The first day of Prime Television in Mildura, ending a 32-year commercial monopoly in the region by STV8.

Source: The Sunraysia Daily, Mildura, 1 July 1997.

	ABMV6	PTV32	STV8	SBS29
6AM	6.30am The Reading Writing Roadshow	6am Sunrise	6am CNN World News 6.30 Daybreak News	(5am) Weatherwatch 6am Worldwatch: News via satellite
7AM	7am Open Learning	7am Agro’s Cartoon Connection	7am Today
8AM	8am Blinky Bill 8.25 Mr Squiggle and Friends 8.30 Sesame Street	8.30 The Book Place
9AM	9.25 Bananas In Pyjamas 9.30 Play School	9am Total Recall 9.30 A Country Practice	9am WIN Today 9.30 Telemall Shopping
10AM	10am Bear Stories 10.10 Joshua Jones 10.20 Johnson and Friends 10.30 Philbert The Frog 10.35 Truckers 10.45 Art Attack	10.30 Wheel Of Fortune	10am Here’s Humphrey 10.30 National Nine News: Hong Kong Handover Special
11AM	11am One For All 11.30 Are You Afraid Of The Dark? 11.55 Feral TV	11am Eleven AM	11am What’s Cooking 11.30 Entertainment Tonight
12PM	12pm The World At Noon 12.30 English Have A Go	12pm Movie: If Winter Comes. 1948 (B&W) [IMDB]	12pm Midday With Kerri Anne Kennerley	12.30pm Movie: The Old Well. 1987 (Mandarin)
1PM	1pm Four Corners 1.45 Media Watch		1.30 Days Of Our Lives
2PM	2pm GP	2pm Ricki Lake	2.30 The Young And The Restless	2.35 Weatherwatch and Music
3PM	3pm Children’s Programs	3pm I Dream Of Jeannie 3.30 Disney Adventures	3.30 Catch Phrase	3pm TV Ed 3.30 English At Work
4PM		4pm Time Masters 4.30 Bewitched	4pm Challenger 4.30 What’s Up Doc?	4pm World Sports 4.30 Travels A La Carte In The Swiss Alps
5PM		5pm Concentration 5.30 Wheel Of Fortune	5pm The Price Is Right 5.30 Sale Of The Century	5pm The Three Graces 5.30 Newshour (PBS)
6PM	6pm Heartbreak High 6.30 Shine On Jarvey Moon	6pm Seven Nightly News. David Johnston 6.30 Today Tonight	6pm WIN News 6.30 National Nine News. Brian Naylor	6.30 World News
7PM	7pm ABC News 7.30 The 7.30 Report: Special Edition From Hong Kong	7pm Home And Away 7.30 Better Homes and Gardens	7pm A Current Affair 7.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show	7pm World Sports 7.30 Front Up
8PM	8pm The Bill 8.30 Inside Story	8pm The Great Outdoors 8.28 Ozlotto 8.30 Blue Heelers	8pm The Drew Carey Show 8.30 World’s Dumbest Criminals	8pm Shadipur 8.30 The Cutting Edge
9PM	9.30 Foreign Correspondent	9.30 Witness	9pm Real TV 9.30 Married with Children	9.30 Movie: The Terrorists. 1992 (Germany) [IMDB]
10PM	10.30 ABC News 10.35 Lateline	10.35 Seven Nightly News	10.30 Nightline 10.35 Tennis: Wimbledon 1997
11PM	11.10 Doctor Finlay	11.05 The Outer Limits		11.05pm Movie: Arhus By Night. 1989 (Denmark) [IMDB]
12AM	12am Australia Television News 12.30 The Prize	12am Space Above And Beyond 12.55 Home Shopping Guide
1AM	1am Official Handover Ceremony from Hong Kong
2AM		2am TVSN Television Shopping Network (continues to 6am)
3AM
4AM			4am The Late Show With David Letterman
5AM			5am Entertainment Tonight 5.30 Vanessa (continues to 6am)