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Monday 2 November 1959 — BRISBANE

First day’s transmission for ABC’s Brisbane station ABQ2. BTQ7 opened the previous day.

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Source: The Courier Mail, Brisbane, 2 November 1959

  ABQ2 BTQ7 QTQ9
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4PM
5PM 5pm Cottee’s Happy Hour. Lester Foxcroft, Nancy Knudsen 5pm Sir Lancelot
5.30 Channel Niners. Jim Iliffe
6PM 6pm The Mickey Mouse Club
6.45 News, Weather. Brian Cahill
6pm Crusader Rabbit
6.05 Steven Donovan
6.30 News, Weather
6.45 Cartoon Theatre
7PM  7pm Official Opening ABQ2
7.20 Greeting From The BBC
7.25 ABC News. Ron Brady
7.38 Weather
7.43 Presentation Announcement
7.45 The Phil Silvers Show
7pm Noughts And Crosses
7.30 Last Of The Mohicans
7pm Steve Canyon
7.30 Burns And Allen
8PM  8.10 Centenary Visitor
8.40 Wells Fargo
8pm Restless Gun
8.30 I Love Lucy
8pm Maverick
9PM  9.05 Growing Up With Guba
9.35 Boyd QC
9pm Whitehall Play House
9.30 Trackdown
9pm Dragnet
9.30 Harbour Command
10PM  10.05 Nocturne
10.25 Portraits Of Power
10.55 Unveiling of the ABC Plaque
10pm Sailor Of Fortune 10pm Startime
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