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The year 2009 in television involves some significant plans. Below is a list of television-related events in 2009.

Contents

Events

Date Event
January
1 The all baseball channel MLB Network launched at 6:00 PM Eastern Time on cable and satellite systems in the USA[1]
1 After 51 years as an NBC affiliate, KBTV/Beaumont-Port Arthur, Texas joins the FOX network. The NBC affiliation moves over to the DT subchannel of ABC affiliate KBMT.
3 FOX replaces the 4Kids TV block, with two hours from 8-10 AM going to the affiliates, and 10AM-12PM becoming Weekend Marketplace (infomercials).[2]
9 Nickelodeon kicks off year-long celebration of SpongeBob SquarePants' 10th anniversary.[3]
13 American cable channel Comedy Central launched its HD version. Cablevision systems added it first. DirecTV added the HD version on January 21. Cox Cable systems announced it would add it by the end of the month. Viacom (owner of Comedy Central) hopes to reach carriage agreements for the HD channel with several more providers later in the year.[4]
15 Hawaii became the first state in the United States to have all of its television stations switch to digital television.[5]
15 William Petersen appears for the last time as a regular cast member on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Supervisor Gil Grissom.[6]
20 Live TV coverage of the historic inauguration of Barack Obama as the forty-fourth President of the United States.
26 Disgraced Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich goes on a media blitz appearing on The Today Show, The View, and Larry King Live while his impeachment trial continues in his homestate.[7] Blagojevich is later ousted from office on January 29.
February
1 Super Bowl XLIII, which saw the Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Arizona Cardinals 27-23 and give the Steelers their history-making sixth Super Bowl win ever for the franchise, is televised live on NBC in the United States. International coverage of the Super Bowl is also served by Sky Sports (UK), BBC One (UK), CTV Television Network (Canada), TV Azteca (Mexico), ESPN Latin America, Foxtel (Australia), Austar (Australia), Das Erste (Germany), TV6 (Sweden), TV3 (Denmark), ESPN Brasil, SportTV (Portugal), CCTV-5 (China), and SBS (South Korea).
2 A day of extreme snow in parts of Britain, the biggest in 18 years, causes many British TV programmes to broadcast with limited presenters and live audience shortages as people are unable to reach the studios. In ratings terms, news coverage gets very high ratings with over seven million watching BBC News programmes.[8]
10 My Network TV announced that they will switch from a network to a programming service for the 2009-2010 television season.[9]
11 President Obama signed the DTV Delay Act into law, officially moving the DTV transition in the United States cutoff date to June 12, 2009.[10]
12 Charter Communications files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection[11]
13 Toon Disney rebranded itself as Disney XD.
17 368 United States television stations permanently shut off their analog signals on the original February 17 date of the DTV transition in the United States and are now broadcasting exclusively in digital.[12] 53 stations qualify for nightlight service status, meaning they must use their analog signals only for DTV transition public service announcements and severe weather alerts.[13] All others must wait until June 12 to go all digital (see DTV Delay Act for further details).
20 After 16 years on the air, the last episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien aired on NBC.[14] Conan's favorite band The White Stripes was the final guest. Will Ferrell (impersonating former U.S. President George W. Bush) and former sidekick/O'Brien's Tonight Show announcer Andy Richter made surprise appearances, and pre-recorded clips of John Mayer and Abe Vigoda were shown.[14] Late Night leaves Studio 6A at NBC's Rockefeller Center studios in New York after 27 years.
