Unfortunately another of our STW mates, former journalist – DAVID GLADWELL – has taken his Final journey.”
The funeral was on Tuesday, 16 March 2010 at 11.30am – Karrakatta’s Norfolk Chappel
Please pass on this news to your other STW mates.
Regards June Holmes
15.3.2010

David Miles Gladwell

1938-2010

Former News Editor Terry Spence [...]

Sadly Robbie Snowden passed away at 10.10 am on Tuesday morning December 15, 2009.

Born 10/10/1948 – Died 15/12/2009

Robbie Snowden at the TVW Reunion on October 18, 2009

This no doubt will come as a shock to the many who recently watched him perform on stage at [...]

▪ 1959-1976 Foundation Company Secretary ▪ 1976-1978 Executive Director, Finance and Administration Darcy Farrell points out that Frank Moss was an unsung hero of Channel Seven, and should be recognised for his humanitarian role with in the organisation. … It was always Frank Moss who had a sympathetic ear to people under stress, and his help and advice was a most significant part of the operation, keeping it going when other people were often too busy with the job demands.

Most of you may already have heard but for those who worked at Channel 9 in the old days, you will be saddened to hear of the passing (today) of JACK WONG SUE.     Jack was known as the Host of the Channel 9 program called Down Under.

The following has been passed to me [...]

EIGHT YEARS WITH SEVEN IN THE SIXTIES
Brian Harrison-Lever

Brian Harrison-Lever with Carolyn Tannock (nee Noble)

After returning from a 4 year working holiday in the UK in 1963 I made an application for a job as a Set Designer with Perth’s new, commercial television station, TVW Channel Seven. I was interviewed by the then Station Manager Brian [...]

Back in the 1970’s, Annette Grennell (nee Purvis) was a young performer on STARS OF THE FUTURE, a national half hour children’s variety program which received Logie Awards in 1972, 1974, 1975 and 1976. Annette also appeared during the MISS WEST COASTS, TELETHONS and sang the theme to FAT CAT’S FUN SHOW.

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Thirty One of the Past Fifty Years
1965 – 1996
( Being paid to have fun )

By
Tom Creamer
I joined TVW7 in December 1965. I’d recently migrated from England and was looking for work. I phoned the station on the off chance they might have a vacancy and was lucky enough to be answered by a girl [...]

Just a belated note to thank the organisers for the wonderful reunion. You all worked so hard for such a long time apparently, and your efforts paid off handsomely. We all had such a great time, so nice to see friends from those happy days at TVW.
Photo – myself, Carolyn Gould and Luise Borsje

Thanks again,

Best [...]

In 1963, TVW won the Television Society of Australia award for best “Television News Item – MANHUNT”.

There was much public anxiety in Perth in 1963 as serial murderer Eric Edgar Cooke, nicknamed The Night Caller, terrorised the city. A man who had committed 22 violent crimes between 1959 and 1963, eight of which resulted in [...]

Ahh not again” When I arrived at Epsom Ave in Belmont, there was, as far as the eye could see, dozens and dozens of Swan taxis and police cars down the whole length of the ave….called back to Darcy…and he sent Don H. … We ended up in Gnagarra pine plantation to where Robinson had escaped, and spent the night with TVW 4 wheel drive with generator and lights on the roof searching for the villain…..continued through to the following afternoon and he was eventually captured in a bush block in Beechboro ?