Some very positive things have come to the fore this year, with 2009 being the 50th anniversary of television in Western Australia. Trina Williams, Sandy Baker and Gary Carvolth with Jeff Newman in Kings Park It has given cause for many people to catch up with old friends and colleagues who shared their working life […]

Lyndell Jobson (nee Carter) worked for Bill McKenzie and Graham Plummer in the Program Department from 1970 to 1974. Lyndell kindly provided this story… Boy where do you start with this wonderful experience of working with TVW7. I started with Channel 7 in 1970 and worked in the Program Department for Bill McKenzie and Graham […]

My days at 7 were some of the happiest. 2009: Jeannette Smith (nee Ashley) Company Secretary – Kingsrose Mining Limited Having only recently arrived from Africa the year before joining TVW, it was all rather exciting as a 21 year old to be given an opportunity to work at a television station! Ernie Taylor interviewed […]

Lindsay Smith was a audio operator who worked for TVW from January 1961 to January 1968. Lindsay Smith in TVW’s Audio Contol Room for Studio 2 on New Years Eve 1963-1964 Lindsay and wife Lyn on New Years Eve 1963-1964 Lindsay and Lyn at the 1964 TVW Ball In December 1964, Lindsay took a break […]

Children’s shows, Miss West Coast, Miss Australasian Beach Girl, The Christmas Pageant, Stars of the Future – (Annette Purvis was one of the stars and I have a 45rpm record which was recorded by 7 Records P/L – in original record sleeve). … Such fun to be at the beaches during summer hurtling along in a mini moke with Jeff Newman and Don Rowe and (sometimes) photographer Larry Toogood to select girls from the beach to take part in the Miss West Coast contests – Karen Pini was one of them. Miss Australasian Beach Girl – Karen Pini with Greg Byrne and two others TVW was a great training ground too.

Geoff Stewart’s TVW staff photo collection Engineering 1995 – Presentation Demolition Crew This was taken on the evening (at about 4am) we move the old Presentation suite to a temporary location in video tapes ready to start the construction of the new Stereo Presentation. Left to right – Frank Gradisen, Allen Smith, Geoff Stewart, Graeme […]

  Elizabeth Cater and Gary Carvolth co-hosting Club 7 Teen in 1962 Elizabeth Cater and Carolyn Noble have been friends since childhood. Talk about 6 degrees of separation. The early women presenters at Channel Seven, Barbara Robinson, Kath Lavan, Pam Leuba, Carolyn and Elizabeth all had a connection. They either knew each other at school, […]

Being a still photograher gave Steve the opportunity to capture the on-air antics and publicity shorts of various personalities. … Dawn Lake’s most enduring character was Ethel, here shown reliving her popular Country Cousins sketch with Stuart standing in for the deadpan John Maras, as Ethel in her cardy and headscarf, urging her mute cousin Mary with her catchphrase, "You tell ‘em, luv!

Breaking the glass ceiling… Promotion based solely on merit – working her way up from valued secretary and production assistant to Production Manager of two Perth television stations. Marion Greiling arrived in Perth in 1954, aged 12. Five years before the introduction of television to Western Australia. Marion at the original Vision Switching Console in […]