22 A memorial service to remember the victims of the February 2009 Victorian bushfires held in Melbourne is broadcast by Australian television networks across Australia and internationally by the BBC.
22 81st Academy Awards is televised live on ABC.
March
1 The first ever March Sweeps began
2 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon premiered on NBC.[14] The Roots is the house band. Oscar winner Robert DeNiro, Grammy winner Van Morrison, and singer / actor Justin Timberlake were Jimmy's first guests. Former host Conan O'Brien also made a cameo appearance. Late Night moves to Studio 6B (the former WNBC-TV news studio) at NBC Studios in Rockefeller Center.
19 President Barack Obama appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, marking the first time a sitting President has appeared on a late night talk show.
23 American satellite television provider DirecTV paid $4 billion to extend its exclusive contract for the NFL Sunday Ticket package until 2014.[15] After the 2014 season, DirecTV will have had exclusive U.S. rights for the package for 20 straight seasons, since the package's (and DirecTV's) inception in 1994.
April
1 CBS announces the cancellation of The Guiding Light, a daytime soap opera that began an uninterrupted daily run on the network in 1952, after having started on radio in 1937.[16]
2 The TV Guide Network announces that they will no longer carry local television listing grids on their channel[17]
2 Emmy Award-winning medical drama ER airs its series finale on NBC after one-hour retrospective.
3 Dave Devall, weatherman at CFTO-TV in Toronto for the past 48 years, retires.
7 The television special Charlie Brown's All-Stars returns to American television for the first time since 1982.[18]
16 Sportscaster John Madden announces his retirement at age 73.
16 TV host Bob Barker makes a guest appearance on The Price Is Right to promote his new book Priceless Memories.[citation needed]
20 The CW arrives in Guam with the sign-on of KTKB-LP.
23 Rumors of a merger of BET J and VH-1 Soul will be confirmed or denied by parent company MTV Networks.[19]
24 BET announces the launching of a upscale 18-49 music/entertainment channel spinoff called Centric. The channel will debut in 45 million homes by years' end.[20]
27 ABC announces the launching of a HD subchannel network called Live Well HD Network. The channel will air on its O&Os first before expanding it to other affiliates at the end of the year.[21]
May
1 May Sweeps begins
5 The CW announces that it will turn over its Sunday night schedule to its affiliates for the 2009-2010 TV season[22]
6 Nickelodeon Games and Sports leaves the cable lineup and is replaced by The N which currently airs 24/7 after splitting from its sister channel, Noggin on Dish Network.
20 The Game is cancelled by The CW. With the cancellation of The Game, there is no longer a scripted series (comedy or drama) on American network television with a predominantly African-American cast.
20 Kris Allen is declared the winner of American Idol season 8.
29 After 17 years on the air, the last episode of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno aired on NBC. Appearing on the show are incoming Tonight host Conan O'Brien and musician James Taylor.[14] Leno's depature from Tonight marks the end of the show's 37-year run at NBC Studios in Burbank, California.
June
1 The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien premieres at 11:35 p.m. EDT on NBC, with Will Ferrell and Pearl Jam as the show's first guests. Tonight moves to Stage 1 at Universal Studios Hollywood in Universal City, California.
12 All remaining NTSC full service television stations in the United States stop broadcasting analog television and start broadcasting digital television signals only[23] (see DTV transition in the United States for further details).
29 American cable news channel MSNBC launches its high definition version.[24] Like all other NBC Universal owned and operated HD channels, MSNBC HD is in 1080i.[25][26]
July
1 Liberman Broadcasting launches a new Spanish-language TV network called Estrella TV.[27][28]

