's comment drew ire from social media users, including LeBron James. In apologizing for the incident, Consor claimed he thought Kevin Porter Jr. was related to former Washington player Kevin Porter.
7	The Magnolia Network, which replaced DIY Network three days before, pulls the home renovation series Home Work from their schedule and Discovery+ presence (where it had streamed since the summer of 2021), following allegations from three subject families of not meeting timelines, high additional costs, and lack of communication by the show's hosts, Andy and Candis Meredith. The show would be returned to the lineups on January 13.
	By earning $42,220 in her 28th victory, Amy Schneider becomes the first female contestant and fourth overall to win over $1 million in regular gameplay on Jeopardy!. Schneider would go on to surpass Matt Amodio for the second-most consecutive wins in the game show's history with her 39th victory on January 24. Her win streak ended at 40 two days later. (Ken Jennings, who has presided over Schneider's win streak as part-time interim host, holds the most consecutive wins with 74 during his streak as Jeopardy! champion in 2004.)
9	The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) hands out the 79th Golden Globe Awards, with notable TV winners including Succession (Best Drama Series), Hacks (Best Comedy Series), and [[Pose (TV series)|PoseTemplate:'s]] Mj Rodriguez (the first openly trans person to win a Globe, for Best Actress in a Drama Series). The Globes are distributed in a private, non-televised ceremony (and winners announced via press release and the HPFA's social media channels) in light of broadcast rightsholder NBC's support of a boycott by various media organizations, actors, and other creatives over the HFPA's inadequate efforts to address the membership diversity of the organization (NBC carried the final game of the NFL regular season played between the Los Angeles Chargers and Las Vegas Raiders on this evening).
12	Richard Burgi confirms in an Instagram post that he was fired from The Young and the Restless for an inadvertent breach of distributor Sony Pictures Television's COVID-19 protocols, disclosing that he isolated for five days after testing COVID-positive during the CBS soap opera's holiday production hiatus in December—in accordance with prior CDC guidelines, revised that month to a five-day isolation period—rather than the SPT requirement for personnel to isolate for ten days which had not been revised. He then returned to the set five days early, testing negative twice. In contrast to other soap actors that were fired for COVID policy violations in 2021, some of whom publicly criticized their studios and networks, Burgi expressed sincere regret for his judgement. Robert Newman, known for playing Josh Lewis on Guiding Light off-and-on from 1981 until its 2009 conclusion, assumed the role of Ashland Locke (which Burgi had played since the character debuted in March 2021) on the February 9 episode.
14	DirecTV announces it will cease carriage of One America News Network and AWE when its contract with parent company Herring Networks expires in early April, a decision applicable to its namesake satellite provider and sister service U-verse TV. The radicalist-leaning, conservative OAN has received criticism for pushing conspiracy theories (particularly involving COVID-19 vaccines and health restrictions, and debunked claims of electoral fraud during the 2020 presidential election and left-wing involvement in the January 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol) while gaining support from former president Donald Trump. Wealth culture-focused AWE has had issues involving the low overall appeal of its programming during economic recessions (most recently the ongoing COVID-19 recession), and aggressive carriage demands. Both networks will remain available on Verizon FiOS and smaller cable providers.
19	WSAZ/Huntington, West Virginia multimedia journalist Tori Yorgey is struck by an SUV while reporting live from the scene of a water main break in Dunbar during that night's 11:00 p.m. newscast. Yorgey—who conducted the report roadside in wet and icy conditions, and continued with the report afterward—was uninjured, but was taken to a local hospital for observation as a precaution. (The accident occurred during Yorgey's last week at WSAZ; she became a reporter for ABC affiliate WTAE/Pittsburgh on February 1.)
24	Deadline Hollywood reports ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global) halted its proposed reformatting of the general entertainment Paramount Network as the primarily film-focused Paramount Movie Network, citing the success of original drama series Yellowstone and COVID-related production delays of its planned telefilm output. First announced in September 2020, the reformatted channel was to offer original made-for-cable movies (including 52 new films per year), limited scripted series and miniseries (at least one per quarter), and films from the Paramount Pictures library. In preparation for the change, several of the network's original unscripted programs were either canceled outright or moved to its sister channels or to Paramount+ during late 2020 and 2021.
25	Bravo fires Jennie Nguyen from the cast of The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City after racially offensive comments and memes, including many mocking the Black Lives Matter movement, that she shared on Facebook during the 2020 anti-police brutality protests had resurfaced on social media.
26	TLC fires Alina Kozhevnikova from the cast of 90 Day Fiancé (as well as spin-offs Before the 90 Days and the upcoming 90 Day Fiancé: Tell All) after past social media posts mocking various races and religions resurfaced (among them, a now-deleted 2014 post in which she used the N-word eight times when describing a party she had been invited to in her native Russia, and one from 2015 mocking Hugh Grant's eldest son, who is half-Chinese, for being "kinda Asian.").
27	Stephanie Ruhle is named permanent anchor of The 11th Hour. In addition to her usual 9:00 a.m. ET slot (which will be absorbed by Morning Joe once she vacates it), she had been serving as one of several rotating hosts of the MSNBC program since original anchor Brian Williams's departure from the network in December. The move will be made on March 2.
31	During a discussion on The View about the controversy surrounding the McMinn County, Tennessee school district’s January 10 ban of the Holocaust-focused graphic novel Maus, moderator Whoopi Goldberg claims that the Holocaust was about “man’s inhumanity to man” and not based on race (appearing to characterize race—as she clarified during her appearance on that night's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert—in the narrower construct of ethnicity/skin color, rather than the broader outgroup context in line with Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party's view of Jews as an "inferior race" on religious grounds). Goldberg later apologized for the remarks amid widespread criticism from Jewish groups, and was placed on a two-week suspension by ABC News on February 1; she returned to The View on February 14.

