SA and Vic went to Daylight Saving on 31 October that year.
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there goes my theory, then 
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Sydney TV: Saturday 13 October 2001
from Sydney Morning Herald
ABC
6.00 Rage (cont’d)
10.30 Noise TV
11.30 Heartbreak High
12.00 Stateline (repeat)
12.30 New Eden
1.00 Indoor Cricket: National League Series
2.00 Movie “Doctor in the House” (1954 movie)
3.30 Movie “A Day to Remember”
5.00 Great Railway Journeys
6.00 Championship Sheepdog Trials
6.30 Landline
7.00 News
7.30 SeaChange
8.25 News Update
8.30 The Bill
9.25 News Update
9.30 Movie “The Cars That Ate Paris”
10.55 Noise TV
11.50 Rage
Seven
6.00 Powerpuff Girls
6.30 Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue
7.00 Saturday Disney
9.00 Li’l Horrors
9.30 Junior
10.30 New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
11.00 Timon & Pumbaa
11.30 Pepper Ann
12.00 A*mazing
12.30 The Big Arvo
1.00 Movie “Beverly Hills Family Robinson”
3.00 Movie “Kissin’ Cousins”
5.00 Rex Hunt Fishing Adventures
5.30 Sydney Weekender
6.00 News
6.30 The World Around Us “Animal Mummies: Creatures of the Gods”
7.30 Movie “101 Dalmatians”
9.40 Mr. Bean marathon
11.20 Movie “Bachelor Party”
1.30 Victor Paul
3.30 Missing Lynx (documentary)
5.00 Tom & Jerry
5.10 Oh, Grow Up
5.35 Sister Sister
Nine
6.00 Thunderbirds
7.00 Challengers
7.30 Goodsports
8.00 Today on Saturday
9.00 Misery Guts
9.30 Now You See It
10.00 Movie “Max is Missing”
12.00 Burke’s Backyard (repeat)
1.00 Horse Racing: Caulfield Guineas Day
5.00 Escape with ET
5.30 Weekend
6.00 News
6.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show
7.00 Animal Hospital (final)
7.30 Cirque du Soleil: Dralion (includes Lotto at 8.28)
9.30 Movie “A Smile Like Yours”
11.29 News
11.30 Walker, Texas Ranger
12.30 Late Show with David Letterman
1.30 Taggart “Black Orchid”
3.25 New Adventures of Robin Hood
4.25 For Your Love
4.55 Nine Lives
5.00 Jesse Duplantis
5.30 Creflo A. Dollar, Jr.
Ten
6.00 Sports Tonight (repeat)
7.00 New Adventures of Ocean Girl
7.30 Silver Brumby
8.00 Totally Wild
8.30 Thunderstone
9.00 Video Hits
11.30 Ocean Girl
12.00 Bright Ideas
2.00 Motorcycle Racing: Australian 500cc Grand Prix (practice sessions)
5.00 News
5.30 Sports Tonight
6.00 The Simpsons (episode 138 special, introduced by Troy McClure)
6.30 Movie “Magic in the Water”
8.40 Movie “From Russia with Love”
11.05 News
11.35 Sports Tonight
12.05 Pepsi Live
12.35 Inside Sport
1.05 Caught on Tape
2.00 Danoz
3.00 Victor Paul
4.00 Randy Morrison
4.30 Key of David
5.00 Robert Schuller
SBS
6.00 Cantonese News
6.25 Mandarin News
6.55 Telegiornale Italiano
7.30 Das Journal
8.00 Ta Nea Ton Ennea
9.00 Le Journal
9.30 Sevodnia
10.10 Telediario
11.00 Siaran Berita
11.30 The Journal
12.00 (Nightly) Business Report
12.30 Bryn Terfel’s Feast of Opera (Wales)
1.30 War Symphonies (Canada)
2.50 Kids, Music and Dance (France)
3.20 Fusions (a duet between Turkish and Vietnamese musicians)
3.30 Futbol Mundial
4.00 European Champions League highlights
5.00 World Soccer (highlights of River Plate v. Boca Juniors, played on 16 September 2001)
6.00 Movie Show
6.30 SBS World News
7.00 World Sports
7.30 As It Happened “Islam: Empire of Faith”
8.30 Bubblegum Crisis Tokyo 2040 (anime)
9.00 Stella Street (UK)
10.00 Movie “Baby Cart at the River Styx” (Japan)
11.25 Eat Carpet
12.30 The Kingdom (Denmark; final)
1.20 Silverchair: Inside the Neon Ballroom
1.50 Blur
2.45 Alchemy
3.45 Marvin Gaye: Greatest Hits Live 1976
4.40 WeatherWatch & Music
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Today’s TV: 13.10.1978, Melbourne
The last of the King Of Pop Awards. Next held in 1980 as the Rock Music Awards.
Source: TV Week
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I’ve been trying to do some research around the King Of Pop awards, without having ability to do onsite research at the library it’s very hard to find much about the early years of it, anyway. Online resources are very sketchy but there is some anecdotal evidence out there even if a bit vague in detail.
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Did The Daryl and Ossie Show just air in Melbourne?
AFAIK it aired in other cities but I am not clear on the dates.
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I do not have anything to help you with the early years. This how the end of them was announced in 1979.
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you’re a legend. I was never aware of any announcement as such. Thanks for sharing that! 
With regards to the early years, I have more TV Times from those years and not so many TV Weeks, so understandably TV Times didn’t give the awards belonging to a competitor much mention! 
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Today’s TV: 16.10.1976, Western Australia
Source: TV Times
BTW3/GSW9’s “direct telecast” of the Sammy Awards actually took place ten days earlier 
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ABC / Nine / Ten (1984) had very similar scheduled between Melbourne and Sydney. But Seven had a very different line up between both cities, due to different ownerships.
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Ten seems to be very different in prime time, with Carson’s Law and a 2-hour Prisoner, while Sydney had Scarecrow & Mrs King, Special Squad and one Prisoner. Apart from The Twilight Zone, although unclear if the two were showing the same episodes, late nights are quite different between the two cities.
Nine running separate episodes of The Fall Guy but everything after 9.30pm are in sync between the two. Some subtle differences during the daytime.
Am not surprised to see the Sevens so different, as you say, different owners. It looks like HSV had already ditched The Love Game but ATN still plugging away with it. HSV still running Sons And Daughters at 7.00 while ATN had already switched it to twice a week at 7.30. HSV would follow suit with the same in 1985.
So strange to see ABC using sponsors’ names associated with sporting events. Would never be allowed these days
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When did Seven first lose the rights to Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate? (I knew Nine showed both races in the 1990s)
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No idea I’m afraid.
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From my understanding HSV7 and ATN7 didn’t always agree. Both station (managements) had a bit of a rivalry and didn’t see eye to eye on a lot of things. Hence why we saw the brutal take over of HSV7 in 1987.
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