2018 in American television

The following is a list of events affecting American television in 2018. Events listed include television show debuts, finales, and cancellations; channel launches, closures, and re-brandings; stations changing or adding their network affiliations; and information about controversies and carriage disputes.

Notable events

January

Date	Event	Source
1	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 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 won't return until the end of the month (over-the-top access to the Starz website and apps was returned for the interim period).
	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 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 Atlanta-area suburbs, after the two parties failed to agree on terms to renew the stations' contract.
2	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 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.
3	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 the allegations against Chaggaris – who joined CBS in 1999, and was appointed as its senior 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.
4	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 would resume taping of the syndicated game show in mid-January, though because of the show's advanced taping schedule, his medical leave will only marginally affect 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, will instead film in March (one month before the episodes begin airing during the first week of the May sweeps period).
6	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 broadcast on ESPN and ABC. Gruden, who was hired by ESPN in May 2009 as color analyst for 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 “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 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.
8	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 25 miles within its city of license, have it staffed during normal business hours, and have capabilities for program origination.
10	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 Washington, D.C. to New York City with the promotion – will transition out of his position as 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 program succeed by Dickerson.
11	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 service Aereo (which ceased operations after a 2014 Supreme Court case that found that Aereo 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.
12	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 in five additional markets served by the cable television provider – Los Angeles, Ohio, Kentucky (likely an expansion of its existing news channel in that state), Wisconsin and Kansas City – during 2018.
18	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 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.
19	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 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.
	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 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 Night Baseball for the 2018 season, succeeding Dan Shulman and Aaron Boone respectively. 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 is scheduled to 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 Phoenix translator KEJR-LD to HC2 Holdings for $2.7 million, pending FCC approval.
26	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 remain with the network as she still has three years left on a four-year contract. Her partner Michael Smith will continue to anchor the program solo.
28	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 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. Among the winners include Kendrick Lamar (who swept the Rap/Hip-Hop category with three wins: Best Rap Performance for "Humble", Best Rap/Sung Performance for "Loyalty" featuring Rihanna, and Best Rap Album for Damn), Chris Stapleton (for Best Country Album with From A Room: Volume 1 and Best Country Solo Performance with "Either Way"), Canadian Alessia Cara for Best New Artist, Bruno Mars with six wins (of which he all swept despite social media backlash from fans of his competitors) for Record of the Year ("24K Magic"), Song of the Year, Best R&B Performance and Best R&B Song ("That's What I Like"), and Album of the Year and Best R&B Album (24K Magic), Portugal. The Man for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance ("Feel It Still"), and a posthumous win for Carrie Fisher in the Best Spoken Word Album category for ‘’The Princess Diarist'’. The performances included mostly collaborations, from Mars and Cardi B ("Finesse"), Jon Batiste with Gary Clark Jr. and Joe Saylor (Tribute to Fats Domino and Chuck Berry: "Ain't That a Shame" and "Maybellene"), Sting and Shaggy ("Englishman in New York" and "Don't Make Me Wait"), Eric Church with Maren Morris and Brothers Osborne (a Tribute to the victims of the 2017 Las Vegas shooting with "Tears in Heaven"), Kesha with Camila Cabello, Cyndi Lauper, Julia Michaels, Andra Day and Bebe Rexha ("Praying"), Stapleton and Emmylou Harris (Tribute to Tom Petty: "Wildflowers"), Logic with Cara and Khalid ("1-800-273-8255"), DJ Khaled with Rihanna and Bryson Tiller ("Wild Thoughts"), Elton John and Miley Cyrus ("Tiny Dancer") and Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee ("Despacito"). The event also included a skit that featured Snoop Dogg, Cardi B, John Legend, DJ Khaled, Cher and Hillary Clinton auditioning to do a audio book narration for the Michael Wolff bestseller Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (with Clinton winning the part). It also aired the last week of January this year due to the third night of the 2018 Winter Olympics occurring on its traditional date, the second Sunday in February.
29	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 – 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 basis), which is featured prominently on-air during the network's 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (Eastern 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-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.
30	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 done during an interview with Inside Edition the week prior, Daniels avoided directly answering or coyly dodged questions about the alleged affair, but did imply that she did not write a statement 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 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.
31	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 five-year deal, which expands the network's relationship with the NFL (it already holds rights to 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
1	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 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 agreement on retransmission fees. The dispute ended two days later on February 3, the day prior 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 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."
2	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 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.
3	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 – 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 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 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. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, aired on NBC in English and Universo in Spanish. The game – watched by an estimated 103.4 million viewers (a 7% decline from the previous year), making it the lowest-rated Super Bowl telecast since 2009's Super Bowl XLIII (which was watched 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 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 authorize the speech to be used or gave Fiat Chrysler permission to use it (FCA got the 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.
5	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.
