2018 in American television

The following is a list of events affecting American television in 2018. Events listed include television
show finales and cancellations and information about controversies and carriage disputes.

Contents
Notable events
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Television programs
Programs debuting in 2018
Television films and specials
Miniseries
Programs changing networks
Programs returning in 2018
Milestone episodes
Programs ending in 2018
Entering syndication in 2018
Networks, services, and television stations
Deaths
References

Notable events

January
Date Event Source
Starz and its related channels (including Starz Encore and Movieplex) are removed from Altice
USA-owned cable systems, including Optimum and Suddenlink. The removal of the premium
services follows “numerous attempts” between Altice and Starz parent Lionsgate to secure a new
carriage agreement. In a statement, Altice representatives said that it did not make sense to charge
a high fee to its subscribers to carry Starz and its sister channels as the network maintains a [1]
standalone over-the-top streaming service, particularly because "their viewership is declining and
the majority of our customers don’t watch Starz." The dispute ends on February 13 after Starz Inc.
and Altice come to a new agreement, though the networks returned a month later, on March 1
(over-the-top access to the Starz website and apps was returned for the interim period).
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Frontier Communications drops CBS affiliate KIRO-TV/Seattle from its Frontier FiOS systems in
western Washington State, after failing to reach a new carriage agreement with KIRO parent Cox
Media Group. Frontier representatives stated that Cox Media was asking for the provider to [2][3]
increase its carriage fees for the station's main feed and its GetTV- and Laff-affiliated subchannels
by more than 80% over the next three-year contractual period.
NuLink (a cable provider owned by WideOpenWest) drops the Meredith Corporation-owned
duopoly of CBS affiliate WGCL-TV and independent station WPCH-TV from its systems in five [4]
Atlanta-area suburbs, after the two parties failed to agree on terms to renew the stations' contract.
NBC News announces that Hoda Kotb will assume the weekday co-anchor chair of Today
permanently with Savannah Guthrie, filling the seat held by Matt Lauer before his November 29
termination from the network due to inappropriate sexual behavior, and after a month where Today
exceeded ratings expectations despite Kotb's previous interim status. Though not the first time two [5]
2
women have headed an American morning program (Robin Roberts and Diane Sawyer co-hosted
ABC's Good Morning America from 2006 to 2009), it is the first time two women are the leading
hosts for Today. Kotb will also continue to host the lighter 10:00 a.m. Today hour with Kathie Lee
Gifford.
CBS News fires political director Steve Chaggaris, after allegations of past "inappropriate behavior"
were disclosed to division management over the prior two weeks. Neither the nature nor extent of [6][7]
3 the allegations against Chaggaris – who joined CBS in 1999, and was appointed as its senior [8]
political editor upon returning to the network following a two-year hiatus in 2010, before being
promoted to political director in March 2017 – were disclosed.
Production on Jeopardy! is placed on temporary hiatus while host Alex Trebek recuperates from a
successful December 16, 2017, surgery at Los Angeles's Cedars-Sinai Medical Center to remove a
subdural hematoma that formed as a complication from a minor head injury he suffered in a fall that
October. Trebek resumed taping of the syndicated game show in mid-January, though because of [9][10]
4 [11]
the show's advanced taping schedule, his medical leave only marginally affected the show's
broadcast schedule: the annual Jeopardy! College Championship, which was originally scheduled
to have all ten episodes tape during the first week of January, instead filmed in March (one month
before the episodes begin airing during the first week of the May sweeps period).
After nine years in the role, Jon Gruden covers his last game as color analyst for Monday Night
Football during an AFC Wild Card game between the Tennessee Titans and the Kansas City Chiefs
6 broadcast on ESPN and ABC. Gruden, who was hired by ESPN in May 2009 as color analyst for [12]
the weekly NFL game broadcasts, leaves the booth to return to the coaching ranks as head coach
of the Oakland Raiders for the 2018 season.
7 Fed up with not getting any answers and a lot of deflection while he was questioning him about
whether President Donald Trump met with Russian operatives after his son, Donald Trump Jr., got
together with them in the infamous June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower, as well as claims journalist
Michael Wolff made in his just-released book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House about
his fitness and stability, including quotes made by former White House chief strategist Steve
Bannon about his feelings towards Trump, only to start dismissing it as “a pure work of fiction” and [13]
“nothing but a pile of trash through and through,” which in turn lead into a slamming of CNN for
making “condescending” and “snide” remarks and airing “24 hours of negative, anti-Trump,
hysterical coverage” upon praising his boss as a “political genius,” State of the Union host Jake
Tapper tells White House aide Stephen Miller that “I think I have wasted enough of my viewers’
time,” and abruptly ended the interview immediately, believing that Miller was taking cues from
Trump that Tapper was unimpressed with.
The 75th Golden Globe Awards are broadcast on NBC, with Seth Meyers as host. The sexual [14]
harassment controversies that began in 2017 are the main topic of discussion, as several
(primarily) female celebrities help evolve the Me Too movement into Time's Up, a legal defense
 fund supporting lower-income women seeking justice for workplace sexual harassment and sexual
assault. Big Little Lies (with four awards), The Handmaid's Tale and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
(with two awards each) are the major winners among television nominees, while Three Billboards
Outside Ebbing, Missouri (with four awards), Lady Bird and The Shape of Water (with two awards
each) are the big winners among film nominees.
The Federal Communications Commission begins the elimination on this date of the Main Studio
Rule; the long-standing rule had required television and radio stations to maintain a physical studio [15]
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25 miles within its city of license, have it staffed during normal business hours, and have
capabilities for program origination.
John Dickerson becomes the new co-anchor of CBS This Morning (joining existing co-anchors
Gayle King and Norah O'Donnell), one day after CBS News taps him to succeed Charlie Rose,
who was fired in October 2017 following amid accusations of inappropriate sexual behavior with
several female employees of his former PBS talk show. Dickerson – who will relocate full-time from [16][17]
10 Washington, D.C. to New York City with the promotion – will transition out of his position as [18]
moderator of Face the Nation, a role he assumed in June 2015. On February 22, it is announced
Margaret Brennan will assume the permanent moderator of Face the Nation succeed by Dickerson,
though he returns to that position in September on a temporary basis during Brennan's maternity
leave.
The Sports Fans Coalition launches Locast, a streaming service offering access to 15 local
broadcast stations – including CBS owned-and-operated station WCBS-TV, NBC O&O WNBC, Fox
O&O WNYW, ABC O&O WABC-TV and CW affiliate WPIX – to viewers residing within New York
City's five boroughs. Co-founder David Goodfriend contends that, unlike defunct subscription
11 service Aereo (which ceased operations after a 2014 Supreme Court case that found that Aereo [19][20]
retransmitted stations in infringement of copyright law), Locast's nonprofit business model – which
relies on individual donations to support operational costs, in order to maintain free access to
program streams – permits it to retransmit broadcast signals without prior approval of television
stations or their corporate parents under copyright exemptions that have existed since the 1970s.
In a memo sent to company employees, Charter Communications CEO Tom Rutledge announces
that its Spectrum News unit of 24-hour local cable news channels will expand to include networks
12 in five additional markets served by the cable television provider – Los Angeles, Ohio, Kentucky [21]
(likely an expansion of its existing news channel in that state), Wisconsin and Kansas City – during
2018.
Seven members of the Endemol Shine Group, which contracts with CNBC to produce Staten Island
Hustle, are arrested at Newark Liberty International Airport for attempting to put through airport
security a prototype piece of rolling 'vacuum compression' luggage which had the look on first [22][23]
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glance of an improvised explosive device, during their filming. The Transportation Security
Administration determined later it was not a threat, but the crew will face possible penalties for the
inconvenience.
Kaye Switzer and the holders of the trust of the late Sandi Spreckman file a breach of contract
lawsuit against Judy Sheindlin and CBS Corporation (along with subsidiaries CBS Television
Studios and Big Ticket Television) for unspecified damages. The seven-count filing alleges that the
plaintiffs (who co-created the syndicated court show in 1996) are owed $4.75 million in
compensation through the August 2017 sale of the episode library of Judge Judy (which Sheindlin [24]
acquired for $95 million) per a clause in the five-season contract renewal reached with Big Ticket
and CBS in March 2015, that stated that Switzer and the Spreckman estate were subject to
compensation through the transfer of the episode library to Sheindlin and re-sold the library in
violation of the contract.
19 Authorities in Novi, Michigan arrest a man for making a series of threatening calls to CNN. Brandon
Griesemer, who was charged in U.S. District Court with transmitting interstate communications with
the intent to extort and threat to injure, allegedly made 22 calls to CNN on January 9–10, several of
which contained disparaging statements about minorities and claims of "fake news" by CNN, as
well as a threat to kill employees at CNN's Atlanta headquarters. If convicted, Greisemer could face [25][26]
a fine or a prison term. The news of Griesemer's arrest calls attention to critics' concerns about the
risk of threats and acts of violence against journalists with CNN and other news organizations by
some of President Donald Trump's most fervent supporters amid his repeated criticism of the Time
Warner-owned cable network. Network sources stated that threats against CNN personnel have
increased since Trump's criticism of CNN began during his 2016 Presidential campaign.
23 ESPN announces that Matt Vasgersian and Alex Rodriguez will join the broadcast team of Sunday [27][28]
Night Baseball for the 2018 season, succeeding Dan Shulman and Aaron Boone respectively. [29]
Boone was hired as manager of the New York Yankees in December 2017. Under Rodriguez's
 agreement with ESPN, the former shortstop and third baseman will remain an analyst for Fox
Sports's postseason coverage, and will make guest appearances on the ESPN morning program
Get Up which would premiere in April. Likewise, Vasgersian will retain his position with MLB
Network as a host and announcer.
Hero Broadcasting announces it will sell América Tevé affiliate KMOH-TV/Kingman, Arizona and its [30]
Phoenix translator KEJR-LD to HC2 Holdings for $2.7 million, pending FCC approval.
After nearly a year as co-anchor of the 6:00 p.m. (ET) edition of ESPN's SportsCenter, Jemele Hill
announces that she will step down from that position on February 2 to join its sister website The
Undefeated and to focus on special assignments she feels more tailored for; however, Hill will [31]
26 [32][33]
remain with the network as she still has three years left on a four-year contract. Her partner
Michael Smith would continue to anchor the program solo until March 9. Two months later, Sage
Steele and Kevin Negandhi were reported to be the new anchors for the hour.
The 60th Annual Grammy Awards aired live on CBS, from Madison Square Garden in New York
after fifteen consecutive years at Staples Center in Los Angeles; however, because of disputes [34][35]
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over the handling of future events, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences have
announced that it will return to Los Angeles for the 2019 Awards and beyond.
Entertainment One purchases the 49% in The Mark Gordon Company that it did not already own
for $209 million, as part of a deal that will also see Gordon – whose television productions include
ongoing series such as Grey's Anatomy, Quantico, Designated Survivor and Criminal Minds – [37]
become chief content officer of the Toronto-based entertainment distributor (Gordon and newly
appointed company president Steve Bertram will succeed longtime president John Moryaniss, who
will step down from the post following a transitional period).
Ten years after the network dropped the name in a de-emphasis of its former 24-hour rolling news
format, HLN reinstates the “Headline News” moniker into its on-air branding (albeit on a secondary
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basis), which is featured prominently on-air during the network's 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (Eastern [38][39]
Time) lineup. The move coincides with the addition of "Headlines Now," a 90-second segment
summarizing the day's top stories that airs at the top and bottom of each hour between 11:00 a.m.
to 5:00 p.m. ET.
Production on A&E’s upcoming home improvement series Home Rescue is suspended after one of
its regulars, Christopher Dionne, is arrested in California after he was accused of molesting a 10- [40]
year-old girl, including taking photos of her chest and allowing her to touch him inappropriately
during a party he went to in Old Lyme, Connecticut in November 2017.
Hours after Donald Trump gave his first State of the Union address, Stephanie Clifford (known by
her stage name Stormy Daniels), a former adult film star who is alleged to have had an affair with
the President, sat down for an interview with Jimmy Kimmel on his ABC talk show. This was
Daniels's first appearance on a late night program since The Wall Street Journal reported that
Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, paid her $130,000 to keep quiet about the details. As she had [41][42]
done during an interview with Inside Edition the week prior, Daniels avoided directly answering or [43][44]
coyly dodged questions about the alleged affair, but did imply that she did not write a statement
30 released that afternoon – claiming to be from her – which strongly refuted the allegations. On
February 14, Daniels announces that she will start telling her story after the lawyer admitted to
having paid off the money out of his own pocket, thus violating the non-disclosure agreement.
The Trinity Broadcasting Network announces it will acquire independent station WDVB-CD/Edison,
New Jersey (located within the New York City market) and Youtoo America affiliate WLPD-
CD/Chicago from LocusPoint Networks for $13 million. The sale of the low-power stations extends [45][46]
existing channel sharing agreements with TBN owned-and-operated stations WWTO-
TV/Naperville, Illinois and WTBY-TV/Jersey City that were established in November 2017.
Fox reaches an agreement with the National Football League to acquire the broadcast television
rights to Thursday Night Football, assuming the contractual rights from CBS and NBC (both of
which had shared the rights for the past two seasons), in a deal estimated to be around $550
million (a $150 million increase from the combined fee that NBC and CBS had been paying). The
31 five-year deal, which expands the network's relationship with the NFL (it already holds rights to [47]
preseason, Sunday afternoon regular season, and select playoff games, primarily involving teams
in the National Football Conference), will give Fox and Fox Deportes rights to simulcast eleven NFL
Network-produced games in prime time between Weeks 4 and 15 of the regular season through
2022.

