The year 2007 in television involves some significant events. Below is a list of television-related events in 2007.
Events
January-March
April-June
July-September
| Date |
Event |
| July 23 |
Drew Carey is announced as Bob Barker's successor on The Price Is Right. |
| August 17 |
The Disney Channel premiere showing of High School Musical 2 becomes the most-watched made-for-cable movie ever, receiving 17.24 million viewers. |
| August 22 |
The BBC celebrates their 75-year service in television. |
| August 30 |
Big Ten Network launches, causing controversy among sports fans for failing to reach carriage agreements with large cable providers Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Charter Cable |
| August 31 |
Finland switches off its analogue television signal. |
| September 5 |
The BBC scraps plans for Planet Relief, a programme similar to Comic Relief and Sport Relief for fear of bias against critics of climate change and that viewers would prefer more factual programmes on the subject. |
| September 9 |
In an advertising first, eBay begin showing live auction adverts between programmes in the UK, showing an auction with picture, current bid, time auction ends, and postage and packaging charges. |
| September 16 |
The 59th Primetime Emmy Awards were handed out. The Sopranos wins Outstanding Drama Series, while 30 Rock wins Outstading Comedy Series |
| September 20 |
Survivor opens its 15th season in the nation of China. Survivor: China became the first major American TV program to film entirely in China. |
| September 21 |
ITV postpone broadcasting the 2007 British Comedy Awards due to the phone-in scandals. |
| September 26 |
ABC1, a British television channel broadcasting American sitcoms, closes. |
| September 27 |
Record News, a Brazilian television channel, starts its transmissions. |
October-December
| Date |
Event |
| October 1 |
Ftn closes and Virgin 1 launches at 9pm the same night. |
| October 14 |
Dave (formerly UKTV G2) launches on Freeview, after the closure of UKTV Bright Ideas. |
| October 15 |
Drew Carey's first episode as the new host of The Price is Right airs. |
| October 17 |
The town of Whitehaven in Cumbria becomes the first place in the UK to officially lose their analogue television signals and start the digital switchover, starting with BBC Two. The other four channels were switched off on November 14. |
| November 2 |
Channel 4 marks the 25th anniversary of its launch by resurrecting its original Lambie-Nairn-designed idents for the day. The anniversary is also marked by the rebroadcast of the November 2, 1982 debut edition of Countdown (the channel's first programme) and a special Big Fat Anniversary Quiz. |
| November 5 |
The 2007 Writers Guild of America strike begins causing many shows to halt production. |
| November 7 |
Sky Travel relaunches as Sky Real Lives and Sky Travel Shop rebranded as Sky Travel. |
| November 14 |
The remaining four Analogue channels are switched to Digital in Whitehaven in Cumbria. |
| December 1 |
BBC HD is officially launched in the UK, after a one and a half year trial. |
| December 3 |
ESPN's Monday Night Football telecast of the unbeaten New England Patriots and the Baltimore Ravens breaks the basic cable viewership record set earlier this year by Disney Channel's High School Musical 2 with 17.52 million cable viewers. |
| December 25 |
BBC One gets its highest rated Christmas Day schedule in years, with Voyage of the Damned, the Christmas special of Doctor Who getting the shows' biggest audience since 1979 (13.31 million) and a special episode of EastEnders getting 14.38 million, that shows' biggest rating in three years and the highest rated show of 2007. Another success was a one-off special of To the Manor Born, returning after 26 years, with an audience of 10.25 million. |
| Late December |
Nickeloden Games and Sports leaves the cable lineup and is replaced by The N which currently airs 24/7 after splitting from its sister channel, Noggin. |
Debuts (including scheduled)
Television shows
- See also: 2006-07 United States network television schedule
- See also: 2007-08 United States network television schedule
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