7	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 American television reporter to regularly appear on-air wearing a hijab, with the promotion of Tahera Rahman (who joined WHBF as a newscast producer in May 2016) to the station’s reporting staff.
7–25	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 skiier 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 – instead of a time zone-based tape delay – for the first time. (NBC aired select events held earlier 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 Netherlands' dominance in speed skating (as of 13 February 2018, the country has earned 113 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 stations in the Fargo–Grand Forks market, NBC affiliate KVLY-TV and CBS affiliate KXJB-LD. Gray stated that it would 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 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.
11	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 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.
12	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. According to a statement made by the administration, “CPB funding comprises about 15% of the total amount spent on public broadcasting, with the remainder coming from non-federal sources, with many large stations raising an even greater share. [...] This private fundraising has proven durable, negating the need for continued federal subsidies.” 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 (CPB has received about $445 million in federal funding in recent years); it also suggests looking at additional alternative programming for PBS, NPR and independent non-commercial broadcasting entities that have grown substantially since CPB was 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 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.” CPB President/CEO Patricia Harrison voiced concern that the "elimination of funding to CPB would at first devastate, and then ultimately destroy public media's ability to provide early childhood content, life-saving emergency alerts, and public affairs programs,” and vowed to fight for continued funding, citing its resources and to "tell America's changing story in a way that enhances civic engagement and connects us to one another."
	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 – would result in Gray directly acquiring KGWC's intellectual unit (including programming – which would likely be merged into the spectrum of the 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 would assign a new call sign and virtual channel number for the station).
12–23	For the weeks of February 12 and February 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 morning program's coverage of the Olympics), features a live studio audience, a weekly guest disc jockey (a similar practice done by syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show), and bars (including the one with a dumbwaiter system to deliver its trademark drinks to Gifford and Bush Hager).
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 until the ESPN 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 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 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 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.
15	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 would not return in the role as Maura 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 transgendered cast member who worked as an assistant to Tambor's character on the show.
	On her Fox News Channel program The Ingraham Angle, Laura Ingraham responds to anti-Trump 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 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 would 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.
18	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 lead by “Team Lebron” and “Team Stephen” (both are Akron, Ohio natives, another first time occurrence), with the former beating the latter 148-145. However, moments before the game, it would be Fergie’s jazz-styled rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” that 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."
21	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 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.
	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 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	Speculation begins to build that Fox Television Stations would acquire five Fox-affiliated stations (WJW/Cleveland, KCPQ/Tacoma-Seattle, KTXL/Sacramento, KSTU/Salt Lake City, and KDVR/Denver; WJW, KSTU and KDVR were owned by FTS previously until 2007) and one CW affiliate (WSFL-TV/Miami) from Tribune Media, in exchange for a locked-in long-term deal that would retain affiliations on most of the 38 Fox stations that Sinclair Broadcast Group currently owns (and the remaining nine it will acquire from Tribune once its acquisition of that group is complete). The move would put WJW, KDVR, and KSTU back under Fox ownership after it spun off those stations to Local TV in 2007, and expand the group into additional NFL markets (KCPQ is in the home market of the NFC West's Seattle Seahawks, while WSFL, KDVR, and WJW are in the home markets of the AFC's Miami Dolphins, Denver Broncos, and Cleveland Browns respectively; the acquisition of KCPQ would give Fox a market that it had pursued ownership of a station in for years, including a 'safety net' 2014 purchase of KBCB/Bellingham, Washington, which was scrapped after Fox and Tribune agreed to renew the former's affiliation contract with KCPQ). In the case of WSFL, the sale could also force the Miami market's current Fox affiliate, WSVN, to possibly give up its affiliation (as well as opening the possibility that the market's CW affiliation could be transferred to network co-owner CBS's MyNetworkTV affiliate WBFS-TV if WSFL switches to Fox; the situation would be similar to the 2017 affiliation switch involving WSVN’s Boston sister station WHDH-TV, which lost converted into an independent station after station parent Sunbeam Television lost a year-long court case against NBCUniversal over the planned shift of its NBC affiliation to WBTS-LD in 2016). KDVR could also see its news partnership with current sister KWGN-TV be broken up after the sale, while KZJO may either join KCPQ under Fox or become a sister station to ABC affiliate KOMO-TV (at the expense of either integrating the program assets of or selling Univision affiliate KUNS-TV); Fox is also looking at expanding the deal to include other Sinclair- or Tribune-owned Fox affiliates as part of its plan to increase its station portfolio. Meanwhile, Sinclair announced in an FCC divestiture plan that it would spin off stations in smaller markets (with Tegna among the reported potential buyers), sell off three stations (WGN-TV/Chicago, WPIX-TV/New York City and KSWB/San Diego) to different companies that would be operated by Sinclair under an SSA, spin off overlapping and conflict stations (in Richmond, Grand Rapids-Kalamazoo-Battle Creek, Oklahoma City, Des Moines, and St. Louis), and ask for waivers (in Greensboro-Winston Salem-High Point, Indianapolis, and Harrisburg-Lancaster-York; the stations would be placed in a divestment trust if ordered to be sold off) in order to complete the merger and to comply with FCC and DOJ rules regarding station ownership.
26	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 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.
27	Fox News Channel hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity issued a apology to its viewers after it had ran 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 scripted question that he refused to use because he wanted to use his own, sparking a backlash 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.
28	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 as his Netflix hit Fuller House is renewed for its fourth season. It is expected that his name will be removed from the credits despite being the series creator and executive producer before shooting begins.

