In early 1958 came the big break David Farr had been hoping for. Radio 6PM conducted auditions for an announcer, for which he applied and won the position. He was appointed to the evening shift, which in the pre-television era was radio’s prime time slot. Other duties included a couple of hours per day writing [...]
6IX had a remarkably similar beginning to that of TVW Channel 7.
6IX Studios shown at top right of photo
Both were conceived and developed by West Australian Newspapers.
6IX started as a company called WA Broadcasters. It was 50% owned by the Newspaper company. The other 50% belonged to the well known Perth music store Musgroves. Incidentally [...]
Early version of the Master Log courtesy of Peter Croft In the late 1960’s, TVW embraced early data processing techniques, where the program and advertising information was entered onto IBM punch cards, and then manually sorted into a deck of cards representing every on-air event taking place in a given day.
…Many of you would remember that we had a “Gold Sheet” that was typed up at the last minute with all of the late copy or changes to the Program log.
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 [...]
Between 1970 and 1973 Hilary Everard was the Secretray to David Farr Station Manager, 6IX, Acting Secretary to Brian Treasure and Assistant Secretary to Jim Cruthers.
Hilary Everard in TVW uniform
Hilary said that she has many fond memories of the station and working for TVW and 6IX executives shaped her for future employment.
Here is Hilary’s account [...]
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