See also:
1994 in television,
other events of 1995,
1996 in television and the
list of 'years in television'.
Events
- January 1 - Canadian cable television network Réseau de l'information is launched.
- January 24 - The O. J. Simpson trial begins live broadcasts on American daytime television; as a result, many of the network soap operas are partially pre-empted, more or less, for nine months.
- January - The UPN and WB television networks are launched in the United States.
- February 19 - Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee marries Baywatch actress Pamela Anderson on a beach in Cancun. The bride wore a white bikini.
- April 12 - Drew Barrymore appears on The Late Show with David Letterman. In honor of Letterman's birthday, guest Barrymore dances on his desk and flashes him on-air.
- May 12 - As the World Turns airs its milestone 10,000th episode.
- May - ABC announces that an episode of the soap opera All My Children will be pulled from airing due to the recent Oklahoma City bombing; in the story, villainess Janet Green (Robin Mattson) was supposed to blow up the church in which her ex Trevor Dillon (James Kiberd) was to marry her rival Laurel Banning (Felicity LaFortune).
- July - The Walt Disney Company announces that it will purchase ABC; the deal is finalized in January.
- August 28 - Popular Japanese cartoon Sailor Moon hits North American television screens for the first time with its premiere on YTV in Canada. The show premieres on the USA Network in the United States on September 11.
- November - Stone Cates dies of AIDS on General Hospital shortly after his lover, Robin Scorpio, confesses that he infected her with the HIV virus.
- Larry Hagman, former star of Dallas and I Dream of Jeannie, undergoes a liver transplant.
- Television programs ROX and Computer Chronicles are broadcast via the Internet—these are the first Internet broadcasts in the history of television.
- Zee TV (Hindi television channel) launched in the UK.
Debuts
Television shows
Ending this year
Deaths
- February 5 - Doug McClure, actor.
- April 4 - Kenny Everett, comedian, actor.
- April 23 - Howard Cosell, journalist.
- May 18 - Elizabeth Montgomery, actress.
- June 30 - Gale Gordon, actor.
- July 4 - Eva Gabor, actress.
- August 3 - Ida Lupino, actress, director.
- November 4 - Paul Eddington, actor.