February

Date	Event	Source
2	Jeff Zucker resigns as President of CNN, a role he held since 2013, after admitting that he failed to disclose his romantic relationship with CNN Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer Allison Gollust, a former aide to ex-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in the wake of the sexual harassment allegations that led to Cuomo’s resignation the year prior. The scandal also led to the December 2021 firing of Cuomo Prime Time host Chris Cuomo for assisting in his brother’s defense against the allegations. Gollust would resign on February 15, after the investigation’s findings that they all violated company policy was released.
	Deadline Hollywood reports that The Masked Singer judges Robin Thicke and Ken Jeong walked off a taping of the Fox series' season premiere the previous week after Rudy Giuliani was revealed to be a contestant. The other judges, Jenny McCarthy and Nicole Scherzinger, remained on stage and spoke with the former New York City mayor who was among the allies of Donald Trump falsely alleging the 2020 election was stolen after Trump lost his re-election bid.
3–20	The 2022 Winter Olympics took place in Beijing, China, and aired on NBC and its U.S. cable networks as well as streaming on Peacock. The event marked the first time that NBC has broadcast the Olympics in back-to-back years, having aired the 2020 Summer Olympics less than seven months prior due to the COVID-19 pandemic delaying the event from its original July 2020 start date. (The Summer and Winter Olympics—for which NBC assumed exclusive broadcast rights in 1988 and 2002, respectively—have typically alternated every two years within each four-year interval since 1994, and occurred in the same calendar year during each interval from 1924 to 1992, outside of World War II-prompted cancellations.) It also marks the first time that NBCUniversal will provide full streaming coverage without requiring a pay-TV subscription, as Peacock will provide live coverage of all Olympic events, with replays made available upon each event's conclusion, as well as ancillary content (including opening, closing and medal ceremonies, and NBC's prime time and studio programming) via its subscription tiers. (NBC previously restricted access to most event livestreams via provider login through its dedicated Olympics website and app; however, Peacock provided limited live event coverage without such a requirement for the 2020 games.) On January 19, NBC Sports announced that all announcing talent for the games would be based out of its studios in Stamford, Connecticut in response to the Omicron variant.
5	Andrea Bordeaux is fired from the Starz series Run the World, after she refused to comply with the show's COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Bordeaux's character, Ella McFair, will not be recast.
7	Bertram van Munster, co-creator and executive producer of The Amazing Race, is sued on multiple complaints (including fraud, breach of oral contract and misappropriation of trade secrets) filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court by former CBS executive Leigh Collier, who alleged that van Munster recreated New Media Collective, a production company that they originally co-founded in 2014 before dissolving two years later, without her knowledge. Collier is seeking a share of profits and a 33% interest in the company.
9	In a first for ESPN's NBA coverage, this evening's broadcast of a Golden State Warriors–Utah Jazz NBA game is headed by an all-female on-air crew, including play-by-play announcer Beth Mowins, analyst Doris Burke, and sideline reporter Lisa Salters. Additionally, the broadcast's directing chair and 33 other production positions in Salt Lake City (where the game will be played) and ESPN's Bristol, Connecticut control room are occupied by female staffers.
13	The Los Angeles Rams defeat the Cincinnati Bengals 23-20 in Super Bowl LVI at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California on NBC. The game—which was the first Super Bowl to take place on a calendar date falling within the scheduled date range of an ongoing Olympics event—was originally going to be aired on CBS, but it was traded to NBC (under an agreement reached in March 2019) so that it could be paired with the Winter Olympics to avoid potential dilution of viewership and advertising revenue for the two events. The switch also affected the NFL Honors, which occurred on February 10 broadcast on ABC and ESPN. The halftime show was headlined by rappers Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar with appearances by 50 Cent and Anderson .Paak. The game marked the final NBC Sports assignment for sideline reporter Michele Tafoya, who left to pursue a career as a conservative commentator and political consultant.
14	Friends of WLRN Inc., which has served as the fundraising arm of School Board of Miami-Dade County’s public broadcasting operations since 1974, agrees to take over full-management of secondary PBS member station WLRN-TV and its news/talk FM sister (including its digital channels and satellite FM station WKWM/Marathon). The group had clashed with the school board in recent years after Miami-Dade County Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho and a committee recommended that a competing bid by South Florida PBS (which operates WPBT/Miami and WXEL/West Palm Beach) be selected.
16	ViacomCBS changes its name to Paramount Global.
17	Former 9-1-1 star Rockmond Dunbar sues 20th Television and parent The Walt Disney Company over its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, and their rejection of the religious exemptions he sought which led to his abrupt departure from the series in November. He claims discrimination and career sabotage.
	Everett Fitzhugh (filling in for regular play-by-play announcer John Forslund) and J. T. Brown call this date's Seattle Kraken-Winnipeg Jets game for Root Sports Northwest, and in doing so make history as the first all-Black duo to call a National Hockey League TV broadcast.
22	Standard General and Apollo Global Management announce their intent to acquire Tegna Inc. for $5.4 billion; a Standard General affiliate company will assume voting equity in Tegna, while Cox Media Group and Apollo (through funding managed by an Apollo affiliate firm) will hold securities not attributable to voting interests. Concurrently, Cox (which is majority owned by Apollo) will acquire Tegna-owned stations in Austin (KVUE), Dallas–Fort Worth (WFAA and KMPX) and Houston (KHOU and KTBU), and Standard-owned stations in Paducah–Cape Girardeau (KBSI and WDKA), Lincoln (KLKN) and Providence (WLNE); Standard will acquire WFXT/Boston from Cox in turn. Deb McDermott will be appointed as Tegna’s CEO after the sale’s closure, which is expected to occur during the second half of 2022, barring potential opposition from federal regulators over Apollo’s existing Cox and proposed Tegna interests.
24	CNN announces it will cut back the use of its "squeezeback" ad units, which allow for commercials to play without cutting away from live coverage, following juxtaposition of upbeat ads, including one from Applebee's against footage of air raid sirens sounding across Kyiv, during coverage of the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine. In addition, Applebee's pulls its ads from the network altogether.
	California–Oregon Broadcasting Inc. announces its intent to sell its Eugene, Oregon duopoly of Fox affiliate KLSR-TV and MyNetworkTV affiliate KEVU-CD to Cox Media Group; the purchase price was not initially disclosed. Following its expected completion during the second quarter of the year, the sale will leave NBC affiliate KOBI/Medford and its Klamath Falls satellite KOTI as California–Oregon Broadcasting’s only remaining television properties.
27	KCRG-TV/Cedar Rapids, Iowa announces the termination of its morning anchor Jay Greene for an undisclosed incident the station determined violated its code of conduct. The firing leaves the Gray Television-owned ABC affiliate with two anchor openings, as evening anchor Chris Earl departed for a position in Florida earlier in the month.
	The 28th Screen Actors Guild Awards air on TBS and TNT from the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California. Noted TV-related winners include the casts of Succession and Ted Lasso (Outstanding Drama and Comedy Series Ensembles), as well as Lee Jung-jae and HoYeon Jung (Outstanding Male and Female Drama Series Actors) of Squid Game, the first non-English language TV series to win SAG Awards.
28	The Real USFL, LLC, a group representing the owners of the original league’s franchises and fronted by Larry Csonka (acting in his capacity as general manager of the original Jacksonville Bulls), files a lawsuit against Fox Sports and subsidiary National Spring Football League Enterprises Co, LLC, seeking an injunction to prevent the new United States Football League from using the name or trademarks associated with the original league (which operated from 1983 to 1986 and was officially dissolved in 1990). Attorneys for the league assert that intellectual property rights for the new USFL had been registered in 2011. The new USFL—which uses the original league’s team names, logos and other materials for its eight initial teams—is scheduled to begin play April 16, with games scheduled to air on Fox, NBC, FS1 and USA Network and stream on Peacock.

