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- See also
- References
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2012}}{{Refimprove|date=April 2009}}{{USTV year|2004}}The following is a list of events affecting American television during 2004. Events listed include television series debuts, finales, cancellations, and new channel initiations. EventsFebruary Date | Event |
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1 | The Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy occurs on CBS. As a result, the Federal Communications Commission strengthens its rules concerning certain types of indecency. |
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14 | Jetix was introduced on Toon Disney and ABC Family, making it the first trade-name to be introduced as an anime-based block. |
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22 | Sex and the City broadcasts its final episode on HBO, "An American Girl in Paris, Part Deux." |
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March Date | Event |
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1 | On CBS, The Price Is Right broadcasts its 6,000th episode. |
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4 | Rich Fields debuts as the new announcer for the Price is Right, a role he would hold on to until the end of Season 38. |
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8 | Tiffany, host of BET.com Countdown, and Young Sir, host of The Center, switch places to each other's BET shows. |
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In Casper, Wyoming, independent station/Pax TV affiliate KTWO-TV (having lost NBC to KCWY in September of last year) finally becomes an ABC affiliate after ABC's outgoing affiliate KFNB reaches an agreement with KTWO-TV ending its affiliation three months earlier than scheduled. KFNB then becomes a satellite of KLWY, the Fox affiliate in Cheyenne, while sister station K26ES (now KWYF-LD) elevates its secondary UPN affiliation to full-time status. | 15 | Game Show Network began fraying out the rebranding known as GSN. |
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April Date | Event |
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12 | KLSB-TV in Nacogdoches, Texas, a satellite station of NBC affiliate KETK-TV, separates from its parent station to become a CBS affiliate, returning CBS to the Tyler-Longview market for the first time since KLMG-TV became Fox affiliate KFXK-TV in April 1991. The next day, the Federal Communications Commission approves KLSB-TV's call letter change to the current KYTX. |
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May Date | Event |
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6 | Friends ends its run after 10 years, broadcasting the final episode, The Last One, on NBC. A spinoff, Joey, debuts on NBC the following season. |
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11 | NBC Universal is founded by General Electric and Vivendi Universal. |
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13 | Frasier broadcasts its final episode on NBC, "Goodnight Seattle". |
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15 | Jimmy Fallon makes his last appearance as a cast member of NBC's Saturday Night Live, for its season finale. |
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26 | Fantasia Barrino wins the third season of Fox's American Idol. Also, this was the first time when the series became a #1 hit in the television ratings of this season. |
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28 | TechTV merges with G4 to form G4techTV, one of the most controversial mergers of television history as less than a year later, the merged network becomes G4 once again. |
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June Date | Event |
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2 | Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah, begins a long run as Jeopardy! champion. |
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7 | ABC broadcasts its final NHL game, which turned out to be the last one before the lockout that canceled the league's 2004–05 season. |
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10 | TBS reintroduces its Very Funny campaign. |
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14 | Cartoon Network reveals its new logo and establishes new branding with a "CN city". |
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18 | Rodney Dangerfield (who appeared more than seventy times as a guest on The Tonight Show) makes his final appearance as a talk show guest on CBS's The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn. |
