60 Years of QLD TV

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Thursday, February 29, 2024

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 2: Night 3: Added a Day to Your Year.

Thirty days hath September, April, June and November.
All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February alone,
And that has twenty-eight days clear and twenty-nine in each leap year.

Well, happy February 29...


Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Monday, February 26, 2024

Friday, February 23, 2024

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 1: Night 4: No Way Out of Western Australia

 Whaddya mean there's no eight man tag tonight...
Although, it's 24hrs until WWE Elimination Chamber (also known as WWE No Escape for the German market) packs Optus Stadium with less people than a Taylor Swift concert...

Thursday, February 22, 2024

Monday, February 19, 2024

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 1: Night 1: The Waiting Game.

This post is dedicated to Queensland broadcasting legend, former reporter for the ABC's This Day Tonight, one of the founding members of the Tripod TV collective that produced for Nine Brisbane, Today Tonight between Feburary 1979 and June 1985 (a program he'd ultimately host after the departure of founding compare Glenn Taylor to Seven to start State Affair and the brief run of Andrew Carroll hosting TT post-Taylor departure), a former executive producer for 10's Good Morning Australia, presenter for Business Week, and founding presenter for Seven's TVAM (alongside Kay McGrath), John Barton: who passed away on Saturday (17/2/2024) at the age of 73.

We send our condolences to John's family (including his sons: Sam, Fraser and Hugh, who announced their father's passing this morning on the RATS Facebook page).

Content Survey Live in Feburary…
Welcome to Season Mode.

Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Friday, December 1, 2023

Lexicon News The Third: Night Five: Tram and Trampier

 A reminder: The best solution to the Olympics problem is layed out in the Big Q, not with our politicians.

Thursday, November 30, 2023

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Lexicon News The Third: Night Three: Orca and Orchideous

Ancient journo proverb (especially if you watched 7's 4pm news in QLD this arvo): don't screw up a story intro live on air, especially this close to Christmas.


Tuesday, November 28, 2023

Lexicon News The Third: Night Two: Pitch and Pithy

 "We surveyed 100 people about the new set... and we got nothing?"


Welcome to the second night of the third edition of Lexicon News. Last night, Seven hit it out of the ballpark at 6, yet faltered at 6:30 in SEQ. Tonight is set to be interesting indeed.

Let's again go over the ground rules for Lexicon News:

The Ground Rules:

The ground rules, for the Lexicon News event, are taken from a promo, in 1987: that compared Seven's second attempt at 1hr news in Brisbane, with Nine's 1/2hr product that became dominant at the exact same time.
As it described:
"If you are watching a half-hour news, take out the weather, sport, opening music, hello's and goodbyes and the commercials, and you could only get about 12 minutes of real news each night."

Thus the ground rules for the Lexicon News challenge are for five nights:
-Time the length of the bulletin, from the moment the first story intro begins at 6, to the time the throw to sport begins, on both bulletins.
-Write down every story on the 1hr version, and compare with the half hour version to see how much content is removed.
-Subtract the BNE timing from the regional timing to get the amount of time lost to regional QLD viewers each night by simply trimming the BTQ news bulletin.
-Ultimately: add up all the figures, and come up with a final set of numbers at the end of the week.

In additionwe will be tracking how many coverups of live cross timings (usually seen as giant "LIVE" graphics superimposed) are made by Seven on the 10 minute edit during this period.

Tonight's tale...
What aired in regional QLD, will be bolded and in red.

We open tonights bulletin up with storms in SEQ (a weather cross was excised from the regional QLD cut), more from a notable defamation trial, then a break-in at Beerwah, maternity issues in QLD, the search continuing for a missing person off the Sunshine Coast, the ongoing saline solution recall, upcoming national disposable vape ban (if you do not know what a vape is, ask your kids), refugee detention issues, a inquiry into the recent Optus mass outage, Gaza hostage families visiting Australia, a update on the Toondah Harbour development, Schoolies car with a branch through it on K'gari (a story that at this point is four days old, with the incident occurring on Saturday, and reported locally in the Wide Bay area on Monday night), the redirected P&O cruise finally makes landfall, Inland freight route funding stoush heads to Canberra tomorrow, Mark Richardson thanking Lifeflight team that did a emergency evac from Bali a few months back, SEQ rental costs and the suburbs where it's cheaper to buy than rent that somehow crashed into a story about a freeway fire, Adrian Beck's new program to tackle dyslexia in our youth, a new mobile wildlife hospital, figures about dog attacks on postal workers, Shane Warne's family's new cause: more heart checks for Australians, royal secrets book due for a Aussie release and finally, a kid stealing a forklift in Michigan. 