March

Date	Event	Source
1	Turner Sports obtains the English-language rights to United States men's and women's national soccer team matches beginning in 2023. Through the United States Soccer Federation’s eight-year deal with the WarnerMedia division, HBO Max will stream more than 20 matches, with TNT or TBS simulcasting select matches. Turner's Bleacher Report website also gains rights to expanded content through the agreement.
	Production on Season 7 of Nailed It! is permanently suspended after staffers on the Netflix baking competition go on strike, an effort to win a union contract between the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and the show's production company, Magical Elves. The four episodes that had been finished are expected to run on Netflix in the fall, to coincide with the season's Halloween theme.
7	The 57th Academy of Country Music Awards are broadcast on Amazon Prime Video from Allegiant Stadium in Paradise, Nevada. Hosted by Dolly Parton, it is one of the first major awards ceremonies on U.S. television to move exclusively to a subscription video on demand (SVOD) streaming service. (Prime Video replaced previous rightsholder CBS, which had aired the ACMs from 1998 to 2021.) With two wins each, Miranda Lambert (“Entertainer of the Year”, and “Video of the Year" for “Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home)" in collaboration with Elle King), Carly Pearce (“Female Artist of the Year”, and “Music Event of the Year” for "Never Wanted to Be That Girl" in collaboration with Ashley McBryde) and Lainey Wilson (“Song of the Year” for "Things a Man Oughta Know", and “New Female Artist of the Year”) were tied for the most awards.
8	Apple TV+ announces a deal with Major League Baseball to air a weekly doubleheader of Friday night games, a package that will launch with the 2022 season. Its first broadcasts will be April 8, with the New York Mets against the Washington Nationals and the Houston Astros against the Los Angeles Angels. The exclusive broadcasts—which will be produced by MLB and feature pre-game, post-game, and other ancillary programming—will be the first foray into live-streaming sporting events for Apple TV+.
13	The 27th Critics' Choice Awards aired simultaneously on both TBS and The CW (the latter network is a joint venture between Paramount Global and WarnerMedia, thus the ability to simulcast with TBS, in an arrangement announced on October 26, 2021). The ceremony—co-hosted by Taye Diggs and Nicole Byer, and coinciding with the 75th BAFTA Awards—took place at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California. The awards were postponed from its original January 9 date on December 22, 2021, due to safety concerns related to the COVID Omicron variant. With four awards, Ted Lasso had the most wins among television nominees ("Best Comedy Series", Jason Sudeikis for "Best Actor in a Comedy Series", Brett Goldstein for "Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series", and Hannah Waddingham for "Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series").
14	Fox News says its state department correspondent Benjamin Hall was injured while reporting on the war in Ukraine near Kyiv. Hall's cameraman, Pierre Zakrzewski and consultant Oleksandra “Sasha” Kuvshynova were killed by the blast that leaves Hall with severe injuries to his legs, a hand, and an eye, as well as damage to his hearing.
16	Confirming an earlier report by the New York PostTemplate:'s Andrew Marchand, ESPN announces that Joe Buck will join the network as play-by-play announcer for Monday Night Football beginning in the 2022 NFL season, working alongside Fox Sports partner Troy Aikman, who had earlier agreed to join ESPN in a separate five-year deal. One of Fox Sports' original hires when it began operations in 1994, Buck had been its lead voice for Major League Baseball, USGA golf, and, with Aikman as analyst since 2002, NFL football. In exchange for granting Buck a release from the final year of his contract with Fox, the network receives from ESPN the rights to an extra Big Ten Conference football game for the 2022 college football season.
17	Amazon closes its acquisition of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, an $8.5 billion deal first announced in May 2021, which included ownership of MGM Television, and pay television channels Epix, Screenpix and MGM HD, and management interests in Sinclair-owned multicast networks Charge! and Comet. In addition to maintaining the studio’s existing planned productions and scheduled releases, Amazon will not relegate MGM’s television and film content exclusively to Prime Video and IMDb TV, allowing the studio to continue licensing its titles to linear television networks and competing streaming services.
27	The 94th Academy Awards aired on ABC from the Dolby Theatre, and was co-hosted by Wanda Sykes, Amy Schumer and Regina Hall. The ceremony's later-than-usual date avoided a conflict with the Winter Olympics. CODA won Best Picture, becoming the first streaming-exclusive film to win the award, and Apple TV+ the first streaming service to do so; it also won for Best Supporting Actor (Troy Kotsur, the first deaf actor to win the category) and Best Adapted Screenplay. Ariana DeBose won Best Supporting Actress for her role in West Side Story, becoming the first queer woman of color and first Afro-Latina to win a major Oscar category. During the Best Documentary Feature presentation, Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on-stage after the comedian ad-libbed a joke about Smith’s wife, Jada Pinkett Smith's, shaved head during his monologue. (Pinkett Smith was diagnosed with alopecia areata in 2018.) ABC muted most of the audio from the confrontation, which aired in full on many international broadcasters, omitting Smith's remarks for Rock to “keep [Jada’s] name out [of his] fucking mouth”; Smith apologized for the altercation in his Best Actor acceptance speech (for his role in King Richard) later in the ceremony and to Rock on Instagram the next day. The telecast ran for nearly four hours, despite a controversial attempt to trim its length by offloading eight awards to pre-recorded segments.
29	Mick Mulvaney, former White House Chief of Staff under Donald Trump, is hired by CBS News as a contributor to provide analysis on political matters. Mulvaney's addition draws backlash within the network for his dismissal of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Trump-Ukraine scandal. Most notably, Stephen Colbert used his monologue on March 31's Late Show to criticize CBS over the hiring.
30	Cox Media Group announces its intent to sell 18 television stations in 12 small and mid-sized markets (including among others, Fox affiliates WHBQ-TV/Memphis and WSYT-TV/Syracuse, and the Tulsa duopoly of Fox affiliate KOKI-TV and MyNetworkTV affiliate KMYT-TV) to Imagicomm Communications, a company affiliated with INSP parent Inspiration Ministries; the purchase price was not initially disclosed. The sale is expected to be completed during the second half of 2022.

