Bryan Dunne in 1981

Steve Worner has sadly advised the passing of Bryan Dunne.
Bryan was a much liked TVW News cameraman from 1969 to 1988, a period that experienced the transition from film cameras to electronic news gathering (ENG).

“Bryan – known as ‘BD’ around his colleagues – had served in both the [...]

Apollo 11 Lunar Module pilot Buzz Aldrin visited Carnarvon, Western Australia from June 22nd to 23rd, 2012 for a two-day program called “To the Moon and Back Festival” where he officially opened the Carnarvon Space and Technology Museum.
Dr Buzz Aldrin was handed the key to the town by Carnarvon shire president Karl Brandenburg [...]

Michael Goodall of the Goodall Film Industry Dynasty

Michael Goodall

Michael Goodall was a cameraman in the newsroom at TVW from 1971 to 2003, continuing the Goodall family tradition, where father Leith Goodall (1903-1978) was a founding member of the Western Australian branch of the Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS). Leith was posthumously inducted into the [...]

Chronicling History with the TV News Camera
Today’s News is tomorrow’s history and the television newsrooms are prolific documenters of what takes place each day, recording events and conveying them to the public.
The news camera folk are capturing not only events of the period, but also creating time-capsule elements with each story reported. That’s if their [...]

We present here some nostalgia and the mostly good news stories that have happened in Perth, Western Australia during 2011.
Though there were a few regrets with some much loved icons being demolished, there are also many new and exciting developments taking place in the new year.
This includes plans for [...]

TVW-7 News readers over the decades 1950’s Geoff Walker, David Farr, Lloyd Lawson and Phillip Edgely 1960’s David Farr, Lloyd Lawson, Gary Carvolth, Garry Meadows, Pam Leuba, Eric Walters, John Chalton, Bill Gill, Brien Thirley, Marcus Hale, David Low and Terry Willesee 1970’s Peter Waltham, Neil Watson, Russell Goodrick, Greg Pearce, David Ellery, Peter Newman, Rick Ardon and Terry Willesee 1980’s Rick Ardon, Susannah Carr, Jeff Newman, Yvette Mooney, Steve Taylor, Dick Tombs, Paula Voce, Reece Whitby and Jeff Newman 1990’s Rick Ardon, Susannah Carr and Yvette Mooney 2000’s Rick Ardon, Susannah Carr, Yvette Mooney, Sally Bowrey, Emmy Kubainski and Samantha Jolly ABW-2 News readers over the decades 1960’s James Fisher, Ian Beatty, Earl Reeve, Clive Hale, Peter Harrison, Jeff Jeffery, Michael Palmer, John Harper-Nelson and George Manning 1970’s Earl Reeve, David Hawkes, Peter Harrison, John Harper-Nelson, Peter Holland, Dave Ellery, Peter Newman, George Manning, Eion Cameron and Murray Jennings 1980’s David Hawkes, Peter Holland, Anne Conti, Robyn Johnson and Ruth Walker 1990’s Peter Holland, Deborah Knight and Deborah Kennedy 2000’s Deborah Kennedy, Tom Baddeley, Paul Lockyer, Alicia Gorey, Craig Smart and Karina Carvalho STW-9 News readers over the decades 1960’s Walter Pym (Opening Night), Alan Graham, Jeff Newman, Lloyd Lawson, Peter Dean and Trevor Sutton 1970’s Peter Barlow, Neil Watson, and Russell Goodrick 1980’s Greg Pearce, Russell Goodrick, Valerie Davies, Anne Conti and Peter Waltham 1990’s Peter Waltham, Christine Parker, Liam Bartlett, Mikayla Turner, Tina Altieri, Terry Willesee, Peter Holland and Tina Altieri 2000’s Peter Holland, Dixie Marshall, Sonia Vinci, Greg Pearce and Dixie Marshall NEW-10 News readers over the decades 1980’s Greg Pearce and Gina Pickering 1990’s Greg Pearce, Claudia Saenz, Rachel McNally, Mikayla Turner and Christina Morrissey 2000’s Greg Pearce and Christina Morrissey, Celina Edmonds, Ron Wilson, Tim Webster and Charmaine Dragun (via Sydney) 2008 Narelda Jacobs (moved back to Perth) 2011 Craig Smart and Narelda Jacobs WA Television News Origins and Evolution

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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 [...]

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 ?