Official launch for regional station GLV10 Gippsland – the first non-metropolitan TV station in Australia.
The evening also dominated by coverage of the 1961 Federal Election — with coverage throughout the evening by ABV2, HSV7 and GTV9. ABV2’s coverage is relayed to Gippsland viewers via GLV10.
GLV: Australia’s first regional channel
Source: The Age TV & Radio Guide, 7 December 1961. The Age, 9 December 1961. TV Times, 7 December 1961
| ABV2 | HSV7 | GTV9 | |
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| 12PM | 12.30pm Test Pattern | ||
| 1PM | 1.30pm Tennis: Victorian Championships Live from Kooyong |
1pm Tennis: Victorian Championships. Live from Kooyong | |
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| 3PM | 3.15pm Saturday With Frank Wilson | ||
| 4PM | |||
| 5PM | 5.30 Cartoon Time | 5pm Bandstand | |
| 6PM | 6pm 6 O’Clock Rock | 6pm Peter’s Fun Fair. Zig and Zag 6.30 Swallow’s Juniors. Brian Naylor |
6pm Superman 6.30 News, Newsreel. Brian Taylor, Gordon Leed |
| 7PM | 7pm ABC News. Norman Griffiths 7.12 Weather, Sport 7.30 The Donna Reed Show |
7pm Harrigan And Son 7.30 Candid Camera |
7pm The Bugs Bunny Show 7.30 Markham |
| 8PM | 8pm Manhunt 8.25 Lionel Long 8.30 The Boy Who Carried A Torch |
8pm Movie: Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever. 1938 [IMDB] | 8pm The Frank Sinatra Special |
| 9PM | 9pm Election Results | 9.30 Election Results. Danny Webb, Frank Collyer, Roland Strong, Geoff Raymond, Frederick Howard, Walter Brooks 9.45 The Outlaws |
9pm Election Results. Eric Pearce. Includes live coverage of trotting from Flemington Showgrounds. |
| 10PM | 10.15 Election Results 10.20 The Outlaws (cont’d) 10.50 Election Results |
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| 11PM | 11.45 Close | 11pm News. Philip Brady 11.20 Epilogue 11.30 Close |
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| 12AM | 12am Close | ||
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| GLV10 Gippsland | |
| 5.45pm Touring Gippsland. Don Ewart 6pm Jungle Jim 6.30 Whirlybirds 7pm I Love Lucy 7.30 Kovacs On Music 8.30 Official Opening GLV10. Don Ewart, Bobby Limb, Happy Hammond 9pm BP Super Show. Horrie Dargie 10pm Election Results (ABV2) 11pm News, Weather, Epilogue 11.15 Close |
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