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List of years in American television:

* 1989
* 1990
* 1991
* 1992
* 1993
* 1994
* 1995

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1991–92 United States network television schedule
1992–93 United States network television schedule
List of American television programs currently in production

In American television in 1992, notable events included television series debuts, finales, cancellations, and channel initiations, closures and rebrandings, as well as information about controversies and disputes.

## Events

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January 6  | The weekly overnight news program World News Now debuts on ABC.
January 19  | The World Wrestling Federation holds the fifth annual Royal Rumble event on pay-per-view. In the main event, Ric Flair wins the Royal Rumble match and the vacant WWF World Heavyweight Championship.
January 26  | During halftime of CBS' telecast of Super Bowl XXVI, Fox counter-programs with a special live-edition of the sketch comedy program In Living Color.
In a 60 Minutes interview, Bill and Hillary Clinton deny the allegations made against Bill in an interview that was viewed by millions.[1]
February 8  | The opening ceremonies for the Winter Olympics from Albertville, France is broadcast on CBS. This is the first of three consecutive Olympic Winter Games that CBS will broadcast, concluding with the 1998 Winter Olympics from Nagano, Japan. It's also the first time that CBS would televise the Olympics (either Winter or Summer) since the 1960 Summer Games from Rome, Italy.
February 14  | Green Bay Fox station WXGZ goes dark, and former Green Bay independent station WGBA-TV took the Fox affiliation.
February 22  | Barbra Streisand makes a surprise cameo appearance during a "Coffee Talk" sketch with Mike Myers, Madonna, and Roseanne Barr on NBC's Saturday Night Live.
February 24  | CBS acquires the assets of Midwest Communications, owners of the network's dominant affiliate in the Twin Cities, WCCO-TV. This also results in an affiliation swap in both Marquette, Michigan and Green Bay, Wisconsin: WJMN-TV, the Midwest-owned satellite station of Green Bay's ABC affiliate WFRV-TV, swaps its own ABC affiliation with primary CBS/secondary NBC affiliate WLUC-TV on this date, while WFRV-TV itself swaps with CBS affiliate WBAY-TV on March 15. (The delay in Green Bay occurs since WBAY-TV wanted to swap on or near March 17, the 39th anniversary of its first sign-on.)
February 29  | Full Moon Over Miami, a one-off programming block of a three-way, two-hour crossover event airs on NBC. It involves three television sitcoms created by Susan Harris: The Golden Girls, Empty Nest and Nurses. The event depicts a fictional full moon on Leap Day storming into the storylines of the three series set in Miami, Florida.
March 28  | CBS broadcasts the East Regional men's basketball final between Duke and Kentucky. With 2.1 seconds remaining in overtime, Christian Laettner hit a jumper as time expired to give Duke the 104–103 win. The game which was called by Verne Lundquist and Len Elmore, has since been considered by many to be the greatest college basketball game ever played.[2][3]
April 4  | TBS' Saturday afternoon/early evening World Championship Wrestling program is renamed WCW Saturday Night. The main event is Steve Austin defeating The Z-Man in a 2-out-of-3 falls match for the WCW World Television Title.
April 18  | Sean McDonough makes his debut as the new lead play–by–play announcer for Major League Baseball telecasts on CBS. Replacing Jack Buck, who was dismissed by the network following the 1991 World Series, McDonough would serve in that capacity alongside analyst Tim McCarver for the final two years of CBS' contract with Major League Baseball.
April 25  | ABC broadcasts the series finales of Who's the Boss?, Growing Pains, and MacGyver.
April 29  | Batman (1989 film) makes its broadcast television premiere on CBS.
April 30  | The Nickelodeon time capsule was buried at Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando, Florida.
May 1  | Sesame Street broadcasts its 3,000th episode.
May 19  | Vice President of the United States Dan Quayle speaks at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. During his speech,[4] he criticizes the Murphy Brown character for "mocking the importance of fathers by bearing a child alone".[5][6][7][8]
May 22  | After 30 years, 66-year-old Johnny Carson hosts The Tonight Show on NBC for the 4,531st and last time.
May 25  | Jay Leno debuts as host of NBC's The Tonight Show.
May 26–June 1  | SportsChannel America airs the last of four consecutive Stanley Cup Finals.
June 1  | In New York City, NBC's flagship television station WNBC dropped the "-TV" suffix from its call letters (following the sale in 1988 of its sister radio station WNBC-AM by NBC's then-parent company General Electric) in favor of the new branding slogan "4 New York". The accompanying station image campaign was titled "We're 4 New York" and featured a musical theme composed by Edd Kalehoff. The campaign is revived two times, one is during the 2002 Winter Olympics and once again in 2007.
June 3  | Presidential candidate Bill Clinton appears on The Arsenio Hall Show and sits in with the house band on saxophone.
June 6  | The music video for Guns N' Roses' power ballad "November Rain" premieres on MTV's Headbangers Ball. November Rain is one of the most expensive music videos ever.[9] In July 2018, the music video would become the first video created prior to YouTube to surpass one billion views.[10][11] And in February 2023, the music video would reach another milestone after it surpassed two billion views and remaining the oldest song (from the early 1990s) to achieve that feat.[12]
June 10  | The first ever edition of the MTV Movie Awards is broadcast.
June 23  | Another World broadcasts its first and only primetime episode on NBC, named Summer Desire, right before the Daytime Emmy Awards.
August 7  | After Growing Pains actress Tracey Gold loses a massive amount of weight due to anorexia nervosa, she is placed in hospital care. As a result, she is written out of most of the ABC sitcom's final episodes.
August 15  | Nickelodeon begins a Saturday night programming block called SNICK.
August 16  | Ron Simmons defeats Big Van Vader for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship on WCW Main Event to become the first recognized black world champion in professional wrestling history.[13]
