TNQ
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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
.
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. 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. 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.
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.
Notes:
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
, licensed to, and serving the regional areas of Queensland
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
. The station is owned and operated
Owned-and-operated station
In the broadcasting industry , an owned-and-operated station usually refers to a television station or radio station that is owned by the network with which it is associated...
by Southern Cross Ten
Southern Cross Ten
Southern Cross Ten is an Australian television channel broadcast by the Macquarie Media Group in Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and South Australia. The channel is owned by the Macquarie Media Group as is affiliated to Network Ten...
.
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
Nine Network
The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...
affiliate when regional Queensland
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...
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
WIN Television
WIN Television is an Australian television network owned by the WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales. WIN commenced transmissions on 18 March 1962 as a single Wollongong-only station, and has since expanded to 24 owned-and-operated stations with transmissions covering a...
and NBN
NBN Television
NBN Television is a television station based in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. The station was inaugurated on 4 March 1962 as the first regional commercial television station in New South Wales, and has since expanded to 39 transmitters throughout the northern half of New South Wales and...
's logos). Viewer response to the logo was unfavourable, so they changed the logo to one sent in from the competition. 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
WIN Television
WIN Television is an Australian television network owned by the WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales. WIN commenced transmissions on 18 March 1962 as a single Wollongong-only station, and has since expanded to 24 owned-and-operated stations with transmissions covering a...
bought the Toowoomba and Rockhampton
Rockhampton
Rockhampton can refer to:* Rockhampton, Queensland is a city in Queensland, Australia* Rockhampton City, Queensland, a suburb of Rockhampton, Queensland* Electoral district of Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia...
-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. 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
National Nine News
Nine News is the news service of the Australian Nine Network.Nine News's flagship bulletin is the nightly 6:00pm localised bulletin, produced by networked owned-and-operated stations in Sydney , Melbourne , Brisbane and Darwin alongside localised bulletins produced by the WIN-owned Nine Network...
and became known as QTV News in 1990.
This was however short lived, as the station was instead left with Network Ten
Network Ten
Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country...
affiliation due to WIN Television
WIN Television
WIN Television is an Australian television network owned by the WIN Corporation that is based in Wollongong, New South Wales. WIN commenced transmissions on 18 March 1962 as a single Wollongong-only station, and has since expanded to 24 owned-and-operated stations with transmissions covering a...
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
Ten News
Ten News is the national news service of Network Ten in Australia. The majority of its news bulletins are presented from the TEN-10 studios in Pyrmont...
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
Southern Cross Broadcasting
Southern Cross Broadcasting Limited was a diversified Australian media company, that owned and operated a variety of media businesses, primarily radio and television.-History:...
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.
Main Transmitters
| Region served | City | Channels Channel (broadcasting) In broadcasting, a channel is a range of frequencies assigned by a government for the operation of a particular radio station, television station or television channel. In common usage, the term also may be used to refer to the station operating on a particular frequency.-See also:*Broadcast... (Analog Analog television Analog television is the analog transmission that involves the broadcasting of encoded analog audio and analog video signal: one in which the message conveyed by the broadcast signal is a function of deliberate variations in the amplitude and/or frequency of the signal... / Digital Digital terrestrial television Digital terrestrial television is the technological evolution of broadcast television and advance from analog television, which broadcasts land-based signals... ) |
First air date | ERP Effective radiated power In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power is a standardized theoretical measurement of radio frequency energy using the SI unit watts, and is determined by subtracting system losses and adding system gains... (Analog/ Digital) |
