Editing 1998 in American television (section)

===April===
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!4
|''[[CatDog]]'' premieres on Nickelodeon following the [[1998 Kids' Choice Awards]]. The show did not air every day until October. 
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!6
|Long-running British children's television series ''[[Teletubbies]]'' begins its U.S. television debut on [[PBS Kids]].
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!9
|''[[The Price Is Right (American game show)|The Price Is Right]]'''s 5,000th episode is broadcast on [[CBS]]. On the show, every pricing game is played for a car (something ''Price'' had only done once before. It has been repeated only once since then). At the beginning of the show, CBS announces it has renamed Studio 33 (the studio at [[CBS Television City]] where ''The Price Is Right'' has taped since its 1972 return) the [[Bob Barker]] Studios in honor of the show's then-host and executive producer.
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!11
|The [[National Cable Television Association]] announces they will discontinue the [[CableACE awards]], due to the [[Emmy Awards]] recognizing cable programming.
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!24
|A second special episode of ''[[Dallas (TV series)|Dallas]]'', ''[[Dallas: War of the Ewings]]'', airs on [[CBS]] seven years after the original series finished.
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!30
|Seven television stations broadcast the suicide of maintenance worker [[Daniel V. Jones]] on live television. The incident causes many to criticize Los Angeles television stations' practice of airing police pursuits live and calls for proposed changes in the way live coverage of events are handled in the future.
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