2007 in American television

In American television in 2007, notable events included television show debuts, finales, cancellations, and new channel launches.

Notable events

January

Date	Event
8	i: Independent Television debuts the national Qubo channel.
29	i: Independent Television was relaunched as ION Television.

February

Date	Event
1	NBC affiliate WNKY in Bowling Green, Kentucky signs-on WNKY-DT2 as a CBS affiliate, giving the Bowling Green market its first locally based CBS affiliate.
13	Singer Julie Roberts appeared in the game show Wheel of Fortune and along with contestant Peter Buccellato, raising $124,250 cash & prizes (including the standard $100,000 grand prize) to her charity for St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital.
23	After 8 years, Cartoon Network ends its Friday night block, Fridays. The block originally began as Cartoon Cartoon Fridays in June 1999, becoming Summer Fridays in May 2003 before being known simply as Fridays in late September of the same year.

March

Date	Event
1	NBC Universal launches Chiller, the first US cable/satellite channel devoted to horror programming.
17	Cartoon Network's Toonami commemorates its 10th anniversary.
31	Playhouse Disney rebrands with a new look; monkeys Ooh and Ahh become the official hosts of the block.

April

Date	Event
1	NBC Nightly News weekend anchor John Seigenthaler retires after 6 years.
11	MSNBC announces its simulcast of radio's Imus in the Morning would be canceled, effective immediately, after public outcry against host Don Imus' derogatory remarks about the Rutgers University women's basketball team. Imus' relationship with his show's radio distributor, CBS Radio, would be terminated later in the spring over the same incident.

May

Date	Event
1	A headend, owned by Comcast, accidentally replaces an episode of Handy Manny on the Disney Channel with footage of graphic pornography for viewers in Lincroft, New Jersey. The incident is reported to Comcast, which investigates, but no findings are announced to the public.
5	For the first time in 5 years, WNBC, NBC's New York flagship station, revives the "We're 4 New York" campaign after they return for a brief time during 2002 Winter Olympics. The song promos was stopped after the 2008 Summer Olympics in 2008 in the wake of the "Lend America" incident.
20	Fox airs the 18th-season finale of The Simpsons, "You Kent Always Say What You Want". With this episode, The Simpsons reaches the landmark 400 episode milestone.
23	On Fox, Jordin Sparks wins the 6th season of the popular singing competition American Idol; Blake Lewis is the runner up.
27	ABC's New York flagship station, WABC-TV, is knocked off the air due to a newsroom studio fire that happened minutes before its scheduled 11:00 p.m. newscast. The station briefly returned to carry an ABC West Coast flagship feed and a rebroadcast of ABC World News.

June

Date	Event
14	Trace Gallagher resigns as anchorman of Fox Report Weekend on the Fox News Channel and is replaced by Laurie Dhue. Studio B Weekend, which was also anchored by Gallagher, has already been pulled from the schedule.
15	83 year-old Bob Barker hosts The Price Is Right for the 6,727th and last time, ending his 35-year tenure on the show and a 50-year run on television. (His last ever Pricing Game was his first: Any Number.) CBS airs Barker's final episode in both its regular daytime slot and in prime time (the latter airing as a lead-in to the 34th Daytime Emmy Awards, at which two of the network's soap operas, Guiding Light and The Young and the Restless, share honors for Outstanding Drama Series).
24	Professional wrestler Chris Benoit murders his wife Nancy and son Daniel before taking his own life by hanging himself. WWE cancels Raw the following night and is replaced with a tribute to Benoit.
25	WWE replaces that day's scheduled Raw episode with a 3-hour tribute to Chris Benoit who murdered his wife and son the night before and hung himself.
25	Four Points Media Group took over LMAs of mid-sized CBS and CW affiliates.
26	In an on-air protest over trivial journalism (specifically MSNBC producers ranking Paris Hilton's release from jail ahead of developments in the Iraq War), newsreader Mika Brzezinski attempts to set fire to a news script, tears up a second, and shreds a third.
	During installation of a new satellite receiver in Illinois, the Emergency Alert System is accidentally activated at 7:35 AM CDT. An Emergency Action Notification is issued for the United States, followed by dead air. This was played on almost every television and radio station in the Chicago area and throughout large portions of the state. The signal then switched to WGN radio. Garry Meier, then the announcer for WCKG, comes on the air, not knowing what has happened.

July

Date	Event
6	Cartoon Network announces its new Friday night block, Fried Dynamite.
23	Drew Carey is announced as the new host of The Price Is Right; his first episode as host aired on October 15.

August

Date	Event
7	On the premiere episode of the CBS game show Power of 10, contestant Jamie Sadler wins $1,000,000. This was the first time that a contestant won $1,000,000 or more on the first episode of an American game show.
17	The Disney Channel's premiere showing of High School Musical 2 becomes the most-watched made-for-cable movie ever, drawing in 17.24 million viewers. A preview episode of Phineas and Ferb premieres afterwards.
30	The Big Ten Network formally launches, but its debut is marred by its failure to reach carriage agreements with Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Charter Cable, and several other smaller providers serving the conference's geographical footprint. The dispute goes unsolved for nearly a year, causing millions of fans to miss several games seen in previous years via local syndication, public broadcasting stations connected to universities, and ESPN's family of networks.

