Editing 2001 in American television (section)

===September===
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!2
| [[Adult Swim]], an adult-oriented programming block, debuts on its [[Turner Broadcasting System|Turner]] sister cable channel [[Cartoon Network]].
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!3
| [[Thuy Trang]], the actress best known for her role as the yellow ranger, [[Trini Kwan]] from ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' unexpectedly dies at the age of 27 in a car accident in [[San Francisco]].
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!5
| [[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, premieres its [[The Amazing Race 1|first episode]].
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!7
| 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 wins the jackpot.<ref name="Toutant"/>
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!8
| [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] broadcasts the final episode of ''[[Murder in Small Town X]]'', in which [[New York City]] firefighter [[Ángel Juarbe, Jr.]] wins. Juarbe is killed three days later during the [[collapse of the World Trade Center]].
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! rowspan="2" |11
| 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]], are destroyed by the attacks, but those signals could be viewed cable and satellite. The broadcast tower of [[WCBS-TV]] is destroyed in the attacks, but its full-power backup transmitter at the [[Empire State Building]] is not. 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 are not exhibited for several weeks until their hosts feel comfortable resuming programming.
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| 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]] uses it to allow viewers to keep track of the latest developments during the attacks.
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!13
| [[UPN]] resumes normal programming with a live episode of ''[[WWE SmackDown|SmackDown]]''. The show was originally scheduled to be taped on September 11, but the taping was postponed by two days due to the attacks.
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!16
| [[Dick Schaap]] makes his final appearance as host of [[ESPN]]'s ''[[The Sports Reporters]]''. The show is expanded to an hour to cover the sports perspective from the [[September 11th attacks]]. Schaap soon undergoes [[hip replacement]] surgery and later dies from complications. In fact, he delayed the surgery in order to be on that show.
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!17
| All of the Big Three television networks resume their normal daytime programming schedules after four days of extensive news coverage of the attacks.
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!20
| On [[CBS]], Dr. [[Will Kirby]] is declared the winner of ''[[Big Brother 2 (American season)|Big Brother 2]]'', which was delayed by the attacks. Runner-up Nicole Nilson-Schafrich wins $50,000.
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!21
| All four major US networks – [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]], [[CBS]], [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]], and [[NBC]] – broadcast ''[[America: A Tribute to Heroes]]'', a two-hour telethon to raise money for the families of those killed by the attacks.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/09/22/MN112627.DTL&type=printable|title=Musicians, actors honor heroes, raise money for attack victims|date=September 22, 2001|first=John|last=Carman|newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle|page=A1}}</ref>
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!24
| The start of [[2001–02 United States network television schedule|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]]'', have to be reformatted in consideration of the attacks.
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!26
| [[UPN]] airs 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).
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!29
| [[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 does 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.
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