2011: January – March

All this week TV Tonight looks back on 2011, the stories that defined us, the shows we said goodbye to and the people we lost.

Today we look back at the first three months of the year and here were some of the headliners that made News.

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January:
Oprah launches OWN
Kym Valentine hospitalised
Axed: Warnie
Axed: My Life on the D-List
Tug of war over Larry Emdur
Flood Relief Appeal: Australia Unites
History Channel cancels Kennedy miniseries

TEN ready to open the door to ELEVEN
Floods draw viewers to their TV screens
Report: Sheen won’t halt 2.5 Men to rehabilitate

Matthew Newton continues ongoing rehab
ACMA clears Seven News of Campbell outing
Ricky “did every gag we planned.”
Liam McIntyre becomes new Spartacus
Rove in TV comeback with Foxtel

Ricky Gervais: “I’m not sorry”
Colin Lane steps into The Circle
TEN resists call to rejoin revenue data
Josh Thomas apologises over “drunk Tweet”
Soft start for new TEN hour
Charlie Sheen hospitalised
Charlie Sheen in rehab, sitcom on hiatus.
Networks want more deregulation
GTV9 welcomes new Bourke Street home

FEBRUARY:
Axed: Hadley!
Seven slapped for ad during Children’s shows
Anderson Cooper attacked in Egypt
Muirhead pleads not guilty
ABC’s Foreign Correspondent attacked in Egypt
SelecTV in voluntary administration
Nine adds “First at 5″ bulletin

Nine memorabilia to go under the hammer
Larry Emdur renews with Seven
TEN shareholder “puzzled” by News strategy
Alzheimer’s charity in the name of Jeanne Little
Matty Johns Show in programming limbo
Caption blunder in Underbelly telemovie
SelecTV in $26m debt
111m: Super Bowl sets US TV record
Vale: Sonia Humphrey
“Sh*t happens”: Seven News in face-off with Tony Abbott

Tough debut for Ben Elton
Matthew Newton facing AVO breach
Newton returns to Sydney clinic
Hey Hey a victim of revenue vs cost
ACMA’s message is the end justifies the means
David Koch slammed for tweeting on Egypt’s “Peaceful overthrow.”
Online threats against MKR contestants
Ben Elton says sorry: “Yes, we got the mix wrong”

“How can something so small be so impressive?”
Jessica Marais flies from Rafters coop
Grammy reporter in slurry tongue-twister
Nine News Sydney -in Melbourne.
CBS journo recovering from Cairo sexual assault
Brian McFadden in alleged flight rage
SBS tells ACA ‘Houso’s’ is a joke, mate.
Channel Nine apology: Sorry about our ugly watermark
Ian Turpie diagnosed with cancer
Justin Bieber shock on CSI
Report: Hamish & Andy in $17m Nine deal
News Corp acquires Shine group

TEN board dumps CEO Grant Blackley
Axed: Ben Elton Live from Planet Earth
Altiyan Childs assaulted in Hobart
iiNet wins copyright appeal against studios
Tearful ABC journo in live Christchurch report
CBS cancels remaining Two & a Half Men season
Hamish and Andy sign with Nine
X Factor winner racks up trashed hotel room bill
Sitcom lost its Sheen: Nine pulls Two & a Half Men.
Today Tonight “World Exclusive” lacked hospital permission
Port Arthur survivor criticises 60 Minutes interview

MARCH:
Final broadcast from Bendigo Street
Seven exec named new TEN CEO, Packer quits board
TEN reinstates 5pm weekend News

Colin Lane new host of Ready Steady Cook
Ovation struggling as stand-alone Arts channel
Matthew Newton taken to hospital
Kids shows on ABC1 in the morn to shift to ABC2
60 Minutes talks to “St. Kilda schoolgirl”
Steve Carell has clocked off The Office
Ron Wilson brands Mardi Gras “disgusting”

Charlie Sheen fired from Two and a Half Men
Regional broadcaster to drop TEN Evening News
Winners and Losers to replace Rafters
Seven pursues legal action on James Warburton contract
Sheen files $100m lawsuit

Earthquake, Tsunami hits Japan
City Homicide finale
Sunday edition of A Current Affair
Anna Coren on A Current Affair
The Games accuses BBC of rip-off
Assange poses Q&A question to Gillard
“TV royalty” branded “squatter” by Today Tonight
News Corp shareholders unhappy with Shine purchase
Warburton affidavit contains “explosive” Leckie claims
Networks halt news war in the face of Japanese radiation
Tania Zaetta charged at Gold Coast nightclub

A Current Affair passes off Today Tonight story as its own
Seven vows legal action over ACA “theft”
Ovation subscribers want refunds
Q & A apologises for tweet
ACA / TT war: “This should all stop now”
George Negus to move to 6:30pm
iiNet copyright case heading to High Court
Tim Minchin vs SSO vs ABC2 audio
Kelly & Ash quit My Kitchen Rules
The end for East West 101
Channel Nine has left the building