WA Television History

www.watvhistory.com is a web site devoted to commemorating the contributions of all who worked in the television broadcasting industry in Western Australia.

During 2009, this site will concentrate on TVW Channel 7’s impact on the industry, and in particular the many local productions and achievements made over the last five decades.

The site is the result of a collaborative effort by the very people who lived the history and made it all happen.

Now is the time to document our local television heritage before the participants age further, and their memories and memorabilia be lost forever.

We have had a wonderful response from not only TVW but also the many veterans and present day staff. The level of cooperation has been incredible, as it seems people have a common goal to make the 50th anniversary of TVW a success.

This museum exhibition is planned to recognise the ingenuity and efforts of those involved in creating and providing television entertainment into Western Australian homes over the past fifty years.

The exhibition will be about people who worked in all the local and country television stations since that time, rather than individual TV broadcasting entities. It will also include those in the support industries - the sales, installation and service people.

The planning committee is: Derric Wright (former ABW) chairman, and committee members Daryl Binning (AMMPT President), Terry Spence (former STW), Bruce Dargie (former STW & GWN), Stuart Joynt (former NEW, STW & TVW), Richard Rennie (Fremantle Light and Sound Discovery Centre), John Porter (AMMPT Photo Curator) and Clive Woodward (TV Equipment Collector).

Other helpers are Earl Reeve (former ABC), Bob Penno (former STW & TVW) and Ian Stimson (former GWN).

TVW Reunion committee members attend meetings as observers.

This is an initiative of the Western Region branch of the Australian Museum of Motion Picture Technology (Inc).

Further information is available at the following web site... www.ammpt.asn.au

We don't care what you look like or what you've done since, but you were part of this and we would like to see you.

The Australian Museum of Motion Picture Technology (Inc)

                     Television Museum Exhibition

Monday 5th October, 2009 -to- Friday 4th December, 2009

A special public exhibition is planned to take place at the convict built, restored and now heritage listed Fremantle Arts Centre. The former Asylum building on the corner of Ord and Finnerty Streets in Fremantle.