August 31  | The fifth annual SummerSlam event airs on pay-per-view. Taking place in Wembley Stadium, London, England, two days prior, this was the first major World Wrestling Federation pay-per-view to take place outside of North America. The main event saw The British Bulldog defeating Bret Hart to win the WWF Intercontinental Championship.
September 2  | TBS airs World Championship Wrestling's Clash of the Champions XX from the Center Stage Theater in Atlanta. The event was not only the 20th time WCW held a Clash of the Champions show but also marked the 20th anniversary of professional wrestling being shown on TBS as Mid-Atlantic Wrestling in 1972. It also was the final wrestling TV appearance for André the Giant, who died several months later. The main event saw the team of Rick Rude, Jake Roberts, Super Invader, and Big Van Vader defeated the team of Sting, Nikita Koloff, and The Steiner Brothers.
September 4  | Scared Silent: Ending and Exposing Child Abuse, a one-hour live special hosted by Oprah Winfrey, is simulcast on CBS and NBC. Two nights later, the special is rebroadcast on ABC.[14]
September 5  | Batman: The Animated Series premieres on Fox Kids in a 4:30 p.m. afternoon timeslot. It's soon hailed as a groundbreaking superhero show receiving praise for its writing, art design, voice acting, orchestrated soundtrack, and modernization of its title character's source material.[15][16] The acclaim led to multiple Daytime Emmy Awards,[17] as well as the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Programming.[18] In December, just three months after its debut, Fox also begins airing episodes of the series on prime-time Sunday evenings (followed by the live-action sitcom Shaky Ground); however, the TV ratings fell short (as the show aired opposite the perennial favorite 60 Minutes), and the series was removed from this time slot in March 1993.
September 12  | NBC is the first network to cancel all their Saturday morning cartoons in favor of four shows, Saved By The Bell, California Dreams, NBA Inside Stuff, and Name Your Adventure under the TNBC banner. A weekend version of Today, which debuted on August 1, is also added. Animated programming would not return to NBC until 2006.
September 14  | Pamela Anderson makes her first appearance as C. J. Parker on Baywatch.
September 27  | Marlon Wayans and Alexandra Wentworth join the cast of the Fox sketch comedy show In Living Color. Wayans only joins the cast for 13 episodes, but Wentworth stays full-time for both this and the next season (which would turn out to be the show's fifth and final season).
October 1  | Cartoon Network begins its broadcasts with a one-hour special titled Droopy's Guide to the Cartoon Network. The Merrie Melodies short Rhapsody Rabbit was the very first cartoon to be shown on the channel.
October 3  | Sinéad O'Connor causes controversy when she rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on NBC's Saturday Night Live.
October 10  | Michael Jackson's concert Live in Bucharest: The Dangerous Tour airs on HBO.
October 11  | George Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot participate in the first 1992 presidential debate hosted by Jim Lehrer of PBS.[19]
October 12  | James Doohan guest stars as Montgomery Scott in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
October 13  | Hal Bruno of ABC News moderates the 1992 Vice Presidential debate at Georgia Tech.[20]
October 15  | Carole Simpson hosts the second of the 1992 presidential debates (becoming the first woman of color to do so). President George H. W. Bush is criticized for checking his watch on camera while being asked a question.[21]
October 17  | Kristy McNichol's last episode of Empty Nest, entitled "The Boomerang Affair", is broadcast on NBC. (McNichol would return for the series finale in 1995.)
October 17–24  | The World Series is broadcast on CBS for the third consecutive year. The Toronto Blue Jays would ultimately defeat the Atlanta Braves in six games to claim their first ever world championship, as well as the first World Series title for a Canadian based Major League Baseball team.
October 31  | The first part of the pilot episode for X-Men, "Night of the Sentinels", airs on Fox Kids as a "sneak preview".[22] The second part would air on November 7. South Korean studio AKOM was hired to animate episodes. X-Men was originally set to premiere over Labor Day weekend in September; however, due to production delays, it was delayed to the end of October. When AKOM turned in the first episode, it contained several animation errors, which they refused to fix. Because of time constraints, the episode was aired in an unfinished form; when Fox re-aired the pilot in early 1993, the errors were corrected.[23] The second episode was submitted just before the deadline, with 50 scenes missing and a single day reserved for editing.
November 1  | Texas billionaire Ross Perot acquires blocks of TV time for his presidential campaign.
November 14  | Nickelodeon broadcasts the Kids' Choice Awards live[24] for the first time.
November 17  | Dateline NBC airs an hour-long investigative report titled "Waiting to Explode," which focused on allegations that General Motors' Rounded-Line Chevrolet C/K-Series pickup trucks exploded upon impact when involved in collisions due to the poor design of the vehicle model's fuel tanks. It is also later revealed that the Dateline report had been dishonest about the fuel tanks rupturing and the alleged 30 miles per hour (48 km/h) speed at which the collision was conducted. The actual speed was found to be higher than stated, around 40 miles per hour (64 km/h), and after x-ray examination of the fuel tanks from the C/K pickups used in the televised collision, it was found that they had not ruptured and were intact.[25][26] GM subsequently filed an anti-defamation/libel lawsuit against NBC after conducting an extensive investigation.
November 18  | The Seinfeld episode "The Contest" is broadcast on NBC. Despite its controversy, the episode will win an Emmy Award and be named as the number one episode of all time by TV Guide.
November 21  | An episode of Captain Planet and the Planeteers titled "A Formula for Hate" becomes the first episode in an American children's animated series to directly deal with the HIV/AIDS pandemic.[27]
December 1  | On CBS, The Young and the Restless broadcasts its 5,000th episode. In celebration of this, a Y&R-themed Showcase is presented on The Price is Right, which also airs on CBS.

