Speaker 1: We are painting the town blue.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: Everything is officially going blue. Council House, Elizabeth Key, the
Speaker 1: Fraser Avenue, Great Northern Highway Interchange Bridge is Majesty's Theater, Dune,
Speaker 1: Lap Drive Bridge, Matta Garrett Bridge, Mount Street, Pedgestrian Bridge,
Speaker 1: the North Bridge, titel qv One, all of these landmarks
Speaker 1: Millsey the going Blue.
Speaker 3: All celebrating the birth of Channel nine sixty years ago.
Speaker 4: Today.
Speaker 3: It's one of the few things that I was around
Speaker 3: to see.
Speaker 4: How does that make me feel?
Speaker 1: Tito is the one that is laughing loudly, and Tomo's
Speaker 1: sitting alongside welcome you to good mornings.
Speaker 3: I've had a quick look at some of the stuff
Speaker 3: that you're going to see tonight on nine at seven thirty,
Speaker 3: and it brings back a lot of memories, even the
Speaker 3: way that we entertain children, going back in the years,
Speaker 3: and how we did our news coverage and just perth genuinely,
Speaker 3: how it's changed so much, Michael.
Speaker 5: In sixty years the population was five hundred thousand. Back then,
Speaker 5: there were no computers, there were no mobile phones. Times
Speaker 5: have changed dramatically and TV we'd sit there and watch
Speaker 5: I can still remember Gilligan's Island I think was on
Speaker 5: at five.
Speaker 2: Mikhale's Navy used to come up.
Speaker 5: At Police for me, Matt, Matt Schell Solo one, Barry
Speaker 5: Out on. Yeah, all those shows that we all grew
Speaker 5: up with it, and not just nine. But TV was
Speaker 5: such a big powerful thing then when I started newspapers,
Speaker 5: there were started in media, there were seven newspapers, but
Speaker 5: then the six o'clock news and TV really started dominating
Speaker 5: in the seventies and eighties and it was a wonderful,
Speaker 5: wonderful time.
Speaker 4: So how long have you been at nine TV?
Speaker 2: I have been well.
Speaker 6: For the network, it'll be eighteen years. For nine Perth
Speaker 6: it'll be thirteen. So I started off my career. I'm
Speaker 6: a Perth girl, but started off over East and I
Speaker 6: mean even just seeing and I've always been in news,
Speaker 6: so just seeing how it's changed, the dynamic of how
Speaker 6: we gather news, how it was edited. You know back
Speaker 6: then it was tape to tape.
Speaker 3: But you, being a woman, would be im pressed by
Speaker 3: Jenny's Seaton Jenny Comie. But she would not only do
Speaker 3: things like that, whether she would be popping up in
Speaker 3: the morning and doing it and doing it.
Speaker 4: She was a rural front runner. If you like for
Speaker 4: women on.
Speaker 6: She was a pioneer really for Perth, for Perth Media.
Speaker 6: And there's some wonderful footage of Jenny's Seaton when she
Speaker 6: was presenting the weather back in the day and she
Speaker 6: just looks stunning and she still is stunning.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 6: We saw her on Monday night for marcial event at
Speaker 6: the museum and she's quite wonderful.
Speaker 1: Tom Tom gave me my first ye back in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 1: I was still playing at Westcote ninety.
Speaker 2: They were funny days.
Speaker 3: Co were funny, but actually he was pretty wild, so
Speaker 3: he actually read and write back in the day.
Speaker 5: Seriously, I always knew he was going to make it
Speaker 5: because he was always apart from being a bit crazy,
Speaker 5: had the peroxide hair and very forceful personality. He was
Speaker 5: always a super organized guy who was already thinking about
Speaker 5: a career in media post football, and I mean that
Speaker 5: he really did have it sussed out.
Speaker 2: Tomo sent me to Ramsey McClain. Do you remember Ramsey McLain.
Speaker 1: So he taught you how to speak, and then he
Speaker 1: put me in front of actually still got my news
Speaker 1: reading attempts that I met. He still got those videos.
Speaker 1: But then he sent me out to do these crazy
Speaker 1: sports stories. So I do color pieces. So for example,
Speaker 1: we did one with Peter Bizasto. We've lost him recently,
Speaker 1: and I was on a step ladder taking mark of
Speaker 1: the year over buzz and then you know how you
Speaker 1: went and faced the Australian hockey team because I got
Speaker 1: you to emulate me.
Speaker 2: But that was going back.