April

Date	Event	Source
1	In an April Fools' Day prank on their audiences, late night's "Jimmys" swap shows: Jimmy Fallon travels to Los Angeles to host ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live!, while Kimmel hosts NBC's Tonight Show from New York City. Justin Timberlake appears on Kimmel Live! initially as Matt Damon, while the Red Hot Chili Peppers appear as musical guests on both shows (their Kimmel Live! performance being pre-taped in Hollywood one day earlier).
	Citing sources, Axios reports that White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki is in discussions with MSNBC to host a program for NBCUniversal's streaming platform Peacock. She would also appear on the main MSNBC network as a contributor, though no formal agreement has been made due to federal regulations. She steps down as Press Secretary on May 13, succeeded by Karine Jean-Pierre.
2	In a move to streamline production and newsgathering resources for the daily PBS newscast, WETA-TV/Washington, D.C. takes over production responsibilities for the PBS NewsHourTemplate:'s Saturday and Sunday editions from fellow member station WNET/Newark–New York City, which had produced the half-hour weekend broadcasts since their September 2013 debut. Now based in Washington and rechristened PBS News Weekend, the half-hour newscasts are anchored by former NBC/MSNBC correspondent Geoff Bennett; he succeeds original weekend anchor Hari Sreenivasan, who will remain a New York-based correspondent for the weekday broadcasts and serve as a contributor for Amanpour & Company.
3	The 64th Annual Grammy Awards air on CBS from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, with Trevor Noah hosting, and big winners including Silk Sonic (four awards, including Record and Song of the Year for "Leave the Door Open") and Jon Batiste (Album of the Year for We Are). This Grammy ceremony had been postponed from January 31 due to safety concerns related to the Omicron variant, while scheduling conflicts at its original venue, Los Angeles' Crypto.com Arena, prompted its move to Vegas. It's only the second time a Grammy ceremony was not held in L.A. or New York (the 15th edition took place in Nashville in 1973).
4	The Kansas Jayhawks defeat the North Carolina Tar Heels in the championship game of the 2022 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. The TBS broadcast from New Orleans' Caesars Superdome marks the last CBS Sports assignment for longtime director Bob Fishman, who retires from CBS after a 50-year career (47 with its sports division) that included, among various assignments, 39 of the 40 Final Fours CBS produced and/or aired since first obtaining tournament broadcast rights in 1982 (the tournament has been a CBS/Turner Sports partnership since 2011).
	Ryman Hospitality Properties announces that it will sell a combined 30% interest in Opry Entertainment—which operates the Grand Ole Opry concert stage show, Nashville venue Ryman Auditorium, radio station WSM and 50% of multicast network Circle (the other half owned by Gray Television)—to a joint partnership of NBCUniversal and investment company Atairos for $293 million. Ryman will retain 70% equity in Opry Entertainment.
6	On the heels of its deal with Apple TV+ (see March 8 entry), Major League Baseball announces a second live-streaming deal with the NBCUniversal-owned Peacock. Beginning with a Chicago White Sox/Boston Red Sox game on May 8, Peacock will air games for 18 consecutive Sunday mornings (thru September 4) that start at 11:30 a.m. ET (12 noon ET from June 19 onward). The games will be exclusive to Peacock (save for that May 8 game, which NBC will simulcast), and also feature pre- and post-game coverage; exclusive carriage of the All-Star Futures Game; and access to MLB's vault of highlights, classic games, and documentaries. The deal is a reuniting of MLB with NBC Sports, which covered the game from the 1930s thru 1989, and was also involved in The Baseball Network (1994–1995) and postseason and All-Star Game broadcasts with Fox Sports (1996–2000).
8	With Joe Buck having departed for ESPN (see March 16 entry), Fox Sports formally names Joe Davis as the new lead play-by-play announcer on its Major League Baseball broadcasts, where he will work alongside analyst John Smoltz.
	The WarnerMedia-Discovery, Inc. merger closes, resulting in the formation of Warner Bros. Discovery. Discovery CEO David Zaslav takes over as CEO of the combined company, while Discovery chief lifestyle brands officer Kathleen Finch assumes oversight of most of the company's U.S. linear entertainment, lifestyle and factual networks (including, among others, TBS, TNT, Cartoon Network, Discovery Channel, TLC, HGTV and Food Network) and the new Warner Bros. Discovery Sports unit (formed through a reorganizational split of the former WarnerMedia News & Sports division and includes Turner Sports and AT&T SportsNet, the former of which has an executive vacancy); Warner Bros. Television chief Channing Dungey, and Home Box Office, Inc. and HBO Max chief content officer Casey Bloys (who will also oversee Magnolia Network, which reported directly to Zaslav under Discovery) maintain their existing roles. (Chris Licht, who was appointed as CEO of the rechristened CNN Global shortly before the merger’s completion, will take over as CEO in May.)
11	The 2022 CMT Music Awards air on CBS from the Nashville Municipal Auditorium, and was hosted by Anthony Mackie, Kelsea Ballerini (who hosted and performed virtually due to testing positive for an asymptomatic case of COVID-19) and Kane Brown (who stepped in as a co-host following Ballerini’s diagnosis). It is the first time the event, previously shown on CBS' cable sibling CMT, has aired on broadcast television, a move announced in June 2021 to fill the void left by CBS' loss of the Academy of Country Music Awards (see March 7 entry). The event was also bumped from April 3 by the rescheduled Grammy Awards. Jason Aldean, Carrie Underwood (both winning “Video of the Year” and “Collaborative Video of the Year” for their duet, "If I Didn't Love You") and Cody Johnson (for “Male Video of the Year” for “'Til You Can't” and “Digital-First Performance of the Year” for "Dear Rodeo") were the top winners at the ceremony, each earning two awards.
	Returning to her MSNBC primetime show after a two-month hiatus, Rachel Maddow announces that beginning in May, she will host only one night per week, Mondays (and additional nights when the news warrants), to allow her "more time to work on some of this other stuff I’ve got cooking" for MSNBC and NBC News. The network will fill the void with a rotation of guest hosts helming the 9:00 p.m. ET slot in a show to be called MSNBC Prime.
	For the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic began, Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Trevor Noah records before a studio audience at its longtime home, NEP Studio 52 at 733 11th Avenue in New York City. During the previous 25 months, The Daily ShowTemplate:'s episodes had originated audience-free from either Noah's home (as The Daily Social Distancing Show) or ViacomCBS' Times Square studios. It is the last American late night show to resume regular in-studio production with a live audience.
14	Pat Foley retires from sports broadcasting after calling his final Chicago Blackhawks telecast for NBC Sports Chicago. A suburban Chicago native, Foley's broadcasting career spanned more than four decades, and was primarily spent calling play-by-play for the NHL's Blackhawks on radio and/or television since 1980 (with a two-year break from 2006 to 2008, during which called play-by-play for the AHL's Chicago Wolves).
16	Fox and NBC simulcast the first game of the new United States Football League, a 28-24 victory by the Birmingham Stallions over the New Jersey Generals. The broadcast, produced by Fox (with halftime content by NBC) and attracting an estimated three million total viewers, is the first pro football game to be carried simultaneously by two broadcast networks since 2007 (NBC and CBS picked up NFL Network's coverage of a Patriots-Giants NFL game), and the first carried by two broadcast networks exclusively since 1967 (Super Bowl I, also by NBC and CBS). The new USFL's first-season games air on Fox, NBC, FS1, USA Network, and the Peacock streaming service.
20	Southeastern Ohio Broadcasting System, Inc.—whose owners, the Littick family, have owned the TV station since its 1953 founding—announces its intent to sell NBC affiliate WHIZ-TV/Zanesville, Ohio (as well as sister radio stations WHIZ-AM/FM, WZVL and WWLG) to Marquee Broadcasting for an undisclosed price. The sale is expected to close later in the year.
21	This evening's episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is cancelled after host Stephen Colbert tests positive for COVID-19. It was the only episode cancelled as a result, as the CBS show was already set to go on a production hiatus from April 25 to May 2.
23	Showtime and Paramount Television sever ties with producer David Hollander following an investigation into allegations of unspecified misconduct. Hollander had been developer and show-runner of the upcoming series American Gigolo for Showtime and Paramount (a show that had completed seven episodes of its 10-episode order at the time of his ouster), and had previously produced Ray Donovan and its follow-up movie for the network.
26	Warner Bros. Discovery cuts original scripted programming development at cable networks TNT and TBS.
28	James Corden announces that he will be leaving The Late Late Show in mid-2023.

May

Date	Event	Source
2	Jimmy Kimmel announces he has tested positive for COVID-19; as a result, this date's episode of ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! is cancelled, with Mike Birbiglia filling in for Kimmel starting on May 3.
4	TNT and TBS part ways with the Screen Actors Guild Awards, which had aired on TNT since 1998 and simulcast on TBS since 2007.

Future events

March

Date	Event	Source
13	The 27th Critics' Choice Awards will air simultaneously on both TBS and The CW (the latter network is a joint venture between Paramount Global and WarnerMedia, thus the ability to simulcast with TBS, in an arrangement announced on October 26, 2021). The ceremony, which will coincide with the 75th BAFTA Awards, will take place at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Taye Diggs and Nicole Byer will host. It was postponed from its intended January 9 date on December 22, 2021, due to safety concerns related to the COVID Omicron variant.
27	The 94th Academy Awards will air on ABC from the Dolby Theatre. The later-than-usual date avoids a conflict with the Winter Olympics. Wanda Sykes, Amy Schumer and Regina Hall will host.

April

Date	Event	Source
3	The 64th Annual Grammy Awards will air on CBS from the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, the first time it has been held outside of Los Angeles or New York since the 15th edition from Nashville in 1973. It was postponed from its intended January 31 date on January 5 due to safety concerns related to the Omicron variant, and NBA and NHL policies require team priority for arena booking throughout their playoff seasons, nixing the original venue of Crypto.com Arena (the former Staples Center) in Los Angeles.
11	The 2022 CMT Music Awards will air on CBS from Nashville, Tennessee. ViacomCBS announced that the awards would moving from CMT to CBS on June 29, 2021, to serve as a replacement for the departing Academy of Country Music Awards; as such, the 2022 edition will be the first to be shown on broadcast television. It was bumped from its April 3 date by the rescheduled Grammy Awards.

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November

Date	Event	Source
21	HBO Kids, HBO Family's daytime children's programming block, becomes a standalone 24-hour cable channel. The channel replaces Jam, which remains available (in a limited, automated form) for some cable and satellite providers who have not yet finalized carriage deals for HBO Kids, as well for DirecTV and Verizon FiOS (both of them have kept Jam on the air and added HBO Kids to their lineups as an additional channel).

Fall

Event	Source
Star Jones will take over as presiding judge of Divorce Court, replacing Faith Jenkins (who became the show's arbitrator in September 2020). It will mark a return to the syndicated court show genre for the lawyer, legal analyst and original co-host of ABC's The View: Jones became the first African American arbitrator of a court show as judge of the 1994–95 series Jones & Jury.

December

Date	Event	Source
12	Nick Jr. launches a block of reruns of its 1990s and 2000s programming to cater to its children's preschool something before what you waiting for. Dubbed NickRewind Jr., upcoming the block airs on its older-preschoolers younger sister channel, TeenNick.
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Event

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The Detroit duopoly of WWJ-TV (CBS) and WKBD-TV (CW) will launch an in-house news department, coinciding with CBS News Local's launch of its CBS News Detroit streaming channel (see "Networks and Services" below). For much of the time since the CBS Television Stations duopoly's previous news department closed in December 2002, WWJ had been the only "Big Four" network O&O and the largest "Big Three" station not to air regular local newscasts, having mainly aired nightly weather segments and a Sunday public affairs program (outside of a weather/traffic-focused weekday morning newscast from 2009 to 2012). The new operation will take over production of WKBD's 10:00 p.m. newscast, which has been produced by CBS O&O sister KTVT/Dallas–Fort Worth since 2020. (WKBD previously offered an in-house prime time newscast from 1968 to 2002—produced thereafter by ABC affiliate WXYZ-TV until its 2005 cancellation—and produced an 11:00 p.m. newscast for WWJ from 2001 to 2002).