February
Date Event Source
Twelve years after splitting into two separate companies, the boards for CBS Corporation and
Viacom announce their intent to explore a potential remerger. The study will be conducted at the
behest of Shari Redstone, president of National Amusements, which holds controlling interest in [48]
both Viacom and CBS. It comes at a time when the media landscape faces changes with the still-
pending merger between AT&T and Time Warner, plus the planned takeover by The Walt Disney
Company of 21st Century Fox's entertainment assets.
NBC affiliates WVIR-TV/Charlottesville, Virginia and WBBH-TV/Fort Myers, Florida (along with
WBBH's sister ABC affiliate WZVN-TV/Naples) are removed from Dish Network, after the satellite
provider and the parent company of the two stations, Waterman Broadcasting, fail to reach an [49][50]
agreement on retransmission fees. The dispute ended two days later on February 3, the day prior
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to NBC's broadcast of Super Bowl LII, when Dish and Waterman reached a multi-year carriage
agreement for the stations.
Independent station KAZT-TV/Prescott, Arizona is also removed by Dish Network, after the
provider and KAZT owner Londen Media Group failed to agree on retransmission terms during
carriage agreement negotiations, along with Dish declining an offer by Londen to carry the
station's MeTV-affiliated DT2 subchannel at no additional charge. In response to a statement by [51]
Dish suggesting that KAZT's parent company did not respond to repeated attempts to secure a
deal, Londen Media CEO Lynn Londen contended that the company rescinded its offer to carry
KAZT-DT2 after experiencing resistance from Dish management and that it was not demanding a
rate increase to carry KAZT, stating "We are going at zero fees, asking for zero fees."
Beth Holloway – whose daughter, Natalee Holloway, disappeared during a trip to Aruba in 2005 –
sues Oxygen Media and Brian Graden Media for $35 million, over what she calls misleading
statements that were made during the production of The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway, a
six-part documentary that aired on Oxygen in August 2017. Beth's complaint stated that the
special was a “pre-planned farce" and "not a realtime or legitimate investigation into new leads" as [52][53]
2 [54]
claimed, and claims that she was duped into providing DNA for testing against remains found by
producers, without informing her of its use for a television program. An Oxygen representative
stated that the complaint painted an "inaccurate depiction of how the series was produced," and
was developed in collaboration with Beth's ex-husband, Dave Holloway, and a private investigator
he hired based on a lead he had received.
Effective on this date, YouTube begins labeling "state-sponsored" content on news and reporting
from government-run or funded broadcasters as part of an effort to filter out fake news and
fabricated stories that could be viewed as propaganda. The label will appear below the video and
above its title, as well as a link to the broadcaster's Wikipedia page. The move has been criticized
for including PBS among those that will be listed because of it being a non-commercial network – [55]
despite operating independently of the U.S. government – as it only receives a small portion of
federal funding and its member stations are made up of nonprofit organizations, schools,
universities, and local/state governments. A PBS spokesperson called the move "vague and
3 misleading," and said that the public broadcaster is working out a deal to rectify the situation.
Charter Communications ceases carriage of eleven television stations owned by Northwest
Broadcasting and its subsidiaries in six markets – Yuma–El Centro (CBS affiliate KSWT and NBC
affiliate KYMA-DT), Spokane (Fox affiliate KAYU-TV), Syracuse (Fox affiliate WSYT), Idaho Falls
(NBC affiliate KPVI-DT), Yakima (Fox affiliate KFFX-TV), Eureka (NBC affiliate KIEM-TV and CBS [56]
affiliate KJRW), Binghamton (Fox affiliate WICZ-TV), and Medford (Fox affiliate KMVU-DT) – over
a disagreement during negotiations of a new distribution contract over carriage fees for the
stations.
4 Super Bowl LII, which saw the Philadelphia Eagles defeat the New England Patriots 41–33 at U.S. [57][58]
Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, aired on NBC in English and Universo in Spanish. The [59][60]
game – watched by an estimated 103.4 million viewers (a 7% decline from the previous year), [61][62]
making it the lowest-rated Super Bowl telecast since 2009's Super Bowl XLIII (which was watched [63]
by 98.7 million viewers) – marked the Eagles' first Super Bowl championship win and their fourth
national championship in franchise history. Justin Timberlake headlined the halftime show,
performing a medley of his own hit songs as well as Prince's "I Would Die 4 U", a tribute that was
criticized by the late singer's fans for using a sheet projecting footage from Purple Rain of Prince
(who objected to the use of digital editing to include a deceased artist into a performance)
performing the 1984 hit, and because of Timberlake's past critical remarks about him. The
performance marked Timberlake's third Super Bowl halftime appearance and his first since the
incident at Super Bowl XXXVIII, in which he accidentally exposed Janet Jackson's right breast on-
air during their performance of Timberlake's "Rock Your Body". The telecast was also subject to a
control room equipment failure during the second quarter, in which viewers saw a black screen for
 about 30 seconds during a commercial break. (Representatives with NBC Sports stated that the
error did not result in any loss of advertising revenue and implied that said break was likely
intended to consist of network promotions.)
The Super Bowl LII telecast was followed by a lead-out episode of This Is Us titled "Super Bowl
Sunday", in which the fate of Jack Pearson (Milo Ventimiglia) was revealed as a sudden death
from a "widowmaker" heart attack caused by smoke inhalation. The episode was watched by
26.97 million viewers, making it the highest-rated post-Super Bowl entertainment program since [64][65]
NBC's airing of the second-season premiere of The Voice in 2012, and the highest-rated episode
of This is Us to date. Later that night, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon aired a special live
episode from The Orpheum Theater in Minneapolis with the cast of This Is Us, Dwayne Johnson,
and a pair of performances by Timberlake, one featuring Chris Stapleton.
On the same day as the telecast, a commercial for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ Ram Trucks utilizing
Martin Luther King Jr.’s iconic – and final – sermon from 1968, “The Drum Major Instinct” speech
airs (the speech also marked the 50th anniversary on this date as well). The ad became the
subject of controversy over the images of only one African American used in the scene, along with
backlash from viewers, including members from the King Family themselves, as they did not [66][67]
authorize the speech to be used or gave Fiat Chrysler permission to use it (FCA got the [68]
permission from a company that holds the IP rights to the King estate). William B. Wachtel, the co-
founder of The Drum Major Institute (with Dr. King), stated that the speech “in no way condones
the use of Dr. King’s sermon for this purpose,” adding that King used the speech to target the
specific evils that he condemned, which was the exploitation of minorities by advertisers, including
the automotive industry.
LeSEA Broadcasting announces that it will sell WHNO/New Orleans, KEEN-CD/Las Vegas and
KWHS-LD/Colorado Springs to the Christian Television Network for $5.7 million. The sale was [69][70]
finalized 2¾ months later on April 25.
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Father and daughter team Kirk and Brooke Spangler of Belfast, New York win a total of
$1,415,098 on the second-season finale episode of The Wall, setting a record for the highest [71]
amount of money won by a team of contestants on the NBC game show.
CBS affiliate WHBF-TV/Rock Island, Illinois (Quad Cities) becomes the first local television station
in the United States to employ a full-time reporter of Muslim American descent and the first
7 American television reporter to regularly appear on-air wearing a hijab, with the promotion of [72][73]
Tahera Rahman (who joined WHBF as a newscast producer in May 2016) to the station's reporting
staff.
The 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea airs on NBC and its cable networks.
Norway finished first in the medal table, winning 39 total medals (including 14 gold and silver
medals each, and 11 bronzes); the United States finished fourth, with 23 medals (nine gold, eight
silver and six bronze, with alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin, snowboarders Shaun White and Chloe
Kim, and the U.S. women's ice hockey and the men's curling teams among the major U.S. gold
medalists). As the 14-hour time difference with the Eastern Time Zone and the separation of South
Korea and the United States by the International Date Line resulted in many events being held
during the late morning (KST) taking place during the time period of peak television viewing in the
U.S., NBC broadcast Winter Olympic competition live in prime time across all U.S. time zones – [74][75]
7–25 instead of a time zone-based tape delay – for the first time. (NBC aired select events held earlier [76]
in the day or the day prior on tape delay during its daytime, prime time, and late night coverage.)
In addition, NBC stations in the Pacific and/or Mountain time zones carried an additional 30
minutes of event coverage during their respective prime time windows on 13 nights during the
Olympics. Coverage began two days earlier than usual (Olympics coverage typically begins with
the opening ceremonies, which fell on a Friday, occurring this year on February 9), as the
preliminary curling and Alpine skiing competitions – both of which aired on NBCSN – were held on
the Wednesday prior to the Opening Ceremony (February 7); NBC began event coverage the
following evening (February 8), with the preliminary figure skating and freestyle skiing
competitions.
9 During NBC's coverage of the Winter Olympics opening ceremonies, Katie Couric remarks that the [77][78]
Netherlands' dominance in speed skating (as of 13 February 2018, the country has earned 113 [79][80]
speed skating medals in Olympic competition to date) is attributed to residents using skates as a
form of transportation when canals freeze in Amsterdam and other sea-level Dutch communities
during the winter. The statement elicited widespread mockery and some backlash on social media
(including a Twitter post by the Netherlands U.S. Embassy) as being incorrect and outdated
(though the International Olympic Committee does cite that the sport's origins trace to some Dutch
residents skating between villages as far back as the 13th century, the mild climate of the
 European nation precludes the use of skating as present-day transportation). Couric apologized
for the comment in a February 13 Twitter post.
Gray Television announces it will acquire MyNetworkTV affiliate KCPM/Grand Forks, North Dakota
from Central Plains Media for $255,000. The purchase will create a triopoly with Gray's existing [81][82]
stations in the Fargo–Grand Forks market, NBC affiliate KVLY-TV and CBS affiliate KXJB-LD. [83]
Gray stated that it will upgrade transmitter facilities of KCPM – which will also be assigned new
call letters – to extend its coverage throughout the market following the closure of the sale.
YouTube announces the temporary suspension of advertising on content created by website
personality Logan Paul, citing a "pattern of behavior" that includes showing the body of a suicide [84][85]
victim in a Japanese forest and applying tasers to deceased rats. Paul's videos are estimated to
bring in more than $1 million in monthly income.
Joshua Cooper Ramo is removed from his role as commentator for NBC's Olympics coverage
after, while noting during the opening ceremonies in Pyeongchang that Japan occupied Korea
from 1910 to 1945, said "but every Korean will tell you that Japan is a cultural and technological [86][87]
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and economic example that has been so important to their own transformation." The statement
received immediate backlash in South Korea as incorrect, insensitive and ignorant to the host
nation's ongoing dispute with Japan. NBC issued an on-air apology for Ramo's remark.
In a release of the 2019 federal budget proposal submitted to Congress, for the second
consecutive year, President Donald Trump proposes a two-year plan to eliminate federal funding
for the nonprofit Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The administration suggests that the CPB
could make up the shortfall by increasing the funding it receives from corporate sponsors,
foundations and members, and the outlay to be made up for by private donations and grants at the
state level; it also suggests looking at additional alternative programming for PBS, NPR and [88]
independent non-commercial broadcasting entities that have grown substantially since CPB was [89][90]
first established in 1967, thus greatly reducing the need for publicly funded programming. PBS
president/CEO Paula Kerger responded that “Public broadcasting has earned bipartisan
congressional support over the years thanks to the value we provide to taxpayers,” adding that the
12 network and its 350 member stations and local supporters “will continue to remind leaders in
Washington of the significant benefits the public receives in return for federal funding, a modest
investment of about $1.35 per citizen per year.”
Gray Television announces that it has reached an agreement to purchase CBS affiliate KGWC-
TV/Casper, Wyoming from Mark III Media for an undisclosed price. The sale – which is expected
to be finalized in the second quarter of 2018 – will result in Gray directly acquiring KGWC's
intellectual unit (including programming – which will likely be merged into the spectrum of the [91][92]
company's existing Casper property, NBC affiliate KCWY-DT – and administrative operations) as
well as the licenses of satellites KGWR-TV/Rock Springs and KGWL-TV/Lander, while the UHF
channel 14 license will be donated to a non-profit organization to be determined (which will assign
a new call sign and virtual channel number for the station).
For the weeks of February 12 and 19 during the Winter Olympics, the fourth hour of Today
broadcasts live from 30 Rockefeller Plaza's Studio 6A, sharing the same studio with Megyn Kelly
Today. The program's live broadcast, hosted by Kathie Lee Gifford and guest co-host Jenna Bush
Hager (filling in for Hoda Kotb, who was on assignment in Pyeongchang, South Korea for the NBC
12– [93][94]
morning program's coverage of the Olympics), features a live studio audience, a weekly guest disc
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jockey (a similar practice done by syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show), and mini
bars (including the one with a dumbwaiter system to deliver its trademark drinks to Gifford and
Bush Hager). The program returned to Studio 6A on April 6 to celebrate Gifford and Kotb's 10th
anniversary as hosts.
13 In an expansion of its existing television contract with the cable network, Major League Soccer
announces a streaming rights agreement with ESPN to provide exclusive coverage of the league's
matches on the upcoming ESPN+ over-the-top streaming service, beginning with the 2018
season. The league's in-house streaming service, MLS Live, will be shut down as a result, with
games being made available for free on the MLS website (http://mlssoccer.com) until the ESPN [95][96]
streaming service launches. Under the terms of the agreement, ESPN+ will stream around 250
out-of-market games per year, though MLS matches carried on the linear ESPN channels will be
exempted from the service. (Blackout rules will apply within the home markets of the league's 23
teams).
In the first such deal involving a television station and a local professional sports franchise, NBC
affiliate KSL-TV/Salt Lake City reaches an over-the-top distribution agreement with Real Salt Lake [97]
to stream soccer matches and other VOD content over KSL's website and mobile apps to viewers
within Utah, beginning with the 2018 season. The multi-year partnership – which will encompass
 90 regular season games involving the Major League Soccer club (starting with the team's March
3 season opener against FC Dallas) and its sister franchises, Utah Royals FC (USL) and Real
Monarchs (NWSL), along with Real Salt Lake Academy (DA) matches, pre- and post-match
shows, and ancillary team-related programs – will not affect Real Salt Lake's relationship with the
market's MyNetworkTV affiliate, KMYU/St. George, as that station is contracted to televise the
team's matches through 2020.
Access. 1 Communications files an FCC application announcing the sale of WMGM-LP/Atlantic
City, New Jersey and the construction permit of its low-power digital companion signal – the former [83]
of which operates as a translator of Univision Communications-owned Justice Network affiliate
WMGM-TV/Wildwood – to Engle Broadcasting LLC for $60,000.
In a follow-up to a February 5 consumer report about a Washington cancer patient that was
struggling to pay her medical bills, CBS affiliate KIRO-TV/Seattle announced it and
consumer/investigative reporter Jesse Jones (who, himself, is a cancer survivor) spent $12,000 to
buy $1 million worth of debt that more than 2,600 residents within the station's viewing area owed [98]
to medical providers, with the intent of forwarding the debt to RIP Medical Debt, a Rye, New York-
based 501c(3) debt-forgiveness charity that purchases and forgives outstanding medical debt held
by U.S. residents.
Following the completion of an internal investigation into allegations of sexual harassment levied
against the actor, Amazon Studios formally fires Jeffrey Tambor from the drama series
Transparent. In November 2017, Tambor hinted that he will not return in the role as Maura [99]
Pfefferman for the show's upcoming fifth season, amidst the allegations made against him by two
people, Trace Lysette (who appeared in the recurring role of Shea) and Van Barnes, a transgender
cast member who worked as an assistant to Tambor's character on the show.
On her Fox News program The Ingraham Angle, Laura Ingraham responds to anti-Trump
15 comments made by NBA stars LeBron James and Kevin Durant in a video posted to the
Uninterrupted website by stating that they need to "shut up and dribble". In her criticism, she
pointed to James' turning pro straight out of high school and the fact he "gets paid $100 million a
year" to play sports as reasons his opinions are invalid. The comments are criticized by some [100][101]
fellow NBA players and others as being racist, which Ingraham denies. Speaking during media
availability for the 2018 NBA All-Star Game, the Cleveland Cavaliers player indicated he will make
his views known as he saw fit. James also posted an image on Instagram stating he was "more
than an athlete." Ingraham has extended an offer to James to discuss the matter on Fox News.
The 2018 NBA All-Star Game, which took place at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, airs on
TNT. The event marked the first year of a new format that supplants the traditional Eastern
Conference versus Western Conference format with a draft-style format. The selected teams for
the inaugural format were led by “Team LeBron” and “Team Stephen” (both are Akron, Ohio
natives, another first time occurrence), with the former beating the latter 148–145. However,
18 moments before the game, it was Fergie’s jazz-styled rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” that [102]
became the most highlighted – and most commented – event of the game, with the performance
as well as attempts by players and spectators at the game trying to control their reactions
immediately going viral, with the anthem rendition receiving negative comments on social media
outlets. A day later on the 19th, the singer admitted that she "wanted to try something special for
the NBA," but it "didn't strike the intended tone."
Wendy Williams confirms during a live broadcast of her syndicated talk show that she has been
diagnosed with Graves’ disease, an autoimmune disease that affects the thyroid, which also
aggravates her hyperthyroidism. On the advice of her doctor, and despite her reluctance of not
taking any absences, Williams agreed to take a three-week hiatus from the show in order to [103]
receive medical attention and rest, marking the first time in the series’ run that she has allowed the
show to air repeats for such length of time. Actor Jerry O'Connell substituted for Williams during
the week of March 12, marking the first time that a guest host has filled in for Williams, who
21 returned to the show on March 19.
The National Rifle Association's use of a GIF image featuring Parks & Recreation character Leslie
Knope in a tweet draws the ire of cast and crew from the show, including Amy Poehler, the actress
who played Knope, and series co-creator Michael Schur, who requested the image be taken
down. The original message was posted as a thanks to Dana Loesch after she represented the [104]
NRA at a CNN town hall with survivors of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. "I would
prefer you not use a GIF from a show I worked on to promote your pro-slaughter agenda," posted
Schur, who also relayed a response from Poehler (who is not on Twitter) to "fuck off."
22 Sinclair Broadcast Group announces in an FCC divestiture plan that it will spin off stations in
smaller markets, sell off three stations (WGN-TV/Chicago, WPIX-TV/New York City and [105]
 KSWB/San Diego) to different companies that will be operated by Sinclair under an SSA, spin off
overlapping and conflict stations, and ask for waivers to rules barring ownership of two of the four
highest-rated stations in Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, Indianapolis, and Harrisburg-
Lancaster-York in order to address the acquisition's conflicts with FCC and DOJ rules regarding
station ownership that have held up the merger's regulatory approval. The stations in conflict
overlaps would have been placed in a divestment trust to have been independently overseen by
Rafamedia LLC if ordered to be sold off under the initial proposal, which was negated due to sale
agreements that were reached by Sinclair in subsequent weeks; Sinclair later rescinded the top-4
waiver requests for the Harrisburg stations on March 7, and for the Greensboro stations on April
24.
CBS Sports launches CBS Sports HQ, a 24-hour, online-only sports news network. Built upon the
same format as sister network CBSN, CBS Sports HQ features rotating blocks of news, analysis
26 [106]
and highlights, but does not carry live sporting events, as that capacity is already being handled by
the linear cable/satellite service, CBS Sports Network.
Fox News hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity issued an apology to its viewers after it had run
segments detailing claims that CNN scripted a February 21 town hall meeting event featuring the
survivors of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. The misleading claims came to light just
six days after Colton Haab, who was one of the students that was credited with saving his
classmates, went on both Carlson and Hannity's shows and claimed that CNN tried to give him a
27 scripted question that he refused to use because he wanted to use his own, sparking a backlash [107]
against CNN over staging the event for ratings and getting a tweet from President Donald Trump
slamming the network. But on February 26, Glenn Haab, Colton's father, admitted that he was
responsible for the fabrication of the story by doctoring the emails to make it look like it was set up
by CNN, thus confirming the network's claim that it never used any form of scripted material for the
event.
Warner Bros. Television announces that they have fired producer/creator Jeff Franklin after he was
involved in vulgar and profanity-laced tirades behind the scenes. The news comes almost two
28 months after his Netflix hit Fuller House is renewed for its fourth season. The writing team of Steve [108][109]
Baldikoski and Bryan Behar, who have been with the series since its debut, were later named to
succeed Franklin as show runners of Fuller House on March 12.

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A major crossover event takes place on ABC's TGIT (Thank God It's Thursday) primetime lineup.
In the Grey's Anatomy episode "You Really Got a Hold on Me" (which culminated into the launch
of its spin-off Station 19), Ben Warren (Jason George) and Andy Herrera (Jaina Lee Ortiz),
firefighters from Seattle Grace fire department, Station 19, head to the fictional Grey-Sloan
Memorial Hospital – where Herrera met with Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) – after rescuing two [110][111]
1 boys from a house fire. Meanwhile, in the two-hour crossover episodes of Scandal and How to Get [112]
Away with Murder ("Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself" and "Lahey v. Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania"), Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) gets an unexpected visit from criminal defense
attorney Annalise Keating (Viola Davis), who seeks her help in fast-tracking a judicial reform class-
action suit to the U.S. Supreme Court. The three-hour crossover event delivered a 1.5 rating and
5.6 million in total viewers, making it the most watched primetime lineup of the night.
The 90th Academy Awards, which were held at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, aired
on ABC. The Shape of Water was this year's big winner with four awards, including Best Picture.
The ceremony attracted its smallest recorded US television audience, averaging 26.5 million total
viewers. Jimmy Kimmel hosted for a second consecutive year, making him the first person to host [113][114]
back-to-back ceremonies since Billy Crystal in 1997 and 1998. As with the Grammys, the event [115][116]
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aired outside its traditional mid-February berth to avoid conflict scheduling with the Winter [117]
Olympics. Additional safeguards to maintain the correct announcement of winners were launched
by accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers to prevent a recurrence of the end of the 2017
ceremony, where La La Land was accidentally named Best Picture rather than Moonlight due to
the incorrect envelope being given.
Racecar driver Arie Luyendyk Jr. is the subject of criticism after proposing to Becca Kufrin in the
season finale of ABC's The Bachelor, only to break up with her in favor of the show's runner-up,
5 Lauren Burnham, with a camera crew in tow. All three appear on the following night's "After the [118][119]
Final Rose" special, with Kufrin forgiving Luyendyk and wishing him well with Burnham, whom he
proposes to. Kufrin is then named the next Bachelorette.
Variety reports that ABC pulled a new episode of its sitcom Black-ish over "creative differences"
with the show's producers. "Please, Baby, Please", directed by creator Kenya Barris and written by
Barris and Peter Saji, was shot in November and originally scheduled to air on February 27, but
was replaced by a repeat of "Mother Nature". In "Please, Baby, Please", Dre (Anthony Anderson) [120]
tries to read a bedtime story to Devante during a thunderstorm, but instead improvises a new story
9 based on recent social and political issues in the U.S. In one scene, Dre was also seen arguing
with Junior (Marcus Scribner) over football players protesting during the national anthem.
ESPN removes Sean McDonough as play-by-play man on Monday Night Football, returning him to
college football coverage. He is succeeded by college football play-by-play man Joe Tessitore. [121][122]
Two months later, the network announces Tessitore will be joined by new analysts Booger [123]
McFarland and recently retired former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Jason Witten.
On this week's 60 Minutes, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos says she does not "intentionally"
visit schools that are struggling with performance standards. The secretary also has difficulty with
11 answering questions from correspondent Lesley Stahl about school performance in DeVos' home [124]
state of Michigan. Sources tell CNN that the Trump Administration was unimpressed with the
interview.
The Church of Scientology launches an over-the-top service known as Scientology Network,
12 initially available on DirecTV (under a brokered programming arrangement using a 24/7 [125]
infomercial channel slot), along with apps for Apple TV, Roku and Amazon Fire TV.
13 The family of the late Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich sues Fox News over a
retracted article that falsely claims he was murdered over a conspiracy involving the hack of DNC [126]
emails during the 2016 presidential election.
Cox Media Group’s flagship ABC affiliate WSB-TV/Atlanta paid tribute to hip-hop artist Craig Mack,
who died at 46 on March 12, by incorporating the entire lyrics (as well as the remix lyrics featuring
The Notorious B.I.G., Busta Rhymes, LL Cool J and Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs) of his signature [127][128]
1994 hit “Flava in Ya Ear” into the station's newscast, courtesy of anchorman Fred Blankenship [129]
and traffic reporter Mark Arum. The tribute, which has also gone viral, is one of several the station
has done upon the passing of musicians, especially in the Hip-Hop genre.
The View co-host Joy Behar publicly apologizes for suggesting on a previous taping that Vice [130]
President Mike Pence suffered "mental illness" for thinking Jesus spoke to him. After her
comments enraged conservatives, she privately apologized to the Vice President, but made it
public at his behest.
 In an effort to clamp down on the content of conspiracy-theory videos after facing scrutiny over the
proliferation on its service, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced a new strategy to combat
misinformation by pointing users to Wikipedia and other third-party sites debunking them. The [131][132]
move, however, will not deter the social media service from removing the videos unless it runs
afoul of the video platform's community guidelines. The effort is not formally coordinated with
Wikipedia's operator, the Wikimedia Foundation, which issues a statement disclaiming as such.
CNBC’s Larry Kudlow is tapped by President Donald Trump to become the Chairman of the
National Economic Council, succeeding Gary Cohn, who resigned after losing his fight against
tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, which Trump went ahead and implemented despite
opposition from both political parties. On his CNBC programs, Kudlow advocates for free trade
and generally opposes tariffs, issues that are opposite of Trump’s economic platform, but has [133][134]
14 supported his tax cut proposals, including the overhauling of the tax code, a signature
achievement of Trump’s time in office so far, through its passage in December 2017. The
nomination is lampooned by some political commentators and comedians because of economic
forecasts made by Kudlow as a corporate financial consultant and as a host of CNBC's Kudlow &
Cramer, Kudlow & Company and The Kudlow Report that were later proved inaccurate.
MTV dismisses reports coming from TMZ that it was ending the Total Request Live revival. The
program is instead refocused to have additional morning and late night editions, the latter having [135]
started in February (and replacing the defunct Music Feed), the former to start in the summer.
In support of youths walking out of school to protest gun violence, cable networks owned by
Viacom Media Networks go dark for 17 minutes (one minute for each victim of the Stoneman [136]
Douglas High School shooting), with regularly scheduled programming on MTV, VH1, BET,
Nickelodeon and others withheld.
Fox News strategic analyst and retired Army Lt. Col. Ralph Peters resigns, calling the network a
"propaganda machine" for the Trump administration and accused the network of "wittingly harming
our system of government for profit," in an email sent to his colleagues that was obtained by
BuzzFeed. He added that Fox News was "assaulting our constitutional order and the rule of law"
and fostering "corrosive and unjustified paranoia" to its viewers and that Fox News's hosts were [137]
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advancing the agenda of Russian President Vladimir Putin (who was re-elected in a landslide two
days earlier, with weak opposition due to some more formidable challengers either being detained
or banned from running) "by making light of Russian penetration of our elections and the Trump
campaign," but praised some of the network's anchors and reporters for challenging Fox News's
editorial line on the Trump administration.
As the debate over gun control continues following the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting,
21 YouTube announces it will no longer allow videos that promote the sale or assembly of firearms, [138]
including bump stocks.
In a move to expand the independent production company into a major media group,
Entertainment Studios announces that it will acquire The Weather Group (parent company of The [139][140]
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Weather Channel, Local Now and Weatherscan) from a consortium of NBCUniversal, The
Blackstone Group and Bain Capital for $300 million.
ABC O&O KABC-TV/Los Angeles reporter Karl Schmid reveals he has been HIV positive since [141]
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2008.
CBS airs Anderson Cooper's one-on-one interview with Stephanie Clifford (f.k.a. Stormy Daniels),
the adult film actress who allegedly had an affair with Donald Trump in 2006, on 60 Minutes.
Critics of the President pushed for the piece to run sooner; however, editorial oversight plus the
timing of another exclusive with Mohammad bin Salman did not make that possible. Clifford's
attorney, Michael Avenatti, also indicated that his client faced threats as far back as 2011 to keep
quiet about details that were offered in the story, despite being paid $130,000 in hush money. [142][143]
25 Viewership for the broadcast, which was delayed 35 minutes from its scheduled 7:00 p.m. ET start [144]
due to the preceding NCAA men's basketball regional final between Kansas and Duke going to
overtime, more than doubled from normal to 22.1 million viewers, making it the highest rated 60
Minutes since the first interview with Barack and Michelle Obama after the 2008 election. Finally at
overtime in the fourth round of the NCAA men's basketball regional final at the CenturyLink Center
Omaha in Omaha, NE, Bill Self's Kansas Jayhawks defeat Mike Krzyzewski's Duke Blue Devils
with a score of 85–81 in the Midwest Regionals.
26 On the same day the network cancels his three-season-old sitcom, Game Shakers, Nickelodeon [145][146]
and producer/writer Dan Schneider jointly announce that they will not renew their longstanding [147][148]
development deal, ending a 24-year relationship that saw Schneider produce some of the
network's iconic series of the 1990s, 2000s and 2010s including All That, Kenan & Kel, The
 Amanda Show, Drake & Josh and iCarly. (Despite this, the network is expected to renew its
remaining Schneider's Bakery sitcom, Henry Danger, for a fifth season.) The termination of the
deal comes amid rumors of complaints of temperamental behavior by Schneider from members of
his staff and questions over his treatment of some younger stars of his shows, along with issues
between him and Nickelodeon executives over production of the shows repeatedly going over
budget and behind schedule.
The first episode of Roseanne in 21 years attracts an audience of 18.2 million people,
outperforming the series' original finale by 10 percent and notching the highest rating for a comedy
in the 18-to-49 demographic since the eighth-season premiere for The Big Bang Theory. The [149][150]
success of the Roseanne reboot, which reveals matriarch Roseanne Conner (played by Roseanne [151]
Barr) as a supporter of Donald Trump, prompts a congratulatory phone call to Barr from the
President himself. On March 30, ABC announced the show had been renewed for the 2018–19
season.
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Heineken immediately removes a television commercial for its Heineken Light beer, which
depicted a bartender sliding a bottle of the aforementioned beverage past women of darker skin
color to one of lighter skinned complexion. The clip, whose campaign slogan was “Sometimes,
Lighter is Better,” came under fire on social media after Chance the Rapper called for a boycott [152]
against the Dutch brewing giant and calling the ad "terribly racist" on Twitter on Sunday evening
and other users agreed with him. Heineken issued an apology for making an error in judgment
over the message in the ad.
Just hours after Axios reports that the Trump Administration were looking at targeting retail and
streaming media giant Amazon and its founder/CEO Jeff Bezos over Amazon's tax treatment
because they believe its presence is forcing physical local retailers out of business, as most other
e-commerce companies didn't pay state sales taxes when they launched in the 1990s, using laws
dating back as long as 50 years ago made for catalog retailers that said they didn't have to collect
sales taxes in states where they did not have a physical presence, not to mention President
Trump's criticisms of Bezos' The Washington Post over their push of fake news against him. White
House spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders dismissed the story, saying there are no plans to
go after the company, as antitrust regulations and the limited powers that will prevent Trump from [153][154]
28 [155][156]
doing so is cited as a factor. Unfortunately, on the 29th, Trump made a comment on Twitter about
a desire to regulate and force e-commerce businesses like Amazon to pay more taxes because of
arrangements with third-party businesses it has deals with (although in reality Amazon has
actually paid taxes in 45 of the 50 states where there are laws that require companies like Bezos’
to do so, including collecting state sales taxes in those states on products it sells directly except
for its "third-party" platform sellers; however, the Supreme Court ruled back in 1992 that states
couldn't collect sales taxes gathered by mail-order catalog companies unless the firms had a
physical presence in a state), which resulted in the stocks from Amazon losing $5.2 billion hours
after the tweet.
Laura Ingraham issued an apology to her viewers after she made comments about David Hogg,
one of the survivors of the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting after he spoke out for
advocating gun control laws during the March 24 “March for Our Lives” rally, claiming that he was
being turned down by universities after reading a tweet from a conservative website that falsely
branded Hogg as a “Gun Rights Provocateur” (her tweet read “David Hogg Rejected By Four
Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it...” “Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA…totally [157]
predictable given acceptance rates.”). Hogg, however, did not accept Ingraham's apology and [158]
called for a boycott of her Fox News program The Ingraham Angle, a move that has resulted in
around 15 companies (including TripAdvisor, Nestlé, Expedia, and Wayfair) pulling advertising
from the show because of its conservative rhetoric. Hogg, who listed the companies that
advertises on her program in the hope to remove their spots from the show, tweeted that he will
29 only accept the apology "if you denounce the way your network has treated my friends and I in this
fight."
A pair of mystery-centric shows, Supernatural and Scooby-Doo, crossed paths in its first ever
television crossover between a live-action series and an animated series. The episode, titled
”Scoobynatural,” brought the Winchester Brothers and Castiel into a twisted episode of Scooby- [159][160]
Doo, Where Are You! from 1970 (“A Night of Fright Is No Delight”) after Dean acquires a TV set
that is cursed, but unlike the aforementioned episode, the synopsis had a darker take including the
unmasking of the villain featured in the original episode.
A pair of women accuse The Ren & Stimpy Show creator John Kricfalusi of sexually abusing them
in the 1990s while they were minors. Kricfalusi, who was in his 40s at the time, admitted to [161]
BuzzFeed that he had an underage girlfriend during the years in question.
31 Deadspin releases a video compilation of anchors at stations owned and/or operated by Sinclair [162][163]
 Broadcast Group across the U.S. reading a standardized script that warns viewers of "false news" [164][165]
and "fake stories" by unnamed media outlets, calling them "dangerous to [a] democracy." The [166][167]
promos – which opened further scrutiny to the right-skewing content required to air on Sinclair's [168][169]
stations as well as the group's corporate culture – draw immediate backlash on social media for [170]
their mirroring of talking points about mainstream media outlets espoused by President Trump and
other conservatives, with commenters and even some Sinclair talent likening it to a "hostage"
video. (Fox affiliate WMSN-TV/Madison, Wisconsin was the only Sinclair outlet to have distanced
itself from the controversy, disclosing that it did not produce a version of the promo, given that its
newscasts are produced by Morgan Murphy-owned CBS affiliate WISC-TV.) Some critics (notably
including Jimmy Kimmel, Kumail Nanjiani, House of Cards creator Beau Willimon and Wil
Wheaton, the latter of whom hosts two web series that are rerun on Sinclair-owned multicast
network TBD) advocated for a boycott of Sinclair. Amy McGrath (a Democratic primary candidate
for the Kentucky 6th district U.S. House seat) also pulled all campaign advertising from the group's
Lexington Fox affiliate, WDKY-TV. SAG-AFTRA (which represents many local television
journalists) later released a statement on April 4, expressing their concerns over the promos. In an
April 2 Twitter post, President Trump came to the defense of the company, which is in the process
of acquiring Tribune Media, a deal that will give it access to almost three-quarters of U.S. TV
households. Sinclair executive chairman David D. Smith defended the must-runs in an April 4 New
York Times interview, calling criticism of the company using them to push right-leaning views
“nonsense.”