September

Date	Event
1	In one of the first football games to air on the Big Ten Network, Appalachian State University upsets the University of Michigan, 34–32, at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, the first time an NCAA Division I FCS school defeats an AP-ranked school from the Bowl subdivision.
7	The soap opera Passions airs for the final time on NBC, only to resurface on September 17 as an exclusive presentation of DirecTV's 101 Network. The cancellation leaves Days of Our Lives as the last remaining soap opera on NBC.
8	The original Live at Five aired its final news broadcast on WNBC after 25 years it was renamed.
10	Noggin, which was initially co-founded by Sesame Workshop and Nickelodeon, ends its relationship with Sesame Workshop. Play With Me Sesame, its last remaining co-produced original preschool series, already left the channel on September 2 as Nickelodeon lost the rights to air it.
	Nick Jr. received yet another rebrand. The block's bumpers encouraged preschoolers to "Play With Us" and featured the Nick Jr. logo in the form of two stuffed animals animated in stop-motion.
15	CBS' Saturday morning cartoon block, KOL Secret Slumber Party, is renamed KEWLopolis.
16	The 59th Primetime Emmy Awards ceremony airs on Fox.
21	Former CBS Evening News anchor, Dan Rather, files for bankruptcy.

October

Date	Event
1	TBS becomes exclusively a national cable network after WTBS, the Atlanta, Georgia "superstation" from which it was born, becomes an Atlanta-only TV station as WPCH-TV (Peachtree TV).
	Trinity Broadcasting Network begins airing the long-awaited God Rocks state of the art cartoon series.
	The Tube Music Network officially ceases broadcasting.
	KQET/Watsonville (the satellite of KTEH) switched programming sources from KTEH to KQED.
	Cartoon Network celebrates its 15th anniversary.
12	Wizards of Waverly Place debuts on Disney Channel.
15	Fox Business Network launches.
	Drew Carey replaces Bob Barker as the new host on The Price Is Right and airs his first show.
22	The new studio and new format of NBC Nightly News and joined MSNBC.
28	Game 4 of the World Series is broadcast on Fox. The Boston Red Sox sweep the Colorado Rockies. It was the team's second title since the "breaking the curse" in 2004 and seventh in franchise history.
29	Hulu subscription video on demand service launches.

November

Date	Event
5	The Writers Guild of America commences a strike against television and movie production studios; the strike lasts until February 2008, but not before production on TV shows are halted and networks' schedules are severely disrupted.
	Kathleen Herles leaves as the voice of Dora the Explorer for 7 years since 2000.
12	Nickelodeon airs its very first SpongeBob SquarePants TV movie, Atlantis SquarePantis, attracting 8.8 million viewers.
15	Jorja Fox appears for the last time as a regular cast member as investigator Sara Sidle on the CBS drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
19	Firebrand, a nightly television program broadcast television advertising from around the world, debuts on Ion Television.

December

Date	Event
3	ESPN's Monday Night Football telecast of the unbeaten New England Patriots and the Baltimore Ravens draws 17.52 million viewers, breaking the basic cable viewership record set earlier in the year by sister network Disney Channel's High School Musical 2.
4	The 2007 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show is broadcast on CBS. 7.4 million people tune in.
23	Ashlee Register wins the $1,720,000 jackpot, along with a banked total of $75,000, for a grand total of $1,795,000 on the ABC game show Duel. She becomes the second female contestant to win $1,000,000 or more on a game show and sets the record for the highest amount of money won on a game show by a woman.
29	After weeks of political pressure (and, to a lesser extent, acknowledging the limited reach of the NFL Network), the National Football League allows that network's broadcast of the game between the New England Patriots and New York Giants to be simulcast nationally on league broadcast partners CBS and NBC. The Patriots would win the game to become the first team in NFL history to go undefeated in a 16-game regular season. (The teams would meet again later in Super Bowl XLII, where the Giants won the NFL title and prevented the Pats from going 19–0.)
31	Nick GAS leaves the air (although it stays on Dish Network until April 23, 2009, when it is replaced by the west coast feed of Cartoon Network) and is replaced by a 24-hour version of Noggin's teen-targeted block, "The N."