## Television programs

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### Debuts

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Date  | Show  | Network

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January 4  | Nick Arcade | Nickelodeon
January 6  | World News Now | ABC
January 10  | Hearts Are Wild | CBS
January 17  | Tequila and Bonetti
January 20  | The Dennis Miller Show | Syndication
January 25  | MTV Sports | MTV
January 27  | Inside Politics | CNN
January 29  | Nightmare Cafe | NBC
January 31  | Billy | ABC
Capitol Critters
February 23  | I Witness Video | NBC
February 26  | Bodies of Evidence | CBS
February 28  | Scorch
Fish Police
February 29  | The Boys of Twilight
March 4  | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | ABC
March 7  | The Powers That Be | NBC
March 24  | Room for Two | ABC
March 31  | Dateline NBC | NBC
April 5  | Mann & Machine
Stand By Your Man | Fox
April 6  | Barney & Friends | PBS
April 17  | The Fifth Corner | NBC
April 18  | Nick News W-5 | Nickelodeon
May 21  | The Real World | MTV
May 25  | The Tonight Show with Jay Leno | NBC
May 30  | Julie | ABC
Vinnie & Bobby | Fox
June 15  | Doctor Dean | NBC
Grapevine | CBS
June 19  | Raven
June 20  | On the Air | ABC
June 21  | Down the Shore | Fox
June 27  | Red Shoe Diaries | Showtime
June 29  | The Grind | MTV
July 1  | Def Comedy Jam | HBO
July 8  | Melrose Place | Fox
July 20  | Human Target | ABC
August 11  | Freshman Dorm | CBS
August 15  | The Larry Sanders Show | HBO
Are You Afraid of the Dark? | Nickelodeon
Roundhouse
August 16  | Secret Service | NBC
August 23  | 2000 Malibu Road | CBS
August 25  | Covington Cross | ABC
August 27  | The Heights | Fox
Martin
August 31  | Vicki! | Syndication
September 1  | Going to Extremes | ABC
September 5  | Batman: The Animated Series | Fox Kids
Goof Troop | Syndication and ABC
September 10  | Lamb Chop's Play-Along | PBS
September 11  | Likely Suspects | Fox
The Little Mermaid | CBS Kid TV
September 12  | Fievel's American Tails
The Addams Family | ABC
Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa
California Dreams | TNBC
Name Your Adventure
Eek! The Cat | Fox Kids
Super Dave: Daredevil for Hire
September 13  | Flying Blind | Fox
Frannie's Turn | CBS
King Arthur and the Knights of Justice | Syndication
Conan the Adventurer
September 14  | Hearts Afire | CBS
Crossroads | ABC
That's Amore | Syndication
Rush Limbaugh: The Television Show
The Whoopi Goldberg Show
ComicView | BET
September 15  | American Justice | A&E
Delta | ABC
September 16  | The Hat Squad | CBS
Beakman's World | Syndication
September 18  | Bob | CBS
The Golden Palace | CBS
Picket Fences | CBS
Camp Wilder | ABC
Final Appeal | NBC
The Round Table
September 19  | The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys | CBS
Raw Toonage | CBS
Renegade | Syndication
Nickelodeon Guts | Nickelodeon
The Plucky Duck Show | Fox Kids
The Edge | Fox
Here and Now | NBC
Out All Night
September 21  | Love & War | CBS
September 22  | Hangin' with Mr. Cooper | ABC
September 23  | Mad About You | NBC
September 24  | Street Stories with Ed Bradley | CBS
Rhythm & Blues | NBC
September 25  | What Happened? | NBC
September 26  | Dog City | Fox Kids
September 27  | Woops! | Fox
September 28  | Stunt Dawgs | Syndication
September 30  | Laurie Hill | ABC
October 1  | ToonHeads | Cartoon Network
October 4  | Ghostwriter | PBS
Great Scott! | Fox
October 5  | Born Lucky | Lifetime
October 14  | American Heroes & Legends | Showtime
October 31  | X-Men | Fox Kids
December 1  | The Jackie Thomas Show | ABC
December 27  | Shaky Ground | Fox

