In April 1964, the
Postmaster-General's Department granted Universal Telecasters a broadcasting licence. The channel was allocated channel 0 (the 0 was pronounced as the letter O instead of "zero") on the VHF band and commenced broadcasting on 1 July 1965 as TVQ-0.
Ansett Transport Industries initially held a 49% shareholding, before acquiring the remaining shares in 1970. After
News Limited acquired a controlling stake in Ansett, it was required to sell TVQ due to restrictions on the number of television stations one organisation could own. TVQ was sold to
Ampol (67%) and
2SM (33%). In 1984 TVQ was purchased by
Qintex. On 17 September 1987, Darling Downs Telecasters, owner of
DDQ10 Toowoomba, purchases TVQ for $123 million, and announces plans to convert the station to the Channel 10 frequency. On 10 September 1988,
DDQ-10 switched frequency to DDQ-0, and TVQ changed frequency to become TVQ-10, in time for the channel's broadcast of the
1988 Summer Olympics, at the same time as its broadcasts of
World Expo 88, of which it and the entire Network Ten was the official station. On 30 November 2015, lightning struck the TVQ transmission tower, cutting its power and lighting. ==Digital multiplex==