1989 in American television

The year 1989 in television involved some significant events. This is a list of notable events in the United States.

Notable events

Date	Event
January 1	Affiliation swaps galore begin the television year in Florida. In Miami, three channels change their network affiliation: WTVJ moves to NBC from CBS, WCIX (now WFOR-TV) moves to CBS from Fox, and WSVN moves to Fox from NBC. Meanwhile, in West Palm Beach, WPEC-TV switches from ABC to CBS, WTVX leaves CBS to become an independent, and ABC station WPBF signs on this day. The swaps result from NBC's acquisition of WTVJ in 1987, and CBS's acquisition of WCIX in August 1988. The switches in West Palm Beach are accomplished due to WCIX's weak signal in Broward County.[1][2]
January 9	Pat Sajak quits the daytime version of the series Wheel of Fortune for a CBS late night talk show while remaining host of the nighttime version. His daytime hosting role will be assumed by Rolf Benirschke, then by Bob Goen when Wheel switches networks from NBC to CBS that July.
January 15	Fox airs an episode of Married...with Children called "Her Cups Runneth Over", which would soon become the main source of Terry Rakolta's moral boycott campaign against the show.
January 29	Shining Time Station, a children's sitcom debuts on PBS. Starring Didi Conn, Brian O'Connor and Ringo Starr, the series introduces British children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends to America.
February 5	On the NBC sitcom Day by Day, six cast members from The Brady Bunch (Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, Ann B. Davis, Maureen McCormick, Christopher Knight, and Mike Lookinland) reunite.
February 20	Jane Wyman, an actress on the CBS drama series Falcon Crest, is rushed to the hospital, after suffering from diabetes and a liver ailment.
February 20	Charlie O'Donnell returned to Wheel of Fortune as the announcer, following a nine-year absence.
March 2	Pepsi's controversial advertisement with Madonna and her song "Like a Prayer" airs during NBC's showing of The Cosby Show. The same ad was run on ITV in the UK, 12 minutes into The Bill.
March 10	The series finale of Webster has the eponymous character being transported to the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Michael Dorn guest stars as Lt. Worf.
March 19	Return of the Jedi makes its network broadcast television premiere on NBC.
March 24	For the first time since 1973, NBC reruns the 1960 telecast of Peter Pan, with Mary Martin in the title role. Earlier that day, two of the network's game shows, Sale of the Century and Super Password, aired their final episodes. The following Monday, NBC will return the noon time slot to its affiliates.
March 31	The CBS game show Card Sharks airs its final episode. The following Monday, it is replaced by a revival of Now You See It.
April 1	Nickelodeon celebrates its 10th anniversary.
April 8	Mike Myers joins the cast of the NBC series Saturday Night Live.
April 8	After a ten-month hiatus,[3] American Bandstand reemerges on the USA Network. David Hirsch took over hosting duties from Dick Clark (who remained on as executive producer) and Bandstand moved outdoors to Universal Studios Hollywood. After 26 weeks on USA, Bandstand signed off for good on October 7, 1989 with The Cover Girls as the final musical guests.
April 30	CNBC, NBC's answer to the Financial News Network, launched (CNBC and FNN would merge two years later).
May 11	In the series finale of the ABC drama Dynasty, Blake Carrington, Alexis Colby, Dex Dexter and Fallon Carrington Colby are stuck in mortal peril.
May 11	NBC airs a pilot for a proposed spin-off of 227 centered on Jackée Harry's character Sandra Clark. The pilot however, was not picked up for a series and Jackée subsequently left 227. She would however, later guest star in seven of the final season's episodes.
May 14	NBC broadcasts the series finale of Family Ties followed by the network television premiere of Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
May 18	Donna Mills makes her final regular appearance as villainess Abby on the CBS drama Knots Landing.
May 21	The two-hour long series finale of Miami Vice airs on NBC. There would however be three "lost episodes" that would be broadcast on NBC over the course of June 1989. A fourth and final "lost episode" entitled "Too Much, Too Late" was instead first broadcast on the USA Network in January 1990, due to its graphic content and a plot vividly involving child molestation.
July 1	In Rochester, New York, NBC affiliate WROC-TV and CBS affiliate WHEC-TV swap affiliations. NBC cites WROC-TV's struggling news ratings as the reason for the switch.[4]
July 11	Former President of the United States Ronald Reagan joins NBC's Vin Scully on commentary for the 1st inning of the Major League Baseball All-Star Game.
July 14	The CBS game show Now You See It, which had suffered from constant preemptions by network affiliates, airs its final episode. The following Monday, Wheel of Fortune, which had been cancelled by NBC on June 30, takes its place.
August 14	Cliff and Nina Warner marry one another for the fourth (and seemingly final) time on the ABC soap opera All My Children, a record that has not been matched for soap operas.