Television shows

Shows debuting in 2022

Main article: List of 2022 American television debuts

Shows changing networks

Show	Moved from	Moved to	Source
Next Influencer	AwesomenessTV	Paramount+
MTV Unplugged	MTV
AEW Dynamite	TNT	TBS
Promised Land	ABC	Hulu
The Orville	Fox
Power Rangers	Nickelodeon	NetflixTemplate:NoteTag
Love Island	CBS	Peacock
Scripps National Spelling Bee	ESPN	Ion/Bounce TV
Thursday Night Football	Fox/NFL Network/Amazon Prime Video	Amazon Prime VideoTemplate:NoteTag
Harley Quinn	DC Universe	HBO Max
Pennyworth	Epix
Genius	National Geographic	Disney+
The Upside Down Show	Nick Jr.	HBO Kids/HBO Max |
Fireman Sam	Qubo |
Angelina Ballerina	PBS Kids Sprout |
Bob the Builder	Qubo |
Kipper	PBS Kids Sprout
Rubbadubbers |
Fifi and the Flowertots |
Roary the Racing Car |
Pingu		HBO Kids
Bear in the Big Blue House	Disney Junior	HBO Kids/HBO Max |
Jim Henson's Mother Goose Stories	Disney Channel	HBO Kids |
JoJo's Circus	Disney Junior	HBO Kids/HBO Max
PB&J Otter
The Koala Brothers
Out of the Box	Playhouse Disney
Rolie Polie Olie	Disney Junior
Franklin	Qubo
Maisy
The Doodlebops	Disney Junior
Pic Me	PBS Kids Sprout
Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks	Qubo	HBO Kids
Fred Penner's Place	Nick Jr.
The Elephant Show			
Yoko! Jakamoto! Toto!	Cartoon Network/Tickle U
Connie the Cow	Noggin
Dragon	Qubo	HBO Kids/HBO Max
Theodore Tugboat		HBO Kids
Zoboomafoo	PBS Kids Sprout
Toot & Puddle	Nick Jr.
Tweenies	Noggin
Tiny Planets	Noggin
Papa Beaver's Storytime	Nick Jr.
Dragon Tales	PBS Kids
Thomas & Friends	Nick Jr.
Pippi Longstocking	Qubo
 Cleo & Cuquin	Nick Jr.		
Geroge and Martha	Qubo
Postman Pat	Qubo
Babar and the Adventures of Badou	Qubo
Boo!	Qubo
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power	Netflix	HBO Kids/HBO Max
Sabrina: The Animated Series	Disney Channel
The Raccoons	Disney Channel
Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures	Netflix
Care Bears	Disney Channel
I Spy	Qubo
The Adventures of Paddington Bear
Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot	Hub Network

Milestone episodes and anniversaries

Show	Network	Episode #	Episode title	Episode airdate	Source
Ridiculousness	MTV	800th episode	"Chanel and Sterling CDXIII"	January 7
American Greed	CNBC	200th episode	"Theranos CEO on Trial"	January 12
Today	NBC	70th anniversary	"January 14, 2022"	January 14
Ask This Old House	PBS	20th anniversary	N/A	January 20
Lone Star Law	Discovery	100th episode	"Lake Saviors"	January 22
Late Night	NBC	40th anniversary	"David Letterman/Adam Duritz"	February 1
The Goldbergs	ABC	200th episode	"The Wedding"	March 2
Evil Lives Here	Investigation Discovery	100th episode	"He Kept Her in a Tree Stump"	March 13Template:NoteTag
S.W.A.T.	CBS		TBA	April 10
This Is Us	NBC		TBA	April
Doc McStuffins	Disney Junior	10th anniversary	TBA
Dynasty	The CW	100th episode
Teen Titans Go!	Cartoon Network	400th episode
Grey's Anatomy	ABC

Shows returning in 2022

The following shows will return with new episodes after being canceled or ended their run previously:

