Editing 2000 in American television (section)

===May===
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! 1
|The [[WWE|WWF]] receives the 2nd highest rated episode of ''[[WWE RAW|Raw is War]]'' with a 7.4 rating, where [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]] defeated [[Shane McMahon]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ross |first=Ian |date=May 1, 2000 |title=Monday Night Ratings Breakdown |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/05/02/monday-night-ratings-breakdown |website=IGN}}</ref>
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! 14
|After four years (since [[KOTA-TV|KEVN-TV]] left the network to join [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] in 1996), [[NBC]] returns to the [[Black Hills]] area of [[South Dakota]] when [[KNBN]] signs-on from [[Rapid City, South Dakota|Rapid City]].
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! 17
|16.8 million American viewers watch the 2-hour final episode of ''[[Beverly Hills, 90210]]'' on [[Fox Broadcasting Company|FOX]].
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! 19
|The [[27th Daytime Emmy Awards]] presentation is broadcast by [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]].
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! 24
|[[The WB]] broadcasts the third-season finale of ''[[Dawson's Creek]]'', entitled "[[True Love (Dawson's Creek)|True Love]]". The episode features the first male [[gay]] kiss on American primetime television, which has been called "a milestone in the timeline of gay representation in pop culture".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Duca|first1=Lauren|title=Fifteen Years Ago, 'Dawson's Creek' Gave Us TV's First 'Passionate' Gay Kiss. How Far Have We Come?|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/09/dawsons-creek-true-love_n_6971230.html|accessdate=July 16, 2017|work=[[The Huffington Post]]|date=April 9, 2015}}</ref>
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!31
|The first season of [[CBS]]'s long-running reality competition of ''[[Survivor (American TV series)|Survivor]]'', titled ''[[Survivor: Borneo]]'', based on Sweden's game show ''[[Expedition Robinson]]'', premieres its first episode. Sonja Christopher was the first contestant to be eliminated.
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