TVW
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Channels | |
Branding | Seven |
Programming | |
Affiliations | Seven (O&O) |
Ownership | |
Owner |
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History | |
First air date | 16 October 1959 |
Former channel number(s) | 7 (VHF) (analog) (1959–2013) |
Independent (1959–1977) | |
Call sign meaning | Television Western Australia |
Technical information | |
Licensing authority | Australian Communications and Media Authority |
ERP | 50 kW (digital) |
HAAT | 280 m (digital)[1] |
Transmitter coordinates | 32°0′30″S 116°5′3″E / 32.00833°S 116.08417°E |
Links | |
Website | 7plus |
TVW is a television station broadcasting in
History
On 13 October 1958, the first commercial television licence in
The signal was broadcast from the station's transmitter site at
TVW-7 did not have a rival commercial television station until 1965 when STW-9 commenced broadcasting.[4] However the presence of a rival did not have a large negative impact on TVW, at least in the early years. In fact a survey by its rival found that more people agreed with a statement that "TVW fulfilled their viewing needs, and it would be a matter of indifference to them if the new station were to cease transmissions".[5] The advantage TVW built up in its six years as sole commercial operator flowed through for many more years to come, some would even argue that it is still present today considering how well Seven performs in the market compared to Nine, which for nearly two decades until the mid-2000s, generally won comfortably nationally.
After
In 1971 TVW Enterprises purchased SAS-10 in
In 1988, Perth finally got full network service when NEW signed on and aligned with Ten. In 1988, TVW was sold to Qintex.[9][10] Qintex collapsed a year later, leaving TVW in the hands of receivers.[11] In 1991 the network was floated on the stock exchange and, by 1995, Kerry Stokes was in charge of both TVW and the rest of the network.[12] Since then, the station has continued to enjoy a dominant share of television ratings in the Perth market.
TVW commenced digital television transmission in January 2001, broadcasting on VHF Channel 6 while maintaining analogue transmission on VHF Channel 7.
The analogue signal for TVW was shut off at 09:00 on 16 April 2013.[13]
During the digital switchover in Perth, the final image for TVW’s analogue signal was an advertisement break of a Toyota car ad before Sunrise.
Stokes bought a 15 percent stake in West Australian newspapers in 2006.[14] In 2011, West Australian Newspapers bought the Seven Network to form Seven West Media,[15] thus fully reuniting TVW with its founding owner. In February 2015, TVW moved from their original broadcasting facility in Gay Street, Dianella to a new HD broadcast centre in Osborne Park located within West Australian Newspapers.
Programming
Seven Perth for the most part follows the programming of the Seven Network.
Locally produced programs, which can also be seen in regional Western Australia on GWN7 include:
- Go Racing: News/discussion about the racing scene in both Perth and the Eastern States
- Have a Go TV: Features segments on travel, finance and investment, sport and recreation, health and wellbeing. Hosted by Tod Johnston.
- Home In WA: Lifestyle, building and renovation
- Fishing Western Australia: Explores fishing in WA.
- Our WA: A long-running series of specials which highlight a specific aspect of WA life
- Flashpoint: Demanding change, and discussing issues that matter to West Australians. Hosted by Tim McMillan and featuring Peter Rowsthorn.[16]
Locally produced programs, which can also be seen around Australia through the Seven Network and affiliates include:
- Western Australia Police
Filmed at Dianella
Studio 1
Until February 2015 (when broadcast moved to new Osborne Park HD facility)
- Seven News
- Today Tonight (Perth Edition)
- Seven 4.30 News (Perth Edition)
Past broadcasts from Dianella studios
- Telethon (until 2003)
- The Early Bird Show
- A*mazing – Previously filmed at BTQ-7 from 1994–1996.
- Time Masters – Previously filmed at BTQ-7 from 1996.
- Fat Cat's Funtime Show
- Good Morning Perth
- Jenny Seaton Live
- Scratch and Win Telespin
- The Adventures of Bush Patrol
- Family Feud
- In Perth Tonight
- Rothman's World of Football
- The Underground Video Show
- The Late Late Breakfast Show
- Reach for the Stars
- Turpie Tonight
- $50,000 Letter Box
- Spellbound
- Brooksey's Footy Show/The Footy Club/Basil's Footy Show
- It's Academic
- Perth at 5
- FMTV
- What A Week
- Today
- Channel 7 News/Seven National News/Seven Nightly News/Seven News: 1959–2010
- State Affair: 1984–1989
- Today Tonight: 1995–2010
- Susannah Carr's Land Down Under/World Around Us: 1985–1999
- Sports Centre Seven: 1980s
News and current affairs
Seven News
Seven News Perth is presented by
Long standing Seven News Perth presenter Jeff Newman announced his retirement from television on 1 July 2009, and retired from his role on Monday 10 August 2009. He was replaced by former Nine News Perth weather presenter Natalia Cooper, who began her new role during September 2009. Cooper resigned from Seven Perth at the end of 2012 with ex-Nine weather presenter Angela Tsun taking over as her replacement for the 4:30pm news and 6pm weather forecasts.
In 2015, Rick Ardon and Susannah Carr celebrated a thirty-year anniversary as a news reading duo. They are one of the longest serving dual news presenter teams in the world and the dual-presenter format used by Seven News Perth has been highly successful. In contrast to previous struggles seen in Sydney and Melbourne in the late 1990s, Seven News Perth has led in the ratings for decades, well ahead of 10 News First Perth and Nine News Perth by as many as 100,000 viewers.
In February 2020, the Seven Network announced that Tim McMillan would join Angela Tsun to present on weekends.[17]
In February 2022, Basil Zempilas left his nightly sport duties due to other commitments and being the Lord Mayor of Perth, he was replaced by Ryan Daniels but remained a fill-in.