### Returning this year

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Show | Last aired | Previous network | New title | New network | Returning

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The Ben Stiller Show | 1990  | MTV | Same  | Fox | September 27

### Ending this year

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Date | Show | Debut

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January 3  | Pacific Station | 1991
January 4  | P.S. I Luv U
January 24  | Best of the Worst
March 2  | James Bond Jr.
March 5  | Drexell's Class
March 13  | Candid Camera (returned in 1996)  | 1948
Hearts Are Wild | 1992
Fish Police
Scorch
March 14  | Capitol Critters
April 3  | Nightmare Cafe
April 12  | Eerie, Indiana | 1991
April 17  | Tequila and Bonetti | 1992
April 25  | Growing Pains | 1985
Who's the Boss? | 1984
April 30  | The Cosby Show
May 6  | Jake and the Fatman | 1987
Sibs | 1991
May 9  | The Golden Girls | 1985
May 13  | The Royal Family | 1991
May 17  | Superboy | 1988
Stand By Your Man | 1992
May 21  | MacGyver (rebooted in 2016)  | 1985
May 22  | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | 1962
May 30  | The Trials of Rosie O'Neill | 1990
May 31  | Night Court (returned in 2023)  | 1984
The Adventures of Mark & Brian | 1991
June 1  | NHL on SportsChannel America | 1988
June 3  | Anything but Love | 1989
June 26  | Club MTV | 1987
July 4  | Billy | 1992
Julie
July 13  | Man of the People | 1991
July 14  | Mann & Machine | 1992
July 22  | Dear John | 1988
July 24  | The Dennis Miller Show | 1992
August 8  | The Howard Stern Show | 1990
September 12  | Salute Your Shorts | 1991
October 24  | Rhythm & Blues | 1992
November 5  | Saturday Night's Main Event (returned in 2006)  | 1985
November 6  | Square One TV | 1987
Nick Arcade | 1992
November 26  | The Heights
November 28  | Good Morning, Mickey! | 1983
The Amazing Live Sea Monkeys | 1992
November 29  | Great Scott!
December 1  | Wild & Crazy Kids (returned in 2002)  | 1990
December 2  | A Bunch of Munsch | 1991
December 5  | Fievel's American Tails | 1992
Goof Troop
Raw Toonage
December 6  | Woops! | 1992
December 12  | The Plucky Duck Show | 1992
Darkwing Duck | 1991
December 26  | Back to the Future: The Animated Series
Widget | 1990

### Entering syndication this year

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A list of programs (current or canceled) that have accumulated enough episodes (between 65 and 100) or seasons (3 or more) to be eligible for off-network syndication and/or basic cable runs.