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August Date | Event |
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9 | David Muir resigns as co-anchor of World News Now on ABC and is replaced by Ron Corning. |
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15 | In Charlottesville, Virginia, NBC affiliate WVIR-TV, long the only commercial station in its market, receives competition for the first time ever when WCAV signs-on as a CBS affiliate. Shortly thereafter, WCAV adds WVAW-LP as an ABC affiliate. |
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27 | Craig Kilborn ends his five-year run as host of The Late Late Show. |
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28 | PBS Kids Bookworm Bunch ended. |
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Nickelodeon's successful Saturday night block, SNICK, is discontinued after 12 years. It would then be revamped as a Saturday night edition of TEENick for the 2004-2005 television season and onward until the TEENick name was dropped in February 2009. | 30 | ABC affiliate WDTN in Dayton, Ohio swaps affiliations with NBC affiliate WKEF, reversing a swap that took place in 1980. |
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September Date | Event |
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19 | The 56th Primetime Emmy Awards are given out on ABC. |
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21 | Drew Daniel is the winner of the American version of Big Brother 5 on CBS. Runner-Up Michael "Cowboy" Ellis wins $50,000. |
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28 | Longtime veteran Marcy Walker makes her final appearance on the ABC soap opera All My Children after two decades of being affiliated with the program. |
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October Date | Event |
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2 | Amy Poehler succeeds Jimmy Fallon as Tina Fey's co-anchor of NBC's Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update skit, making the first Weekend Update female duos. |
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Nickelodeon and its affiliated channels begin debuting special educational programming, Worldwide Day of Play, after the Let's Just Play campaign. | 11 | PBS Kids debuts a programming block targeted at children aged 6–10 entitled PBS Kids Go!, with new shows Maya & Miguel and an Arthur spinoff, Postcards from Buster, debuting on this day with Cyberchase and Arthur moving to PBS Kids Go! from PBS Kids. |
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27 | The Boston Red Sox baseball team won their first world series since 1918. |
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November Date | Event |
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1 | The Young and the Restless broadcasts its 8,000th episode on CBS. |
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7 | Dallas airs a third TV movie, The Return to Southfork, on CBS. |
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9 | Tiffany resigns as host of BET's The Center and is replaced by Julissa. |
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15 | Young Sir resigns as host of BET.com Countdown and is replaced by recording artist Ray J. |
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23 | Longtime CBS News anchor and manager editor Dan Rather announces he will step down in March. |
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30 | After seventy-four consecutive wins, Ken Jennings finally loses on Jeopardy!, to competitor Nancy Zerg. Jennings' final cash winnings total is $2,522,700 making him the richest winner of American television history. |
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December Date | Event |
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2 | Tom Brokaw resigns as anchorman of NBC Nightly News and is replaced by Brian Williams. |
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15 | CNN's financial news channel, CNNfn, is ended. |
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16 | All My Children broadcasts its 9,000th episode. |
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29 | Rogers Media buys remaining 20% ownership of Rogers Sportsnet from Fox. |
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General Electric, owner of NBC, purchases Universal Studios from Vivendi, leaving all six U.S. broadcast networks part of a company which also owns a movie studio. | For the first time in its history, Nielsen Media Research, the official American television ratings service, began counting original shows on pay Television premium channels in its prime-time ratings.[1] At the time, most of these were broadcast by competitors HBO and Showtime, but Starz has since begun producing original shows. |