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During a segment that discussed about the public's feelings on “Fake News” and who is the most
trusted news source based on a poll conducted by Monmouth University, Howard Kurtz, the host of
Fox News Channel’s Media Buzz, became upset with the displayed graphics from the results of the
poll (the banner read “Who do you trust more?”) showing Fox News at 30 percent, with CNN and
MSNBC coming in at 48 percent and 45 percent respectively, prompting Kurtz to tell the staffers to
have the display removed and telling viewers “This is not the graphic we’re looking for,” and
8 demanded it be “Hold off. Take that down please.” Although Kurtz did allow the graphics to return [171]
later during a discussion with pollster Frank Luntz and apologized to viewers. He later criticized on
Facebook (April 9) that “the Associated Press should be embarrassed by a story that utterly distorts
what happened yesterday [April 8] on my program” after the AP made the mistake a primary story
in their wire service, this despite AP spokeswoman Lauren Easton having pointed out in an email
statement that the story “was corrected to show that the graphic was taken down because it was
used in the wrong segment, and was used again on the show.”
Entravision Communications makes major cuts and layoffs at all of its properties, including shutting
down news operations at 23 of the 58 television stations it owns or operates around the United [172]
States, consolidating production of those stations' newscasts into their El Paso flagship KINT-TV.
Sinclair-owned KDNL-TV/St. Louis fires Jamie Allman and cancels his weeknight
news/commentary program The Allman Report, amid a viewer and advertiser boycott that ensued
over a March 26 tweet by the conservative talk host that alluded to wanting to "ram a hot poker up
David Hogg's ass," which was lambasted for its threatening nature and connotations to sexual
assault. The move – which resulted in the station replacing Allman with syndicated programs in its [173]
former weeknight 5:00 and 10:00 p.m. timeslots, and a sixth rerun of America This Morning in place
of a day-behind morning rebroadcast – again leaves KDNL as one of the largest ABC affiliates
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without some kind of news presence, an issue that has occurred intermittently since the October
2001 shutdown of the original in-house news operation it started in January 1995, seven months
before KDNL and KTVI, respectively, swapped their affiliations with Fox and ABC.
Rapper Cardi B co-hosts The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, marking the first time in the
NBC late-night talk show's franchise that it had two people sharing hosting duties. The episode,
which also featured guest John Mulaney (who, alongside show host Jimmy Fallon, gave baby gifts
to Cardi B – who revealed her pregnancy during her performance on Saturday Night Live two days [174]
prior), coincides with the release of her debut album Invasion of Privacy, where she performed her
song "Money Bag". Kevin Hart would later take on co-hosting duties with Fallon for the September
19 episode.
James Comey begins a press junket for his upcoming book A Higher Loyalty through an interview
with George Stephanopoulos on the ABC program 20/20, the former FBI director's first public one-
on-one since being fired by Donald Trump a year earlier. In the days following, he'll appear on CBS' [175]
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, plus The Lead with Jake Tapper and a town hall hosted by
Anderson Cooper, both for CNN.
Around 5:10 p.m. EDT, a high-end EF2 tornado – with peak winds estimated around 135 mph
15 (217 km/h) – sideswipes the studios of WFMY-TV/Greensboro, North Carolina, knocking out power
and communications to the building just as the station was preparing to interrupt CBS's coverage of
the RBC Heritage golf tournament with a live weather cut-in on a tornado warning that was issued [176]
for Guilford County three minutes after the tornado formed over Interstate 40 in eastern
Greensboro. Station employees were evacuated to a cinder block hallway for shelter as the twister
– which caused damage to a nearby residential area, killing one person and injuring ten others –
passed within one mile of the building.
16 Sean Hannity is revealed as one of the legal clients in court documents during a federal
investigation into President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen after his New York City
office was raided April 9 over a series of illegal payment arrangements and other deals (among
them silencing or intimidating individuals in order to protect Cohen's clients) that could have
criminal implications. Cohen's attorney Todd Harrison named Hannity, who is known to actively [177]
support Trump on his both his radio and television programs, as the client in court, one of at least
ten individuals who assisted Cohen with legal advice and/or “strategic advice and business
consulting," of which five of the unnamed individuals were referred to another law firm, who is now
cooperating with authorities and distancing themselves from Cohen.
Parents of two of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting sue radio host [178]
Alex Jones, who has long claimed the shooting was faked. They are seeking $1 million. The
parents cited evidence and statements from his interviews on Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly and
Anderson Cooper 360° as reasons, which Jones claimed on his website InfoWars and eponymous
 radio show that their appearance to counter his claim was digitally altered at the time, of which both
shows have dismissed.
London Broadcasting announces it will sell Sonlife Broadcasting Network affiliate KCEB/Longview,
Texas to HC2 Holdings for $225,000. The purchase marks London's exit from broadcasting; the
group – which, at its peak, owned eight stations in mostly mid-sized and small markets throughout
Texas, with the exception of the Dallas-Fort Worth market – had previously sold six of its stations [179]
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(NBC affiliate KCEN-TV/Waco, CBS affiliate KYTX/Tyler-Longview, ABC affiliates KIII/Corpus
Christi and KBMT/Beaumont-Port Arthur, and Fox affiliates KXVA/Abilene and KIDY/San Angelo) to
the Gannett Company for $215 million in May 2014, and sold KTXD-TV/Greenville to Cunningham
Broadcasting for $9.5 million in September 2017.
The transmission tower used by KOZK/Springfield, Missouri collapses, while workers employed
with Columbia, South Carolina-based Tower Consultants Inc. were performing maintenance in
preparation for the PBS station's channel re-allocation in the first round of the spectrum repack set
to occur later in the year. One worker was killed in the accident; five others sustained non-life-
19 [180]
threatening injuries, requiring three of them to be hospitalized briefly. In addition to taking the KOZK
broadcast signal off-the-air, the accident involving the 1,980 feet (600 m) tower near Fordland also
disrupts service to local NOAA Weather Radio station WXL46, which also houses its transmitter on
the structure.
Oral arguments commence in a case filed by several public interest groups (led by Free Press)
against the FCC's April 2017 decision to reinstate the UHF discount, a law first passed in 1985 to
encourage UHF station ownership by counting the market coverage of such stations by 50% of
their total. The case, to be presided by a three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
20 District of Columbia Circuit, will look at whether the FCC superseded administrative procedure [181]
when it voted to reinstate the cap, which the plaintiffs contend has been used by broadcasters as a
loophole against the federally mandated 39% national ownership cap. The final ruling on the case
could directly impact Sinclair Broadcast Group's pending acquisition of Tribune Media, as the
combined group will skirt under the cap with the discount in place.
Warner Bros. announces the expansion of acquiring and producing TV content for the South
Korean market, as well as licensing South Korean formats for the U.S. and distribution of its library
23 of programs in the country, under a new division to be headed by brothers Suk and Hyun Park, [182]
whose DramaFever streaming and video content service was acquired by Warner Bros. Digital
Networks in 2016.
Sinclair Broadcast Group announces that it will sell 23 television stations that it or Tribune Media
owns or operates in 18 markets, in a move by Sinclair to seek regulatory approval of its purchase
of Tribune. Sinclair and Tribune will sell a total of nine stations (KOKH-TV/Oklahoma City, WRLH-
TV/Richmond, KDSM-TV/Des Moines, WXLV-TV/Greensboro, WOLF-TV-WSWB-WQMY/Wilkes
Barre-Scranton, WXMI/Grand Rapids and WPMT/Harrisburg) to Standard Media, an arm of private
equity firm Standard General, for $442 million. Tribune will also sell KPLR-TV/St. Louis to the
Meredith Corporation (owner of CBS affiliate KMOV in that market) for $65 million. Five other
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stations (Sinclair-owned KUNS-TV/Seattle and KMYU/St. George, Utah, and Tribune-owned
KAUT-TV/Oklahoma City, all of which will be sold to Howard Stirk Holdings for a collective $4.95
million, and Tribune's KDAF/Dallas-Fort Worth and KIAH/Houston, both of which will be sold to
Cunningham Broadcasting for $60 million) will be sold to groups affiliated with Sinclair and will
operate them under shared services and joint sales agreements, joining Tribune flagship WGN-
TV/Chicago, which Sinclair had already proposed for sale to WGN-TV LLC, a new affiliate licensee
owned by an associate of Sinclair executive chair David D. Smith.
Nickelodeon announces that they're bringing its most popular game show Double Dare for a
second revival (The first revival came in 2000 in which the show was renamed Double Dare 2000)
due to the success of the 30th Anniversary Special that aired in November 2016 and the popularity
of the show itself. The network ordered a 40 episode season which aired from June 25 to the end [184]
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of 2018. On May 22, Liza Koshy was announced as host, while original host Marc Summers would
take a dual role, serving as both the replacement announcer for the retired John Harvey and color
commentary. Several team configurations, including 2 vs. 2/3 vs. 3 child teams, 4 vs. 4 family
teams and celebrity episodes have been a part of the season.
26 Two women formerly employed with NBC News – including former correspondent and NBC News
at Sunrise anchor Linda Vester – accuse former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw of sexual [185]
harassment that occurred in the 1990s.
Bounce TV announces it has pulled repeats of The Cosby Show from the African-American- [186]
focused multicast network's schedule, effective immediately, following the news that a jury found
series star, actor/comedian Bill Cosby, guilty of three counts of aggravated indecent assault that
 occurred in 2004. Upon sentencing, Cosby could face up to 30 years in prison (ten for each count).
TV One, meanwhile, continues to air the show even after the conviction.
Fox broadcasts coverage of the first two evenings of the 2018 edition of the NFL Draft for the first
time, carrying coverage simulcast with NFL Network featuring that network's personalities, along
with Fox Sports. The sports division acquired the broadcast rights for the draft in accord with Fox's
five-year agreement to carry Thursday Night Football. This will also be the first time the event,
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previously a cable television exclusive, has aired on free over-the-air television. This will not affect
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ESPN, which will continue to produce its own coverage of the draft. In addition, ESPN's coverage
will also be simulcast on ESPN2, which will feature a college-themed broadcast, and ABC, which
will simulcast coverage of rounds 4-7 of the draft, therefore broadcasting the entire draft on
broadcast television.
Beginning with this night's broadcast ("Disney Night") and continuing for the remaining 16th season
episodes airing over the next three weeks, ABC's American Idol becomes the first major in-season
reality competition program on American television to be broadcast live in all U.S. time zones
(though it also airs at its usual time on a second-run tape delay in the Pacific Time Zone, Alaska [188]
and Hawaii), which allows viewers to watch and vote at the same time, with real-time results being
announced at the end of the show rather than the traditional next day 'results show'. (ABC's Rising
Star had aired live under the same format for its only season in the summer of 2014, outside of the
Pacific time zone receiving the show on tape delay.)
With the episode "Forgive and Regret" (which is marked by the opening sequence of a gunfight
between Maggie Simpson and Marshal Matt Dillon), Fox's The Simpsons surpasses CBS'
Gunsmoke as the longest-running American scripted primetime television series by number of
episodes. Originating as a series of animated shorts starring the title family which became part of [189]
29 The Tracey Ullman Show for three seasons starting in 1987, the Matt Groening-created animated
sitcom debuted on the network in December 1989 and has since featured dozens of recurring
characters and a record–setting number of guest stars.
Days of Our Lives, Good Morning America and The Talk are among the notable winners at the 45th
Daytime Emmy Awards. The ceremony, which hosted by Mario Lopez and Sheryl Underwood and
broadcast via livestream on various streaming and social networking services (including Facebook,
Twitter, and YouTube), also saw actors Bill and Susan Seaforth Hayes, and TV producers Sid and
Marty Krofft being honored as Lifetime Achievement Award recipients (the latter two of whom were [190]
honored during the Creative Arts ceremony on April 27), Joely Fisher's performance of
"Astonishing" (from Little Women) during In Memoriam segment, and tributes to the iconic shows
celebrating major milestones this year including the 50th anniversary of Mister Rogers'
Neighborhood, as well as General Hospital and M*A*S*H's 55th and 45th anniversaries,
respectively.
Gray Television announces it will purchase religious independent WLHG-CD/Lynchburg, Virginia
from Liberty University for $50,000. The purchase includes an option for Gray to acquire Cozi TV
affiliate WFFP-TV/Danville, with which (along with WLHG) Gray will enter into a shared services [183]
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agreement to take effect on June 15, whereby the group – which owns CBS affiliate WDBJ-TV –
would provide programming for and receive a share of the revenue from programming and
advertising sales, following the closure of the sale.

