ABQ
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| Brisbane, Queensland | |
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| Channels | Analog: 2 (VHF) Digital: 12 (VHF) |
| Affiliations | ABC Television |
| Network | ABC Television |
| Owner | Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
| First air date | 2 November 1959 |
| Call letters' meaning | ABC Queensland |
| Transmitter power | 200 kW (analog) 50 kW (digital) |
| Height | 336 m (analog) 355 m (digital)[1] |
| Transmitter coordinates | 27°27′52″S 152°56′51″E / 27.46444°S 152.9475°E |
| Website | www.abc.net.au/tv |
ABQ is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's television station in Brisbane, Queensland. It began broadcasting on 2 November 1959 and is based at purpose built headquarters on Brisbane's South Bank. The station is received throughout the state through a number of relay transmitters, and satellite transmission on the Optus Aurora free-to-view platform. ABQ's schedule largely consists of national ABC Television programming with opt outs for news & current affairs, rugby league and state election coverage.
For many years, the station was based at studios in the inner-western suburb of Toowong, with a transmitter at Mount Coot-tha. In late 2006, the Toowong studios were abandoned after several female staff members developed breast cancer. An independent report found that the rate of breast cancer incidents at the site were "...up to 11 times higher than what would normally be expected."[2]
Up until January 2012, staff worked from several sites around Brisbane, with ABC Radio based in nearby Lissner Street, Toowong, ABC News staff working from Network Ten's Mount Coot-tha studios, ABC Innovation and Online staff working at QUT Kelvin Grove, and other staff based in locations including Coronation Drive and West End.
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[edit] Programming
[edit] Local programming
The nightly 7pm state news bulletin ABC News Queensland, is presented by David Curnow on weeknights and Jessica van Vonderen on weekends. The weeknight bulletins also incoprorate state weather forecasts with Jenny Woodward as well as national finance presented by Alan Kohler in Melbourne.
7.30 Queensland, a locally produced current affairs program, is broadcast each Friday night at 7:30pm and presented by Jessica van Vonderen.
ABQ also carries live coverage of Queensland Cup rugby league matches every Saturday afternoon during the season.
[edit] Networked programming
[edit] Relay Stations
The following stations relay ABQ throughout Queensland:
Notes:
- 1. HAAT estimated from http://www.itu.int/SRTM3/ using EHAAT.
- 2. ABDQ was on VHF channel 3 from its 1963 sign-on until 1993, moving to its current channel in order to accommodate FM radio.
- 3. ABMQ was on VHF channel 4 from its 1967 sign-on until 1988, moving to its current channel in order to accommodate FM radio.
- 4. ABRQ was on VHF channel 3 from its 1963 sign-on until 1988, moving to its current channel in order to accommodate FM radio.
- 5. ABSEQ was on VHF channel 9 from its 1974 sign-on until 1989.
- 6. Analogue transmission ceased on 6 December 2011 as part of the national shutdown of analogue television
Mary Kathleen also had a relay station (ABMKQ channel 9) from 15 December 1971 until the town was abandoned ca. 1982.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ HAAT estimated from http://www.itu.int/SRTM3/ using EHAAT.
- ^ Source: Doctor Bruce Armstrong, ABC News Online, 'Breast cancer scare forces ABC to relocate' [1]
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