Transdiffusion's annual list of those we have loved and lost in the past year - broadcasting personalities of one degree of fame or another who have transmitted for the last time.

John Freeman (93)
Died 1 January
Animator, The Smurfs

David Gerber (86)
Died 2 January
Executive producer, Police Story

David Giles (83)
Died 6 January
Director, Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Andis Hadjicostis (43)
Murdered 11 January
CEO, Sigma TV Cyprus

Petra Schürmann (74)
Died 14 January
TV presenter

Mark Jones (70)
Died 14 January
Character actor, everything

George Jellinek (90)
Died 16 January
WQXR radio announcer

Daisuke Gōri (57)
Suicide 17 January
Actor in anime series

Kalthoum Sarrai (47)
Died 19 January
Presenter on French TV

Jennifer Lyon (37)
Died 19 January
US Reality TV star

Johnny Seven (83)
Died 22 January
Actor, Ironside

James Mitchell (89)
Died 22 January
Actor, All My Children

Roger Pierre (86)
Died 23 January
TV presenter

Robert Lam (64)
Died 23 January
Newsreader

Pernell Roberts (81)
Died 24 January
Actor, Bonanza

James Henry Quello (95)
Died 24 January
Nixon-appointed head of the FCC

Zelda Rubinstein (76)
Died 27 January
Actor, Picket Fences

Barry Blitzer (80)
Died 27 January
Comedy writer, The Flintsones

Sarah Mulvey (34)
Probable suicide 28 January
Channel 4 commissioning editor

Margaret Dale (87)
Died 28 January
Director of Dance at the BBC

Eric Freiwald (82)
Died 29 January
TV writer, The Young and the Restless

Aaron Ruben (95)
Died 30 January
Producer, Andy Griffith Show

Justin Mentell (27)
Died 1 February
Actor, Boston Legal

Frances Reid (95)
Died 3 February
Actor, Days of our Lives

John McCallum (91)
Died 3 February
Producer, Skippy the Bush Kangaroo

Ian Carmichael (89)
Died 5 February
Actor, The World of Wooster

Robert Hoy (82)
Died 8 February
Actor, The Enforcer

David Froman (71)
Died 8 February
Actor, Matlock

Cy Grant (90)
Died 13 February
Lieutenant Green, Captain Scarlet

George Waring (84)
Died 15 February
Arnold Swain, Coronation Street

Bo Griffin (51)
Died 16 January
Radio and TV presenter

Bull Verweij (100)
Died 19 January
Founder of Radio Veronica

Lionel Jeffries (83)
Died 19 February
Actor, Tom, Dick and Harriet

Jason Wood (38)
Died 20 February
Comedian

Sandy Kenyon (87)
Died 20 February
Voice actor, The Twilight Zone

Robin Davies (56)
Died 22 February
Actor, The Newcomers

Andrew Koenig (41)
Found dead from suicide 25 February
Actor, Growing Pains

Dave Sheasby (69)
Died 26 February
Radio producer

Richard Devon (84)
Died 26 February
Actor, Lassie

Nathan Scott (94)
Died 27 February
Composer, Lassie

Kristian Digby (32)
Died 1 March 2010
TV presenter

Don Kent (92)
Died 2 March 2010
Weatherman, WBZ-TV

Judith Bumpus (70)
Died 2 March 2010
Radio producer

Roger Newman (69)
Died 4 March
Actor, Guiding Light

Nan Martin (82)
Died 4 March
Actor, The Drew Carey Show

Richard Stapley (aka Richard Wyler) (86)
Died 5 March
Actor, Man from Interpol

Corey Haim (38)
Died 10 March
Actor, The Edison Twins

Peter Graves (83)
Died 14 March
Actor, Mission: Impossible

Charlie Gillett (68)
Died 17 March
Radio presenter

Fess Parker (85)
Died 18 March
Actor, Daniel Boone

Bill McIntyre (80)
Died 19 March
Actor, Dallas

Ebet Kadarusman (73)
Died 20 March
TV and radio presenter

Harry Carpenter (84)
Died 20 March
TV sports presenter

Robert Culp (79)
Died 24 March
Actor, I Spy

Chet Simmons (81)
Died 25 March
President of ESPN

Des Hoysted (86)
Died 25 March
Horse racing commentator

Des Hoysted (45)
Died 28 March
Comedian

David Mills (48)
Died 30 March
TV writer, NYPD Blue

John Forsythe (92)
Died 1 April
Actor, Charlie's Angels

Roland MacLeod (74)
Died 3 April
Actor, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

