Olympic Games coverage on ABC, Seven and Nine from Montreal.

The 0-10 Network restricting its Olympic coverage to two-minute updates each hour between 8am and 5pm and reports during the main evening news bulletin.

Source: TV Week, 24 July 1976

MELBOURNE
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6AM			Olympic Games 1976: It’s Happening In Montreal! (continued from 11pm)
7AM			7am The Super Flying Fun Show	7am All Electric Non Stop Cartoon Carnival
8AM	8am Sesame Street			8.45 Rin Tin Tin (B&W)
9AM	9.10 For Schools: Science Report 9.30 Play School		9am Here’s Humphrey	9.15 Yoga 9.30 Movie: So Goes My Love. 1946 (B&W) [IMDB]
10AM	10am For Schools: Behind The News 10.20 Close 10.55 For Schools: Aboriginals Of Australia		10am Dinah
11AM	11.15 Close 11.40 For Schools: Indonesia	11am Return To Peyton Place 11.30 Movie: Ten Tall Men (B&W) 1951 [IMDB]	11am Another World 11.55 National Nine News	11am The Roy Hampson Show
12PM	12pm For Schools: Biology		12pm Days Of Our Lives 12.55 National Nine News	12pm Matlock Police
1PM	1pm ABC News 1.10 Horizon 5 1.30 Close 1.50 For Schools: Engineering Craft Studies		1pm Search For Tomorrow 1.30 The Young And The Restless	1pm Vi’s Pad 1.30 The Mike Walsh Show
2PM	2.30 For Schools: History 1917-1971	2pm Medical Centre	2pm General Hospital 2.55 National Nine News
3PM	3.01 Olympic Games 1976. Day 3. Highlights of all the competition of the day including Yachting, Swimming, Boxing, Hockey, Modern Pentathlon, Shooting	3pm Olympic Games 1976: Day 3	3pm Olympic Games 1976: It’s Happening In Montreal! Swimming, Gymnastics, Rowing, Wrestling, Weightlifting, Boxing, Yachting and Diving	3pm Pot Of Gold
4PM	4pm Sesame Street	4pm Mister Ed (B&W) 4.30 Batman		4pm Land Of The Lost 4.30 Gilligan’s Island
5PM	5pm Cartoons 5.05 Kimba 5.30 The Ghost And Mrs Muir 5.55 31 Tonight	5pm The Beverly Hillbillies 5.30 Get Smart		5pm Daniel Boone
6PM	6pm Olympic Games 1976: Highlights	6pm The Flintstones 6.30 Seven National News. Brian Naylor, Mal Walden	6pm National Nine News. Eric Pearce, Peter Hitchener 6.30 A Current Affair: Ringside Montreal	6pm Eyewitness News. Bruce Mansfield 6.30 Ernie. Ernie Sigley
7PM	7pm ABC News 7.30 This Day Tonight	7pm I Dream Of Jeannie 7.30 Olympic Games 1976: Day 3	7pm Happy Days 7.30 Petrocelli	7.30 The Rookies
8PM	8pm In The Wild With Harry Butler 8.30 Certain Women	8.30 Movie: Hot Rods To Hell. 1966 [IMDB]	8.30 Columbo	8.30 Number 96
9PM	9.20 Sadie, It’s Cold Outside			9.30 The Box
10PM	10.10 ABC News, Weather 10.20 Olympic Games 1976: Highlights	10.15 Special: Once Before I Die	10.30 Olympic Games 1976: It’s Happening In Montreal! (Continues to 7am)	10.30 Movie: Paranoiac. 1963 [IMDB]
11PM	11.20 Close	11.15 Alias Smith And Jones
12AM		12.15am Close		12am I Spy
1AM				1am Close
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8am Sesame Street 9.10 For Schools: Science Report 9.30 Play School 10am For Schools: Behind The News 10.20 Close 10.55 For Schools: Aboriginals Of Australia 11.15 Close 11.40 For Schools: Indonesia 12pm For Schools: Biology 1pm News 1.10 Horizon 5 1.30 Close 1.50 For Schools: Engineering Craft Studies 2.30 For Schools: History 1917-1971 3.01 Olympic Games 1976. Day 3. Highlights 4pm Sesame Street 5pm Cartoons 5.05 Kimba 5.30 The Ghost And Mrs Muir 5.55 Regional News 6pm Olympic Games 1976: Highlights 7pm News, Weather 7.30 This Day Tonight 8pm In The Wild With Harry Butler 8.30 Certain Women 9.20 Sadie, It’s Cold Outside 10.10 News, Weather 10.20 Olympic Games 1976: Highlights 11.20 Close	12pm Return To Peyton Place 12.30 Movie: On Moonlight Bay. 1951 [IMDB] 2.05 Days Of Our Lives 3pm Olympic Games: Highlights 4pm The Pink Panther 4.25 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo 4.50 Buddies Club News 4.55 New Adventures Of Superman 5.20 Batman 5.40 Happy Days 6.20 District News 6.30 National News 6.55 Weather 7pm Olympic Games: Highlights 8pm This Is Your Life 8.30 Policewoman 9.30 MASH 10pm The Box 11pm Olympic Games: Highlights 12am Close	12pm News (Afternoon programs will be interrupted for direct coverage of races from Dowling Forest) 12.05 The Mike Walsh Show 1.30 Movie: In Old Vienna. 1956 3pm Beauty 3.05 Days Of Our Lives 3.35 The Young And The Restless 4pm Here’s Humphrey 5pm Huckleberry Hound 5.30 The Flintstones 6pm Ballarat Races: Dowling Forest 6.20 Regional News 6.30 National News 6.58 Weather 7pm Bewitched 7.30 Celebrity Squares 8pm Homicide 9pm McMillan And Wife 10.45 Number 96 11.45 Regional News (Rpt) 11.55 Epilogue 12am Close	11.55am News 12pm Movie: Lord Of The Flies. 1963 [IMDB] 1.30 Days Of Our Lives 2.15 The Mike Walsh Show 3.35 Goober 4.05 Batman 4.30 The Brady Kids 4.55 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo 5.20 Gilligan’s Island 5.45 Celebrity Squares 6.15 Regional News 6.30 National News 7pm Good Heavens 7.30 The Rockford Files 8.30 Number 96 9.30 The Box 10.30 Joe Forrester 11.30 News 11.35 Close	11.55am Thought For The Day 12pm News 12.03 The Mike Walsh Show 1.10 Celebrity Squares 1.40 Days Of Our Lives 2.35 The Young And The Restless 3pm Olympic Games: Highlights 4pm The Flintstones 4.25 Superman 4.50 Cartoons 5pm Land Of The Giants 5.50 Olympic Games: Highlights 6.20 Regional News 6.30 National News 7pm A Current Affair 7.30 Doctor On The Go 8pm McCoy 10pm Number 96 11pm Olympic Games: Highlights (cont’d) 11.30 Thought For Tomorrow 11.35 Close