- Media in Townsville
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Townsville is the media centre for North Queensland, with 5 commercial radio stations, North Queensland ABC radio station, 3 commercial television stations, one regional daily newspaper and one community weekly newspaper (both owned by News Ltd). There are no local Sunday papers although the Sunday Mail (based in Brisbane) does a North Queensland edition, which is printed and distributed from Townsville (throughout Northern Queensland). Townsville also has extensive outdoor and indoor advertising mediums, ranging from taxi advertising to large format billboards.
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Print Media
The Townsville Bulletin is the dominant newspaper in North Queensland with daily coverage on local, state, national and world news, plus a wide range of sections and lift outs covering health, real estate, youth, beauty, cars and lifestyle. The Bulletin has a $1.20 cover price on weekdays, increasing to $1.80 for the weekend edition, and is in tabloid format. In 2006 the Bulletin had a readership (average) Monday to Friday of 84 000 (up 15.5% on 2005) and weekend readership (avg) of 104,000 (up 1.96% on 2005)[1] and circulation (avg) of 27 187 Monday to Friday, weekend circulation (avg) of 41 814.[2] The Townsville Bulletin is owned by News Limited, a subsidiary of News Corporation and employs over 100 people.
The Sun Community Newspaper is a free publication distributed weekly to 55,113 homes in the urban and rural suburbs of Townsville.[3] It is published by News Limited. Previously called the "Twin Cities Advertiser" it was split into The Townsville Sun and The Thuringowa Sun, but after a few years The Thuringowa Sun Merged with the Townsville Sun to form The Sun newspaper of today.[4]
CityLife Magazine is a monthly glossy corporate magazine which is distributed free to selected suburbs (7 000 households) in Townsville City and through various businesses throughout Townsville and Thuringowa such as hair dressers and coffee shops (9 000 copies). It is also published online [1]. In December 2006 the CityLife Magazine group (Townsville, Cairns, Mackay and the Whitsundays) was bought by APN News & Media, Australia's biggest publisher of regional newspapers.[5]
Magnetic Island has two competing small publications, Magnetic Island Community News is printed weekly and Magnetic Times is published on-line [2].
The North Queensland Register [3] is based in Townsville however it services the Queensland rural community from Rockhampton North. Owned by Rural Press Limited it has a distribution of about 5 000.
Northern Services Courier [4] is an independent newspaper for Defence Force personnel stationed in Townsville.
"The Hack" (formerly known as The Bullsheet) is the student community newspaper at James Cook University, published by the JCU Student Association. Outlook is the academic community newspaper at James Cook University and it is published by the University.
Broadcast centre for 4TO, Hot FM, Mix 106.3 and Sea FM
DUO Magazine is Townsville and Thuringowa's free 64-page monthly magazine targeted at women aged 25–54 years. DUO is distributed to selected suburbs with the highest numbers of their core demographic. DUO is also distributed via hotels, cafes, restaurants and beauty salons. DUO has the largest print run of any local magazine with a distribution of 15,000 copies.[6]
THE PLACE street press is a free, monthly tabloid size newspaper targeted at the music, arts and entertainment markets. The main readership demograpchic is 16 - 35yo's, 10 000 copies are distributed to hotels, retail, cafes, venues and many other locations through Townsville, Ayr, Magnetic Is, Ingham, Home Hill and Airlie Beach. North Queenslands most comprehensive gig guide can be found in the back pages of the publication as well as online at myspace.com/theplacestreetpress or facebook group 'THE PLACE street press'. The publication is known as Nth QLD's FREE music, arts & entertainment mag
Radio
Station Frequency ABC News Radio 94.3 FM and 93.5 FM Government funded Lush FM www.lushfm.com.au 95.1 FM Dance/Narrowcast Suburban FM 88.2 FM Commercial Vision Radio Network 98.1 FM Christian/Narrowcast KIX Country 98.9 FM Country/Narrowcast Live FM 99.9 FM Commercial Zinc Rocks Poo 100.7 FM Commercial ABC Classic FM 101.5 FM and 95.9 FM Government funded 4TO FM 102.3 FM* Commercial Hot FM 103.1 FM Commercial 4TTT 103.9 FM Community ABC Radio National 104.7 FM and 96.7 FM Government funded Triple J 105.5 FM and 97.5 FM Government funded Mix-FM 106.3 FM Commercial 4K1G 107.1 FM Indigenous ABC North Queensland 630 AM Government funded RadioTAB 891 AM Racing/Narrowcast (*) 4TO also broadcasts on 774 AM
Primary Printing Companies
Digital Business Technology http://www.digitalbusiness.com.au/ Xerox http://www.xrx.com.au/ Think Office Technology http://www.thinkoffice.com.au/ Kwik Kopy http://www.kwikkopy.com.au/
Television
See also: Regional television in AustraliaSeven Queensland and WIN Television produce half-hour local news bulletins for the area on weeknights, both produced from newsrooms in the city and broadcast from studios outside the area (in Maroochydore and Toowoomba respectively). Southern Cross Ten, as with other areas, also provides three-minute local news updates, presented from studios in Canberra.
National and international news bulletins are shown on each respective network in place of or following local news - four are produced in Brisbane, with a Queensland focus (ABC, Seven, Nine and Ten). Network Ten in Brisbane also has a North Queensland reporter based in Townsville, covering roughly from the tip of Cape York South to Mackay. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) also produces a weekly state edition of current affairs programme 7.30 on Friday evenings.
Official Name Name Other Info ABQ ABC Queensland ( Now known as ABC1 ) STQ Seven Queensland Owned and operated by Seven Network. RTQ WIN Television Nine Network affiliate TNQ Southern Cross Ten Network Ten affiliate SBS SBS Television (Now known as SBS One ) New channels broadcast by all the networks in addition to the ones listed above are available on the digital service called Freeview Australia to viewers in Townsville and the surrounding region. These channels include ABC2, ABC3, ABC News 24, SBS Two, One HD, Eleven, 7Two, 7mate, GEM HD and GO!.
Pay TV
Company Satellite/Cable Austar Satellite SelecTV Satellite Internet
Currently the only major local producer of online journalism is ABC North Queensland [5][6]. CityLife Magazine reproduces their full content online in a modern and user friendly format [7]. The Townsville Bulletin[8] publishes a small quantity of its content on the internet and WIN Television publish local news headlines online [9], there is also one specialty (Magnetic Island) news website called Magnetic Times [10]. It is run by chief operating officer Jamie Cunningham. Blogging Townsville [11] provides regular critique and commentary on local media and issues of local and national interest.
References
- ^ "Roy Morgan Research cited by Australian Press Council State of the News Print Media in Australia Report 2006". http://www.presscouncil.org.au/snpma/ch03.html. Retrieved 2007-01-12.
- ^ "Audit Bureau of Circulation, Jan-June 2006 cited by Townsville Bulletin - Advertising". Archived from the original on 2007-01-11. http://web.archive.org/web/20070111145756/http://townsvillebulletin.news.com.au/sectionindex2/0,5935,nqnadverts%5e%5eTEXT,00.html. Retrieved 2007-01-12.
- ^ the Sun Newspaper Jan 10 2007 Page 45
- ^ JCU - North Queensland Newspapers
- ^ Linda Cooper Editor's life CityLife published January 2007 p4
- ^ DUO Magazine : OUT NOW : Townsville & Thuringowa, Queensland, Australia
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