RTQ

RTQ is an Australian television station broadcasting in regional Queensland in Australia. The network was owned by Star Television, before being purchased by the WIN Corporation on 5 October 1988.

Network history

WIN TV Queensland started out as Darling Downs Television Limited in 1959, and was launched as a television network in 1962, with Queensland's first regional TV station, DDQ-10, being broadcast to the Darling Downs area for the first time. SDQ-4 for the Southern Downs soon launched in 1964, and DDQ 5 was next to air later (it would later be renamed as DDQ 5a) for Toowoomba viewers. The main Rockhampton station, RTQ-7, was launched in 1963 to serve viewers in Rockhampton and its suburbs.

Until the 1980s, Darling Downs TV was sometimes supporting the Nine Network and QTQ-9, its Brisbane station, by broadcasting its newscasts on relay before switching sympathies to Network Ten and TVQ-0 in the early part of the decade, supporting its programs and broadcasting TVQ-0's Eyewitness News on relay. It was part of the Great Eastland Television network in 1975-1987, together with NRN NRTV 11-8 Television and NEN 9-10 Television (both in New South Wales) as GET 10-4-5a. It became, in 1976-77, the first regional TV network in Australia to switch to videotape recordings for its news service within a year after it became a color station. This was the same case for RTQ during those years as after having been a Nine News broadcaster switched news affiliations with the Seven Network and BTQ's local newscasts via satellite relay since they share the same channel number.