1980–81 United States network television schedule (weekday)

These are the daytime Monday–Friday schedules on all three networks for each calendar season beginning in September 1980. All times are Eastern; affiliate schedules may differ.

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.

Fall 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	6:30 pm
ABC	local programming	Good Morning America		local programming			The Love Boat reruns		Family Feud	Ryan's Hope	All My Children	One Life to Live	General Hospital	The Edge of Night	local programming	ABC's World News Tonight
CBS	Sunrise Semester	Morning with Charles Kuralt	Captain Kangaroo	local programming	The Jeffersons reruns	Alice reruns	The Price is Right		local programming	Search for Tomorrow	The Young and the Restless	As the World Turns	Guiding Light	One Day at a Time reruns	local programming	CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
NBC	NBC News Sunrise	The Today Show with Tom Brokaw & Jane Pauley		local programming	Las Vegas Gambit	Blockbusters	Wheel of Fortune	Password Plus	Card Sharks	The Doctors	Days of Our Lives	Another World	Texas	local programming		NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor

Winter 1980-1981

	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	6:30 pm
ABC	local programming	Good Morning America		local programming			The Love Boat reruns		Family Feud	Ryan's Hope	All My Children	One Life to Live	General Hospital	The Edge of Night	local programming	ABC's World News Tonight
CBS	Sunrise Semester	Morning with Charles Kuralt	Captain Kangaroo	local programming	The Jeffersons reruns	Alice reruns	The Price is Right		local programming	Search for Tomorrow	The Young and the Restless	As the World Turns	Guiding Light	One Day at a Time reruns	local programming	CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
NBC	NBC News Sunrise	The Today Show with Tom Brokaw & Jane Pauley		local programming	Las Vegas Gambit	Blockbusters	Wheel of Fortune	Password Plus	Card Sharks	The Doctors	Days of Our Lives	Another World	Texas	local programming		NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor

Spring 1981

	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	6:30 pm
ABC	local programming	Good Morning America		local programming			The Love Boat reruns		Family Feud	Ryan's Hope	All My Children	One Life to Live	General Hospital	The Edge of Night	local programming	ABC's World News Tonight
CBS	Sunrise Semester	Morning with Charles Kuralt	Captain Kangaroo	local programming	The Jeffersons reruns	Alice reruns	The Price is Right		local programming	Search for Tomorrow	The Young and the Restless	As the World Turns	Guiding Light	One Day at a Time reruns	local programming	CBS Evening News with Dan Rather
NBC	NBC News Sunrise	The Today Show with Tom Brokaw & Jane Pauley		local programming	Las Vegas Gambit	Blockbusters	Wheel of Fortune	Password Plus	Card Sharks	The Doctors	Days of Our Lives	Another World	Texas	local programming		NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor

Summer 1981

	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	4:00 pm	4:30 pm	6:30 pm
ABC	local programming	Good Morning America		local programming			Three's Company reruns (2 Shows)		Family Feud	Ryan's Hope	All My Children		One Life to Live		General Hospital	The Edge of Night	local programming	ABC's World News Tonight
CBS	Sunrise Semester	Morning with Charles Kuralt	Captain Kangaroo	local programming	The Jeffersons reruns	Alice reruns	The Price is Right		local programming	The Young and the Restless		As the World Turns		Search for Tomorrow	Guiding Light	One Day at a Time reruns	local programming	CBS Evening News with Dan Rather
NBC	NBC News Sunrise	The Today Show with Tom Brokaw & Jane Pauley		local programming	Las Vegas Gambit	Blockbusters	Wheel of Fortune	Password Plus	Card Sharks	The Doctors	Days of Our Lives		Another World		Texas	local programming		NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor

On June 8, 1981, CBS moved the Young and the Restless to its current time at 12:30 pm ET or 11:00 am CT/PT. As the World Turns moved back to 1:30 pm ET and Search For Tomorrow was moved to 2:30 pm ET.

Notes

♦ABC had a 6PM (ET)/5PM (CT) feed for their newscast

Sources

United States network daytime television schedules

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