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TNQ regional Queensland Branding Southern Cross Ten Slogan Seriously Ten Channels Analog: see table below
Digital: see table belowAffiliations Ten Network Southern Cross Ten Owner Macquarie Media Group
(Regional Television Pty Ltd)First air date November 1, 1962 Call letters' meaning Television
Northern
QueenslandFormer affiliations independent (1962-1990) Transmitter power see table below Height see table below Transmitter coordinates see table below TNQ is an Australian television station, licensed to, and serving the regional areas of Queensland. The station is owned and operated by Southern Cross Ten.
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History
Southern Cross Ten in Queensland began in 1982 as North Queensland Television, a partnership between two regional stations:
- TNQ-7 Townsville (launched on November 1, 1962)
- FNQ-10 Cairns (launched on September 7, 1966)
Their slogan was The Place to Be, a slogan used by the station for over a decade up until 1993.
When aggregation was announced, NQTV was planning to be the Nine Network affiliate when regional Queensland was aggregated in the late 1990s. NQTV had a write-in competition for their name and logo. The name QTV was chosen and because of the affiliation with the Nine Network, the Nine dots were placed on the logo (similar to WIN and NBN's logos). Viewer response to the logo was unfavourable, so they changed the logo to one sent in from the competition[citation needed]. The station ran with a Nine Network-based identification package in the year leading up to aggregation.
However, the station faced a crisis in the days leading up to aggregation when WIN Television bought the Toowoomba and Rockhampton-based Star Television, and switched the affiliation from Ten to Nine, in line with WIN's NSW station. This meant that QTV had to change its logo and affiliation in a hurry. QTV picked up the vacant Ten affiliation, and used the logo chosen from the competition[citation needed]. The station originally broadcast a licence-wide one hour bulletin when Queensland was aggregated, but this was soon axed outside the North Queensland television market.
The station's owners, Telecasters North Queensland (later Telecasters Australia), joined the Ten Group Consortium in 1992–1993. This led to a change from QTV to Ten Queensland, and they began to use generic Ten branding.
In 2001, Telecasters was purchased by Southern Cross. In that same year, Ten Local News in North Queensland was axed (along with Ten Capital News in Canberra) and replaced with Ten News Queensland from Brisbane - one of the many decisions which led to the local news inquiry by the ABA. In 2002, like the other Southern Cross-owned Ten affiliates, the station was rebranded to Southern Cross Ten.
News & Current Affairs
Judi Hogan hosting State Focus, a current affairs program broadcast in Queensland by TNQ.
From the 1970s to late 1990s, the station maintained regional news coverage through its 5-30pm 30 minute local news and later its 6pm one-hour news bulletins. In the lead up to aggregation, with NQTV (which soon after became QTV) gearing up to become the Nine Network affiliate, the look and feel of the news was changed to match that of National Nine News and became known as QTV News in 1990.
This was however short lived, as the station was instead left with Network Ten affiliation due to WIN Television purchasing a rival station, which in turn took the Nine Network affiliation for the region. The news changed its look and feel to that of Ten Eyewitness News and changed its name to QTV Eyewitness News. Initially, it broadcast a licence-wide one hour bulletin when Queensland was aggregated, but due to low ratings, this was scaled back to north Queensland. In 1993, the news service became Ten North Queensland News after the station was rebranded as Ten Queensland.
In January 2000, Ten Queensland revamped its news format in response to viewer demand for more local news. The 6pm news bulletin was reduced to 30 minutes and became a solely regional news bulletin with the introduction of Ten News Brisbane into North Queensland, and changed its name to Ten Local News to reflect the new format.
At the end of 2001, Ten Local News in North Queensland was finally axed by new owners Southern Cross Broadcasting due to cost-cutting measures.
In 2004, news resurfaced on the station as three minute news updates throughout the day as Southern Cross Ten News. Jana Black presents the news for Townsville, Cairns, Mackay and Rockhampton with Stefanie Waclawik presenting the updates for the Sunshine Coast, Toowoomba and Bundaberg.
A local current affairs program, State Focus, is shown at 8.30am on Sundays, presented by Peta Burton from the network's Canberra-based studios.[1]
Main Transmitters
Region served City Channels
(Analog/
Digital)First air date ERP
(Analog/
Digital)HAAT
(Analog/
Digital)1Transmitter Coordinates Transmitter Location Cairns2 Cairns 10 (VHF)3
6 (VHF)September 7, 1966 200 kW
50 kW1177 m
1190 m17°15′51″S 145°51′14″E / 17.26417°S 145.85389°E Mount Bellenden Ker Darling Downs Toowoomba 41 (UHF)3
40 (UHF)December 31, 1990 1300 kW
500 kW515 m
520 m26°53′28″S 151°36′18″E / 26.89111°S 151.605°E (analog)
26°53′27″S 151°36′21″E / 26.89083°S 151.60583°E (digital)Mount Mowbullan Mackay Mackay 33 (UHF)3
32 (UHF)December 31, 1990 1300 kW
360 kW612 m
630 m21°1′56″S 148°56′36″E / 21.03222°S 148.94333°E Mount Blackwood Rockhampton Rockhampton 34 (UHF)3
36 (UHF)December 31, 1990 2000 kW
500 kW523 m
523 m23°43′48″S 150°32′9″E / 23.73°S 150.53583°E Mount Hopeful Southern Downs Warwick 39 (UHF)3
52 (UHF)December 31, 1990 600 kW
500 kW301 m
301 m28°32′9″S 151°49′58″E / 28.53583°S 151.83278°E Passchendaele Ridge Townsville Townsville 7 (VHF)3
36 (UHF)November 1, 1962 200 kW
200 kW612 m
655 m19°20′34″S 146°46′56″E / 19.34278°S 146.78222°E (analog)
19°20′36″S 146°46′50″E / 19.34333°S 146.78056°E (digital)Mount Stuart Wide Bay Maryborough 33 (UHF)3
9 (VHF)December 31, 1990 1000 kW
60 kW646 m
646 m25°25′37″S 152°7′3″E / 25.42694°S 152.1175°E Mount Goonaneman Notes:
- 1. HAAT estimated from http://www.itu.int/SRTM3/ using EHAAT.
- 2. The Cairns station was an independent station with the callsign FNQ from its 1966 sign-on until aggregation in 1990.
- 3. Analogue transmissions to cease on December 6, 2011 as part of the national shutdown of analogue television.
References
- ^ "State Focus". Southern Cross Ten. 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-07-02. http://web.archive.org/web/20070702065654/http://www.mytalk.com.au/Stations/TV/SCTEN/Pages/StateFocus.aspx. Retrieved 2007-07-15.
See also
Television Northern New South Wales · Southern New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory · Regional Victoria · Regional Queensland · Spencer Gulf/Broken HillJoint-VenturesRadio Today NetworkTriple M Local WorksDigital DAB+ StationsBarry · RadarOther News ServicesTelevision in Queensland Brisbane Regional Queensland Mount Isa Remote areas Categories:- Television stations in Queensland
- Television channels and stations established in 1962
- Southern Cross Media Group
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