The Melbourne Cup is finally agreed to be televised live in Victoria, with ATV0, on behalf of the 0-10 Network, securing TV rights with the Victorian Racing Club (VRC).

ABV2 also presented a replay of the Melbourne Cup race in the early evening.

Source: TV Times, 4 November 1978

	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV0
6AM			6am The Samurai (B&W) 6.30 The Job Show. Brian Bury, Gail Jarvis
7AM			7am The Super Flying Fun Show. Marilyn Mayo	7am The Early Bird Show
8AM	8am Sesame Street
9AM	9am Close 9.30 Play School		9am Here’s Humphrey	9am Melbourne Cup Preview. Phil Gibbs, Clem Dimsey
10AM	10am Close	10am Romper Room. Miss Patricia	10am Dinah!	10.30 Shoulder To Shoulder. Mickie de Stoop
11AM		11am The Munsters (B&W) 11.30 Willesee At Seven (Rpt)	11am Another World 11.55 News	11am Melbourne Cup Day. Michael Schildberger, Clem Dimsey, Lyndall Hobbs, Phil Gibbs. Live from Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne
12PM	12pm Monday Conference (Rpt)	12pm Movie: The Princess And The Pirate. 1945 [IMDB]	12pm The Mike Walsh Show
1PM	1pm ABC News 1.10 Horizon – 5 1.29 Weather 1.30 Movie: Please Don’t Eat The Daisies. 1959 [IMDB]		1.30 Days Of Our Lives
2PM		2pm Department S	2.30 The Young And The Restless 2.55 News
3PM	3.15 Cattanooga Cats	3pm Homicide	3pm General Hospital 3.30 Search For Tomorrow
4PM	4pm Play School 4.30 Sesame Street	4pm The New Mickey Mouse Club 4.30 Gidget	4pm Milton The Monster 4.30 The Devlins
5PM	5.25 Flower Stories 5.35 The Forest Rangers	5pm Merrie Melodies 5.30 Get Smart	5pm Family Feud 5.30 Woobinda Animal Doctor	5.15pm The Pink Panther 5.30 Rat Patrol
6PM	6pm Racing: 1978 Melbourne Cup 6.05 Soldier And Me 6.30 The Governor And JJ 6.55 Arts And Crafts	6pm Tabitha 6.30 Seven National News. Mal Walden	6pm Nanny And The Professor 6.30 National Nine News. Eric Pearce, Peter Hitchener	6pm News At Six. Bruce Mansfield, Rob Astbury, Paul Jennings
7PM	7pm ABC News 7.30 This Day Tonight	7pm Willesee At Seven 7.30 Barney Miller	7pm The Sullivans 7.30 Get Some In	7pm All-Star Anything Goes 7.30 The Restless Years
8PM	8pm Armchair Thriller 8.30 Porridge	8pm Carter Country 8.30 Oregon Trail	8pm CPO Sharkey 8.30 The Young Doctors	8.30 Delvecchio
9PM	9pm Callan 9.50 ABC News, Weather	9.30 Another Bouquet	9pm Coronation Street 9.30 Movie: Cisco Pike. 1972 [IMDB]	9.30 Poldark
10PM	10pm Perspective 10.50 World Of Music	10.30 News 10.50 Movie: Wild In The Streets. 1968 [IMDB]		10.30 Banyon
11PM	11.40 Close		11pm The Evil Touch	11.30 Movie: High Hell. 1958 (B&W) [IMDB]
12AM		12.40am Close	12am Movie: Paper Man. 1971 [IMDB]
1AM			1.30 Movie: Games. 1967 [IMDB]	1.10am Close
2AM
3AM			3.15 Movie: The Violent Four [IMDB]
4AM
5AM			5am The Edgar Wallace Theatre (B&W) (Continues to 6am)