September 4	Super Mario Bros. the popular video game series is brought to life to television with live action and animation by DIC Entertainment (later Cookie Jar Group and now DHX Media) featuring hilarious live action segments starring Captain Lou Albano as Mario and Danny Wells as Luigi and adventure animated segments (where Albano and Wells also voiced the Mario Bros. in this part) spoofing famous movies like Star Wars and Godzilla known as The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!.
	The Family Channel debuts its children programming block Fun Town.
	Wheel of Fortune introduced a new Bonus Round which contestants can choose from one of five envelopes (which spelled out WHEEL) that contained either $25,000 cash or other prizes. The format's final episode was on October 19, 2001.
September 8	The Legend of Zelda animated series begins on television as part of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! and is shown on Fridays. The series has been panned by many fans of the Zelda franchise including the story writing, over the top acting, repeated plots and Link's trademark catchphrase "Excuse me, Princess!.
September 16	A pilot for a proposed X-Men animated series is first broadcast in syndication. It would take another three years before an X-Men series would be fully realized.
September 22	ABC debuts TGIF from 8:00pm to 10:00pm, a new programming block for Friday nights with four shows (Full House, Family Matters, Perfect Strangers, and Just the Ten of Us), it also includes interstitial hosts. This block would become a rating hit throughout the 1990s, lasting until 2000.
September 24	NBC broadcasts Saturday Night Live's 15th anniversary special.
September 30	NBC broadcasts its final Major League Baseball Game of the Week (before the program is transferred to CBS). NBC had broadcast the Game of the Week since 1957 and exclusively since 1966. Bob Costas and Tony Kubek called the action from Toronto's SkyDome, as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Baltimore Orioles to clinch the American League Eastern Division title.
October 1	NBC affiliate KPOM-TV (now KFTA-TV) in Fort Smith, Arkansas signs-on full-time satellite KFAA-TV (now KNWA-TV) in Rogers to solve transmission problems resulting from its status as an UHF station in a mountainous area. (KFTA-TV will disaffiliate from NBC and join Fox in 2006.)
October 6	Jane Wyman's medical leave due to her diabetes and liver aliment is written into Falcon Crest, when her character, Angela Channing, is put in a coma.
October 9	The San Francisco Giants defeat the Chicago Cubs in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series to go to the World Series for the first time since 1962. This was also NBC's final Major League Baseball telecast (with Vin Scully and Tom Seaver on the call), having broadcast the sport in some shape or form since 1947. As previously mentioned, the primary network TV package was moving to CBS beginning in 1990. NBC wouldn't broadcast baseball again until the 1994 All-Star Game.
October 17	Four minutes into ABC's broadcast of Game 3 of the World Series, the Lome Prieta earthquake occurred, forcing a ten-day delay of the series. As a consequence of the Loma Prieta earthquake, ABC aired repeat episodes of Roseanne and The Wonder Years amid the initial uncertainty as to whether Game 3 would take place as scheduled; an extended ABC News Special Report – anchored by Ted Koppel from the news division's Washington, D.C. bureau, with Al Michaels (who served as the play-by-play commentator for ABC's World Series coverage that year alongside Jim Palmer and Tim McCarver) acting as a de facto reporter – on the earthquake's immediate aftermath followed those two programs.
October 27	Jane Pauley announces that she will be stepping down as co-anchor of NBC's Today (after 13 years on the air) at the end of the year (with Pauley's last day being on December 29). Today's news reader Deborah Norville is immediately announced as Pauley's successor.
October 28	The World Series finally concludes with the Oakland Athletics sweeping the San Francisco Giants in four games. This would be ABC's final baseball telecast, having covered the sport consecutively since 1976. Like NBC, ABC would lose their baseball package completely to CBS beginning in 1990. ABC would next broadcast Major League Baseball in 1994, when they formed a joint-venture with Major League Baseball and NBC called The Baseball Network.
November 4	The NBA on TNT debuts.
November 9	The National Basketball Association[5][6] and NBC[7] reaches an agreement on a four-year, US$600 million contract[8] (beginning in the 1990–1991 season), ending CBS' tenure with the NBA after 17 years.
November 15	The Comedy Channel debuts (it will become Comedy Central two years later).
December 2	Family Matters premieres in New Zealand on the new established television channel TV3 three months after its U.S. television debut.
December 17	Fox broadcasts the series premiere of The Simpsons, "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", which also acts as a Christmas special. The new series is a spin-off of a series of animated sketches that had previously aired on The Tracey Ullman Show. The series proves to be an early hit for Fox, scoring the network's first Nielsen top 30 entry.[9]
December 18	A seldom-seen 1956 Christmas special episode of I Love Lucy is re-broadcast by CBS.

