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 Times (based in Brisbane) does a North Queensland edition, which is printed and distributed from Townsville (throughout Northern Queensland).
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[edit] Print Media
The Townsville Bulletin is the dominant newspaper in North Queensland whose focus is on Townsville/Thuringowa 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 $1.10 cover price on weekdays, increasing to $1.70 for the weekend edition, it 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 52,713 homes in the urban and rural suburbs of Townsville and Thuringowa[3], it is published by News Limited and printed with the Townsville Bulletin's printer. It was Previously called the Twin cities advertiser before being 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 some 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 Witsundays) 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 Bullsheet is the student community newspaper at James Cook University, it is published by the JCU Student Association. Outlook is the academic community newspaper at James Cook University and it is published by the University.
[edit] Radio
4TO FM 102.3 (commercial, retransmitted on 774 AM)
Sea FM 100.7 (commercial)
Mix FM 106.3 (commercial)
Hot FM 103.1 (commercial)
ABC Townsville 630 AM
Classic FM 101.5
Radio National 104.7 FM
JJJ 105.5 FM
4TCB 99.9 FM (community)
4TTT 103.9 FM (community)
4K1G 107.1 FM (Indigenous)
891 AM (narrowcast)
98.9 FM (narrowcast)
99.9 Live FM (community)
[edit] Television
Seven Queensland and WIN Television broadcast half hour local news bulletins on weeknights. Channel 10 produces five minute local news bulletins. National and International news bulletins are broadcast in North Queensland on every TV Channel, most are produced in Brisbane studios and with a Queensland focus.
02: Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Queensland (ABC TV)
07: Seven Queensland (Channel Seven, Seven Network)
09: WIN Television (Nine Network)
10: Southern Cross Ten (Network Ten)
28: SBS TV (Special Broadcasting Service)
[edit] Pay TV
Austar Digital (via satellite) and SelecTV are available.
[edit] 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].
[edit] References
- ^ Roy Morgan Research cited by Australian Press Council State of the News Print Media in Australia Report 2006. Retrieved on 2007-01-12.
- ^ Audit Bureau of Circulation, Jan-June 2006 cited by Townsville Bulletin - Advertising. Retrieved on 2007-01-12.
- ^ the Sun Newspaper Jan 10 2007 Page 45
- ^ http://www.library.jcu.edu.au/Specials/Nqnewspapers/data.shtml
- ^ Linda Cooper Editor's life CityLife published January 2007 p4
