Draft:2024–25 United States network television schedule (afternoon)

The 2024–25 afternoon network television schedule for the four major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend afternoon hours from September 2023 to August 2024. The schedule is followed by a list per network of returning and cancelled shows from the 2023–24 season. The daytime schedules for the four major networks that offer afternoon programming are expected to remain consistent with the prior television season.

Affiliates fill time periods not occupied by network programs with local or syndicated programming. PBS – which offers daytime programming through a children's program block, PBS Kids – is not included, as its member television stations have local flexibility over most of their schedules and broadcast times for network shows may vary. Also not included areMyNetworkTV (as the programming services do not offer daytime programs of any kind except for LIV Golf, Atlantic Coast Conference, and the Arizona Bowl) and Ion Television (as its schedule is composed mainly of syndicated reruns).

The CW is not included on the weekday schedule as it only airs afternoon programming (in the form of sports content) during weekends. Fox is not included on the weekday schedule as it only airs afternoon programming (in the form of sports content) during weekends.

Please note that the schedules for the networks are affected by the 2023 Hollywood labor disputes.

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Light blue indicates local programming.

Yellow indicates talk shows.

Chartreuse indicates soap operas.

Blue-gray indicates news programming.

Light green indicates sporting events.

Light teal indicates programs not applicable to the above categorizations.

Light yellow indicates the current schedule.

Schedule

 * New series are highlighted in bold.
 * 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 in overnight timeslots or defer them to a co-operated station or digital subchannel in their regular timeslot) 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.
 * All sporting events air live in all time zones in U.S. Eastern time, with local programming by affiliates in western time zones after game completion.

Weekdays
Notes:
 * ABC stations have the option of airing General Hospital at 2:00 or 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time, depending on the station's choice of feed.
 * Depending on their choice of feed, CBS stations have the option of airing Let's Make a Deal at either 10:00 a.m. or 3:00 p.m. Eastern (airtime adjusted by time zone), and/or The Young and the Restless at 11:00 or 11:30 a.m. local time (in the Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones).
 * NBC News Daily airs live every hour from noon until 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time, and NBC stations have the option to choose which hour they carry.

Saturday
Notes:
 * To comply with FCC educational programming regulations, stations may defer certain programs featured in their respective network's E/I program blocks to determined weekend late morning or afternoon time periods if a sporting event is not scheduled in the timeslot or in place of paid programming that would otherwise be scheduled.
 * Airtimes of sporting events may vary depending on the offerings scheduled for that weekend.
 * NBC Nightly News will only air in the Eastern and Central time zones during fall if Notre Dame Football on NBC airs a 2:30 p.m. ET game (all other time zones will either air the program live (if available) or otherwise preempted due to College Football on NBC).
 * CBS Weekend News is preempted in the Eastern and Central time zones when SEC on CBS airs a 3:30 pm ET game, all other time zones air the program.

Sunday
Notes:
 * To comply with FCC educational programming regulations, stations may defer certain programs featured in their respective network's E/I program blocks to determined weekend late morning or afternoon time periods if a sporting event is not scheduled in the timeslot or in place of paid programming that would otherwise be scheduled.
 * Airtimes of sporting events may vary depending on the offerings scheduled for that weekend.
 * When CBS and/or Fox offer an early singleheader NFL game, a post-game show airs after the game from 4:30–5:00 p.m. ET (the length of which may vary depending on the timing of the early game's conclusion) with local, syndicated or non-NFL sports programming airing after from 5:00–7:00 p.m. ET. Meanwhile, when CBS and/or Fox offer a late singleheader NFL game, local, syndicated or non-NFL sports programming airs from 1:00–4:00 p.m. ET/10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. PT.
 * CBS and Fox stations in the Pacific Time Zone receiving an NFL singleheader game, must air a late singleheader game, if possible.
 * ABC, CBS and/or NBC stations may air their corresponding network's early evening newscast at 6:00 or 6:30 p.m. ET and PT/5:00 or 5:30 p.m. CT/MT, depending on the station's choice of feed.
 * NBC Nightly News airs live in all time zones during Fall to avoid pre-emption due to the live airing of NBC Sunday Night Football.
 * CBS Weekend News is preempted on the Eastern and Central time zones when NFL on CBS airs late NFL Games, all other time zones air the program.

ABC
Returning series:
 * ABC News
 * ABC World News Tonight
 * GMA3: What You Need To Know
 * ESPN on ABC
 * College Football Scoreboard
 * ESPN College Basketball on ABC
 * ESPN College Football on ABC
 * NBA Countdown
 * NBA Sunday Showcase
 * NHL on ABC
 * WNBA on ABC
 * UFL on ABC (was XFL in 2023)
 * General Hospital
 * The View

CBS
Returning series: Not Returning From 2023-24:
 * The Bold and the Beautiful
 * CBS Evening News
 * CBS Sports
 * College Basketball on CBS
 * The NFL Today
 * NFL on CBS
 * PGA Tour on CBS
 * The Talk
 * The Young and the Restless
 * SEC on CBS/College Football on CBS

The CW
New Series
 * Atlantic Coast Conference
 * ''NASCAR Xfinity Series
 * ''NASCAR Xfinity Series

Fox
Returning series:
 * Fox Sports
 * Fox College Football
 * Fox College Hoops
 * Fox NFL Sunday
 * NASCAR on Fox
 * NASCAR RaceDay

NBC
Returning series:
 * NBC News
 * NBC News Daily
 * NBC Nightly News
 * NBC Sports
 * Golf Channel on NBC
 * IndyCar on NBC
 * NASCAR America
 * NASCAR on NBC
 * Notre Dame Football on NBC
 * Premier League on NBC

ABC

 * NHL on ABC—Renewed for an eleventh season on March 10, 2021; deal will into a fourteenth season in 2027.
 * United Football League—Renewed for a fourth season on May 17, 2022; deal will into a sixth season in 2027.

CBS

 * NFL on CBS/The NFL Today—Renewed through the 2032–33 season on March 18, 2021.
 * The Talk—Renewed for a fifteenth and final season on April 12, 2024.
 * The Young and the Restless—Renewed through the 2027–28 season on February 27, 2024.

Fox

 * Fox NFL Sunday/Fox NFL—Renewed through the 2032–33 season on March 18, 2021.