I see Mt Cooth-tha has at least 4 broadcast towers.
Sydney only has two.
I don’t see why Brisbane needs so many of them? I guess largely a by product of each being next to the TV facilities for each of ABC, 7, 9 and 10, and they may not be able to agree on sharing and which towers stay.
Eventually someone will decide to move off Ccot-tha and downsize.
Agree that most of the general public will generally find the towers unattractive however.
Hasn’t one of the Brisbane towers been pulled down?
… many years ago we stayed at the Rome Hilton which promised “sweeping views of the city” … but our room was on the other side … they must have found out I worked in television … this was the view 
Partially. BTQ’s tower is missing the top part now. TVQ is the main DVB transmitter for Brisbane’s commercial stations with QTQ as the primary backup. ABC/SBS share their own tower.
Which is fair enough, but I wonder if these same people would complain if they couldn’t get a TV or phone signal which are transmitted from these towers?
Probably a bit more though once you take into consideration Kings Cross, Mosman, Kurrajong, Razorback and the Central Coast translators - one would imagine that at least some of these are visible from a distance.
Especially with the cutbacks the networks have been making in recent years. In particular, Ten’s Mt Coot-tha facilities would be more than surplus to current requirements!
The commercial stations got their extra land thanks to Sir Joh.
… except that they’re stuck between a rock and a hard place … they can’t make any money 'cos they can’t sell to anyone else to build apartments and the like and they have to remediate the land and turn it back into parkland which would cost them a fortune … so chances are they’ll all be staying there for many, many years to come …
Most cities had one tower per station. It was just that Sydney towers were stuck being in the middle of residential areas and so when TEN came along the option to co-site was taken up.
These days the broadcast infrastructure including tower is not owned by individual stations so that the commercial stations consolidated to one broadcast site at TVQ being the highest tower. They have the luxury of having QTQ as a separate backup site. BTQ’s tower was partially demolished.
BTQ’s tower was found to have rust on the inside - as I understand it a Reno in the 80’s installed open top (closed bottom) steel tubing… obviously that filled with water and rusted out.
It was deemed a safety hazard and work taken to remove the affected sections. I believe by helicopter via the quarry.
Three - Willoughby, Artarmon and Gore Hill.
I used to live right between the Willoughby and Artarmon towers, and have never had such awful TV signal in my life. Living there is what led me to give up on terrestrial television and go online.
Willoughby hasn’t been operational for a long time now.
Signal overload and horrendous multi path. I have seen a few houses in the “triangle” with UHF antennas aimed at either Kings Cross or even Wollongong.
I don’t think it’s been posted anywhere here?
Mirvac have made a video on how they intend to pull down the Willoughby Tower.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr2Qzv3VuL4
People in areas around Mt Dandenong in Melbourne, with the TV towers in clear view from their houses, used to report that they could only receive Channels 0 and 2. When ATV went to 10, that left them with just ABC.
The 7, 9 and 10 signals apparently would just bypass them completely. It wasn’t until local UHF translators were set up in these spots in the early 1980s that they got some improvement.
Kings Cross would have been commissioned partly to improve signals to North Sydney. One of the problems was that the towers were in wildly different directions - so where do you point your antenna when you are half way between two towers?
No, Kings Cross is more-so to service the areas around Surry Hills, Redfern, Darlinghurst, etc. & the South side of the Sydney CBD, because the tall buildings in the Sydney CBD block or significantly refract the signals from the main transmission sites.
Kings Cross does serve around Cremorne, Neutral Bay areas, but further North away from the harbour, North Head is a better site.
Around North Sydney depending where, the tall buildings in North Sydney will block Kings Cross, West of North Sydney CBD, the Sydney CBD builings will block Kings Cross, therefore you might have the odd building in North Sydney with their antenna pointing towards Kings Cross, but not many, most on the Lower North Shore West of the Pacific Highway/Warringah Fwy & North of Cremorne/Neutral Bay, who don’t use the main sites, point towards the North Head (Manly) translator site, including the blocks of units over the road from & around the TXA Artarmon site.
I’ve seen houses in the triangle with three antennas on one mast. One for each of the towers with the cable diplexed into one cable and also possibly with an attenuator to lower the signal level.
The area with the biggest reception problems from Mt Coot-tha was the NW suburb of The Gap where the top of the Channel 9 tower was behind the mountain and reception was very poor. At the same time the TVQ and ABQ towers were close enough to cast shadows 
There are 4 TV plus several shorter community radio towers plus another full size general purpose broadcast tower nearby.
Nine’s bathrooms are visible from neighbouring buildings. Employees can be seen pissing from across the road.
