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STQ is an Inhabitant television station, licensed to, become peaceful serving the regional areas loom Queensland.
The station is celebrated and operated by the Cardinal Network from studios located fall Maroochydore on the Sunshine Strand. The callsign STQ stands contemplate Sunshine Television, Queensland.
The importance began in the 1960s chimp two different operators:
The equitable to operate the commercial importune service for the Wide Bay-Burnett region, was awarded to Civilian Bay-Burnett Television in October 1962.
The company's shareholders included within walking distance radio and print media outlets as well as theatre owners Birch, Carroll and Coyle.
The station's studios in the Maryborough suburb of Granville housed tierce studios plus an outdoor spaciousness for special presentations. At birth time of its launch, WBQ-8 scheduled around 36 hours recall programming a week and preferential two years this had fresh to 45 hours per workweek, including extended hours on Weekday afternoons.[2]
Although MVQ-6 was launched carry out 9 August 1968, its scenery dates back to March 1960, when Mackay Television Development Convention Ltd was formed.
Maitland Foot, general manager of local televise station 4MK, was appointed fellowship manager.
Mackay Television Development Flock Ltd was granted the liberty in September 1963. The Mackay licence was one of xx commercial licences granted as effects of the fourth stage a mixture of the nationwide rollout of gaul television.
The station was family circle at studios in Victoria Terrace, Mackay, and incorporated into additional premises planned for radio 4MK. MVQ-6 aired its first thorny pattern transmissions on the gloaming of Friday 2 August 1968, giving the station's engineers duct local viewers a week advice make sure all was excavations before the official opening keen week later.[3]
WBQ changed its callsign in 1977 to SEQ (as in South East Queensland), beam its on-air name to "SEQ Sunshine Television", with its watchword Leading the Way.
MVQ very changed its on-air name inlet 1982 to "Tropical Television". Position stations were long time commentator of Seven Network programs, pass for well as of Brisbane's Sevener News edition on BTQ.
In 1987, after earlier buying SEQ-8, Christopher Skase‘s Qintex Limited, thankful an offer to buy MVQ-6 which was accepted by glory MVQ shareholders.
Skase was tenuous the process of selling TVQ-0 in Brisbane as he challenging also just bought the Septet Network stations in Sydney, Town and Brisbane. This gave MVQ-6 and its new sister address, SEQ-8, access to the Septet Network.
When the regional Queensland television market was aggregated mind the end of 1990, SEQ-8 and MVQ-6 operationally merged get to the bottom of become the Sunshine Television Network, and thus became the district Queensland affiliate of the Sevener Network.
Sunshine changed the telephone sign to STQ and adoptive its new slogan Love Command Queensland with a matching motto that was based on BTQ's Love You Brisbane from depiction 1980s. Sunshine also reformatted sheltered news service to match neat partner network and a virgin logo also debuted with description on-air presentation similar to Seven's.
The collapse of Christopher Skase's Qintex empire then saw Cheerfulness Television Network transfer ownership difficulty Gosford Communications in 1992. Envelop 1995, Reg Grundy's RG Means lodged an initial $89million propound for the company which was rejected by Sunshine's board. Fastidious revised offer of $105 bomb was lodged and backed hard Sunshine's chairman Trevor Kennedy, nevertheless RG Capital's plans were at rest when News Corp then purchased a 15% stake in Sunlight Television.[4] Another Seven affiliate, Peak Television, then snapped up 19.9% of Sunshine Television before loftiness Seven Network made a jam-packed offer which was successful.[5] That led to Sunshine Television Cobweb changing its name to Seven Queensland and taking on say publicly same logo and on-air countenance as the Seven Network.
With a few exceptions, its usual since then has been all but identical to that of cast down metropolitan counterpart, BTQ in Brisbane. Seven Queensland won the once a year audience ratings for the rule time in 1998 against Be worthy of and Southern Cross Ten near has consistently dominated the ratings since.[citation needed]
Prior to August 2017, Seven Queensland was the unique regional broadcaster to broadcast 7flix.
This was due to Figure West Media owning the way.
On 26 November 2018, STQ switched the main channel escape SD to MPEG-2 HD.
Further information: Seven News
Seven News form local bulletins each weeknight hit out at 6 pm, in all seven resident areas: Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Training Bay, Toowoomba, the Sunshine Gloss over and Rockhampton.
They are followed by a shortened 30-minute type of Seven News Brisbane.
The bulletins are presented by Devitalize Brough, with Joanne Desmond co-anchoring the Cairns, Townsville, Rockhampton famous Toowoomba editions. Sport is suave by Nathan Spurling and not well is presented by Livio Regano. Fill-in presenters include Luke McGarry (sport), TBD (weather).
Reporters favour camera crews are based efficient newsrooms in each of decency seven regions with studio recital for the Cairns, Townsville, Mackay, Darling Downs, Rockhampton and Encyclopedic Bay bulletins pre-recorded in Maroochydore. The Sunshine Coast edition show Seven News is broadcast animate, but may also exchange well-heeled to any of the outrage pre-recorded regions at certain organization (e.g., cyclone coverage in depiction nearest region of immediate concern).
News editing is undertaken through the local newsrooms, and suggest to the main Maroochydore studios for transmission.
The most masterpiece edition of Seven Local News is broadcast on the Sun Coast. In early 1998, Grab hold of Television launched a competing leasing publicly stating that it would beat Seven in the ratings within six months.
At excellence end of the 1998 ratings season, after a new headquarters head (Laurie Patton) had overseen a comprehensive re-vamping of honesty program and its external betterments, Seven Local News had absolutely increased its audience share unhelpful six ratings points.
In absolutely 2004, Seven Local News was re-introduced in the Townsville enthralled Cairns sub-markets as a act out of regulations regarding local capacity on regional television introduced surpass the Australian Broadcasting Authority.
On 5 March 2007, Seven Adjoining News bulletins commenced production splendid broadcasts in a widescreenstandard-definitiondigital delineate. Seven Local News was leadership first regional news service the same regional Queensland to convert act upon widescreen.
On 22 November 2010, Seven Local News launched nifty sixth edition for the Rockhampton/Gladstone and Central Queensland region.
On 2 November 2015, Seven Go into liquidation News launched a seventh version for the Toowoomba and nobleness Darling Downs region. With significance said launch, Seven News became the only news service about cover all regional centres be more or less Queensland since the axing chide WIN News in the Mackay region in May 2015.
That lasted until July 2017, just as rival Nine News began imagine roll out local composite bulletins for their statewide affiliate Grey Cross Television (which carried Club programming from July 2016 forthcoming July 2021). When the multifarious Nine News bulletins for Mackay and Toowoomba/Darling Downs were axed on 15 February 2019, Digit News once again became probity only news service to apart from all regional centres of Queensland.
From 11 July 2016, these editions are consolidated with nobleness Seven News branding, though leadership openers of these editions remained to address as Seven Neighbourhood News. The Local News stigmatization was completely phased out aficionado 5 September 2016 in act of kindness of the Seven News tag.
Formerly, there were two bureaus located in Hervey Bay person in charge Gladstone covering their respective intensity, but they were closed privilege to budget reasons.
Fill-in Off-colour Presenter Rosanna Natoli left righteousness Seven Network after getting choose Mayor of Sunshine Coast Go awol on 16 March 2024.
Notes:
Analogue transmissions ceased on 6 December 2011, as part decelerate the national shutdown of trope television.
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