Programs

Debuts

Date	Show	Network
January 1	Engaged and Underage	MTV
	High Maintenance 90210	E!
January 2	Dirt	FX
January 3	In Case of Emergency	ABC
	The Knights of Prosperity
January 7	Grease: You're the One That I Want!	NBC
	I'm from Rolling Stone	MTV
	Just Jordan	Nickelodeon
January 8	Ego Trip's The (White) Rapper Show	VH1
	I Love New York
	The Surreal Life: Fame Games
January 10	Armed & Famous	CBS
January 12	Cory in the House	Disney Channel
January 17	The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show	Comedy Central
	Maui Fever	MTV
January 20	Bam's Unholy Union
January 21	The Dresden Files	Sci Fi
January 22	E-Vet Interns	Animal Planet
	The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet	Syndication
January 23	Disney's Really Short Report	Disney Channel
January 24	Dinner: Impossible	Food Network
January 30	Wrestling Society X	MTV
February 1	Juvies
	The Sarah Silverman Program	Comedy Central
February 3	The Naked Brothers Band	Nickelodeon
February 5	Rules of Engagement	CBS
February 6	New Family	NBC
February 11	Saul of the Mole Men	Adult Swim
	Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!
February 12	America's Newsroom	Fox News Channel
February 19	El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera	Nickelodeon
February 20	100 Winners	GSN
February 21	Design Squad	PBS Kids Go!
February 23	quiznation	GSN
February 26	Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern	Travel Channel
	The Black Donnellys	NBC
	Power Rangers Operation Overdrive	Jetix (Toon Disney)
February 27	Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader?	Fox
March 2	The Wedding Bells
	Cities of the Underworld	History
March 4	Dice: Undisputed	VH1
	The Winner	Fox
March 5	The Land Before Time	Cartoon Network
March 6	Pussycat Dolls Present	The CW
March 7	IFL Battleground	MyNetworkTV
March 12	The Riches	FX
March 13	Bullrun	Spike
March 13	American Heiress	MyNetworkTV
March 14	Saints & Sinners
March 14	Halfway Home	Comedy Central
March 15	October Road	ABC
	Raines	NBC
	Andy Barker, P.I.
March 22	This American Life	Showtime
March 23	Acceptable.TV	VH1
March 27	The Great American Dream Vote	ABC
March 29	1,000 Places to See Before You Die	Travel Channel
April 1	Sons of Hollywood	A&E
	The Tudors	Showtime
April 3	Hilary Duff: This Is Now	MTV
April 5	Adventures in Hollyhood
April 6	Friday Night Premiere Thunder	Cartoon Network
April 7	Human Giant	MTV
	Nick Cannon Presents: Short Circuitz
April 9	Culture Shock	Travel Channel
	Thank God You're Here	NBC
April 10	Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Inferno 3	MTV
	Scarred
April 12	Notes from the Underbelly	ABC
April 13	Painkiller Jane	Sci Fi
	Drive	Fox
April 15	Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School	VH1
April 16	Kate Plus 8	TLC
April 21	The States	History
April 23	The Real Wedding Crashers	NBC
April 25	The Nutshack	Myx TV
May 7	Roary the Racing Car	PBS Kids Sprout
May 10	Traveler	ABC
May 12	My Friends Tigger & Pooh	Playhouse Disney
May 13	The Drinky Crow Show	Adult Swim
	Fat Guy Stuck in Internet
	Superjail!
May 18	National Bingo Night	ABC
May 21	Sprout Sharing Show	PBS Kids Sprout
May 22	On the Lot	Fox
May 25	Storm Hawks	Cartoon Network
May 28	The Ex-Wives Club	ABC
May 30	Hidden Palms	The CW
	The Next Best Thing	ABC
May 31	Pirate Master	CBS
June 1	Demons
June 3	Army Wives	Lifetime
June 4	Creature Comforts	CBS
	The 5ive	BET
June 6	The X Effect	MTV
	Passport to Latin America	Travel Channel
	Tyler Perry's House of Payne	TBS
June 7	Fast Cars and Superstars: The Gillette Young Guns Celebrity Race	ABC
June 8	Bet the House	Nick at Nite
June 9	Bindi the Jungle Girl	Discovery Kids
June 10	John from Cincinnati	HBO
June 13	Spike Guys' Choice Awards	Spike
	Lil' Bush	Comedy Central
June 17	Flight of the Conchords	HBO
	Ice Road Truckers	History
	Man Caves	DIY Network
	Meadowlands	Showtime
June 18	Age of Love	NBC
	Heartland	TNT
June 22	George of the Jungle	Cartoon Network