Programs

Debuting this year

The following is a list of shows that premiered in 1989.

Date	Title	Network
January 3	The Arsenio Hall Show	Syndication
January 7	Bordertown	CBN Family Channel
January 7	USA Up All Night	USA Network
January 9	Inside Edition	Syndication
January 9	The Pat Sajak Show	CBS
January 18	A Fine Romance	ABC
January 20	Father Dowling Mysteries	NBC
January 21	Dolphin Cove	CBS
January 21	Nightingales	NBC
January 23	Couch Potatoes	Syndication
January 24	Studio 5-B	ABC
January 28	A Man Called Hawk	ABC
January 28	Long Ago and Far Away	PBS
January 29	Shining Time Station	PBS
February 3	Unsub	NBC
February 19	Nasty Boys	NBC
February 28	Coach	ABC
March 1	Hard Time on Planet Earth	CBS
March 4	Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers	Disney Channel
March 7	Anything but Love	ABC
March 11	COPS	Fox
March 20	Heartland	CBS
March 20	Live-In	CBS
March 25	Men	ABC
March 26	Quantum Leap	NBC
March 27	Generations	NBC
April 2	Total Panic	Nickelodeon
April 3	Top Card	TNN
April 5	The Robert Guillaume Show	ABC
April 10	Nearly Departed	NBC
April 13	Dream Street
April 14	The Jim Henson Hour
April 18	Rescue 911	CBS
April 22	Jesse Hawkes	CBS
May 1	Think Fast!	Nickelodeon
June 4	McGee and Me!	Syndication
June 4	Shannon's Deal	NBC
June 10	Tales from the Crypt	HBO
July 5	Seinfeld	NBC
July 10	Knight & Daye	NBC
July 14	Hey Dude	Nickelodeon
August 3	Primetime Live	ABC
August 12	Comic Strip Live	Fox
August 17	FM	NBC
August 20	Saved by the Bell	NBC
August 28	Open House	Fox
September 2	G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero	Syndication
September 4	Eureeka's Castle	Nick Jr.
September 4	The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!	Syndication
September 5	The Joan Rivers Show
September 9	American Gladiators
	Captain N: The Game Master	NBC
	The Karate Kid	NBC
	Beetlejuice	ABC
	The Byron Allen Show	Syndication
September 11	3rd Degree	Syndication
September 12	Chicken Soup	ABC
September 12	Life Goes On	ABC
September 13	Wolf	CBS
September 16	The California Raisin Show
	Dink, the Little Dinosaur
	Island Son
	Rude Dog & the Dweebs
	Teen Summit	BET
	Ring Raiders	Syndication
	Camp Candy	NBC
September 17	Sister Kate	NBC
September 18	Alien Nation	Fox
	Everyday with Joan Lunden	Syndication
	Hard Copy	Syndication
	The Famous Teddy Z	CBS
	Major Dad
	The People Next Door
September 20	Top of the Hill
	A Peaceable Kingdom
	Doogie Howser, M.D.	ABC
	The Young Riders	ABC
	The Nutt House	NBC
September 22	Baywatch
	Hardball
	Family Matters	ABC
	Free Spirit	ABC
	Snoops	CBS
September 23	Saturday Night with Connie Chung	CBS
September 24	Booker	Fox
September 24	Homeroom	ABC
October 2	Make the Grade	Nickelodeon
October 13	Mancuso, F.B.I.	NBC
November 26	America's Funniest Home Videos	ABC
November 30	Ann Jillian	NBC
December 3	True Blue	NBC
December 17	The Simpsons	Fox
December 18	First Business	Syndication