Future

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Date Event
July
July 7 Sci Fi Channel will rename itself "Syfy", and the network's first show, Warehouse 13, will premiere.[29]
August 9 ABC will air Who Wants To Be a Millionaire for 11 episodes in primetime as an event to commemerate the 10th Anniversary of the show.
September 14 For the first time ever, NBC will launch a prime-time weeknight talk/variety show with Jay Leno as host, tentatively titled The Jay Leno Show, which will air during the 10:00 p.m. Eastern/9:.00 p.m. Central timeslots.[14]
September 18 Scheduled final broadcast of Guiding Light, a CBS soap opera that began on radio in 1937 before moving to television in 1952 on CBS.[30]
September 30 Viacom will rebrand Noggin as "Nick Jr.", and The N as "TEENick".[31] Nick Jr. and TEENick were originally long time programming blocks on parent channel Nickelodeon.

Debuts

Date Debut
January 3 Akikan! on BS11
January 3 Huntik: Secrets & Seekers on The CW4Kids[32]
January 3 Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight on The CW4Kids[32]
January 3 White Album on TV Kanagawa
January 4 Maria Holic on Chiba TV
January 6 Fighting Spirit: New Challenger on NTV
January 6 Sora Kake Girl on TV Tokyo
January 8 Asu no Yoichi! on TBS
January 8 Kurokami: The Animation on TV Asahi
January 8 Greg Behrendt's Wake Up Call on SOAPnet
January 9 Howie Do It on NBC[33]
January 10 Chrome Shelled Regios on TV Kanagawa
January 10 Kemono no Souja Erin on NHK
January 11 Rideback on Chiba TV
January 12 Hannity on Fox News [34]
January 13 Sora o Miageru Shōjo no Hitomi ni Utsuru Sekai on Chiba TV
January 15 The Tale of Genji on Fuji TV
January 18 State of the Union with John King on CNN
January 18 United States of Tara on Showtime
January 21 Lie To Me on FOX
January 23 The Electric Company on PBS[35]
January 23 Wolverine and the X-Men on Nicktoons Network
January 25 Kamen Rider Decade on TV Asahi
January 26 Trust Me on TNT
January 27 Toddlers & Tiaras on TLC
February 4 The Exterminators on A&E[36]
February 5 La classe de 5e on TVA
February 8 Sonny With a Chance on Disney Channel[37]
February 11 Demetri Martin's sketch comedy show Important Things on Comedy Central.[38]
February 13 Dollhouse on FOX[39]
February 13 Aaron Stone on Disney XD
Jimmy Two-Shoes on Disney XD
Kid vs. Kat on Disney XD
February 23 Law & Order: UK on ITV1[40]
March 1 The Listener (TV Series) on CTV
March 2 Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on NBC
March 7 Power Rangers: RPM on ABC[41]
March 11 The Chopping Block on NBC
March 15 Kings on NBC
March 23 Table for 12 on TLC
March 26 In the Motherhood on ABC.[42][43]
March 28 Primeval (Season 3) on ITV1
March 28 The Penguins of Madagascar on Nickelodeon
March 29 The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (US debut) on HBO[44]
April 6 The Ed Show starring talk radio show host Ed Schultz on MSNBC [45]
April 6 Surviving Suburbia on ABC[46]
April 9 The Unusuals on ABC
April 9 Southland on NBC[47]
April 9 Parks and Recreation on NBC[48]
April 9 The newest version of Thursday Night Baseball on new channel MLB Network [49]
April 10 Harper's Island on CBS[50]
April 19 The Bob and Doug Mckenzie Animated Series airs on Global Television Network [51]
April 19 Sit Down, Shut Up on FOX[52]
April 19 Cake Boss on TLC
May 2 JONAS on Disney Channel
May 26 Mental on FOX
June 1 The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien on NBC
June 4 The Listener on NBC[53]
June 11 Total Drama Action on Cartoon Network
June 15 Zeke & Luther on Disney XD
June 15 It's On with Alexa Chung on MTV
June 15 Joe Buck Live on HBO
June 17 The Othersiders and Survive This on Cartoon Network
June 19 Jeffery & Cole Casserole on Logo
June 20 BrainRush and Destroy Build Destroy on Cartoon Network
June 21 Merlin (US debut) on NBC[54]
June 23 NYC Prep on Bravo
June 24 The Philanthropist on NBC

Scheduled debuts

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Date Debut
July 7 Warehouse 13 on Sci Fi Channel
July 7 10 Things I Hate About You on ABC Family
July 7 Great American Road Trip on NBC
July 8 Time Team America on PBS
July 10 The Assistants on The N
July 11 Keyshawn Johnson: Tackling Design on A&E
July 12 Drop Dead Diva on Lifetime[55][56]
July 16 Stoked on Cartoon Network and Teletoon
August Kourtney and Khloe Take Miami on E! [57][58]
September 14 The Jay Leno Show on NBC
September 18 Brothers on FOX
September 22 The Good Wife on CBS
September 27 The Cleveland Show on FOX[59]
Fall The Deep End on ABC
Fall Untitled Joy Behar Program on HLN
Fall Modern Family on ABC [60]
October Stargate Universe on Sci Fi[61]
Unknown The Prisoner[62]
Unknown untitled show executive produced by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg about three twentysomethings who learn about life and love while running a pornography shop. Will air on Showtime.[63]

Television shows

1940s

1950s

1960s

1970s

1980s

1990s

1990–1994

1995–1999

2000s

2000-2004

2005-2009

Changes of network affiliation

Show Moved From Moved To
Glenn Beck Headline News Fox News Channel
Scrubs NBC ABC
The Spectacular Spider-Man The CW4Kids Disney XD
The Tyra Banks Show Syndication The CW Daytime
The Chart Show Chart Show TV Channel 4
Out Of The Blue BBC One/BBC Two Five/Fiver
Judge Jeanine Pirro The CW Daytime Syndication
Chaotic 4Kids TV The CW4Kids/cartoon network
Power Rangers Jetix ABC Kids
I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here! ABC NBC
The Singing Bee NBC CMT
Project Runway Bravo Lifetime
Medium NBC CBS
The Wiggles Playhouse Disney PBS KIDS Sprout
Nanny 911 FOX CMT

