The opening ceremony of the Overseas Telecommunications Commission’s (OTC) satellite receiving station in Ceduna, South Australia, marked the launch of a direct satellite link from Australia to the United Kingdom and Europe. The special broadcast, introduced by ABC newsreader James Dibble, featured a 10-minute live cross from the United Kingdom.

Source: TV Times, 18 February 1970

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6AM
7AM			7am Super Adventure Time	7am Fredd Bear’s Breakfast A Go-Go
8AM		8.30am Romper Room	8.30 Here’s Humphrey
9AM	9.30am For Schools: Behind The News 9.50 Close	9.30 King Leonardo	9.30 Ruff And Reddy	9am The Marvellous Munchkin Show 9.30 Owly’s School
10AM	10.10 Play School 10.40 Close	10am Abbott And Costello 10.30 Woman’s World	10am Hennessey 10.30 Mrs Thursday	10am Kindy 10.30 The Magic Circle Club
11AM	11.15 For Schools: Nature Study, Physical Science Study	11.30 Maggie. Maggie Tabberer 11.57 News Headlines	11.30 Secret Storm	11am The Marriage Game 11.30 Roundabout
12PM	12.35pm Close	12pm People In Conflict 12.30 Movie: Strange Bedfellows. 1955 [IMDB]	12pm Days Of Our Lives 12.30 Movie: The Fuller Brush Man. 1948 [IMDB]	12.30pm Dr Kildare
1PM	1pm ABC News 1.05 Close		1.45 Fun With Food. Geraldine Dillon	1.30 Dragnet
2PM	2.35 For Schools: Nature Study	2pm Beauty And The Beast. John Laws	2pm Peyton Place 2.30 General Hospital	2pm Movie: The Stowaway [IMDB]
3PM	3.20 The Donna Reed Show 3.45 The Flowerpot Men	3pm The Eleventh Hour	3pm The Nurses	3.27 News Headlines 3.30 The Game Game Show
4PM	4pm Play School 4.30 Laurel And Hardy 4.50 The Magic Roundabout	4pm The Jetsons 4.30 The Herculoids	4pm King Kong 4.30 Superman	4pm The Flintstones 4.30 Tarzan
5PM	5pm Squiggle 5.15 Gentle Ben 5.40 Lassie	5pm Cannonball 5.30 Gidget	5pm Space Kidettes 5.30 It’s About Time	5.30 Blind Date. Jeremy Cordeaux
6PM	6.05 The Val Doonican Show	6pm I Dream Of Jeannie 6.30 Seven National News. Brian Naylor, Kay Glasson	6pm The Lucy Show 6.30 News. Eric Pearce, Kevin Sanders, Rosemary Margan	6pm News. Barry McQueen 6.30 The Patty Duke Show
7PM	7pm ABC News 7.30 This Day Tonight. Bill Peach	7pm To Rome With Love 7.30 The Best Of Homicide	7pm My World And Welcome To It 7.30 Sound Of Music. Barry Crocker	7pm The Rovers 7.30 Daniel Boone
8PM	8pm Dad’s Army 8.30 Special: Satellite Telecast. Opening of OTC Satellite Station, Ceduna, South Australia 8.45 Play: Son Of Man [IMDB]	8.30 Special: Satellite Telecast. Opening of OTC Satellite Station, Ceduna, South Australia 8.45 Movie: Adventures Of A Young Man. 1962 [IMDB]	8.30 Special: Satellite Telecast. Opening of OTC Satellite Station, Ceduna, South Australia 8.45 Movie: The Errand Boy. 1961 [IMDB]	8.27 Special: Satellite Telecast. Opening of OTC Satellite Station, Ceduna, South Australia 8.45 The Name Of The Game
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10PM	10.15 ABC News, Weather 10.25 Discussion: Son Of Man 10.55 Movie: Part-Time Wife. 1961 [IMDB]		10.25 Don Lane’s Shivoo	10.15 Movie: Face Of Terror. 1960 [IMDB]
