OBITUARY

BRIAN JOHN COULTER

IT IS WITH AN OVERWHELMING SADNESS THAT I MUST INFORM YOU THAT BRIAN DIED AFTER SURGERY AT ST JOHN OF GOD HOSPITAL, SUBIACO, ON FRIDAY NIGHT.

TO SAY THAT HIS PASSING IS A SHOCK IS AN UNDERSTATEMENT.

HE ENTERED HOSPITAL LATE [...]

Jan Galliott started with radio station 6IX in 1970, when it was still located in Mounts Bay Road.

Jan Galliott, David Dallimore, Maureen Burgwyn, Ian Haselby and Kerry Peterson

Photo taken in the TVW Traffic Department in the early 70’s

Following the [...]

Maureen Burgwyn joined 6IX shortly after TVW took over the radio station. The studios were then located next to WA Newspapers in Mounts Bay Road (in a now demolished building across the road from the present bus station). When the seventeen year old Maureen applied, she was shortlisted by 6IX and appointed by TVW Company [...]

Vic Jones (TVW 1960-1966, 1983-1995, 2006 ‘till now) reflects on the early days of Audio.

Vic Jones remembers back when things were a “bit different”.

People say how great things were back in the 60’s…I say how great things are now.

In those early days basically “good sound” was when you could make out what was being said [...]

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 [...]

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 Plummer. I was [...]

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 me and I recall [...]

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 from his audio [...]

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.

Studio crews, Engineering and Operational staff at TVW between 1976 and 1999.