Resuming this year

Title	Final aired	Previous network	New title	Returning network	Date of return
The Mickey Mouse Club	1979	Syndication	The All-New Mickey Mouse Club	Disney Channel	April 24

Ending this year

Date	Title	Debut
January 7	ALF: The Animated Series	1987
January 13	Ryan's Hope	1975
January 14	Snorks	1984
January 19	Knightwatch	1988
January 21	Dirty Dancing	1988
January 21	Simon & Simon	1981
February 20	Almost Grown	1988
March 2	A Fine Romance	1989
March 9	Webster	1983
March 10	Finders Keepers	1987
March 11	Dolphin Cove	1989
March 18	Good Morning, Miss Bliss	1988
March 18	Murphy's Law	1988
March 24	Sale of the Century	1969
March 24	Super Password	1984
March 25	TV 101	1988
March 31	Card Sharks (returned in 2001)	1978
April 1	She's the Sheriff	1987
April 8	It's a Living	1980
April 14	Unsub	1989
April 26	Nightingales	1989
May 5	Brothers	1984
May 7	Duet	1989
May 11	Dynasty	1981
May 13	A Man Called Hawk	1989
May 14	Family Ties	1982
May 14	Moonlighting	1985
May 19	The Gong Show (returned in 2017)	1976
May 20	Small Wonder	1985
May 21	Miami Vice	1984
May 22	Kate & Allie	1984
June 9	Wipeout	1988
June 9	Couch Potatoes	1989
June 16	Hollywood Squares (returned in 1998)	1966
June 21	Hard Time on Planet Earth	1989
June 23	Relatively Speaking	1988
June 25	Day by Day	1988
July 14	Now You See It	1974
July 27	The Cavanaughs	1986
July 30	The Jim Henson Hour	1989
August 4	Highway to Heaven	1984
August 24	The Equalizer	1985
September 2	Police Academy	1988
September 8	The Dating Game (returned in 1996)	1965
September 9	West 57th	1985
September 29	ThunderCats	1985
October 7	American Bandstand	1952
October 9	Major League Baseball on NBC (returned in 1994)	1947
October 16	The People Next Door	1989
October 25	The Nutt House	1989
October 28	Major League Baseball on ABC (returned in 1994)	1976
November 7	Chicken Soup	1989
November 15	A Peaceable Kingdom
November 30	The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!
November 30	Top of the Hill
December 1	The Legend of Zelda
December 2	The Smurfs	1981
December 9	The California Raisin Show	1989
December 16	The Karate Kid
December 16	Rude Dog & the Dweebs
December 17	Homeroom	1989

Entering syndication

Changing networks

Show	Moved from	Moved to
Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers	The Disney Channel	Syndication
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids	Syndication	NBC
The Mickey Mouse Club		The Disney Channel
American Bandstand		USA Network
The Hitchhiker	HBO	USA Network
Mystery Science Theater 3000	KTMA	The Comedy Channel
Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears	NBC	ABC
Wheel of Fortune	NBC	CBS
Remote Control	MTV	Syndication/MTV

Made-for-TV movies and miniseries

Title	Network	Date of airing
The Karen Carpenter Story	CBS	January 1
The Brotherhood of the Rose	NBC	January 22 & 23
Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All	CBS	May 21

