Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 2 | All My Children airs its 20th anniversary special. The characters Joe and Ruth Martin sit down with Erica Kane, her mother Mona, and Phoebe Wallingford as they go through scrapbook pictures which segue into memorable clips from the show's past twenty years. |
| January 15 | Square One TV returns for its third season. |
| January 21 | MTV Unplugged premieres on cable television with musical guest, Squeeze. |
| February 9 | After 26 years of special identity, the CBS Special Presentation 1st gen bumper (since 1973) was shown for the final time. |
| February 17 | Aerosmith appears in the Saturday Night Live sketch Wayne's World, where they perform the Wayne's World theme song. |
| March 13 | On All My Children, actress Debbi Morgan, one-half of the first black supercouple, leaves the role of Angie Baxter Hubbard. |
| April 1 | CBS fires prominent sportscaster Brent Musburger one day before his final assignment for the network, the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship. Musburger would sign with ABC Sports later in the year. |
| Debut of comedy TV network Ha!. | |
| April 21 | Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue, a TV special warning kids about the danger of drugs and featuring characters from several Saturday morning kids shows, is simulcast on ABC, BET, CBS, Fox, NBC, USA Network, and Nickelodeon. |
| April 22 | The Earth Day Special, a 2-hour commercial-free special event that premiered on ABC. The television airing gave 14.6 viewers to air this special. |
| April 30 | The long-lost pilot film to I Love Lucy airs on CBS as a special. |
| May 11 | A trick backfires on J.R. when his enemy conspires to trap him inside an insane asylum on the season finale of Dallas. |
| May 25 | CBS starts airing its daytime lineup in stereo sound, after competition from NBC and ABC necessitated the change in standard. |
| June 7 | The Cruise of Deception storyline airs on Days of our Lives. |
| June 27 | Genie Francis, in an attempt to shed her image as Laura Spencer, starts playing her third soap role, as Irishwoman Ceara Connor on All My Children which she will remain for two years until 1992. |
| July 16 | Radio DJ personality Rick Dees debuted as a ABC late-night talk show titled, Into the Night Starring Rick Dees. |
| July 30 | MovieTime relaunches as E!. |
| September 8 | Fox Kids, a children's programming block, debuts, complaining all 3 children's Saturday morning broadcast networks. |
| September 10 | Launch of The Disney Afternoon programming block. |
| September 15 | CBN renames The Family Channel, once again to its name. |
| October 1 | The term name SuperStation is removed to its name and it was simply known as TBS, marking to return 6 years later to return its on-air name. |
| November 3 | The NBA on NBC debuts, Los Angeles Lakers vs. the Spurs in San Antonio. |
| November 10 | Chris Farley, Tim Meadows, Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider and Julia Sweeney join Saturday Night Live. |
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