Please be watching TVW Channel 7 tonight at 8:30pm (Friday October 16th, 2009) for Seven’s 50th anniversary special titled “7 Perth The First 50 Years”.
This fast moving, informative and entertaining special will bring back many fond memories of TVW in the early years. It will also be an education for the younger viewers who did [...]

The Channel 7 Dancers appeared on: In Perth Tonight Club Seventeen Miss West Coast Final Grand Final Football Shows One of our shows, In Perth Tonight, was done at Rottnest Island, where we were filmed dancing in the sand hills and around various parts of the Island.

… Sharyn Hatch & Brian Smith with Barbara Eden & the Shirley Halliday Dancers in Kings Park Miss Universe 1979 – Shirley Halliday Dancers presented flowers to the 12 finalists Recently Jan was sitting up late keeping busy sewing sequins on her grand-daughter’s first dancing exam costume.

   
Bob Hope at the Perth Entertainment Centre
No doubt Bob Hope’s visit and recording of his TV special in Perth was just another of TVW7 very successful entrepreneurial efforts.
Any overseas visiting star could easily make the eastern seaboard for a big entertainment show, but to get over to Perth and Western Australia for major overseas artists [...]

 
Former Channel Seven CEO Max Bostock provides the following perspective on a number of TVW intiatives…
In my production role at TVW, I had an involvement with many of the programs mentioned by others. However a few stand out in my memory.
In 1968 a group of senior executives from Channel 7 Perth established Telethon, a registered [...]

DISNEY ON PARADE an arena stage show for all ages
By Richard Ashton

I hired a noisy hovercraft for Mickey Mouse to arrive into a filled to capacity Perry Lakes stadium to celebrate his birthday.
The first time a Disney on Parade arena show that had been produced outside America was done by Channel 7 Perth. It was [...]