June 24	Friday: The Animated Series	MTV2
June 25	Wayside	Nickelodeon
June 26	Shaq's Big Challenge	ABC
June 28	Burn Notice	USA Network
June 29	Iggy Arbuckle	Cartoon Network
	The Best Years	TeenNick
July 2	Camouflage	GSN
July 8	American Body Shop	Comedy Central
July 9	Greek	ABC Family
	Take the Cake	BET
July 10	Baldwin Hills
	The Singing Bee	NBC
July 11	Code Monkeys	G4
July 12	General Hospital: Night Shift	Soapnet
July 15	Rock of Love with Bret Michaels	VH1
July 16	Victoria Beckham: Coming to America	NBC
July 17	The Bill Engvall Show	TBS
July 17	Just for Laughs Gags	ABC
July 19	Mad Men	AMC
July 20	Set for Life	ABC
July 22	The Kill Point	Spike TV
July 23	Saving Grace	TNT
July 24	Damages	FX
July 25	Diagnosis X	TLC
July 26	I Hate My 30's	VH1
	Welcome to the Parker	Bravo
August 4	Grand Slam	GSN
	Masters of Science Fiction	ABC
August 5	The Company	TNT
August 6	Fat March	ABC
August 7	LA Ink	TLC
	I-Caught	ABC
	Power of 10	CBS
August 8	The Real World: Sydney	MTV
August 10	Flash Gordon	Sci Fi
August 13	Californication	Showtime
	Newport Harbor: The Real Orange County	MTV
	Slacker Cats	ABC Family
August 17	Phineas and Ferb	Disney Channel
August 20	Star Jones	TruTV
	Yo Gabba Gabba!	Nick Jr.
August 22	Anchorwoman	Fox
August 26	As the Bell Rings	Disney Channel
August 27	Life of Ryan	MTV
August 30	Celebrity Rap Superstar
August 31	Fried Dynamite	Cartoon Network
	Tak and the Power of Juju	Nickelodeon
September 3	Super Why!	PBS Kids
	WordWorld
	WordGirl	PBS Kids Go!
September 6	Tim Gunn's Guide to Style	Bravo
September 8	iCarly	Nickelodeon
	Torchwood	BBC America
September 9	Tell Me You Love Me	HBO
September 10	Judge David Young	Syndication
	Merv Griffin's Crosswords
	The Steve Wilkos Show
	Temptation
	TMZ
September 12	Decision House	MyNetworkTV
	Most Daring	TruTV
September 14	Nashville	Fox
	Out of Jimmy's Head	Cartoon Network
September 15	Care Bears: Adventures in Care-a-lot	KEWLopolis
	Sabrina's Secret Life
September 17	K-Ville	Fox
September 19	Back to You
	Kitchen Nightmares
	Gossip Girl	The CW
	Kid Nation	CBS
	Manswers	Spike
September 22	Eon Kid	Kids' WB
	Skunk Fu!
September 23	CW Now	The CW
	Online Nation
September 24	Chuck	NBC
	Journeyman
	The Big Bang Theory	CBS
September 25	Cane
	Reaper	The CW
September 26	Bionic Woman	NBC
	Life
	Dirty Sexy Money	ABC
	Private Practice
September 27	Big Shots
September 28	Moonlight	CBS
September 29	Back at the Barnyard	Nickelodeon
October 1	Aliens in America	The CW
	Celebrity Exposé	MyNetworkTV
	Control Room Presents
	Happy Monster Band	Playhouse Disney
	God Rocks: BibleToons	Trinity Broadcasting Network
	Dr. Steve-O	USA Network
October 2	Sunday Best	BET
	Carpoolers	ABC
	Cavemen
October 3	Pushing Daisies
October 4	Last One Standing	Discovery Channel
October 5	About a Girl	TeenNick
October 6	Cash Explosion	Syndication
October 7	America's Most Smartest Model	VH1
	Edgar & Ellen	Nicktoons
	Life Is Wild	The CW
October 9	A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila	MTV
October 12	Say Yes to the Dress	TLC
	Wizards of Waverly Place	Disney Channel
	Women's Murder Club	ABC
October 13	The Future Is Wild	Discovery Family
	The Search for the Next Elvira	Fox Reality Channel
October 14	Keeping Up with the Kardashians	E!
October 15	Fox Business Morning	Fox Business Network
	Money for Breakfast
	The Salt-N-Pepa Show	VH1
	Samantha Who?	ABC
October 17	Storm Chasers	Discovery Channel
October 18	Viva Laughlin	CBS
October 19	The Next Great American Band	Fox
October 22	Kaya	MTV
October 24	Phenomenon	NBC
October 31	MonsterQuest	History
November 2	Chowder	Cartoon Network
	Orangutan Island	Animal Planet
November 3	DinoSquad	KEWLopolis
	Sushi Pack
November 4	Xavier: Renegade Angel	Adult Swim
November 5	America's Pulse with E.D. Hill	Fox News Channel
	Happening Now
November 10	Bunnytown	Playhouse Disney
December 12	Crowned: The Mother of All Pageants	The CW
December 17	Duel	ABC
	Clash of the Choirs	NBC
December 26	Transformers: Animated	Cartoon Network