The timing in Brisbane added up tonight to 27mins 33secs.
The regional cut added up to 9mins 18secs.
Seven lexiconed out of their news tonight for regional Queenslanders: 18mins 15secs.
The amount of lexiconed content this week so far by Seven: 36mins 24secs

Once again, a relatively big news story relevant to regional Queensland (inland freight route proposal) is being left on the cutting room floor at Lexicon Central.

Tomorrow night, is the halfway point of this week's campaign, and a update on last night's bulletin's plug for a Heartkids fundraiser: their total is now over $1000 raised.

And, finally another reminder: OneQueensland's "Big Q" is being launched wider: the link to the survey is available here.

A reminder, if you want to support us here at Kuttsywood's Couch, please visit our Patreon page: and become a paid supporter, and a reminder: to see you tomorrow night... but first, a teaser for Boxing Day.

Saturday, September 23, 2023

The 16th annual Kuttsywood's Couch guide to DST delays

Welcome to the 2023/24 DST Guide: a tradition we’ve held dear since 2008: and will continue to hold dear until our politicians get the message that any politician who still believes that the 1992 QLD DST referendum results should still be utilized as a basis for mid-21(st) century political policy in Queensland is not a good politician: especially as we head toward a political generation that will either not have been born or were very young when the 1992 referendum happened who will fight a hell of a lot harder to eliminate the DST borderline than previous generations.

This year, we’ve been preparing this guide since prior to Nine’s upfronts on September 6, and have achieved a significant first: with this guide being published a week early on our Patreon platform: Kuttsywood’s Couch One. In addition, our DST Update service from 2011-2014 over at our former Tumblr presence, will be revived as part of our weekly Veritas on KW: On Sunday product from October 2 (with a two week break over Christmas/New Year).

To support us: visit our Patreon and become a patron.

In addition: we have a update concerning Content Survey Live in 2024.

“Due to reasons within our control, Content Survey Live will not be seen in August 2024. More details are available, on Boxing Day.”

Friday, August 25, 2023

Friday, August 18, 2023

Content Survey Live 2023: The Call of The Tribes: Preliminary Final Adelaide V Melbourne: Night 3 (Melbourne)

The Lionesses are just 90 minutes away from finally bringing football home.
Will tonight's survey give us a great look at the washup from the Matildas semi final loss?



Monday, June 19, 2023

Content Survey Live 2023-The Call of The Tribe: Night Zero.

 The countdown begins to the fourth edition of Content Survey Live: one that celebrates ten years of counting content. Welcome to Night Zero of Content Survey Live: The Call of The Tribe.

Content Survey Live: The Call of The Tribe, is brought to you by Veritas on KW: now on both Twitter and Mastodon and Kuttsywood's Couch One on Patreon, home to Veritas on KW: on Sunday.

We open up Night Zero, of 2023’s Content Survey Live with some words, from a Philadelphia broadcasting legend, Jim Gardner who on his final night with Philly’s Action News (that city’s television news leader, mind you) in late 2022 after a 46yr run, had this to say about the state of the US press: first harkening back to Thomas Jefferson and added his own twist at the end which is very apt to mention as we should: concerning 10’s news situation in Australia.

“Permit me a final word if you would. The American free press has been under attack not by forces from other countries, but from elements embedded in our own society and even our own government. It worries me deeply and it feeds into and exploits people’s lack of understanding of what the founders intended the kind of democracy that the US and only a handful of other nations aspire to.