Television stations

Station launches

Date	Market	Station	Channel	Affiliation
January	Klamath Falls/Medford, Oregon	KFTS	22	PBS
January	Twin Falls, Idaho	KKVI	35	ABC
January 1	West Palm Beach, Florida	WPBF	25	ABC
January 4	Columbus, Ohio	W23AZ	23	TBN
	Detroit, Michigan	W05BN	5	The Box
	Louisville, Kentucky	W13BZ	13	The Box
January 11	Pendleton, Oregon	KAUP	11	Fox
January 15	Bowling Green, Kentucky	WKYU-TV	24	PBS
January 21	Milwaukee, Wisconsin	WJJA	49	HSN
January 23	Cookeville, Tennessee	WMTT	28	Independent
January 26	Lima, Ohio	W67CA	67	Fox
February 2	Chicago, Illinois	W54BE	54	Community Independent
February 6	Charlotte, North Carolina	W23AP	23	Independent (primary) America One (secondary)
February 10	Bellingham, Washington, USA (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)	KEGA	24	America’s Collectables Network
February 12	Tallahassee, Florida	WTLH	49	Fox
February 28	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	W59BT	59	Independent (primary) All News Channel (secondary)
March 7	Indianapolis, Indiana	W53AV	53	America One
March 19	New Orleans, Louisiana	WCCL	49	Independent
March 30	Baton Rouge, Louisiana	K65EF	65	Independent
April 2	St. Louis, Missouri	K64DT	64	Daystar
April 3	Wilmington, North Carolina	W10BZ	10	Independent
April 12	La Grange, Georgia	W33AT	33	Independent
April 13	Gainesville, Florida	W31AT	31	The Box
April 14	Salt Lake City, Utah	KXIV	14	Independent
April 15	El Paso, Texas	KSCE	38	Religious independent
April 20	Paradise/Las Vegas, Nevada	KBLR	39	Independent
April 30	Kingsport/Bristol/Johnson City, Tennessee	W30AP	30	Independent
May 3	Bloomington, Indiana	W15AY	15	America One
May 8	Portland, Oregon	KUTF	32	Independent
May 17	Bellevue/Seattle, Washington	KWPX-TV	33	ValueVision
May 22	Cordele/Macon, Georgia	WSST-TV	34	Independent
May 22	Waco, Texas	KCTF	34	PBS
May 29	Detroit, Michigan	WADL	38	Independent
May 29	Norfolk, Virginia	WJCB	49	Religious independent
May 31	Tucson, Arizona	K14HR	14	Independent
	Monterey, California	K67EU	67	Univision
	San Francisco, California	K22DD	22	TBN
June 16	Houston, Texas	KTFH	49	Independent
July 9	San Antonio, Texas	KHCE	23	Trinity Broadcasting Network (O&O)
July 28	Evansville, Indiana	W52AZ	52	Independent
July 30	Las Vegas, Nevada	KFBT	33
August 7	Toledo, Ohio	WT05	5 (cable-only)
August 21	Greenville, South Carolina	W58BQ	58	TBN
August 21	Lubbock, Texas	K46CS	46	Telemundo
August 22	Wailuku, Hawaii	KOGG	13	Fox (satellite of KHNL, Honolulu)
August 23	Odessa/Midland, Texas	K60EE	60	Telemundo
August 23	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	W29AV	29	The Box
August 31	Detroit, Michigan	W68CH	68	The Box
September 11	East St. Louis, Illinois (St. Louis, Missouri)	WHSL-TV	46	HSN
September 27	Chicago, Illinois	W04CK	4	The Box
October	Klamath Falls/Medford, Oregon	KDKF	31	ABC (satellite of KDRV)
October	Syracuse, New York	WSNR-TV	43	Independent
October 1	Anchorage, Alaska	KDMD	33	Independent
	Fayetteville, Arkansas	KFAA-TV	51	NBC
	Hilo, Hawaii	KWHH	14	Independent
	Yakima, Washington	K53CY	53	Fox (as a semi-satellite of KAYU-TV, Spokane)
October 2	Key West, Florida	WEYS	22	Independent
October 6	Traverse City, Michigan	WFQX	33	Fox
October 13	Lansing, Michigan	WLAJ-TV	53	ABC
October 15	South Bend, Indiana	W58BT	58	Fox
October 26	Marion, Indiana	W51BT	51	LeSEA/World Harvest Television
October 26	Milwaukee, Wisconsin	W20AG	20	TBN
November	Gainesville, Florida	W10BR	10	The Box
November	Portland, Oregon	KTDZ-TV	24	TBN
November 1	Morehead City, North Carolina (Greenville/New Bern/Washington, NC)	WFXI	8	Fox
November 3	Flagstaff, Arizona	K23FZ	23	3ABN
November 16	Toledo, Ohio	W68CD	68	Daystar
November 30	Salinas, California	K33DJ	33	Independent
December 8	New York City	W38CL	38	The Box
December 18	Bowling Green, Kentucky	WQQB	40	Independent
December 23	Marion, Indiana	W25BN	25	Religious independent
Unknown date	Bayamon, Puerto Rico	W21AR	21	3ABN Latino
	Hazleton, Pennsylvania	W35AT	35	Independent
	Hilo, Hawaii	K45CT	45	CBS (LPTV translator of KGMB, Honolulu)
	Iron Mountain/Marquette, Michigan	WIIM-TV	8	TBN
	Kansas City, Missouri	K29CF	29	ValueVision
	Milwaukee, Wisconsin	W46AR	63	Univision
	Oklahoma City, Oklahoma	K69EK	69	Independent
	South Bend, Indiana	W25BM	25	Independent
	Wailuku, Hawaii	K26CX	26	CBS (LPTV translator of KGMB)