March

Date	Event	Source
4	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 back-to-back ceremonies since Billy Crystal in 1997 and 1998. As with the Grammys, the event aired outside its traditional mid-February berth to avoid conflict scheduling with the Winter 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.

Future events

April

Date	Event	Source
26–27	Fox will broadcast 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, previously a cable television exclusive, has aired on free over-the-air television. This will not affect ESPN, which will continue to produce its own coverage of the draft.

June

Date	Event	Source
14–July 15	Fox Sports and Telemundo will broadcast the 2018 FIFA World Cup respectively in English and Spanish with a mainly American-timed morning schedule of games due to its being played in Russia. The two replace previous rightsholders of the soccer tournament, ESPN/ABC and Univision, which lost the exclusive English and Spanish language telecast rights following the 2014 tournament.

October

Date	Event	Source
TBA	The CW will begin offering a prime time schedule on Sundays, marking the first time the network has programmed that night since it turned over its previous five-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 network will provide two hours of programming from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. ET/PT (replacing syndicated series or feature film packages, and/or local programs that CW stations currently run in the time period), rather than the four (for ABC, CBS and NBC) or three (for Fox) traditionally associated with Sunday evening network schedules in North America.

TBA

Date	Event	Source
TBA	Fox News Channel will launch a stand-alone subscription streaming service based on its mixed user-generated content/opinion Fox Nation site, which will offer political commentary and opinion programming aimed at Fox News "superfans" that supplements those seen on the cable network. Slated to launch in the fourth quarter of 2018, the service will feature live exclusive content and long-form programming, exclusive events and archived Fox News programs.
	The Phoenix, Arizona television market becomes the “test pad” market for the ATSC 3.0 transmission system, also known as “Next-Gen TV,” as all major English- and Spanish-language stations transition to the new system. A “lighthouse” ATSC 1.0 station will operate to minimize disruption with current over-the-air viewership.

Television programs

Programs debuting in 2018

These shows are scheduled to premiere in 2018. The premiere dates may be changed depending on a variety of factors.

First aired	Title	Channel	Source
January 1	Love & Hip Hop: Miami	VH1
January 2	LA to Vegas	Fox
January 3	9-1-1
	Grown-ish	Freeform
	WAGS Atlanta	E!
January 4	The Four: Battle For Stardom	Fox
January 5	Child Support	ABC
January 7	The Chi	Showtime
January 10	Alone Together	Freeform
January 12	Electric Dreams	Amazon Video
	My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman	Netflix
January 14	Hot Streets	Adult Swim
January 15	The Adventures of Kid Danger	Nickelodeon
January 16	Black Lightning	The CW
	The Paynes	OWN
January 17	Corporate	Comedy Central
January 19	Trolls: The Beat Goes On!	Netflix
January 21	The Resident	Fox
January 22	The Alienist	TNT
	Mosaic	HBO
January 26	Britannia	Amazon Video
February 1	A.P. Bio	NBC
February 5	Zoofari	Nickelodeon / Nick Jr.
February 7	Celebrity Big Brother	CBS
February 11	Here and Now	HBO
	Our Cartoon President	Showtime
February 13	The Bachelor Winter Games	ABC
February 16	Everything Sucks!	Netflix
February 18	The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale
February 19	Pinkalicious & Peterrific	PBS Kids
February 20	Death Row Chornicles	BET
February 23	Apple & Onion	Cartoon Network
	Seven Seconds	Netflix
February 24	Knight Squad	Nickelodeon
February 26	Final Space	TBS
	Good Girls	NBC
	Living Biblically	CBS
February 27	Unsolved	USA Network
March 3	Life Hacks for Kids: On the Road	Universal Kids
March 7	Life Sentence	The CW
March 8	Champions	NBC
March 11	Deception	ABC
March 13	For the People
	Rise	NBC
March 18	Genius Junior
	Instinct	CBS
March 21	Krypton	Syfy
March 22	Station 19	ABC
March 25	Barry	HBO
	Trust	FX
March 27	Splitting Up Together	ABC
March 28	Alex, Inc.
March 29	Siren	Freeform
March 30	Craig of the Creek	Cartoon Network
April 2	The Crossing	ABC
April 3	The Last O.G.	TBS
April 6	The Boss Baby: Back in Business	Netflix
April 30	Dancing with the Stars: All-Athletes Edition	ABC
June 7	American Woman	Paramount Network
	Cloak & Dagger	Freeform
June 20	Yellowstone	Paramount Network
Summer	Fancy Nancy	Disney Junior
	Dancing with the Stars Junior	ABC
September	Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Nickelodeon
November 21	Luna Around the World	PBS Kids
TBA	Big City Greens	Disney XD
	Space Chickens In Space
	Glitch Techs	Nickelodeon
	Pinky Malinky
	Star Falls
	Close Enough	TBS
	Disenchantment	Netflix
	The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants
	Green Eggs and Ham
	Lost in Space
	Love Alarm
	Spy Kids: Mission Critical
	The Rain
	Summer Island Camp	Cartoon Network
	The Heroic Quest of the Valiant Prince Ivandoe
	Mega Man
	DC Super Hero Girls
	Total Drama Daycare
	The Terror	AMC
	Work on Top	Showtime
	You	Lifetime
	Pose	FX
	Mayans MC
	Heathers (moved from original March 7 premiere)	Paramount Network

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
February 19	Blurt!	Nickelodeon
March 4	Billy Graham: An Extraordinary Journey	Fox
April 1	Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert!	NBC
Spring	Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling	Nickelodeon
Summer	Freaky Friday	Disney Channel
December	Life-Size 2	Freeform

Miniseries

First aired	Title	Channel	Source
January 24	Waco	Paramount Network
February 28	The Looming Tower	Hulu
Summer	Sharp Objects	HBO

Programs changing networks

Show	Moved from	Moved to	Source
Mysticons	Nickelodeon	Nicktoons
Nobodies	TV Land	Paramount Network
People's Choice Awards	CBS	E!
Billboard Music Awards	ABC	NBC
Thomas and Friends	PBS Kids	Nick Jr.
Star vs. the Forces of Evil	Disney XD	Disney Channel

Programs returning in 2018

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

Show	Last aired	Type of Return	Previous channel	New/returning/same channel	Return date	Source
The McLaughlin Group	2016	Reviva	Syndication/PBS	Same	January 7
Beat the Clock	2003	Family version	Pax TV (as adult game show)	Universal Kids	February 6
Showtime at the Apollo	2008	Revival	Syndication	Fox	March 1
American Idol	2016		Fox	ABC	March 11
Timeless	2017	New Season	NBC	same
Muppet Babies	1991	Reboot	CBS	Disney Channel/Disney Junior	March 23
Roseanne	1997	New Season	ABC	same	March 27
Trading Spaces	2008	Revival	TLC		April 7
American Chopper	2012		Discovery Channel		May 28
BattleBots	2016		ABC	Discovery Channel	Spring 2018
Murphy Brown	1998	New Season	CBS	same	Fall 2018
Arrested Development	2013		Netflix		TBA
Young Justice			Cartoon Network	TBD DC Comics streaming service
The Contender	2009	Revival	Versus	Epix
Bug Juice	2001		Disney Channel	same

