| regional Queensland | |
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| Branding | WIN Television |
| Slogan | Welcome Home |
| Network | WIN |
| Owner | WIN Corporation Pty Ltd (WIN QLD Pty. Ltd[1]) |
| First air date | 7 September 1963 |
| Call letters' meaning | Rockhampton Television Queensland |
| Former affiliations | independent (1963-1990) |
| Transmitter power | see table below |
| Height | see table below |
| Transmitter coordinates | see table below |
| Website | www.wintv.com.au |
RTQ is an Australian television station broadcasting in regional Queensland in Australia. The network was owned by Star Television, before being purchased by the WIN Corporation on 5 October 1988.[2]
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WIN TV Queensland started out as Darling Downs Television Limited in 1959, and was launched as a television network in 1962, with Queensland's first regional TV station, DDQ-10, being broadcast to the Darling Downs area for the first time. SDQ-4 for the Southern Downs soon launched in 1964, and DDQ 5 was next to air later (it would later be renamed as DDQ 5a) for Toowoomba viewers. The main Rockhampton station, RTQ-7, was launched in 1963 to serve viewers in Rockhampton and its suburbs.
Until the 1980s, Darling Downs TV was sometimes supporting the Nine Network and QTQ-9, its Brisbane station, by broadcasting its newscasts on relay before switching sympathies to Network Ten and TVQ-0 in the early part of the decade, supporting its programs and broadcasting TVQ-0's Channel 0 Eyewitness News (later TV0 Eyewitness News until 1988) on relay. It was part of the short-lived Great Eastland Television system in 1974-1980, together with NRN NRTV 11-8 Television and NEN 9-10 Television (both in New South Wales) as GET 10-4-5a.
Due to its purchase of Ten Brisbane (TVQ-0) in 1987 and its move to Channel 0 the next year (as Vision TV 0-4-5a) to give way to the new Brisbane Ten (TVQ-10), it suddenly became Queensland's strongest regional TV network, even after its TVQ selloff, bringing Ten programs and Brisbane Ten Eyewitness News (later Brisbane Ten News) to the Darling Downs and Southern Downs. RTQ-7 also by then began broadcasting Ten programs in Rockhampton, after its previous commitment to BTQ-7's programs, Seven National News and State Affair.
By 1990, DDQ/SDQ and RTQ joined the aggregation race, merging and becoming Star Television in 1990. It was then purchased by Win Television, then as a Ten affiliate for the state (the Nine affiliation was then by TNQ/FNQ QTV 7-10). But before aggregation would begin, Star TV joined Nine instead (due to WIN being the 9 affiliate for NSW), and QTV joined Ten as its affiliate in its place, reflecting the "affiliation wars" 9 and 10 fought for regional network affiliation in Queensland.
On New Year's Eve 1990, it became Win Television Queensland on the first day of statewide aggregation, with Toowomba and Rockhampton facilities to air statewide WIN News newscasts everyday. New transmitting stations were also built in Townsville, Mt. Stuart, Cairns, Mackay and Maryborough in time for statewide broadcasts even before Star TV turned to the Nine Network as its affiliate.
WIN News produces regional news bulletins for the seven regional markets covered by RTQ - Rockhampton, Cairns, Townsville, Toowoomba, the Sunshine Coast, Mackay and Wide Bay.
WIN Television is the only network to provide local news across all seven sub-markets in Queensland, employing 61 full-time journalists and camera staff and a team consisting of ten full-time and back-up presenters. Reporters and camera crews are based within all regions from newsrooms in Rockhampton, Bundaberg, Hervey Bay, Cairns, Mackay, Maroochydore, Toowoomba and Townsville.
Studio presentation for the bulletins originate from studios in Rockhampton and Toowoomba:
For a two week during the summer, a state-wide Summer Edition produced from Toowoomba replaces the regional bulletins and incorporates news from all seven RTQ markets.
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Cairns, Rockhampton, Wide Bay, Sunshine Coast
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Townsville, Mackay, Toowoomba
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Queensland Late Edition
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Cairns, Rockhampton, Wide Bay, Sunshine Coast
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Townsville, Mackay, Toowoomba
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Queensland Late Edition
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Cairns, Rockhampton, Wide Bay & Sunshine Coast
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Townsville, Mackay & Toowoomba
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Summer Edition
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Rockhampton/Central Queensland
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Townsville/North Queensland
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Cairns/Far North Queensland
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Toowoomba/Darling Downs
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Sunshine Coast
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Wide Bay
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Mackay/Whitsundays
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National
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Chiefs of Staff
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The news director for all WIN Television regions in Queensland is Shaun Kelly, the state sub editor in John Graham and the news production manager is Carl Bulwinkel. The general manager for WIN Television in Queensland is Geoff Massey.
| Region served | City | Channels (analog/ digital) |
First air date | ERP (analog/ digital) |
HAAT (analog/ digital)1 |
Transmitter coordinates | Transmitter location |
| Cairns | Cairns | 39 (UHF)6 12 (VHF) |
31 December 1990 | 400 kW 50 kW |
1176 m 1190 m |
Mount Bellenden Ker | |
| Darling Downs2 | Toowoomba | 0 (VHF)3 6 46 (UHF) |
13 July 1962 | 300 kW 500 kW |
485 m 520 m |
(analog) (digital) |
Mount Mowbullan |
| Mackay | Mackay | 39 (UHF)6 35 (UHF) |
31 December 1990 | 1300 kW 360 kW |
612 m 630 m |
Mount Blackwood | |
| Rockhampton | Rockhampton | 7 (VHF)6 12 (VHF) |
7 September 1963 | 200 kW 50 kW |
523 m 523 m |
Mount Hopeful | |
| Southern Downs4 6 | Warwick | 42 (UHF)5 6 43 (UHF) |
26 February 1966 | 600 kW 500 kW |
301 m 301 m |
Passchendaele Ridge | |
| Townsville | Townsville | 40 (UHF)6 41 (UHF) |
31 December 1990 | 200 kW 200 kW |
617 m 644 m |
Mount Stuart | |
| Wide Bay | Maryborough | 39 (UHF)6 10 (VHF) |
31 December 1990 | 1000 kW 60 kW |
646 m 646 m |
Mount Goonaneman |
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