Returning this year

Show Network Last aired Returning
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?[66] ABC 2002 August

Ending this year

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Date Show Debut
January 9 Hannity & Colmes[citation needed] 1996
January 9 Lipstick Jungle[citation needed] 2008
January 9 Stargate Atlantis 2004
January 10 The Big Spin[citation needed] 1985
January 11 CNN Late Edition[citation needed] 1993
January 19 Momma's Boys 2008
January 25 The Drinky Crow Show 2007
January 26 Superstars of Dance 2009
January 31 Crusoe[citation needed] 2008
February 2 Bromance[citation needed] 2008
February 12 Greg Behrendt's Wake Up Call 2009
February 20 13: Fear Is Real 2009
February 20 Late Night with Conan O'Brien 1993
February 24 Privileged 2008
February 28 Bakugan Battle Brawlers[citation needed] 2008
March 4 Knight Rider 2008
March 8 The L Word 2004
March 12 Kath & Kim 2008
March 16 Kyle XY[citation needed] 2006
March 20 Battlestar Galactica 2004
March 25 The Chopping Block[citation needed] 2009
March 25 Life With Derek 2005
March 28 D. L. Hughley Breaks the News[citation needed] 2008
March 30 The Replacements[citation needed] 2006
April 1 Life on Mars (U.S)[citation needed] 2008
April 2 Eleventh Hour 2008
April 2 ER 1994
April 7 Trust Me 2009
April 8 Life 2007
April 10 Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles 2008
April 12 Gladiators 2008
May 2 My Life as a Teenage Robot 2003
May 3 Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends 2004
May 8 Everybody Hates Chris 2005
May 10 The Unit 2006
May 14 My Name Is Earl 2005
May 15 Prison Break 2005
May 15 The Game 2006
May 16 MADtv 1995
May 16 Talkshow with Spike Feresten 2006
May 18 Deal or No Deal 2005
May 19 Without a Trace 2002
May 23 Transformers Animated 2007
May 26 Reaper 2007
May 29 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno 1992
May 30 Go, Diego, Go! 2005
June 2 According to Jim 2001
June 6 Worst Week 2008
June 12 The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet[citation needed] 2007
June 13 Pushing Daisies[citation needed] 2007
June 16 Cupid 2009
June 17 The Unusuals 2009
July 9 In the Motherhood 2009
July 11 Eli Stone 2008
July 11 Harper's Island 2009
August 5 Time Team America[citation needed] 2009
August 6 Samantha Who? 2007
August 8 Dirty Sexy Money 2007
September 18 Guiding Light 1952
November 30 Little Einsteins[citation needed] 2005
Unknown Project Runway[citation needed] 2004
Unknown A Touch of Frost[citation needed] 1992
Unknown Bunnytown 2007
Unknown H2O: Just Add Water 2006
Unknown Opportunity Knocks 2008
Unknown Howie Do It 2009
Unknown Judge David Young[citation needed] 2007