News updates for Perth are presented by Angela Tsun, Susannah Carr or Rick Ardon throughout the afternoon and by Susannah Carr or Rick Ardon in the early evening. Yvette Mooney was the weekend news presenter until she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 and subsequently left the network in June 2008. Before the move to the Osborne Park Studios in Feb 2015, Blake Johnson and Samantha Jolly alternated fortnightly presenting for both Weekend bulletins. Fill-in presenters include Tina Altieri, Elle Georgiou, Amelia Broun, Samantha Jolly (News) and Anna Hay (Sport).
Presenters
Role | Bulletins | ||||||
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Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | |
News | Rick Ardon (1985–present) Susannah Carr (1985–present) |
Angela Tsun (2015–present) Tim McMillan (2020–present) | |||||
Sport | Ryan Daniels (2022–present) | Adrian Barich (2007–present) | |||||
Weather | Samantha Jolly (2015–present) |
Former presenters
- Yvette Mooney (weekends) – died in 2022[18]
Today Tonight
Between 1995 and 2019, the nightly news was followed by a locally produced edition of current affairs program
On 29 November 2019, the show along with its Adelaide counterpart was axed.[19] This followed the axings of the combined Sydney and Melbourne edition, as well as the Queensland edition, in 2014.[20]
Mascot
Seven Perth has long been the home of Fat Cat, the name standing for Francis Aloysius Thomas Cat. Fat Cat is "put to bed" every night at 7.30pm signalling the end of programs suitable for children. Fat Cat, is the last WA television mascot to survive. Longtime rival STW-9 used a large elephant, Flapper, as its mascot and NEW-10 used Kenny Kidna from the Kangaroo Creek Gang as its mascot in addition to GWN’s Doopa Dog from at least 1972 until 2022.
Fat Cat is now mainly used for things to do with Telethon; Fat Cat dolls are sold through Friendlies Chemists & Bendigo Bank for $19.95 to raise money for Telethon.
Seven also has an anthropomorphic TV character "TV Man" (an analogue TV with arms and legs with a red 7 on the screen) as a popular mascot used in on air promos nationally.
Telethon
TVW also produces an annual
Christmas Pageant
The station organises an annual
Broadcasting details
Digital transport frequency: VHF-6 @ 177.5 MHz (Bandwidth: 7 MHz
LCN | Service | Image quality | Compression quality | Alt image quality | Alt compression quality |
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7 | 7 | 1440x1080i 16:9 HD Lite | @ 256 kbit/s | 720x576i 16:9 SD | H.262 video @ 6500 kbit/s @ 256 kbit/s
MPEG-1 Audio Layer II |
72 | 7two | 720x576i 16:9 SD | H.262 video @ 6500 kbit/s @ 256 kbit/s
MPEG-1 Audio Layer II | ||
73 | 7mate | 1440x1080i 16:9 HD Lite | @ 256 kbit/s | 720x576i 16:9 SD | H.262 video @ 6500 kbit/s @ 256 kbit/s
MPEG-1 Audio Layer II |
76 | 7flix | 720x576i 16:9 SD | H.262 video @ 6500 kbit/s @ 256 kbit/s
MPEG-1 Audio Layer II |
Note: HD quality switches between 7 and 7mate due to sporting events. Only one channel broadcasts HD at any one time.
See also
Sources
- Perth Commercial Television After 1965 by Tom O'Regan & Ulla Hiltula
- The Introduction of Television into Western Australia by Eric Fisher
References
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- ^ "Nine Perth turns 50". Television.AU. 12 June 2015. Archived from the original on 20 October 2015. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
- ^ "Creative Arts & Communications | Murdoch University". Retrieved 17 February 2008. [permanent dead link]
- Canberra Times20 December 1982 page 19
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- ^ Audience limit to be negotiated Skase makes a national network 7 Canberra Times 7 April 1988 page 14
- ^ "Update on documenting our TV heritage". WA TV History. 24 June 2011. Archived from the original on 26 October 2014. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
- ^ Head, Mike (13 August 2001). "Christopher Skase—a convenient scapegoat for Australian business". World Socialist Web site. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
- ^ Stokes may lift stake in Seven Network Canberra Times 1 June 1995 page 2
- ^ "Analogue tv signal switched off in Perth". ABC News. 16 April 2013. Archived from the original on 11 June 2013. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
- ^ Moore, Ali (19 October 2006). "Seven share raid continues". ABC News. Archived from the original on 20 August 2018. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
- ^ Lower, Gavin (21 February 2011). "West Australian Newspapers agrees to buy Seven Media Group". The Australian. News Corp. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
- ^ "Flashpoint - Watch & Stream Online".
- ^ "EXCLUSIVE | Tim McMillan to present 7NEWS in Perth". Australian Television News - TV Blackbox. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
- ^ Goodall, Hamish (13 June 2022). "Perth newsreader Yvette Mooney dies aged 58 after losing cancer battle". Seven News. Sunrise. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
- ^ Knox, David (26 November 2019). "Axed: Today Tonight". TV Tonight. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
- ^ Lallo, Michael (3 February 2014). "Seven axes Today Tonight on east coast". The Age. Melbourne: Fairfax Media. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
- ^ a b c Butler, Steve (23 October 2022). "Telethon 2022 soars to incredible new record of $71.4m". thewest.com.au. The West Australian. Archived from the original on 23 October 2022. Retrieved 31 May 2023.
- ^ Clayton, Cly (27 November 2017). "Christmas Pageant set to light up the city". The West Australian. Seven West Media. Archived from the original on 19 August 2018. Retrieved 19 August 2018.