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6PR Interviews TVW Pioneers

50 Years

 
 

Bill Gill was a popular radio presenter before joining TVW and filling a number of roles from newsreader, weather presenter, commercial presenter and voice over announcer. Janet Prance started as a dancer before appearing on In Perth Tonight and featuring in the 1963 Hollywood Movie  “The Candy Web”.

 

Bill Gill and Janet Prance

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Sandy was the first children’s hostess after the introduction of colour television. Percy Penguin was suited to black and white, because that’s the colour penguins are. Sandy then introduced the more colourful Fat Cat, who soon became a national star.  Sandy went on to host Stars of the Future and won three Logie Awards for being the most popular female on Western Australian television.

Sandy Baker

Colm took over the story telling role after Rolf Harris left in 1960. Colm later teamed up with Jim Atkinson (Captain Jim) and John Cousins (Taffy the Lion) on Children’s Channel Seven during the hosting periods of Carolyn Noble and Trina Brown.

Colm O’Doherty

Keith commenced his career at TVW as a cameraman in the late 1970’s and later took on an on-air role hosting the children’s program with Fat Cat, after the ‘Hey Jude’ period with Judy Thompson.


Photo: Keith Geary, Keith McDonald and Sharon Dale.

Keith Geary

Darcy Farrell was the pioneering first News Editor at TVW Channel Seven. Darcy describes the era with events and people who made the news, From the assassination of US President Kennedy, to the first moon landing, Eric Edgar Cooke and the transition of Perth from a large country town atmosphere to a big city with new social issues, such as road rage.


Photo: The Birth of Television News in WA Showing Darcy Farrell directing a film soundtrack recording assisted by Keith 'Digby' Milner, David Farr, Jim Healy and Tom Hall at Newspaper House, before the TVW studios at Tuart Hill were completed.

Darcy Farrell

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.

Trina Williams (nee Brown)