Official launch of Adelaide’s first television station, NWS9.
The station was owned by a young Rupert Murdoch and was linked to Murdoch’s Adelaide newspaper The News — hence the call-sign NWS.
TV At 60: TV comes to Adelaide
Source: The Advertiser, 5 September 1959
| ADS7 | NWS9 | |
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| 6AM | ||
| 7AM | ||
| 8AM | ||
| 9AM | ||
| 10AM | 10am Test Pattern | |
| 11AM | 11am Close
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| 12PM | 12pm Test Pattern | |
| 1PM | ||
| 2PM | 2.30 Cartoons, Short Films | |
| 3PM | 3pm Roy Rogers | |
| 4PM | 4pm Cartoons, Short Films | |
| 5PM | 5.30 Movie: Timber Trail [IMDB] | |
| 6PM | 6.30 The Lilli Palmer Show 6.45 News, Weather |
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| 7PM | 7pm This Is Channel 9 (see article below) 7.30 State Trooper |
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| 8PM | 8pm Special: An Evening With Fred Astaire | |
| 9PM | 9pm Movie: Wild Blue Yonder [IMDB] | |
| 10PM | 10.30 The Web | |
| 11PM | 11pm News, Epilogue, Close | |
| 12AM | ||
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