Returning this year

Show	Previous network	Last aired	New network	Returning
King of the Hill	Fox	2006	Same	January 28
Ed, Edd n Eddy	Cartoon Network			April 16
Unfabulous	Nickelodeon			August 10
Cash Explosion	Syndicated Throughout Ohio	October 6

Ending this year

Date	Show	Channel	Debut	Status
January 5	The Megan Mullally Show	Syndication	2006	Cancelled
January 8	Engineering an Empire	History	2005
January 23	Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks	PBS Kids	2003
January 24	Armed & Famous	CBS	2007
January 25	The Center	BET	2003
January 30	Big Day	ABC	2006
February 2	Campus Ladies	Oxygen	2006
February 2	Masters of Horror	Showtime	2005
February 9	MXC	TNN/Spike	2003
February 10	Catscratch	Nickelodeon	2005
February 12	High Maintenance 90210	E!	2007
February 14	JoJo's Circus	Playhouse Disney	2003
February 18	Reba	The CW	2001
February 22	The O.C.	Fox	2003	Ended
February 23	Nanny 911 (returned in 2009)		2004	Cancelled
February 26	Ego Trip's The (White) Rapper Show	VH1	2007
February 28	The Greg Behrendt Show	Syndication	2006
	Justice	Fox
March 1	Cartoon Alley	Turner Classic Movies	2004
March 4	What's with Andy?	Fox Kids	2001
March 5	The Class	CBS	2006
March 6	Watch Over Me	MyNetworkTV
	Wicked Wicked Games
March 7	Maui Fever	MTV	2007
March 14	Wrestling Society X
March 18	I'm From Rolling Stone
	The Winner	Fox
March 22	Juvies	MTV
March 25	Grease: You're the One that I Want!	NBC
	The Surreal Life: Fame Games	VH1
	The George Michael Sports Machine	NBC	1980
	Rome	HBO	2005
March 26	What About Brian	ABC	2006
March 27	Two-A-Days	MTV
	Austin Stevens: Snakemaster (returned in 2009)	Discovery	2004
March 28	The Great American Dream Vote	ABC	2007
March 29	Blue's Room	Nick Jr.	2004
March 30	Celebrity Deathmatch	MTV2	1998
	Crank Yankers (returned in 2019)		2002
	Falcon Beach	ABC Family	2006
	Six Degrees	ABC
April 1	Connie the Cow	Noggin
	Miffy and Friends		2003
	Perfect Hair Forever	Adult Swim	2004
	Dice: Undisputed	VH1	2007
April 2	The Black Donnellys	NBC
April 3	Bam's Unholy Union	MTV
April 6	The Wedding Bells	Fox
	Cinematech	G4	2002
April 9	The Life and Times of Juniper Lee	Cartoon Network	2005
	Hilary Duff: This Is Now	MTV	2007
April 11	In Case of Emergency	ABC
April 13	It Takes a Thief	Discovery Channel	2005
April 14	Andy Barker, P.I.	NBC	2007
April 15	The Dresden Files	Sci Fi Channel
April 20	My GamesFever	Fox-owned MyNetworkTV stations	2006
April 22	The War at Home	Fox	2005
April 23	Drive		2007
	Adventures in Hollyhood	MTV/MTV2
April 27	Raines	NBC	2006
	Identity		2006
April 29	Sons of Hollywood	A&E	2007
May 1	The Andy Milonakis Show	MTV2	2005
May 3	Trading Spouses	Fox	2004
May 4	Cold Pizza	ESPN2	2003
May 5	Loonatics Unleashed	The CW	2005
May 8	George Lopez	ABC	2002
May 9	Road Rules	MTV	1995
May 11	Acceptable.TV	VH1	2007
	Close to Home	CBS	2005
May 13	7th Heaven	The CW	1996
May 14	All of Us		2003
	The King of Queens	CBS	1998	Ended
	Thank God You're Here	NBC	2007	Cancelled
May 15	Gilmore Girls	The CW	2000	Ended
May 16	12 oz. Mouse (returned in 2020)	Adult Swim	2005	Cancelled
	Crossing Jordan	NBC	2001
	Halfway Home	Comedy Central	2007
May 22	Veronica Mars (returned in 2019)	The CW	2004
May 24	Pimp My Ride	MTV
May 25	Hotwyred	BET	2006
	Shorty McShorts' Shorts	Disney Channel
May 28	The Real Wedding Crashers	NBC	2007
May 29	Punk'd (returned in 2012)	MTV	2003
June 8	Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide	Nickelodeon	2004
June 9	Chain Reaction (returned in 2015)	GSN	1980
June 10	The Sopranos	HBO	1999	Ended
June 13	100 Winners	GSN	2007	Cancelled
June 16	Make Way for Noddy	PBS Kids	2002
June 18	Creature Comforts	CBS	2007
June 21	The Showbiz Show with David Spade	Comedy Central	2005
June 22	Stargate SG-1	Sci Fi	1997
	National Bingo Night	ABC	2007
June 25	The Ex-Wives Club
June 28	Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip	NBC	2006
