Because why would they? TNQ was a part-owner in the Ten Network in the early 1990s, and obviously both TNQ and STQ would have had contracts in place with their respective affiliations. And TNQ had already been unsettled by the Nine Network dumping them unceremoniously on the eve of aggregation. And I can’t imagine STQ wanting to relinquish a Seven affiliation for the 3rd ranked Ten just to give the guys at Telecasters North Queensland some uniformity which they were doing quite well without. And then Seven ended up buying STQ anyway.
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