HAAT Height above average terrain Height above average terrain is used extensively in FM radio and television, as it is actually much more important than effective radiated power in determining the range of broadcasts... (Analog/ Digital)1 |
Transmitter Coordinates | Transmitter Location |
| Cairns2 | Cairns | 10 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... )3 6 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
September 7, 1966 | 200 kW 50 kW |
1177 m 1190 m |
17°15′51"S 145°51′14"E | Mount Bellenden Ker Mount Bellenden Ker Mount Bellenden Ker is the second highest mountain in Queensland, Australia. It is named after the botanist John Bellenden Ker Gawler. Located 60 km south of Cairns near Babinda, it is adjacent to Mount Bartle Frere, the state's highest peak, part of the Bellenden Ker Range which is also... |
| Darling Downs | Toowoomba | 41 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... )3 40 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... ) |
December 31, 1990 | 1300 kW 500 kW |
515 m 520 m |
26°53′28"S 151°36′18"E (analog) 26°53′27"S 151°36′21"E (digital) |
Mount Mowbullan |
| Mackay Mackay, Queensland Mackay is a city on the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia, about north of Brisbane, on the Pioneer River. Mackay is nicknamed the sugar capital of Australia because its region produces more than a third of Australia's cane sugar.... |
Mackay Mackay, Queensland Mackay is a city on the eastern coast of Queensland, Australia, about north of Brisbane, on the Pioneer River. Mackay is nicknamed the sugar capital of Australia because its region produces more than a third of Australia's cane sugar.... |
33 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... )3 32 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... ) |
December 31, 1990 | 1300 kW 360 kW |
612 m 630 m |
21°1′56"S 148°56′36"E | Mount Blackwood Mount Blackwood Mount Blackwood is a mountain located within the boundaries of the Mackay Regional Council in Central Queensland, Australia and has an elevation of 639m... |
| Rockhampton Rockhampton Rockhampton can refer to:* Rockhampton, Queensland is a city in Queensland, Australia* Rockhampton City, Queensland, a suburb of Rockhampton, Queensland* Electoral district of Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia... |
Rockhampton Rockhampton Rockhampton can refer to:* Rockhampton, Queensland is a city in Queensland, Australia* Rockhampton City, Queensland, a suburb of Rockhampton, Queensland* Electoral district of Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia... |
34 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... )3 36 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... ) |
December 31, 1990 | 2000 kW 500 kW |
523 m 523 m |
23°43′48"S 150°32′9"E | Mount Hopeful Mount Hopeful Mount Hopeful is a peak standing 1.5 nautical miles north of the head of King George Bay and 1.5 nautical miles southeast of Rea Peak on King George Island, in the South Shetland Islands... |
| Southern Downs | Warwick Warwick, Queensland Warwick is a town in Queensland, Australia, lying south-west of Brisbane. It is the administrative centre of the Southern Downs Local Government Area. In 2006 the town of Warwick had a population of 12,562.... |
39 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... )3 52 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... ) |
December 31, 1990 | 600 kW 500 kW |
301 m 301 m |
28°32′9"S 151°49′58"E | Passchendaele Ridge |
| Townsville | Townsville | 7 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... )3 36 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... ) |
November 1, 1962 | 200 kW 200 kW |
612 m 655 m |
19°20′34"S 146°46′56"E (analog) 19°20′36"S 146°46′50"E (digital) |
Mount Stuart Mount Stuart, Queensland .Mount Stuart is located in Queensland, Australia, overlooking Townsville with an elevation of 584 metres.It was named for Clarendon Stuart , from 1859 Townsville's first district surveyor.... |
| Wide Bay | Maryborough Maryborough, Queensland Maryborough is a city located on the Mary River in South East Queensland, Australia, approximately north of the state capital, Brisbane. The city is serviced by the Bruce Highway, and has a population of approximately 22,000 . It is closely tied to its neighbour city Hervey Bay which is... |
33 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... )3 9 (VHF Very high frequency Very high frequency is the radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Frequencies immediately below VHF are denoted High frequency , and the next higher frequencies are known as Ultra high frequency... ) |
December 31, 1990 | 1000 kW 60 kW |
646 m 646 m |
25°25′37"S 152°7′3"E | Mount Goonaneman |
Notes:
- 1. HAATHeight above average terrainHeight above average terrain is used extensively in FM radio and television, as it is actually much more important than effective radiated power in determining the range of broadcasts...
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.
See also
- Television broadcasting in Australia
- Southern Cross TenSouthern Cross TenSouthern Cross Ten is an Australian television channel broadcast by the Macquarie Media Group in Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory, Victoria and South Australia. The channel is owned by the Macquarie Media Group as is affiliated to Network Ten...