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After having reached a deal to become the new master toy licensee for Power Rangers in mid-
February (replacing Bandai), Hasbro purchases the franchise outright, along with further children's
franchises owned by Saban Brands, including Glitter Force, My Pet Monster, Popples, Julius Jr.,
Luna Petunia and Treehouse Detectives in a cash-and-stock pact valued at $522 million. The [191][192]
Power Rangers television series is relatively unaffected, as it remains on Nickelodeon and its
sister networks until 2021 under a new agreement also made in February (Hasbro holds a 40%
stake in the competing network Discovery Family). The deal closes on June 12 with the
completion of the acquisition.
Kanye West makes a surprise appearance on TMZ Live, in which the rapper details his support for
President Donald Trump, his reasons for free thinking, and explaining his thoughts on slavery, as [193]
he points out "When you hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years?! That sounds like a
choice.” The remarks from West sparked a backlash from viewers.
Gray Television announces that it will purchase NBC affiliate KDLT-TV/Sioux Falls, South Dakota
1 from Red River Broadcasting in an all-cash deal worth $32.5 million. The purchase – which Gray
states will be immediately free cash flow accretive – would create a legal duopoly with primary
ABC/subchannel-only CW Plus affiliate KSFY-TV, likely marking the first time since the FCC [194]
abolished limits on legal television duopolies based on the number of independent owners within a
media market in November 2017 that a small-market station has formed a legal duopoly with a
competing outlet without the aid of a failing/failed station waiver. The transaction is expected to be
finalized in the second or third quarter of 2018.
PlayStation Vue is forced to remove all Big Four affiliates among the 193 television stations owned
and/or operated by Sinclair Broadcast Group that had been carried by the over-the-top MVPD
service after SBG alleges a breach of contract terms. The move – which, ironically, comes four
months after Vue began carrying additional Sinclair stations (predominately Fox affiliates) – [195]
resulted in the stations being replaced by video-on-demand services operated by ABC, CBS, NBC
and Fox, and subscribers also losing access to programs recorded via the affected stations on
Vue's DVR.
TBS and Conan O'Brien announce that Conan will transition to a half hour, looser-structured
format in 2019. TBS also announced a multi-city tour for later in 2018 as part of a partnership
spanning television, digital, social and live events. To top it off, in celebration of his 25 years on
3 late night, they will be making O’Brien's entire catalogue from NBC's Late Night with Conan [196]
O'Brien, and Conan on TBS, available digitally. The first episode is uploaded to the Team Coco
YouTube channel on September 13, the show's exact anniversary, revealing that the entire Late
Night catalog will be available in January.
KGO-TV/San Francisco parts ways with sports anchor Mike Shumann after an incident in which he
was seen on video taking a jacket that belonged to the head of security for the Golden State [197]
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Warriors during the first round of the 2018 NBA Playoffs. A former NFL wide receiver, Shumann
had been with the ABC owned-and-operated station for 24 years.
Stormy Daniels makes a surprise cameo appearance on Saturday Night Live, in which the porn
star joined Ben Stiller (as Michael Cohen), Martin Short (as Dr. Harold Bornstein), Kate McKinnon
(as Rudy Giuliani), Cecily Strong (as Melania Trump), Leslie Jones (as Omarosa Manigault),
Scarlett Johansson and Jimmy Fallon (as Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, respectively) and
Alec Baldwin (as Donald Trump) in an opening sketch involving Trump's problems outside his [198]
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inner circle. This includes Daniels’ ongoing lawsuit over the payment made to her that Cohen had
admitted that he made personally but later became a bigger issue when Giuliani went on Hannity
to claim that it was Trump who gave Cohen the money to pay off Daniels after the president
denied he had any involvement. In the sketch, Daniels told Trump he should resign, then adds “I
know you don’t believe in climate change, but a storm’s a coming, baby.”
Clayne Crawford is fired by Fox and Warner Bros. Television from his role as Martin Riggs on
Lethal Weapon after in late April it was revealed he had “been disciplined several times over
complaints of emotional abuse and creating a hostile environment” while shooting. Seann William [200]
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Scott was announced to succeed Crawford as the show's co-lead (portraying a new character, with
the Riggs character being written out) on May 13, ahead of Fox's expected renewal of the series
for a third season.[199]
9 Fox Television Stations announces it will purchase seven stations – Fox affiliates KCPQ/Seattle, [201]
KTXL/Sacramento, KSWB-TV/San Diego, KDVR/Denver, WJW/Cleveland, and KSTU/Salt Lake
City and CW affiliate WSFL-TV/Miami – from Sinclair Broadcast Group (which contributed the
stations for sale on behalf of their existing owner, Tribune Media, on February 22) for $910 million,
 including options for Sinclair to acquire CW affiliate/MyNetworkTV O&O (and sister to Fox O&O
WFLD) WPWR-TV/Chicago and Fox O&O KTBC/Austin (where Sinclair already owns CBS affiliate
KEYE-TV) for potential respective proceeds of about $15 million and $160 million. Sinclair also
reaches a long-term affiliation deal with Fox for most of the 38 existing Fox stations owned by
Sinclair and/or operated through LMA partner licensees. The deal would give Fox ownership of
stations covering 45.9% of U.S. households (30.4% with the UHF discount factored in) and
owned-and-operated stations in 19 of the top 20 markets, while Sinclair expects to reach 62% of
the U.S. (37.4% with the discount) post-acquisition as a result of the Fox purchases and prior
divestitures tied to the Tribune merger.
After months of negotiations, Adult Swim renews its animated comedy Rick and Morty for 70
10 episodes spanning a currently undetermined amount of seasons, more than twice what has [202]
already aired. Creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland enter a new agreement with the network.
Brooklyn Nine-Nine is picked up by NBC 37 hours after its cancellation on Fox, following a slew of
fan outrage and outspoken celebrities sharing their disappointment. The show's sixth season was [203]
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ordered initially for 13 episodes, expanded to 18 in September, and set for a January premiere in
November. Hulu and TBS had also considered picking up the series.
Brad Kern exits as showrunner of NCIS: New Orleans following CBS conducting a pair of internal
investigations after several of his colleagues complained about his behavior and a hostile work [204]
environment. He will be succeeded by executive producer Chris Silber.
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Production on MTV's Catfish: The TV Show is suspended after host and executive producer Nev
Schulman is accused of sexual misconduct. On June 25, 2018, the suspension was lifted and the [205]
show will resume after the report of sexual misconduct was found to be "not creditable".
An estimated 1.9 billion people, including 29 million Americans on all the major broadcast and
cable news channels (along with Lifetime and BBC's America and World News networks), watch [206]
as Prince Harry married Meghan Markle.
19 Comedian Josh Denny, who hosts the Food Network series Ginormous Food, comes under fire for
past Twitter messages with racially offensive content, including equating the term "Straight White [207]
Male" as the modern equivalent to "nigger". The comments leave the immediate future of the
program, which had recently been renewed for a second season, in doubt.
The 2018 Billboard Music Awards, which was hosted by Kelly Clarkson and held at the MGM
Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, is broadcast on NBC. The program's shift to NBC follows the
conclusion of a relationship between Billboard and ABC that dates back to the award show's
revival (following a five-year absence resulting from contractual expiration and other
circumstances) in 2011. In the wake of a mass shooting at a Santa Fe, Texas high school that left
20 10 people dead and 14 wounded, Clarkson opened the broadcast paying tribute by forgoing a [208]
moment of silence, explaining that they are no longer sufficient when "once again … we're grieving
for more kids" who died for "no reason at all," and encouraging viewers to take part in "a moment
of change" to combat gun violence. Kendrick Lamar – whose wins included Top Billboard 200
Album (for DAMN.) and Top Rap Male Artist – and Ed Sheeran – whose wins included Top Artist
and Top Male Artist – were the night's big winners, with both earning six awards each.
21 Olympic figure skater Adam Rippon (who won the bronze medal with his figure skating teammates
at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang in February) is crowned the winner of the athletes-
focused 26th season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars, becoming the first openly gay contestant to
win the show. Rippon and his pro partner, Jenna Johnson, beat NFL cornerback Josh Norman and
former figure skater Tonya Harding (and their respective pro partners, Sharna Burgess and Sasha
Farber) to win the show's Mirror Ball trophy. This is also the first Mirror Ball for Johnson, whose
only prior stint as a pro partner in season 23 saw her and celebrity partner Jake T. Austin finish [209]
13th as the first pairing eliminated that season. (Prior to the 26th season, the former So You Think
You Can Dance finalist had primarily served as a dance troupe member since joining DWTS in
season 18.) The one-hour abbreviated finale delivered a 1.1 rating and an audience of 8.67
million, making it – alongside American Idol's sixteenth season finale – the most watched
programs of the night.
Maddie Poppe wins the sixteenth season of American Idol, the show's first-season finale to air on
ABC. Poppe – who earns a recording contract with Hollywood Records (owned by ABC parent [209]
The Walt Disney Company), which replaced Big Machine Records as the show's artist label – is
the first singing competition's first female winner since season 12 contestant Candice Glover.
Caleb Lee Hutchinson – who reveals during the broadcast that he and Poppe are dating – is
runner-up (making it the first season since season 6 to feature a female winner and male runner-
up), and Gabby Barrett finishes second runner-up. The two-hour finale – which was watched by
8.65 million viewers and had a 1.6 demographic rating – features performances from and
 contestant duets with Patti LaBelle, LeAnn Rimes, Darius Rucker, Bebe Rexha, Nick Jonas and
Kermit the Frog (the latter of whom performs "Rainbow Connection" with Poppe, who had
performed the night prior and during her initial judge audition). Jimmy Kimmel Live! also paid
homage to the series' past featuring appearances by several personalities from the series' history
including former judge Randy Jackson, former finalists and winners such as Haley Reinhart, Taylor
Hicks and Ruben Studdard, and other notable past contestants including William Hung, Larry Platt
(known for auditioning with the original song “Pants on the Ground”) and Sanjaya Malakar).
The Miss USA 2018 pageant was held at the Hirsch Memorial Coliseum in Shreveport, Louisiana
(which previously served as the venue for the 1997 pageant) and was broadcast by Fox and
Azteca. The show was hosted by the married pairing of singer Nick Lachey and former Miss Teen
USA 1998 Vanessa Lachey, with stylist/fashion expert Carson Kressley and pageant coach Lu
Sierra serving as backstage hosts. Pop group 98 Degrees (of which Nick Lachey is a member)
and country singer Lee Brice performed. Kára McCullough of District of Columbia crowned her [210]
successor Sarah Rose Summers of Nebraska – who will represent the United States at Miss
Universe 2018 in November – as the winner of the pageant; Caelynn Miller-Keyes of North
Carolina was the runner-up. Summers' win marks the first Miss USA crown for a Miss Nebraska
contestant.
ESPN reaches a five-year broadcast rights deal with the UFC to acquire the rights to a portion of
the mixed martial arts promotion's television package currently held by Fox Sports for $300 million
per year (or $1.5 billion over the course of the contract). The deal, which expands upon a five-
year, $750-million streaming rights deal reached by ESPN (for its over-the-top service ESPN+) on [211]
May 8, will result in an additional 30 fights per year (comprising 15 that would be carried on
ESPN's linear channels and 15 that would air exclusively on ESPN+) being carried on the linear
ESPN channels.
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After Bryan Fuller stepped down in February, and only four days after their series Once Upon a
Time concluded its seven-season run, Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis are named showrunners [212]
of Amazing Stories that will be part of Apple's streaming service. In addition, the duo also sign a
production deal with ABC Studios that will run through 2022.
Nielsen signs a deal with YouTube TV, which will now see the streaming service incorporate their [213]
local audience measurements into the ratings provider in 99 television markets.
23 Quincy Media discloses it has reached agreements to acquire CW Plus affiliates WISE-TV/Fort
Wayne, Indiana and KDLH/Duluth, Minnesota from SagamoreHill Broadcasting – which has
maintained joint services agreements for the stations with Quincy since the former's 2015
acquisition of WISE and KDLH from Granite Broadcasting/Malara Broadcast Group – for $1.7
million. The deal, which was originally signed on May 16, would create duopolies with Quincy's
existing respective stations in those markets, ABC primary/NBC subchannel-only affiliate WPTA
and NBC primary/CBS subchannel-only affiliate KBJR-TV, and, in pertinence to the FCC's [214]
television spectrum repacking, includes a provision that would reassign the stations to a new
channel assignment. According to FCC filings, which seek a waiver of rules barring common
ownership of two television stations in markets with fewer than eight distinctive licensees, ratings
for both WISE and KDLH had slid to fifth place among the stations in the Fort Wayne and Duluth
markets since their respective former NBC and CBS affiliations moved to the DT2 subchannels of
WPTA and KBJR in August 2016.
On the same day as the station's sale is announced, Dish Network removes KDLH-TV/Duluth from
its lineup in Minnesota's Iron Range region, after failing to reach a new carriage agreement with
SagamoreHill. Representatives with Quincy and JSA partner SagamoreHill stated that the issue [215]
that led to the CW affiliate's removal concerned contractual language of the contract,
acknowledging that no "meaningful discussions" on fees had been made." The move marks the
first time since 2009 that SagamoreHill has been involved in a carriage dispute.
ABC announces the cancellation of its daytime talk/cooking show The Chew after seven seasons.
Episodes of the program will continue to air through early September, after which it will be
replaced by a third-hour extension of Good Morning America, the network's second attempt at
such an expansion following the short-lived afternoon edition titled Good Afternoon America that [216]
ran from July to September 2012 (following the cancellation of the talk/lifestyle show The
Revolution, and preceding the shift of General Hospital to the 2:00 p.m. Eastern Time slot). The
program's cancellation announcement comes five months after former co-host Mario Batali was
subsequently fired following allegations of sexual misconduct by four women.
In CBS, at the conclusion of Survivor: Ghost Island, the final tribal council were deadlocked for the [217][218]
first time in the show's history, as the ten-member jury voted a tie with Domenick Abbate and
Wendell Holland five votes apiece. Laurel Johnson, who received no votes prior, cast her deciding
 tiebreaker vote to award Holland the "Sole Survivor" title. This is also the first time besides the
inaugural season the jury votes were read on-site instead of at the live finale.
Debra L. Lee announces she will step down as Chairwoman and CEO of BET Networks, effective [219]
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May 28.
Sesame Workshop, the parent company and producers of Sesame Street, files a lawsuit in federal
court against STXfilms over the use of its name being used as promos for the August 17 release
of the R-rated crime comedy The Happytime Murders, which stars Melissa McCarthy as a
detective investigating a series of gruesome murders involving puppets who formerly starred in a
25 children's program from the 1990s. The production company objected to the studio’s use of the [220]
series title in its ads, which reads “No Sesame, All Street,” and the content of the "explicit, profane,
drug-using, misogynistic, violent" film, as well as the depiction and likeness of the characters, who
were created for the film by director Brian Henson, the son of Jim Henson, whose Muppets
characters are featured on Sesame Street.
The Indianapolis 500 airs for the final time on ABC (locally on Scripps-owned affiliate WRTV,
though on a tape delay as the live telecast is blacked out to encourage attendance; WRTV has
aired the broadcast since it became an ABC affiliate in 1979), ending a relationship between the
network and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway that dates back to 1965. Beginning in 2019, the
Indy 500 will air on NBC (and locally on Dispatch-owned affiliate WTHR, which reunites the
telecast with the station after it switched to NBC in 1979), the result of a three-year exclusive TV [221]
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rights deal announced on March 21 between the IndyCar Series and NBC Sports Group, whose
NBCSN has split coverage of IndyCar races with ABC since 2009 (when the channel was known
as Versus) and will split coverage of the series with NBC in the new deal. Australian racecar driver
Will Power wins the race, while American Danica Patrick (who is on her final professional race as
a full-time competitor before her retirement and her first Indianapolis 500 since 2011) crashes on
lap 68 when she loses control of her car in turn 2, finishing in 30th place.
WYFF/Greenville, South Carolina anchor Mike McCormick and photojournalist Aaron Smeltzer are
killed when a tree fell on their car on U.S. Route 176 in Polk County while covering the impact of
heavy rain in that area caused by Subtropical Storm Alberto. McCormick joined the Hearst
28 Television-owned NBC affiliate in April 2007 as a reporter after being worked on that company's [222]
sister stations, ABC affiliate KHBS/Fort Smith, Arkansas and its satellite station KHOG-
TV/Fayetteville, Arkansas for three years, while Smeltzer worked as a photographer in the
Greenville region for more than a decade before joining WYFF in February of this year.
After series star Roseanne Barr made controversial remarks on Twitter about Valerie Jarrett, an
Iranian-born African-American who was the Senior Advisor of Public Engagement and
Intergovernmental Affairs for former President of the United States Barack Obama from 2009 until
2017. ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey announces the rescission of Roseanne's
season 11 renewal and the sitcom's cancellation on behalf of the network. This results in Barr [223]
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being dropped by her agency, ICM Partners, and ABC suspending its Emmy campaign for the
series. Reruns of the series' original nine-season run are also pulled from the lineups of Viacom-
owned Paramount Network, TV Land and CMT effective May 30, and Scripps/Katz-owned digital
multicast network Laff effective immediately; Hulu later announced that all episodes (including
those from the revival's nine-episode run) have been removed from its library.
Comedian Samantha Bee becomes the subject of controversy after she called Ivanka Trump a
"feckless cunt" during the previous night's broadcast of TBS' Full Frontal during a segment in
which Bee made a request to Ivanka Trump to ask her father to do something about immigration
policies that have resulted in children being separated from their parents. Much of the criticism
came from conservatives who equated the remark to the controversy surrounding Roseanne
Barr's tweet about Valerie Jarrett – including the White House, which condemned Bee's use of the [224]
word and demanded that TBS parent Time Warner take action against her. Both Bee and TBS
31 apologized for the incident. Autotrader and State Farm subsequently pulled their advertising from
program amidst the controversy.
Cheddar reaches a deal with Viacom to acquire MTV Networks on Campus, which it will use to
launch CheddarU, a television service that will feature content from Cheddar's namesake flagship
financial news streaming service and segments from its general news service Cheddar Big News
to 99 million students at more than 600 college and universities. Qualifying universities would be [225]
able to carry CheddarU as part of their campus cable/OTT services free of charge. The existing
linear mtvU network will continue on cable providers without any changes.

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Hallmark Channel abruptly parts ways with Home and Family co-host Mark Steines, who had been
co-host since the show's revival in 2012. He is soon succeeded by Cameron Mathison. On
September 20, 2018, Steines files suit with Lisa Bloom against Hallmark parent Crown Media and
1 Woody Fraser Productions, claiming executive producer Fraser sexually harassed female talent [226]
and guests on the series and that his complaints to Crown management about his superior's
behavior were ignored, to the point he would lose pay and involvement in show marketing until his
termination (Bloom had already been pursuing previous sexual harassment claims against Fraser).
Fox News issues an apology to members of the Super Bowl LII champion Philadelphia Eagles after
airing photos that show players kneeling on the field, giving the appearance of being related to the
NFL national anthem protests controversy that led President Donald Trump to disinvite the team
5 from the White House. However, in criticizing Fox News on Twitter for "being used (as) [227]
propaganda," tight end Zach Ertz, one of the players shown kneeling, clarified that he had been
praying with teammates. The network said in a statement that indeed no player on the Eagles knelt
in protest either during the regular season or playoffs.
Producer Greg Berlanti extends his production deal with Warner Bros. Television through 2024,
now valued at over $300 million. At the time of the extension, Berlanti is a producer on 16 current [228]
or upcoming shows across seven networks (14 live-action across six), half of them for Warner
Bros.-owned The CW, and two for DC Universe, also owned by the company.
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The Washington Capitals defeated the Vegas Golden Knights in five games in 2018 Stanley Cup
Finals (broadcasts on NBC and NBCSN) to win their first Stanley Cup, breaking the district's 26- [229]
year championship drought dating back to the Washington Redskins winning Super Bowl XXVI in
1992.
CNN host Anthony Bourdain is found dead in France of a suicide, abruptly ending his CNN series
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown. The network announced a tribute special to air that night and
Parts Unknown marathons over the weekend. In addition, Travel Channel announced a 12-hour
marathon of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, the former series' direct predecessor, to air that [230]
Sunday, and free over-the-top service Pluto TV began airing a 24-hour Bourdain tribute channel
rerunning his programs.
The NBA Finals which began on May 31 and were carried by ABC with the fourth consecutive
match up of the Cleveland Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors, are concluded with a sweep by
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the Warriors for their second consecutive title. They were the first NBA Finals to have a presenting
sponsor, after YouTube TV jointly announced with the NBA on March 26 its sponsorship of the
Finals.
ABC and series star Priyanka Chopra issue apologies for the plotline of the June 1 episode of the
network's drama Quantico, titled "The Blood of Romeo". It depicted Hindu nationalists trying to
make it look as though Pakistan were behind a terror plot in New York City. Much of the outrage [232]
over reinforced stereotyping was aimed at Chopra, despite her only being an actor on the show
with no creative input.
The 72nd Tony Awards are broadcast live on CBS from Radio City Music Hall, hosted by Sara
10 Bareilles and Josh Groban. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child wins Best Play, and The Band's Visit [233]
wins ten awards, including Best Musical.
Ion Media announces it will exercise an option to purchase four "zombie" stations owned by the
Trinity Broadcasting Network that had their spectrum sold in the 2017 incentive auction, WCLJ-
TV/Indianapolis, WDLI-TV/Cleveland, WSFJ-TV/Columbus, Ohio and WKOI-TV/Dayton, Ohio (the
former two already have channel sharing agreements with the Ion stations in Indianapolis and
Cleveland, basically returning full spectrum control of those stations to Ion if approved). In FCC
filings for the transfer, TBN withheld information on the sale price and other statistics pertaining to
the November 2017 option agreement included as part of channel sharing agreements with Ion
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involving the four stations on grounds that it is "proprietary, not germane to the FCC’s evaluation of
the application, or already in the FCC’s possession." Another deal around the same time saw
KILM/Inglewood-Los Angeles, a Multicultural Broadcasting-owned "zombie" carrying a brokered
network known as Punch TV, also to be purchased by Ion for $10 million; KILM is under a channel
sharing agreement with Ion's KPXN-TV. The latter sale closes September 17, with Ion moving the
virtual channel KPXN-DT3 (carrying its Ion Life network) to KILM's virtual channel 64.1, along with
gaining its must-carry coverage on local pay-TV systems.
12 A federal judge approves AT&T's $85 billion merger with Time Warner, concluding a lawsuit filed [235]
against the deal by the Department of Justice in November 2016 on grounds that the DOJ's
Antitrust Division had failed to meet the burden of proof that it would harm competition and result in
 consumer price increases. The deal closes two days later, with Time Warner being rechristened as
WarnerMedia shortly after.
In an attempt to thwart The Walt Disney Company's planned acquisition of most 21st Century Fox
assets, Comcast (owner of rival NBCUniversal) makes a $65 billion all-cash bid on the
entertainment assets of the Rupert Murdoch-owned company, which includes Fox Sports
Networks, FX Networks, Sky plc (which Comcast had already made a separate bid for back in
February), Star India, and a 30% stake in Hulu (which, when combined with their existing 30%
stake, would give Comcast a controlling interest in the streaming service). Comcast had been
waiting on a decision in the AT&T/Time Warner matter before proceeding with the offer. However, [236]
one week later Disney upped its bid to $71.3 billion in cash and stock, which Fox favors over
Comcast; Comcast subsequently dropped its bid on July 19. 21st Century Fox and Disney
shareholders approved the acquisition to the 20th Century Fox assets on July 27. (The deal is still
pending regulatory approval in other countries, including China and Brazil, where 21st Century Fox
13 and/or Disney also own media properties.)
Broadcasting & Cable reported that Jerry Springer was now out of production after a 27-year run
and that the 2018–19 season forward will solely consist of reruns, while another hour of Springer
reruns will be programmed by The CW in their daytime timeslot beginning in September 2018 for
their affiliates, replacing failed competitor The Robert Irvine Show. However, the network retains
the right to ask for new episodes (produced by NBCUniversal); Springer later confirmed that the [237]
show was canceled, but had produced unaired shows prior to the announcement. The move comes
as Tribune Broadcasting (the lessee of the timeslot until the end of the 2020–21 season under an
agreement made at the time of its latest renewal for the network on its stations) was preparing to
complete its acquisition by Sinclair Broadcast Group, which played a factor in the program not
being renewed by its stations, thus hurting its clearances.
Star Trek: Discovery showrunners Aaron Harberts and Gretchen J. Berg are fired from the series
due to budgetary issues and allegations of mistreatment and abuse. Co-creator and executive
producer Alex Kurtzman takes over sole showrunner duties. Five days later, it was announced that
Kurtzman extended his production deal with CBS Television Studios through 2023, including [238]
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“expansion of CBS’ Star Trek franchise for television, developing new series, mini-series and other
content opportunities, including animation.” The deal is valued at $25 million and under it, his
production company Secret Hideout will also continue to develop new projects for broadcast, cable
and streaming platforms exclusive to CBS.
Fox Sports and Telemundo broadcasts the 2018 FIFA World Cup respectively in English and
Spanish with a mainly morning and early afternoon schedule of games due to the tournament being
played in Russia (seven hours ahead of American Eastern Daylight Time). The two replace
14– previous rights holders of the soccer tournament, ESPN/ABC and Univision, which lost the [239]
July exclusive English and Spanish language telecast rights following the 2014 tournament. On June [240]
15 14, Fox issued an apology after English singer Robbie Williams showed his middle finger while
performing his song "Rock DJ" during the opening ceremony. Telemundo sibling NBCSN simulcast
Spanish coverage of two matches: Brazil vs. Switzerland on June 17, and England vs. Belgium on
June 28.
During Fox Sports' coverage of the 118th U.S. Open from Southampton, New York, microphones
pick up a discussion between two men about a sexual encounter one of them had with their former
female partner, which included explicit language about the encounter (it was carried during FS1's
15 portion of the coverage, leaving it out of FCC purview). Both Fox Sports and the tournament's [241]
organizer, the United States Golf Association, apologized for the mishap. Fan decorum at the U.S.
Open in general was criticized by participant Ian Poulter, who was harassed at times by the gallery
when it was his turn to putt.
16 Following allegations of sexual abuse in an article on Medium written by ex-girlfriend Chloe
Dykstra, in which the actress (who dated Hardwick from 2011 to 2014) referred to him only as a
“mildly successful podcaster” who grew into “a powerhouse CEO of his own company” in outlining [242]
the allegations, AMC pulls the Chris Hardwick-hosted talk show Talking with Chris Hardwick's
second-season premiere from the schedule, and he withdraws as moderator for the network's San
Diego Comic-Con panel featuring The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead as well as BBC
America's panel for the British sci-fi series Doctor Who, set to be the first public appearance for the
new cast, led by Thirteenth Doctor Jodie Whittaker. The day before, Nerdist, the company which
Hardwick founded, cut all ties with him. He denies the allegations. NBC later stated that it would
"assess" developments concerning Dykstra's accusations before making decisions concerning
Hardwick's gig as host of game show The Wall. On July 3, Yvette Nicole Brown was reported to be
the new moderator of the Walking Dead panel, and interim host of Talking Dead 10 days later,
starting with The Walking Dead Season 9 Preview Special on August 5. On July 25, AMC
announced Hardwick will return as host of Talking Dead and Talking with Chris Hardwick following
 the completion of an investigation conducted with Ivy Kagan Bierman of law firm Loeb & Loeb. On
July 31, NBC announced Hardwick will return as host of The Wall for a next season. On August 10,
his name was then returned to Nerdist's website.
Laura Ingraham faces mounting criticism over comments she made on her Fox News Channel
program The Ingraham Angle, in which she referred to the detention centers where children of
undocumented immigrants detained and arrested at the U.S.–Mexico border have been placed
under Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy – which has received widespread condemnation,
and have been compared to internment facilities that housed Japanese Americans and German
Jews – as "essentially summer camps," which Ingraham attempted to walk back before the end of
that night's broadcast. Hollywood producers such as Steven Levitan (who suggested, in his
18 criticism of Fox News, he would terminate his relationship with 20th Century Fox Television after [243]
the current contract for Modern Family ends in 2019), Seth MacFarlane (who tweeted that he was
"embarrassed to work for Fox News and Fox network parent 21st Century Fox" concerning a
remark by Ingraham's Fox News colleague Tucker Carlson that viewers should dismiss reports by
major news outlets as untrue), Judd Apatow and Paul Feig criticized the remarks, with many also
calling for an advertiser boycott of Ingraham's show and Fox News, which defended Ingraham's
remarks by stating, "Fox News will never tolerate or give in to attempts to silence diverse
viewpoints by agenda-driven intimidation efforts.”
On the evening after Laura Ingraham's comments, former Trump campaign manager Corey
Lewandowski makes the sad trombone sound effect during a Fox News segment focusing on a 10-
year-old girl with Down syndrome separated from her mother at the border. Appearing again on [244]
Fox News the following morning, he refused to apologize for the incident, which led to Washington
D.C. speakers bureau Leading Authorities, Inc. terminating its relationship with Lewandowski.
During the last moments on her MSNBC program, host Rachel Maddow begins to break down and
cry while reading a breaking news story from the Associated Press that Trump administration
19 officials have been sending young children to at least three age-specific shelters as part of the
Justice Department's new “zero tolerance” immigration policy that's resulted in thousands of kids
being separated from their parents. The “tender age” facilities reportedly house children with
special needs and those younger than 13. The story becomes too emotional for Maddow to [245]
continue, so she passes the story to Lawrence O’Donnell, who was in Texas at one of the detention
facilities as he leads off the breaking news story on his program The Last Word. Maddow last
apologized to viewers about what happened, saying “If nothing else, it is my job to actually be able
to speak while I’m on TV,” she wrote. “I apologize for losing it there for a moment. Not the way I
intended that to go, not by a mile.”
More than three weeks after the cancellation of Roseanne, ABC announces it intends to revive the
show as The Conners. John Goodman, Sara Gilbert, Laurie Metcalf, Lecy Goranson, and Michael
21 Fishman will all reprise their roles on the new series, which will occupy the same Tuesday evening [246]
time slot Roseanne would have had. Roseanne Barr will have no involvement in its production,
ABC said.
ABC pulls an episode of reality dating series The Proposal (which was originally scheduled to air
22 on June 25) from the schedule after a woman named Erica Denae Meshke accused contestant [247]
Michael J. Friday of luring her for sexual assault that took place in November 2017.
25 Gray Television agrees to acquire the assets of Raycom Media in a cash-stock deal valued at
$3.687 billion (comprising $2.85 billion in cash, $650 million in preferred stock, and 11.5 million
shares of Gray common stock). Should regulatory approval be obtained, the combined company,
which will operate under the existing Gray corporate umbrella, will – with coverage estimated at
24% of U.S. television households – become the third-largest broadcaster in terms of audience
reach, owning or operating 142 full-power stations in 92 markets (its portfolio will encompass [248]
stations in markets as large as Tampa-St. Petersburg-Sarasota to as small as North Platte,
although it will divest overlapping stations in nine conflict markets). Other than disclosing that an
SSA involving Fox affiliate WUPW/Toledo would be transferred to the prospective buyer of CBS-
affiliated sister WTOL. Post-acquisition, longtime company head Hilton H. Howell Jr. will serve as
Gray's executive chairman and co-CEO, but will cede his role as company president to Raycom
President/CEO Pat LaPlatney (who will also serve as a co-CEO).
David Bossie, a former aide to the Trump campaign, is suspended from his contributor role at Fox
News for two weeks after telling Joel Payne, an African-American Democratic strategist, he was
"out of (his) cotton-picking mind" during a debate on Fox & Friends Weekend the previous day. The [249]
comment, viewed as a dog whistle, was quickly condemned by anchor Ed Henry, who called it
"obviously offensive."
The E. W. Scripps Company sells its Tulsa radio cluster (Classic Hits station KBEZ, Country station [250]
 KVOO, Classic Country station KXBL, Top 40/CHR station KHTT, and News/Talk station KFAQ, all
of which were co-owned with NBC affiliate KJRH-TV since Scripps's 2015 acquisition of the radio
group's former parent Journal Communications) to Griffin Communications. The transaction re-
enters the Oklahoma City-based television broadcaster into radio station ownership since it sold off
its stations in Oklahoma City, Tulsa and Fort Smith between 1956 and 1969 (when co-founders
John T. Griffin and Jimmy Leake broke up the company into two entities), and pairs the stations up
with the CBS/CW duopoly of KOTV and KQCW. (Griffin has, however, owned the Radio Oklahoma
Network syndicated news service since 2001.)
The United States Department of Justice approves the takeover of 21st Century Fox's
entertainment assets by The Walt Disney Company on the condition that the sale not include Fox's
27 22 regional sports networks as originally planned. Disney's majority ownership of ESPN Inc. is [251]
cited as the reasoning for the divestiture. It is unknown whether the RSNs will be divested to other
companies or remain part of the smaller "New Fox", which will include the remainder of Fox Sports.
Comcast subscribers throughout the United States are affected by an outage believed to be
caused by a cut fiber. Reports of issues began coming into Twitter and an Internet monitoring
29 website around 12:30 p.m. EDT from cities such as Atlanta, Baltimore, San Francisco, Seattle, and [252]
Comcast's home base of Philadelphia. A company statement indicated that Comcast was working
to resolve the problem, but it wasn't known how soon service would be fully restored.
Dish Network and Sling TV subscribers throughout the United States lose access to the 60
Univision and UniMás television stations (as well as both networks' national feeds) and various
cable channels (including Galavisión, Univision Deportes Network, El Rey Network and Fusion TV)
owned by Univision Communications around 4:00 p.m. EDT due to a dispute over carriage fees,
which also resulted in both parties being unable to reach a two-week contract extension to resolve
contractual terms. Dish contended that Univision asked it to increase retransmission fees by 75%,
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which it felt an unreasonable offer, citing Univision's declining ratings and its failure to secure the [253]
rights to the 2018, 2022 and 2026 FIFA World Cups (the Spanish language rights of which went to
rival Telemundo). Univision denies Dish's claim that it had ended negotiations, stating that “[Dish]
insists on paying Univision only a fraction of what it pays our English-language peers." On July 30,
Dish offered subscribers of its DishLatino and Sling Latino tiers who lost access to the channels a
$5 per month credit, beginning August 1.

