Seven Central
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ITQ: Mount Isa, Queensland QQQ: Remote Eastern, Southern and Central Australia |
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| Branding | Southern Cross |
| Slogan | Always On |
| Channels |
Analog: ITQ: 8 (VHF) QQQ: various Digital: switch on digital, 2010–2013 various |
| Affiliations | Seven |
| Owner |
Southern Cross Austereo (Regional Television Pty Ltd) |
| First air date |
ITQ: 11 September 1971 |
| Call letters' meaning |
ITQ: Mount Isa Telecasters Queensland |
| Former affiliations | independent (1971–1998) |
| Transmitter power | ITQ: 1.3 kW |
| Height | ITQ: 75 m |
| Transmitter coordinates |
ITQ: 20°44′4″S 139°30′45″E / 20.73444°S 139.51250°E |
ITQ: 11 September 1971
QQQ (also known as Southern Cross Central) is an Australian television station broadcasting in remote eastern, southern and central areas of Australia, owned by Southern Cross Austereo. The station is available via satellite and terrestrial platforms – mostly through community retransmission sites, although it also transmits into the town of Mount Isa, Queensland under the call sign ITQ. The station is primarily affiliated with the Seven Network, while carrying a limited amount of sport programming from Network Ten.
ITQ Channel 8 began broadcasting into Mount Isa on 11 September 1971, converting to colour in May 1975.QQQ began broadcasting into remote Queensland and New South Wales in 1988. In 1990, ITQ was purchased by North Queensland Television and became a relay of QQQ.
In December 1998, the ITQ and QQQ signals – then known as Queensland Satellite Television, or QSTV, and owned by Telecasters Australia Limited (previously Telecasters North Queensland) – were officially aggregated with that of Imparja Television into a Remote Eastern and Central Australia licence area. Previously, QSTV serviced remote Queensland and New South Wales, while Imparja serviced the Northern Territory (excluding Darwin), and remote South Australia and Victoria, plus far-western New South Wales. As part of the aggregation, the Australian Broadcasting Authority further extended the combined licence area to cover more remote areas of New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania, who were not fully served by regularly licensed terrestrial television services.
On 1 February 1999, QSTV changed its affiliation from predominantly Network Ten, in line with Telecasters' stations in regional Queensland (TNQ, now Southern Cross Ten), to the Seven Network, becoming Seven Central. This closely followed the introduction of a Seven Network-affiliated service, Seven Darwin (TND), to Darwin in 1998.
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