Back in the day: former-ABC breakfast host Spencer Howson appears on Briz 31's Late Nite Show. Now called Queensland Online, a website that was softly launched in December 2016, Mr Poole-Warren said the new format means they will have a much broader audience to play with. "It's now video on demand so you can go in whenever you want, watch whatever you want, at your leisure," he said. "And it also means that we actually extend our reach to the whole of Queensland." While the transition is full of possibilities, the decision to move to online only was not made by the station.

In 2014, then-communications minister Malcolm Turnbull announced the government would strip community television stations of their access to the television broadcasting by the end of 2015. Australia's five community broadcasters were then given an extra year of transmission, and with more lobbying from the stations transmission was then extended again until June 2017. However Mr Poole-Warren, who took on the role of part-time general manager in the second half of 2016, said Briz 31 decided to cease transmission early because of the costs of running TV broadcast and online at the same time. "We decided only to take it up until the end of February, just because we had the online platform now available, and we decided it was a good point to move across and take it from there," he said. The station has undergone a number of changes throughout the years: it started out as Briz 31 in 1994 before changing to 31 Digital about four years ago, but its biggest change was this year with its digital transformation to Queensland Online.

However content-wise viewers can expect plenty of old favourites including the popular hunting and fishing shows, and plenty of it will be free. "We've got a lot of fishing, hunting, car shows, that sort of thing, they seem to be popular," he said. "We've got some Tamara Tonite which was a huge cult thing back in the 90s, we still own all of that content." Live streaming of local sports events may have to be viewed on a subscription basis, Mr Poole-Warren said, and some older programs and movies may be offered via pay-per-view, but much of their content will be free. "We are obliged to keep a certain amount of content free," he said.

While many of these details are still being worked out, Mr Poole-Warren said what won't change is their focus on community-driven content. "We still have the same principle where if you're a person with a production idea we'll look to support you, but what we want in return is you to bring your community of interest with you."