Editing 1994 in American television (section)

=== September ===
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|[[WJW (TV)|WJW-TV]] in Cleveland is the first of the New World Communications stations to switch to Fox, ending a 40-year affiliation with CBS. Former Fox affiliate [[WOIO]], in turn, joins CBS and takes over operations of independent [[WUAB]] (owned by [[Stephen J. Cannell|Cannell Communications]]) via a [[local marketing agreement]]; this allows for WOIO to set up a news department using WUAB's personnel.<ref name="CPD19940902p1A">{{cite news |last=Feran |first=Tom |date=September 2, 1994 |title=Touch that dial! TV turnabout begins tomorrow on Channels 8, 19, 43 |page=1A |newspaper=The Plain Dealer |location=Cleveland, Ohio |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid%2Finfoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=NewsBank&req_dat=1082885C71926A79&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews%252F0F3413A60C43494E |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |access-date=October 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230110034117/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=NewsBank&docref=news/0F3413A60C43494E&f=basic |archive-date=January 10, 2023 |via=NewsBank}}</ref><ref name="CPD19940708p1A">{{cite news |last=Feran |first=Tom |date=July 8, 1994 |title=CBS plans to join Channel 19 by Aug. 29 |page=1A |newspaper=The Plain Dealer |location=Cleveland, Ohio |url=https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid%2Finfoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=NewsBank&req_dat=1082885C71926A79&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews%252F0F807D316A1C8DD3 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription |access-date=October 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221006020656/https://infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=NewsBank&docref=news/0F807D316A1C8DD3&f=basic |archive-date=October 6, 2022 |via=NewsBank}}</ref>
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|The [[Television film|made-for-television film]] ''[[Scooby-Doo! in Arabian Nights]]'' premieres in [[Broadcast syndication|syndication]]. The film is notable for being the last film or television series in which [[Don Messick]] voices [[Scooby-Doo (character)|Scooby-Doo]] and [[Boo-Boo Bear]] before his retirement in 1996 (though he would voice Scooby-Doo one more time in the ''[[Scooby-Doo Mystery]]'' video game),<ref>{{Cite web|title=Don Messick Video Game Credits and Biography|url=https://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,203871/|access-date=2021-09-28|website=MobyGames}}</ref> and the last in which [[Allan Melvin]] voices [[Magilla Gorilla]] (as well as his last film role overall). It is also the last ''[[Scooby-Doo]]'' production to be produced entirely by [[Hanna-Barbera]]. Beginning with 1998's ''[[Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island]]'', ''Scooby-Doo'' related animated films and television series would at the very least, co-produced by [[Warner Bros. Animation]]. 
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|[[Fox NFL|Fox]] [[National Football League on United States television|covers]] regular season [[National Football League]] games for the [[1994 NFL season|first time]] with the launch of their pre-game program, ''[[Fox NFL Sunday]]''.
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|The [[National Hockey League]] reaches a five-year, US$155 million contract with [[NHL on Fox|Fox]]<ref>{{cite news |last=Daniel|first=Al|date=May 17, 2020|title=NHL on Fox established hockey's lasting U.S. network presence|url=https://fansided.com/2020/05/17/nhl-on-fox-established-hockeys-lasting-us-network-presence/|work=Fansided|location= |access-date=}}</ref> for the broadcast television rights to the league's games, beginning with the [[1994–95 NHL season|1994–95 season]].<ref>{{cite web| url= https://www.nytimes.com/1994/09/10/sports/hockey-fox-outbids-cbs-for-nhl-games.html| title= HOCKEY; Fox Outbids CBS for N.H.L. Games| work=Richard Sandomir ([[New York Times]]) | date= September 10, 1994| access-date= March 20, 2008}}</ref>
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|The [[46th Primetime Emmy Awards]] were presented on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]].
