1995 in television

For the American network television schedule, please see 1995-96 American network television schedule.

Events

• January 1 - French 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 16 - The United Paramount Network (UPN) is launched.
• January 18 - The WB Television Network is launched.
• February 3 - In the UK, an edition of the live morning ITV discussion programme The Time The Place is abruptly ended ten minutes early. After an item about men's fashion featured a black male model wearing a skirt, another black man in the audience starts complaining that the show is racist, eventually making his way onto the stage.
• 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 1996.
• 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.