Saturday 12 June 1965 — PERTH

Official opening of Perth’s second commercial station, STW9. The station is declared open by Western Australian Premier David Brand at 5.55pm. The Premier’s opening speech is replayed during STW9’s first news bulletin at 9.30pm.

At 8.30pm, STW9 screens the musical special TV Spells Magic, the program that heralded the opening of Sydney channel TEN10 two months earlier.

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Source: The West Australian, 12 June 1965

  ABW2 TVW7 STW9
6AM
7AM
8AM
9AM
10AM 10.30am Test Pattern
11AM
12PM
1PM 1pm Movie: Curtain Up [IMDB]
2PM 2.20 Sportsview
3PM
4PM 4.15pm Test Pattern
4.30 Sing Sing Sing. Johnny O’Keefe
5PM 5.15 Sporting Roundup
5.30 Cartoon Time
5.25 Club 7 Teen. Gary Carvolth 5.30pm Montage Of Perth
5.55 Official Opening STW9 (see article below)
6PM 6.10 Let’s Sing Out
6.35 This Week In Britain
6.40 Sports Review
6.57 Weather
6.15 Football
6.45 News, Weather
6pm Movie: The Cowboy And The Tiger [IMDB]
7PM  7pm ABC News
7.15 Today’s Football
7.45 The Danny Kaye Show
7pm Sport At Seven. Syd Donovan, Doug Gilmour, Jack Sheedy
7.30 People Are Funny
7pm The World’s Greatest Showman
8PM  8.35 Four Corners 8pm Car 54 Where Are You?
8.30 Sound Of Music. Bobby Limb
8.30 Special: TV Spells Magic
9PM  9.20 Movie: Gidget Goes Hawaiian [IMDB] 9.30 Movie: Room At The Top [IMDB] 9.30 News, Weather
9.45 All My Eye And Betty Martin Too
10PM  10.15 Movie: Guys And Dolls [IMDB]
11PM  11.10 Close 11pm Trotting Summary
11.35 Reflection
11.40 Close
12AM  12.45am Close
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