Saturday 9 December 1961 — VICTORIA

Official launch for regional station GLV10 Gippsland – the first non-metropolitan TV station in Australia.

The evening also dominated by coverage of the 1961 Federal Election — with coverage throughout the evening by ABV2, HSV7 and GTV9. ABV2’s coverage is relayed to Gippsland viewers via GLV10.

GLV: Australia’s first regional channel

Source: The Age TV & Radio Guide, 7 December 1961. The Age, 9 December 1961. TV Times, 7 December 1961

ABV2 HSV7 GTV9
6AM
7AM
8AM
9AM
10AM
11AM
12PM 12.30pm Test Pattern
1PM 1.30pm Tennis: Victorian Championships
Live from Kooyong
1pm Tennis: Victorian Championships. Live from Kooyong
2PM
3PM 3.15pm Saturday With Frank Wilson
4PM
5PM 5.30 Cartoon Time 5pm Bandstand
6PM 6pm 6 O’Clock Rock 6pm Peter’s Fun Fair. Zig and Zag
6.30 Swallow’s Juniors. Brian Naylor
6pm Superman
6.30 News, Newsreel. Brian Taylor, Gordon Leed
7PM 7pm ABC News. Norman Griffiths
7.12 Weather, Sport
7.30 The Donna Reed Show
7pm Harrigan And Son
7.30 Candid Camera
7pm The Bugs Bunny Show
7.30 Markham
8PM 8pm Manhunt
8.25 Lionel Long
8.30 The Boy Who Carried A Torch
8pm Movie: Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever. 1938 [IMDB] 8pm The Frank Sinatra Special
9PM 9pm Election Results   9.30 Election Results. Danny Webb, Frank Collyer, Roland Strong, Geoff Raymond, Frederick Howard, Walter Brooks
9.45 The Outlaws
9pm Election Results. Eric Pearce. Includes live coverage of trotting from Flemington Showgrounds.
10PM 10.15 Election Results
10.20 The Outlaws (cont’d)
10.50 Election Results
11PM 11.45 Close 11pm News. Philip Brady
11.20 Epilogue
11.30 Close
12AM 12am Close
1AM
2AM
3AM
4AM
5AM

 

GLV10 Gippsland
5.45pm Touring Gippsland. Don Ewart
6pm Jungle Jim
6.30 Whirlybirds
7pm I Love Lucy
7.30 Kovacs On Music
8.30 Official Opening GLV10. Don Ewart, Bobby Limb, Happy Hammond
9pm BP Super Show. Horrie Dargie
10pm Election Results (ABV2)
11pm News, Weather, Epilogue
11.15 Close
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