TNQ
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| TNQ | |
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| regional Queensland | |
| Branding | Southern Cross Ten |
| Slogan | Seriously Ten |
| Channels | Analog: see table below |
| Affiliations | Ten |
| Network | Southern Cross Ten |
| Owner | Macquarie Media Group (Regional Television Pty Ltd) |
| First air date | November 1, 1962 |
| Call letters’ meaning | Television Northern Queensland |
| Former 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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[edit] History
Southern Cross Ten in Queensland began life as North Queensland Television. The original stations were:
- TNQ-7 Townsville, which began on November 1, 1962, and
- FNQ-10 Cairns, which began on September 7, 1966.
In 1982, they joined forces to become North Queensland Television (NQTV). 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 put on the logo (similar to WIN and NBN's logos). Viewers didn't like the logo, 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: 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. Also in 2001, the same day Ten Capital axed its local news, Ten's North Queensland local news was axed, replaced with Ten's Brisbane news. This was also one of the many triggers which led to the local news inquiry by the ABA. In 2002, like the other Southern Cross-owned Ten affiliates, it too became Southern Cross Ten.
[edit] News & Current Affairs
From the 1970s to late 1990s, the station maintained 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 inturn 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 broadcasted 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's 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 a half-hour bulletin, changed to just being a local 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 two minute news updates throughout the day as Southern Cross Ten News.
Chris Reid presents the news for Townsville, Cairns, Mackay and Rockhampton.
Greg Thompson delivers the news for 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]
[edit] Main Transmitters
| Region served | City | Channels (Analog/ Digital) |
First air date | ERP (Analog/ Digital) |
HAAT (Analog/ Digital)1 |
Transmitter Coordinates | Transmitter Location |
| Cairns2 | Cairns | 10 (VHF) 6 (VHF) |
September 7, 1966 | 200 kW 50 kW |
1177 m 1190 m |
Mount Bellenden Ker | |
| Darling Downs | Toowoomba | 41 (UHF) 40 (UHF) |
December 31, 1990 | 1300 kW 500 kW |
515 m 520 m |
(analog) (digital) |
Mount Mowbullan |
| Mackay | Mackay | 33 (UHF) 32 (UHF) |
December 31, 1990 | 1300 kW 360 kW |
612 m 630 m |
Mount Blackwood | |
| Rockhampton | Rockhampton | 34 (UHF) 36 (UHF) |
December 31, 1990 | 2000 kW 500 kW |
523 m 523 m |
Mount Hopeful | |
| Southern Downs | Warwick | 39 (UHF) 52 (UHF) |
December 31, 1990 | 600 kW 500 kW |
301 m 301 m |
Passchendaele Ridge | |
| Townsville | Townsville | 7 (VHF) 36 (UHF) |
November 1, 1962 | 200 kW 200 kW |
612 m 655 m |
(analog) (digital) |
Mount Stuart |
| Wide Bay | Maryborough | 33 (UHF) 9 (VHF) |
December 31, 1990 | 1000 kW 60 kW |
646 m 646 m |
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.
[edit] References
- ^ State Focus. Southern Cross Ten (2007). Retrieved on 2007-07-15.
[edit] See also
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