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Tri-State Christian Television announces it has consolidated programming at all of its stations at
TCT's headquarters in Marion, Illinois, taking advantage of the end of the FCC's Main Studio Rule.
All locally produced programming at the network's other owned-and-operated stations was [254]
canceled, and the network's Orchard Park, New York studio for WNYB/Jamestown-Buffalo was
closed and placed up for sale.
2 The BBC, through the representation of an American law firm, files federal court papers in
California and ordered a subpoena after learning that a source that was linked to the social media
platform Tapatalk had leaked unauthorized scenes and footage from the upcoming season of [255]
Doctor Who to numerous websites and fan-based entities. The leaked details were revealed June
26, prompting mixed results from fans of the series, especially with the spoilers from the series’
future episodes.
Fox News Channel anchor Brit Hume apologizes to his viewers after he made a comment he
posted and then deleted it on Twitter about questioning how patriotic people who are affiliated with
the Democratic Party are in the United States, saying “Why Do Democrats Hate America?" and
added, "Hate may be too strong a word but they sure don’t love it —>." Hume was referring to a
Gallup poll published July 2 that found that 32 percent of Democrats consider themselves
"extremely proud" of being U.S. citizens, down from 56 percent in 2013, with only 74 percent of [256]
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Republicans called themselves "extremely proud" to be American, the highest the group has been
in five years, according to the poll. Hume later clarified in another tweet that the statement was
uncalled for and admitted his mistake: "I deleted an earlier tweet that said Democrats don’t love
America. It was based on a Gallup poll that found only a minority of Dems now very proud of this
country... "A number of people said they think that’s not a fair conclusion from the poll. I agree and
thus the deletion."
Nexstar Media Group reaches an agreement to purchase CW affiliate WHDF/Florence, Alabama
from Lockwood Broadcast Group for $2.25 million. Under the terms of the deal, Nexstar
concurrently assumed operational responsibilities for the station through a time brokerage [257]
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agreement that will conclude upon the transaction's closure. The acquisition will create a duopoly
with Huntsville-based Fox affiliate WZDX (which Nexstar acquired as part of its November 2013
purchase of Grant Broadcasting System II's television stations).
In a unanimous 4-0 vote, the Federal Communications Commission voted to send the merger
proposal between Sinclair Broadcast Group and Tribune Media to a hearing before an
administrative law judge to review aspects of the deal that FCC chairman Ajit Pai described as
"deceptive" in their transparency, specifically regarding shell corporations being used by the
company to operate stations that would materially reduce Sinclair's national ownership cap space
short of the 39% limit, two days before. Pai's comments led Sinclair to amend its acquisition
proposal (the fifth such instance since Sinclair disclosed its sale proposals to the Department of
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Justice Antitrust Division in February) to transfer Tribune flagship WGN-TV/Chicago from WGN-TV
LLC (a licensee that was to have been owned by Steven Fader, a Maryland auto dealer and [258]
business associate of Sinclair executive chairman David D. Smith) to Sinclair directly, and to sell
Texas-based CW affiliates KDAF/Dallas-Fort Worth and KIAH/Houston to an independent third
party (rather than sell it to Cunningham Broadcasting, which, until January, had been owned by the
estate of Carolyn Smith, the now-deceased mother of David Smith and widow of company founder
Julian Sinclair Smith, which retains non-voting stock interest) hours prior to the merger review vote.
In an appearance on Showtime's Who Is America?, Georgia state lawmaker Jason Spencer
exposes his bare buttocks, imitates a Chinese tourist using racial stereotypes, and repeatedly yells
"nigger", all at the urging of a character portrayed by series star Sacha Baron Cohen. After facing
22 backlash from Georgia's Speaker of the House and governor, Spencer apologized for what he [259]
described as a "ridiculously ugly episode" but refused to step down, saying that the show's
producers exploited his state of mind "for profit and notoriety". He announced his resignation on
July 24, stating in a letter to the House speaker it would take effect at month's end.
24 PBS member station WPBA/Atlanta – which, since 2005, has been constrained to carry no more [260]
than 25% of the service's programming under its Program Differentiation Plan – reaches an
agreement to convert into a 100% full-service PBS member station to better compete with the
Georgia Public Broadcasting member network (which is available in Atlanta through its Athens-
licensed television flagship WGTV), in a bid to increase viewership, public and private monetary
contributions and corporate underwriters. Under the deal, WPBA will be allowed to license any PBS
programs for broadcast starting in September, which will result in a roughly $500,000 per year
increase in programming expenditures that will go towards licensing additional PBS content and
expanding local program production. The station will inform GPB of its scheduling decisions to
 avoid scheduling conflicts. (Existing shows on WPBA's schedule as well as newer shows being
added to its lineup will be scheduled on a timeshifted basis to avoid such conflicts.)
Cox Enterprises announces that it is exploring a possible sale or a merger for the 14 television
stations owned by its Cox Media Group unit (consisting of CBS affiliates WHIO-TV/Dayton, KIRO-
TV/Seattle-Tacoma and WJAX-TV/Jacksonville [the latter of which Cox operates through an LMA
with proxy licensee Hoffman Communications], ABC affiliates WSB-TV/Atlanta, WSOC-
24 TV/Charlotte and WFTV/Orlando, Fox affiliates WHBQ-TV/Memphis, WFOX-TV/Jacksonville, [261]
KOKI-TV/Tulsa and WFXT/Boston, independent stations WRDQ/Orlando and WAXN-TV/Charlotte,
MyNetworkTV affiliate KMYT-TV/Tulsa, and NBC affiliate WPXI/Pittsburgh). The division is the
Atlanta-based broadcaster's most profitable sector apart from its cable, radio and newspaper
properties, which Cox plans to keep should a buyer emerge.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. dismisses a challenge to the
FCC's May 2018 restoration of a UHF discount quota that counted UHF television stations by half
their local market reach and effectively gave station groups additional space under the national
television ownership cap (artificially increasing their potential coverage from the Congressionally
mandated 39% maximum of all U.S. television households to as much as 78%). The panel did not
weigh the merits of the case in the two-page ruling, only judging that the interest groups involved in
the case (led by Free Press) – who sued on ground that the discount would allow groups reaching
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near the 39% cap the ability to acquire more stations without going over it (with Sinclair Broadcast
Group, which is believed to have any future acquisitions that may utilize the quota hampered amid
questions by the FCC over other methods it used in its proposed merger with Tribune Media) and
accelerating media consolidation in the broadcast television industry – lacked standing. The move
also precedes potential FCC consideration of possibly abolishing or altering the UHF discount upon
proposals to raise the cap to cover ownership coverage reaching as much as 50% of U.S.
television households.
Personnel with KRCR-TV/Redding, California are evacuated from the Sinclair Broadcast Group-
owned ABC affiliate's studio building around 10:30 p.m. PDT as flames associated with the Carr
Fire (which was first reported on July 23 in the Whiskeytown–Shasta–Trinity National Recreation
Area, and started by a vehicular mechanical failure) approached close to its facility in eastern
26 Redding. Anchors Allison Woods and Tamara Damante, who were helming coverage of the fire, [263]
notified viewers on-air of the evacuation order; KRCR continued to provide regular updates about
the fire on its website and Facebook page, with field reporters filing video reports for the latter. As a
result of the fire danger, the station temporarily relocated its news staff to the studios of and relayed
coverage from its Eureka-based semi-satellite KAEF-TV.
The New York Public Service Commission revokes its approval of the merger between Charter
Communications and Time Warner Cable, effectively no longer permitting Charter to serve
customers in New York State. The commission's ruling is based on assertions that Charter failed to
comply with several conditions required by the commission in the 2016 merger on grounds that the
cable provider failed to meet deadlines, attempted to skirt obligations to provide service to rural
communities and utilized unsafe field practices. Charter, as with its predecessor Time Warner, had [264]
been the lone cable provider and default Internet service provider for the vast majority of the state
since Time Warner took over the assets of Adelphia Communications in 2004; only a few small
pockets in Cattaraugus and Cayuga Counties, along with portions of the New York City
metropolitan area (where Altice USA is the default provider), have a provider other than Charter.
27 Charter will be required to continue uninterrupted operations for 60 days until the state transitions
to a replacement provider and pay $3 million in penalties.
In a report for The New Yorker by Ronan Farrow, Les Moonves is accused of sexual misconduct by
six women. Farrow, who had also written on the Harvey Weinstein sexual abuse allegations, details
accounts by the women of the CBS Corporation president and CEO attempting to kiss and
inappropriately touch them. One of the accusers, actress Illeana Douglas, said Moonves was
hostile towards her after she rejected him. The board of directors at CBS announced that it will [265]
launch an investigation into Moonves' alleged behavior. The news comes as Moonves is embroiled
in a dispute with CBS and Viacom vice chair Shari Redstone over her wishes to recombine the two
companies. Redstone denies she is behind the allegations, but calls for the investigation to be
"thorough, open and transparent."
Hearst Television announces it will purchase CW affiliate WPXT/Portland, Maine (which also
carries subchannel-only affiliations with MeTV, MyNetworkTV, Escape and Laff) from Ironwood
30 Communications for $3.35 million. The purchase, creates a legal duopoly with ABC affiliate [266]
WMTW/Poland Spring, and is the sixth Hearst CW affiliate. The sale closes on September 21, with
the station picking up a 10 p.m. newscast from WMTW only three days later.
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Date Event Source
Mobile, Alabama-based law firm Clay, Massey & Associates (by way of legal representative Robins
Kaplan LLP) files a class action antitrust lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of
Illinois against Sinclair Broadcast Group, Tribune Media, Gray Television, Hearst Communications,
Nexstar Media Group and Tegna Inc., alleging that the six groups coordinated to artificially inflate
advertising prices and reduce competition for advertising sales in the broadcasting market. The suit
1 comes days after reports surfaced that the Justice Department is investigating whether
communications between advertising staff at the television station groups identified in the lawsuit [267]
violated antitrust laws. The suit comes three days after Little Rock-based lawyer Peter Miller (via
the firm of Kessler Topaz Melzer and Check) filed another class action suit against Sinclair and
Tribune in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland on the same allegations levied in the
Clay, Massey & Associates suit.
In a press release formally announcing its $2.25-million purchase of CW affiliate WHDF/Florence–
Huntsville from Lockwood Broadcast Group, Nexstar Media Group also announces it will acquire
Fox affiliate KRBK/Springfield, Missouri from Koplar Communications for $16.45 million. The
transaction – which will create a virtual triopoly with MyNetworkTV affiliate KOZL-TV, which
ironically lost the Fox affiliation to KRBK during a 2011 reverse compensation dispute between Fox
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and Nexstar that also involved three Indiana-based stations, and Mission Broadcasting-owned CBS [268]
affiliate KOLR-TV – includes a local marketing agreement (which took effect the day prior) that will
see Nexstar assume KRBK's operations. The move marks Koplar's second exit from television; the
company signed on KRBK (then a MyNetworkTV affiliate) in August 2009, twelve years after it sold
KPLR-TV/St. Louis to ACME Communications.
In what was cited as various violations of company terms of service policies, podcast, video and
live streaming content from conservative talk show host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his
InfoWars platforms are removed by YouTube, the Apple Podcasts directory, Facebook and Spotify.
Spotify and Apple Podcasts remove audio content from their directories, followed by Facebook
removing four of Jones' pages, and then YouTube removing several InfoWars channels, with 2.4 [269]
3-6
million followers. Both latter companies had already temporarily suspended InfoWars since late
July. Genesis Communications Network (which syndicates Jones' radio program) continues to
maintain podcast feeds on their own, with Jones continuing to self-host his other content. Apple
then follows up on September 7 with a removal of the InfoWars app from the iTunes Store, a day
after Jones and InfoWars are permanently removed from Twitter and Periscope.
After an all-out bidding war that included an offer from Lance Bass, the Los Angeles home that was
7 featured in The Brady Bunch television series and franchises is acquired by HGTV, which plans to [270]
restore the house to its original 1970s design.
Laura Ingraham once again sparks controversy on her Fox News program The Ingraham Angle,
this time during a segment regarding immigration and the increasing diversity in America, telling
viewers “In some parts of the country, it does seem like the America we know and love don’t exist
anymore,” and added “Massive demographic changes have been foisted upon the American
people. And they’re changes that none of us ever voted for and most of us don’t like... Much of
8 this,” she added, “is related to both illegal and in some cases legal immigration that, of course, [271]
progressives love.” Ingraham was referring to claims that minorities and especially immigrants
would be the majority while Caucasians would soon be a minority based on research and data,
leading to claims from media critics and politicians that her segment was filled with code words and
dog whistles that sounded bias and to support claims from Alt-Right and Nationalist groups, which
Ingraham later dismisses by contradicting the statements made during the program.
9 Tribune Media announces it is withdrawing its approval to merge with Sinclair Broadcast Group, to
which it agreed to sell its television, radio and other associated properties for $3.8 million in May
2017. Tribune also announces that it has filed a lawsuit against Sinclair in the Delaware Chancery
Court alleging breach of contract, seeking at least $1 billion in damages “for all losses incurred as a
result of Sinclair’s material breaches of the merger agreement.” The suit alleges that Sinclair [272]
engaged in "unnecessarily aggressive and protracted negotiations" with the FCC and the
Department of Justice over the deal's regulatory issues, refused to sell stations in markets where
Sinclair already had properties (although it did agree to sell a combined 17 Tribune- and Sinclair-
managed stations to Fox Television Stations and Standard General), and proposed divestitures and
sales to parties with ties to Sinclair executive chair David D. Smith (those of WGN-TV/Chicago to
Maryland auto dealer Steven Fader, KDAF/Dallas–Fort Worth and KIAH/Houston [and initially,
WPIX/New York City] to Cunningham Broadcasting, and KZJO/Seattle, KMYU/St. George, Utah
and KAUT-TV/Oklahoma City to Howard Stirk Holdings) that either were directly or faced likelihood
of being rejected in order to maintain control over stations it was required to sell. The move comes
after the FCC voted in July to send the merger application for review by an administrative law
judge, alleging that Sinclair misrepresented or omitted material facts in its applications (including
 those involving Fader and Cunningham) in order to circumvent FCC ownership rules. Tribune also
canceled the corresponding sale of stations to Fox Television Stations without penalty to Fox (who
had renewed the affiliations of six Tribune Fox stations three days before to assure those stations
of remaining with the network), with the possibility of selling those stations in the future; later that
day, Sinclair filed to rescind its applications for the merger. (The status of the proposed sales to
Standard General remain unknown.)
In reporting the death of Aretha Franklin at age 76, Fox News runs a graphic which has Patti
16 LaBelle in the background instead of Franklin. Fox says the image should have shown the two [273]
performing together, however "Ms. Franklin was obscured in that process, which we deeply regret."
Fox Sports 1's broadcast of a Major League Soccer match between D.C. United and the New
England Revolution features an on-air broadcast team of Lisa Byington (play-by-play), Danielle
19 Slaton (color analysis), and Katie Witham (sideline reports). The trio is believed to be the first all- [274]
female team to call a game in one of the 5 major U.S. men's sports leagues (MLS, NFL, NBA, NHL,
and Major League Baseball).
The 2018 MTV Video Music Awards airs on MTV and its sister networks. The event marks the first
time that there wasn't a host for this live telecast. The event of course also bought controversy as
usual, especially with Minaj calling out Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish for making a dig at Fifth
Harmony members (in particular Cabello), while Madonna's tribute to fellow Detroiter Aretha
Franklin draws backlash over her speech that had limited mention of Franklin and focused on [275]
Madonna's journey into the music business (she later revealed that she was originally slated to
present the "Video of the Year" award, only to be asked to do a tribute hours before the broadcast)
and her African-inspired outfit the former wore during the broadcast.
Gray Television announces it has entered into agreements to sell television stations in eight
markets to alleviate ownership conflicts concerning its merger with Raycom Media in deals worth a
combined $235.5 million. Lockwood Broadcast Group reached an agreement to purchase Raycom-
owned Fox affiliates WTNZ/Knoxville (where Gray will retain CBS affiliate WVLT-TV and CW
affiliate WBXX-TV), WFXG/Augusta, Georgia (where Gray will retain CBS affiliate WRDW-TV and
NBC affiliate WAGT-CD), WPGX/Panama City, Florida (where Gray will retain NBC affiliate WJHG-
20 TV and CBS affiliate WECP-LD) and WDFX-TV/Dothan, Alabama (where Gray will retain CBS
affiliate WTVY and NBC affiliate WRGX-LD). The E. W. Scripps Company agreed to purchase ABC
affiliate KXXV-TV/Waco, Texas and satellite station KRHD-CD/Bryan (where Gray will retain CBS
affiliate KWTX-TV and semi-satellite KBTX-TV) and WTXL-TV/Tallahassee (where Gray will retain [276]
CBS affiliate WCTV and Retro Television Network affiliate WFXU). Tegna also agreed to purchase
CBS affiliate WTOL-TV/Toledo (where Gray will acquire ABC affiliate WTVG; the sale to Tegna
likely includes rights to an existing shared services agreement with American Spirit Media-owned
Fox affiliate WUPW) and NBC affiliate KWES-TV/Odessa-Midland (where Gray will retain CBS
affiliate KOSA-TV). The move follows Gray's August 16, announcement that it would sell CBS
affiliate WSWG/Albany, Georgia to Marquee Broadcasting (which would form a duopoly with
independent station WSST-TV/Cordele, to which Marquee is seeking FCC approval of its June
purchase of WSST from Sunbelt-South Telecommunications).
ESPN updates their BottomLine news ticker to a two-pane design with permanent space to the
right for promotional announcements and programming notes, replacing the one-line version [277]
utilized since June 22, 2014. The text of the ticker remains within the 16:9 safe area.
Draper Media announces it has agreed to purchase NBC affiliate WRDE-LD/Rehoboth Beach,
Delaware (also serving Salisbury, Maryland) from SagamoreHill Broadcasting for $15,600,000. The
purchase, which includes the construction permit for proposed WRDE translator WRUE-
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LD/Salisbury and is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2018 subject to FCC approval, would
create a triopoly with primary CBS/subchannel-only Fox affiliate WBOC-TV and low-power
Telemundo affiliate WBOC-LD.
ESPN reiterates its longstanding policy of not carrying The Star-Spangled Banner and its
ceremonies preceding its weekly telecasts of NFL Monday Night Football outside of weeks where
news coverage deems it appropriate to do so, to renewed criticism from President Donald Trump
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ongoing from the previous two seasons. The NFL's other three carrying networks (CBS, Fox, and
NBC) later state they will have the same carriage policy for the anthem ceremony during the
upcoming season.
28 The Central Texas College Board of Trustees votes to grant the reassignment of the license of PBS
member station KNCT/Belton–Waco, Texas to Gray Television for $375,000. The deal – which was [280]
possible due to its UHF channel 38 allocation being one of a small number of PBS stations that
transmit on a frequency not reserved for noncommercial use – would create a duopoly with Waco
CBS affiliate KWTX-TV. The college trustee board voted in February 27 to wind down the
 operations of KNCT, which is set to cease operating as a PBS station at midnight on August 31,
citing the $4.4-million cost that CTC would have had to invest in order to relocate the station's
broadcast spectrum as part of the FCC's spectrum repacking process. (See the "Station closures"
section for more details.)
During a live broadcast that was taking place at the scene of a recent overnight shooting that left a
victim dead, KRDO-TV/Colorado Springs reporter Krystal Story and photographer Pete Miller are
almost run over by a driver within inches, eventually crashing into the ABC affiliate's vehicle. The [281]
driver was arrested by Colorado Springs Police, who determined the incident to be accidental and
unrelated to the crime scene.
CBS affiliate WWTV/Cadillac, Michigan and satellite WWUP-TV/Sault Ste. Marie are knocked off
the air following a fire that destroyed the station's transmitter building (near its former studio facility
near Tustin) shortly after 11:00 p.m. Thursday, which resulted in fire department crews having to
raze much of the building to fight the blaze. The fire mostly did not affect Fox-affiliated SSA partner
WFQX-TV and its Vanderbilt-licensed satellite WFUP (which is operated under a shared services
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agreement between Cadillac Telecasting and WWTV/WWUP owner Heritage Broadcasting Group),
though its own DT2 simulcasts on WWTV/WWUP were also taken down. WWTV/WWUP's
newscasts were temporarily streamed exclusively online until it was able to restore the signals to
Spectrum systems in Michigan's northern Lower and eastern Upper Peninsulas the following
afternoon, followed by DirecTV and Dish several hours later.