ProgramsDebuts Date | Debut | Network |
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January 7 | The Apprentice | NBC | January 11 | Drake & Josh | Nickelodeon | January 14 | Seven Little Monsters | PBS Kids | January 17 | Astro Boy | Kids' WB | January 18 | Whoopi's Littleburg | Nick Jr. | The L Word | Showtime | January 23 | Dave the Barbarian | Disney Channel | February 14 | Power Rangers Dino Thunder | Toon Disney and ABC Family | February 15 | Home Edition | ABC | March 4 | Pimp My Ride | MTV | March 5 | The Help | The WB | March 10 | Game Over | UPN | March 21 | Deadwood | HBO | April 3 | Danny Phantom | Nickelodeon | April 9 | The D.A. | ABC | April 12 | Peep and the Big Wide World | Discovery Kids | April 28 | Shorties Watchin' Shorties | Comedy Central | May 1 | Megas XLR | Cartoon Network | May 31 | Peppa Pig | Nick Jr. | June 1 | Summerland | The WB | June 4 | TNA iMPACT! | Fox Sports Net | June 16 | Quintuplets | Fox | The Ashlee Simpson Show | MTV | June 18 | Phil of the Future | Disney Channel | June 19 | Winx Club | Fox Box | June 20 | Fatherhood | Nick at Nite | July 1 | Trading Spouses | Fox | July 6 | Seconds From Disaster | National Geographic Channel | July 16 | Stargate Atlantis | Sci Fi | July 18 | Entourage | HBO | July 21 | Rescue Me | FX | July 29 | Blue Collar TV | The WB | July 30 | O'Grady | The N | July 31 | Justice League Unlimited | Cartoon Network | August 1 | Stroker and Hoop | Adult Swim | August 10 | Blue's Room | Nick Jr. | August 13 | Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends | Cartoon Network | August 16 | LazyTown | Nick Jr. | August 21 | Brandy & Mr. Whiskers | Disney Channel | August 30 | The Jane Pauley Show | Syndication | August 31 | Curious Buddies | Nick Jr. | Father of the Pride | NBC | September 1 | Hawaii | September 6 | Atomic Betty | Cartoon Network | September 7 | Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends | Nick Jr. | September 9 | Joey | NBC | Medical Investigation | September 11 | The Batman | Kids' WB | Da Boom Crew | September 12 | The Benefactor | ABC | Higglytown Heroes | Playhouse Disney | Jack & Bobby | The WB | LAX | NBC | Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide | Nickelodeon | Unfabulous | September 13 | Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan | National Geographic Channel | The Insider | Syndication | The Tony Danza Show | September 18 | F-Zero: GP Legend | Fox Box | One Piece | Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! | Jetix | September 20 | Listen Up! | CBS | Second Time Around | UPN | September 21 | Rodney | ABC | September 22 | NY | CBS | The Mountain | The WB | Veronica Mars | UPN | Lost | ABC | September 24 | Complete Savages | Dr. Vegas | CBS | September 28 | The Real Orange County | MTV | September 29 | Kevin Hill | UPN | October 2 | Darcy's Wild Life | Discovery Family | Snakemaster | Animal Planet | October 3 | Boston Legal | ABC | Desperate Housewives | October 5 | BET Style | BET | Wanda Does It | Comedy Central | October 6 | Ghost Hunters | Sci Fi | Proof Positive | October 7 | Drew Carey's Green Screen Show | The WB | Life as We Know It | ABC | October 11 | The Backyardigans | Nick Jr. | Maya & Miguel | PBS Kids Go! | Postcards From Buster | October 18 | Battlestar Galactica | Sci Fi | October 19 | The Biggest Loser | NBC | He's a Lady | TBS | October 27 | Center of the Universe | CBS | Drawn Together | Comedy Central | November 3 | Nanny 911 | Fox | November 4 | ToddWorld | Discovery Family | November 5 | Cartoon Alley | TCM | November 6 | Fullmetal Alchemist | Adult Swim | Stand Alone Complex | November 7 | Perfect Hair Forever | 6teen | Teen Channel | Huff | Showtime | My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss | Fox | November 14 | Tom Goes to the Mayor | Adult Swim | November 16 | House | Fox | November 19 | Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi | Cartoon Network | December 1 | Project Runway | Bravo | December 18 | W.I.T.C.H. | Disney Channel | MoviesMay 19 | Shrek 2 | June 4 | Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban |
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June 30 | Spider-Man 2 |
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October 1 | Shark Tale | November 5 | The Incredibles |
Returning this year{{empty section|date=October 2018}}Ending this year Date | Show | Debut |
