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 [...]

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 ?

Sue Ammon was the secretary to John Quicke in Engineering from 1963 to 1967.

Lizzie Kirkham (nee Sorley), Frank Moss, Sue Scrutton (nee Ammon) and Joy Campbell (nee Heweston) (Photo courtesy of Joy Campbell)

Jim Cruthers was terrifyingly intelligent and a stickler for “no rubbing out” on those foolscap [...]

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 [...]

Peter documents the demise of the Ampex ACR25s and how high maintenance and new technology made them obsolete.

Peter Croft with an Ampex ACR25

We debated long and hard what to do as it broke our hearts to scrap these great machines, but they were so big and heavy (they weighed literally one tonne) that we just [...]

On Friday August 7th, 2009, Kevin Campbell and Darcy Farrell organised a morning tea in Kings Park for former TVW Engineering, News and Operations staff, to welcome back Frank Benedetto to our shores, after an absence of nearly four decades. The popular American is here with his friend Johnny for a short visit, prior to [...]

Ron (DINGO) Reddingius – Now 57 year’s young.
History …Started my first job with TVW at the ripe old age of 19.

Telecine Video Tape
1969 – 1975

Viz-Ad
1976 – 1979

Commercial Production Manager – Sales Department
1981 – to January 2000

Resigned
2000

Today: – Has produced a TV program called ‘HOME in WA’ which I have supplied to TVW 7 for the [...]

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 Pennifold, John Katavatis, [...]

FORMER TVW TECHNICIAN who became the SEVEN NETWORK – HEAD OF DRAMA

Alan Bateman was a technician at TVW during the early years. He can be seen here wiring up technical power points in the TVW maintenance area.
Alan was appointed Technical Director of the 1962 Commonwealth and Empire Games at Perry Lakes Stadium. He later joined [...]

Peter Croft (TVW 1966-1999)
Peter Croft – Describes the evolution in broadcasting facilities from an autonomous local identity controlling program presentation and content to an automated operation under a centralised control, rebroadcasting delayed network programs emanating from the eastern states.
Peter Croft worked in Engineering and Operations at TVW from 1966 to 1999, during which time he [...]