Speaker 1: I'd go down for the Australian Hockey team and that
Speaker 1: was the first time in my life, I reckon, I've
Speaker 1: ever thought I was going to die in a sporting
Speaker 1: on a sporting field because the balls that were hitting
Speaker 1: me and being flicked to me, it was just unbelievable
Speaker 1: the speed.
Speaker 3: The names come flying back for me though, did I
Speaker 3: mean we were doing some promotion if you like. And
Speaker 3: Lloyd Lawson Lord, yes, out out of the Blue. Hadn't
Speaker 3: thought about him for years, the great Bruce.
Speaker 5: Bruce Walker, Wally Foreman. You know, unfortunately we've lost both
Speaker 5: of those. Peter Waltham's gone. If you go back to
Speaker 5: the real early days, Jeff Newman was on both stations,
Speaker 5: he was on nine, Lloyd Lawson, there was Peter Dean.
Speaker 5: Peter Dean worked at both well, spent time at nine
Speaker 5: and seven. You're Peter Harry's the channel niners Club. She
Speaker 5: used to say, he still as quirky as ever.
Speaker 2: Oh very and you know you just grew up with with.
Speaker 5: That was a very different time, but it was a
Speaker 5: lot of fun time, a lot of local production.
Speaker 3: I'm so happy that Tomark was sixtieth anniversary. Someone's found
Speaker 3: Flapper and Flapper is out and he's about absolutely.
Speaker 5: Flapper, for those that don't know, was one of the
Speaker 5: station mascot, the equivalent. We had Humphrey Bear as well,
Speaker 5: and he was a big Yeah, he was a key part.
Speaker 5: Did Flapper get his name? Well, big E is Yeah,
Speaker 5: he had. He had the big E which was but
Speaker 5: Kids TV. Remember they used to be tucked in Humphrey.
Speaker 5: You get touched into bed each night. Seven had Percy
Speaker 5: the Penguin, you know where. There was a huge deal
Speaker 5: back then, and they used to use texted. They used
Speaker 5: to write all the things. They used to write it
Speaker 5: and sort of where there's the high precious is twenty
Speaker 5: four degrees tomorrow, they'd write it.
Speaker 3: I saw that during the week. That's quite remarkable really,
Speaker 3: the fact that they have to mark.
Speaker 1: Their own they did, and going back in nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: we were typing our stories on type pipewriters.
Speaker 2: Yet, do you know I've known Tvo since she was fifteen?
Speaker 6: Yes, so I did work experience with Tom when I
Speaker 6: was fifteen years old at Channel nine.
Speaker 2: We went to Peter Materira's house, were going to Melbourne.
Speaker 2: She was going to go to Melbourne.
Speaker 1: Well, I first met you when I was seventeen, so
Speaker 1: I'm fifteen forty years ago.
Speaker 2: Thomas fourteen years ago.
Speaker 4: You've known him for fifteen.
Speaker 2: Years, fifteen years.
Speaker 3: Tonight, tonight, we expect at seven point thirty on nine
Speaker 3: and nine.
Speaker 4: Now, what's the show?
Speaker 6: What's been such a huge team effort. Executive producer Peter Brennan,
Speaker 6: who's done a fantastic job with his team, a huge team.
Speaker 6: It's a lot of stuff to look through, all the
Speaker 6: archival footage, Millsy and Carls. So we have a look back,
Speaker 6: you know, basically when it was the first broadcast, when
Speaker 6: it turned to color, TV turned to color, and interviews
Speaker 6: with likes of Jenny Seaton, John Burgess, Greg I'm not
Speaker 6: sure if you've heard the per Symphony Orchestra medley that
Speaker 6: has been sent out. So they've mashed up six themes
Speaker 6: like nine News a current affair wild Orde Sports.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 6: And Greg Schultz was the conductor and he was the
Speaker 6: form of music director for nine nine per for thirty
Speaker 6: five years, so it was very special for him.
Speaker 3: So the owners of nine over the years, I mean
Speaker 3: I was talking to Tom I offair that I remember
Speaker 3: Dennis Color to the timber Baron. He was somehow connected
Speaker 3: with the original ownership.
Speaker 5: He was the original and he made the speech on
Speaker 5: the opening night. So Douglas Kendrew was the governor. So
Speaker 5: Douglas Candrew officially opened the station. But we've had yeah,
Speaker 5: Bernie Prinival was an owner in nine. There was the Keenans,
Speaker 5: there was Sunraiser Television and then the nine network owned before.
