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The year 1993 in television involved some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 1993.
For the American TV schedule, see: 1993-94 United States network television schedule.
Events
- January 1 - Carlton Television takes over the ITV London Weekday franchise at midnight, replacing Thames Television after 24 years. Additionally, Meridian Broadcasting takes over the South of England franchise from TVS, Westcountry Television takes over the South West England franchise from TSW, and GMTV takes over the breakfast television franchise from TV-am.
- January 1 - The ITC removed the limit on the value of prizes which could be given away on ITV game shows in the UK (set at £6000 per episode since 1981), paving the way for the big money game shows of the late 1990s and 2000s.
- February 9 - Raven-Symone and Mo'Nique Imes joins the cast of Hangin' with Mr. Cooper on ABC.
- February 10 - Oprah Winfrey interviews Michael Jackson during a prime time special. It is Jackson's first interview since a 1979 interview with Barbara Walters on 20/20.
- February 26 - The Days of Our Lives nighttime special Night Sins airs on NBC.
- March 6 - An IRA bomb scare at BBC Television Centre means the live Saturday night programme Noel's House Party cannot be shown. Instead, after a repeat of the previous years Noel's Christmas Presents, host Noel Edmonds is forced to introduce a Tom and Jerry cartoon in its place, The Zoot Cat.
- March 26 - CBS broadcasts the last new episode of Family Feud with host Ray Combs. The show would go into reruns the following Monday until September 10.
- April 12 - Actress Lisa Bonet files for divorce from Lenny Kravitz.
- April 29 - An animated version of Barry White appears on an episode of The Simpsons.
- May 5 - Senior As the World Turns cast member Don Hastings hosts a memorial tribute to Douglas Marland, who died suddenly after a botched abdominal surgery procedure. Marland had won the show many Emmy Awards as well as critical acclaim during his eight-year tenure as Head Writer.
- May 16 - Harnessing Peacocks, a television movie starring Serena Scott Thomas is shown on ITV in the UK.
- May 20 - The fourth season finale of Seinfeld features an hour-long episode with the story arc of the television pilot that Jerry and George wrote coming to fruition.
- September 16 - Marc Wilmore, Reggie McFadden, Jay Leggett, Carol Rosenthal and Anne-Marie Johnson joins the cast of the final season of In Living Color.
- October 1 - QVC UK launches in the United Kingdom, becoming the UK's first home shopping channel. The channel had originally launched in the United States in 1986. BSkyB Multichannels starts.
- October 15 - Jewelry TV launches in America as American Collectable Network, a home shopping network.
- October 20 - Kirsty Wark debuts as anchor on BBC2's Newsnight.
- October 25 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show makes it's TV debut intercut with a performance by a cast on the FOX Network.
- November 8 - The first advert for an undertakers is broadcast on British television, during an early evening episode of Take the High Road on ITV.
- November 15- Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, and Christina Aguilera joins the cast of The New Mickey Mouse Club.
- November 23 - 30th anniversary of the first broadcast of Doctor Who in the UK.
- December 18 - CBS (which had been home to National Football League games for 38 years) lost their rights to the then fledging Fox Network. FOX offered a then-record $1.58 billion to the NFL over four years for the rights to the National Football Conference package, significantly more than the $290 million per year CBS was willing to pay.
- December 23 - BBC 2 broadcasts the Arena special "Radio Night", an ambitious simulcast with BBC Radio 4.
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- January 20 - Audrey Hepburn, actress .
- March 6 - Douglas Marland, writer (As the World Turns).
- March 12 - Ed Jurist, comedy writer (Bewitched)
- March 17 - Helen Hayes, actress.
- March 27 - Kate Reid, actress (Lillian Trotter on Dallas)
- April 1 - Jerry Hausner, actor (Jerry the agent on I Love Lucy and the voice of Waldo in the Mr. Magoo cartoons)
- April 3 - Pinky Lee, comedian.
- June 11 - Ray Sharkey, actor.
- June 30 - George "Spanky" McFarland, actor (Our Gang comedies).
- July 2 - Fred Gwynne, actor (The Munsters, Car 54, Where Are You?)
- August 16 - Tom Fuccello, actor (Dave Culver on Dallas)
- September 4 - Hervé Villechaize, actor (Tattoo on Fantasy Island)
- September 12 - Raymond Burr, actor (Perry Mason)
- October 12 - Leon Ames, actor.
- October 25 - Vincent Price, actor.
- November 21 - Bill Bixby, actor (The Courtship of Eddie's Father, The Incredible Hulk).
- November 28 - Garry Moore, Game show host and TV personality (I've Got a Secret). (b. 1915)
- December 4 - Frank Zappa, 52, actor/songwriter.
- December 16 - Moses Gunn, actor (Good Times).fr:1993 à la télévision
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