Milestone episodes

Show	Network	Episode #	Episode title	Episode airdate	Source
Modern Family	ABC	200th	"Dear Beloved Family"	January 10
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	NBC	800th	"Sam Rockwell/Tig Notaro"	January 11
Family Guy	Fox	300th	"Dog Bites Bear"	January 14
The Amazing World of Gumball	Cartoon Network	200th	"The Vegging"	January 15
The Blacklist	NBC	100th	"Abraham Stern"	January 17
Mom	CBS		"Pushed-Down Coffee, and a Working Turn Signal"	February 1
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert		500th	"Sam Rockwell/J.J. Abrams"	February 20
General Hospital	ABC	14,000th	N/A	February 23
Avengers Assemble	Disney XD	100th	"Westland"	March 4
Chicago P.D.	NBC		"Profiles"	March 7
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.	ABC		"The Real Deal"	March 9
The Fosters	Freeform		"Just Say Yes"	March 13

Programs ending in 2018

End date	Show	Channel	First aired	Status	Source
January 6	Ten Days in the Valley	ABC	2017	Canceled
January 9	Major Crimes	TNT	2012	Ended
January 12	Disjointed	Netflix	2017	Canceled
January 14	Wisdom of the Crowd	CBS
January 18	Damnation	USA Network
January 20	Pickle and Peanut	Disney XD	2015	Ended
January 26	The Adventures of Puss in Boots	Netflix
February 2	K.C. Undercover	Disney Channel
February 10	Bunsen Is a Beast	Nicktoons	2017
February 16	DreamWorks Dragons	Netflix	2012
March 5	Star Wars Rebels	Disney XD	2014
March 9	Love	Netflix	2016	Ending
March 22	Portlandia	IFC	2011
April 19	Scandal	ABC	2012
May 15	The Middle		2009
	New Girl	Fox	2011
May 18	Once Upon a Time	ABC
May 30	The Americans	FX	2013
July 26	Nashville	CMT	2012
July 31	Casual	Hulu	2015
September	Harry	First-run syndication	2016	Canceled
TBA	Adventure Time	Cartoon Network	2010	Ending
	Clarence		2014
	Being Mary Jane	BET	2013
	The Fosters	Freeform
	12 Monkeys	Syfy	2015
	House of Cards	Netflix	2013
	Sense8		2015
	The Originals	The CW	2013
	The Thundermans	Nickelodeon
	Fixer Upper	HGTV
	You're the Worst	FXX	2014
	Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce	Bravo
	Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn	Nickelodeon		Canceled
	School of Rock		2016

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	4	Yes
Chicago P.D.	5

Networks and services

Network launches

Network	Type	Launch date	Notes	Source
Quest	Over-the-air multicast	January 29	A partnership of Tegna, Inc. and Cooper Media, Quest offers factual programming concerning science, nature, engineering, and history, mainly from programming formerly seen on Discovery Channel and History. The network initially launched primarily on subchannels of stations owned and/or operated by Tegna, Univision Communications and Entravision Communications.

Network conversions

Old network name	New network name	Type	Conversion date	Notes	Source
Spike	Paramount Network	Cable and satellite	January 18	Spike relaunched as the Paramount Network on January 18, with the new identity being formally introduced with a special live episode of Lip Sync Battle that evening. Announced by Viacom in February 2017 as part of a corporate restructuring plan initiated by Viacom CEO Bob Bakish to refocus most of its media assets around six flagship brands (with MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, Nick Jr. and BET as the other associated brands), the change realigns the general entertainment cable channel to be more closely associated with sister film studio Paramount Pictures. Paramount Network will maintain some of the former Spike's existing programming including original series (such as Lip Sync Battle, Ink Master and Bar Rescue) and feature films, along with newer original programs (such as the dark comedy Heathers and family drama Yellowstone).

Television stations

Station launches

Date	Market	Station	Channel	Affiliation	Source
January 1	Bowling Green, Kentucky	WNKY-DT3	40.3	MeTV
January 24	Ottumwa, Iowa	KYOU-DT4	15.4	Escape
January 29	Little Rock, Arkansas	KTHV-DT4	11.4	Quest
	Mesa, Arizona (Phoenix)	KPNX-DT4	12.4
	Bakersfield, California	KUVI-DT2	45.2
	Los Angeles, California	KMEX-DT5	34.5
	Sacramento, California	KXTV-DT4	10.4
	Denver, Colorado	KUSA-DT5	9.5
	Hollywood, Florida (Miami)	WAMI-DT5	69.5
	Melbourne, Florida (Orlando)	WVEN-DT5	43.5
	Orange Park (Jacksonville)	WJXX-DT3	25.3
	Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida	WTSP-DT4	10.4
	Atlanta, Georgia	WXIA-DT4	11.4
	Boise, Idaho	KTVB-DT4	7.4
	Portland, Maine	WCSH-DT4	6.4
	Grand Rapids, Michigan	WZZM-DT4	13.4
	Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota	KARE-DT4	11.4
	St. Louis, Missouri	KSDK-DT4	5.4
	Albuquerque/ Santa Fe, New Mexico	KLUZ-DT2	14.2
	Buffalo, New York	WGRZ-DT4	2.4
	Charlotte, North Carolina	WCNC-DT4	36.4
	Greensboro/Winston-Salem/ High Point, North Carolina	WFMY-DT4	2.4
	Cleveland, Ohio	WKYC-DT4	3.4
	Portland, Oregon	KGW-DT4	8.4
	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	WFPA-CD3	28.3
	Columbia, South Carolina	WLTX-DT4	19.4
	Knoxville, Tennessee	WBIR-DT4	10.4
	Austin, Texas	KVUE-DT4	24.4
	Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas	WFAA-DT4	8.4
	Houston, Texas	KHOU-DT4	11.4
	San Antonio, Texas	KENS-DT4	5.4
	Wolfforth/Lubbock, Texas	KLCW-DT4	22.4
	Hampton/Norfolk/ Virginia Beach, Virginia	WVEC-DT4	13.4
	Seattle, Washington	KING-DT3	5.3
	Spokane, Washington	KSKN-DT3	22.3

Stations changing network affiliation

Major affiliation changes

This section outlines affiliation changes involving English and Spanish language networks (ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, PBS, The CW, Univision, etc.), and format conversions involving independent stations. Digital subchannels will only be mentioned if the prior or new affiliation involves a major English and Spanish broadcast network or a locally programmed independent entertainment format.

