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| City | Brisbane |
| Channels | |
| Branding | 10 |
| Programming | |
| Language | English |
| Affiliations | 10 (O&O) |
| Ownership | |
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| History | |
First air date | 1 July 1965; 60 years ago (1965-07-01) |
Former names | TV0 (1983–1988) |
Former channel numbers | Analog: 0 (VHF) (1965–1988) Analog: 10 (VHF) (1988–2013) |
Call sign meaning | TeleVisionQueensland |
| Technical information | |
Licensing authority | Australian Communications and Media Authority |
| ERP | 200kW (analog) 50 kW (digital) |
| HAAT | 385 m (both)[1] |
| Transmitter coordinates | 27°27′47″S152°56′54″E / 27.46306°S 152.94833°E /-27.46306; 152.94833 |
| Links | |
| Website | 10.com.au |
TVQ is theBrisbanetelevision station ofNetwork 10 inAustralia.
In April 1964, thePostmaster-General's Department granted Universal Telecasters a broadcasting licence.[2] The channel was allocated channel 0 (the 0 was pronounced as the letter O instead of "zero") on the VHF band and commenced broadcasting on 1 July 1965 as TVQ-0.Ansett Transport Industries initially held a 49% shareholding, before acquiring the remaining shares in 1970.[3][4]
AfterNews Limited acquired a controlling stake in Ansett, it was required to sell TVQ due to restrictions on the number of television stations one organisation could own. TVQ was sold toAmpol (67%) and2SM (33%).[5][6][7] In 1984 TVQ was purchased byQintex.[8]
On 17 September 1987, Darling Downs Telecasters, owner ofDDQ10Toowoomba, purchases TVQ for $123 million, and announces plans to convert the station to the Channel 10 frequency.
On 10 September 1988,DDQ-10 switched frequency to DDQ-0, and TVQ changed frequency to become TVQ-10, in time for the channel's broadcast of the1988 Summer Olympics, at the same time as its broadcasts ofWorld Expo 88, of which it and the entire Network Ten was the official station.
On 30 November 2015, lightning struck the TVQ transmission tower, cutting its power and lighting.
| LCN | Service | SD/HD |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 HD | HD |
| 10 | 10 | SD |
| 11 | 10 Comedy | SD |
| 12 | 10 Drama | HD |
| 13 | Nickelodeon | SD |
| 15 | 10 HD | HD |
| 16 | You.tv | SD |
| 17 | Gecko TV | SD |
TVQ-10 produces a 60-minute local news program at 5:00 pm on weeknights.
10 News Queensland is presented from the network's Mount Coot-tha studios bySharyn Ghidella with sports presenter Veronica Eggleton and weather presenterLiz Cantor.[9]
TVQ-0 did not operate a news service until 1974 when it launchedNews Watch. The bulletin later adopted the brandingEyewitness News after rival channelBTQ-7 had relinquished the name, and became the first Brisbane newscast to use videotape for its reports.Eyewitness News continued as a nightly half-hour bulletin until 1984 when it was expanded to a one-hour format (the last Network Ten station at that time to convert to the one hour newscast used in other major Australian cities save for Perth). The station won aLogie award in 1986 for Best News Report for its coverage of the siege atEagle Farm Airport the previous year.
With TVQ as the host broadcaster forWorld Expo 88,Eyewitness News shifted its newsroom operation and production to the TVQ stand at the Expo site, putting itself on show to the general public for the entire six-month duration of Expo. After the close of Expo on 30 October 1988, the newsroom returned to the Mount Coot-tha studios to a refurbished news set and a branding refresh toTen News (acknowledging the channel's transition fromVHF Channel 0 to 10 and bringing TVQ into line with Network Ten stations in other states).
TheEyewitness News brand returned in July 1989 coinciding with the network relaunch, and it was later renamed asTen Evening News in January 1990 and then asTen Eyewitness News in January 1991. In 1994, theTen News brand was revived for the 2nd time. In September 2013, Ten once again revived theEyewitness News branding for all its newscasts after a 19-year break. The branding changed to10 News First in October 2018, in line with the network's broader re-branding to10.
In September 2020, studio production of the Queensland bulletin was transferred to Network 10'sSydney headquarters, leading to redundancies among presentation and production staff at the Brisbane studios.[10]
On 15 August 2024, it was announced that the standalone Queensland bulletin would return to Mount Coot-tha from 2 September, to be presented bySharyn Ghidella.[9]
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