in televisionSee also:
2000 in television,
other events of 2001,
2002 in television and the
list of 'years in television'.
Events
- February 25 - *NSYNC is featured on an episode of The Simpsons entitled "New Kids On The Blecch".
- June 18 - Luke and Laura Spencer, widely regarded as the soap opera pairing that helped coin the term "supercouple", signed divorce papers on General Hospital, dissolving their fictional two-decade union.
- September 1 - All four commercial television stations in Vancouver, British Columbia change network affiliations, the largest such change in a single market in television history.
- September 11 - Viewers around the world are horrified as they witness a terrorist attack on the United States, and the collapse of the Twin Towers in New York City. Additionally, the ABC, CBS, and NBC affiliates' broadcast towers are knocked out by the attacks, but New Yorkers can still view them on cable.
- Concert For New York: A Tribute To Heroes airs on VH1, with performances by Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Billy Joel and others.
- Canada rolls out hundreds of new digital cable channels (see List of Canadian digital television channels for complete list)
- TSN changes its logo to match with ESPN's though the N is not slashed.
- Lloyd in Space premieres on One Saturday Morning.
- Kirby: Right Back At Ya premieres on Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting Company in Japan.
Debuts
Television shows
Ending this year
Changes of network affiliation
Notable TV movies and events
Deaths
- March 12 - Morton Downey, Jr., television personality
- March 21 - Norma Macmillan, voice
- March 22 - William Hanna, cofounder (with Joseph Barbera) of famous Hanna-Barbera animation studio
- April 15 - Joey Ramone, 49, actor/songwriter of the Ramones
- June 21 - Carroll O'Connor, 76, actor who played Archie Bunker on All in the Family
- August 4 - Lorenzo Music, 64, writer and actor who co-created The Bob Newhart Show and did the voices of Carlton the doorman on Rhoda and Garfield the cat in the animated cartoon Garfield and Friends
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