2004 in television

Events

• February 9 - Kerry McFadden wins ITV's I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!.
• March 1 - The Price is Right airs its 6,000th episode.
• March 28 - Maori Television starts broadcasting in New Zealand.
• April 2 to 8 - TV Tokyo in Japan premieres eight shows during the first week of the month.
• April 17 - Cartoon Network's Toonami moves from 5 PM to 7 PM (primetime) and extends by four hours (from two to six).
• May 15 - Jimmy Fallon makes his last appearance as a cast member of Saturday Night Live on its season finale.
• June 2 - A contestant on Jeopardy!, Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah, begins a long run as champion.
• June 4 - Kitten Pinder is evicted from the Big Brother UK house, shouting against the Queen and the aristocracy on the way out.
• June 17 - In the UK, the live feed of Big Brother is taken off air for a few hours as the housemates threaten to kill each other.
• September 28 - Longtime veteran Marcy Walker makes what has been termed by soap sources as her final appearance on All My Children after two decades of being affiliated with the program.
• November 1 - The Young and the Restless airs its milestone 8,000th episode.
• November 18 - The video for new charity single Do They Know It's Christmas? by Band Aid 20 airs simultaenously on all five main UK television networks, as well as over twenty satellite and cable stations. This unprecedented broadcast attracts over fourteen million viewers between 5:50 and 6 PM.
• November 30 - After seventy-four consecutive wins, Ken Jennings finally loses on Jeopardy!, to competitor Nancy Zerg.
• November - All My Children rises to #2 in the daytime Nielsen ratings for the first time since the mid-1990s, rivaling ABC's soap General Hospital for the second slot.
• December 1 - Tom Brokaw steps down as anchorman of NBC Nightly News and is replaced by Brian Williams.
• December 15 - CNN's financial news channel, CNNfn, signs off.
• December 16 - All My Children airs its milestone 9,000th episode.
• General Electric, owner of NBC, purchases Universal Studios from Vivendi, leaving all six US broadcast networks part of a company which also owns a film studio.
• December 29 - Rogers Media buys remaining 20% ownership of Rogers Sportsnet from FOX's Los Angeles affiliate KTTV.