Network daytime, spring 1983
edit| Time (ET) | CBS | NBC | ABC |
| 6:00/ 6:30 AM |
CBS Early Morning News |
Early Today | ABC World News This Morning |
| 7:00 | CBS Morning News Bill Kurtis Diane Sawyer |
Today Bryant Gumbel Jane Pauley |
Good Morning America David Hartman Joan Lunden |
| 7:30 | |||
| 8:00 | |||
| 8:30 | |||
| 9:00 | Local | Local | Local |
| 9:30 | |||
| 10:00 | The $25,000 Pyramid Dick Clark |
The Facts of Life | |
| 10:30 | Child's Play Bill Cullen |
Sale of the Century Jim Perry | |
| 11:00 | The Price is Right Bob Barker |
Wheel of Fortune Pat Sajak Vanna White |
The Love Boat |
| 11:30 | Hit Man Peter Tomarken | ||
| 12:00 PM | Local | Just Men! Betty White |
Family Feud Richard Dawson |
| 12:30 | The Young and the Restless |
Search for Tomorrow | Ryan's Hope |
| 1:00 | Days of Our Lives | All My Children | |
| 1:30 | As the World Turns | ||
| 2:00 | Another World | One Life to Live | |
| 2:30 | Capitol | ||
| 3:00 | Guiding Light | Fantasy Peter Marshall Leslie Uggams |
General Hospital |
| 3:30 | |||
| 4:00 | Tattletales Bert Convy |
Local | The Edge of Night |
| 4:30 | Local | Local | |
| 5:00 | |||
| 5:30 | |||
| 6:00 | |||
| 6:30 or 7:00 |
CBS Evening News Dan Rather |
NBC Nightly News Tom Brokaw Roger Mudd |
ABC World News Tonight Frank Reynolds Peter Jennings Max Robinson |
| 7:30 | Local | Local | Local |
1980-1981
edit| Time | NBC | WPCQ |
| 9:00 AM | Local | Another World |
| 9:30 | ||
| 10:00 | Las Vegas Gambit | Texas |
| 10:30 | Blockbusters | |
| 11:00 | Wheel of Fortune | Days of Our Lives |
| 11:30 | Password Plus | |
| 12:00 PM | Card Sharks | The Doctors |
| 12:30 | The Doctors | People Are Talking |
| 1:00 | Days of Our Lives | |
| 1:30 | The John Davidson Show | |
| 2:00 | Another World | |
| 2:30 | ||
| 3:00 | Texas | Hour Magazine |
| 3:30 | ||
| 4:00 | Local | Movie |
| 4:30 | ||
| 5:00 | ||
| 5:30 | News | |
| 6:00 | The Newlywed Game | |
| 6:30 | NBC Nightly News | NBC Nightly News |
| 7:00 | NBC Nightly News | Family Feud |
| 7:30 | Local | Prisoner:Cell Block H |