September
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Big Ten Network indefinitely suspends college football analyst Braylon Edwards for violating the
sports cable network's social media policy, after the former Michigan Wolverines receiver tweeted
harsh criticism at Wolverines center Cesar Ruiz, quarterback Shea Patterson and head coach Jim
Harbaugh for their performances in the team's 24–17 loss to the Notre Dame Fighting Irish two
days earlier on September 1. BTN representatives did not elaborate on the reasoning for
3 Edwards's suspension; however, Edwards criticized the parties in the since-deleted tweet, saying [283]
“Ruiz is weak, line is weak, [S]hea is scared, fucking Michigan offense is so predictable …
Michigan football is sadly one thing … Trash,” Edwards apologized to Harbaugh, Patterson and
Ruiz, but "still agree[s] with the overall message" of the comments. In a statement, Harbaugh said
that “if somebody wants to attack character of anybody on the ball club, come after me — not the
youngsters.”
Charles Dolan (founder and former CEO of the cable provider), wife Helen Dolan and sons James
Dolan (former CEO of the provider) and Patrick Dolan (former president and current senior network
advisor for the regional news channels) file a lawsuit against Altice in the Delaware Chancery
Court, alleging that the company violated its 2015 merger agreement to acquire Cablevision
Systems Corporation on grounds that the since-renamed Altice USA unit committed fraud for
allegedly starving the News 12 Networks of resources (including laying off dozens of employees
4 and planning to lay off longtime News 12 anchor Colleen McVey under ageism allegations because [284]
executives allegedly wanted a “fresh look” for its on-air talent). The complaint states that Altice
agreed to operate News 12 (which serves the outer boroughs of New York City as well as New
Jersey and Connecticut) through the end of 2020, maintain a staff of 462 and incur cumulative
losses of up to $60 million (which the suit also states fell below that target). Altice representatives
stated that the lawsuit is "completely without merit" and that the company would "vigorously"
defend itself.
34-year-old Michael Chadwick Fry crashes a silver Dodge Ram twice into the studios of Fox
Television Stations's Dallas–Fort Worth duopoly of Fox O&O KDFW and MyNetworkTV O&O KDFI
around 6:12 a.m. Fry – whose actions, according to Senior Corporal Debra Webb of the Dallas
Police Department's media relations unit, appeared not to be connected to any animosity toward
the media, noting that he was apparently upset over a 2012 officer-involved shooting in a
neighboring county – subsequently exited the truck while entering into a rant about treason,
shattered the floor-to-ceiling windows on the building's front and placed boxes of papers containing
rambling notes next to a side door (some of which were also strewn across the sidewalk and street
adjacent to the building). Bomb squad crews temporarily evacuated most of KDFW–KDFI's [285]
employees from the downtown building to investigate a suspicious bag that the suspect left behind,
although some employees remained in a secure part of the building to allow KDFW to provide
coverage of the story during its morning newscast Good Day (the station does not maintain a
streetside on-air studio, thus the crash was into empty offices). Fry – who has a criminal record that
includes prior arrests for assault, disorderly conduct, public intoxication and burglary – was taken to
5 a hospital for a medical evaluation, and was subsequently transferred to the Denton County Jail on
a criminal mischief charge.
Roy Moore files a defamation lawsuit against Sacha Baron Cohen, Showtime and its parent
company CBS Corporation, seeking $95 million in damages on claims he was tricked into
appearing on and “suffered extreme emotional distress” by being “falsely portrayed, mocked and
defamed as a sex offender and pedophile” on Who Is America?. In the segment (originally aired on
July 15), Cohen – as Gen. Erran Morad, one of his characters in the satire series – talks to Moore
about "Israel-developed" technology that detects sex offenders and then scans the device over
Moore, causing it to beep (it was actually a simple metal detector being activated by Moore's [286]
wristwatch). During his failed 2017 bid for the Alabama U.S. Senate seat formerly held by fellow
Republican and current Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Moore – who was in his 30s at the time of
the alleged incidents – was accused by several women of inappropriate sexual contact with them
while they were teenagers during the 1970s. Moore claims in the suit that he was told he would
appear on an Israeli television program, during which he would be awarded for his support of
Israel.
Fox Sports Detroit suspends Detroit Tigers play-by-play announcer Mario Impemba and color
commentator Rod Allen for the remainder of the season after an alleged physical altercation that
occurred on September 4, in which Allen reportedly placed Impemba in a choke hold at Chicago's
Guaranteed Rate Field after a game they called between the Tigers and the Chicago White Sox, a [287]
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claim Allen's agent has denied. Backup announcers Matt Shepard and Kirk Gibson replaced them
for the rest of the season. It was later announced that Impemba and Allen's contracts (which
expired this year) were not renewed for future seasons, ending their 16 years together as
broadcast partners.
7 Host Heidi Klum, mentor Tim Gunn and judge Zac Posen announce that they will leave Project [288]
Runway (which is in the midst of returning to Bravo, the show's original carrier from 2004 to 2008,
after an 11-season stint on Lifetime). Klum and Gunn, who had been part of the show since its
inception, leave to develop a new reality series at Amazon Video, with no further details being
revealed; Posen, who announced he would leave the show hours after the departures of Klum and
Gunn were announced, departs after six seasons on the show.
CBS Corporation announces the departure of president and chief executive officer Les Moonves
"effective immediately" as The New Yorker publishes more allegations of sexual misconduct in
addition to what Ronan Farrow had reported for the magazine one month earlier. Chief operating
officer Joseph Ianniello will take on the role of president/CEO in the interim, while the board looks
9 for a successor. A separate settlement reached by National Amusements concurrently with [289]
Moonves's departure saw the corporate parent of CBS Corporation and Viacom agree to defer a
proposed merger between the two companies for at least two years after the date of the settlement.
On December 17, the corporation announces that Moonves would not receive a $120 million
severance package that his contract allowed, citing ample cause for his firing.
Amid the onset of Hurricane Florence, employees at ABC affiliate WCTI-TV/Greenville–New Bern,
North Carolina were forced to evacuate its studio facility as wind-driven storm surge resulted in
water from the Neuse River flooding eastern portions of New Bern (the WCTI-TV studios are
located two blocks from the Neuse, upriver from downtown New Bern). Photos released on station
social media accounts on the morning of show of September 14ed control rooms and production [290]
studios had been inundated with a few inches of river water. WCTI switched to a simulcast of
hurricane coverage from fellow ABC affiliate WPDE-TV/Florence, South Carolina (both stations are
owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group), until the former's staff were able to relocate to WPDE's
Conway studios in order to resume local coverage of Florence.
13 Gray Television announces it had reached an agreement to acquire SonLife Broadcasting Network
affiliate KNHL/Hastings, Nebraska from Legacy Broadcasting for $475,000. Under the terms of the
deal, which was originally agreed to on May 21, Gray plans to convert the station into a satellite of
NBC affiliate KSNB-TV/Superior. Gray had sold KNHL – then KHAS-TV, which had been the NBC
affiliate for the Hastings–Lincoln–Kearney–Grand Island market from its sign-on in January 1956 – [291]
to Legacy in August 2014, after scuttling a plan to sell the license to Excalibur Broadcasting and
operate it under a local marketing agreement amid heightened FCC scrutiny of LMAs; Gray
consequently transferred KHAS's intellectual unit to KSNB and a subchannel of CBS affiliate
KOLN/KGIN that June. In connection with the sale, Gray also began leasing KNHL's DT3
subchannel to simulcast the group's Lincoln-based CW Plus affiliate KCWH-LD on September 1.
During The Weather Channel's coverage of Hurricane Florence, two men are seen casually
walking behind Mike Seidel while the meteorologist is bracing his feet against the wind, leading to
accusations on Twitter that Seidel had exaggerated the severity of the winds. In response, The [292]
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Weather Channel stated, "It’s important to note that the two individuals in the background are
walking on concrete, and Mike Seidel is trying to maintain his footing on wet grass, after reporting
on-air until 1:00 a.m. ET this morning and is undoubtedly exhausted."
Julie Chen officially steps down as moderator of The Talk effective immediately, eight days after her
husband Les Moonves departed as CBS Corporation CEO amid multiple allegations of sexual
assault and harassment. Chen – who has co-hosted the CBS daytime talk show since its debut in
October 2010 – had been absent from the program for the first week of its ninth season, which
began on September 10; she addressed her decision to leave through a videotaped message to
viewers on the following day's (September 18) broadcast. It had been speculated that Chen may [293]
not return to The Talk (which has discussed sexual harassment and assault allegations against
various high-profile men in its opening topical segment several times over the past year) due to the
allegations against Moonves as well as criticism she faced for publicly standing by him by referring
to herself by her legal married name, Julie Chen Moonves, starting at the end of the September 13
17 eviction episode of Big Brother, on which she is expected to continue as host until Fall 2019.
The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards air on NBC hosted by Weekend Update anchors Colin Jost and
Michael Che. Game of Thrones wins Outstanding Drama, while The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel wins
five awards, including Outstanding Comedy Series, and Outstanding Lead Actress and Supporting
Actress in a Comedy Series for Rachel Brosnahan and Alex Borstein respectively. The HBO series
Barry wins Outstanding Lead and Supporting Actor for Bill Hader and Henry Winkler respectively. [294]
Highlights include a “Reparation Emmys” pre-taped sketch where Emmys are handed out to black
actors of past beloved shows, a full tribute to Betty White, and a mid-speech marriage proposal
from Outstanding Directing for a Variety Special winner Glenn Weiss, who had won for directing the
90th Academy Awards, to girlfriend Jan Svdesen.
24 At age 92, James Lipton steps down as host of Inside the Actors Studio. When the show completes [295]
 its move to Ovation from Bravo, where it had aired since 1994, the show will have a series of
rotating guest hosts.
Bill Cosby is sentenced to three to ten years in prison for his three counts of aggravated indecent
25 assault. Earlier that day, the Television Critics Association rescinded their Career Achievement [296]
Award they had awarded him in 2002.
HBO Sports executive vice president Peter Nelson announces that the premium service will be
"pivoting away" from carrying live boxing matches after 45 years. Its final scheduled televised
match will air on October 27, with a middleweight title fight between Daniel Jacobs and Serhiy
Derevyanchenko being held at Madison Square Garden. Nelson cited audience research
suggesting that boxing is "no longer a determinant factor for HBO subscribers," with HBO's boxing
telecasts having averaged around 820,000 viewers during 2018 (encompassing approximately 2% [297]
of its 40 million subscribers); the move also comes as the quality of the fights offered by HBO has
declined due to increased competition from outlets such as Showtime and ESPN, along with the
recent U.S. launch of sports streaming service DAZN (which has a broadcast agreement with
Matchroom Boxing). Of its boxing analysts and commentators (which include Max Kellerman,
Harold Lederman, Andre Ward and Roy Jones Jr.), only longtime play-by-play announcer Jim
27 Lampley will remain employed with HBO.
Fox News Channel fires conservative contributor and radio host Kevin Jackson after he made a
series of tweets regarding the credibility of Christine Blasey Ford, who on this day was giving
testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee about being sexually assaulted by Supreme Court
nominee Brett Kavanaugh when they were teenagers, of which Kavanaugh has repeatedly denied,
as well as claims from two more women whose story matches that of Ford's. The since-deleted
(but saved by several social media platforms) messages had Jackson constantly making offending [298]
remarks while Ford was on television as she gave her detail of the events. The live broadcast
hearings from both Ford and Kavanaugh also bought in 20.4 million viewers based on overnight
ratings from the major broadcast networks (led by ABC with 3.26 million) and cable news outlets
(with Fox News leading the entire day at 5.66 million), while CNN had its biggest day of 2018 and
its sixth biggest day of all-time for live streaming with 8.2 million live starts on its website and apps.
The 44th season of Saturday Night Live premieres with Adam Driver as the host and Kanye West
as musical guest. Notable moments include a re-enactment of the Brett Kavanaugh testimony from
two days earlier with Matt Damon portraying the Supreme Court nominee in a cameo appearance,
and a rant by West in support of President Donald Trump. In the speech, which did not air because
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it occurred after the show signed off, West said he was harassed by SNL personnel for wearing a
red "Make America Great Again" hat, a claim refuted by a source to People who said the program
had been very accommodating to the musician in the week leading up to air, and was caught off
guard by the remarks.

