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Saturday 9 December 1961 - VICTORIA
MELBOURNE AND [REGIONAL]

Official launch for regional station GLV10 Gippsland - the first non-metropolitan TV station in Australia.

The evening also dominated by coverage of the 1961 Federal Election - with coverage throughout the evening by ABV2, HSV7 and GTV9.  ABV2's coverage is relayed to Gippsland viewers via GLV10.

Source: The Age TV & Radio Guide, 7 December 1961.  The Age, 9 December 1961

  ABV2 HSV7 GTV9  
6AM        
7AM  
8AM  
9AM  
10AM  
11AM  
12PM 12.30pm Test Pattern  
1PM 1.30pm Tennis: Victorian Championships
Live from Kooyong
1pm Tennis: Victorian Championships
Live from Kooyong
 
2PM  
3PM 3.15pm Saturday With Frank Wilson  
4PM  
5PM 5.30 Cartoon Time 5pm Bandstand  
6PM 6pm 6 O'Clock Rock 6pm Peter's Fun Fair
Zig and Zag
6.30 Swallow's Juniors
Brian Naylor
6pm Superman
6.30 News, Newsreel
Brian Taylor, Gordon Leed
 
7PM 7pm ABC News
Norman Griffiths
7.12 Weather, Sport
7.30 The Donna Reed Show
7pm Harrigan And Son
7.30 Candid Camera
7pm The Bugs Bunny Show
7.30 Markham
 
8PM 8pm Manhunt
8.25 Lionel Long
8.30 The Boy Who Carried A Torch
8pm Movie: Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever. 1938 [IMDB] 8pm The Frank Sinatra Special  
9PM 9pm Election Results 9.30 Election Results
Danny Webb, Frank Collyer, Roland Strong, Geoff Raymond, Frederick Howard, Walter Brooks

9.45 The Outlaws
9pm Election Results
Eric Pearce.  Includes live coverage of trotting from Flemington Showgrounds.
 
10PM 10.15 Election Results
10.20 The Outlaws (cont'd)
10.50 Election Results
 
11PM 11.45 Close 11pm News
Philip Brady
11.20 Epilogue
11.30 Close
 
12AM 12am Close    
1AM  
2AM  
3AM  
4AM  
5AM  
REGIONAL
  GLV10
Gippsland
 


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5.45pm Touring Gippsland
Don Ewart
6pm Jungle Jim
6.30 Whirlybirds
7pm I Love Lucy
7.30 Kovacs On Music
8.30 Official Opening GLV10
Don Ewart, Bobby Limb, Happy Hammond

9pm BP Super Show
Horrie Dargie
10pm Election Results (ABV2)
11pm News, Weather, Epilogue
11.15 Close

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Source: TV WEEK, 26 April 1962