Thomas Jefferson said to John Jay, in 1786: “Our liberty, cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press, nor that be limited without danger of losing it.” Jefferson would concur, “No we are not the enemy of the people, serving the people”, you the people of the Tri-State area (a reference to the Greater Philadelphia region, which spills over three (or four depending on who you hear from) US states), with responsible and unbiased journalism: this is our mission, now and in the future. And, if we falter: you damn well let us know.”
Jim Gardner, farewelling WPVI 6 Action News, Wednesday December 21, 2022, video is from WPVI's official YouTube channel.

That very same night on the opposite side of the International Date Line, a Thursday night, 15,397 km away: Paramount-owned Network 10, drew their lowest non-holiday news figures since the introduction of the peoplemeter in the Brisbane market: with just over 31,000 viewers between 5-6pm.

And the fact that 10’s news in Brisbane collapsed during the 2022-23 summer, reiterates the Gardner line: “If we falter: you damn well let us know.”

And this is why Content Survey Live is back again in 2023.

But not in the format as you have known it since 2020.

This year’s format is one based on competition: a harkening back to the Great Local News Study of 2019: where instead of 1 or 2 weeks of survey (where markets were surveyed once a week), we are going to run over a month format, of which you’ll see only two markets surveyed twice a week. This means, one city will ultimately face the greatest scrutiny in Content Survey Live’s history, just to make it to the final.

The reason this move is happening, is due to the unreliability of our original seeding model where historic ratings figures decided what order the surveys were run (first seen last year (four out of ten nights in our seeding period lacked results), but is significantly more pronounced so far this year, where 10’s news is cropping up in the national top 20 as little as two nights every week, as well as a VoZ-led future, likely wiping out public access to local overnight ratings entirely), along with another significant change: Adelaide and Melbourne reverting to standalone products earlier this year (instead of the hybrid format that was retained in Sydney/Brisbane, and is heading to ratings rock bottom in Brisbane.)

How a typical week this year for Content Survey Live will work, will be as follows:
-Monday: both markets are surveyed, one will be out on Monday night, one will be out on Tuesday Who will be given the “live” survey on Monday will be decided by a coin toss.
-Thursday: Whoever performed worse on Monday will get to have their second survey, will be “live”.
-Friday: Whoever performed best on Monday, will get to have their second survey, will be “live”.

When we mean “live”, we mean that it will be out over at Kuttsywood’s Couch the same night it was collated (a first for Content Survey Live): as we are dropping a key requirement: ratings data.

The Ground Rules and Rankings:

Our focus, in Content Survey Live will be monitoring Ten’s five capital city news services (a benefit of technological change, now allowing us to watch interstate bulletins on delay), using the same criteria we used in the “Great Local News Study” from Kuttsy's Pitch XI in August, 2019.

-Locally sourced stories: that is stories reported by local journos. Really big local market stories with national impacts, also fit here. Voiced over local stories are counted separately.

-Live crosses: stuff that is used to embellish a story.

-Weather is not counted.

-Sport is not counted if it’s done by obviously freelance journos, or voiced over pieces: you gotta have dedicated reporters there, with their mug on air reporting a sports story for it to count.

-And finally: Ten Brisbane will have it’s Gold Coast content tracked again during it’s nights: something that has become a tradition in itself.

Historically, we have decided seeding for Content Survey Live in order of each market's ratings position within the network. However, this year: we have made a significant shift, and can now unveil the schedule for this year's month long extravaganza.

The draw for the “Call of The Tribe” is as follows: basically, a simplified version of the historical "final five" systems used by both the AFL and NSWRL prior to expansion of their finals formats to final eight.

-Perth (winner of Content Survey Live three times straight, and undisputed Content Survey Live champion for over 1000 days) will get a express pass to the final week.

-The first week, will consist of comparisons of 2nd vs 5th in last year’s Content Survey Live: Brisbane, and newly de-hybrided Melbourne.

-The second week, will consist of 3rd vs 4th in last year’s Content Survey Live: Sydney and newly de-hybrided Adelaide.

-The third week, will consist of the winners of week one and week two facing off.

-And, finally: the fourth week will consist of the winners of week three, facing off against the undefeated title holder: Perth.

Even More Content Survey Live?

In addition, every week, there will be additional weekly wraps for Content Survey Live which will be available to our Kuttsywood’s Couch One Patreon subscribers exclusively, entitled “The Tribal Cry”. What is the story of the week, and why: that is what you get, when you look at “The Tribal Cry”.

