Jack Gleeson

Life and career Gleeson commenced his career working as a technician before buying radio station 4AY in the 1950s. Telecasters North Queensland then purchased Cairns station FNQ-10 with both stations sharing a programming schedule and sharing the name NQTV.

Despite promising negotiations with Kerry Packer which saw QTV begin to promote Nine's programs on air, Gleeson ultimately lost out when Packer terminated an agreement with Telecasters North Queensland on 24 December 1990, just days before aggregation commenced.

QTV was forced to enter a quick supply agreement to secure a Network Ten affiliation instead. Although disappointed by Nine's decision to pull out of the deal they had made with QTV, Gleeson described the arrangement with Network Ten as "satisfactory" citing the network's improved ratings nationally which he believed would enhance QTV's future.

He was conferred with an honorary doctorate from the Australian Catholic University in 2005.

Gleeson was named as a Queensland Great in 2015.

In 2006, he was awarded a papal knighthood in the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope Benedict XVI.