Found a TV Guide from the week of September 18-24 in 1982, which included an ad for the news on WTVA. As you can see, the station was celebrating its 25th anniversary. (We’re now in the 68th year.) As for what appeared on the air on Wednesday, September 22, 1982:

5:30 am NBC News
6:00 am Mornin’
7:00 am Today
9:00 am Donahue
10:00 am Texas
11:00 am Doctors
11:30 am Search for Tomorrow
12:00 pm Noon
12:30 pm Days of our Lives
1:30 pm Another World
2:30 pm Fantasy
3:30 pm Tom and Jerry
4:00 pm What’s Happening
4:30 pm Little House on the Prairie
5:30 pm NBC Nightly News
6:00 pm Nine Alive News at 6
6:30 pm Family Feud
7:00 pm Real People
8:30 pm Family Ties
9:00 pm Quincy
10:00 pm Nine Alive News at 10
10:30 pm Tonight
11:30 pm Late Night with David Letterman
12:30 am NBC News Overnight
1:30 am Nine Alive News at 10 repeat

The first episode of Family Ties aired on this night. It was also the season premiere for Real People, which is the show Byron Allen hosted before he became the owner of WTVA four decades later.