Christopher Cazenove (64)
Died 7 April
Actor, Dynasty

Hiro Muramoto (43)
Murdered 10 April
Reuters cameraman

Dixie Carter (70)
Died 10 April
Actor, Diff'rent Strokes

Alexander Bernstein (74)
Died 13 April
Granada

Raimondo Vianello (87)
Died 15 April
TV personality

Michael Pataki (72)
Died 15 April
Character actor, everything

Sid Conrad (86)
Died 16 April
Actor, The Young and the Restless

Allen Swift (86)
Died 18 April
Voice actor, Howdy Doody

Gerry Ryan (53)
Died 30 April
TV and radio presenter

Helen Wagner (91)
Died 1 May
Actor, As the World Turns

Jimmy Gardner (85)
Died 3 May
Character actor, everything

Mark Shannon (58)
Died 8 May
KTOK radio presenter

Allan Manings (86)
Died 12 May
TV writer, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Eddie Garrett (82)
Died 13 May
Actor, Quincy ME

Fred O'Donovan (80)
Died 14 May
Former chairman of the RTÉ Authority

Stephen Perry (55)
Murdered on or before 16 May
TV writer, ThunderCats

Martin Cohan (77)
Died 19 May
TV producer, Who's the Boss?

Willie Webber (80)
Died 23 May
TV and radio personality

Barbara New (c87)
Died 24 May
Actor, You Rang, M'Lord?

Gary Coleman (42)
Died 28 May
Actor, Diff'rent Strokes

Eddie Barth (78)
Died 28 May
Actor, Simon & Simon

Robert O Smith (67)
Died 1 June
Radio presenter

Rue McClanahan (76)
Died 3 June
Actor, Golden Girls

Robert Hudson (90)
Died 3 June
Created Test Match Special for the Third Network

Himan Brown (99)
Died 4 June
Producer, CBS Radio Mystery Theatre

Robert Wussler (73)
Died 5 June
Founder, CNN

Adriana Xenides (54)
Died 7 June
Wheel of Fortune nymphette on Australian TV

Tony Cennamo (76)
Died 8 June
WBUR DJ

Bernie Andrews (76)
Died 11 June
Radio producer

Richard Herrmann (90)
Died 14 June
NRK presenter

Phil Gordon (94)
Died 15 June
Character actor, everything

Vince O'Brien (91)
Died 19 June
Character actor, everything

Chris Sievey (aka Frank Sidebottom) (54)
Died 21 June
Comedian

Irwin Barker (58)
Died 21 June
TV writer, This Hour Has 22 Minutes

Pennant Roberts (69)
Died 22 June
TV director

Allyn Ferguson (85)
Died 23 June
Composer, Charlie's Angels

Alan Plater (75)
Died 25 June
Writer

Pietro Taricone (35)
Died 29 June
Reality show star

Gordon Mulholland (89)
Died 30 June
Actor, The Villagers

Alison Booker (47)
Died 1 July
BBC local radio presenter

Murray Chercover (80)
Died 3 July
CEO of CTV

Roy Waller (69)
Died 6 July
Radio presenter

John Henning (73)
Died 7 July
Newsreader

Gilly Coman (50)
Died 13 July
Actor, Bread

Kip King (72)
Died 15 July
Character actor, everything

Shirley Silvey (82)
Died 17 July
Animator, The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show

Larry Keith (79)
Died 17 July
Actor, All My Children

Robert Sandall (58)
Died 20 July
Radio presenter

Daniel Schorr (93)
Died 23 July
NPR journalist

Wallace Souza (51)
Died 27 July
Reality TV presenter

JJ Maura (61)
Died 28 July
TV announcer

John Aylesworth (80)
Died 28 July
TV writer, Hee Haw

Clint Formby (86)
Died 31 July
Radio presenter

Jack Parnell (87)
Died 8 August
Musical director at ATV

Jay Larkin (59)
Died 9 August
TV executive, Showtime

Tab Baker (50)
Died 9 August
Actor, Prison Break

David L Wolper (82)
Died 10 August
TV producer, Roots

Jimmy Reid (78)
Died 10 August
Trades unionist turned broadcaster

Paul Ryan Rudd (70)
Died 12 August
Character actor, everything

Edward Kean (85)
Died 13 August
TV writer, Howdy Doody

Gloria Winters (c78)
Died 14 August
Actor, Sky King

Dan Avey (69)
Died 15 August
Radio presenter

Alejandro Maclean (41)
Died 17 August
TV producer

Fiona Coyne (45)
Probable suicide on 18 August
Presenter, The Weakest Link South Africa