Stations changing network affiliation

Market	Date	Station	Channel	Prior affiliation	New affiliation
Houston, Texas	November	KTFH	49	Independent	Galavision
Miami/Fort Lauderdale, Florida	January 1	WTVJ	4	CBS	NBC (O&O)
		WCIX	6	Fox	CBS (O&O)
		WSVN	7	NBC	Fox
Raleigh, North Carolina	December 10	WKFT	40	Independent	CBS
Rochester, New York	July 1	WROC-TV	8	NBC	CBS
Rochester, New York	July 1	WHEC-TV	10	CBS	NBC
West Palm Beach, Florida	January 1	WPEC	12	ABC	CBS
West Palm Beach, Florida	January 1	WTVX	34	CBS	Independent

Station closures

Date	Market	Station	Channel	Affiliation
March 31	Concord, New Hampshire	WNHT	21	CBS
June 30	Lexington, Kentucky	WLKT-TV	62	Independent
August 31	Anderson, South Carolina	WAXA	40	Independent
September 17	Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands	WBNB-TV	10	CBS
October 17	Tucson, Arizona	KPOL	40	Independent
Unknown date	Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands	WAIG	43	Independent
	Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands	WMEG	15	Religious Independent
	Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands	WTFM-TV	27	Independent

Births

Date	Name	Notability
January 3	Alex D. Linz	Actor (The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald, Providence, Hey Arnold!)
January 9	Nina Dobrev	Bulgarian-Canadian actress (Degrassi: The Next Generation, The Vampire Diaries)
January 10	Emily Meade	Actress (The Leftovers)
January 16	Yvonne Zima	Actress (ER, The Young and the Restless)
January 27	Brooke Butler	Actress
February 3	Ryne Sanborn	Actor (High School Musical)
February 5	Jeremy Sumpter	Actor (Clubhouse, Friday Night Lights)
February 13	Katie Volding	Actress (Teen Angel)
February 15	Bonnie Dennison	Actress (Third Watch, Guiding Light)
February 16	Elizabeth Olsen	Actress (The Adventures of Mary-Kate & Ashley)
February 17	Chord Overstreet	Actor and singer (Private, Glee)
February 20	Jack Falahee	Actor (How to Get Away with Murder, Mercy Street)
February 21	Corbin Bleu	Actor (Flight 29 Down, High School Musical)
	Kristin Herrera	Actress (Zoey 101)
	Scout Taylor-Compton	Actress (Charmed)
February 24	Trace Cyrus	American musician and son of Billy Ray Cyrus
February 25	Abby Wilde	Actress (Zoey 101)
March 1	Daniella Monet	Actress (Listen Up!, Victorious, Fred: The Show, AwesomenessTV, Baby Daddy, Paradise Run)
March 5	Sterling Knight	Actor (Sonny with a Chance, So Random!)
March 11	Anton Yelchin	Russian actor (Huff) (d. 2016)
March 15	Caitlin Wachs	Actress (Profiler, Family Affair, Commander in Chief)
March 17	Mason Musso	American musician and singer
March 18	Lily Collins	Actress and daughter of Phil Collins
March 19	Craig Lamar Traylor	Actor (Malcolm in the Middle)
March 25	Aly Michalka	Actress (Phil of the Future, Hellcats)
April 5	Lily James	English actress (Downton Abbey)
April 8	Gabriella Wilde	English actress
April 11	Eka Darville	Australian actor (Power Rangers R.P.M.)
April 18	Alia Shawkat	Actress (Arrested Development)
April 20	Carlos Valdes	Colombian-American actor (The Flash) and singer
April 23	Anastasia Baranova	Russian-American actress (Scout's Safari, Z Nation)
April 30	Milo Cawthorne	New Zealand actor (Power Rangers R.P.M.)
May 5	Chris Brown	Singer, actor
May 8	Nora Arnezeder	French actress (Zoo)
May 10	Lindsey Shaw	Actress (Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Pretty Little Liars)
May 14	Alexandra Park	Australian actress (The Elephant Princess, Home and Away, The Royals)
May 17	Olivia Luccardi	Actress (Orange is the New Black)
May 19	Gaelan Connell	Actor (Level Up)
May 29	Brandon Mychal Smith	Actor (Phil of the Future, Hannah Montana, Sonny with a Chance, So Random!, You're the Worst, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
May 29	Riley Keough	Actress (The Girlfriend Experience) and granddaughter of Elvis Presley
