Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| January 3 | First television sets with built-in closed-caption display are introduced in the United States. |
| January 14 | Wheel of Fortune moves back to NBC, before being ultimately cancelled by NBC on September 20, after a total 16½ year run on daytime network television. |
| January 16 | All major television networks were pre-empted by the Gulf War coverage right after the Big 3 ended their evening news broadcasts. Some of the planned broadcasts was the Seinfeld second season is pushed off the following week during the war. |
| February 9 | Tim Meadows and Adam Sandler join Saturday Night Live. Meadows stays with the show until 2000, while Sandler departs in 1995. |
| March 3 | In Los Angeles, California, Rodney King is severely beaten by Police Officers after leading them on a high speed chase and resisting arrest. The beating is captured on video by observers and portions of the tape are aired repeatedly on television in the US. |
| March 16 | A. Whitney Brown makes his final appearance on Saturday Night Live. |
| April 1 | The premium movie channel Encore launches in the United States, primarily on TCI cable systems. The channel initially carried films from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, before eventually phasing in more recent movies by the 2000s (decade). Showtime Networks launched Flix, a premium channel with a format identical to Encore less than a year-and-a-half later. |
| CBS began airing a late-night crime-investigation program entitled Crimetime After Primetime. | |
| April 5 | Katie Couric is officially designated as co-host of the Today Show after substituting since February 1991. |
| April 20 | The Museum of Broadcasting, now called The Paley Center for Media, moved into its new 17-story building, located a block from its previous location in New York City. |
| May 3 | The final episode of Dallas on CBS airs, when it was 21 years later before it returned to the airwaves. |
| May 19 | Knight Rider 2000 is televised on NBC, with an attraction of 16.1 viewers for the movie presentation based off on a TV series. |
| May 21 | Financial News Network ceased broadcasting before transactions were completed by CNBC. |
| June 1 | After merging places with Ha! and The Comedy Channel. CTV: The Comedy Network relaunches Comedy Central, forging the CTV name in Canada. |
| July 1 | Court TV (now TruTV) launches in the United States. |
| September 1 | E! News went live. |
| September 8 | Minnie Pearl makes her final appearance on Hee Haw. |
| September 9–13 | The 20th Anniversary week of The Price is Right airs as a season premiere on CBS. |
| September 17 | Full House moves from the ABC's TGIF lineup, and airs on Tuesday nights until its cancellation in 1995. |
| October 13 | Jennifer Lopez joins the cast as one of the Fly Girls on In Living Color. Other cast additions include future Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx and Steve Park. Shawn Wayans, the original DJ for the show, is replaced by Twist. Wayans joins the cast until the end of the following season. |
| November 14 | Michael Jackson's Black or White was first televised on Fox. This is the first Micheal Jackson music videos to be shown on Fox, alongside with other MTV Networks music channels. |
| November 16 | Ellen Cleghorne, Melanie Hutsell and Beth Cahill joins Saturday Night Live. |
| December | Britney Spears appears on Star Search. |
| December 8 | Tim Russert becomes moderator of Meet the Press a position he holds until his untimely death in 2008. |
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