Date	Market	Station	Channel	Prior affiliation	New affiliation	Notes	Source
January 1	Elko, Nevada (Salt Lake City)	KENV-DT	10.1	NBC	Comet	In December 2017, Sinclair Broadcast Group received notice from NBC that KENV (which had been operating as a semi-satellite of KRNV-DT/Reno) will lose its affiliation with the network once its contract expires on December 31, in order to give network exclusivity in eastern Nevada to KSL-TV/Salt Lake City (of which Elko is based within that city's designated market area). As a result, KENV will shut down its news department, as the loss of the NBC affiliation will make it cost-prohibitive to continue producing locally based programming. KENV will subsequently affiliate with the Sinclair-owned/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer-operated science fiction network Comet. The local translator district around Elko has attempted to communicate with NBC their preference for KRNV to be used as the local source for NBC programming in the area, but the network has stood firm that KSL-TV should be the exclusive affiliate in the area and will require the district to utilize KSL-TV as their signal source.
	Avalon, California (Los Angeles)	KAZA-TV	54.1	Azteca América	MeTV	In December 2017, Costa de Oro Media announced that KJLA would become the Azteca América affiliate for the Los Angeles market on January 3, 2018. The move as well as a station sale that occurred concurrently resulted in KAZA-TV – which an 80/20 venture between Pappas Telecasting and TV Azteca sold for $9 million in September 2017 to Weigel Broadcasting – replacing Anaheim-based KDOC-DT3 (channel 56.3) as the station for MeTV in the market as an O&O, upon consummation of the Weigel sale (KDOC-DT3 will continue to serve as the MeTV affiliate for southern portions of the market). KVMD switched from a non-commercial Spanish religious to a commercial Spanish schedule, replacing KJLA – which had been the network's only owned-and-operated station since it became a national network in April 2007 – as the market's LATV affiliate. Although it did not officially switch to Azteca until January 3, KJLA began carrying the majority of the network's programming on January 1 (except for those which aired during time periods KJLA had ceded to air religious programming).
January 3	Los Angeles	KVMD	31.1	Almavision	LATV
	Ventura, California (Los Angeles)	KJLA	57.1	LATV	Azteca América
January 18	Nashua, New Hampshire (Boston)	WYCN-CD	15.1 & 15.2	Heroes & Icons	NBC (DT1) Cozi TV (DT2)	OTA Broadcasting sold the spectrum allocated to WYCN-CD in the auction for $80.4 million and entered into a channel sharing agreement with Boston PBS member station WGBX-TV, contingent on a sale of the station to the NBC Owned Television Stations division of NBCUniversal. Despite WYCN's low-power status and city of license, its placement on the full-power signal of WGBX allowed NBC's "NBC Boston" (which originates through low-power WBTS-LD) to maintain full over-the-air coverage throughout the Boston market from the area's central television transmitter site in Needham (NBC's full-power lease with WMFP/Lawrence was effectively terminated with the move of that station to a channel share with WWDP). The station also moved from virtual channel 13 to channel 15 to avert any confusion with WGME/Portland, Maine, which has some signal coverage in the extreme northeastern portion of the Boston market.
January 24	Ottumwa, Iowa/ Kirksville, Missouri	KYOU-TV	15.2	Grit	NBC	On January 8, 2018, American Spirit Media/Raycom Media announced that KYOU-TV (which Raycom operates under a shared services agreement with American Spirit) would affiliate its DT2 subchannel with NBC in late January to augment the existing primary Fox affiliation on the station's main channel. The subchannel networks Grit and Escape also moved down one subchannel (with Escape, originally planned to be removed, retained after viewer demand and a multiplexer upgrade - see above section). KYOU's addition of NBC programming results in the major four broadcast networks spread across the Ottumwa–Kirksville market's two full-power commercial television stations (Sinclair-owned KTVO operates as a primary feed ABC and subchannel-only CBS affiliate), and leaves Mankato, Presque Isle, Alpena, and Harrisonburg as the only remaining U.S. media markets without a local NBC affiliate.
			15.3	Escape	Grit
February 12	Salem, Indiana (Louisville, Kentucky)	WBKI-TV (re-called from WMYO)	58.1	MyNetworkTV	The CW	Block Communications, which purchased the programming rights for the CW schedule carried by the former Campbellsville, Kentucky-licensed iteration of WBKI until that station's owners took it silent as a result of the spectrum auction on October 25 and placed it as a subchannel on the WMYO spectrum, decides to move the CW schedule from a subchannel which had issues being carried by DirecTV, Dish and AT&T U-verse, to the main channel of the WMYO spectrum, while also re-calling the station with the WBKI calls. WMYO's former main schedule with the declining MyNetworkTV programming service moves to the third subchannel, and in reverse loses DirecTV/Dish/U-verse carriage in order to assure full-market coverage for CW programming (the second subchannel is contractually obligated to Cozi TV). Block also ends use of the former channel 34 allocation associated with the defunct Campbellsville version of WBKI with the CW and Movies! subchannels.
			58.3	The CW	MyNetworkTV
June 30	Provo, Utah (Salt Lake City)	KBYU-TV	11.1	PBS	BYUtv (migrating from KBYU-DT2)	After 53 years as an affiliated public television station (first with NET, and then PBS), KBYU-TV will switch to the national BYUtv network (which has aired free-to-air over its second subchannel in the market previously), while parent owner Brigham Young University shuts down its Spanish language BYUtv International carried on cable and satellite in Latin American countries. The move will leave Salt Lake City's KUED-TV as the primary PBS station in the area.