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Coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the 1993 comedy horror fantasy film Hocus Pocus (whose
original cast from the movie will celebrate its 25th anniversary in a special to air on October 20), the
Disney-owned cable channel Freeform launches its Halloween programming block 31 Nights of
Halloween, which, for the first time since the channel commenced Halloween programming, will air
1–31 throughout the whole month of October. Launched as 13 Nights of Halloween in 1998 on [300]
predecessor Fox Family (and carried over after the channel's subsequent relaunch as ABC Family)
following the success of 25 Days of Christmas two years prior, the annual programming block
broadcasts horror films and Halloween-based programming, which lasted from October 19 until
Halloween night, covering the thirteen days before the holiday.
Viacom names Brian Robbins as the new president of Nickelodeon, succeeding Cyma Zarghami,
having most recently worked with the network while at Paramount Players. Robbins – who began
his career as an actor (most notably, playing the role of Eric Mardian in the 1986–91 ABC sitcom
Head of the Class), before transitioning into television and film production in the early 1990s – is [301]
mostly known for his production partnership with Michael Tollin and their considerable output for
both Nickelodeon and The WB/The CW (which included such series as All That, Kenan & Kel, The
Amanda Show, Smallville, What I Like About You and One Tree Hill).
1 Altice USA's contract to carry services owned by 21st Century Fox on Optimum and Suddenlink
expired on that date. The carriage dispute involved Fox owned-and-operated stations WNYW/New
York City, WTXF-TV/Philadelphia, KSAZ-TV/Phoenix, and KRIV/Houston, as well as MyNetworkTV
O&Os WWOR-TV/New York City, KUTP/Phoenix, and KTXH/Houston and cable channels FX, [302]
FXX, FXM, Fox Sports 1, Fox Sports 2, Fox Deportes, National Geographic Channel, and Nat Geo
Wild. A new carriage agreement was reached between Fox and Altice four days later; in the
interim, the channels remained available to Optimum and Suddenlink subscribers as Altice and Fox
continued negotiations to secure a new contract.
In an interview with the Electronic Urban Report, Damon Wayans announces that he will leave his
role as Roger Murtaugh on Lethal Weapon after production concludes on the third season's original
13-episode order in December. Wayans cited the strain of doing episode shoots lasting up to 16
hours per day due to health issues related to his diabetes, and that his role in the Fox action
dramedy hampered his personal life (noting the work schedule caused him not to be present for his
mother and daughter's recent surgeries). The move comes two weeks after former co-star Clayne
3 Crawford's character Martin Riggs was killed off in the show's season three premiere following his [303]
firing in May amid multiple on-set altercations and behind-the-scenes friction with Wayans, with
Seann William Scott joining the show as Murtaugh's new partner, Wesley Cole. Crawford had
previously explained in an August interview with the Drinkin'Bros podcast that Wayans never
wanted to do Lethal Weapon, having previously approached series production company Warner
Bros. Television CEO Peter Roth about starring in another series project before being cast in the
television adaptation of the action comedy films.
Conan O'Brien hosts his final hour-long show after 25 years across three programs, Late Night with
Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien and Conan, as the latter prepares to
transition to a less structured 30-minute format starting in January 2019. As part of the change, it [304]
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was announced that O'Brien's longtime house band Jimmy Vivino and the Basic Cable Band will no
longer appear on the program. O'Brien also announces the launch of a new website that will
contain digitally remastered episodes of all three programs.
ABC returns the TGIF programming block to its schedule thirteen years after its second run ended,
coinciding with the season premieres of returning comedies Fresh Off the Boat and Speechless
(both of which moved to that night from their respective original Tuesday and Wednesday 8:30 p.m.
[ET] timeslots), and game show Child Support. Originally running from 1989 to 2000 and again
from 2003 to 2005, the block mainly featured situation comedies aimed at a family audience [305]
(including among others, Full House, Perfect Strangers, Family Matters, Step by Step, Sabrina the
Teenage Witch and Boy Meets World), which served as a lead-in to the network's long-running
5 newsmagazine 20/20.
NBC affiliate KTTC/Rochester, Minnesota fires multimedia reporter James Bunner for violating
company policy that prohibits staff members to cover stories while wearing apparel from political
campaigns. The move came after Bunner, who had been at the Quincy Media outlet since [306]
December 2017, went on air during the station's newscast wearing a “Make America Great Again”
cap while also wearing his KTTC apparel as he was covering President Donald Trump's visit in
Rochester on October 4.
9 The 2018 American Music Awards, with YouTube Music as its first presenting sponsor which were [307]
held at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, air on ABC. Tracee Ellis Ross serves as host of the
 broadcast for the second consecutive year. It also marked the first time in the award's history that
the AMAs were held on a Tuesday. The three-hour live ceremony – which focused on several
political-related topics, including Swift and comedian-host/award presenter Billy Eichner's
messages to Americans, urging them to register and vote for the upcoming 2018 midterm elections
on November 6, and Ross wearing a "I'm a Voter" shirt during one of her hosting spiels – delivered
a 1.8 rating and 6.5 million total viewers, the lowest viewership average for the ceremony since the
2017 telecast.
Amid the landfall of Hurricane Michael, the storm – which produced Category 4 winds sustained at
155 miles per hour (249 km/h) near its eyewall at the time it moved ashore on the Florida
Panhandle coast – renders the majority, if not all, of the television stations in Panama City, Florida
inoperable due to the city's proximity to the eyewall (which made landfall near Mexico Beach,
approximately 20 miles [32 km] to the southeast) and its associated strongest winds. Gray
Television-owned NBC affiliate WJHG-TV and CBS affiliate WECP-LD were the first broadcast
10 outlets to be affected, as their studio/transmitter link tower (which also housed the main transmitter [308]
for ESPN Radio affiliate WGSX) collapsed around 12:00 p.m. CDT, and parts of the roof of their
studio facility were torn off. Nexstar Media Group-owned ABC affiliate WMBB subsequently lost its
main power and its backup generator around 12:15 p.m. CDT. (In the interim, WMBB provided live
coverage from its sister stations WFLA-TV/Tampa and WDHN/Dothan, Alabama – the latter of
which, along with Gray-owned CBS affiliate WTVY, was also knocked off-air later that day as
Michael passed over the Alabama Wiregrass – on its website and cable feed afterward.)
The CW debuts its new main Sunday prime time lineup – running from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. ET/PT –
consisting of Supergirl (which, for its fourth season, moved to that night from its original Monday
slot) and a reboot of the 1998–2006 WB series Charmed. The night was informally reclaimed the
prior Sunday (October 7), with the network's annual two-night season lead-off telecast of the
iHeartRadio Music Festival, replacing syndicated series or feature film packages, and/or local
programs (including in some cases, paid programming) that CW stations had run in the time period.
It marked the first time the network has programmed that night since it turned over its previous five- [309]
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hour Sunday timeslot (a byproduct of The CW's original adoption of co-predecessor The WB's 30-
hour weekly base schedule upon the former's 2006 launch) to its affiliates in September 2009. The
two hours of programming is in line with The CW's Monday through Friday night schedules, rather
than taking the extra hour (7:00 to 8:00 p.m. ET/PT) that the other conventional American
broadcast networks traditionally program on Sunday evenings – the first such instance of a major
network not programming that hour since a 1975 revision to the now-repealed Prime Time Access
Rule reserved it for network content – to avoid any competition with the NFL.
Sinclair Broadcast Group signs an agreement with Jukin Media to assume operational
responsibilities for its digital content-focused multicast network TBD, effective immediately. The
agreement will also result in the expansion of Jukin-supplied content on TBD's programming
lineup. The operational agreement replaces a programming content deal involving QYOU Media [310]
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that Sinclair's digital content unit, Sinclair Digital Group, agreed to terminate on September 13,
which (since the network's launch in February 2017) had seen the former supply sampler blocks of
short-form digital video content seen on its namesake international premium service The QYOU for
broadcast during TBD's daytime, evening and overnight lineups.
Caroll Spinney, the performer of Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street from its
inception in 1969, announced his retirement from the children's television program effective this [311]
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week. His final scenes in the roles will air as part of the show's landmark 50th season. Matt Vogel
and Eric Jacobson will then take over as Big Bird and Oscar respectively.
A series of suspicious packages are sent to numerous individuals that are associated with the
Democratic Party (including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton) or those with liberal views and
causes. CNN is also among the many targets that also received the packages at its New York
studios, addressed to former CIA Director John O. Brennan, who now works at NBC News and
MSNBC but has appeared as a commentator on CNN in the past, and another to former Director of
24 National Intelligence James Clapper. The Time Warner Center was evacuated, with shows based [312]
there taking their crews outdoors to broadcast. The investigation is being treated a federal crime
and has been condemned by both the media and political parties. The NYPD said the device sent
to CNN appears to be a crude pipe bomb. A third package was sent to its Atlanta headquarters
later that week. A suspect was arrested in Florida on October 26 and charged with five federal
crimes.
26 NBC cancels Megyn Kelly Today, three days after host Megyn Kelly made comments suggesting it
was acceptable for white people to dress in blackface for Halloween "as long as it was respectful [313]
and part of a Halloween costume." Kelly apologized the following day, on what would be the show's
final taping. NBC News will return to the practice of having Today anchors host in what was Kelly's
 timeslot, with it being rebranded Today Third Hour, while it determines whether she will remain with
the network.
NBC News White House correspondent Peter Alexander is named as the new co-anchor of the
Saturday edition of Today, succeeding Craig Melvin, who left the NBC morning program's Saturday
27 edition in August to focus on his work at the program's weekday edition (he was promoted as the [314]
program's news anchor on September 4) and the 11:00 a.m. (ET) edition of MSNBC's MSNBC
Live.
Fox News announces that Chris Farrell, a member of the Judicial Watch organization's board of
directors, has been banned from both their news and business channels, including their websites,
and all appearances featuring him were removed immediately. The move comes after Farrell went
on Lou Dobbs Tonight’s October 25 broadcast, where he made a claim that billionaire George [315]
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Soros was funding a "migrant caravan" that has been heading towards the Mexico–United States
border, of which Fox saw the comments as anti-Semitic, since Soros was one of the 14 individuals
who was a target of a failed bomb plot attempt the same week the segment aired (and just two
days before a mass shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Evening Post Industries announces the sale of subsidiary Cordillera Communications' fifteen
television stations, in order to focus around its newspaper properties and health care, marketing
and real estate interests. The E. W. Scripps Company will purchase fourteen stations – NBC
affiliates WLEX-TV/Lexington, KOAA-TV/Pueblo–Colorado Springs and KSBY/San Luis Obispo,
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ABC affiliate KATC/Lafayette, Louisiana; the Montana Television Network; and the Corpus Christi
virtual triopoly of NBC affiliate KRIS-TV, Telemundo affiliate K22JA-D and CBS-affiliated sister
KZTV for $521 million. Cordillera will separately sell NBC affiliate KVOA/Tucson to Quincy Media
for $70 million.
Nexstar Media Group reaches an agreement to purchase KFVE/Honolulu and satellites KGMD-
TV/Hilo and KGMV/Wailuku from MCG Capital Corporation and American Spirit Media for $6.5
million. The terms of the acquisition – which would create a duopoly with Fox affiliate KHON-TV
(which Nexstar has owned since January 2017) – include a time brokerage agreement, under
which Nexstar will assume certain managerial services to KFVE that had been provided by
30 Raycom Media, which itself will continue to provide other services not covered by the Nexstar TBA [317]
on a transitional basis. KFVE's syndicated and local programming – sans its MyNetworkTV
affiliation – will shift to a subchannel of either KHNL or KGMB, with its Bounce TV affiliation moving
from KFVE-DT2 to KGMB-DT4. The deal, which rectifies an ownership conflict related to Raycom's
pending purchase of Gray Television, is expected to receive regulatory approval in the first quarter
of 2019.
In an unexpected moment on American morning television, ABC's Good Morning America and
NBC's Today celebrate Halloween with their respective 1980s-themed costume reveal parties, [318]
where the programs' anchors and hosts dressed up as different iconic TV and movie characters
and music artists from that decade.
Quincy Media announced that it will acquire Harrisburg, Illinois-licensed ABC affiliate WSIL-TV and
Poplar Bluff, Missouri satellite KPOB-TV from Mel Wheeler, Inc. for $24.5 million. WSIL would be [319]
31 Quincy's fourth station in its home state of Illinois.
Dish Network and Sling TV drop HBO and Cinemax from their services, the first drop of any HBO
network by any provider for retransmission consent issues in HBO's 46-year history, despite HBO
asking for an extension in negotiations. Dish Network blames the blackout on HBO's purchase by [320]
AT&T, also the owner of rival DirecTV, with one Dish executive stating the move was a ploy to
"steal away customers." Both Dish and Sling provide HDNet Movies as a replacement, along with
appropriate customer credits as the dispute goes on.

November
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During a bit on Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update", cast member Pete Davidson offers
mocking commentary of Dan Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL who lost an eye in combat and won a
seat in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican from Texas the next week.
Several conservatives, including Crenshaw, took exception to the bit, with the National Republican [321]
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Congressional Committee coming back at Davidson by referencing his breakup with pop singer
Ariana Grande. Crenshaw appeared on Weekend Update the following week and Davidson
apologized to him in person and was then criticized about his breakup with Grande, and other
issues, by Crenshaw.
NBCUniversal, CNN, Fox News and Fox Business Network announce they are pulling an ad from
the Trump Campaign that focuses on the "7,000-migrant caravan" crossing Mexico that has been in
the news — and the subject of many of President Trump's tweets and rally speeches — in recent
days. The ad also spotlights Luis Bracamontes, an undocumented immigrant who was convicted of
murdering two sheriff's deputies in California in 2014, and plays a clip of him seeming to brag about
the killings: "Only thing that I regret is that I just killed two." The ad ran during NBC's Sunday Night [322]
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Football on November 4, only to receive major backlash from viewers, who saw the ad as racist,
prompting NBC to pull it from all of their platforms, including MSNBC and CNBC. The National
Football League's media committee had veto power over the offending ad, citing its policy that
prohibits “social cause/issue advocacy advertising” unless approved in advance, and the league
prohibiting advertising for guns, contraceptives, fireworks, cannabis, “male enhancement” products
and “energy drinks.”
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and The Daily Show with [323]
Trevor Noah aired special live episodes to cover the results of the midterm elections.
Nathan M. Johnson, a music composer for television programs (notably in particular the American
6 episodes and theme song for Dragon Ball Z), wins a seat in the Texas State Senate's 16th district.
Johnson, a Democrat who also holds a magna cum laude from the University of Arizona with a [324]
degree in physics, a law degree from the University of Texas at Austin, and does volunteering for
victims of domestic violence while attending college, will succeed Republican incumbent Don
Huffines in the Dallas suburban area.
On the day after the midterms, the White House revokes the press credentials of Jim Acosta hours
after a press conference in which President Trump argued with the CNN correspondent. White
House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders cited Acosta coming into contact with an intern
who tried to take the microphone from him – Acosta's arm accidentally came into contact with the
intern's while he moved to shield it from being taken – as reason for the suspension. CNN,
individual journalists and several major journalism advocacy groups denounced the move. CNN
filed a lawsuit against the Trump Administration in the United States District Court for the District of [325]
7
Columbia on November 13 to reverse the administration's decision on grounds that the decision
violated Acosta's press freedom rights under the First Amendment, due process rights under the
Fifth Amendment and the Administrative Procedure Act. Judge Timothy J. Kelly – a Trump
appointee to the D.C. District Court who presided over the case – ruled in favor of CNN on
November 16, ordering Acosta's credentials to be reinstated immediately, a ruling signaling that
CNN likely would prevail in other aspects of the case. CNN dropped the lawsuit on November 19
after the White House returned Acosta's press pass.
Authorities in Baxter County, Arkansas arrest 39-year-old Benjamin Craig Matthews on suspicion of
making 40 calls to CNN in which he allegedly harassed the network and made death threats
against at least one unidentified reporter, including multiple counts of felony terroristic threatening [326]
8
and multiple counts of misdemeanor harassing communications, of which occurred between
October 31 and November 2. Matthews is also accused of making calls to another unidentified
television network and to various public officials and organizations.
Production on several television shows and projects are put on hold due to the ongoing Woolsey
Fire that has consumed portions of Los Angeles County, California, and burned over 35,000 acres [327]
9
of land. Among the properties that became casualties of the fire includes the 91-year-old
Paramount Ranch studios and the mansion where The Bachelor is filmed.
11 With the Democrats ready to make preparations to control the United States House of [328]
Representatives in January 2019, several key members have taken to Sunday morning talk shows
to signal indications that they might look into President Donald Trump's ongoing criticisms of media
organizations and whether he is violating any laws based on his constant Twitter feeds and his on
air press conferences. The move comes in the wake of Trump's decision to revoke CNN reporter
Jim Acosta's White House credentials and his threat to remove more reporters, his opposition to
 CNN parent Time Warner's merger with AT&T, and his battle with Jeff Bezos (and his criticisms
against The Washington Post and Amazon).
The 44th People's Choice Awards airs on E! It's the first People's Choice ceremony to air on a [329]
network other than CBS, as well as the first time the ceremony airs late in the calendar year.
The 52nd Country Music Association Awards aired on ABC with Brad Paisley and Carrie [330]
14
Underwood returning as hosts.
Channing Dungey announces she will step down as president of ABC Entertainment, with Karey
Burke, head of original programming at ABC-owned Freeform, tapped to succeed her. Dungey had
16 been with ABC for 14 years, and in 2016 became the first African-American to head a broadcast [331]
network. Her departure comes ahead of ABC parent Disney's completing its acquisition of many of
21st Century Fox's cable TV and production assets.
iHeartMedia's syndicated Country music morning show host Bobby Bones and partner Sharna
19 Burgess are crowned winners of the 27th season of Dancing with the Stars. Bones is the first radio [332]
personality in the series to win the Mirrorball, and the first win for dancer Burgess.
Apollo Global Management, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, The Blackstone Group, Sinclair Broadcast
Group, Tegna Media, and Amazon have emerged as candidates interested in acquiring the 22 Fox
regional sports networks that regulators have said The Walt Disney Company must divest as part
of its acquisition of large parts of 21st Century Fox, estimated to be worth $20 billion. The sale [333]
20
would exclude YES Network, which airs New York Yankees, Brooklyn Nets, and New York City
Football Club soccer games, that could end up back under full control of the Yankees baseball
club, which owns a 20 percent stake, as the Yankees and a sovereign wealth fund have submitted
bids for the YES Network.
Liberman Broadcasting, the owners of Estrella TV and its 11 O&Os, file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy,
stating that it has outstanding funded debt obligations in the aggregate amount of approximately
$530 million. The Spanish/multicultural broadcaster's lien lender, HPS Investment Partners LLC is
21 involved in litigation with an ad hoc group of its second lien noteholders, as well as seeking [334]
approval of up to $38 million in debtor-in-possession financing. it also has issues with creditors TMI
Trust Company ($27,954,755), US Bank NA ($8,464,963), ASCAP ($1,977,292), and The A.C.
Nielsen Company (Nielsen Media Research with $1,063,095 and Nielsen Audio with $532,798).
A panel/pundit segment on Fox News is brought to an abrupt halt when Turning Point USA’s
director of Spanish engagement Anna Paulina compares 2016 Democratic presidential candidate
Hillary Clinton to herpes in a discussion about her email controversy. Hour host Rick Leventhal
quickly chastised her comment and ended her feed, continuing the conversation with only analyst [335]
Douglas Schoen. Leventhal later apologized for Paulina's comment, with fellow host Arthel Neville
also doing so, saying 'we are all Americans...and we want to reiterate that we do not condone the
language that Anna Paulina just displayed here, and we apologize to Secretary Clinton for that; Fox
News does not condone her sentiment.'
22
A same-sex kiss takes place during a broadcast of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The
moment occurred during a performance from the Broadway musical The Prom, with the lead stars
Caitlin Kinnunen and Isabelle McCalla (who play the Indiana teenagers who make headlines when
their local PTA cancelled their high school prom and they fight back against the ban because of [336]
their decision to go the prom together) embraced and kissed each other during the performance.
Meanwhile, a few musical artists – most notably, English singer Rita Ora (who performed the single
"Let You Love Me") – experienced technical difficulties during their performances on the floats,
sparking widespread criticism from viewers on social media.
Due to technical difficulties, Turner Sports's Bleacher Report Live issues refunds of $19.95, plus
state sales tax, to customers who had purchased a pay per view golf contest between Tiger Woods
and Phil Mickelson, known simply as The Match, after buyers had been unable to log on to its
23 website to watch it via that means; Turner decided to open up the paywall in response, allowing [337]
anyone to watch for free online. Turner Sports parent AT&T also issued refunds to DirecTV and U-
verse customers, as did Spectrum, Comcast, Cox Communications, and Dish Network/Sling TV
who had purchased it through cable's In Demand and DirecTV/Dish's pay per view systems.
The Rankin/Bass Productions library of holiday specials that had spent the previous 20 years on
the Family Channel and Freeform and had previously been the cornerstones of that channel's "25 [338]
26
Days of Christmas" block move to AMC, where they air as part of that channel's "Best Christmas
Ever" block.
27 Fox News Channel launches a stand-alone subscription streaming service based on its mixed [339]
user-generated content/opinion Fox Nation site, which offers political commentary and opinion
 programming aimed at Fox News "superfans" that supplements those seen on the cable network.
The service features live exclusive content and long-form programming, exclusive events and
archived Fox News programs. The first of these efforts is the daily First/Final Thoughts opinion
commentary from pundit Tomi Lahren.
CNN dismisses professor/author/activist Marc Lamont Hill as a contributor after remarks he made
during a speech before the United Nations observing the International Day of Solidarity with the
Palestinian People concerning the occupation of Palestinians by the Israeli government, in which
he said that those seeking a two-state solution to the unrest must "commit to political action, grass-
29 roots action, local action and international action [to work toward] a free Palestine from the river to [340]
the sea". CNN representatives did not provide reasoning for his firing (although it was alleged his
use of the "from the river to the sea," a phrase used by members of the militant group Hamas may
have precipitated it), which received criticism from pro-Palestinian activists, who accused the
network of caving to pressure from pro-Israeli groups.
Fox News issues an apology for comments made by musician and Trump supporter Kid Rock, who
was appearing on Fox & Friends during an interview with Steve Doocy, in which Rock made a
remark about political correctness, only to add a reference: "People need to calm down, get a little
less politically correct. And, I would say, you know, love everybody, except — I'd say screw that Joy
Behar bitch. ... I mean lady. Lady." Doocy then told Rock that line was inappropriate: "You cannot
say that... We apologize for that. Listen, she's just got a different point of view than you do." Rock
said that it was meant as a joke but after Doocy asked him to apologize, Rock's mixed response [341]
was "I did apologize for the language, not the sentiment." (The latter a reference to Behar's
criticism over his 2017 visit to the White House with Ted Nugent and Sarah Palin that included the
photo with the trio in front of a portrait of Hillary Clinton); Doocy then apologize to viewers for
Rock's tepid response: "We don't feel that way. We apologize for both." Later in the day, the hosts
of The View responded to Rock's comments, with Behar challenging Rock to come on the show
30 and have a beer with "These Bitches."
The studios of KTVA/Anchorage, Alaska suffer severe damage after major earthquakes hit the city.
Much of the damage was sustained to the CBS affiliate's news and production facilities (including
damage to ceiling tiles, piping and HVAC machinery in the newsroom, flooding from broken pipes
and malfunctioning sprinklers, and the station's tape archive (which included footage from the [342]
inaugural Iditarod in 1973) being knocked over into a pile in one storage room); one KTVA reporter
stated that portions of the facility were "absolutely destroyed." Other television and radio stations
(including NBC affiliate KTUU and the duopoly of ABC affiliate KYUR and Fox affiliate KTBY) were
also briefly knocked off the air following the quake.
21st Century Fox and the producers of the National Geographic show Cosmos: A Spacetime
Odyssey announce they are investigating sexual harassment claims against Neil deGrasse Tyson [343]
by three women.

