1979–80 United States network television schedule (weekday)

These are the daytime Monday–Friday schedules on all three American television networks for each calendar season, beginning in September 1979. All times listed are Eastern time.

Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of prime-time programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold and all others are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.

NOTES:
1) Programs marked with an asterisk (*) aired at the same time in all time zones. CBS's Sunrise Semester and NBC News at Sunrise were half-hour programs which aired at either 6:00 or 6:30 AM, depending on the station.
2) Programs scheduled after 10:00 AM Eastern aired one hour earlier (starting at 9:00 AM) in the Central and Pacific time zones. Stations in the Mountain time zone that started their network schedule at 8:00 AM would follow the Central and Pacific pattern that year.
2) Some network programs, particularly before 7:00 AM and after 10:00/9:00 AM, were subject to preemption by local affiliate stations in favor of syndicated or locally produced programs.
3) On ABC, World News Tonight was produced at 6:00 PM Eastern/5:00 PM Central, and aired live by some affiliates. This early feed of the broadcast was discontinued in 1982.

Fall 1979

	6:00 am	7:00 am	8:00 am	9:00 am	10:00 am	10:30 am	11:00 am	11:30 am	noon	12:30 pm	1:00 pm	1:30 pm	2:00 pm	2:30 pm	3:00 pm	3:30 pm	4:00 pm	4:30 pm	6:00 pm	6:30 pm
ABC	local	Good Morning America *		local			Laverne & Shirley (reruns)	Family Feud	The $20,000 Pyramid	Ryan's Hope	All My Children		One Life to Live		General Hospital		The Edge of Night	local	World News Tonight
CBS	Sunrise Semester *	Morning *	Captain Kangaroo *	local	Beat the Clock	Whew! CBS Newsbreak at 10:55)	The Price Is Right		The Young and the Restless	Search for Tomorrow	local	As the World Turns		Guiding Light		One Day at a Time (reruns)	Love of Life	local		CBS Evening News
NBC	NBC News at Sunrise *	Today *		local	Card Sharks	The Hollywood Squares	High Rollers	Wheel of Fortune	Mindreaders	Password Plus	Days of Our Lives		The Doctors	Another World			local			NBC Nightly News

Winter 1979–1980

	6:00 am	7:00 am	8:00 am	9:00 am	10:00 am	10:30 am	11:00 am	11:30 am	noon	12:30 pm	1:00 pm	1:30 pm	2:00 pm	2:30 pm	3:00 pm	3:30 pm	4:00 pm	4:30 pm	6:00 pm	6:30 pm
ABC	local	Good Morning America *		local			Laverne and Shirley (reruns)	Family Feud	The $20,000 Pyramid	Ryan's Hope	All My Children		One Life to Live		General Hospital		The Edge of Night	local	World News Tonight
CBS	Sunrise Semester *	Morning *	Captain Kangaroo *	local	Beat the Clock	Celebrity Whew! CBS Newsbreak at 10:55)	The Price is Right		The Young and the Restless	Search for Tomorrow	local	As the World Turns		Guiding Light		One Day at a Time (reruns)	Love of Life	local		CBS Evening News
NBC	NBC News at Sunrise *	Today *		local	Card Sharks	The Hollywood Squares	High Rollers	Wheel of Fortune	Chain Reaction	Password Plus	Days of our Lives		The Doctors	Another World			local			NBC Nightly News

NOTE: On CBS, Love of Life aired its final episode on February 1, 1980. The following Monday, February 4, The Young and the Restless expanded to a full hour.

Spring 1980

	6:00 am	7:00 am	8:00 am	9:00 am	10:00 am	10:30 am	11:00 am	11:30 am	noon	12:30 pm	1:00 pm	2:00 pm	2:30 pm	3:00 pm	4:00 pm	4:30 pm	6:00 pm	6:30 pm
ABC	local	Good Morning America *		local			Laverne and Shirley (reruns)	Family Feud	The $20,000 Pyramid	Ryan's Hope	All My Children	One Life to Live		General Hospital	The Edge of Night	local	World News Tonight
CBS	Sunrise Semester *	Morning *	Captain Kangaroo *	local	The Jeffersons (reruns)	Celebrity Whew! CBS Newsbreak at 10:55)	The Price is Right		local	Search for Tomorrow	The Young and the Restless	As the World Turns		Guiding Light	One Day at a Time (reruns)	local		CBS Evening News
NBC	NBC News at Sunrise *	Today *		local programming	Card Sharks	The Hollywood Squares	High Rollers	Wheel of Fortune	Chain Reaction	Password Plus	Days of our Lives	The Doctors	Another World		local			NBC Nightly News

NOTE: On CBS, The Young and the Restless was expanded from 30 minutes to one hour on February 4, 1980. The noon time slot is rescinded to affiliates in exchange for 1:00 pm.

Summer 1980

	6:00 am	7:00 am	8:00 am	9:00 am	10:00 am	10:30 am	11:00 am	11:30 am	noon	12:30 pm	1:00 pm	2:00 pm	3:00 pm	4:00 pm	4:30 pm	6:00 pm	6:30 pm
ABC	local	Good Morning America *		local			The Love Boat (reruns)		Family Feud	Ryan's Hope	All My Children	One Life to Live	General Hospital	The Edge of Night	local	World News Tonight
CBS	Sunrise Semester *	Morning *	Captain Kangaroo *	local	The Jeffersons (reruns)	Alice (reruns)	The Price is Right CBS Newsbreak at 11:55)		local	Search for Tomorrow	The Young and the Restless	As the World Turns	Guiding Light	One Day at a Time (reruns)	local		CBS Evening News
NBC	NBC News at Sunrise *	Today *		local	The David Letterman Show		Wheel of Fortune	Password Plus	Card Sharks	The Doctors	Days of our Lives	Another World	Texas	local			NBC Nightly News

NOTES: On NBC, The David Letterman Show debuted on June 23, and Texas debuted on August 4. Another World and The David Letterman Show were reduced from 1 ¹⁄₂ hours to one hour on August 4 to accommodate the one-hour timeslot of Texas.

Sources

United States network daytime television schedules

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