Saturday 26 November 1966 — VICTORIA

All four networks present coverage of the 1966 Federal Election. The Nine Network utilises its coaxial cable link between Sydney and Melbourne and microwave links from Sydney to Canberra for its coverage. Meanwhile, ABC provides a five-state “national” coverage, arranging to tap into a standby link on the Sydney-Melbourne coaxial cable and then relaying across its network of links to other states — except Western Australia, where due to the time difference ABC presents its own stand-alone coverage.

HSV7 and ATV0 provide Melbourne-based coverage with occasional landline crosses to the national tally room in Canberra.

From London By Satellite is a short ten-minute presentation, billed as the first live television connection between the United Kingdom and Australia — allowing a conversation between family members split between London and in Carnarvon, Western Australia. The program took place on the Friday afternoon, Western Australian time. Because no direct TV link existed between the east and west coasts of Australia — until 1970 — eastern states viewers only saw the telecast from videotape the next day.

Source: The Age, 24 November 1966. TV Times, 23 November 1966 (Programs marked * Source: The Age, 26 November 1966)

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	ABV2	HSV7	GTV9	ATV0
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7AM			7.30am Emmett Kelly 7.55 Tuppence Club
8AM			8am New Faces
9AM		9.30am Turf Guide	9am Cartoon Corner	9am Test Pattern, Music
10AM		10.30 Employment Service	10am Turf Guide
11AM		11am Television Tutorial	11am The Littlest Hobo 11.30 The Samurai
12PM	12.30pm Movie: Stop Press Girl. 1948 [IMDB]	12.30pm Under The Big Top	12pm Captain Gallant 12.30 The Country And Western Hour. Reg Lindsay	12pm Racing: Pakenham Races. Philip Gibbs, John Russell
1PM	*1.45 Special: From London By Satellite	1pm Anzac 1.30 Theatre Royal. George Wallace	1.30 Movie: Pony Post. 1941 [IMDB]
2PM	2pm Hit Parade 2.30 Sportsview. Includes 2.35 World Cup 1966. USSR v Portugal (Rpt), 4.10 Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race 1965-66 (Rpt), 4.30 National Rodeo Finals, 5pm Let’s Go Fishing, 5.15 Sporting Roundup	2.30 Consider Your Verdict	2.30 Movie: Wing And A Prayer. 1944 [IMDB]
3PM		3.30 Movie: Seven Men From Now. 1956 [IMDB]
4PM		4.55 Dad You’re A Square. Barry Langford	4pm Saturday Date. Tony Murphy
5PM	5.30 Cartoon Time. Includes Secret Squirrel, Felix The Cat	5.25 Pet’s Corner 5.30 It’s All Happening. Billy Thorpe	5pm Hollywood A Go-Go	5pm Discovery 5.30 Fractured Flickers 5.55 News
6PM	6pm Hullabaloo 6.30 Sports Review. Dick Mason, Joe Brown, Frank Tyson *6.50 Special: From London By Satellite (Rpt)	6.30 News. Brian Naylor	6pm Sport, News. Maurie Kirby, Wayne Kirby, Bob Walters, Alex Barr 6.30 Bandstand	6pm Pete And Gladys 6.30 Hazel
7PM	7pm ABC News, Newsreel 7.15 The Judy Garland Show	7pm Please Don’t Eat The Daisies 7.30 Rawhide	7.30 The Baron	7pm The Patty Duke Show 7.30 The Black And White Minstrels
8PM	8.05 The Rebel 8.30 Federal Election 1966	8.30 Federal Election 1966 8.35 The Mavis Bramston Show	*8.30 Federal Election 1966. Eric Pearce, Kevin Sanders, Michael Schildberger, Alan Reid	8.25 Federal Election 1966 8.30 Movie: Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll. 1960 [IMDB] Includes Election Updates at 9pm and 9.30
9PM		9.35 Federal Election 1966
10PM				10pm Federal Election 1966. Barry McQueen 10.15 The Barry Crocker Show. Includes Election Update at 10.45
11PM		11pm Close		11.15 Federal Election 1966 11.30 The Greatest Show On Earth
12AM	12.05am Close		12am News, Sport 12.10 Epilogue 12.20 Close	12.30am Close
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