Show	Last aired	Type of return	Previous channel	New/returning/same channel	Return date	Source
Joe Millionaire (as Joe Millionaire: For Richer or Poorer)	2003	Revival	Fox	same	January 6
Fraggle Rock (as Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock)	1987	Reboot	HBO	Apple TV+	January 21
Celebrity Big Brother	2019	New season	CBS	same	February 2
Real Husbands of Hollywood	2016	Revival	BET	BET+	February 10
The Proud Family (as The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder)	2005		Disney Channel	Disney+	February 23
Law & Order	2010		NBC	same	February 24
CBS Reports			CBS	CBS News	February 25
Mystery Science Theater 3000	2018	New season	Netflix	Gizmoplex	March 4
Yo! MTV Raps	1995	Revival	MTV	Paramount+	Spring
All Rise	2021	New season	CBS	OWN	June
Humf	2009	Revival	HBO Kids	HBO Max	November 18
The Wiggles	2000		Universal Kids/HBO Kids
Banana in Pyjamas (classic series)	2001		HBO Kids
Salty's Lighthouse	2000
Reading Rainbow	2006		PBS Kids/HBO Kids
Crashbox	2000		HBO Kids		November 19
Baby Little Dinosaurs in the Jungle Island Tropical	2022	New season	TeenNick/Nickelodeon/Nick Jr./Nicktoons/Cartoon Network/Boomerang/Cartoonito/Disney Channel/Disney Junior]/Disney XD/HBO Kids	HBO Max/Paramount+/Disney+/Netflix/Hulu
Pinky Dinky Doo	2011	Revival	HBO Kids	HBO Max	November 21
Stuart Little	2003
Harold and the Purple Crayon	2002
Magic Cellar	2007
Fraggle Rock	1987
Animated Tales of the World	2003
Anthony Ant	1999
Encyclopedia	1989
Henry's Cat	1983
Rainbow Fish	2000
Seabert	1987
The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures	1999
The Little Lulu Show	1998
The Neverending Story	1996
The StoryTeller	1987
Crashbox (as Crashbox & Robot)	2000	Reboot	HBO Kids	HBO Max	November 21
Dexter's Laboratory	2003	Revival	Cartoon Network/HBO Kids	HBO Max	November 21
Johnny Bravo	2004		Boomerang/HBO Kids
Ed, Edd n Eddy	2009		Cartoon Network/HBO Kids
Squirrel Boy	2007		Boomerang/HBO Kids
Mike, Lu & Og	2001		HBO Kids
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy	2007		Cartoon Network/HBO Kids
Evil Con Carne	2008		Cartoon Network/HBO Kids
Class of 3000	2008		Boomerang/HBO Kids
Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?	2003
Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi	2006
Sheep in the Big City	2002
Grim & Evil	2002		Cartoon Network/HBO Kids
The Powerpuff Girls	2005
Time Squad	2003		Boomerang/HBO Kids
Cow and Chicken	1999
The Life and Times of Juniper Lee	2007
The Cramp Twins	2006
My Gym Partner's a Monkey	2008
The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack	2010		HBO Kids
Big Bag	1997
2 Stupid Dogs/Super Secret Secret Squirrel	1995	Revival	Boomerang/HBO Kids	HBO Max	November 21
Dumb and Dumber	1996
Hong Kong Phooey	1977		MeTV/Antenna TV/HBO Kids
Sercet Squirrel	1966		MeTV/HBO Kids
Atom Ant	1967		MeTV/HBO Kids
Dynomutt, Dog Wonder	1977		Boomerang/HBO Kids
Paw Paws	1986		MeTV/HBO Kids
Snorks	1989		MeTV/Antenna TV/HBO Kids
Shirt Tales	1984		MeTV/HBO Kids
Foofur	1988		Antenna TV/HBO Kids
Richie Rich	1984		Antenna TV/HBO Kids
Wait Till Your Father Gets Home	1974		Antenna TV/HBO Kids
Josie and the Pussycats	1972		Antenna TV/HBO Kids
Fantastic Max	1990		HBO Kids
The Banana Splits	1970		MeTV/HBO Kids
The Skatebirds	1978		MeTV/HBO Kids
Wacky Races	2018		HBO Kids
The Gary Coleman Show	1982
The Biskstts	1984		MeTV/HBO Kids
The Space Kidettes	1967		MeTV/HBO Kids
These Are the Days	1975		Antenna TV/HBO Kids
Goober and the Ghost Chasers	1973		MeTV/HBO Kids
Funky Phantom	1972		MeTV/HBO Kids
The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan	1972		MeTV/HBO Kids
Jabberjaw	1978		MeTV/HBO Kids
Clue Club	1979		MeTV/HBO Kids
Partridge Family 2200 A.D.	1974		MeTV/HBO Kids
Harlem Globetrotters	1971		MeTV/HBO Kids
The Super Globetrotters	1979		MeTV/HBO Kids
Trollkins	1982		Antenna TV/HBO Kids
Inch High Private Eye	1973		MeTV/HBO Kids
Jeannie	1973		MeTV/HBO Kids
The Addams Family	1973		MeTV/HBO Kids
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kids	1973		MeTV/HBO Kids
Cattanooga Cats	1971		Antenna TV/HBO Kids
Captain Planet of the Planeteers	1996		HBO Kids
SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron	1994		HBO Kids
The Pirates of the Dark Water	1993		HBO Kids
Young Robin Hood	1992		HBO Kids
Rubik, the Amazing Cube	1984	Revival	HBO Kids	HBO Max
The Puppy's Further Adventures	1984
Fangface	1980
Thundarr the Barbarian	1982
Duck Dodgers	2005	Revival	HBO Kids	HBO Max
Waynehead	1997		Boomerang/HBO Kids
Beetlejuice	1991
Freakazoid!	1997
Ozzy & Drix	2004
¡Mucha Lucha!	2005
Kim Possible	2007	Revival	HBO Kids	Disney+
The Proud Family	2005
Gargoyles	1997
Teamo Supermo	2004
Lloyd in Space	2004
Recess	2001
Pepper Ann	2000
TaleSpin	1991
Dave the Barbarian	2005
Bonkers	1994
The Buzz on Maggie	2006
Brandy & Mr. Whiskers	2006
American Dragon: Jake Long	2007
Hercules: The Animated Series	1999
The Legend of Tarzan	2003
The Wuzzles	1985
Teacher's Pet	2002
Darkwing Duck	1992
Aladdin	1995
Adventures of the Gummi Bears	1991
Goof Troop	1993
Mighty Ducks	1997
The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show	1995
The Replacements	2009
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command	2001
Dinosaurs	1994
Marsupilami	1993
Dink, The Little Dinosaur	1990	Revival	MeTV	same	November 26
Night Court	1992	Revival	NBC	same	TBA
Clone High	2003		MTV	HBO Max
Frasier	2004		NBC	Paramount+
Reading Rainbow (as Reading Rainbow Live)	2006		PBS	same
Making the Band	2009		MTV
Party Down	2010		Starz
Don't Forget the Lyrics!	2011		First-run syndication	Fox
Beavis and Butt-Head			MTV	Paramount+
Lingo			Game Show Network	CBS
Person to Person	2012		CBS	CBS News
What Not to Wear	2013		TLC	same
Total Drama Island	2014	TBD	Cartoon Network	Cartoon Network/HBO Max
Yo Gabba Gabba!	2015	Revival	Nickelodeon	Apple TV+
Inside Amy Schumer	2016		Comedy Central	Paramount+
Dating Naked			VH1
Bee and PuppyCat		New season	YouTube	Netflix
Step Up	2018		YouTube Premium	Starz
Who Do You Think You Are?			TLC	NBC
Ink Master	2020		Paramount Network	Paramount+
Manifest	2021		NBC	Netflix

Shows ending in 2022

End date	Show	Channel	First aired	Status	Source
January 7	Search Party	HBO Max	2016	Ended
January 14	The Expanse	Amazon Prime Video	2015
	The Dr. Oz Show	First-run syndication	2009
January 15	Watters' World	Fox News	2015
January 22	Justice with Judge Jeanine		2011
February 3	Kid Cosmic	Netflix	2021
February 6	Claws	TNT	2017
February 14	Adults Adopting Adults	A&E	2022	Canceled
February 17	Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs	HBO Max	2021
February 18	Muppet Babies	Disney Junior	2018	Ended
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February 21	Arthur	PBS Kids	1996
April 25	Better Things	FX	2016	Ending
April 29	Ozark	Netflix	2017
May	Bull	CBS	2016
May 22	Saints & Sinners	Bounce
May 24	This Is Us	NBC
June 15	Love, Victor	Hulu	2020
August 15	Better Call Saul	AMC	2015
Fall	Atlanta	FX	2016
TBA	The Ellen DeGeneres Show	First-run syndication	2003
	The Wendy Williams Show		2008
	The Walking Dead	AMC	2010
	Black-ish	ABC	2014
	Grace and Frankie	Netflix	2015
	Queen Sugar	Oprah Winfrey Network	2016
	Black Market with Michael K. Williams	Vice
	You Me Her	TBA
	Animal Kingdom	TNT
	Hilda	Netflix	2018
	Manifest
	Summer Camp Island	HBO Max
	Dead to Me	Netflix	2019
	Family Reunion
	Wu-Tang: An American Saga	Hulu
	The Casagrandes	Nickelodeon		Canceled
	Amphibia	Disney Channel		Ending
	The Owl House		2020
	Motherland: Fort Salem	Freeform
	Kevin Can F**k Himself	AMC	2021

Entering syndication in 2022

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
9-1-1	5	Yes
Fuller House		No	By joining the GAC Family lineup, it marks the first time the series is on the same platform as its parent series, Full House.
Wahlburgers	10	No

Networks and services

Launches

Network	Type	Launch date	Notes	Sources
CBS News Miami	OTT streaming	January 24	CBS Television Stations launches CBS News Miami, utilizing news resources from and originating out of the Doral studios of CBSTVS's Miami–Fort Lauderdale duopoly of CBS O&O WFOR-TV and MyNetworkTV affiliate WBFS-TV. The service—the 13th CBS News Local property to launch—offers simulcasts and encores of WFOR/WBFS's newscasts, original content and additional newscasts produced exclusively for the service as well as national programming from the parent CBS News Streaming network.
Story Television	OTA multicast	March 28	On February 14, Weigel Broadcasting announced that it would launch Story Television on March 28. The network—which will be Weigel’s sixth national network and its seventh network overall (counting MeTV+, which has its availability limited to select Weigel stations), and the group’s first multicast network to focus on unscripted programming—will feature historical and factual programming drawing primarily from the A&E Networks program library (sourced mainly from A&E and History). In addition to Weigel-owned stations, Story Television will initially be available on stations owned by Hearst Television, Marquee Broadcasting and Maranatha Broadcasting Company.
CBS News Detroit	OTT streaming	Late summer/early fall	On December 14, 2021, CBS Television Stations announced that it would launch CBS News Detroit in the second or third quarter of 2022, utilizing resources from CBSTVS's Detroit duopoly of CBS O&O WWJ-TV and CW O&O WKBD-TV, which will relaunch in-house news operations for the first time since their previous effort was discontinued in December 2002 (see above). Collectively, CBS News Detroit is expected to produce 137 hours per week of live news programming (40 hours of which will consist of WWJ/WKBD news simulcasts), along with offering supplemental national content from CBS News Streaming.
HBO Kids	TV channel network	November 21	HBO Kids HBO Family's channel Network air on TV for the Channel a Verizon FiOS and DirecTV cable.
NickRewind Jr.	Programming block	December 5	TeenNick An over evening block of Nick Jr's older 1990s-2000s programs block on TeenNick has a 1990s and 2000s Nick Jr. Shows schedule TV streaming venues—including Pluto TV and Paramount+.
NickRewind	Programming block		TeenNick Back To Shows ovenight block of Nickelodeon's older 1990s-2000s programs block on TeenNick at 11:00 PM to 6:00 AM.