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American Gladiators | 3 | Yes | Cable syndication on USA Network. |
Life Goes On | 3 | Yes | Cable syndication on The Family Channel. |
Murphy Brown | 4 | Yes |  |
Quantum Leap | 4 | Yes | Cable syndication on USA Network. |
Roseanne | 4 | Yes |  |
Unsolved Mysteries | 4 | Yes | Cable syndication on Lifetime. |
The Young Riders | 3 | No | Cable syndication on The Family Channel. |
The Wonder Years | 5 | Yes |  |

### Changes of network affiliation

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The following shows aired new episodes on a different network than previous first-run episodes:

Show | Moved from | Moved to

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Monday Night Baseball | ABC | ESPN
Hi Honey, I'm Home! | Nick at Nite
Davis Rules | CBS
In the Heat of the Night | NBC
Matlock | ABC
Tiny Toon Adventures | Syndication | Fox Kids
The Ben Stiller Show | MTV | Fox

### Made-for-TV movies and miniseries

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Premiere date  | Title  | Channel

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March 16  | Doing Time on Maple Drive | Fox
March 23  | Broadway Bound | ABC
May 3  | Day-O | NBC
May 31  | Still Not Quite Human | Disney Channel
September 27  | Obsessed | ABC
November 15–18  | The Jacksons: An American Dream
November 27  | Saved by the Bell: Hawaiian Style | NBC
December 6  | The Man Upstairs | CBS
To Grandmother's House We Go | ABC
December 13  | Charles and Diana: Unhappily Ever After
December 26–27  | Lincoln

## Networks and services

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### Launches

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Network  | Type  | Launch date  | Notes  | Source

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CNN Checkout Channel | Satellite television  | February 20  |  |
New England Cable News | Cable television  | March 2  |  |
Flix | Cable television  | August 1  |  |
VISN/ACTS | Cable television  | September  |  |
MOR Music TV | Cable television  | September 1  |  |
NY1 | Cable television  | September 8  |  |
Sci-Fi Channel | Cable television  | September 24  | The Sci-Fi Channel launches with a broadcast of Star Wars.  |
Cartoon Network | Cable television  | October 1  | The Merrie Melodies short, Rhapsody Rabbit, was the very first cartoon to be broadcast on the network.  |

### Conversions and rebrandings

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### Closures

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Network  | Type  | End date  | Notes  | Sources

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SportsChannel Los Angeles | Cable and satellite  | December 31  |  |

## Television stations

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### Sign-ons

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Date  | City of License/Market | Station | Channel  | Affiliation  | Notes/Ref.

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January  | Lafayette, Louisiana | W40AV | 40  | Independent |
January 1  | Flagstaff, Arizona | KKTM | 13  | Independent  |
January 18  | Twin Falls, Idaho | KIPT | 13  | PBS | Part of Idaho Public Television
February 21  | Bristol, Virginia
(Tri-Cities, TN/VA) | W56CT | 56  | America One |
February 22  | Bullhead City, Arizona | K25HD | 25  | Cornerstone TV |
April 20  | Fairbanks, Alaska | K07UU | 7  | Fox |
May 11  | Ellendale, North Dakota | KJRE | 19  | PBS | Part of Prairie Public Television
June 30  | Greenville, North Carolina
(New Bern/Washington, North Carolina) | WYDO | 14  | Fox |
April 2  | Providence, Rhode Island | WOST-TV | 69  | Independent  |
April 3  | Springfield, Missouri | K08LX | 8  | Classified ads
The Box |
April 9  | Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan | WFUP | 45  | Fox | Satellite of WFQX/Traverse City
May 6  | Fresno, California | KKAK | 61  | Independent  |
July 1  | Tucson, Arizona | KHRR | 40  | Telemundo |
July 8  | Rocky Mount, North Carolina
(Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina) | WRMY | 47  | Independent |
August 3  | Omaha, Nebraska | K65FL | 65  | HSN |
August 13  | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | WGTW-TV | 48  | Independent  |
August 16  | W07CB | 7  | Channel America / Family Net |
September 11  | Fresno, California | KGMC | 43  | The Box |
September 24  | Utica, New York | W27BJ | 27  | Cornerstone Television |
September 24  | Hendersonville/Nashville, Tennessee | WPGD-TV | 50  | TBN |
October 5  | Charleston, South Carolina | WCTP | 36  | Independent |
October 12  | McAllen, Texas
(Brownsville/Harlingen, Texas, United States/Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico) | KNVO | 48  | Univision |
October 15  | Miami, Florida | WMLB-TV | 35  | Independent  |
November 1  | Indio/Palm Springs, California | K40DB | 40  | CBS  | Translator of KECY/El Centro
Medford, Oregon | K49DH  | 49  | Main Street TV
HomeNet  |
December 12  | Longview/Tyler, Texas | K10NT | 10  | Inspiration Channel | Now KLGV-LD channel 38
Unknown date  | Abilene, Texas | K54DT | 54  | Fox |
Bozeman, Montana | KDBZ-CD | 42  | NBC  | Translator of KTVM
Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands | WBIV-LP  | 38  | Independent |
Colorado Springs, Colorado | K51CE | 51  | LeSEA |
Lafayette, Louisiana | K46DG | 46  | Channel America |
Madison, Wisconsin | W08CK | 8  | Independent |
Wichita, Kansas | K55FS | 55  |

