1978–79 United States network television schedule (daytime)

The 1978–79 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1978 to August 1979.

Legend

• New series are highlighted in bold.

Schedule

• All times correspond to U.S. Eastern and Pacific Time scheduling (except for some live sports or events). Except where affiliates slot certain programs outside their network-dictated timeslots, subtract one hour for Central, Mountain, Alaska, and Hawaii-Aleutian times.
• Local schedules may differ, as affiliates have the option to pre-empt or delay network programs. Such scheduling may be limited to preemptions caused by local or national breaking news or weather coverage (which may force stations to tape delay certain programs to other timeslots) and any major sports events scheduled to air in a weekday timeslot (mainly during major holidays). Stations may air shows at other times at their preference.

Monday–Friday

Notes:

• Programs aired before 9:00AM aired at the same time in all time zones. CBS's Sunrise Semester was a half-hour program which aired at either 6:00 or 6:30 AM, depending on the station.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• NBC aired NBC News Updates at 10:57, 11:57, 12:57, 2:57 until June 1979, and 3:57.
• A CBS News Razzmatazz special would occasionally preempt CBS' 4:00PM show.

Saturday

In the News aired ten times during CBS' Saturday morning shows.

Sunday

By network

ABC

CBS

NBC

See also

• 1978-79 United States network television schedule (prime-time)
• 1978-79 United States network television schedule (late night)

Sources

• https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122215/http://curtalliaume.com/abc_day.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122235/http://curtalliaume.com/cbs_day.html
• https://web.archive.org/web/20071012211242/http://curtalliaume.com/nbc_day.html

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