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January 23 | Fillmore! | 2002 | January 25 | Officers on Duty | 2003 | January 28 | Becker | 1998 | January 29 | Threat Matrix | 2003 | January 30 | Boston Public | 2000 | The Handler | 2003 | February 3 | Sabrina's Secret Life | February 6 | Jake 2.0 | Ed | 2000 | Little Bill | 1999 | February 7 | Scout's Safari | 2002 | February 12 | All About the Andersons | 2003 | February 14 | Lizzie McGuire | 2001 | February 22 | Sex and the City | 1998 | February 27 | Lloyd in Space | 2001 | February 29 | The Weekenders | 2000 | March 13 | Hack | 2002 | March 17 | The Mullets | 2003 | March 20 | The Tracy Morgan Show | March 25 | The Chris Isaak Show | 2001 | Good Morning, Miami | 2002 | April 1 | Stripperella | 2003 | April 2 | Game Over | 2004 | April 4 | Home Movies | 1999 | April 6 | It's All Relative | 2003 | April 9 | The D.A. | 2004 | Life with Bonnie | 2002 | April 12 | Space Ghost Coast to Coast (returned in 2006) | 1994 | April 14 | Karen Sisco | 2003 | April 16 | The Help | 2004 | April 20 | Happy Family | 2003 | Whoopi | April 22 | Like Family | April 23 | Married to the Kellys | April 26 | A Walk In Your Shoes | 2000 | April 27 | I'm with Her | 2003 | April 28 | Rolie Polie Olie | 1998 | April 29 | The Jamie Kennedy Experiment | 2002 | April 30 | Living It Up! with Ali & Jack | 2003 | May 1 | The District | 2000 | May 4 | The Guardian | 2001 | May 6 | Friends | 1994 | May 7 | Run of the House | 2003 | May 10 | The Parkers | 1999 | May 13 | Frasier | 1993 | May 16 | The Practice | 1997 | May 17 | Mutant X | 2001 | She Spies | 2002 | May 19 | Angel | 1999 | May 21 | Ricki Lake | 1993 | The 5th Wheel | 2001 | The Wayne Brady Show | May 22 | Static Shock | 2000 | May 25 | Rock Me Baby | 2003 | May 26 | Soul Food | 2000 | May 28 | The Sharon Osbourne Show | 2003 | May 29 | Justice League | 2001 | May 30 | Line of Fire | 2003 | June 4 | Hollywood Squares | 1966 | June 7 | Whoopi's Littleburg | 2004 | June 8 | Hey Arnold! | 1996 | June 11 | The Wild Thornberrys | 1998 | June 19 | The Man Show | 1999 | June 25 | VH1 ILL-ustrated | 2003 | July 5 | Ozzy & Drix | 2002 | July 27 | King of the Jungle | 2003 | July 29 | 106 & Park: Prime | July 30 | Rocket Power | 1999 | August 1 | Rugrats | 1991 | August 8 | The Brothers García | 2000 | August 9 | Franklin | 1997 | August 10 | The Joe Schmo Show (returned in 2013) | 2003 | August 17 | Teamo Supremo | 2002 | August 27 | Johnny Bravo | 1997 | September 1 | Braceface | 2001 | It's a Miracle | 1998 | September 8 | The Drew Carey Show | 1995 | September 10 | George Shrinks | 2000 | September 12 | Oliver Beene | 2003 | September 24 | Jeremiah | 2002 | September 25 | Samurai Jack (returned in 2017) | 2001 | September 27 | Out of the Box | 1998 | September 28 | The Berenstain Bears | 2003 | October 1 | Knock First | October 5 | Rubbadubbers | 2002 | October 6 | Hawaii | 2004 | October 22 | Evil Con Carne | 2003 | October 25 | The Benefactor | 2004 | October 29 | Dr. Vegas | All About Me | 2002 | October 31 | Dead Like Me | 2003 | November 11 | Unscrewed with Martin Sargent | November 14 | He's a Lady | 2004 | November 16 | Wanda Does It | November 20 | Power Rangers Dino Thunder | November 28 | Doc | 2001 | November 29 | Engie Benjy | 2002 | December 8 | Proof Positive | 2004 | December 12 | My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss | December 15 | Wonderfalls | December 16 | Shorties Watchin' Shorties |
Entering syndication this year Show | Seasons | In Production | Source |
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Crime Scene Investigation | 4 | Yes | [2] | Girlfriends | 4 | Yes | date=June 2014}} | Malcolm in the Middle | 4 | Yes | [3] | Yes, Dear | 4 | Yes | date=June 2014}} |
Changes of network affiliation Show | Moved from | Moved to |
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Arthur | PBS Kids | PBS Kids Go! | Cyberchase | As Told by Ginger | Nickelodeon | Nicktoons | Fillmore! | Disney Channel | Toon Disney | The Surreal Life | The WB | VH1 | National Geographic Explorer | MSNBC | National Geographic Channel | Project Greenlight | HBO | Bravo | Braceface | ABC Family | Disney Channel | Bob The Builder | Nick Jr. | PBS Kids |
Births Date | Name | Notability |