### Network affiliation changes

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Date  | City of License/Market | Station | Channel  | Old affiliation  | New affiliation  | Notes/Ref.

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February 24  | Marquette, Michigan | WJMN-TV | 3  | ABC | CBS |
WLUC-TV | 6  | CBS | ABC |
March 15  | Green Bay, Wisconsin | WBAY-TV | 2  | CBS | ABC |
WFRV-TV | 5  | ABC | CBS |
April 1  | Bowling Green, Kentucky | WKNT
(recalled from WQQB) | 40  | Independent | Fox | [28]
Unknown date  | Auburn, Indiana | W07CL | 7  | Main Street TV | Network One |

## Births

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Date | Name | Notability

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January 1  | Aaron James Murphy  | Actor
January 17  | Nate Hartley  | Actor (Zeke and Luther)
January 19  | Logan Lerman | Actor (Jack & Bobby)
Mac Miller | Rapper, reality television star (Mac Miller and the Most Dope Family). Performed on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Today, Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore (d. 2018)
January 22  | James Newman | Actor
January 26  | Mercedes Moné | Actress (The Mandalorian) and pro wrestler[29]
January 31  | Colby Minifie | Actress
February 1  | Kelli Goss | Actress (Big Time Rush, The Young and the Restless, The Ranch)
February 6  | Dylan Efron  | Actor
February 8  | Karle Warren | Actress (Judging Amy)
February 9  | Avan Jogia | Canadian actor (Victorious, Twisted)
February 10  | Lexi Atkins  | Actress
Karen Fukuhara | Actress (Craig of the Creek, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power, The Boys)
February 11  | Taylor Lautner | Actor (Danny Phantom, Cuckoo, Scream Queens, The Twilight Saga)
February 14  | Freddie Highmore | Actor (Bates Motel, The Good Doctor)
February 15  | Greer Grammer | Actress (Awkward.) and daughter of Kelsey Grammer
February 17  | Meaghan Martin | Actress (10 Things I Hate About You, Awkward.) and singer
Laivan Greene | Actress (All of Us)
Ziwe Fumudoh | Writer
February 18  | Logan Miller | Actor (I'm in the Band, Ultimate Spider-Man)
Melinda Shankar | Canadian actress
Juliana Canfield | Actress
Jacqueline Toboni | Actress
February 19  | Kaili Thorne  | Actress
Camille Kostek | Actress
Paulina Gaitán | Actress
February 26  | Toby Sebastian | Actor
February 28  | Annie Bovaird | Canadian voice actress (Caillou)
February 29  | Caitlin EJ Meyer | Actress
James Cullen Bressack | Film producer
Majesty Rose | Singer
Jessie T. Usher | Actor (Level Up, The Boys)
March 2  | Maisie Richardson-Sellers | English actress (Legends of Tomorrow, Of Kings and Prophets)
March 7  | Justin Kelly | Canadian actress
March 9  | Luis Armand Garcia  | Actor (George Lopez)
March 10  | Emily Osment | Actress (Hannah Montana, Cleaners, Young & Hungry, Mom, Kick Buttowski: Suburban Daredevil, Family Guy)
March 11  | Austin Swift | Actor
March 13  | Kaya Scodelario | English actress (Skins)
March 14  | Kailyn Lowry | TV personality
March 15  | Anna Shaffer | English actress (Harry Potter)
Sosie Bacon | Actress
March 16  | Brett Davern | Actress (Cold Case, Awkward)
March 17  | John Boyega | Actor
March 23  | Vanessa Morgan | Canadian actress
March 25  | Elizabeth Lail | Actress (Once Upon a Time, Dead of Summer)
March 26  | Haley Ramm | Actress (Without a Trace, Chasing Life)
March 28  | Daisy Bevan | Actress
March 30  | Caitlin Carver | Actress (The Fosters)
April 4  | Alexa Nikolas | Actress (Zoey 101, The Walking Dead)
April 8  | Shelby Young | Actress (Days of Our Lives)
April 10  | Daisy Ridley | British actress
April 13  | Emma Degerstedt | Actress (Unfabulous)
April 18  | Chloe Bennet | Actress (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
April 19  | James Scully | Actor
April 24  | Doc Shaw | Actor (Tyler Perry's House of Payne, The Suite Life on Deck, Pair of Kings)
Joe Keery | Actor (Stranger Things)
Jack Quaid | Actor (The Boys, My Adventures with Superman, Star Trek: Lower Decks, Harvey Girls Forever!)
April 28  | Catherine Wayne | Actress
May 4  | Courtney Jines | Actress
Grace Phipps | Actress (The Nine Lives of Chloe King, The Vampire Diaries, Baby Daddy, Scream Queens, Z Nation) and singer
Ashley Rickards | Actress (One Tree Hill, Awkward, The Flash)
May 7  | Alexander Ludwig | Canadian actor (Vikings)
May 8  | Ana Mulvoy-Ten | English actress (House of Anubis)
Olivia Culpo | Actress
May 12  | Ali Sepasyar  | Actor (Dude, What Would Happen)
Malcolm David Kelley | Actor (Lost) and rapper
May 15  | Clark Beckham | Singer (American Idol)[30][31]
May 18  | Spencer Breslin | Actor (Teamo Supremo, Center of the Universe)
May 19  | Sam Smith | English singer
May 20  | Jack Gleeson | Irish actor (Game of Thrones)
Enes Kanter | Basketball player
May 21  | Hutch Dano | Actor (Zeke and Luther)
