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1980 in television
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See also:
1979 in television,
other events of 1980,
1981 in television and the
list of 'years in television'.
Events
- February 1 - After a brief return, the soap opera Love of Life airs its last episode, after twenty-nine years on the air.
- February 14 - Walter Cronkite announces his retirement from the CBS Evening News.
- February 15 - New Zealand's Television One and Television Two go to air under the newly formed Television New Zealand.
- March 21 - On the season finale of the soap opera Dallas, the infamous character J.R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant leading to the catchphrase "Who Shot JR?"
- April 7 - The Oldest Living Graduate a live drama on NBC, which had not aired one since 1962. The production is aired from Southern Methodist University and stars Henry Fonda, George Grizzard, and Cloris Leachman.
- June 1 - The Cable News Network begins broadcasting.
- August 1 - After a failed experiment, the soap opera Another World airs its last regularly scheduled ninety-minute episode. The show returns to sixty minutes on August 4.
- December 30 - After 26 years, the longest-running prime-time TV series Disney's Wonderful World is cancelled by NBC. It was picked up by CBS the next fall.
- The David Letterman Show debuts on NBC. Letterman's humor does not go over well with a morning audience, and the show is soon cancelled. Letterman would go on to host a late night show two years later.
- US viewers get caught up in the "Who Shot J.R.?" cliff hanger on the soap opera series, Dallas, which is solved on a November 21 episode, drawing a record numbers of viewers.
- Armchair Thriller is taken off air (1978-1980, intermittently since 1956 as Armchair Theatre and Armchair Cinema) (UK).
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