Bert Shaw 15/5/1930 – 24/8/2010 Mr. Bert Shaw (1930-2010) was a talented dancer, choreographer and teacher, who spent many years performing on the stage and on television. He passed away in Melbourne on Tuesday 24th August, 2010. Bert was the principle dancer in the 1958 Playhouse stage version of Coralie Condon’s The Good Oil, where he met his wife Dorothy Wilson. Bert referred to Dorothy as ‘Dottie’, for it was common for Bert to give everyone a nickname. Diana Briggs, Reg Whitman and Dorothy & Bert Shaw Bert and Dorothy joined with Judy Schonell...

The Golden West Network (GWN) began life as a group of smaller, independent stations – BTW-3 Bunbury, launched on 10 March 1967 (with a relay in Mount Barker commencing the next year), VEW-8 Kalgoorlie, which began on 18 June 1971, and relay station GSW-9 Albany, opened on 29 August 1974. GTW-11 Geraldton was the last station to launch, on 21 January 1977. Jack Bendat purchased South West Telecasters (owner of BTW/GSW) in the early 1980s, and changed the company’s name to Golden West Network. NEW Channel 10 Perth opened on Friday May 20, 1988....

The STW Channel 9 roll call of past and present staff is now available. While every effort is made to preserve the correctness of the details, some errors or omissions may slip through. Please inform us via our Contact page of any anomalies. . List of all identified present and former STW staff. If you worked for STW Channel 9 or any other Western Australian television station and wish to appear on the appropriate Roll-Call then please click on the button below to register your details now!

Eric Walters (born 4 July 1937, died 18th August 2010) was an Australian journalist, media trainer and former television presenter who worked for all commercial television channels (Seven, Nine and TEN) in a on-air career, including radio, which spanned more than forty years. Eric died following a three and a half year battle with pulmonary fibrosis. He was 73. Eric Walters presented the TVW News during the 1960’s John Cranfield reports that Eric started in broadcasting at the age of 16, working in several country radio stations in NSW before embarking on a round Australia...

96FM has the distinction of being Perth, Western Australia’s first FM radio station, being launched on 8th August 1980 by Brian Treasure with the financial support of Kerry Stokes and Jack Bendat. Brian Treasure – Jack Bendat – Kerry Stokes 96FM Perth – 30th Anniversay Reunion My Wonderful Journey 96FM was one of Australia’s first FM radio stations when it was launched 8th August 1980 and soon became the No. 1 rating station in Perth, Western Australia. Thirty years later a reunion of the original team held a reunion...

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has launched Australia’s first free-to-air 24-hour television news channel. It is a high definition television service, which comes from continuous news centre with a new state-of-the-art studio, located in the foyer of the ABC’s Ultimo headquarters in Sydney. Ultimo is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Ultimo is located 2 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district. The free service was launched on Thursday July 22nd, 2010 at 7:30pm (AEST). The launch special was also broadcast on ABC 1 as well...

On Friday 7 May, 2010 ABC Television in Perth celebrated its 50 year anniversary. To mark this occasion, ABC Perth brought together past and present staff for an ‘afternoon tea’ reunion at the ABC studios, 30 Fielder Street, East Perth on the afternoon of Sunday 16th May 2010. Geoff Duncan, the State Director of the ABC in Western Australia Geoff Duncan, the State Director of the ABC in Western Australia, welcomed everyone and acknowledging the indigenous community as traditional custodians of the land the new ABC building resides. Mr Duncan also paid homage to the...

Courtesy of veterans Gus Slater, Ian Simson and the West Australian Newspaper, we have been advised of the sad death of radio pioneer Stan Gervas, who many in the industry will remember fondly as a radio announcer and executive, author and proprietor of Wallpaper World. Stan (Albert) Gervas was born 13 December 1919 in the wheat farming district of Kulin in Western Australia, and passed away in Royal Perth Hospital aged 90 on April 15, 2010. Stan began in radio as a copywriter for Whitford Broadcasting Network in Perth, followed by breakfast announcing at 6KG in Kalgoorlie. On returning to...

Please be advised that we have ‘lost’ another one of our 1960s staff members – Ken Stronach. Ken was Company Secretary for STW Channel 9 when we first opened in 1965. Ken was a keen golfer… who married but had no children. There will be a Service (only) on Friday, April 30 at… Oakwood Funeral Services 506 Marmion Street BOORAGOON AT 2.30pm. Regards, June Holmes

The 6PM reunion was conducted at the Paddington Ale House in Mount Hawthorn on Wednesday April 21, 2010, for people who officially worked for 6PM during the years 1980–1990, the last decade of AM broadcasting before the conversion to the FM band. The following 6PM video was kindly provided by George Chapman, who was the General Manager responsible for moving 6PM’s operations from the basement of St. George’s building, to new broadcasting studios and offices at 283 Rokeby Road, Subiaco. The two galleries of photos were kindly provided by former General Manager Murray Korff and...