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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.

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