Editing 2002 in American television (section)

===January===
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!1
|[[KRON-TV]]/[[San Francisco]] ends its affiliation with [[NBC]] after 52 years and becomes an [[Independent station (North America)|independent station]] after [[Young Broadcasting]], which purchased the station for $823 million in November 1999 from the deYoung family (who also sold the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' to the [[Hearst Corporation]]), refuses to agree to demands made by NBC to manage KRON under the conventions of a [[owned-and-operated station|network-owned station]] (which included [[rebranding]] from "KRON 4" to "NBC 4", and airing the entire network schedule in pattern with pre-emptions reduced to those necessitated due to extended [[breaking news]] coverage). [[San Jose, California|San Jose]]-based [[The WB|WB]] affiliate [[KNTV]] (which served as the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] affiliate for the [[South Bay (San Francisco Bay Area)|South Bay]] from 1960 until 2000, when it agreed to disaffiliate at the request of the [[San Francisco Bay Area|Bay Area]]'s primary ABC station, O&O [[KGO-TV]]) assumes the NBC affiliation and soon afterward is sold to the network by the [[Granite Broadcasting Corporation]], whose remaining Bay Area station, KBWB-TV (now independent station [[KOFY-TV]]), consequently became the market's sole WB affiliate.
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!5
|''[[Soul Train]]'' airs its [[List of Soul Train episodes#Season 31 .282001.E2.80.932002.29|1,000th episode]]. [[Faith Evans]], [[Rayvon]], and [[Mack 10]] performed.
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!17
|''[[The Price Is Right (American game show)|The Price Is Right]]'' tapes its 30th Anniversary Special broadcast in [[Las Vegas Strip|Las Vegas]], and it was broadcast by [[CBS]] January 31.
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