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 [...]

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 ?

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Michael Goodall was a cameraman in the newsroom at TVW from 1971 till 2003, continuing the Goodall family tradition where, father Leith Goodall was a freelance cameraman for Movietone cinema newsreels, and brother Peter a pioneering news cameraman from day one at TVW.
Being a news cameraman, takes one to places the ordinary citizen only encounters [...]

Jeff Newman looks back on 50 years of weather memories, with flashbacks of TVW’s first weather man Vin Walsh, Trina ‘The Wink’ Brown, Sam Kronja, Judy Thompson and Ann Sanders.

Jeff Newman looks back on 50 years of weather memories

Four decades on Seven. Jeff Newman takes the weather on the road to say goodbye as he [...]

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 [...]

He then launched into prominence on Seven presenting the the popular school quiz program, “It’s Academic”, which ran for ten years from 1969 to 1979, and then revived in 2001 for another four years, once again with Jeff as Executive Producer and compere, until the show was taken east, where it is now presented by Simon Reeve. He also hosted and produced Perth’s New Faces, a series of Letterbox, Reach for the Stars and many national beauty pageant shows, and over the past four decades has been the face of TVW’s annual 24-hour fundraising event, earning him the title of “Mr.