A look back to Boxing Day.
“Will it be nine posts, or seventeen?”

Content Survey Live’s tribal battle, will consist of seventeen pieces here (The one you are reading now, plus four posts a week between July 31 and August 25) and four Patreon Tribal Cry exclusives.

That adds up to twenty one posts.

In comparison to last year: that is a increase of six posts on this site (2022’s Content Survey Live only ran 11 posts (ten days over two weeks and Night Zero), effectively spreading a three week event over four weeks, while also giving us a breather to sort out Patreon content (which is important, as I will be pushing out S2 ratings wraps for Newcastle and the Gold Coast for Patreon subscribers during Content Survey Live) with a more significant move happening: that I hope will bring new eyes to the product: the shift of Veritas on KW: on Sunday (launched in early April as a fortnightly publication) to weekly publication from August 27 (in time for the kickoff of Australian upfront season).

So, are you ready to survey some content?

Join us, on July 30, on social media, for the coin toss concerning the first battle of “The Call of The Tribes”, deciding who will be surveyed first in the first week of Content Survey Live.

Because, this year: Content Survey Live: is not just called “The Call of The Tribe” for marketing purposes: this year, Content Survey Live is more than a game: one where your fortunes for ultimate glory hinge on results at every turn. A market’s strong first week, could well turn into a body blow as time goes by.

After all: It's more than a game.


(Chris Doheny's iconic More Than A Game (used to open the AFL Footy Show): from MartinL on Youtube)

See you on July 30.

A reminder, if you want to support Kuttsywood's Couch: you can sign on with Kuttsywood's Couch One on Patreon. All we ask, is for $2.50AUD per month, and you'll get access to our Patreon exclusive radio ratings survey wraps and Veritas on KW: on Sunday TV/radio wraps (set to move to weekly on August 27). In addition: any new Patreon supporters signing up during the Content Survey Live period of July 31-August 25, will get namedropped onto the final Content Survey Live piece published each week (the Friday piece) as one of our co-contributors.

Monday, April 3, 2023

#Project_KC24: The Arrival of Kuttsywood's Couch One.

 We'd love to welcome you all, on the first step toward, our dynamic future.

As we speak, Kuttsywood's Couch, is proud to launch our brand new product, that will undoubtedly change the way you see this site, and will also help fund our roadmap to the future.

Welcome, to the dawn of Kuttsywood's Couch One, our new Patreon subscription service.


Monday, December 26, 2022

kwNetworkSelect: 2023

 In 2023, Content Survey Live… goes tribal.
Are you ready… to celebrate ten years of counting content?



Welcome to the second annual KWNetwork Select, a Boxing Day tradition: akin to bargain sales, test cricket at the MCG and the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.

Saturday, October 29, 2022

2028: Queensland's "Year of Flight".

Picture this moment.

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum: Sunday July 30, 2028. A hot summer evening in the “City of Angels”. This night, is the closing ceremony of the 2028 Olympics, and the handover of the Olympic Flag to the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, is followed by the raising of the Australian flag, as a massed marching band plays Advance Australia Fair. After the flag is raised, the crowd (nearly 80,000 strong inside the LA Coliseum) simply looks skyward.

Queenslanders watching at home (on a late Monday afternoon: July 31, 2028) is hoping their gamble pays off: after all, they remember the kangaroos Sydney sent to Atlanta in 1996, Vanessa Amarosi getting rained on at the 2002 Commonwealth Games closer in Manchester (and her redemption in Birmingham in 2022… that got overshadowed by the passing of Olivia Newton-John), and even our effort at Hampden Park in 2014 to sell the world on the Gold Coast’s Commonwealth Games four years later.

For Queensland, this is more than a handover. It’s the beginning of the most important period for tourism promotion in our state’s history: one that had it’s seeds sown as the world recovered from a pandemic.

2028, has already been a year with our eyes on the sky in the Sunshine State.

The handover in LA… is just icing on the cake.

Saturday, October 1, 2022

Fifteen for 15: Extraordinary in Every Way.

Well, we’ve made it.

