TNQ
| regional Queensland | |
|---|---|
| Branding | Nine |
| Slogan | Welcome Home |
| Channels |
Analog: see table below Digital: see table below |
| Affiliations | Nine |
| Owner |
Southern Cross Austereo (Regional Television Pty Ltd) |
| First air date | 1 November 1962 |
| Call letters' meaning |
Television Northern Queensland |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1962-1990) Network Ten (1990-2016) |
| 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 Nine.
Southern Cross Nine in Queensland began in 1982 as North Queensland Television, a partnership between two regional stations:
In 1984 NQTV adopted a localised version of the Just Watch Us Now theme and slogan, which had also been used by various metropolitan Seven Network stations the previous year. The station's The Place to Be slogan was used from the mid-1980s until 1993.
When aggregation was announced in the late 1980s, NQTV was planning to be the Nine Network affiliate for regional Queensland. NQTV had a write-in competition for their name and logo. The name QTV was chosen and because of the intended Nine affiliation, it adopted a logo with the Nine dots (similar to WIN and NBN's logos). Unfavourable viewer response forced the station to change logos within a few months. The station ran with a Nine-based identification package in the year leading up to aggregation.
However, the station faced a crisis in the days leading up to aggregation when 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, instead. 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.
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