TVW is a television station broadcasting in Perth, Western Australia, wholly owned by Seven West Media. It was the first television station in Western Australia, commencing broadcasting on 16 October 1959. It broadcasts a modulated 64-QAM signal of five DVB channels. The primary channel was available as a PAL-B modulated simulcast on VHF channel 7 at 182.25 MHz before being discontinued in the first half of 2013; it had been the station's primary signal since its inception. The TVW callsign stands for TV (Television) Western Australia.
ABC Radio Perth is the on-air identifier of a radio station located in Perth, Western Australia, operated by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and broadcasting at 720 kHz AM. It is the flagship ABC Local Radio station in Western Australia. The station was established under the Sealed Set scheme by Westralian Farmers in 1924, sold to the Commonwealth Government in 1928 and provided with programmes by the Australian Broadcasting Company, became part of the Australian Broadcasting Commission in 1932, which became the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1983.
Paul Murray is a former working journalist and later editor of The West Australian newspaper who resigned and was later retained to write opinion articles for the same newspaper. Murray was the longest serving newspaper editor in Australia when he resigned in February 2000.
ABC Television in Western Australia comprises national and local programming on the ABC television network in the Australian state of Western Australia, on a number of channels under the ABC call sign. There is some local programming from the Perth studio.
Basil Anthony Zempilas is an Australian television and radio presenter, sports commentator and politician based in Perth, Western Australia. Zempilas presented sport until 2022 on Seven News Perth, Monday to Thursday and from January 2014 until 11 December 2020 co-hosted Perth radio station 6PR's breakfast program with Steve Mills. He is also a member of the Seven Network's AFL football commentary team. Zempilas has commentated on the Olympics and several other major sporting events, was formerly with radio station 92.9 in Perth and has previously been a co-host of Weekend Sunrise. In 2020, Zempilas was elected Lord Mayor of Perth.
Liam Bartlett is an Australian journalist and reporter, best known for his career in radio and television.
Susannah Carr is a British-born Australian television news presenter. Since 1985, Carr has co-presented Seven News in Perth with Rick Ardon. The pair are recognised by Guinness World Records as the world's longest-serving TV news anchor duo, having been on the air together for over 36 years.
Eoin Harrap Cameron was an Australian radio personality in Perth, Western Australia and member of the Australian House of Representatives. Until August 2015 he presented the ABC's Perth local station 720 ABC Perth breakfast show, regularly receiving top ratings for the most popular breakfast radio show. In August 2015 he took extended leave while recovering from surgery as a result of a 2013 car accident. In January 2016 he announced that he was retiring, but would return to the studio "temporarily ... to say a proper goodbye to listeners". His last day at the ABC was 11 March.
Jonathan Morrell is an English presenter and journalist who is an Executive Producer at BBC Radio Cumbria.
Russell Lesley Woolf was an Australian media personality who was best known as a presenter on ABC Radio Perth in Western Australia.
Geoff Hutchison is an Australian journalist who presented the Drive program on ABC Radio Perth in Western Australia.
Briana Shepherd is a Western Australian journalist, reporter, and news presenter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She has also worked as a model, ballet dancer and ballet teacher.
Tod Johnston is an entertainer, radio and television personality and presenter and musician from Perth, Western Australia. He was born in Sydney, the son of actress and singer Jill Perryman and choreographer Kevan Johnston.
Malarndirri Barbara McCarthy is an Australian politician and former journalist who has been a Senator for the Northern Territory since 2016. She is an Assistant Minister in the Albanese Government, and previously served in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly.
Emmy Kubainski is an Australian journalist and news presenter.
Malcolm James McCusker is an Australian barrister and philanthropist who was the 31st Governor of Western Australia, serving from July 2011 to June 2014.
The council of the City of Perth was suspended from 2018 to 2020 due to issues arising from councillor's behaviour.
Pamela Medlen is a Western Australian journalist, reporter, and news presenter. Since September 2020, she has presented ABC News on Monday-Thursday evenings.
Charlotte Hamlyn is a Western Australian journalist, reporter, and news presenter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Dorinda Rose Cox is an Australian politician and a Yamatji–Noongar woman. She is the first Indigenous woman to represent Western Australia in the Senate. In 2020 she won preselection as the Australian Greens' lead Senate candidate in Western Australia, and the following year she was appointed to fill the casual vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Rachel Siewert. Dorinda Cox was then elected as the Australian Greens Senator for Western Australia at the 2022 Federal Election.