279 days after we said we had a challenge to face (in the inaugural KWnetwork Select on Boxing Day last year), we have done so.

But, we have a long way to go with this.

As we stated, in the DST Guide last week: today we will unveil the first five of fifteen initiatives we call, “Fifteen for 15” that will guide us in a year which is a significant anniversary for this site, and for the KW Network as a whole.

The next five of these initiatives will be revealed exclusively over social media, between October 1 and Boxing Day, while the final five initiatives will be revealed back here at Kuttsywood’s Couch, in the Boxing Day KWNetwork Select.

Those final five initiatives revealed on Boxing Day include some very significant ideas I want to work toward in the long haul.

Let us begin now, with initiative number 1.

Sunday, September 25, 2022

The 15th annual Kuttsywood's Couch guide to DST delays

 Welcome, to the fifteenth anniversary of a concept, that has served as a reminder for almost a score, about the delays you will get in Queensland once the clocks in the southern states flip into daylight saving mode on October 2.


This is your DST Guide for 2022/23.


Saturday, September 3, 2022

Content Survey Live 2022: Night Ten: Ten Out Of Ten For Mediocrity.


 Welcome to the tenth and final night, of the ten best nights of 2022 in our books: the third edition of Content Survey Live. This year's changes are significant, but the ground rules always stay the same here.

The Ground Rules:

Our focus, in Content Survey Live traditionally has been monitoring Ten’s five capital city news services (a benefit of technological change, now allowing us to watch interstate bulletins on delay), in order of their ratings position within the network (with each market covered once) over a week, using the same criteria we used in the “Great Local News Study” from Kuttsy's Pitch XI in August, 2019.

-Locally sourced stories: that is stories reported by local journos. Really big local market stories with national impacts, also fit here. Voiced over local stories are counted separately.
-Live crosses: stuff that is used to embellish a story.
-Weather is not counted.
-Sport is not counted if it’s done by obviously freelance journos, or voiced over pieces: you gotta have dedicated reporters there, with their mug on air reporting a sports story for it to count.
-And finally: Ten Brisbane will have it’s Gold Coast content tracked again during it’s nights: something that has become a tradition in itself.

However in 2022, we have expanded to a two week format, with a entirely new way to rank bulletins
The first week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with 2021 figures.
The second week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with pre-pandemic and pre-centralization figures sourced from 2019.

A reminder now of this week's seedings:
Monday (29/8) Sydney.
Tuesday (30/8) Perth.
Wednesday (31/8) Melbourne.
Thursday (1/9) Brisbane.
Friday (2/9) Adelaide.


Now, let's begin today's final heaping bowl of broadcast news mediocrity.

And, a reminder: to purchase merchandise related to Content Survey Live 2022, head on over to our shop over at Redbubble.


Friday, September 2, 2022

Content Survey Live 2022: Night Nine: Spring Fever, With A Side of Mediocrity


 Welcome to the ninth night, of the ten best nights of 2022 in our books: the third edition of Content Survey Live. This year's changes are significant, but the ground rules always stay the same here.

The Ground Rules:

Our focus, in Content Survey Live traditionally has been monitoring Ten’s five capital city news services (a benefit of technological change, now allowing us to watch interstate bulletins on delay), in order of their ratings position within the network (with each market covered once) over a week, using the same criteria we used in the “Great Local News Study” from Kuttsy's Pitch XI in August, 2019.

-Locally sourced stories: that is stories reported by local journos. Really big local market stories with national impacts, also fit here. Voiced over local stories are counted separately.
-Live crosses: stuff that is used to embellish a story.
-Weather is not counted.
-Sport is not counted if it’s done by obviously freelance journos, or voiced over pieces: you gotta have dedicated reporters there, with their mug on air reporting a sports story for it to count.
-And finally: Ten Brisbane will have it’s Gold Coast content tracked again during it’s nights: something that has become a tradition in itself.

However in 2022, we have expanded to a two week format, with a entirely new way to rank bulletins
The first week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with 2021 figures.
The second week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with pre-pandemic and pre-centralization figures sourced from 2019.

A reminder now of this week's seedings:
Monday (29/8) Sydney.
Tuesday (30/8) Perth.
Wednesday (31/8) Melbourne.
Thursday (1/9) Brisbane.
Friday (2/9) Adelaide.


