The VFL Grand Final is not permitted to be broadcast live in Victoria until 1977, but Melbourne’s four TV channels all provide varying amounts of coverage before and after the big game. ATV0, the newest channel keen to assert its presence, presents over two hours of previews, including a repeat of the previous night’s Sports Angle program, plus a film featuring the league’s Brownlow Medal winner for the year, Gordon Collis from the Carlton Football Club.

The Grand Final match, Collingwood versus Melbourne played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, was won by Melbourne and would be the team’s last Grand Final win until 2021.

Source: TV Times, 16 September 1964

MELBOURNE
	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV0
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7AM			7am Test Pattern 7.30 Zoorama
8AM			8am Kevin Dennis New Faces. Frank Wilson, Frank Sheldon, Geoff Brooks, John Pacini
9AM			9am The Bugs Bunny Show 9.30 My Friend Flicka	9am Test Pattern
10AM	10.30am Test Pattern		10am Telestory: They’re A Weird Mob 10.30 Telestory: The Sundowners
11AM			11am The Aquanauts
12PM			12pm Hopalong Cassidy	12.15pm Football: VFL Grand Final. Preview. Philip Gibbs, Ted Whitten 12.45 Philip Gibbs Sports Angle: Grand Final Preview (Rpt)
1PM	1.15pm Sportsview 1.17 Soccer: UK Match Of The Day 1.45 The Many Moods Of Skiing	1.15pm Test Pattern 1.45 What’s Your Problem?	1pm Football: VFL Grand Final. Interviews 1.30 The Country And Western Hour	1.15 Football: VFL Grand Final. Interviews 1.45 Special: Brownlow Medal 1964
2PM	2.25 Diving: World Professional Indoor Championships	2pm National Top 40. Ron Brady 2.30 Movie: Mexican Hayride. 1948 [IMDB]	2.30 Your Hit Parade	2pm Football: VFL Grand Final. Preview. Philip Gibbs, Ted Whitten 2.30 Sporting Service. Includes quarterly score updates from the VFL Grand Final
3PM	3pm Football: VFA. Preliminary Final. Live from Port Melbourne Football Ground 3.35 The 1963 United States Grand Prix	3.45 Cartoon Time	3pm Waterfront 3.30 The Bowery Boys
4PM	4.20 Football: VFA (cont’d)	4pm Movie: The Thunder Cloud [IMDB]	4.30 Movie: The Bold Frontiersman [IMDB]	4.30 Movie: Zamba. 1949 [IMDB]
5PM	5pm Sporting Round-Up 5.30 Cartoon Time. Includes King Leonardo And His Short Subjects	5.10 Cartoon Time 5.25 News Headlines 5.30 Peter’s Fun Fair	5.30 Sports Review. Bob Walters, Wayne Kirby, Alex Barr	5.30 News, Sports Report. Barry McQueen, Philip Gibbs
6PM	6pm Jazz Meets Folk 6.30 The Rag Trade	6pm Football: VFL Grand Final. Highlights	6pm Football: VFL Grand Final. Highlights	6pm Ivanhoe 6.30 Broken Arrow
7PM	7pm ABC News 7.15 Sports Review. Dick Mason, Joe Brown 7.30 The Charlie Drake Show	7.30 Football Inquest. Michael Williamson	7.30 Bobby Limb’s Sound Of Music	7pm Fractured Flickers 7.30 Special: Changing Matilda
8PM	8pm Football Roundup. Dick Mason 8.30 Four Corners	8pm Movie: To Hell And Back. 1955 [IMDB]	8.30 Movie: The Grapes Of Wrath. 1940 [IMDB]	8.30 Special: Mina
9PM	9.15 Movie: The Ladykillers. 1956 [IMDB]	9.50 News		9pm Goal To Goal. Philip Gibbs, Ted Whitten. Includes VFL Grand Final Highlights
10PM	10.50 Close	10pm Destry	10.15 The Norman Banks Program. Norman Banks, Patrick Tennison	10pm The Ray Taylor Show
11PM		11pm Fighting Words. Danny Webb 11.45 Late News Headlines 11.50 Close	11.15 News. Bob Walters 11.30 Epilogue 11.40 Close	(Close time not advised)
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