May 30	Kevin Covais	Actor
June 3	Imogen Poots	English actress and singer (Roadies)
June 6	Bryn McAuley	Actress (Caillou, Toad Patrol, Franklin, Carl², Grojband, Camp Lakebottom, Hotel Transylvania: The Series, Top Wing)
June 9	Logan Browning	Actress (Meet the Browns, Pair of Kings)
June 13	Lisa Tucker	Actress (Zoey 101) and singer
June 14	Lucy Hale	Actress (Pretty Little Liars, Life Sentence)
June 18	Renee Olstead	Actress (Still Standing, The Secret Life of the American Teenager)
June 19	Giacomo Gianniotti	Italian-Canadian actor (Grey's Anatomy)
June 25	Chris Brochu	Actor (The Vampire Diaries)
July 1	Hannah Murray	British actress (Game of Thrones) and singer
July 11	David Henrie	Actor (That's So Raven, How I Met Your Mother, Wizards of Waverly Place)
July 12	Phoebe Tonkin	Australian actress (The Secret Circle, The Originals)
July 14	Sean Flynn	Actor (Zoey 101)
July 21	Juno Temple	English actress (Vinyl)
July 21	Rory Culkin	Actor
July 22	Keegan Allen	Actor (Pretty Little Liars)
July 25	Andrew Caldwell	Voice actor (Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja)
July 25	Noel Callahan	Actor (Romeo!)
July 29	Jake Smollett	Actor (On Our Own)
July 31	Alexis Knapp	Actress (Ground Floor)
	Jessica Williams	Actress (Just for Kicks, The Daily Show)
	Marshall Williams	Canadian actor
	Zelda Williams	Actress and daughter of Robin Williams
August 8	Ken Baumann	Actor (The Secret Life of the American Teenager)
August 9	Meredith Deane	Actress (Once and Again)
August 10	Brenton Thwaites	Australian actor (Home and Away, Titans)
August 15	Carlos PenaVega	Actor (Big Time Rush, Life Sentence, voice of Bobby Santiago on The Loud House) and singer
	Joe Jonas	Actor (Jonas) and singer (Jonas Brothers)
	Denise Oliver	Canadian voice actress (Wayside, Sidekick, Grojband)
August 19	Romeo Miller	Actor (Romeo!) and rapper
August 21	Hayden Panettiere	Actress (Heroes, Nashville) and singer
August 23	Breanna Conrad	Actress (Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County)
September 5	Kat Graham	Swiss-born American actress (The Vampire Diaries, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
September 14	Jessica Brown Findlay	English actress (Downton Abbey)
September 14	Logan Henderson	Actor (Big Time Rush) and singer
September 18	Lexie Contursi	Actress (Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County)
September 25	Jordan Gavaris	Canadian actor (Unnatural History, Orphan Black)
September 26	Emma Rigby	English actress (Once Upon a Time in Wonderland)
October 1	Brie Larson	Actress (United States of Tara)
October 4	Dakota Johnson	Actress (Ben and Kate) and daughter of Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith
October 10	Aimee Teegarden	Actress (Friday Night Lights, Aim High, Star-Crossed)
October 13	Skyler Page	Voice actor (Clarence)
October 14	Mia Wasikowska	Australian actress (In Treatment)
October 16	Jack Salvatore Jr.	Actor (Zoey 101, 10 Things I Hate About You)
October 24	Eliza Taylor	Australian actress (The 100)
October 24	Shenae Grimes	Canadian actress (90210)
November 2	Katelyn Tarver	Actress (Big Time Rush, No Ordinary Family)
November 20	Cody Linley	Actor (Hannah Montana)
November 22	Alden Ehrenreich	Actor
November 22	Jon Rudnitsky	Actor (Saturday Night Live)
November 30	Adelaide Clemens	Australian actress (Rectify)
December 13	Taylor Swift	Singer and actress (Saturday Night Live)
December 15	Nichole Bloom	Actress (Shameless, Superstore, OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes)
December 18	Ashley Benson	Actress (Pretty Little Liars)
December 22	Jordin Sparks	Singer (American Idol) and actress
December 28	Mackenzie Rosman	Actress (7th Heaven)
December 29	Jane Levy	Actress (Suburgatory)
December 30	Ryan Sheckler	Actor (Life of Ryan)

