2001 in American television: Difference between revisions

|[[WrestleMania X-Seven]] from the [[Reliant Astrodome]] in [[Houston|Houston, Texas]], is broadcast on [[pay-per-view]]. The event would receive universal acclaim from critics and fans.

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| [[CBS]]'s travel-based reality-competition, ''[[The Amazing Race (American TV series)|The Amazing Race]]'', which would later become one of the most successful franchises in television, premieredpremieres its [[The Amazing Race 1|first episode]].

| Ed Toutant wins $1,860,000 on ''[[Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (American game show)|Who Wants to Be a Millionaire]]''.<ref name="Toutant">{{cite web|url=https://www.aol.com/article/2010/09/29/million-dollar-game-show-winners-what-happens-after-the-money-c/19644881/|title=Million Dollar Game Show Winners: What Happens After the Money Comes In|work=Aol.com|publisher=Daily Finance|last=Berr|first=Jonathan|date=September 29, 2010|accessdate=July 30, 2014}}</ref> He had previously appeared on the episode aired January 31, 2001, when the jackpot was $1,860,000, where he was ruled to have answered his $16,000 question incorrectly, but when it was discovered that there was a mistake in that question, Toutant was invited back<ref>{{cite episode|series=Who Wants to Be a Millionaire |season=3|number=1|date=September 7, 2001|network=ABC}}</ref> and wonwins the $1,860,000 jackpot.<ref name="Toutant"/>

| Fox broadcasts the final episode of ''[[Murder in Small Town X]]'', in which [[New York City]] firefighter [[Ángel Juarbe, Jr.]] wonwins. Juarbe wasis killed three days later during the [[collapse of the World Trade Center]].

| Viewers around the world witness a [[September 11 attacks|terrorist attack]] on the [[United States]], and the [[Collapse of the World Trade Center|collapse]] of the [[World Trade Center (1973–2001)|Twin Towers]] in [[New York City]], live on television. Additionally, the broadcast towers of [[WABC-TV]] and [[WNBC]], the respective flagship stations of [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] and [[NBC]], wereare destroyed by the attacks, but those signals could be viewed cable and satellite. The broadcast tower of [[WCBS-TV]] wasis destroyed in the attacks, but its full-power backup transmitter at the [[Empire State Building]] wasis not destroyed. Most American over-the-air broadcasters (except for Fox, UPN, PBS, and The WB) and cable networks suspend regular programming for four days, and numerous major daily [[talk show]]s wereare not exhibited for several weeks until their hosts feel comfortable resuming programming.

| Although they were first seen during 1952 and used by some television news programs ever since, [[news ticker|continually scrolling news headlines]] along the bottom of the screen become commonplace after the [[Fox News Channel]] useduses it to allow viewers to keep track of the latest developments during the attacks.

| [[Dick Schaap]] makes his final appearance as host of [[ESPN]]'s ''[[The Sports Reporters]]''. The show wasis expanded to an hour to cover the sports perspective from the [[September 11th attacks]]. Schaap soon underwentundergoes [[hip replacement]] surgery and later dieddies from complications. In fact, he delayed the surgery in order to be on that show.

|All of the Big Three television networks resumedresume their normal daytime programming schedules after four days of extensive news coverage of the attacks.

| The start of the 2001–2002 autumn season in the US is delayed as a result of the attacks, with some series such as [[NBC]]'s ''[[The West Wing]]'' substituting special episodes dealing with the event in lieu of their originally scheduled season premieres. Some series, such as [[CBS]]'s military-themed series ''[[JAG (TV series)|JAG]]'' and [[NBC]]'s New York-based ''[[Third Watch]]'', hadhave to be reformatted in consideration of the attacks.

| [[UPN]] airedairs the [[Broken Bow (Star Trek: Enterprise)|two-hour series premiere]] of ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]''. ''Enterprise'' is UPN's replacement for ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' (as well as the last iteration of the ''[[Star Trek]]'' franchise).

| [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] affiliate WVSX (now [[WVNS-TV]]) in [[Lewisburg, West Virginia]], changes its affiliation to [[CBS]], giving the [[Beckley, West Virginia|Beckley]]-[[Bluefield, West Virginia|Bluefield]]-[[Oak Hill, West Virginia|Oak Hill]] market its first full-time CBS affiliate. Fox diddoes not return to the Bluefield area until 2006, when the combination of a dispute involving [[WVAH-TV]] in [[Charleston, West Virginia|Charleston]] and the end of the [[Foxnet]] cable service prompts WVNS-TV to establish a Fox-affiliated DT2 subchannel.

| Game 7 of the [[2001 World Series|World Series]] is broadcast on [[Major League Baseball on Fox|Fox]]. The [[2001 Arizona Diamondbacks season|Arizona Diamondbacks]] win their first title, defeating the three-time champion [[2001 New York Yankees season|New York Yankees]] which marked the end of their memorable dynasty. The game ended with a base hit walk-off by [[Luis Gonzalez (outfielder, born 1967)|Luis Gonzalez]] against closer [[Mariano Rivera]] as he notoriously blew the save. This hasseries beenwas consideredclaimed as one of the greatest World Series of all time.

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