Conversions and rebrandings

Old network name	New network name	Type	Conversion date	Notes	Source
Hillsong Channel	TBN Inspire	OTA multicast and cable/satellite/IPTV	January 1	Trinity Broadcasting Network renamed their joint venture network with Hillsong Church on January 1, a change announced in mid-November 2021, as the American Hillsong Church and Australian mother church have come under controversies involving their personnel, past and present, including the issues of former American church leader Carl Lentz's infidelity and allegations of founder Frank Houston's sexual abuse of children coming to light. Hillsong will remain a part of the network and its main programmer.
DIY Network	Magnolia Network	Cable and satellite	January 5	Chip and Joanna Gaines of Fixer Upper fame announced in an interview on the November 9, 2018 edition of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon they were returning to the fold of the former Scripps Networks Interactive networks now owned by Discovery, Inc. to launch a new full-time network based on their Magnolia lifestyle brand after taking a year's hiatus to consider other offers outside of HGTV. The Gaines will have the minority stake in the network. The launch has since been oft-moved; Discovery announced on January 16, 2020, it would launch October 4 in the same year, but coronavirus-caused filming restrictions that would affect the network's debut lineup forced Discovery to delay the network's launch date indefinitely on April 21, 2020, with some programming launched as a part of Discovery+ starting on January 4, 2021, instead to build word-of-mouth for the linear network launch. More Magnolia Network content was placed on Discovery+ in mid-July of that year, with the transition of the wireline DIY Network to Magnolia Network occurring on January 5, 2022.
CBSN	CBS News Streaming	January 24	OTT streaming	CBS News announced the rebrand of its CBSN streaming channel in November 2021, in an attempt to unify branding and newsgathering resources with the division. In addition to retaining daily rolling news blocks and content sourced from and simulcasts of CBS News programs (such as 60 Minutes and Face the Nation), the renamed CBS News Streaming Network incorporated additional original programming including The Uplift (hosted by CBS Mornings co-anchor Tony Dokoupil), a revival of Person to Person (hosted by Norah O'Donnell), Here Comes the Sun (a spin-off of CBS Sunday Morning), and The Dish (an extension of the cooking segments featured on CBS Saturday Morning, featuring that program's anchors). Concurrent with the national network's rebranding and the launch of its Miami service, CBS Television Stations concurrently rebranded its 12 existing local CBSN services under the CBS News Local umbrella.

Closures

Network	Type	End date	Notes	Sources
NickRewind	Programming block	January 31	An overnight block of Nickelodeon's older 1990s-2000s programs carried on TeenNick which had aired under multiple brands since 2011, NickRewind had seen most of its programming appear on other ViacomCBS streaming venues, including Pluto TV and Paramount+, since 2019, and it was discontinued on this date, replaced by regular TeenNick programming such as the original iCarly.
Fox Life	Cable & satellite	March 31	The American version of Fox Life, a Spanish-language network carrying mainly instructional home programming imported from Latin and South America, and Spanish-language dubs of American reality programming, will be discontinued on this date, as The Walt Disney Company continues to wind down extraneous and declining assets from their acquisition of much of the assets of 21st Century Fox, especially those requiring payment of brand licensing fees to Fox Corporation. The network had launched as the U.S. version of Utilisma in 2001, becoming Fox Life in 2013; other international versions of Fox Life had already been wound down through 2020 and 2021 (five other regional versions in Western Europe and Japan were closed or relaunched under new brands and formats under News Corp/Fox ownership between 2009 and 2016), resulting in the U.S. version's closure marking the discontinuation of the brand. The Latin American version of Fox Life, since rebranded as Star Life, will also close on the same date.
Hotstar Template:Small	OTT streaming	TBD	On August 31, 2021, Disney announced that the U.S. version of Hotstar—targeted domestically at mainly American-born and expatriate Indians—would cease operations as a standalone platform by around late 2022. On the date of the announcement, Bollywood and South Asian films, television series and original specials featured in Hotstar's U.S. catalog (which will be rotated on and off at regular intervals) were added to Hulu, while the service's rights to Indian Premier League, ICC Men's T20 World Cup and BCCI-sanctioned cricket competitions were incorporated into ESPN+. Hotstar (alternately branded as Disney+ Hotstar in Asia) will continue to operate in parts of South Asia (specifically India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore), Canada and the United Kingdom.

Television stations

Subchannel launches

Date	Market	Station	Channel	Affiliation	Source
January 21	Marquette, Michigan	WZMQ	19.7	Ion Television
TBA	Los Angeles	KWHY-TV	22.8	Spanish News

Stations changing network affiliations

Date	Market	Station	Channel	Prior affiliation	New affiliation	Notes	Source
January 1	Salinas–Monterey– Santa Cruz, California	KCBA	35.1	Fox	CW+	In December 2021, the News-Press & Gazette Company, owner of CBS affiliate KION-TV, purchased the rights to Fox network and syndicated programming held by KCBA (owned by Seal Rock Broadcasters and operated by Entravision Communications via an LMA). On January 1, KCBA's former intellectual unit—including the Fox affiliation—moved permanently to KION-DT2 (which retained the former's prior "Fox 35" brand and took over KCBA's former channel slots on local cable and satellite providers), while KCBA affiliated with The CW Plus, which relocated from the KION subchannel. The move resulted in the "Big Four" affiliations in the Salinas–Monterey market becoming controlled by only two commercial stations (Hearst-owned NBC affiliate KSBW has carried ABC over its DT2 feed since April 2011).
		KION-TV	46.2	CW+	Fox
January 21	Marquette, Michigan	WJMN-TV	3.1	CBS	MyNetworkTV (primary); Antenna TV (secondary)	On January 20, Lilly Broadcasting—as part of affiliation renewals involving sister stations WENY/Elmira, New York and WSEE/Erie, Pennsylvania—announced that WZMQ would take over as the Upper Peninsula’s CBS affiliate effective the following day, replacing Nexstar Media Group-owned WJMN-TV, which had carried the network’s programming since February 1992, a byproduct of CBS’s purchase of the station and Green Bay sister WFRV (of which WJMN served as a semi-satellite from its October 1969 sign-on until the CBS disaffiliation) from Midwest Television and Radio. WJMN affiliated with MyNetworkTV (previously on WZMQ) and added programming from Nexstar-owned Antenna TV to fill vacated overnight/early morning and weekend slots, while retaining most of its syndicated content and expanding its twice-daily evening newscasts to one hour each. CBS was relegated to WZMQ-DT2 (displacing both Start TV to WZMQ-DT4 and that subchannel's former Ion Television affiliation to the newly launched WZMQ-DT7), while adding morning weather inserts and evening newscasts produced primarily out of WSEE/WICU’s Erie News Now operation in downtown Erie. (As MeTV remained on WZMQ’s main feed, the switch marked the first known instance of a "Big Four" network maintaining a subchannel-only affiliation with a station primarily affiliated with a network intended for subchannel distribution.)	Template:NoteTag
		WZMQ	19.2	Start TV	CBS
January 25	Alpena, Michigan	WBKB-TV	11.2	Fox/MyNetworkTV (moved to 11.4)	NBC	On January 24, Marks Radio Group announced that WBKB-DT2 would switch to NBC starting January 25. In turn, the subchannel's former Fox, MyNetworkTV and syndicated programming inventory was moved to a new DT4 subchannel of that station. The addition of NBC programming results in the "Big Four" affiliations in the Alpena market becoming controlled by the market's sole commercial station (WBKB-TV has been a primary CBS affiliate since its September 1975 sign-on and has also carried ABC on its DT3 feed since January 2013) and gave NBC local broadcast outlets in all 210 Nielsen DMAs. (The CW, affiliated with cable-only CW Plus outlet "WBAE", is the only remaining major network not available over-the-air within the Alpena DMA.) Previously, NBC programming had been provided to the area on cable and satellite via WTOM-TV/Cheboygan, which provides fringe over-the-air coverage to Alpena.
January 31	Honolulu	KIKU	20.1	ShopHQ	Multicultural Independent	On January 31, Allen Media Broadcasting took over ownership of KIKU, thus making the 39-year-old independent a sister station of ABC affiliate KITV. It also brought back its previous multicultural schedule of Japanese, Chinese, and Tagalog-language programming that was removed by its then-owner WRNN-TV Associates in favor of a controversial deal with ShopHQ to exploit their must-carry coverage across all their stations (a network already universally available through cable and satellite, and only 15 channels away from KIKU's channel position on Oceanic Spectrum, the state's major cable provider), which especially sparked outrage from local viewers and the station's own management (which will remain under Allen ownership) for removal of local-targeted programming in favor of a low-rated Mainland shopping network. In addition, KIKU will also serve as a secondary ABC affiliate for KITV, including simulcasting its newscasts (as well as adding an extra hour of its morning newscast) and regular syndicated programming.

