One prominent screw-up I can remember is when in August 2011, QTQ claimed that reporters Melissa Mallet and Cameron Price were in a helicopter “near Beerwah” when in reality they were circling Mount Coot-tha, and in Price’s case, on the helipad.
Mallet and Price, as well as a news producer, were sacked in the wake of the affair while news director Lee Anderson quit in protest despite being on leave at the time.
Amazingly, only a matter of years later Nine News in Brisbane would return to the top of the metro ratings.