Subchannel affiliations

Date	Market	Station	Channel	Prior affiliation	New affiliation	Source
January 1	Lawton, Oklahoma (Wichita Falls, Texas)	KSWO-TV	7.3	This TV	MeTV
	Clermont/Orlando, Florida	WKCF	18.2		Justice Network
	Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania	WTAE-TV	4.2		Cozi TV
	Olean, New York	WVTT-CD	25.1	Youtoo America	This TV
January 2	Milwaukee, Wisconsin	WVTV	18.2	GetTV	MyNetworkTV (new channel number 24.1)	see WCGV-TV below
January 4	Weslaco/Brownsville/McAllen, Texas	KRGV-TV	5.2	This TV	Local English/Spanish independent
January 29	Slidell/New Orleans, Louisiana	WUPL-DT2	54.2	MyNetworkTV (SD simulcast of 54.1)	Quest
	Tucson, Arizona	KMSB-DT2	11.2	Movies!
January 30	Louisville, Kentucky	WHAS-DT3	11.3	Local weather radar feed

Station spectrum transitions

Former station	Channel sharing partner/ new station	Channel	Channel number retained	Affiliation	Market	Date	Notes	Source
WCGV-TV	WVTV	24.#	Y	MyNetworkTV	Milwaukee, Wisconsin	January 8	WCGV-TV was sold in the 2017 spectrum auction for $84.3 million, with owner Sinclair Broadcast Group originally indicating that it would enter a channel sharing agreement with sister CW affiliate WVTV. However, with Sinclair's attempted acquisition of Tribune Media, which would include Milwaukee Fox affiliate WITI, Sinclair revealed in its FCC filing regarding the merger that it now intended to completely sign off WCGV-TV without any channel sharing agreement, allowing Sinclair to acquire WITI and retain WVTV. WCGV's program schedule, MyNetworkTV affiliation (and "My 24" branding) and subchannels were moved to the channel space of WVTV on January 8 (a week-long transition simulcast replaced GetTV over WVTV-DT2 on January 2), with its DT3 Grit affiliation moving to WTMJ-DT4. Given Fox Television Stations's consideration of re-acquiring WITI (which it sold to Tribune predecessor Local TV in 2007) and other Tribune- and Sinclair-owned Fox affiliates (mainly those based in NFL markets) to satisfy issues raised by Fox over Sinclair's proposed national Fox affiliate reach post-acquisition and, to a limited extent, any regulatory concerns regarding the Sinclair/Tribune merger, it is unknown if any changes to the channel-sharing agreement will be made should Fox purchase WITI.
WVCY-TV	WITI	30.#		Religious Independent			VCY America sold the religious station's spectrum in the auction for $76.3 million; though WVCY has traditionally been run in a lean manner with only one standard definition channel, it was able to enter a channel sharing agreement with Fox affiliate WITI. The station will retain all existing cable and satellite carriage as part of the channel share.
WMVT	WMVS	36.#		PBS			Milwaukee PBS relocated WMVT’s programming and its subchannels to the VHF bandwidth of sister station WMVS at 9:00 a.m. that morning. At that time, both WMVS and WMVT re-mapped their channels on physical channel 8, with WMVT retaining its main signal on 36.1 in HD and a re-map among the two stations placing World on 36.2 and MPTV's weather service on 36.3 (the former traffic camera service on 36.6 was eventually merged into the weather feed). WMVS continues to map its main service on 10.1 in HD, with Create on 10.2 and PBS Kids remaining on 10.3; all channels will be repeated via WMVS's channel 36 inner-core UHF translator with .1x mapping.
WMLW-TV	WBME-CD	49.#		Independent			Weigel Broadcasting-owned WMLW moved to WBME-CD's bandwidth at 5:00 a.m. that morning, reversing a channel swap done in August 2012 in order to allow WMLW to broadcast its main channel in high definition market-wide. WMLW and Bounce TV remained on their existing 49.1 and 49.2 positions. A simulcast of Telemundo affiliate WYTU-LD for the entire market that was formerly carried on WMLW-DT4 was moved to WDJT-TV's fourth subchannel, Decades relocated from WDJT-DT4 to WBME-CD2, and This TV was moved to WYTU-LD2. WBME-CD will continue to carry MeTV on both 41.1 and existing market-wide simulcast on WDJT-DT2.
WUAB	WOIO	43.#		MyNetworkTV	Lorain/Cleveland, Ohio		Raycom Media sold the UHF channel 28 spectrum for WUAB for $32.3 million, and merged WUAB's main channel and Bounce TV subchannel onto the spectrum of sister CBS affiliation WOIO/Shaker Heights, while its Grit channel moved to WEWS-DT2 exclusively.
WLVI	WHDH	56.#		The CW	Cambridge/Boston, Massachusetts	January 9	Sunbeam Television turned in the UHF channel 41 spectrum of WLVI to the FCC for a market high of $162.1 million; on January 9, WLVI's main channel and Buzzr subchannel was merged onto the channel space of WHDH, after a week-long transition where WHDH and WLVI broadcast similar channel maps to acclimate viewers and test the spectrum share.
WPMT	WITF-TV	43.#		Fox	York/Harrisburg/ Lancaster/Lebanon, Pennsylvania		Tribune Broadcasting sold the UHF channel 47 digital spectrum of WPMT for $50.1 million. On January 9, WPMT merged its spectrum with Harrisburg PBS member station WITF, which resulted in portions of the Fox affiliate's signal contour being downgraded to rimshot or non-existent coverage in the southern portion of the market compared to the contour of its former transmitter location in Hellam Township. WPMT's Antenna TV subchannel was retained, though (despite Tribune being half-owner of the network) it dropped This TV to allow WITF to retain their PBS Kids subchannel. WITF netted $25 million from Tribune as part of the sharing agreement.
WZDC-CD	WRC-TV	25.1	?	Telemundo	Washington, D.C.	TBD	ZGS Communications sold the spectrum of WZDC-CD in the spectrum incentive auction for $66.182 million. The group indicated in FCC filings that it will enter into a channel sharing agreement to continue the station's operations once the spectrum was relinquished. On September 6, 2017, NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations announced that it will launch a Telemundo owned-and-operated station that will operate over the digital signal of NBC O&O WRC-TV (channel 4) in December, per acquisition of the Spanish language network's affiliation agreement with ZGS; a Telemundo spokesperson stated that the sale of WZDC's spectrum "gave us the ability to take back the Telemundo affiliation for this market." On December 4, NBCUOTS purchased ZGS outright, effectively confirming that WZDC-CD will remain on the air, using WRC's bandwidth as a separately licensed station as a Telemundo O&O.