Now, let's begin today's heaping bowl of broadcast news mediocrity.

And, a reminder: to purchase merchandise related to Content Survey Live 2022, head on over to our shop over at Redbubble.


Thursday, September 1, 2022

Content Survey Live 2022: Night Eight: Another Load Of Mediocrity Cliches.


 Welcome to the eighth night, of the ten best nights of 2022 in our books: the third edition of Content Survey Live. This year's changes are significant, but the ground rules always stay the same here.

The Ground Rules:

Our focus, in Content Survey Live traditionally has been monitoring Ten’s five capital city news services (a benefit of technological change, now allowing us to watch interstate bulletins on delay), in order of their ratings position within the network (with each market covered once) over a week, using the same criteria we used in the “Great Local News Study” from Kuttsy's Pitch XI in August, 2019.

-Locally sourced stories: that is stories reported by local journos. Really big local market stories with national impacts, also fit here. Voiced over local stories are counted separately.
-Live crosses: stuff that is used to embellish a story.
-Weather is not counted.
-Sport is not counted if it’s done by obviously freelance journos, or voiced over pieces: you gotta have dedicated reporters there, with their mug on air reporting a sports story for it to count.
-And finally: Ten Brisbane will have it’s Gold Coast content tracked again during it’s nights: something that has become a tradition in itself.

However in 2022, we have expanded to a two week format, with a entirely new way to rank bulletins
The first week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with 2021 figures.
The second week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with pre-pandemic and pre-centralization figures sourced from 2019.

A reminder now of this week's seedings:
Monday (29/8) Sydney.
Tuesday (30/8) Perth.
Wednesday (31/8) Melbourne.
Thursday (1/9) Brisbane.
Friday (2/9) Adelaide.


Now, let's begin today's heaping bowl of broadcast news mediocrity.

And, a reminder: to purchase merchandise related to Content Survey Live 2022, head on over to our shop over at Redbubble.

Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Content Survey Live 2022: Night Seven: Anything Other Than Mediocrity Is Too Civilized.


 Welcome to the seventh night, of the ten best nights of 2022 in our books: the third edition of Content Survey Live. This year's changes are significant, but the ground rules always stay the same here.

The Ground Rules:

Our focus, in Content Survey Live traditionally has been monitoring Ten’s five capital city news services (a benefit of technological change, now allowing us to watch interstate bulletins on delay), in order of their ratings position within the network (with each market covered once) over a week, using the same criteria we used in the “Great Local News Study” from Kuttsy's Pitch XI in August, 2019.

-Locally sourced stories: that is stories reported by local journos. Really big local market stories with national impacts, also fit here. Voiced over local stories are counted separately.
-Live crosses: stuff that is used to embellish a story.
-Weather is not counted.
-Sport is not counted if it’s done by obviously freelance journos, or voiced over pieces: you gotta have dedicated reporters there, with their mug on air reporting a sports story for it to count.
-And finally: Ten Brisbane will have it’s Gold Coast content tracked again during it’s nights: something that has become a tradition in itself.

However in 2022, we have expanded to a two week format, with a entirely new way to rank bulletins
The first week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with 2021 figures.
The second week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with pre-pandemic and pre-centralization figures sourced from 2019.

A reminder now of this week's seedings:
Monday (29/8) Sydney.
Tuesday (30/8) Perth.
Wednesday (31/8) Melbourne.
Thursday (1/9) Brisbane.
Friday (2/9) Adelaide.


Now, let's begin today's heaping bowl of broadcast news mediocrity.

And, a reminder: to purchase merchandise related to Content Survey Live 2022, head on over to our shop over at Redbubble.

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Content Survey Live 2022: Night Six: Come On Up To Mediocrity (Part Two)


 Welcome to the sixth night, of the ten best nights of 2022 in our books: the third edition of Content Survey Live. This year's changes are significant, but the ground rules always stay the same here.

The Ground Rules:

Our focus, in Content Survey Live traditionally has been monitoring Ten’s five capital city news services (a benefit of technological change, now allowing us to watch interstate bulletins on delay), in order of their ratings position within the network (with each market covered once) over a week, using the same criteria we used in the “Great Local News Study” from Kuttsy's Pitch XI in August, 2019.