Olivia Olson | Voice actress (Phineas and Ferb, Adventure Time, The Powerpuff Girls)
May 24  | Travis T. Flory | Actor (Everybody Hates Chris)
May 29  | Gregg Sulkin | British actor (Wizards of Waverly Place, Faking It, Runaways)
June 3  | Jade Cargill | Pro wrestler[32]
June 4  | Lux Pascal | Actress
June 6  | DeAndre Hopkins | Football player
June 7  | Sara Lee | Contestant and winner of WWE Tough Enough (died 2022)
June 10  | Kate Upton | Actress and model
June 11  | Eugene Simon | English actor (House of Anubis)
June 12  | Allie DiMeco | Actress (The Naked Brothers Band)
Ryan Malgarini | Actor (Gary Unmarried)
June 14  | Daryl Sabara | Actor (Weeds, Wizards of Waverly Place, Generator Rex, Ultimate Spider-Man, Ben 10)
June 21  | Max Schneider | Actor (How to Rock)
June 23  | Kate Melton | Actress (Scooby-Doo)
June 24  | Raven Goodwin | Actress (Just Jordan, Good Luck Charlie)
June 26  | Jennette McCurdy | Actress (iCarly, Sam & Cat, Between)
July 3  | Nathalia Ramos | Spanish actress (House of Anubis)
July 5  | Ellen Tamaki | Actress
July 7  | Toni Garrn | German model
July 13  | Dylan Patton | Actor (Days of Our Lives)
July 17  | Billie Lourd | Actress (Scream Queens) and daughter of Carrie Fisher
Harrison Chad | Voice actor (Dora the Explorer, Little Einsteins)
July 20  | Jordan Rodrigues | Australian actor (Dance Academy, The Fosters)
Paige Hurd | Actress
July 22  | Selena Gomez | Actress (Barney & Friends, Hannah Montana, Wizards of Waverly Place) and singer
July 28  | Spencer Boldman | Actor (Lab Rats)
August 2  | Hallie Eisenberg | Actress (Pepsi commercials)
Jelani Alladin | Actor
August 3  | Karlie Kloss | Model
August 4  | Dylan Sprouse | Actors (Grace Under Fire, Friends, The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, The Suite Life on Deck, Riverdale)
Cole Sprouse
August 8  | Casey Cott | Actor (Riverdale)
August 9  | Burkely Duffield | Canadian actor (House of Anubis)
August 11  | Tomi Lahren | Host
August 12  | Cara Delevingne | English actress, model
August 20  | Demi Lovato | Actress (Barney & Friends, As the Bell Rings, Sonny with a Chance, Glee, The X Factor) and singer
Alex Newell | Actor (Glee) and singer
August 21  | Brad Kavanagh | Actor (House of Anubis)
RJ Mitte | Actor
August 22  | Ari Stidham | Actor (Scorpion)
Erin Unger  | Actress
August 27  | Blake Jenner | Actor (Glee)
August 31  | Talon Warburton | Actor
September 12  | Alexia Fast | Actress
September 16  | Nick Jonas | Actor (Jonas, Scream Queens) and singer (Jonas Brothers)
September 22  | Lauren Patten | Actress
September 27  | Sam Lerner | Actor (The Secret Saturdays, Suburgatory, The Goldbergs, Trolls: The Beat Goes On!)
Jake Burbage | Actor (Dora the Explorer, Grounded for Life)
September 28  | Keir Gilchrist | Actor (United States of Tara)
Skye McCole Bartusiak | Actress (died 2014)
September 30  | Ezra Miller | Actor
October 1  | Christopher O'Shea | Actor
October 6  | Rhyon Nicole Brown | Actress
October 9  | Tyler James Williams | Actor (Everybody Hates Chris, Abbott Elementary, Batman: The Brave and the Bold)
October 11  | Cardi B | Rapper
October 12  | Josh Hutcherson | Actor
October 15  | Vincent Martella | Actor (Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Everybody Hates Chris, Phineas and Ferb, Milo Murphy's Law)
October 17  | Jacob Artist | Actor (Glee)
October 18  | Barry Keoghan | Actor
October 19  | Taylor Masamitsu  | Voice actor (Eubie on Higglytown Heroes)
October 22  | Sofia Vassilieva | Actress (Medium)
October 26  | Beulah Koale | Actor
October 27  | Charles Cottier | Australian actor (Home and Away)
October 28  | Lexi Ainsworth | Actress (General Hospital)
October 30  | Tequan Richmond | Actor (Everybody Hates Chris, General Hospital) and rapper
October 31  | Vanessa Marano | Actress (The Young and the Restless, Scoundrels, Switched at Birth)
November 2  | London Elise Moore | Actress
November 4  | Jessa Seewald | Actress (19 Kids and Counting, Counting On) and television personality
November 7  | Christopher Tavarez | Actor
Andrea Londo | Actress
November 12  | Macey Cruthird | Actress (Hope & Faith, Two and a Half Men)
November 18  | John Karna | Actor (Scream Valley of the Boom)
Nathan Kress | Actor (iCarly, Star Wars Rebels, Pinky Malinky)
November 23  | Miley Cyrus | Actress (Hannah Montana, The Emperor's New School), singer and daughter of Billy Ray Cyrus
November 25  | Zack Shada | Actor
November 28  | Adam Hicks | Actor (Titus, Zeke and Luther, Jonas, Pair of Kings, Texas Rising, Freakish)
Cameron Ansell | Canadian voice actor (The Save-Ums!, Arthur, Time Warp Trio)
December 14  | Tori Kelly | American singer
December 18  | Bridgit Mendler | Actress (Wizards of Waverly Place, Good Luck Charlie, Undateable) and singer
December 23  | Spencer Daniels | Actor (Mom)
December 25  | Rachel Keller | Actress (Fargo)
December 30  | Michael Eric Reid | Actor (Victorious)

