The ABC Sportsman Of The Year Awards were started in 1951 and first televised in 1957. Despite the gender-specific title, both males and females were eligible. The awards were eventually re-named the ABC Sports Award Of The Year in 1984 and later merged with the Sport Australia Awards to become the Australian Sports Awards. They continued until 2006.
The 1975 ABC Sportsman Of The Year was hosted by Norman May, with the major award won by racehorse trainer Bart Cummings.
See also: Saturday 3 January 1976 — MELBOURNE
Source: TV Week, 3 January 1976
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| 6AM | (Movie Marathon continued from Friday) | |||
| 7AM | 7am Zoopops. Dave Jeffrey | 7am Cartoon Corner 7.30 Sergeant Preston Of The Yukon (B&W) |
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| 8AM | 8am Circus | |||
| 9AM | 9am Sound Unlimited. Donnie Sutherland, Jeffrey James | 9am Jungle Jim (B&W) | ||
| 10AM | 10am Movie: Hostile Country (B&W) [IMDB] | |||
| 11AM | 11am Tennis: Australian Open Championships. Live from Kooyong, Melbourne | 11am World Of Sport Presents TV Form Guide 11.30 World Championship Wrestling |
11.30am Animal Kingdom | |
| 12PM | 12.55pm Sportsview. Includes 1pm Racing Preview, 1.05 Soccer: The Big Match, 2pm Volleyball: The 1975 Asian Championships, 3.10 Racing: 1st Leg Daily Double, 3.15 The Winning Breed, 3.40 Rapids Of The Colorado, 4.30 Racing: 2nd Leg Daily Double | 12.30pm The Home Show | 12pm Movie: Muscle Beach Party. 1964 [IMDB] | |
| 1PM | 1pm Gene Autry (B&W) | 1.30 Movie: Indian Paint. 1954 [IMDB] | ||
| 2PM | 2pm Movie: Me And The Colonel. 1955 (B&W) [IMDB] | |||
| 3PM | 3.58 Cricket: Fourth Test. Australia v West Indies. Day One. Live from the Sydney Cricket Ground | 3pm Laramie | ||
| 4PM | 4pm Cricket: Fourth Test. Australia v West Indies. Day One. Live from the Sydney Cricket Ground | 4pm The Curiosity Show. Rob Morrison, Deane Hutton | 4pm Junior Jury 4.30 What In The World |
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| 5PM | 5pm Safari To Adventure (B&W) 5.30 The Mouse Factory |
5pm The Brady Kids 5.30 The Cowboys |
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| 6PM | 6.05 You Asked For It 6.30 Occasional Wife 6.55 Weather |
6pm Seven National News 6.30 Special: Sports Flashback 1975. Rex Mossop |
6pm News Centre Nine. Ian Ross 6.30 The Thrillseekers |
6pm Eyewitness News. Dal Myles, Kerry Buckeridge 6.30 Young Talent Time |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News 7.15 Sports Review 7.30 Special: 1975 ABC Sportsman Of The Year |
7.30 Homicide | 7pm Paper Moon 7.30 The Carol Burnett Show |
7.30 High Chaparral |
| 8PM | 8.30 Saturday Week. Clive Hale, Helene Chung, Peter Collins, Elizabeth Doyle, Paul Griffiths, June Heffernan, George Negus, Richard Watson | 8.30 Special: Stanley Baxter’s Big Picture Show | 8.30 Colditz | 8.30 Tenafly |
| 9PM | 9.10 Weather 9.15 With Sir Robert Helpmann At The Ballet: Red Detachment Of Women |
9.30 Movie: You Can’t Take It With You. 1938 (B&W) [IMDB] | 9.30 Movie: A Twist Of Sand. 1968 [IMDB] | |
| 10PM | 10pm Movie: A Breath Of Scandal. 1960 [IMDB] | |||
| 11PM | 11.05 Cricket: Fourth Test. Day One. Highlights 11.35 Swimming: New South Wales Championships. Highlights |
11.30 Movie: Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein. 1948 (B&W) [IMDB] | 11.10 Movie: Light Up The Sky (B&W) [IMDB] | 11.50 Movie: The Witches [IMDB] |
| 12AM | 12.15am Close | 12.45am Viewpoint 12.50 Close |
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