Station closures

Station	Channel	Affiliation	Market	Date	Notes	Source
WOTH-CD	20.#	Movies!	Cincinnati, Ohio	January 23	On April 4, 2017, Block Broadcasting announced that it had sold WOTH-CD's broadcast spectrum in the FCC spectrum auction for $13.266 million. After initially indicating that it would enter into a channel sharing agreement post-auction, Block announced in December of that year, that it would instead cease operating WOTH-CD on January 23, 2018. After WOTH shut down on that date, Movies! and Heroes & Icons were respectively moved to sister station WBQC-LD (retaining their former 20.1 and 20.4 channel placements originally mapped by WOTH), with Decades expected to follow suit in February. (Three other networks that were carried by WOTH at the time it ceased operations – Buzzr, Newsmax TV and The Action Channel – will not be transitioned to WBQC's signal, while the Home Shopping Network and Evine were already carried on WBQC subchannels.)
WCMZ-TV	28.#	PBS	Flint/Saginaw/Bay City, Michigan	TBD	Central Michigan University, owner of WCMU-TV and several satellite stations of the PBS member in the Northern Michigan region, announced it will sell WCMZ-TV's broadcast spectrum in the FCC spectrum auction for $14 million to reduce redundancy of PBS programming in the market, which is also served by Delta College-owned PBS member WDCQ.
WVTA	41.#	PBS	Windsor, Vermont		Vermont PBS announced on February 17, 2017 that it will sell the broadcast license for WVTA, which transmits from Mount Ascutney, for $56 million in the FCC spectrum auction. In a statement, the member network said that its other signals will be upgraded to cover the viewing area (southeastern Vermont and southwestern New Hampshire) served by WVTA.
WRNN-TV	48.#	Independent	Kingston, New York and the Hudson Valley		WRNN-TV was sold in the broadcast spectrum auction for $212 million, in what is believed to be the highest payout for any station in the spectrum auction. The "Regional News Network" programming will continue through some other, unspecified method after the station goes off the air.