June 29	Lingo (returned in 2011)	GSN	1987
	Free Stuff	G4	2007
July 1	The Loop	Fox	2006
July 3	The Most Extreme	Animal Planet	2002
July 4	Hidden Palms	The CW	2007
July 5	Short Circuitz	MTV
July 8	Friday: The Animated Series	MTV2
July 15	Saul of the Mole Men	Adult Swim
July 16	Extreme Makeover	ABC	2002
July 17	Pirate Master	CBS	2007
July 18	American Heiress	MyNetworkTV	2007
	Saints & Sinners		2007
	Traveler	ABC	2007
July 20	Standoff	Fox	2006
July 22	Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (returned in 2018)	Adult Swim	2000
July 25	The Next Best Thing	ABC	2007
July 26	Hey Paula	Bravo
July 27	Camouflage	GSN
July 31	Shaq's Big Challenge	ABC
	Blowin' Up	MTV	2006
August 5	The Simple Life	Fox	2003
August 6	Age of Love	NBC	2007
August 7	Meadowlands	Showtime
	Morning Call	CNBC	2002
August 11	Kidnapped	NBC	2006
August 12	John from Cincinnati	HBO	2007
August 19	The Company	TNT
August 21	On the Lot	Fox
August 22	Anchorwoman
August 23	The Knights of Prosperity	ABC
August 24	Friday Night Premiere Thunder	Cartoon Network	2007
	Danny Phantom	Nickelodeon	2004
August 25	Flight 29 Down	Discovery Kids	2005
	Masters of Science Fiction	ABC	2007
August 26	The Kill Point	Spike TV
August 30	Welcome to the Parker	Bravo
August 31	Heartland	TNT
September 1	American Dragon: Jake Long	Disney Channel	2005
September 2	Play with Me Sesame	Noggin	2002
September 4	The Crocodile Hunter	Animal Planet	1996
September 7	Kim Possible	Disney Channel	2002
September 8	Dance Revolution	CBS	2006
	Grand Slam	GSN	2007
September 13	I Hate My 30's	VH1
September 16	The Dead Zone	USA Network	2002
	The 4400		2004
	Drake & Josh	Nick		Ended
September 17	American Body Shop	Comedy Central	2007	Cancelled
	Slacker Cats	ABC Family
September 18	Scarred	MTV
September 20	Dallas SWAT	A&E	2006
September 21	Nashville	Fox	2007
	Painkiller Jane	Sci-Fi Channel
September 23	The 1/2 Hour News Hour	Fox News Channel	2007
September 27	American Hot Rod	TLC/Discovery Channel	2004
	Squirrel Boy	Cartoon Network	2006
September 29	Make Me Famous, Make Me Rich	Syndication
September 30	Braves TBS Baseball	TBS	1975
October 7	American Princess	We TV	2005
October 9	I Wanna Be a Soap Star	SOAPnet	2004
October 10	Maya & Miguel	PBS Kids GO!
October 14	Fox Online	Fox News Channel	2006
	Online Nation	The CW	2007
October 18	Celebrity Rap Superstar	MTV
October 20	Fantastic Four: World's Greatest Heroes	Nicktoons	2006
October 21	Hogan Knows Best	VH1	2005
	Viva Laughlin	CBS	2007
October 29	BBQ with Bobby Flay	Food Network	2004
October 30	Queer Eye	Bravo	2003
October 31	Quiznation	GSN	2007
	PlayMania		2006
November 1	Celebrity Paranormal Project	VH1	2006
November 2	Take the Cake	BET	2007
November 9	A Haunting (returned in 2012)	Discovery Channel	2002
	The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy	Cartoon Network	2003
November 10	Code Lyoko
	That's So Raven	Disney Channel		Ended
November 11	Lucy, the Daughter of the Devil	Adult Swim	2005	Cancelled
	Tell Me You Love Me	HBO	2007
November 12	Dr. Steve-O	USA Network
November 13	Cavemen	ABC
November 14	Drawn Together	Comedy Central	2004
November 17	The Doodlebops	Playhouse Disney	2005
November 21	Phenomenon	NBC	2007
November 28	Bionic Woman
	Gerald McBoing-Boing	Cartoon Network	2005
November 30	The 5ive	BET	2007
December 12	Kid Nation	CBS
December 14	Notorious	The Biography Channel	2004
December 15	Kaya	MTV	2007
	Whose Line Is It Anyway? (returned in 2013)	ABC Family	1998
December 16	Unfabulous	Nickelodeon	2004
	America's Most Smartest Model	VH1	2007
December 17	K-Ville	Fox
December 18	Cane	CBS
December 19	Journeyman	NBC
December 20	Clash of the Choirs		2007
December 21	The Next Great American Band	Fox
December 23	A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila	MTV
December 27	Yo Momma		2006
December 30	Shorts in a Bunch	Nicktoons	2007

