We’re enjoying a bit of respite at the moment, but will be back into it in earnest soon. A lot is happening behind the scenes in the lead up to TVW’s 50th Anniversary Show, which is being researched by Sadie Purser, and then there’s planning for the TVW Reunion, scheduled for Sunday October 18th, in the grounds of Channel Seven. This is being organised by a committee comprising Bret and Jocelyn Treasure, Keith Bales, Keith Mackenzie and Johnny Young, with TVW representatives Jill Glass and Sadie Purser. Meanwhile, the Australian Museum of Motion Picture Technology (AMMPT) is actively...

  Elizabeth Cater and Gary Carvolth co-hosting Club 7 Teen in 1962 Elizabeth Cater and Carolyn Noble have been friends since childhood. Talk about 6 degrees of separation. The early women presenters at Channel Seven, Barbara Robinson, Kath Lavan, Pam Leuba, Carolyn and Elizabeth all had a connection. They either knew each other at school, were friends, or lived within close proximity of each other. Elizabeth was a full time librarian, attending classes, playing squash and pedaling her bike to the beach, until TVW’s Televisit hostess, Sandra McNab, encouraged her to audition for a new teenage...

Steve was a still photographer and News cameraman with TVW from 1971 to 1974 and 1978 to 1981. Being a still photograher gave Steve the opportunity to capture the on-air antics and publicity shots of various personalities. A good example is the following Telethon snap with Dawn Lake and Stuart Wagstaff. Dawn Lake’s most enduring character was Ethel, here shown reliving her popular Country Cousins sketch with Stuart standing in for the deadpan John Maras. Ethel seen here in her cardy and headscarf, urges her mute cousin Mary with the catchphrase, “You tell ‘em, luv!” The...

Breaking the glass ceiling… Promotion based solely on merit – working her way up from valued secretary and production assistant to Production Manager of two Perth television stations. Marion Greiling arrived in Perth in 1954, aged 12. Five years before the introduction of television to Western Australia. Marion at the original Vision Switching Console in the Studio 2 Control Room Brian Treasure employed Marion in 1960 for secretarial work, but her highly regarded work ethic soon launched her career in television production, culminating with her appointment as TVW Production Manager...

    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 and star like Bob Hope was a real achievement. How it happened that he agreed to come to the Perth entertainment Centre for a TV special, one should read Max Bostock’s account of the story. For me as one of the team of TVW people to make it...

Avid Channel Seven viewers throughout the 1960s will remember the popular, pretty and vivacious children’s compere and weather girl Trina Brown. The young lady who presented her audience with a saucy wink every night after she summed up the meteorological conditions and outlook. They even named a pacer after her called, Trina’s Wink, which raced around Perth and regional trotting tracks. A magazine article about a horse named Trina’s Wink Trotting owners Sam Conti and Kevin Peiriera named a horse Trina’s Wink, and as it happened, Sunday horse riding was one...

The TVW7 50th Anniversary Reunion group has now launched its web site at www.tvwreunion.com (Click to view original site) Please click on the image to view the original site, or click on the image of the present site below to see the post reunion wrap up… The TVW Reunion Web Site now features a wrap up of this most successful event… www.tvwreunion.com (Click to view present site) ORIGINAL PRESS RELEASE LARGE NUMBERS EXPECTED FOR TVW’S 50th ANNIVERSARY REUNION A huge gathering of veterans from the WA television industry is expected at a major 50 year reunion of TVW Channel Seven...

  From 1960 till 1974, Carolyn Tannock (nee Noble) graced our television screens in Western Australia, except for interruptions for her wedding, honeymoon, childbirth and  valued time dedicated to her own brood. For much of Carolyn’s career at TVW was devoted to entertaining children, starting in April 1960, at the youthful age of 17 and a half. A time when Rolf Harris was hosting Children’s Channel Seven, and Walt Disney’s Mouseketeers were all the rage. So popular was this imported children’s program that TVW decided we should have a local version too. The hunt was...

  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 charitable trust dedicated to raising funds to improve the lives of children and young people throughout Western Australia. By 2008, Telethon had raised over $80 million and provided much needed financial assistance to a significant number of charitable organisations,...