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|New World station [[WDAF-TV]] in Kansas City ends a 45-year affiliation with NBC to join Fox, with former Fox affiliate [[KSHB-TV]] linking up with NBC.<ref name="Kans940524">{{Cite news |last=McTavish |first=Brian |date=May 24, 1994 |title=WDAF to leave NBC, join Fox |page=A-1, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61708944/wdaf-to-drop-link-with-nbc/ A-8] |newspaper=The Kansas City Star |location=Kansas City, Missouri |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61708935/wdaf-to-leave-nbc-join-fox/ |url-status=live |access-date=February 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230202004736/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/61708935/wdaf-to-leave-nbc-join-fox/ |archive-date=February 2, 2023 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name="Kans940811">{{Cite news |last=Garron |first=Barry |date=August 11, 1994 |title=TV network shift set for Sept. 12 |page=C-1, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/117708521/channels-4-41-set-network-shift-for-sep/ C-3] |newspaper=The Kansas City Star |location= |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/117708498/tv-network-shift-set-for-sept-12/ |url-status=live |access-date=February 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230202004730/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/117708498/tv-network-shift-set-for-sept-12/ |archive-date=February 2, 2023 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
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|New World station KSAZ-TV in Phoenix ends a 40-year connection to CBS, with former [[Independent station (North America)|independent]] [[KPHO-TV]] joining CBS.<ref name="Ariz940910">{{Cite news |last=Walker |first=Dave |date=September 10, 1994 |title=TV switch: Channel 5 to carry CBS today |page=A1, [https://www.newspapers.com/clip/89556043/channel-5-begins-carrying-cbs-today/ A20] |work=Arizona Republic |location=Phoenix, Arizona |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28879847/tv-switch-channel-5-to-carry-cbs-today/ |url-status=live |access-date=November 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211126045400/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28879847/tv-switch-channel-5-to-carry-cbs-today/ |archive-date=November 26, 2021 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> Due to Fox affiliate KNXV-TV having a contract that ends three months later, KSAZ-TV operates as an independent for the interregnum.<ref name="CBSFoxstationsswitch">{{Cite news |last=Meisler |first=Andy |date=August 29, 1994 |title=Murdoch's Raid Brings a Shuffling of TV Stations in Phoenix |page=D1 |work=New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/29/business/murdoch-s-raid-brings-a-shuffling-of-tv-stations-in-phoenix.html?pagewanted=1 |url-status=live |access-date=October 22, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130613154035/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/29/business/murdoch-s-raid-brings-a-shuffling-of-tv-stations-in-phoenix.html?pagewanted=1 |archive-date=June 13, 2013}}</ref> KNXV-TV begins taking ABC programming on a piecemeal basis from soon-to-be former affiliate KTVK, the market's new independent.<ref name="Ariz940616" />
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|Original ''[[Family Feud]]'' host [[Richard Dawson]] returns to the series after nine years, replacing his successor, [[Ray Combs]]; the show also [[Family Feud#1994–1995|expands from half-hour to full-hour episodes]].
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|[[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] affiliate [[WEWS-TV|WEWS]], who previously aired only the first hour of ''[[Good Morning America]]'', begins airing the full two-hour version of the show, and as a result, ''[[The Morning Exchange]]'' was shifted an hour back.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Heldenfels |first=R.J. |date=August 26, 1994 |title='Morning Exchange' moving |pages=72 |work=[[The Akron Beacon Journal]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-akron-beacon-journal-morning-exchan/66469184/ |access-date=November 24, 2023}}</ref>
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|[[Gaylord Broadcasting]] agrees to affiliate both [[KTVT]] in Dallas and [[KSTW]] in Tacoma/Seattle with CBS.<ref name="KTVT-KSTW">{{Cite news |date=September 19, 1994 |title=Gaylord gets CBS affiliates in Seattle and Dallas |page=14 |work=Broadcasting & Cable |url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/94-OCR/BC-1994-09-19-Page-0014.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=July 19, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200628115014/https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Magazines/Archive-BC-IDX/94-OCR/BC-1994-09-19-Page-0014.pdf |archive-date=June 28, 2020 |via=World Radio History}}</ref>
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|The sitcom ''[[Daddy's Girls (1994 TV series)|Daddy's Girls]]'' debuts on [[CBS]]. Although it is abandoned after three episodes, it is notable as the first series in which a gay principal character is played by an openly gay actor, [[Harvey Fierstein]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1994-09-21-9409200450-story.html|title=Dudley Do Wrong: 'Daddy's Girls' A Sitcom Dud|first=Tom|last=Jincha|date=September 21, 1994|website=Sun-Sentinel}}</ref>
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|[[Sam Waterston]] makes his [[Law & Order (season 5)|first appearance]] on [[NBC]]'s ''[[Law & Order]]'' as Executive Assistant District Attorney [[Jack McCoy]].
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|''[[Now with Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric]]'' is merged into ''[[Dateline NBC]]'', creating a Wednesday version of the series.<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 11, 1994 |title='Dateline' Lifetime |pages=333 |work=[[New York Daily News]]}}</ref>
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|The [[The Pilot (Friends)|pilot episode]] for ''[[Friends]]'' airs on [[NBC]]. It will rank as being the fifteenth-most-watched television show of the week, scoring 14.7/23 [[Nielsen rating]] (each point represented 954,000 households) and nearly 22&nbsp; million viewers.<ref name="Lauer">{{cite web|first=Matt|last=Lauer|author-link=Matt Lauer|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna4899445|title=Friends creators share story of show's beginnings|work=[[NBC News]]|date=May 5, 2004|access-date=December 23, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first=John|last=Carmody|title=The TV Column|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=September 26, 1994}}</ref>
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|[[UWF Blackjack Brawl]] airs live on [[SportsChannel America]]. This is the first and only major live television [[Card (sports)#Supercard|supercard]] event produced by [[Herb Abrams]]' [[Universal Wrestling Federation (Herb Abrams)|Universal Wrestling Federation]] (UWF). The event was a successor to UWF's only pay-per-view event, [[UWF Beach Brawl|Beach Brawl]].
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|The ''[[Marvel Action Hour]]'', featuring animated adaptations of [[Iron Man (TV series)|Iron Man]] and the [[Fantastic Four (1994 TV series)|Fantastic Four]] introduced by [[Stan Lee]], debuts in [[Broadcast syndication|syndication]].
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