Shows changing networks

Show	Moved from	Moved to
American Chopper	Discovery Channel	TLC
Batman: The Animated Series	Cartoon Network	Jetix
Pinky and the Brain	Nickelodeon
Superman: The Animated Series	Kids' WB
Crank Yankers	Comedy Central	MTV2
Kenny vs. Spenny	GSN	Comedy Central
Gerald McBoing Boing	Cartoon Network	Boomerang
Marvin The Tap Dancing Horse	PBS Kids	Qubo
Elliot Moose
Law & Order: Criminal Intent	NBC	USA Network
Passions		The 101
Tim Russert	CNBC	MSNBC
Imus in the Morning	MSNBC	RFD-TV
Little Bill	Nick Jr.	Noggin
Strawberry Shortcake	Syndication	CBS
Play with Me Sesame	Noggin	PBS Kids Sprout
NFL Films Game of the Week	NFL Network	PAX TV

Made-for-TV movies and television specials

Date of airing	Title	Channel
January 12	Jump In!	Disney Channel
January 14	The Big Field Trip	Cartoon Network
February 18	Camp Lazlo: Where's Lazlo?
March 20	Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey's Great Clubhouse Hunt	Playhouse Disney
March 30	Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure
June 8	Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board	Disney Channel
June 9	Shredderman Rules	Nickelodeon
July 20	The Last Day of Summer	Nickelodeon
August 3	Really Big Shrimp
August 17	High School Musical 2	Disney Channel
October 6	Battle of the Bands	Nickelodeon
October 12	Twitches Too	Disney Channel
October 30	Roxy Hunter and the Mystery of the Moody Ghost	Nickelodeon
November 21	Ben 10: Race Against Time	Cartoon Network

Entering syndication this year

Show	Seasons	In Production	Source
Cold Case	4	Yes
Family Guy	7	Yes
George Lopez	5	No
Half & Half	4	No
Law & Order: Criminal Intent	6	Yes
Reno 911!	4	Yes
Two and a Half Men	4	Yes

Networks and services

Network launches

Network	Type	Launch date	Notes	Source
CaribeVision	Cable television	Unknown
qubo	Cable television	January 8
Ion Life	Cable television	February 19
myxTV	Cable and satellite	February 28
Chiller	Cable television	March 1
LATV	Cable television	April 23
German Kino Plus	Cable television	May 4
TuVision	Cable television	July 1
KET ED: The Education Channel	Over-the-air multicast and local cable (Kentucky)	August	Created as a merger of KET3 and KET4, KET ED provides instructional television programming tailor-made for schools and libraries, operating with the same duties as the service's predecessors KET Star Channels 703 and 704.
Discovery Familia	Cable television	August 9
Big Ten Network	Cable television	August 30
Minnesota Channel	Cable television	September 16
Smithsonian Channel	Cable television	September 26
Fox Business	Cable television	October 15
Penthouse TV	Cable television	December
Retro Jams	Cable television	December

Conversions and rebrandings

Old network name	New network name	Conversion date	Type	Notes	Source
i: Independent Television	ION Television	Cable television	January 29

Closures

Network	Type	Closure date	Notes	Source
MTV Chi	Cable television	April 30
The Tube Music Network	Cable television	October 1
Nickelodeon Games and Sports for Kids	Cable television	December 31

Television stations

Station launches

Date	City of License/Market	Station	Channel	Affiliation	Notes/Ref.
January	Alexandria, Louisiana	KALB-DT2	5.2	CBS
	Alexandria/Nashville, Tennessee	WKRP-LP	6	White Springs Television
January 12	Crockett, Texas	KTWC-LD	12	TBN
February 1	Bowling Green, Kentucky	WNKY-DT2	40.2	CBS
March	Casper, Wyoming	KPTW	6	PBS	Part of the Wyoming PBS network
March 5	Harrisonburg, Virginia	WHSV-DT3	3.3	ABC
March 16	Lubbock, Texas	KMYL-LP	14	MyNetworkTV
March 24	Columbus, Ohio	WCSN-LD		Independent
June 5	Hammond/New Orleans, Louisiana	WHMM-DT	42	Telemundo
June 13	Redding, California	K58IF	58	Azteca America
July 31	Knoxville, Tennessee	W45DF-D	45	HSN
August 21	Los Angeles, California	KBBC-TV	20	Spanish independent
September 11	Saranac Lake/Plattsburgh, New York	WCWF	40	Ion Television
September 13	Charlottesville, Virginia	WVIR-DT3	29.3	The CW Plus
September 27	Burlington, Vermont/Plattsburgh, New York	WFFF-DT2	44.2	The CW
September 30	Hannibal, Missouri (Quincy, Illinois/Keokuk, Iowa)	KHQA-DT2	7.2	ABC
October	El Centro, California	KVFA-LP	6	Independent
October 1	Marquette, Michigan	WLUC-DT2	6.2	The Tube Music Network	NBC Weather Plus
Unknown date	Cheyenne, Wyoming	KKTU-LP	40	ABC
	Ogden, Utah	KULX-LP	10	Telemundo
	Springfield, Massachusetts	WWLP-DT2	22.2	Independent	24-hour local weather channel until 2015
	Terre Haute, Indiana	WTHI-DT2	10.2
	Wheeling, West Virginia (Steubenville, Ohio)	WTRF-DT2	7.2	Fox

Network affiliation changes

Date	City of License/Market	Station	Channel	Old affiliation	New affiliation	Notes/Ref.
September 13	Charlottesville, Virginia	WVIR-DT2	29.2	The CW Plus	NBC Weather Plus	CW+ moves to DT3 subchannel
July	Marquette, Michigan	WBKP		ABC	The CW
October 1	Marquette, Michigan	WLUC-DT2	6.2	The Tube Music Network	NBC Weather Plus
November 9	Hagåtña, Guam (Agana)	K28HS	28	TBN	NBC	Became an LPTV translator of KUAM-TV
		K30HB	30
		K32GB	32
		K36GJ	36
Unknown date	Rehoboth Beach, Delaware (Dover, Delaware/Salisbury, Maryland)	WRDE-LP	59	America One	Retro Television Network (primary) MyNetworkTV (secondary)

