Someone would have to have filmed it as they didn’t have tape machines then.
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Apparently a kinescope recording was taken of the opening spiel but it was lost or misplaced and that’s what led to the more polished re-enactment that was made a year or two later.
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I accept that, but the original post was about “the most watched event in Australia” rather than the highest TV rating.
i know, i was being a bit facetious 
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17 September 1988: Network Ten begins its coverage of the Games Of The XXIV Olympiad from Seoul, South Korea. With timezones similar to Australia, daily coverage went from 9am through to 2am, with a 2-hour break from 5.30-7.30pm (weeknights) and a half-hour (6-6.30pm) on weekends.
In Melbourne, the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games (on a Saturday morning) was not even Ten’s highest rating show that week. That honour went to The Comedy Company earlier in the week, which almost doubled the ratings of 60 Minutes and just edged ahead of the Olympics opening ceremony. Ten was already on track to win the week’s ratings in Melbourne even before the Games started on the Saturday.
It was a week where both Ten and Seven recorded increases in their news ratings at the expense of Nine’s A Current Affair.
Source: https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qsRYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=65YDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3273%2C1275025
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19 September 1964: The VFL Grand Final is not able to be broadcast in Victoria so coverage of the game is restricted to evening replays. ATV0, however, as the new channel was keen to assert itself amongst its older rivals and ran two hours of previews and interviews ahead of the game, including a replay of the previous night’s Grand Final Eve edition of Sports Angle.
19 September 1972: The Graham Kennedy Show debuts on Nine. The series was the follow up from Kennedy’s two comedy specials that ran on Nine in November 1971 and March 1972. The Graham Kennedy Show continued on and off until Kennedy’s abrupt departure from Nine in April 1975.
19 September 1986: The Nine Network celebrates 30 years of television with a two-hour special, Television — The First 30 Years, featuring footage from some of TV’s most popular and most remembered programs and personalities.
19 September 1991: The tabloid current affairs show Hard Copy debuts on Ten, hosted by Gordon Elliott in LA. The show borrowed extensively from the US original but there were a team of reporters in Australia including Richard Willis, Iain Gillespie, Jane Hansen and Meni Caroutas. The show ran in Australia for two years.
YouTube: the news is
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10 Bold went HD on Thursday 23 Sep last year.
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7 October 1974: TV stations commence daily colour test pattern transmissions ahead of the launch of colour TV in March 1975.
Source: The Age
Source: The Australian Women’s Weekly
7 October 1989: SBS screens the 5-hour movie epic The Mahabharata. Although SBS does not have commercial breaks it makes a rare exception to insert breaks at significant chapters in the film to give viewers a bit of a breather during the marathon screening.
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Looks like a prototype logo there for Nine.
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Today, 1983: SBS re-brands its television service from Channel 0/28 to Network 0/28 coinciding with the extension of the network to Canberra, Cooma and Goulburn – representing the network’s first expansion outside of Sydney and Melbourne with a view to eventually expand to all capital cities.
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16 October 1959: Western Australia’s first TV station, TVW7 is officially opened just over a year after the licence for the new channel was awarded to West Australian Newspapers.
TVW7 remained Perth’s only TV station until ABW2 launched in 1960, and had a commercial monopoly until STW9 opened in 1965.
7pm Test Pattern
7.20 History Of TVW
7.30 Opening Ceremony TVW7: Sir Charles Gairdner and TVW general manager James Cruthers
8pm Leave It To Beaver
8.30 Sea Hunt
9pm News, Weather
9.15 Father Knows Best
9.45 Spotlight. Rolf Harris
10.15 Gunsmoke
10.45 News, Weather
11pm Perry Mason
12am Epilogue, Close
Source: The West Australian
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Looks like I’ll have to make the obvious joke:
That would have a completely different meaning nowadays.
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19 October 1974: Test colour programming commences ahead of the transition to full-scale colour television in March 1975. Initially only sport was permitted to be shown in colour for a certain number of hours per day, this limit was later expanded to include movies and selected episodes of general programming.
19 October 1984: SBS Network 0/28 debuts its new current affairs show, Dateline World. It is now the program known as Dateline.
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Is that the same Geeling that is well known for being in David Bowie’s “China Girl” Music Video?
I believe so, yes
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20/10/2008 Channel Nine drops the “National” from “Nine News”.
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New graphics were also launched in which viewers said it was an improvement from the previous on-air look.
Gone was the “Billboard from the Sky” from 2006 and cowbell theme (GTV-9 only) as well as the shocking dark blue/white look which launched earlier that year.
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That’s correct. Geeling went on to appear in the TVNZ soap Gloss (1987-90) and on other programmes like Ethnic Cooking and Asia Down Under (originally Asia Dynamic).
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23 October 1976: All four Melbourne channels provide live coverage of the solar eclipse between 4.30 and 5.00pm. With the public told that the best way to see the eclipse was on television, around 63 per cent of households were tuned in.
ABC’s coverage was the highest rating (rating 23), followed by Nine (19), Seven (14) and 0 (7)
Source: The Age Green Guide
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24 October 1959: Adelaide’s 2nd TV station, ADS7, is officially opened.
24 October 1980: SBS launches multicultural television Channel 0/28 in Sydney and Melbourne. The channel’s opening program is also broadcast in Canberra on CTC7.
EDIT: The Age has republished its 1980 review of Channel 0/28 after day one:
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