yes it was. I remember they had a few minutes of cricket followed by a few minutes of tennis, then back to the cricket for a few minutes and so on. It wasn’t well received by the viewers, letters to the Age were saying “seeing Ian Botham hit John McEnroe for six into the Saba (furniture superstore) car park!” and “I am absolutely disgusted with Channel 9’s scant coverage of the Test Cricket. Thank heavens for radio 3LO”.
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The football was the first time Victoria had played South Australia at the MCG in many years, and attracted a crowd of 91,960 (although the game was a blowout due to SA having quite a few players unavailable, and the Vic side featuring a few players who technically weren’t Victorian, such as Jason Dunstall [Queensland] and Terry Daniher [NSW]).
Presumably the game was shown live into Adelaide (and possibly Tassie, regional Victoria and maybe Perth)
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No Wimbledon coverage on Nine (the 1978 tournament ran from 26 June until 8 July). Maybe Nine only carried the mens and womens singles finals. From 1980 Nine had full coverage of Wimbledon from first day.
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Look at that Saturday night line-up
YTT for the kids
The Saturday Show for the olds
Penthouse Club for anyone else who likes their variety with live crosses to Tattslotto and the trots 
Can you imagine anything like that today?
Sweet And Sour… top show that one!
I also liked Wavelength because it was really the only chance to see music videos during the week, otherwise you were limited to weekend shows like Countdown and Sounds. I know I recorded quite a few songs off Wavelength onto a mix tape! We had the audio out port from the TV connected to the auxiliary port in the stereo so it was very easy to record from the TV onto audio cassette.
Being years before getting a VCR, I used to record a lot of ads and idents onto tape as well. I must get those digitised
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I would be nice to have something locally produced now on a Saturday Night that was something other than sport
Always a good idea to digitise old tapes, they will only deteriorate over time. Could be some interesting stuff there.
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Not much choice in the early evening if you’re not a footy fan. I’m not a sporty person but watched heaps of sport in my childhood because there was often nothing much else on. Easy to avoid now.
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Mein Kampf seems like light viewing for a Saturday night 
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I am skeptical about Mein Kampf because I am thinking that would suit the other night and Wimbledon used to be on the ABC
Unusual for GTV and HSV to have VFL highlights twice on the night, given they covered the same matches from the afternoon.
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Today’s TV: 4.7.1975, Melbourne
First night of Wimbledon coverage on ABC with the Women’s Final
Source: Sunday Observer TV
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That “Seven Color” logo. I’m sure it was seen as very modern for its time.
btw here’s the same day for Brisbane
Source: TV Week
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Eyewitness News in both cities, but on different networks.
Like how the QTQ9 evening shows are all on at 3 minutes past the hour/half hour, but BTQ7 has to out do them with the extra minute.
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It was. And had a great station ID. The long version of which has never resurfaced AFAIK.
I think it only lasted about six months before HSV adopted the network branding.
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Was this it?
YouTube: GraTV
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