Deaths

Date	Name	Age	Notability	Source
January 1	Jon Paul Steuer	33	Actor best known as the first Quentin Kelly on Grace Under Fire. Also guest spots on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Day by Day, Homefront, and The Wonder Years.
January 2	Frank Buxton	87	Actor famous for voicing Batfink and Hugo-A-Go-Go on Batfink, writer, director (The Odd Couple, Happy Days, and Mork & Mindy. Recurring roles on Another World, Loving, All My Children, One Life to Live, and Santa Barbara, and guest starring roles on As the World Turns, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, Guiding Light, The Young and the Restless, and The Oprah Winfrey Show.)
January 5	Jerry Van Dyke	86	Actor best known as Luther Van Dam on Coach. Also recurring roles on The Middle, Yes, Dear, You Wish, Teen Angel, 13 Queens Boulevard, Headmaster, Accidental Family, My Mother the Car, and The Dick Van Dyke Show. Brother of Dick Van Dyke.
January 8	Donnelly Rhodes	80	Canadian actor (Bonanza, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Laredo, Run for Your Life, Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, The Wild Wild West, Mission: Impossible, Insight, The Young and the Restless, Soap, Report to Murphy, Hill Street Blues, Double Trouble, The Heights, Murder, She Wrote, The X-Files, The Outer Limits, Life as We Know It, Battlestar Galactica, Supernatural, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow)
January 10	Doreen Tracey	74	Actress and one of the original Mouseketeers on The Mickey Mouse Club
January 13	Keith Jackson	89	Sportscaster for ABC and ESPN for over 50 years, most notably for college football
January 14	Hugh Wilson	74	Writer/director/producer, most notably on WKRP in Cincinnati, Frank's Place, and The Famous Teddy Z
January 16	Bradford Dillman	87	American actor (Kraft Theatre, Alcoa Premiere, Kraft Suspense Theatre, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Dr. Kildare, Court Martial, Shane, Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Big Valley, Judd for the Defense, Ironside, The Virginian, The F.B.I., Mission: Impossible, Medical Center, Cannon, The Wide World of Mystery, Barnaby Jones, King's Crossing, Falcon Crest, Dynasty, Hotel and Murder, She Wrote)
January 19	Lin Bolen	76	American producer (Stumpers! and W.E.B.) and vice president of daytime television programming for NBC
	John Conboy	83	American producer (Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, The Young and the Restless, Capitol, Santa Barbara and Guiding Light)
	Dorothy Malone	93	Actress (best known for her role as Constance Mackenzie in Peyton Place and the TV movies Murder in Peyton Place and Peyton Place: The Next Generation).
January 20	John Coleman	83	Meteorologist (co-founder of The Weather Channel; worked at several local stations including WLS-TV/Chicago and KUSI-TV/San Diego)
	Bob Dolan Smith		Writer and producer (D.C. Follies, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Grace Under Fire, Saturday Night Special, Dharma & Greg, W.I.T.C.H. and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
January 21	Connie Sawyer	105	Actress (The Jackie Gleason Show, The Andy Griffith Show, Bonanza, My World and Welcome to It, Room 222, The F.B.I., McMillan & Wife, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, The Streets of San Francisco, Kojak, Starsky and Hutch, Hawaii Five-O, Archie Bunker's Place, Hill Street Blues, In the Heat of the Night, Murder, She Wrote, Boy Meets World, Becker, ER and Ray Donovan)
January 22	Ursula K. Le Guin	88	Science fiction author of The Lathe of Heaven which was adapted into a pair of TV movies, and the Legend of Earthsea series which became the miniseries Earthsea
January 23	Robert Dowdell	85	Actor (Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Stoney Burke)
January 24	Joel Taylor	38	Meteorologist and reality show participant, star of Storm Chasers
January 27	Mort Walker	94	American cartoonist, whose King Features Syndicate characters Beetle Bailey and Hi and Lois were later made into animated television series and specials.
January 30	Mark Salling	35	Actor and musician, best known as Noah 'Puck' Puckerman on Glee
	Louis Zorich	93	Actor, best known as Burt Buchman on Mad About You and Jules Berger on Brooklyn Bridge
January 31	Leah LaBelle	31	Singer who competed on the third season of American Idol
February 4	John Mahoney	77	Actor, best known as Martin Crane on Frasier (other roles include guest spots on Chicago Story, Saturday Night Live, H.E.L.P., The Human Factor, Cheers, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Becker, The Simpsons, In Treatment, Burn Notice and Hot in Cleveland)
February 7	Mickey Jones	76	American actor (recurring roles on Home Improvement and Justified; guest spots onThe Rockford Files, The Dukes of Hazzard, Flo, The Incredible Hulk, T.J. Hooker, V, Alice, The A-Team, All My Children, ALF, Something Is Out There, Baywatch, Step by Step, Northern Exposure, and Boy Meets World)
February 9	Reg E. Cathey	59	Actor, best known as Freddy Hayes on House of Cards, Norman Wilson on The Wire, Martin Querns on Oz, Byron Giles on Outcast, and cast member on Square One TV
	John Gavin	86	Actor, best known as Harrison Destry on Destry and Dan Talbot on Convoy
February 11	Jan Maxwell	61	Actress (recurring roles on BrainDead, Billy & Billie, The Divide, Gossip Girl, All My Children, One Life to Live, Santa Barbara, and Murder, She Wrote; also other guest starring roles on Loving, Another World, As the World Turns, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, Guiding Light, and The Young and the Restless)
	Vic Damone	89	Singer (host of The Lively Ones, appeared in guest spots on episodes of The Dick Van Dyke Show, The DuPont Show with June Allyson, The Rebel, The Judy Garland Show, and a Diet Pepsi commercial during Super Bowl XXV)
February 12	Marty Allen	95	American comedian and actor (Kraft Music Hall, The Tonight Show, Tonight Starring Jack Paar, The Garry Moore Show, The Match Game, The Price Is Right, The Hollywood Palace, What's My Line?, Dream Girl of '67, Personality, Della, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, The Merv Griffin Show, The Dean Martin Show, Tattletales, Dinah!, The Hollywood Squares, The Mike Douglas Show and The Bob Braun Show).
February 13	Jack Hynes	88	News anchor at Boston stations WCVB-TV and WLVI
February 16	Lassie Lou Ahern	97	Actress, best known for her appearances in the Our Gang film series. TV roles include guest spots on Love, American Style, The Odd Couple, The Magician, and Petrocelli
February 17	Caesar Kimmel	91	Founder and CEO of Warner Communications
February 18	Roy Hobbs	64	News anchor at WAGA/Atlanta, WBMA/Boston, and NECN
February 19	Helen Sloane Dudman	93	Journalist and executive for PBS
February 21	Billy Graham	99	Televangelist, appeared on numerous talk shows; his evangelistic association's Crusades were packaged into self-syndicated television specials
February 23	James Colby	56	American actor (As the World Turns, NYPD Blue, Waterfront, Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Blue Bloods, Deception, Taxi Brooklyn, Madoff, Chicago P.D. and Empire)
February 22	Nanette Fabray	97	Emmy Award-winning actress (recurring role on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, guest spots on One Day at a Time, Burke’s Law, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., Love, American Style, Maude, Murder, She Wrote, Your Show of Shows, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, and Coach); game show personality (The Hollywood Squares, What's My Line?, Password All-Stars, and Match Game). Also made several appearances on The Carol Burnett Show and The Ed Sullivan Show
February 26	Paul De Meo	64	American writer and producer, co-created of The Flash, Human Target, Viper and The Sentinel
	Benjamin Melniker	104	American producer (Dinosaucers, Swamp Thing: The Series, Fish Police, Swamp Thing, and Where on Earth Is Carmen Sandiego?)
February 28	Robert Buchel	41	Reality show participant (My 600-lb Life)
March 3	David Ogden Stiers	75	American actor, voiceover artist, and musician, best known for portraying Major Charles Emerson Winchester III on M*A*S*H, D.A. Michael Reston in the Perry Mason made-for-TV movies, and recurring roles in Two Guys and a Girl as Mr. Bauer, and Oberoth in Stargate Atlantis, as well as voicing Dr. Jumba Jookiba In Lilo & Stitch: The Series, among his notable credits.