Jackson Gillis (93)
Died 19 August
TV writer, Perry Mason

Jack Horkheimer (72)
Died 20 August
PBS equivalent of Patrick Moore

Harold Dow (62)
Died 21 August
Newsman, 48 Hours

Nancy Dolman (58)
Died 21 August
Actor, Soap

Dave McElhatton (81)
Died 23 August
News anchor

Owen Edwards (c76)
Died 30 August
Founder CEO of S4C

Morgan White (86)
Died 2 September
Producer of KGMB Honolulu's Checkers & Pogo

David Dortort (93)
Died 5 September
Producer, Bonanza

Riad al-Saray (35)
Murdered 7 September
TV presenter

John Kluge (95)
Died 7 September
Former owner of Metromedia (formerly DuMont, later Fox)

Harold Gould (86)
Died 11 September
Character actor, everything

Fud Leclerc (86)
Died 20 September
First person to score nul points in the Eurovision Song Contest

Van Snowden (71)
Died 22 September
Puppeteer, HR Pufnstuf

Art Gilmore (98)
Died 25 September
Character actor, everything

Mickey Freeman (90)
Died 28 September
Actor, The Phil Silvers Show

Joe Mantell (94)
Died 29 September
Character actor, everything

Tony Curtis (85)
Died 29 September
Actor, The Persuaders!

Stephen J Cannell (69)
Died 30 September
Producer, almost everything in the 1980s

Roger A Peterson (89)
Died 1 October
Producer, What's My Line

Norman Wisdom (95)
Died 4 October
Actor

Frank Bourgholtzer (90)
Died 8 October
NBC News White House correspondent

Janet MacLachlan (77)
Died 11 October
Actor, Archie Bunker's Place

Mark Stevens (76)
Died 12 October
KLOL radio presenter

Mary Malcolm (92)
Died 13 October
BBC announcer

Simon MacCorkindale (58)
Died 14 October
Actor, Manimal

Jim Dougal (65)
Died 15 October
Journalist

Barbara Billingsley (94)
Died 16 October
Actor, Leave It to Beaver

Graham Crowden (87)
Died 19 October
Actor, Waiting for God

Tom Bosley (83)
Died 19 October
Actor, Happy Days

Wendall Woodbury (68)
Died 20 October
Presenter, WGAL-TV

Alex Anderson (90)
Died 22 October
Animator

Lamont Johnson (88)
Died 24 October
Director, Dr Kildare

Bob Courtney (87)
Died 24 October
SABC announcer

James Wall (92)
Died 27 October
Mr Baxter, Captain Kangaroo

Denise Borino-Quinn (46)
Died 27 October
Actress, The Sopranos

James MacArthur (72)
Died 28 October
Actor, Hawaii Five-O

Gerard Kelly (51)
Died 28 October
Actor, Rab C Nesbitt

Robert Ellenstein (87)
Died 28 October
Character actor, everything

Mervyn Haisman (82)
Died 29 October
Writer, Doctor Who

Arthur Bernard Lewis (84)
Died 30 October
Writer, Dallas

Ina Clare (77)
Died 30 October
Extra, everything

Charlie O'Donnell (78)
Died 1 November
Wheel of Fortune announcer

Julien Hug (35)
Suicide c3 November
Reality TV star

Jill Clayburgh (66)
Died 5 November
Actor, Ally McBeal

Addison Powell (89)
Died 8 November
Actor, Dark Shadows

William Self (89)
Died 15 November
Character actor, everything

Moira Hoey (88)
Died 15 November
Actor, The Riordans

Ruth Springford (89)
Died 20 November
Actor, The Frankie Howerd Show

Willis Burks (75)
Died 21 November
Character actor, everything

Ingrid Pitt (73)
Died 23 November
Actor, Doctor Who

Gavin Blyth (41)
Died 26 November
Producer, Emmerdale

Leslie Nielsen (84)
Died 28 November
Actor, Police Squad!

Al Mancini (80)
Died 29 November
Producer, Baywatch Hawaii

Ted Sorel (74)
Died 30 November
Character actor, everything

Chane't Johnson (34)
Died 2 December
Character actor, everything

Alan Armer (88)
Died 5 December
Producer, The Fugitive

Anthony Howard (76)
Died 19 December
Journalist

Brian Hanrahan (61)
Died 20 December
Journalist

Elisabeth Beresford (84)
Died 24 December
Underground, overground, Wombling free

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As ever, the shifting mass of satellite and cable multi-channels has seen the demise of several television networks this year, presented here courtesy of Wikipedia and Wordle:

And some long-running or otherwise notable TV shows were cancelled this year: