Anything Goes Peter Dean’s funeral service at the Fremantle crematorium West Chapel on Thursday 21st March 2013 was attended by many, where his brother-in-law Bob Pride filled in the historical elements in a moving eulogy. Family members then gave those assembled a private glimpse of Peter at home with loved ones, always the entertainer amusing […]
Peter Dean The local broadcasting legend Peter Dean passed away in the early hours of 13th of March 2013 at St John of God Hospital Murdoch, aged almost 76, following a short and courageous battle with Motor Neuron Disease. 7News : Peter Dean dies 7NEWS One of the great stars of West Australian television […]
On Saturday 19th January 2013, the Channel TEN Perth News helicopter was filming a truck rollover on Weir Road at Baskerville, in Perth’s Swan Valley, when it was forced to make an emergency landing. TEN News Helicopter Crash – Sat 19th Jan 2013 WA TV History On Saturday 19th January 2013, the Channel TEN […]
Television News not only covers the dramatic elements of real life, as a window on the world, but sometimes the disasters and tragedy can occur within the News gathering team, for them to inadvertently become part of the News story. Television was right at its infancy when the industry suffered its first blow […]
The Crash of MMA Flight 1750 A Tribute to Kay Aubrey – STW News Secretary By Terry Spence – Former STW Channel 9 News Director Among the parties getting underway on New Year’s Eve 1968 in Perth there was one in which were gathered a number of staff from the STW Channel 9 newsroom. As […]
STW Channel 9 in Perth, Western Australia, encountered a fatal helicopter crash on Monday 9th December 1985, at Spencers Brook, near Clackline, in the wheat belt region. The pilot John Little was killed instantly, when the main rotor blade came through the windscreen. Mr Little (aged 43), a former farmer, was the chief pilot […]
Neville Wynne painting a set in the TVW workshop TVW Channel 7’s work shop manager Neville Wynne was not only involved in designing and building sets for television productions, but also responsible for building many of the floats for Seven’s first Christmas Pageant in 1972. The Gulliver’s Travels Float In addition, Neville spent […]
Tragically a Channel Seven Perth videotape operator and commercial pilot, Ken Mosedale, was killed at 10.10pm on Monday 4 September 2000. Ken was piloting a Beechcraft King Air 200 aircraft taking seven workers to the Sons of Gwalia mining operation at Leonora. The flight, which became known as the ‘Ghost Flight’, never arrived, crashing […]
Perth’s radio industry is mourning the loss of a familiar voice and big personality, the former 6KY, 6IX, 6PR, 6PM and 92.9 announcer known as Jim Beam, who passed away, aged 69. Errol Battersby (aka Jim Beam) He worked at 5KA Adelaide during the late 1960s, using his real name Errol Battersby on air. He […]
It is with great sadness we report the passing of the Reverend John Hudson on Thursday 17th of January, for people are unanimous in saying that John was one of the nicest, kindest and caring people you could ever wish to meet as well as a talented current affairs and television news journalist. […]
