QTQ

QTQ
Brisbane, Queensland
Branding Nine
Slogan Welcome Home
Loving Queensland
Channels Digital: 8 (VHF)
Affiliations Nine (O&O)
Owner Nine Entertainment Co.
(Queensland Television Limited)
First air date 16 August 1959
Call letters' meaning Quality
Television for
Queensland
Former channel number(s) Analog: 9 (VHF)
Transmitter power 200 kW (analog)
50 kW (digital)
Height 327 m (analog)[1]
Transmitter coordinates 27°28′17″S 152°56′31″E / 27.47139°S 152.94194°E / -27.47139; 152.94194
Website www.ninemsn.com.au

QTQ is an Australian television station, licensed to, and serving Brisbane, Queensland. It is owned by the Nine Entertainment Co., and is part of the Nine Network. It broadcasts on VHF channel 9 (analog) and VHF channel 8 (digital). QTQ began broadcasting on 16 August 1959, the first of the Brisbane stations to launch. 2009 marked the 50 year anniversary for the station.

The station was an independent member of the network before Alan Bond purchased the station, and integrated it into the Nine Network when he had control of it in the 1980s.

News

QTQ-9's nightly news program is Nine News Queensland, presented on weeknights by Andrew Lofthouse and Melissa Downes, with Wally Lewis or Ian Healy presenting sport, and Garry Youngberry presenting the weather. Darren Curtis and Alison Ariotti are the weekend presenters, with Ian Healy presenting sport and Sophie Walsh presenting weather. Luke Bradnam also presents Beach and Fishing reports each Friday and Saturday evening.

Regular fill-in presenters for the bulletins include news presenters Darren Curtis, Alison Ariotti, Eva Milic and Sophie Walsh, sports presenters Tom Mitchell and Sam Squires and weather presenters Sophie Walsh and Luke Bradnam.

The bulletin is simulcast in Brisbane on commercial radio station River 94.9, across regional Queensland on WIN Television and throughout remote eastern and central Australia on Imparja Television.

Since 2014, QTQ-9 has produced local editions of Nine Morning News and Nine Afternoon News on weekdays. These are presented by Eva Milic (Monday – Thursday) and Alison Ariotti (Friday), sport is presented by Sam Squiers or Tom Mitchell and Garry Youngberry or Sophie Walsh on weather.

Presenter History

Wally Lewis was the weekday sports presenter until December 2006, when following an on-air incident, it was publicly revealed he had epilepsy. He returned to presenting sport during the 2007/2008 summer period, and also files sports reports.[2] Chris Bombolas was the weekend sports presenter who preceded Steve Haddan, before resigning to become a politician. John Schluter was the weather presenter until his resignation in September 2006, to join rival Seven News Brisbane as the weekday weather presenter.

Mike London was the weekend presenter alongside Heather Foord until his resignation in June 2003 following allegations that he had arrangements for a female fan to complain about weeknight presenter Bruce Paige, who was at the time co-presenting with Jillian Whiting. London had swapped roles with Paige in the mid 1990s following Paige's return to the Nine Network.

Paige and Foord presented the weekday bulletins since 2004. In December 2008, Foord announced that she will step down from presenting weeknights to spend more time with her family. Weekend news presenter Melissa Downes replaced her with Eva Milic and Andrew Lofthouse replacing Downes as Weekend news presenters.

The Brisbane bulletin was the last news program to date in Australia to use the dual-presenter format on weekends (when London was presenting with Foord), until the Perth bulletin revived it in early 2008.

Programming

Current in-house productions

Former in-house productions

Notable presenters

News presenters

Sports presenters

Fill-ins

Former news presenters

Sports presenters

Weather presenters

See also

References

  1. ↑ HAAT estimated from http://www.itu.int/SRTM3/ using EHAAT.
  2. ↑ "Lewis making good progress, says wife". AAP (ninemsn). 22 February 2007. Retrieved 29 April 2007.

External links

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