Sydney TV channels provide live coverage of the Melbourne Cup — while Melbourne viewers continue to be denied access to live television coverage of the famous race.
Source: TV Week, 1 November 1969
| ABN2 | ATN7 | TCN9 | TEN10 | |
| 6AM | 6.30am News Headlines 6.31 Cartoons |
6.50am Name To Remember 6.55 Hokey Wolf |
6.30am The Magic Circle Club | |
| 7AM | 7am Sydney Today. Bruce Webster | 7am Cartoon Carnival | 7am Good Morning | |
| 8AM | 8.30 Here’s Humphrey | |||
| 9AM | 9.30am For Schools: For The Juniors | 9am The Danny Thomas Show 9.30 Hennesey |
9.30 Playroom 9.55 Relaxing With Roma |
9am Kindy 9.30 Owly’s School |
| 10AM | 10.10 Play School 10.40 For Schools: Our Northern Neighbours, Secondary Science, Primary Science, Is This Your Career? |
10am Romper Room | 10am Rin Tin Tin 10.30 Whirlybirds |
10am News 10.02 Swami Sarasvati 10.30 Cookery News |
| 11AM | 11am The Popeye Show 11.30 Leave It To Beaver |
11am Douglas Fairbanks Theatre 11.30 Father Knows Best |
11am Stars In Action 11.30 Marshal Dillon |
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| 12PM | 12pm Movie: Pat And Mike. 1952 [IMDB] | 12pm Movie: Girl On The Run. 1958 [IMDB] | 12pm Girl Talk 12.30 The Marriage Game. Malcolm Searle |
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| 1PM | 1pm ABC News 1.05 Close 1.55 For Schools: Form One Maths |
1.30 Galloping Gourmet. Graham Kerr | 1.25 News 1.30 What’s My Line? |
1pm Gwen. Gwen Plumb 1.30 The Dick Powell Show |
| 2PM | 2pm 1969 Melbourne Cup 2.20 It’s So Easy 2.35 Occasional Wife |
2pm Maggie. Maggie Tabberer 2.30 Beauty And The Beast. Noel Ferrier |
2pm Days Of Our Lives 2.30 1969 Melbourne Cup |
2.30 1969 Melbourne Cup |
| 3PM | 3pm Highland Hospital 3.45 Andy Pandy |
3pm People In Conflict 3.30 Adventures In Paradise |
3pm General Hospital 3.30 Hawaiian Eye |
3.30 Rocky And Bullwinkle |
| 4PM | 4pm Play School 4.30 Adventure Island. Sue Donovan |
4.25 The Wotsa Name Show 4.30 The Munsters |
4.30 King Kong 4.55 Name To Remember |
4pm Aquaman 4.30 The Flintstones |
| 5PM | 5pm Cartoons 5.05 Atom Ant 5.30 Why Is It So? 5.40 Forest Rangers |
5pm The Three Stooges 5.30 The Bugs Bunny Show |
5pm Archie 5.30 Ozzie And Harriet |
5pm Dobie Gillis 5.30 Blind Date. Graham Webb |
| 6PM | 6.05 Woobinda 6.30 GTK 6.40 Bellbird 6.55 This Week In Britain |
6pm Beverly Hillbillies 6.30 News, Weather. Roger Climpson |
6pm The Lucy Show 6.30 News, Weather. Brian Henderson |
6pm News, Weather. John Bailey 6.30 Gilligan’s Island |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News, Newsreel, Weather 7.30 This Day Tonight |
7pm Green Acres 7.30 The Tommy Leonetti Show |
7pm The Dick Van Dyke Show 7.30 Star Trek |
7pm It’s Academic. John Bailey 7.30 Rowan And Martin’s Laugh-In |
| 8PM | 8pm Melbourne Cup Replay 8.10 Charge 8.40 Impact |
8.30 Movie: All Fall Down. 1962 [IMDB] | 8.27 News Headlines 8.30 Division 4 |
8.30 Rose And Crown. Billy Raymond, Dawn Lake, Neil Williams, Slim De Gray |
| 9PM | 9.28 News In Brief 9.30 Out Of The Unknown |
9.27 News Headlines 9.30 Tonight. Stuart Wagstaff |
9.30 Newsbeat. John Bailey | |
| 10PM | 10.20 News, Weather 10.30 Point Counter Point |
10.35 Late News 10.50 Combat |
10.45 News | 10.30 Movie: The Caddy. 1953 [IMDB] |
| 11PM | 11.15 Close | 11.50 Mike Hammer | 11pm Tony Charlton Tonight 11.10 Movie: Wife Wanted. 1946 [IMDB] |
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| 12AM | 12.20am Close | 12.25am Viewpoint 12.30 Close |
12.20am Close | |
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