I imagine these small stations didn’t have a deep vault of shows they can just put on to fill a spare hour or so, probably easier to just shut down for an hour
could have been a test pattern but it’s just listed as a close of transmission
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Daytime looked more like community television back then. US local channels on weekends daytime have plenty of paid programming and buy time blocks to groups, wonder if that’s something that will happen here.
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Even Imparja (until recently) used to have paid programming/infomercials in the daytime hours, usually between 1pm-3pm when Nine had either a daytime movie or MAFS/The Block/Lego Masters encores.
SBS test transmission from 7:30AM on ABV-2.
apart from news it looks like only Four Corners, 60 Minutes and Mass For You At Home continue to this day 
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I spotted one other. The Seventh-day Adventist program It Is Written is still going, currently on 7TWO on Sunday morning.
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i hadn’t heard of that show for years I thought it was long gone
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I’ve spotted another. To Be Announced (AKA TBA) continues to feature in Seven’s schedule to this day only it has graduated from daytime TV to occupy numerous prime time slots across the week.
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Now that would be a great TV show…just someone sitting there talking random drivel until the next program came on. 
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that’s just what “Continuity Announcers” were. I mean they didn’t speak for hours at a time but they were there in between shows. Very prevalent in the UK and even now I think they still do “live” voicing over station idents.
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The Project, 6:30 weeknights on 10.
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There’s something quite comforting about watching live British television and hearing someone chat away about what’s coming up and who’s about to bring you the news bulletin. Surprisingly the old Australian continuity announcements seemed very formal and less conversational in tone compared to the ones heard on even the BBC.
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That’s such a weird way to order schedules. I’ve never seen it been ordered by time and not by channels.
it was the standard used for many years by TV Guide in the US and was common here in newspapers and magazines until the 1960s when magazines like TV Week and TV Times started switching to channel-based columns. The Listener In-TV (later TV Scene) continued with the bullet list format until it ceased publication in 1987.
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Look at the late night newsreaders on channels 7 & 9 - both of them end up being murdered in East Timor later that year, know as the Balibo Five
Hrm. What was “News Centre Nine”, anyway? It’s like merging Sydney and Melbourne into a combined NSW/Victorian news bulletin.
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that’s exactly what it was. It was presented from both Sydney and Melbourne.
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