-Locally sourced stories: that is stories reported by local journos. Really big local market stories with national impacts, also fit here. Voiced over local stories are counted separately.
-Live crosses: stuff that is used to embellish a story.
-Weather is not counted.
-Sport is not counted if it’s done by obviously freelance journos, or voiced over pieces: you gotta have dedicated reporters there, with their mug on air reporting a sports story for it to count.
-And finally: Ten Brisbane will have it’s Gold Coast content tracked again during it’s nights: something that has become a tradition in itself.

However in 2022, we have expanded to a two week format, with a entirely new way to rank bulletins
The first week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with 2021 figures.
The second week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with pre-pandemic and pre-centralization figures sourced from 2019.

A reminder now of this week's seedings:
Monday (29/8) Sydney.
Tuesday (30/8) Perth.
Wednesday (31/8) Melbourne.
Thursday (1/9) Brisbane.
Friday (2/9) Adelaide.


Now, let's begin today's heaping bowl of broadcast news mediocrity.

And, a reminder: to purchase merchandise related to Content Survey Live 2022, head on over to our shop over at Redbubble.

Saturday, August 27, 2022

Content Survey Live 2022: Night Five: Come On Up To Mediocrity (Part One)

 

Welcome to the fifth night, of the ten best nights of 2022 in our books: the third edition of Content Survey Live. This year's changes are significant, but the ground rules always stay the same here.

The Ground Rules:

Our focus, in Content Survey Live traditionally has been monitoring Ten’s five capital city news services (a benefit of technological change, now allowing us to watch interstate bulletins on delay), in order of their ratings position within the network (with each market covered once) over a week, using the same criteria we used in the “Great Local News Study” from Kuttsy's Pitch XI in August, 2019.

-Locally sourced stories: that is stories reported by local journos. Really big local market stories with national impacts, also fit here. Voiced over local stories are counted separately.
-Live crosses: stuff that is used to embellish a story.
-Weather is not counted.
-Sport is not counted if it’s done by obviously freelance journos, or voiced over pieces: you gotta have dedicated reporters there, with their mug on air reporting a sports story for it to count.
-And finally: Ten Brisbane will have it’s Gold Coast content tracked again during it’s nights: something that has become a tradition in itself.

However in 2022, we have expanded to a two week format, with a entirely new way to rank bulletins
The first week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with 2021 figures.
The second week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with pre-pandemic and pre-centralization figures sourced from 2019.

A reminder now of this week's seedings:
Monday (22/8) Adelaide.
Tuesday (23/8) Brisbane.
Wednesday (24/8) Perth (Kuttsywood's Couch's 150th post).
Thursday (25/8) Melbourne.
Friday (26/8) Sydney.


Now, let's begin today's heaping bowl of broadcast news mediocrity.

And, a reminder: to purchase merchandise related to Content Survey Live 2022, head on over to our 
shop over at Redbubble.

Friday, August 26, 2022

Content Survey Live 2022: Night Four: Mediocrity, My Old Friend.

 

Welcome to the fourth night, of the ten best nights of 2022 in our books: the third edition of Content Survey Live. This year's changes are significant, but the ground rules always stay the same here.

The Ground Rules:

Our focus, in Content Survey Live traditionally has been monitoring Ten’s five capital city news services (a benefit of technological change, now allowing us to watch interstate bulletins on delay), in order of their ratings position within the network (with each market covered once) over a week, using the same criteria we used in the “Great Local News Study” from Kuttsy's Pitch XI in August, 2019.

-Locally sourced stories: that is stories reported by local journos. Really big local market stories with national impacts, also fit here. Voiced over local stories are counted separately.
-Live crosses: stuff that is used to embellish a story.
-Weather is not counted.
-Sport is not counted if it’s done by obviously freelance journos, or voiced over pieces: you gotta have dedicated reporters there, with their mug on air reporting a sports story for it to count.
-And finally: Ten Brisbane will have it’s Gold Coast content tracked again during it’s nights: something that has become a tradition in itself.