## Deaths

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January 7  | Richard Hunt | 40  | Puppeteer (The Muppet Show)
January 26  | José Ferrer | 80  | Actor (Newhart recurring role)
February 2  | Bert Parks | 77  | Longtime host of the Miss America beauty pageant
February 20  | Dick York | 63  | Actor (the 1st Darren Stephens on Bewitched)
March 6  | Hugh Gibb | 76  | English drummer and bandleader
March 25  | Nancy Walker | 69  | Actress (Ida on Rhoda, Rosie the Bounty lady)
April 10  | Sam Kinison | 38  | Comedian and actor (Charlie Hoover)
May 12  | Robert Reed | 59  | Actor (Mike Brady on The Brady Bunch)
May 17  | Lawrence Welk | 89  | Accordionist and bandleader (The Lawrence Welk Show)
June 6  | Larry Riley | 38  | Actor (Knots Landing)
June 15  | Chuck Menville | 52  | Animator and writer (The Smurfs)
June 22  | Chuck Mitchell | 64  | Actor (General Hospital)
July 9  | Eric Sevareid | 79  | News commentator
October 16  | Shirley Booth | 94  | Actress (Hazel)
October 22  | Cleavon Little | 53  | Actor (Temperatures Rising)
November 7  | Jack Kelly | 65  | Actor (Bart Maverick on Maverick)
November 10  | Chuck Connors | 71  | Actor (Lucas McCain on The Rifleman)
November 22  | Sterling Holloway | 87  | Actor (original voice of Winnie-the-Pooh)
December 18  | Mark Goodson | 77  | Producer of game shows (Match Game, Blockbusters, The Price Is Right)
December 24  | Peyo | 64  | Also known as "Peyo"; Belgian creator of (The Smurfs)

## See also

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* 1992 in the United States
* List of American films of 1992

## References

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