Editing 2003 in American television (section)

===May===
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!1
| [[TBS (American TV channel)|TBS]] broadcast its last [[NBA on TBS|NBA]] game (not counting alternate broadcasts or simulcasts of the [[NBA All-Star Game]] and overflow broadcast of playoff games) to date. Subsequent NBA playoff games on the [[TNT Sports (United States)|Turner Sports]] family of networks were broadcast on either [[TNT (American TV network)|TNT]] or [[NBA TV]].
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| Nancy Christy becomes the first woman to win $1,000,000 on the syndicated version of ''[[Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (American game show)|Who Wants to Be a Millionaire]]''.
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| On a special episode of ''[[Primetime (American TV program)|Primetime]]'' entitled ''Major Fraud'' (which originally aired as an episode of ''[[Tonight (1999 TV programme)|Tonight]]'' on [[ITV (TV channel)|ITV]] on April 21), segments of an unaired 2001 episode of [[Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (UK game show)|the British version of ''Millionaire'']] featuring [[Charles Ingram]] were broadcast. The program featured additional interviews with witnesses of the [[R v Ingram, C., Ingram, D. and Whittock, T.|criminal trial]] that happened after Ingram was stripped of the £1,000,000 prize; Ingram had been found guilty of [[Deception (criminal law)|deception]] at [[Southwark]] Crown Court on April 7.
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!16
| The [[30th Daytime Emmy Awards]] are given, in a ceremony telecast by [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]].
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!19
| [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] broadcasts a four-hour 50th anniversary special. 
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!20
| ''[[America's Next Top Model]]'' premieres on [[UPN]]. UPN also aired the [[Chosen (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)|final episode]] of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' after 2 additional seasons and 44 episodes after being picked up by [[The WB]] (after being the smash hit on the network in the series's beginnings).
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!21
| On [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]], [[Ruben Studdard]] becomes the winner of ''[[American Idol]]'' – [[American Idol season 2|season two]]. His debut single "[[Flying Without Wings]]" reaches number two in the [[Billboard Hot 100]] in June 2003.
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