However in 2022, we have expanded to a two week format, with a entirely new way to rank bulletins
The first week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with 2021 figures.
The second week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with pre-pandemic and pre-centralization figures sourced from 2019.

A reminder now of this week's seedings:
Monday (22/8) Adelaide.
Tuesday (23/8) Brisbane.
Wednesday (24/8) Perth (which marked this site's 150th post).
Thursday (25/8) Melbourne.
Friday (26/8) Sydney.


Now, let's begin today's heaping bowl of broadcast news mediocrity.

And, a reminder: to purchase merchandise related to Content Survey Live 2022, head on over to our shop over at Redbubble.

Thursday, August 25, 2022

Content Survey Live 2022: Night Three: A Mediocre Way To Mark 150 Posts.


 Welcome to the third night, of the ten best nights of 2022 in our books: the third edition of Content Survey Live. This year's changes are significant, but the ground rules always stay the same here.

The Ground Rules:

Our focus, in Content Survey Live traditionally has been monitoring Ten’s five capital city news services (a benefit of technological change, now allowing us to watch interstate bulletins on delay), in order of their ratings position within the network (with each market covered once) over a week, using the same criteria we used in the “Great Local News Study” from Kuttsy's Pitch XI in August, 2019.

-Locally sourced stories: that is stories reported by local journos. Really big local market stories with national impacts, also fit here. Voiced over local stories are counted separately.
-Live crosses: stuff that is used to embellish a story.
-Weather is not counted.
-Sport is not counted if it’s done by obviously freelance journos, or voiced over pieces: you gotta have dedicated reporters there, with their mug on air reporting a sports story for it to count.
-And finally: Ten Brisbane will have it’s Gold Coast content tracked again during it’s nights: something that has become a tradition in itself.

However in 2022, we have expanded to a two week format, with a entirely new way to rank bulletins
The first week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with 2021 figures.
The second week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with pre-pandemic and pre-centralization figures sourced from 2019.

A reminder now of this week's seedings:
Monday (22/8) Adelaide.
Tuesday (23/8) Brisbane.
Wednesday (24/8) Perth (which will also mark a significant milestone for Kuttsywood's Couch).
Thursday (25/8) Melbourne.
Friday (26/8) Sydney.


Now, let's begin today's heaping bowl of broadcast news mediocrity.

And, a reminder: to purchase merchandise related to Content Survey Live 2022, head on over to our shop over at Redbubble.

Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Content Survey Live 2022: Night Two: Mediocrity, Brisbane Style.

 

Welcome to the second night, of the ten best nights of 2022 in our books: the third edition of Content Survey Live. This year's changes are significant, but the ground rules always stay the same here.

The Ground Rules:

Our focus, in Content Survey Live traditionally has been monitoring Ten’s five capital city news services (a benefit of technological change, now allowing us to watch interstate bulletins on delay), in order of their ratings position within the network (with each market covered once) over a week, using the same criteria we used in the “Great Local News Study” from Kuttsy's Pitch XI in August, 2019.

-Locally sourced stories: that is stories reported by local journos. Really big local market stories with national impacts, also fit here. Voiced over local stories are counted separately.
-Live crosses: stuff that is used to embellish a story.
-Weather is not counted.
-Sport is not counted if it’s done by obviously freelance journos, or voiced over pieces: you gotta have dedicated reporters there, with their mug on air reporting a sports story for it to count.
-And finally: Ten Brisbane will have it’s Gold Coast content tracked again during it’s nights: something that has become a tradition in itself.

However in 2022, we have expanded to a two week format, with a entirely new way to rank bulletins
The first week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with 2021 figures.
The second week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with pre-pandemic and pre-centralization figures sourced from 2019.

A reminder now of this week's seedings:
Monday (22/8) Adelaide.
Tuesday (23/8) Brisbane.
Wednesday (24/8) Perth (which will also mark a significant milestone for Kuttsywood's Couch).
Thursday (25/8) Melbourne.
Friday (26/8) Sydney.


Now, let's begin today's heaping bowl of broadcast news mediocrity.

And, a reminder: to purchase merchandise related to Content Survey Live 2022, head on over to our shop over at Redbubble.