The 1980 Federal Election is covered in varying degrees by all four networks.

Earlier in the day, HSV7 has live coverage of the Caulfield Cup, hosted by Bill Collins.

Source: TV Week, 18 October 1980

	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV10
6AM			6am King Leonardo 6.30 The Rocky And Bullwinkle Show
7AM			7am King Kong 7.30 Sigmund And The Sea Monsters
8AM		8am Special: Moby Dick 8.30 (To Be Advised)	8am Hey Hey It’s Saturday. Daryl Somers, Ossie Ostrich, Jacki MacDonald	8am Waterline 8.30 Laurel And Hardy (B&W)
9AM		9am Sounds. Donnie Sutherland		9am Cartoon Carnival
10AM
11AM			11am The Secrets Of Isis 11.30 McDuff The Talking Dog	11am The Littlest Hobo 11.30 The Magic Wok. Philip Paxton
12PM		12pm Racing: 1980 Caulfield Cup. Live from Caulfield Racecourse. Bill Collins, Gai Smith, Stephen Phillips, Keith Hillier, Rollo Roylance, Jack Elliott	12pm Wide World Of Sport	12pm Movie: The Big Trail. 1930 (B&W) [IMDB]
1PM	1pm Soccer: Match Of The Day		1pm Movie: Take Me High. 1973 [IMDB]
2PM	2pm Squash: World And Australian Open Championships 1980		2.30 Movie: Getting Away From It All. 1971 [IMDB]	2.15 Movie: Smiley Gets A Gun. 1959 [IMDB]
3PM	3pm Motor Racing: Australian Rally Championship 1979 3.30 Motorcycling: Castrol Six-Hour Race 1980
4PM	4pm Boxing: Australian Amateur Boxing Championships 1980		4pm The Krofft Supershow	4pm Movie: King Of The Khyber Rifles. 1954 [IMDB]
5PM	5pm Thrillmaker Sports 5.25 Greatest Fights Of The Century (B&W) 5.35 Survival	5pm Havoc 5.30 Dave Allen And Friends With Unusual Oddities	5pm Candid Camera 5.30 Sports Review. Arthur Higgins, Brian Smith
6PM	6pm Countdown (Rpt)	6pm Seven National News. Pamela Graham 6.30 Young Ramsay	6pm National Nine News. John Gatfield 6.30 Ask The Leylands	6pm Eyewitness News. Rod McNeil (see advertisement below) 6.30 Young Talent Time
7PM	7pm ABC News. Edwin Maher 7.15 Today’s Sport 7.26 Weather 7.30 The Plank	7.30 Mind Your Language	7.30 Hawaii Five-0	7.30 The Dukes Of Hazzard
8PM	8pm Four Corners. Caroline Jones, Jim Downes, Bob Hill, Peter Ross, Maryanne Smith, John Temple 8.45 Election ’80. Ken Begg, Richard Carleton, Gary Scully, Darryll Hutchison, Graham World, Ralphe Neill	8pm The Rag Trade 8.25 Super 66 8.30 The Sweeney	8.30 Election ’80. George Negus, Ray Martin	8.30 Tennis: Custom Credit Tennis Championships. (Includes regular crosses to Election coverage results and analysis)
9PM		9.30 Tattslotto. John Deeks, Debbie Phin 9.35 Election ’80. Mike Willesee
10PM
11PM
12AM	12.30am Close	12am Big League Soccer		12am Movie: Beautiful Stranger. 1954 (B&W) [IMDB]
1AM		1.15 Close	1am Movie: Carry On Again Doctor. 1970 [IMDB]	1.45 Close
2AM			2.45 Movie: Doctor In Trouble [IMDB]
3AM
4AM			4.35 Movie: Carry On Jack. 1966 [IMDB] (Continues to 6am)
5AM