Deaths

Date	Name	Age	Notability
February 5	Joe Raposo	51	Composer (Sesame Street, The Electric Company, Three's Company theme song)
February 11	George O'Hanlon	65	Voice actor (voice of George Jetson on The Jetsons)
April 26	Lucille Ball	77	Actress, comedian (of the Lucy shows I Love Lucy, The Lucy Show, Here's Lucy)
April 30	Guy Williams	65	Actor (Zorro, Lost in Space)
May 1	Douglass Watson	68	Soap opera actor (Mac on Another World)
May 20	Gilda Radner	42	Actress, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
June 15	Victor French	54	Actor, director (Little House on the Prairie, Carter Country, Highway to Heaven)
July 3	Jim Backus	76	Actor (Thurston Howell III on Gilligan's Island and voice of Mr. Magoo)
July 4	Vic Perrin	73	Voice actor (original Control Voice on The Outer Limits, Hanna-Barbera cartoons)
July 10	Mel Blanc	81	Voice actor (as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and countless other characters)
July 18	Rebecca Schaeffer	21	Actress (My Sister Sam)
August 16	Amanda Blake	60	Actress (Miss Kitty Russell on Gunsmoke)
September 17	Jay Stewart	71	Announcer (Let's Make a Deal, Sale of the Century, Scrabble)
October 6	Bette Davis	81	Film and television actress
November 27	Bob Quigley	77	Game show producer (The Hollywood Squares, High Rollers, Gambit)
December 6	Frances Bavier	86	Actress (Aunt Bee on The Andy Griffith Show)

References

NBC To Buy Miami's Channel 4, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, January 17, 1987.
"THE MEDIA BUSINESS; CBS to Buy TV Station In Miami". The New York Times. August 9, 1988.
"AB moves to USA network". TV.com. Retrieved 28 October 2013.
"In brief." Broadcasting, April 10, 1989, pg. 96.
"November 9, 1989: The NBA signs a lucrative 4-year television deal with NBC". Sports Media Watch. November 29, 2011.
"NBA Flips Channel, Decides to Play Ball With NBC in 1990". The Los Angeles Times. 9 November 1989.
"NBC acquires NBA broadcast rights". NBC Sports History Page.
John Steinbreder (November 20, 1989). "The Ball's In A New Court: NBC took the NBA away from CBS for a cool $600 million". Sports Illustrated. Time Inc. Retrieved November 29, 2011.
"Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire". Simpsons World.com. Retrieved September 19, 2011.

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[1] NBC To Buy Miami's Channel 4, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, January 17, 1987.

[2] "THE MEDIA BUSINESS; CBS to Buy TV Station In Miami". The New York Times. August 9, 1988.

[3] "AB moves to USA network". TV.com. Retrieved 28 October 2013.

[4] "In brief." Broadcasting, April 10, 1989, pg. 96.

[5] "November 9, 1989: The NBA signs a lucrative 4-year television deal with NBC". Sports Media Watch. November 29, 2011.

[6] "NBA Flips Channel, Decides to Play Ball With NBC in 1990". The Los Angeles Times. 9 November 1989.

[7] "NBC acquires NBA broadcast rights". NBC Sports History Page.

[8] John Steinbreder (November 20, 1989). "The Ball's In A New Court: NBC took the NBA away from CBS for a cool $600 million". Sports Illustrated. Time Inc. Retrieved November 29, 2011.

[officialsite-9] "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire". Simpsons World.com. Retrieved September 19, 2011.