Bill McKenzie filled many key executive rolls at TVW and later become the first Managing Director of NEW-10 in Perth. ▪1956-1959 Employed by ANZ Bank Perth. ▪1959-1963 Joined TVW June 1959 and worked in Traffic, Programs & Publicity. ▪1963 Sydney Sales Manager TVW7 ▪1964-1968 Film Manager TVW7 ▪1968-1974 Assistant Station Manager TVW7 ▪1974-1977 General Manager SAS 10 Adelaide ▪1978-1982 Group General Manager TVW Enterprises Ltd. ▪1982-1986 Managing Director ATV 10 Melbourne ▪1986-1987 Chief Executive Network 10. ▪1988-1995 Managing Director NEW 10 ▪1995-2000 Vice President...

How technology has changed… In the early 1960’s, videotape cut editing was common for major program productions, such as Homicide. Often the master tapes were distributed, and one could hear and see the splices pass through the video headwheel assembly of the quadraplex machines during broadcast. The technique was used by TVW too, though there was a great reluctance to cut the expensive 2 inch wide tapes. The best of the reject tapes were then used instead. Tapes that were exhibiting a high number of picture dropout, resulting from microscopic damage to the tape surface. The development...

Shane Nugent worked in the TVW videotape area from 1974 to 2004, during which time Channel 7 made the transition to colour. Videotape equipment evolved considerably during this period from quadraplex two inch low-band black and white reel to reel, to two inch high-band colour reel to reel and cassette machines. The technology also improved from manual intensive operation to automatic loading with manual assist, to cassette facilities under automatic operation. The next evolutionary stage for reel to reel was the move to one inch helicon scan equipment that alleviated much of the complexity with...

Brian Treasure died in 1992. The following obituary was published across the Community Newspapers. It was written by Darcy Farrell, who, at the time, was an editor with the Community group. Page 6 – News Chronicle August 26, 1992 When Brian Treasure was in hospital, his mind was as electric as ever. He was questioning things, the same as he did at the height of his powers in the 1960s and 1970s. “Can’t understand why that programme is on,” he growled as he flicked the remote control on his TV set. His body might have been wracked, but his mind was sparkling. He...

One of many couples to meet at Channel 7 were Dianne Chappell and Barry Hodge. Dianne was a pioneer in a number of ways, being one of the first two young women to be employed as technical operators at TVW. The first women to enter what was then a man’s domain at the studios in Tuart Hill. Dianne and Jill Whiteland both commenced working in telecine at the age of sixteen. Jill was only to work there for a short time whilst Dianne gained considerable experience in many fields. Starting in telecine, where she operated 16mm film and slide projectors and the massive caption scanner which housed...

Lloyd Lawson Lloyd Lawson was born in Kalgoorlie on 18th of October 1922, and died in Perth on 19th of November 2004. Lloyd was the oldest of three children of Doris and George Lawson, who had a drapery shop in Corrigin (years later an STW workmate, Publicity & Programs Manager June Holmes, pointed out that she was born in Corrigin and her mother knew Lloyd and his parents quite well). Owing to a sinus condition, Lloyd was sent down to Perth to live with his grandparents and attend the Perth Boy’s School. Lloyd’s broadcasting career started at Radio 6PM at the age of 17, as a...

The Music and Pop show Produced at TVW’s Studios in the 60″s, one of the Program’s Hosts was Johnny Young. The Show featured local Bands and Singers as well as visiting Vocalists and Groups  from Interstate and Overseas. There was also a Female  Group of Dancers featured in the Production numbers. One thing that was allowed in those days was miming to other recording artistes tracks. So, members of the local cast could become Cilla Black or Cliff Richard on the show. Max Bostock and Johnny Young Johnny Young, who was born John Benjamin de Jong, on March 11, 1947 and...

The following is the eulogy that Darcy Farrell (TVW’s first News Editor) gave at Bob Cribb’s funeral on December 5th, 2008. Darcy believes that in the overall TVW7 story Bob should be remembered as a valuable pioneer who, more than anything, was a colourful character. Bob Cribb I spoke to Bob just a couple of days before he passed away. He stoically told me not to worry too much about him because, as he put it, there were many people far worse off than he was. It was typical true grit from Bob at a time of ultimate adversity. Cribby’s life, as you have just heard from Reg, was a...