Subchannels changing network affiliations

Date	Market	Station	Channel	Prior affiliation	New affiliation	Notes	Source
January 1	Lexington, Kentucky	WDKY-TV	56.2	Comet	Rewind TV		Template:Cn
January 21	Marquette, Michigan	WZMQ	19.4	Ion Television	Start TV
January 22	Baltimore, Maryland	WMAR-TV	2.2	Laff	Grit		Template:Cn
		WMJF-CD	39.4	Grit	Laff

Station closures

Date	Channel	Affiliation	Market	Date	Notes	Source

Deaths

January

Date	Name	Age	Notes	Source
January 1	Jay Wolpert	79	American screenwriter and producer, whose television work was most associated with game shows (1969 Jeopardy! Grand Champion, did production work on The Price Is Right, created Whew!, Hit Man, Blackout and Rodeo Drive)
January 4	Joan Copeland	99	American actress, whose television work included regular, recurring and guest roles in several soap operas (Search for Tomorrow, Love of Life, The Edge of Night, How to Survive a Marriage, As the World Turns, Loving, and One Life to Live) and the 1960 live production of The Iceman Cometh as well as guest roles in Suspense, The Patty Duke Show, Naked City, All in the Family, Law & Order, Chicago Hope, NYPD Blue, The Defenders, All in the Family, Cagney & Lacey, American Playhouse and ER.
January 6	Sidney Poitier	94	Bahamian-American actor/film director, was the first Black person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor (1964); television credits include the made-for-TV movies Separate but Equal, To Sir, with Love II, Mandela and de Klerk, and The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn.
January 8	Marilyn Bergman	93	American songwriter and composer (Bracken's World, Maude, Good Times, Alice, Brooklyn Bridge, and In the Heat of the Night)
January 9	Dwayne Hickman	87	American actor and television executive, producer and director. Hickman portrayed Chuck MacDonald, Bob Collins' girl-crazy teenage nephew, in the 1950s The Bob Cummings Show and the title character in the 1960s sitcom The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, and later served as a programming executive at CBS from 1977 to 1988.
	Bob Saget	65	Actor and comedian best known as Danny Tanner on Full House and Fuller House, the first host of America's Funniest Home Videos, and the narrator, older Ted Mosby, on How I Met Your Mother. Other TV credits include hosting the game show 1 vs. 100; lead roles in Raising Dad, Surviving Suburbia and the telefilm Father and Scout; and directing the telefilms For Hope and Becoming Dick.
January 10	Robert Durst	78	Subject of HBO's The Jinx miniseries, in which he accidentally confessed to murder on a hot mic, which led to his conviction on first-degree homicide in the death of longtime friend Susan Berman.
January 15	Ralph Emery	88	Country music radio/TV personality, and host of the syndicated Pop! Goes the Country and The Nashville Network's Nashville Now
January 18	Peter Robbins	65	Child actor best known for originating the voice of Charlie Brown, from A Charlie Brown Christmas through It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown
	André Leon Talley	73	Fashion journalist and stylist; served as a judge on America's Next Top Model, and as a contributor for Entertainment Tonight.
January 19	Gaspard Ulliel	37	French actor (Moon Knight)
January 20	Meat Loaf	74	Singer and actor; TV credits include musical guest appearances on Saturday Night Live (in 1978 and 1981), and starring as Doug Rennie in Ghost Wars.
January 21	Louie Anderson	68	Actor and comedian, best known for Emmy-winning role as Christine Baskets on Baskets. Other notable TV credits include serving as creator and star of Life with Louie, host of the syndicated version of Family Feud (from 1999 to 2002), and appearing as a regular panelist on Funny You Should Ask.
January 22	Kathryn Kates	73	American actress; TV credits include recurring and guest roles in Seinfeld, Orange Is the New Black, Lizzie McGuire, Shades of Blue and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
January 25	David G. Mugar	82	American businessman (founder of WHDH-TV/Boston and creator of the Boston Pops Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular)
January 26	Morgan Stevens	70	Actor, best known as David Reardon in Fame, Jack Gardner in A Year in the Life and Nick Diamond in Melrose Place
Template:Circa January 26	Moses J. Moseley	31	Actor (The Walking Dead)
January 28	Donald May	92	Actor, best known as Sam Colt, Jr. on Colt .45 and Adam Drake on The Edge of Night
January 29	Howard Hesseman	81	Actor best known as DJ John "Dr. Johnny Fever" Caravella on WKRP in Cincinnati and its sequel The New WKRP in Cincinnati, Sam Royer on One Day at a Time, and Charlie Moore on Head of the Class
January 30	Cheslie Kryst	30	Miss USA 2019 winner and correspondent for Extra

February

Date	Name	Age	Notes	Sources
February 9	Jim Angle	75	Journalist and reporter for ABC News, CNN, and Fox News (part of the latter network's inaugural reporting lineup in 1996)
February 19	Lindsey Pearlman	43	Actress (General Hospital, Chicago Justice)
	Nightbirde	31	Singer, competed on the sixteenth season of America's Got Talent.
February 21	Bob Beckel	73	Commentator for Fox News and CNN, an original panelist of The Five
February 22	Johnathan Szeles	63	Stand-up comedian and magician known as "The Amazing Johnathan", hosted Ruckus, appeared on Criss Angel Mindfreak
February 24	Sally Kellerman	84	Actress, appeared in Maron, Star Trek, The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange, and High School USA!
February 25	Farrah Forke	54	Actress, best known as Alex Lambert on Wings, appeared on Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, and voiced Big Barda on Batman Beyond and Justice League Unlimited
February 26	Ralph Ahn	95	Actor best known as Tran on New Girl
February 27	Ned Eisenberg	65	Actor best known as Atty. Roger Kressler on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
February 28	Kirk Baily	59	Actor best known as Kevin "Ug" Lee on Salute Your Shorts, voice actor for English dubs of Trigun and Cowboy Bebop

March

Date	Name	Age	Notes	Source
March 2	Johnny Brown	84	Regular cast member of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, played Nathan Bookman on Good Times
March 3	Tim Considine	81	Writer and actor best known as Mike Douglas on My Three Sons
March 4	Elsa Klensch	92	Fashion journalist and host of CNN's Style with Elsa Klensch
	Mitchell Ryan	88	Actor best known as Burke Devlin on Dark Shadows and Edward Montgomery on Dharma & Greg

References

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