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January 4 | Peyton Kennedy | Canadian actress (Odd Squad, Everything Sucks!) | January 7 | Sofia Wylie | Actress (Andi Mack) | January 8 | Berkley Silverman | Canadian voice actress (PAW Patrol) | January 9 | Tyree Brown | Actor (Parenthood) | January 24 | Brandon Rossel | Actor (Fast Layne) | January 26 | Addison Riecke | Actress (The Thundermans) | February 3 | Theodore Barnes | Actor (Legendary Dudas, Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn) | February 19 | Millie Bobby Brown | English actress (Stranger Things) and model | March 4 | Donielle T. Hansley Jr. | Voice actor (Darwin on The Amazing World of Gumball (2017–18)) | March 10 | Mace Coronel | Actor (Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn) | March 21 | Forrest Wheeler | Actor (Fresh Off the Boat) | April 6 | Casey Simpson | Actors (Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn) | April 17 | Kyla Drew Simmons | May 22 | Peyton Elizabeth Lee | Actress (Andi Mack) | June 4 | Mackenzie Ziegler | Actress (Dance Moms) | June 7 | Saara Chaudry | Canadian actress (Max & Shred) | June 8 | Francesca Capaldi | Actress (Dog with a Blog) | June 22 | Laya DeLeon Hayes | Actress | July 28 | Lauren Lindsey Donzis | Actress (Liv and Maddie) | July 30 | Daniel DiMaggio | Actor (Clarence, American Housewife) | August 5 | Albert Tsai | Actor (Trophy Wife, Dr. Ken, Coop and Cami Ask the World) | August 14 | Marsai Martin | Actress (Black-ish) | August 19 | Siena Agudong | Actress (Star Falls) | October 3 | Noah Schnapp | Actor (Stranger Things) | October 9 | Tomaso Sanelli | Actor (Star Falls) | November 27 | Jet Jurgensmeyer | Actor | December 3 | Ruby Jay | Actress (Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure, Fancy Nancy) | December 4 | Sophie Pollono | Actress (Fast Layne) | December 12 | Sky Katz | Actress (Raven's Home) | December 14 | Timothy Colombos | Actor (WITS Academy) | December 17 | Dakota Lotus | Actor (Coop and Cami Ask the World) | December 18 | Isabella Cramp | Actress (Shimmer and Shine, Colony, Vampirina) | December 22 | Bryce Gheisar | Actor (Walk the Prank) | December 25 | Andre Robinson | Voice actor (Clyde McBride on The Loud House (Episode 101 onwards)) | December 28 | Miles Brown | Actor (Black-ish) |
Deaths Date | Name | Age | Notability |
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January 17 | Noble Willingham | 72 | Actor (C.D. Parker on Walker, Texas Ranger) | January 19 | Jerry Nachman | 57 | MSNBC editor-in-chief | January 23 | Bob Keeshan | 76 | Children's show host (Captain Kangaroo) | January 27 | Jack Paar | 85 | Host of (The Tonight Show) | January 29 | Mary-Ellis Bunim | 57 | Producer and co-creator of (The Real World) | February 15 | Jan Miner | 86 | Actress (Madge the Manicurist) | February 23 | Carl Anderson | 58 | Actor (Another World) | February 24 | John Randolph | 88 | Actor (Grand) | March 7 | Paul Winfield | 64 | Actor (King, 227) | March 8 | Robert Pastorelli | 49 | Actor (Murphy Brown) | March 9 | Christopher R. Biello | 27 | Very Funny And Very Handsome | March 17 | J.J. Jackson | 62 | MTV VJ | March 26 | Jan Sterling | 82 | Actress | March 27 | Art James | 74 | Game show host and announcer | April 1 | Carrie Snodgress | 58 | Actress | April 13 | Caron Keating | 41 | British TV presenter | May 9 | Alan King | 76 | Comedian and actor | May 14 | Anna Lee | 91 | Actor (Lila Morgan Quartermaine on General Hospital from 1978 to 2003) | May 17 | Tony Randall | 84 | Actor (Felix on The Odd Couple) | May 21 | Gene Wood | 78 | Announcer of (Family Feud and other game shows) | May 22 | Richard Biggs | 44 | Actor | June 5 | Ronald Reagan | 93 | Actor and U.S. president; host of General Electric Theater and Death Valley Days | July 6 | Eric Douglas | 46 | Actor | July 9 | Isabel Sanford | 86 | Actress (Louise "Weezie" Mills Jefferson on The Jeffersons) | July 28 | Eugene Roche | 75 | Actor (Soap, Webster, more) | August 13 | Julia Child | 91 | Host of The French Chef on PBS | September 15 | Johnny Ramone | 55 | Singer-songwriter (Ramones) | October 5 | Rodney Dangerfield | 82 | Actor and comedian (The Dean Martin Show, frequent Tonight Show guest) | October 10 | Christopher Reeve | 52 | Actor | November 7 | Howard Keel | 85 | Actor, singer (Clayton Farlow on Dallas) | December 28 | Jerry Orbach | 69 | Actor (Lennie Briscoe on Law & Order) |
See also- 2004 in the United States
- List of American films of 2004
References1. ^{{cite web|title=Multichannel News 12/16/2008: Dexter's Third Season Finale's A Killer – Series Delivers Best Original Series Viewership Since 2004 |author=Mike Reynolds |url=http://www.multichannel.com/article/160932-_Dexter_Third_Season_Finale_s_A_Killer.php |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5gpCzqtrb?url=http://www.multichannel.com/article/160932-_Dexter_Third_Season_Finale_s_A_Killer.php |archivedate=May 16, 2009 |deadurl=no |accessdate=2009-04-14 |df=mdy }} 2. ^ from Broadcasting & Cable 3. ^ from Broadcasting & Cable
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