December
Date Event Source
Tegna and Dish Network reach a multi-year carriage agreement hours after Tegna's 47 owned
and/or operated television stations were removed from the satellite provider, after it rejected Dish's
1 offer of a short-term extension to a retransmission consent agreement that expired at midnight (ET) [344]
on this date, which would have included a retroactive true-up when a new fee rate was agreed
upon.
The 2018 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show is broadcast on ABC. The 2018 edition marked the
show's move to ABC – which aired the event's inaugural network television broadcast in 2001 – [345]
2
after having aired on CBS for the previous fifteen years. 3.3 million people tune in, giving it the
lowest viewership in the fashion show's televised history to date.
Nexstar Media Group announces it will acquire Tribune Media in an all-cash deal valued at $6.4
billion, including the assumption of outstanding debt held by Tribune. The deal – which is expected
to close late in the third quarter of 2019 – would make Nexstar the largest television station
operator by total number of stations, although Nexstar intends to divest certain stations to address
conflicting properties (with stations in fifteen markets, including two where Nexstar may legally
3 retain overlapping stations not subject to FCC cross-ownership rules, being targeted for immediate [346]
divestiture to independent groups) and to comply with the 39% national ownership cap and may
also divest other "non-core" assets (likely including WGN Radio/Chicago). It will also mark the
group's entry into network ownership through the acquisition of digital multicast networks Antenna
TV and (Tribune's 50% share in) This TV, cable channels WGN America and CLTV and Tribune's
31% interest in TV Food Network LLC.
CNN evacuates the Time Warner Center during a commercial break of CNN Tonight with Don
Lemon after a bomb threat was called into the building. Lemon, along with media correspondent [347]
6
Brian Stelter and crime and justice reporter Shimon Prokupecz later continued the broadcast
outdoors.
Fox Sports announces it has acquired the rights to use John Tesh's "Roundball Rock" as its theme
for select college basketball games, beginning with a tripleheader the following day. The song is
7 best known for its use on NBC's NBA telecasts from 1990 to 2002, later adopted for Olympic [348]
basketball by NBC; this also breaks from Fox's use of themes composed by Scott Schreer for all of
its other sportscasts.
After 58 years of ownership, CBS sells its 25-acre CBS Television City property in the Fairfax
District of Los Angeles, as well as its soundstage operation and the rights to the Television City
trademark, to real estate developer Hackman Capital Partners for $750 million. The building will [349]
10
continue to produce television programs there for the next five years. CBS will continue to use the
company's 40-acre CBS Studio Center in Studio City, which is a full-service production facility with
18 sound stages and over 210,000 square feet of office space.
Pacific Life removes their advertising from Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson Tonight after
Carlson suggested during a segment he did the previous evening that mass immigration makes the
United States "dirtier", stating a disagreement with Carlson's statements. The next week saw more
advertisers (up to 16 as of December 19) ask to remove their advertising from the program as [350]
Carlson refuses to back down from the statement, with IHOP, Bowflex, Samsung, Pfizer and
14 SodaStream pulling their spots altogether. The network blames Media Matters for America,
MoveOn, and Sleeping Giants for pressuring advertisers to pull their spots from Carlson, of which
the three groups have denied any involvement in the sponsors’ decision.
Stoney Westmoreland, who plays Henry “Ham” Mack on the Disney Channel series Andi Mack, is
fired from the series due to his arrest for allegedly trying to arrange a sexual liaison with a 13-year- [351]
old boy he met online.
The Miss Universe 2018 pageant, held in Bangkok, Thailand, aired on Fox and Azteca, with Steve
16 Harvey returning as host. Catriona Gray of the Philippines is crowned the winner of this year's [352]
event.
18 Charter Communications agrees to refund a pool of $62.5 million to 700,000 customers, and [353]
provide premium channels at no charge to 2.2 million active Spectrum customers in New York
State to settle a consumer fraud lawsuit filed by the Attorney General of New York in February
2017, valued at $174 million, which represents the largest-ever payout to consumers by an
cable/Internet operator in U.S. history, turning back an attempt by the state's Public Service
Commission to revoke Charter's operating ability throughout the state entirely. This includes
refunds for customers who continued to rent out-of-date cable modems and router/modem combos
without being notified to upgrade to current-day DOCSIS 3.0+-compatible devices with better
speeds, and/or who continued to subscribe to out-of-date legacy 100 Mbit/s and lower cable
 internet services dating back to before Time Warner Cable was merged into Charter (most of the
issues dated back to before Charter's merger, including Time Warner Cable's tactics involving
interconnection payments with third-party video services such as Netflix; Charter inherited these
issues and traditionally has not had data caps and network restrictions, which they have continued
as part of their merger conditions, but had issues applying to within New York). Settlements will
include free premium services for 3–6 months, additional investments into their Internet services,
and more disclosures in its advertising about actual speeds with their services.
Alfonso Ribeiro files a lawsuit against Epic Games and Take-Two Interactive, respectively the
makers of Fortnite and NBA 2K, alleging the popular video games appropriated the dance made
famous on the 1990s series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air by Ribeiro's character Carlton Banks.
Ribeiro was also in the process of filling paperwork to have the intellectual property rights [354]
copyrighted. "The Dance (is) inextricably linked to Ribeiro's identity, celebrity and likeness," his
lawyers claim. Ribeiro, now the host of America's Funniest Home Videos, is the latest to accuse
Epic Games of stealing ideas, 2 Milly and "Backpack Kid" Russell Horning have also filed suit for
use of their dance moves.
During a radio/television simulcast of a game between the Buffalo Sabres and Anaheim Ducks on
MSG Western New York, Sabres broadcaster Rick Jeanneret suffers a medical emergency and
22 abruptly cuts out of the broadcast, leaving color commentator Rob Ray and on-site studio host [355]
Brian Duff to call play-by-play for the remainder of the game. Jeanneret is in his 47th season with
the Sabres.
The Committee to Protect Journalists is named by Times Square Alliance and Countdown [356]
31
Entertainment as this year's honored charity at the annual New Year's Eve Times Square Ball drop.

Television programs

Programs debuting in 2018

Television films and specials

These television films and specials are scheduled to premiere in 2018. The premiere dates may be changed
depending on a variety of factors.
 First aired Title Channel Source

February 16 Zombies Disney Channel [357]

February 19 Blurt! Nickelodeon [358]

March 4 Billy Graham: An Extraordinary Journey Fox [359]

March 26 The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling HBO [360]

April 1 Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert NBC [361]

April 7 Paterno HBO [362]

May 11 Meghan Markle: An American Princess Fox [363]

June 28 Alone in the Game Audience [364]

July 16 Culture Shock: Freaks and Geeks: The Documentary A&E [365]

July 29 Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis Comedy Central [366]

August 10 Freaky Friday Disney Channel [367]

August 19 The Last Sharknado: It's About Time Syfy [368]

September 9 The Bad Seed [369]

Lifetime
September [370]
No One Would Tell
16
September Disney Channel/ [371]
Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors
30 Disney XD

October 14 Harvey Birdman, Attorney General Adult Swim [372]

October 20 Hocus Pocus 25th Anniversary Halloween Bash Freeform [373]

October 22 WWE Road to Evolution USA Network [374]

October 29 A Very Wicked Halloween: Celebrating 15 Years on Broadway NBC [375]

November 4 Mickey's 90th Spectacular ABC [376]

November 10 When You Wish Upon a Pickle HBO

The Christmas Contract [377]

Lifetime
'Tis the Season: A One Tree Hill Cast Reunion [378]
November 22
Meghan's New Life: The Real Princess Diaries [379]
ABC
I'm Coming Home [380]

November 28 A Legendary Christmas with John and Chrissy [381]

NBC
Lego Jurassic World: The Secret Exhibit [382]
November 29
The Wonderful World of Disney: Magical Holiday Celebration ABC [383]

December 1 Disney Parks Presents a 25 Days of Christmas Holiday Party Disney Channel [384]

Garth: Live at Notre Dame CBS [385]

December 2
Life-Size 2 [386]
Freeform
December 10 No Sleep ‘Til Christmas [387]

December 11 Darci Lynne: My Hometown Christmas NBC [388]

December 19 New Day's WWE 2018 Pancake Powered Year End Super USA Network [389]
 Spectacular

December 28 Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Netflix [390]

Miniseries

First aired Title Channel Source

January 24 Waco Paramount Network [391]

January 30 Citizen Rose E! [392]

February 28 The Looming Tower Hulu [393]

April 8 Howards End Starz [394]

April 16 It Was Him: The Many Murders of Ed Edwards Paramount Network [395]

May 13 This is Life Live TLC [396]

Sharp Objects HBO [397]

July 8
The 2000s CNN [398]

July 30 Rest in Power: The Trayvon Martin Story Paramount Network [399]

September 21 Maniac Netflix [400]

Escape at Dannemora Showtime [401]

November 18
My Brilliant Friend HBO [402]

December 5 Border Live Discovery Channel [403]

Programs changing networks

 Show Moved from Moved to Source

Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee Crackle Netflix [404]

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Cartoon Network Boomerang [405]

Mysticons [406]
Nickelodeon Nicktoons
Welcome to the Wayne [407]

People's Choice Awards CBS E! [408]

Billboard Music Awards NBC [409]

ABC
Last Man Standing Fox [410]

ABC/ESPN (English) Fox/FS1 (English) [411]

FIFA World Cup
Univision/UDN (Spanish) Telemundo/Universo (Spanish)

Thomas & Friends PBS Kids Nickelodeon [412]

ESPN FC ESPN2 ESPN+ [413]

DuckTales [414]
Disney XD Disney Channel
Big Hero 6: The Series [415]

S. E. Cupp Unfiltered CNN HLN [416]

Winter Break: Hunter Mountain MTV MTV2 [417]

Thursday Night Football CBS/NBC Fox [47]

TV Land Paramount Network

Nobodies [418]
Paramount Network TV Land

Unreal Lifetime Hulu [419]

Safeword MTV VH1 [420]

Carpool Karaoke: The Series Apple Music Apple TV app [421]

Victoria's Secret Fashion Show CBS ABC [422]

Programs returning in 2018

The following shows will return with new episodes after being canceled, ended their run previously, or
underwent a hiatus that lasted at least one year:
 Type of Previous New/returning/same Return
Show Last aired Source
Return channel channel date
The McLaughlin [423]
2016 Revival Syndication/PBS same January 7
Group
Pax TV
Family [424]
Beat the Clock 2003 (as an adult game Universal Kids February 6
version
show)

Queer Eye 2007 Reboot Bravo Netflix February 7 [425]

Showtime at the [426]

2008 Syndication Fox
Apollo
March 1
American [427]
2012 TLC Discovery Channel
Chopper Revival

Bridezillas 2013 WEtv same March 2 [428]

American Idol 2016 Fox ABC [429]

New season March 11

Timeless 2017 and wrap-up NBC same [430]
movie
Disney
Muppet Babies 1991 Reboot CBS Channel/Disney March 23 [431]
Junior

Roseanne 1997 ABC March 27 [432]

Jersey Shore
(as Jersey Shore: 2012 Revival MTV same April 5 [433]
Family Vacation)

Trading Spaces 2008 TLC April 7 [434]

Lost in Space 1968 Reboot CBS Netflix April 13 [435]

Discovery [436]
BattleBots 2016 Revival ABC May 11
Channel/Science

Iron Chef America 2014 Food Network May 20 [437]

Arrested [438]
2013 New season Netflix same May 29
Development

FLCL 2001/2003 Adult Swim June 2 [439]

New [440]
The Staircase 2013 Sundance TV Netflix June 8
episodes

Double Dare 2000 Revival Nickelodeon same June 25 [184]

Hit the Floor 2016 New season VH1 BET July 10 [441]

Bug Juice
(as Bug Juice: My [442]
2001 Disney Channel same July 16
Adventures at
Camp)

In Search of... 2002 Revival Sci-Fi Channel History Channel July 20 [443]

The Contender 2009 Versus Epix August 24 [444]

September [445]
Billy on the Street 2017 TruTV YouTube
13
CBS same September [446]
Magnum, P.I. 1988 Reboot
24
Murphy Brown 1998 Revival September [447]
27
Last Man September [448]
2017 ABC Fox
Standing 28
October [449]
Charmed 2006 The WB The CW
14
She-Ra: Princess
of Power Reboot
November [450]
(as She-Ra and 1986 Netflix
16
the Princesses of
Power)
December
Syndication 5
(informally
returned on [451]
Deal or No Deal 2010 Revival CNBC
December 3
with NBC
holiday
special)

Milestone episodes
 Episode
Show Network Episode # Episode title Source
airdate
January [452]
Modern Family ABC 200th "Dear Beloved Family"
10
The Tonight Show Starring January [453]
NBC 800th "Sam Rockwell/Tig Notaro"
Jimmy Fallon 11
January [454]
Family Guy Fox 300th "Dog Bites Bear"
14
The Amazing World of Cartoon January [455]
200th "The Vegging"
Gumball Network 15
January [456]
The Blacklist NBC "Abraham Stern"
17
January [457]
Total Divas E! 100th "Breaking the News"
31
"Pushed-Down Coffee, and a [458]
Mom CBS February 1
Working Turn Signal"
February [459]
General Hospital ABC 14,000th "Episode 14,000"
23

Chicago P.D. NBC "Profiles" March 7 [460]

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. ABC 100th "The Real Deal" March 9 [461]

The Fosters Freeform "Just Say Yes" March 13 [462]

The Simpsons Fox 636th "Forgive and Regret" April 29 [463]

USA [464]
Chrisley Knows Best 100th "Celebrating A Chrisley Century" June 19
Network
25th [465]
Power Rangers Nickelodeon "Dimensions in Danger" August 28
anniversary
September [466]
Big Brother CBS 700th "Episode 34"
12

Shameless Showtime 100th "Do Right, Vote White!" [467]

September
"Just One of the Boyz 4 Now for 30 [468]
Bob's Burgers Fox 150th
Now"

Criminal Minds CBS 300th "300" October 3 [469]

Shark Tank ABC 200th TBA October 7 [470]

USA October [471]

WWE SmackDown 1,000th WWE SmackDown 1000
Network 16
October [472]
NCIS: New Orleans CBS "In the Blood"
23
100th
WWE October [473]
WWE 205 Live "#100"
Network 24
"Pua A'e La Ka Uwahi O Ka November [474]
Hawaii Five-0 CBS 200th
Moe" 9
100th November [475]
Black-ish ABC "Good Grief"
20
December [476]
The Flash The CW "What's Past Is Prologue"
4
Madam Secretary CBS "Family Separation: Part 1" December [477]
 23

Programs ending in 2018

 First
End date Show Channel Status Source
aired

January 4 Ghost Wars Syfy [478]

2017 Canceled
January 6 Ten Days in the Valley ABC [479]

January 9 Major Crimes TNT 2012 Ended [480]

January 12 Disjointed Netflix 2017 Canceled [481]

Cashin' In
January 13 Cavuto on Business Fox News 2002 Ended [482]

Forbes on Fox

January 14 Wisdom of the Crowd CBS [483]

2017 Canceled
January 18 Damnation USA Network [484]

January 20 Pickle and Peanut Disney XD 2015 Ended [485]

January 25 Great News NBC 2017 Canceled [486]

January 26 The Adventures of Puss in Boots Netflix 2015 Ended [487]

Valor The CW [488]

January 29 2017 Canceled
The Brave NBC [489]

February 2 K.C. Undercover Disney Channel 2015 Ended [490]

9JKL CBS 2017 [491]

February 5
Better Late Than Never NBC 2016 [492]

February 7 The Librarians TNT 2014 [493]

February 10 Bunsen Is a Beast Nicktoons [494]

2017
February 11 After Trek CBS All Access Canceled [495]

Mozart in the Jungle Amazon Video 2014 [496]

February 16 DreamWorks Dragons 2012 [497]

Everything Sucks! Netflix [498]

2018
February 23 Seven Seconds [499]

March 5 Star Wars Rebels Disney XD 2014 Ended [500]

March 6 Kevin (Probably) Saves the World ABC 2017 Canceled [501]

March 9 Love Netflix Ended [502]

2016
March 10 Falling Water USA Network Canceled [503]

March 12 Tom vs Time Facebook Watch 2018 Ended [504]

March 21 The X-Files Fox 1993 [505]

Canceled
Beyond Freeform 2017 [506]
March 22
Portlandia IFC 2011 Ended [507]

March 23 Relative Success with Tabatha Bravo 2018 Canceled [508]

March 28 The Path Hulu 2016 [509]

March 30 The Dangerous Book for Boys Amazon Video 2018 [510]

Fixer Upper HGTV 2013 Ended [511]

April 3 The Quad BET [512]

2017
The Mick Fox [513]

April 8 School of Rock Nickelodeon [514]

2016 Canceled
April 11 Hap and Leonard Sundance TV [515]

April 15 Here and Now HBO 2018 [516]

April 16 Scorpion CBS 2014 [517]

Scandal ABC 2012 Ended [518]

April 19
The Rundown with Robin Thede BET 2017 [519]

April 29 Ash vs Evil Dead Starz 2015 [520]

May 1 LA to Vegas 2018 [521]

Fox
May 6 The Last Man on Earth 2015 [522]

May 7 Kevin Can Wait CBS 2016 Canceled [523]

The Arrangement 2017 [524]

May 13 E!
The Royals 2015 [525]

May 14 Superior Donuts CBS 2017 [526]

Rise NBC 2018 [527]

May 15
New Girl Fox 2011 Ended [528]

May 16 Alex, Inc. 2018 Canceled [529]

May 18 Once Upon a Time 2011 [530]

ABC Ended
The Middle 2009 [531]
May 22
Roseanne 1988 [532]

Canceled
First-run [533]
May 23 Harry 2016
syndication

The Thundermans Nickelodeon 2013 [534]

Ended
Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia Netflix [535]
May 25 2016
The Robert Irvine Show The CW [536]

Champions NBC [537]

2018 Canceled
May 27 Deception ABC [538]

May 29 The Chris Gethard Show truTV 2011 [539]

The Americans FX 2013 Ended [540]

May 30
Famous in Love Freeform [541]
2017 Canceled
May 31 Nobodies TV Land [418]

June 6 The Fosters Freeform 2013 Ended [542]

June 7 Imposters Bravo 2017 Canceled [543]

June 8 Happening Now Fox News 2007 Ended [544]

Sense8 Netflix [545]

2015
First-run [546]
Crime Watch Daily
syndication

June 9 The Crossing ABC [547]

Canceled [548]
June 12 In Contempt BET 2018

June 15 Life Sentence The CW [549]

June 22 Luke Cage Netflix 2016 [550]

June 24 Clarence Cartoon Network 2014 [551]

Ended
Desus & Mero Viceland 2016 [552]

June 28 The Chew ABC 2011 [216]

The Opposition with Jordan Klepper Comedy Central Canceled [553]

Taken NBC 2017 [554]

June 30
Hugh Hewitt MSNBC [555]

July 4 News with Ed Schultz RT America 2016 Ended [556]

July 6 12 Monkeys Syfy 2015 [557]

July 8 I'm Dying Up Here Showtime [558]

2017
July 12 Marlon NBC [559]

July 15 The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale Netflix 2018 [560]
Canceled
July 16 Unreal Hulu [419]

July 17 Humans AMC 2015 [561]

July 18 Code Black CBS [562]

July 19 Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce Bravo 2014 Ended [563]

Living Biblically 2018 [564]

July 21 CBS
Me, Myself & I Canceled [565]
2017
July 22 Ghosted Fox [566]

July 23 Stuck in the Middle Disney Channel 2016 [567]

Ended
Young & Hungry Freeform 2014 [568]
July 25
Colony USA Network 2016 Canceled [569]

Nashville CMT 2012 Ended [570]

July 26
First-run [237]
The Jerry Springer Show 1991
syndication
Canceled [560]
July 29 The Break with Michelle Wolf Netflix
2018
July 30 Dietland AMC [571]

July 31 Casual Hulu 2015 [572]

Ended
The Originals The CW 2013 [573]
August 1
Six History 2017 Canceled [574]
August 3 Quantico ABC 2015 [575]

August 4 Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn Nickelodeon 2014 [514]

August 7 Face Off Syfy 2011 [576]

August 8 Reverie NBC [577]

2018
August 10 All About the Washingtons Netflix [578]

August 16 Detroiters Comedy Central 2017 [579]

August 19 Shades of Blue NBC 2016 Ended [580]

August 21 Love Is OWN [581]

2018
American Woman Paramount Network [582]
August 23
Trial & Error NBC 2017 [583]

August 24 SportsNation ESPN 2009 Canceled [584]

August 27 The Proposal ABC 2018 [585]

August 28 Hit the Floor BET 2013 [586]

August 29 Alone Together Freeform 2018 [587]

September 3 Adventure Time Cartoon Network 2010 Ended [588]

September 7 Iron Fist Netflix 2017 Canceled [589]

September 8 Sofia the First 2012 Ended

Disney Junior [590]
September
Mission Force One 2015
10

Shooter USA Network 2016 [591]

September
13 [592]
Take Two ABC 2018

American Vandal Netflix 2017 [593]

Canceled
KDAF-TV 2011
NewsFix KIAH 2015 [594]
September
14 WSFL-TV 2016

The First Hulu [595]

2018
Forever Amazon Video [596]

September [597]
Mysticons Nicktoons Ended
15
September Canceled [598]
Salvation CBS 2017
17
September [599]
Love Connection Fox
18
September [600]
The Good Cop Netflix 2018
21
September [601]
Outcast Cinemax 2016
28

October 1 Us & Them Sony Crackle 2018 [602]

October 2 Wrecked TBS [603]

2016
October 5 Animals HBO [604]
 October 19 Daredevil Netflix 2015 [605]

Lore Amazon Video [596]

October 24 Megyn Kelly Today NBC [606]

2017
Across America with Carol Costello
October 26 Crime & Justice with Ashleigh Banfield HLN [607]

Michaela
2016
October 31 Channel Zero Syfy [608]

November 1 One Dollar CBS All Access 2018 [609]

November 2 House of Cards Netflix 2013 Ended [610]

Patriot Amazon Video 2017 Canceled [611]

November 9
Wolf CNN [612]
2014
The Last Ship TNT Ended [613]
November 11
Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown CNN 2013 [614]

I Love You, America with Sarah [615]

November 15 Hulu 2017
Silverman

November 21 Stan Against Evil IFC 2016 [616]

Canceled
November 22 Mystery Science Theater 3000 Netflix 1988 [617]

November 23 The Romanoffs Amazon Video 2018 [618]

HBO World Championship Boxing 1973

December 8 HBO Ended [619]
Boxing After Dark 1996

December 9 Dancing with the Stars: Juniors ABC [620]

2018 Canceled
December 13 Nightflyers Syfy [621]

Voltron: Legendary Defender Ended [622]

December 14 Netflix 2016
Travelers [623]
Canceled
Murphy Brown CBS 1988 [624]
December 20
Timeless 2016 Ended [625]

December 27 I Feel Bad NBC 2018 [626]

Midnight, Texas 2017 [627]

December 28 Canceled
Z Nation Syfy 2014 [628]

Angie Tribeca TBS 2016 [629]

December 30
Your Business MSNBC 2006 Ended [630]

Entering syndication in 2018

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 Source

Black-ish [631]

Fresh Off the Boat [632]

4
Madam Secretary [633]
Yes
NCIS: New Orleans [634]

BoJack Horseman [635]

5
Chicago P.D. [636]

Networks, services, and television stations

Deaths

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Disney Channel). "Mission Force One" (originally "Miles from Tomorrowland") airs Sept. 10 at
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very soon. We're proud of our show, though, and I look forward to the day when a young kid
who watched this grows up and reboots it" (https://twitter.com/NovaTerron/status/10329972233
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