BTQ

BTQ

Brisbane, Queensland
Branding	Seven
Slogan	OnePlace
Channels	Analog: 7 (VHF) Digital: 6 (VHF)
Affiliations	Seven (O&O)
Network	Seven
Owner	Seven West Media Limited (Channel Seven Brisbane Pty Ltd)
First air date	1 November 1959
Call letters' meaning	Brisbane Television Queensland
Transmitter power	200 kW (analog) 50 kW (digital)
Height	337 m (analog) 335 m (digital)
Transmitter coordinates	27°27′59″S 152°56′36″E
Website	www.yahoo7.com.au/tv

For other acronyms using BTQ, such as the stimulant drug Butyltolylquinuclidine, see the BTQ (disambiguation) page.

BTQ is the Brisbane station of the Australian Seven Network. BTQ was the second television station to launch in Brisbane, going to air on 1 November 1959, after QTQ (station of the Nine Network) launched three months earlier.

Along with other Australian television channels, BTQ began broadcasting on digital television on 1 January 2001.

The channel has been a leader in Queensland television news - in the early eighties, Seven National News became the first Brisbane-based bulletin to be relayed throughout a string of independent Queensland telecasters. Within the same decade, BTQ was also a major production house for children's television - hosting popular shows as Wombat, Now You See It, Family Feud, Play Your Cards Right and Seven's Super Saturday featuring Agro (puppet). In the 1980s and 1990s, the channel regularly opened its facilities to the Brisbane public - at Open Days. In the 1970s, BTQ also held annual telethons for the Children's Hospital, featuring network personalities.

Until 2007, BTQ was the host station of the national Austext teletext service. The service was later largely automated out of Seven Sydney until it was decommissioned September 2009.

Station slogans

• 1959: Start on 7 and You'll Stay on 7!
• 1960-61: "The Station of the Stars"
• 1965: "The New 7!"
• 1966: "You'll See It All on Seven"
• 1967-68: "Brisbane's Liveliest Channel"
• 1972: "The Big 7"
• 1975 (Jan-Feb): "The Entertainers"
• Summer 1978/79: "Summer Fever!"
• 1979: "Seven Fever!" (used for their 20th anniversary)
• Summer 1979/80: "Summer Fever!"
• 1980: "Seven, You're Still Looking Hot!"
• Early 1981: "We're Doing It For You"
• 1981: "Supercharged 7!"
• 1982-88: "Love You Brisbane"
• 1982: "Shine on Brisbane" (used to promote the 1982 Commonwealth Games)
• 1984: "Love You Queensland - 25 Years of Television"
• 1989: "Only The Best Will Do"
• 1989: "Happy 30th Birthday!"
• 1989-94: "Nobody Knows Brisbane Like Seven"
• 1995-96: "Queensland's Great South East"
• 1997-99: "Seven's Great South East"
• 1999: "7 - 1959-1999" (used to celebrate 40 Years of BTQ7)
• Christmas 1999: "Christmas in the Great South East"
• 2002: "The Great South East"
• 2007-08: "Love You Queensland"
• July–November 2009: "Celebrating 50 Years"
• January–February 2011: "Love You Queensland"

News

Further information: Seven News

Seven News Brisbane is presented by Kay McGrath and Rod Young (weekdays) from Seven's Brisbane studios, located at Mount Coot-tha. Weekday sport is presented by Shane Webcke, Pat Welsh, Ben Davis and Rohan Welsh. Weather is presented by John Schluter. The bulletin is simulcast on local radio station 96.5 Family FM.

On weekends, Sharyn Ghidella presents the news with Pat Welsh on sport and Liz Cantor on weather. Previously, Tracey Challenor presented the weekend news for many years until her departure in February 2007. She read her last bulletin on 18 February 2007.

In October 2002, Rod Young moved from ABC News in Brisbane to co-anchor with Kay McGrath. She had gone solo for the previous nine months following the retirement of Frank Warrick. Their dual presenter format has been very successful.

News updates are presented by Kay McGrath, Rod Young or Sharyn Ghidella throughout the afternoon and the early evening.

Reporters

Senior Reporters

• Neil Warren

General Reporters

• Amanda Abate
• Josh Adsett
• Michael Best
• Geoff Breusch
• Michael Coombes
• Peter Doherty
• Erin Edwards
• Sally Eeles
• Michael Scanlan
• Kim Skubris
• Carly Waters

Special Reporters

• Shane Webcke
• Trevor Gillmeister

Political Correspondent

• Patrick Condren

Past Presenters

News

• Brian Cahill (1959–1967) (1973–1975) - Brian gave a guest presentation of 'Flashback' on Seven News in November 2009, to mark the station's 50th anniversary.
• Brian Tait (1960s)
• Alyson Ridgewell (1960s)
• Ron Brady (1960s)
• Mike Taylor (1960s)
• Ken Hose (1970s-1980s)
• Mike Higgins (1970–1986)
• Jason Cameron (1970s)
• Nev Roberts (1970s-1980s)
• Ian Hislop (1980s)
• Janne Rayner (1980s)
• Donna Meiklejohn (1980s)
• Darren McDonald (1980s)
• Garry Wilkinson (1989–1994)
• Frank Warrick (1977–2001)
• Tracey Challenor (1991–2007)
• Simon Reeve (2001–2003)

Sport

• Bill McDonald
• David Fordham (1980s)
• Peter Meares (1980s)

Weather

• Annette Allison (1970s)
• Gay Walker (Miss Australia 1972) (1970s)
• Noel Stanaway (1980s)
• Tony Johnston (2003)
• Liz Cantor (2006–2008)

Other programming

• Family Feud
• Agro's Cartoon Connection - Moved to ATN-7 in 1997.
• Saturday Disney - Moved to ATN-7 in 1999.
• A*mazing - Moved to TVW-7 in 1997.
• The Mole (Australia season 3) - Episodes 2-10.

See also

• Television broadcasting in Australia