Speaker 5: Alan Bond was a very famous owner of Channel nine
Speaker 5: and the nine network.
Speaker 2: When Carl when you probably started, I think he.
Speaker 5: Was just or maybe just before he just saw back
Speaker 5: to Kerry Packer. So we've had a lot of different
Speaker 5: owners over there.
Speaker 3: I think back to a Pelothon with Ricky May and
Speaker 3: Darryl Tony Barber for that. Does that get a run
Speaker 3: at all?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 6: Yes, we revisit all the community. I guess connections, We've
Speaker 6: had relationships. We have a Pelothon has a huge feature
Speaker 6: in it. Just wonderful to see actually.
Speaker 4: Stories Tomo back in the day.
Speaker 5: Stumpcam was made here, so we look at that created
Speaker 5: the cricket, the boot cricket was was was huge for
Speaker 5: nine obviously it has been and Stumbcam was a lot
Speaker 5: of it was developed here in Perth and saying some
Speaker 5: of those big super tests and the Kerry Packett coming
Speaker 5: up with the ideas well, America's Cup played a massive part.
Speaker 5: We look at all the different things that we remember,
Speaker 5: even the some of the shows.
Speaker 3: It's funny watching some of the shorts for it. Bruce
Speaker 3: Walker with Bob Hall, Bruce Lamous that famous saying anyone
Speaker 3: that sacks the word of as a bum. I didn't
Speaker 3: realize it was Bruce Bruce.
Speaker 2: Bruce was there. I got a feeling Bruce.
Speaker 5: Someone in the audience had that jacket on and I
Speaker 5: think Bruce helped coordinate that to be given to the
Speaker 5: Prime Minister and so he put it on, so he
Speaker 5: had the all the Australian emblems all over the jacket.
Speaker 5: It still exists. Someone found it somewhere, it got auctioned.
Speaker 3: Will you still be reading the news when they celebrate
Speaker 3: their century.
Speaker 2: Physically, that's going to be tough for me forever. Phusically
Speaker 2: it's going to be hard. We'll wait and see.
Speaker 5: So much is changing so much as it's such a
Speaker 5: different dynamic.
Speaker 6: Sorry time over to see the old like different faces
Speaker 6: over the years. For news as well, it's been wonderful
Speaker 6: to say.
Speaker 4: Are you a bit emotional?
Speaker 3: I think?
Speaker 6: I think watching the special makes you a bit emotional.
Speaker 6: It's a very nostalgic journey, and also it reminds you
Speaker 6: of what you've done in your career as well.
Speaker 3: So many people though I remember six PR seventy fifth anniversary,
Speaker 3: and there's so many people that have been connected with
Speaker 3: this radio station, and the same with the television station.
Speaker 3: It's the central part of the community and people trust
Speaker 3: it because they're in their lands. You're in their lands room,
Speaker 3: you guys every night, and you know you bring good news,
Speaker 3: but you also bring bad news. So there's been a
Speaker 3: lot of events that have certainly made a history in Wa.
Speaker 5: Yes, absolutely, and I still look I'm telling TV. I
Speaker 5: can still remember nine to eleven being asked to go
Speaker 5: into the station and sit there and break into the
Speaker 5: program to say that this is what's happened in New York.
Speaker 5: It sounds I can still remember. I just write down
Speaker 5: some notes saying it sounds and feels like a nightmare,
Speaker 5: but it's not.
Speaker 2: It's and here it is.
Speaker 1: Just quickly, the young fella said, has just been doing
Speaker 1: some googling. He's found something.
Speaker 2: This is what it is. Really glad I stayed in
Speaker 2: the office well.
Speaker 5: Injury seems certain to keep West Perth Full forward Basil
Speaker 5: Zempless out of Sunday's Grand Final.
Speaker 2: Carl Langdon went to console him.
Speaker 3: When things were tough on Basil Zempless is taking the.
Speaker 1: Man. He's likely to miss the Grand Final because of
Speaker 1: yet another injury. But then again, Basil has made football
Speaker 1: injuries and art.
Speaker 4: How good that. Congratulations to nine and all involved. I
Speaker 4: hope socks off. It's worth having a check through. You'll
Speaker 4: be able to sit back and go. You might even
Speaker 4: be on it yourself, never know.
Speaker 3: Good on your Thanks are coming today celebrating sixty years
Speaker 3: Channel nine in Perth premiers Thursday seven thirty.
Speaker 4: That's tonight on Channel nine and nine now