Station closures

Date	City of license/Market	Station	Channel	Affiliation	Sign-on date	Notes
February 8	Florence, Alabama	WYLE	26	Jewelry Television Shop at Home Network	April 19, 1986

Births

Date	Name	Notability
January 19	Jackson Dollinger	Actor (Sydney to the Max)
	Lidya Jewett	Actress (WITS Academy)
January 24	Peyton Z. Basnight	Actress (Saturdays)
January 28	That Girl Lay Lay	Actress (That Girl Lay Lay)
January 31	Tex Hammond	Actor (Lincoln Loud on The Loud House (Episode 114 onwards))
February 23	Leah Mei Gold	Actress (The Casagrandes, Pretty Freekin Scary)
February 28	Scarlet Spencer	Actress (Cousins for Life)
March 4	Miya Cech	Actress (Are You Afraid of the Dark?, The Astronauts)
March 6	Lili Brennan	Actress (Drama Club)
March 10	Malachi Barton	Actor (Stuck in the Middle, Fancy Nancy)
March 25	Will Buie Jr	Actor (Bunk'd)
March 28	Luke Roessler	Actor
April 20	Terrence Little Gardenhigh	Actor (Danger Force)
April 21	Bryan Blanco	Actor (Ultra Violet & Black Scorpion)
May 1	Artyon Celestine	Actor (Drama Club)
May 21	Keith L. Williams	Actor (The Astronauts)
June 6	Aubrey Anderson-Emmons	Actress (Modern Family)
July 17	Callan Farris	Actor (Gabby Duran and the Unsittables)
July 24	Elie Samouhi	Actor (Bizaardvark)
July 28	Danielle Jalade	Actress (Saturdays)
July 31	Angelica Hale	Singer (America's Got Talent)
August 16	Seth Carr	Actor (Knight Squad)
August 22	Raphael Alejandro	Actor (Bunk'd)
August 25	Noah Cottrell	Actor (Punky Brewster)
August 27	Ariana Greenblatt	Actress (Stuck in the Middle)
August 28	August Maturo	Actor (Girl Meets World)
August 31	Jason Maybaum	Actor (Raven's Home, Blue Bloods)
September 9	Mitchell Berg	Actor (Side Hustle)
September 25	Zelia Ankrum	Actress (Ultra Violet & Black Scorpion)
October 16	Kaylin Hayman	Actress (The Mick, Just Roll with It)
November 8	Micah Abbey	Actor (Cousins for Life)
November 20	Havan Flores	Actress (Danger Force)
November 30	Kayden Grace Swan	Actress (The Astronauts)
December 4	Scarlett Estevez	Actress (Bunk'd, Ultra Violet & Black Scorpion)
December 21	Daria Johns	Actress (The Upshaws, Saturdays)
December 26	Christian J. Simon	Voice actor (Darwin on The Amazing World of Gumball (2018–present), Sydney to the Max)

Deaths

Date	Name	Age	Notability
January 8	Yvonne De Carlo	84	Actress (Lily Munster on The Munsters)
January 14	Darlene Conley	72	Actress (The Bold and the Beautiful)
January 16	Benny Parsons	65	Race car driver, TV announcer / analyst
January 22	Doug Blasdell	44	Personal trainer (Work Out)
January 30	Sidney Sheldon	89	Writer, creator (I Dream of Jeannie)
January 31	Lee Bergere	88	Actor (Dynasty)
February 8	Anna Nicole Smith	39	Model and actress (The Anna Nicole Show)
April 5	Mark St. John	51	Singer (Kiss)
April 7	Barry Nelson	89	Actor (James Bond on Climax!)
April 11	Roscoe Lee Browne	81	Actor (voice of Kingpin on Spider-Man)
May 7	Nicholas Worth	69	Actor
May 15	Jerry Falwell	73	Pastor, televangelist
May 25	Charles Nelson Reilly	76	Actor and game show panelist (The Match Game)
May 27	Gretchen Wyler	75	Actress
June 12	Don Herbert	89	Creator and host of Watch Mr. Wizard
June 21	Carlos Romero	80	Actor
June 24	Chris Benoit	40	Professional wrestler and star of ECW (WWE)
July 11	Lady Bird Johnson	94	First Lady of the United States and spouse of President Lyndon B. Johnson
July 29	Tom Snyder	71	Talk show host (Tomorrow Show)
August 28	Miyoshi Umeki	78	Japanese actress (The Courtship of Eddie's Father)
August 29	Richard Jewell	44	Man falsely accused of the Centennial Olympic Park bombing by the press
September 10	Jane Wyman	90	Actress (Falcon Crest)
September 21	Alice Ghostley	84	Actress, singer (Bewitched, Mayberry R.F.D., Designing Women)
November 14	Ronnie Burns	72	Actor (The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show)

External links

• List of 2007 American television series at IMDb