Perth Voice Interactive

IT’S been nearly four months and TV reception at the WA housing department-owned Ray Healy Towers is still on the fritz, leaving some elderly residents with nothing to watch over the Christmas break.

Residents have now missed months of news, the footy grand final, the rugby, the Melbourne cup, the Christmas pageant and the Dr Who Christmas episode. Mercifully, they also got to miss the ABC’s disastrously cringeworthy new year’s eve coverage.

The housing department is supposed to fix “routine” maintenance issues within 28 days and when we prodded it in November, senior manager Greg Cash told us a new antenna and booster would be installed “in the coming days”.

But with problems still popping up and the picture as snowy as Santa’s beard, a resident told us the department is now blaming interference from someone using a CB radio.

However, that bloke has been away for a week and the picture’s still garbage.

The department’s Peter Londsdale says a new antenna and cabling has gone in, “however this does not appear to have completely rectified the TV reception issue for a few tenants”.

He says the department will keep hacking away at it, getting in touch with residents to figure out their specific telly problems so they can figure how to fix it.

When we first reported this eight weeks ago, one tenant told the Voice: “It’s a waste of time complaining, because they do nothing.”

by DAVID BELL