11PM		11.30 Movie: The Mystery Of Marie Roget. 1942 [IMDB]	11.25 News. Bill Passick 11.35 Eric Pearce 11.37 Movie: Stanley And Livingstone. 1939 [IMDB]	11.35 News
12AM	12am Close	12.35am News 12.50 Close		12.05am Close
1AM			1.35am Epilogue; Close
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9.30am For Schools: Behind The News 9.50 Close 10.10 Play School 10.40 Close 11.15 For Schools: Nature Study, Physical Science Study 12.35pm Close 1pm ABC News 1.05 Close 2.35 For Schools: Nature Study 3.20 The Donna Reed Show 3.45 The Flowerpot Men 4pm Play School 4.30 Laurel And Hardy 4.50 The Magic Roundabout 5pm Squiggle 5.15 Gentle Ben 5.40 Lassie 6.05 The Val Doonican Show 6.55 Regional News 7pm ABC News 7.30 This Day Tonight. Bill Peach 8pm Dad’s Army 8.30 Special: Satellite Telecast. Opening of OTC Satellite Station, Ceduna, South Australia 8.45 Play: Son Of Man [IMDB] 10.15 ABC News, Weather 10.25 Discussion: Son Of Man 10.55 Movie: Part-Time Wife. 1961 [IMDB] 12am Close	4pm Cartoon Carnival 4.50 Cobbers Club 5.05 Circus Boy 5.30 Dennis The Menace 5.55 Dobie Gillis 6.20 News 7pm Australia’s New Faces. Terry Dear 8pm Division 4 9pm Hong Kong 10pm Greatest Fights Of The Century 11pm News, Weather 11.10 Close	4pm Humphrey Bear 4.55 Party Night 5.30 The Real McCoys 5.55 Hazel 6.20 Local News 6.30 National News 7pm Daktari 8pm The Flying Nun 8.30 Run For Your Life 9.25 Stock Report 9.30 Journey To The Unknown 10.30 Turf Talk. Jim Coghlan 10.35 Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea 11.35 News 11.45 Epilogue; Close	11.55am News 12pm Bachelor Father 12.25 The Loretta Young Show 12.55 News 1pm Coronation Street 1.25 A Taste For Food 1.30 Movie: The Amazing Mrs Holliday. 1943 [IMDB] 3pm The Marriage Game 3.30 (To Be Announced) 4pm Cartoon Corner 4.30 Rin Tin Tin 5pm Sergeant Preston Of The Yukon 5.30 The Real McCoys 6pm Green Acres 6.30 News 7pm Movie: Buck Privates Come Home. 1947 [IMDB] 8.25 Roving Eye 8.30 The Dick Van Dyke Show 9pm The Name Of The Game 10.30 Movie: The Great Lie. 1941 [IMDB] 12am Epilogue 12.05 Close	2.25pm News 2.30 The Loretta Young Show 3pm General Hospital 3.20 Days Of Our Lives 3.45 Whacko! 4.10 Superman 4.35 Teleclub 5pm Rifleman 5.25 McHale’s Navy 5.50 The Honeymooners 6.15 Local News 6.30 National News 7pm The Rovers 7.30 Daniel Boone 8.30 Special: Satellite Telecast. Opening of OTC Satellite Station, Ceduna, South Australia 8.45 Movie: The Purple Noon. 1961 [IMDB] 10.45 Wrestling 11.35 News, Weather 11.40 Epilogue; Close	5.15pm The Paddlewheelers 5.50 Tarzan 6.40 News 7pm Gomer Pyle USMC 7.30 Barry Crocker’s Sound Of Music 8.25 Roving Eye 8.30 The Name Of The Game 9.50 Return Engagement 10.10 News 10.20 Tomorrow On 8 10.22 Close	5pm The Mickey Mouse Club 5.25 Sergeant Preston Of The Yukon 5.50 The Rifleman 6.15 Local News 6.30 National News (GTV9) 6.55 Billboard 7pmThe Double Life of Henry Phyfe 7.30 Barry Crocker’s Sound Of Music 8.30 Special: Satellite Telecast. Opening of OTC Satellite Station, Ceduna, South Australia 8.45 Movie: The Caddy. 1953 [IMDB] 10.25 The Country And Western Hour. Reg Lindsay 11.25 Close