QTQ is an Australian television station, licensed to, and serving Brisbane, Queensland. It is owned by Publishing and Broadcasting Limited, and is part of the Nine Network. It broadcasts on VHF channel 9 (analog) and VHF channel 8 (digital). QTQ began broadcasting on August 16, 1959, the first of the Brisbane stations to launch. The station was an independent member of the network before Alan Bond purchased the station, and integrated it into the Nine Network when he had control of it in the 1980s.
[edit] NewsQTQ-9's nightly news program is Nine News Queensland, presented on weeknights by Bruce Paige and Heather Foord, with Ian Healy presenting sport, and Frank Warrick presenting the weather. Melissa Downes is the weekend presenter, alongside sport presenter Steve Haddan and weather presenter Joeseph May. Paul Burt also presents Surfing and Fishing reports each Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening. Wally Lewis was the weekday sports presenter until December 2006, when following an on-air incident, it was found he had epilepsy. He returned to presenting sport during the 2007/2008 summer period, and also files sports reports. He occasionally fills in if either Steve Haddan or Ian Healy is unavailable. [2] Chris Bombolas was the weekend sports presenter who preceded Haddan, before resigning to become a politician. John Schluter was the weather presenter until his resignation in September 2006, and now works for rival Seven News Brisbane as the weekday weather presenter. Mike London was the weekend presenter alongside Heather Foord until his resignation in June 2003 following comments he made about weeknight presenter Bruce Paige, who was at the time co-presenting with Jillian Whiting. London had swapped roles with Paige in the mid 1990s following Paige's return to the Nine Network. Paige and Foord have presented the weekday bulletins together since late 2004. Jillian Whiting preceded Foord after she took up weekend presenting with Mike London in 2002. Foord returned to weeknight presenting in 2005. The Brisbane bulletin was the last news program in Australia to use the dual-presenter format on weekends (when London was presenting with Foord), until the Perth bulletin revived it in early 2008. Regular presenter fill-ins for the bulletin, include former ABC News presenter Lisa Backhouse, Sarah Harris and Jillian Whiting. This bulletin is also shown on Imparja Television as of 2008, however telecast is delayed by 30 minutes. [edit] Notable Presenters[edit] News anchors
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