Deaths

Date Name Age Notability
January 3 Pat Hingle 84 American TV and film actor (Gunsmoke)
January 6 Cheryl Holdridge 64 American TV actress (The Mickey Mouse Club)
January 8 Don Galloway 71 American television actor (Ironside)
January 9 Jon Hager 67 American television actor/singer (Hee Haw)
January 13 Patrick McGoohan 80 American-born Irish actor (Danger Man, The Prisoner)
January 14 Ricardo Montalbán 88 Mexican-born actor (Fantasy Island)
January 16 Sir John Mortimer 85 British barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author (Rumpole of the Bailey, Boston Legal)
January 18 Tony Hart 83 British artist and TV presenter
January 19 Bob May 69 American actor and stuntman (Lost in Space)
January 22 Angela Morley 84 British transgendered TV/radio music composer for the BBC
January 25 Kim Manners 58 American TV producer-director (The X-Files, Supernatural)
January 31 Clint Ritchie 70 American actor (One Life to Live)
February 6 James Whitmore 87 American film/TV actor and commercial spokesman (The Practice)
February 6 Philip Carey 83 American film/TV actor and commercial spokesman (Laredo, One Life to Live)
February 7 Molly Bee 69 American TV actress and singer (Hometown Jamboree)
February 26 Wendy Richard 65 British TV actress (Are You Being Served?)
February 28 Paul Harvey 90 American radio and TV news commentator (Good Morning America, The Rest of the Story syndicated news segments)
March 13 Andrew Martin 33 American professional wrestler known as Test in the WWF/E & The Punisher in TNA
March 13 Alan W. Livingston 91 American music executive, songwriter, and former president of Capitol Records (Creator of Bozo the Clown)
March 16 Ron Silver 62 American television, film and stage actor, director, producer, and political activist (The West Wing)
March 17 Morton Lachman 90 American TV writer and producer (All in the Family, Gimme a Break!, Kate & Allie)
March 18 Natasha Richardson 45 British film, television and stage actress (Haven)
March 22 Jade Goody 27 British reality TV participant and personality (Big Brother/Celebrity Big Brother)
March 24 George Kell 86 Detroit Tigers play-by-play announcer from 1959-1996.[67]
March 26 Irving R. Levine 86 American journalist-correspondent for NBC News
March 29 Maurice Jarre 84 Musical composer (Cimarron Strip, Jesus of Nazareth, Shōgun, The Murder of Mary Phagan)
April 1 Miguel Ángel Suárez 69 Puetro Rican film and soap opera actor (Señora Tentacion)
April 2 Tom Braden 92 American television journalist and commentator (Crossfire), whose book Eight Is Enough, recounting his experience raising his eight children, was adapted into the series of the same name
April 9 Dan Miller 67 American TV news anchorman, reporter, and presenter (anchorman at WSMV/Nashville, Tennessee and KCBS-TV/Los Angeles, California; The Pat Sajak Show)
April 13 Harry Kalas 73 Philadelphia Phillies radio and television play-by-play announcer since 1971, narrator of NFL Films and NFL on Westwood One play-by-play man.[68]
April 15 Merle Harmon 82 American TV/radio sportscaster, commercial spokesman, and businessman (Play-by-play announcer for the Milwaukee Brewers and Texas Rangers; Sportscaster/commentator for ABC and NBC Sports programs, including MLB Game of the Week and Sportsworld, respectively)
April 15 Clement Freud 84 British TV/radio personality, politician and writer
April 25 Beatrice Arthur 86 American actress (All in the Family, Maude, The Golden Girls)
May 1 Danny Gans 52 American singer, comedian and musical impressionist (portrayed Dean Martin in the 1992 miniseries Sinatra)
May 4 Dom Deluise 75 American actor/comedian
May 13 Frank Aletter 83 American actor (Bringing Up Buddy, The Cara Williams Show, Nancy, and several TV guest appearances)
May 18 Wayne Allwine 62 American voice actor and voice of Mickey Mouse
May 21 Joan Alexander 94 American television, film, radio, stage, voice actress and game show panelist (The Name's the Same, The New Adventures of Superman)
May 26 Michael Ross 89 American TV comedy writer/producer (All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Three's Company)
June 3 David Carradine 72 American television and film actor (Kung Fu and Kung Fu: The Legend Continues)
June 11 Johnny Palermo 27 American television and film actor (Everybody Hates Chris)
June 19 Ken Roberts 99 American radio and television voiceover announcer and actor (The Love of Life, The Secret Storm, The Electric Company)
June 23 Ed McMahon 86 American TV comedian, game show host, and presenter (The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and Star Search)
June 25 Farrah Fawcett 62 American film and TV actress (Charlie's Angels)
June 25 Michael Jackson 50 American entertainer and recording artist(also The Jackson 5)
June 28 Billy Mays 50 American commercial/infomercial pitchman (OxiClean, Orange Glo, ESPN360.com etc.)
June 28 Gale Storm 87 American television/film actress and singer (My Little Margie, The Gale Storm Show)
June 29 Fred Travalena 66 American impressionist, comedian, actor and game show host (Anything For Money)
July 1 Mollie Sugden 86 British actress (Are You Being Served?)
July 1 Karl Malden 97 American actor (The Streets of San Francisco)


Years in television: 2009
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