Chicago TV Flashback - November 4-5, 1980

WBBM channel 2 TV schedule for Tuesday, November 4, 1980

Morning

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6a - Sunrise Semester

6:30a - It's Worth Knowing

7a - CBS News Morning with Charles Kuralt (2 hours)

9a - The Jeffersons

9:30a - Alice

10a - The Price is Right (1 hour)

11a - Young and the Restless (1 hour)

Afternoon

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Noon - Noonbreak

12:30p - Search for Tomorrow

1:30p - As the World Turns (1 hour)

2:30p - Guiding Light (1 hour)

3p - One Day at a Time

3:30p - Match Game

4p - Rockford Files (1 hour)

5p - Channel 2 News at 5

5:30p - CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite

Evening

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6p - The 1980 Presidential Election Coverage (3 hrs, 30 min)

9:30p - The 1980 Presidential Election Coverage cont'd (3 hrs, 30 min)

Early Wednesday, November 5, 1980

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1a - First Edition

1:20a - The Late Show: Fade In (1 hr, 55 min)

3:15a - Name of the Game (1 hr, 30 min)

Ronald Reagan, the Republican candidate known as a film actor and Governor of California, wins the 1980 presidential election via landslide and becomes the 40th President of the United States over incumbent president Jimmy Carter and Independent candidate John Anderson. Reagan carried 44 states with a total of 489 electoral votes, Carter carried only 6 of the states, including DC with 49 votes and John Anderson didn't carry any states leaving him with zero votes. As far as the popular vote is concerned, Reagan with 43,899,248 popular votes, president Carter finished 2nd with 35,481,436 and Anderson finished 3rd with only 5,719,850. With this win, not only the Iran Hostage Crisis comes to an end after 444 days of captivity, but Reagan will be sworn-in as the 40th president on Tuesday, January 20, 1981.

All primetime programming for this week will return next week, November 11th. For this week only, CBS News Morning expanded to 2 hours.

Unemployment Rate Continues to Fall - June 1984

The Labor Department reported, June 1, that the unemployment rate had continued to fall in May, to 7.4 percent. The Federal Reserve Board reported, June 15, that industrial production advance 0.4 percent in May. The U.S. balance of payments of deficit for the first quarter, $19.41B, set a record, the Commerce Department reported, June 18. The department said, June 19, that housing starts fell 10.5 percent in May. The Labor Department reported, June 22, that the consumer price index edged upward 0.2 percent in May. The country's major banks, June 25, raised their prime interest rate from 12.5 percent to 13 percent, the highest level since October 1982. Pres. Reagan said he could see "no excuse" for the increase. During the last week in June, the U.S. dollar set or apporached record highs in relation to major foreign currencies. The index Leading Economic Indicators fell 0.1 percent in May, the Commerce Department said, June 29.

Chernenko Elected President of USSR - April 1984

Konstantin Chernenko, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, added another title, April 11. In a unanimous vote by the Supreme Soviet, Chernenko was named head of state. Officially the title was chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. Chernenko thus followed as secretary, his two predecessors Leonid Brezhnev and Yuri Andropov, in adding the second honor. Mikhail Gorbachev, youngest member of the ruling Politburo at age 53, nominated Chernenko for the post, prompting some speculation that Gorbachev was in line to succeed the 72-year-old Chernenko.