Halfway through another fixture…
Welcome to the second night of the third round of Content Survey Live.
Brisbane last night, has shown that it is no one trick pony.
Meanwhile, Melbourne has been waiting since Mid-April for it’s second survey for the season (last round was a bye for last year’s second place getters), and is effectively facing a Brisbane that this season has been running on a new energy, after years of sluggish results.
Now, let’s look at the ground rules.
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.
-(NEW in 2025) Local overnight news: Handled via a system we call collectively, the “Ray Robinson Number”: 1pt for V/O’d overnight news, 2pts for a full story, the total is reported at each survey’s end. A special prize will be given for the regular season’s Ray Robinson Number leader.
-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.
-(NEW in 2025) The “Hometown Rule” now applies to both Monday and Thursday night in the regular season as well as in the three Four Quarter Blitz finals (where the highest ranked participant goes first) outside of the Grand Final.
- (NEW in 2025) No 2nd survey (i.e. Tuesday/Friday) can be posted until 12hrs have elapsed after the live survey (Monday/Thursday) in the main season and the three Four Quarter Blitz finals outside the Grand Final. It can be worked on however, and scheduled.
-(NEW in 2025) Ties on the table, at the end of the season, have their seeding for finals decided by countback of fixture scores excluding byes (out of 40)
We open tonight's news with a live cross to a Ballarat murder probe, as well as Rome, followed by voiced over pieces on the discovery of a body in Glenroy, a Dandenong servo attack (1pt Ray Robinson Number), a fire rescue in Collingwood (1pt Ray Robinson Number), and the start of Volunteer Week in Victoria.
The big full stories are the continuing saga of a 2023 mushroom poisoning, now at trial stage (cannot say anymore than that, as it will jeopardize the trial), the upcoming Victorian state budget, and a Mildura fraud case.
Sport again tonight shows why Melbourne is the best at this stuff, and even got a bigger slice of the Suns presser than Brisbane tonight!
Overall, Melbourne tonight put on it's best, but was it good enough to get past Brisbane and get the season lead?
The scores.
Three local stories
Two live crosses, although there was room for a potential live cross from the mushroom poisoning trial, that was not followed through.
Four voiced over stories.
Sport tonight, showing the Melbourne standard we've come to expect.
A Ray Robinson Number of 2.
Last round (Round 1 in April) Melbourne got a 6.5/10.
Tonight, Melbourne got a 6.5/10.
Melbourne, on the big stage showed it's chops... but just barely lost the first fixture of Round 3... to Brisbane, now undefeated, gaining two points and is now sitting alone atop the Content Survey Live 2025 ladder.
Melbourne 6.5/10.
Brisbane 6.65/10.
It is now effectively a contest in the final two rounds between Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth (all bye free, and only Adelaide having to face Brisbane) to decide the layout for the Four Corner Blitz finals... especially as coming second to Brisbane has perks (straight through to a qualifier), while third and fourth have to fight out for a second chance.
THE 6:00 SUNDAY NIGHT SOUND.
Tonight, we celebrate that time Sydney radio blurred the line: and somehow got a massive airplay kick on Countdown for a song with a lot of soul.
Some background: It’d had been common for radio presenters to take a guest hosting gig on Countdown, much like musicians. Case in point, the time Rocktober took over Countdown in 1978… and spot the former ADS 7/10 Adelaide news presenter of their early days as a 10 O&O, in his Rocktober days presenting at Adelaide’s 5KA.
Meanwhile, halfway across the world, at the same time as Rocktober became big in Australia, two different radio presenters were making it big with music: Memphis’s Rick Dees, whose “Disco Duck” in 1976 not just reached #1 in the US Billboard charts (and yet was not allowed to play his hit on his own station), but a respectable #4 in Australia, and parachuted him into a significant career trajectory: ultimately ending up on KIIS in Los Angeles in the early eighties, alongside his own top 40 countdown franchise, still going to this day, and Chicago’s Steve Dahl, fired off a station that converted to all disco music just before Christmas in 1978, before winding up with a competitor who just let him be himself, while encouraging a movement against disco music (with his own single to boot: and actually got airplay outside Chicago, getting a Billboard peak of #58 in the process) that ultimately led to “Disco Demolition Night” at Comiskey Park in mid-July 1979 (which caused a riot amongst the near 50,000 in attendance (fueled by Dahl’s zeal against disco, and the fact it cost 98 cents US (1979 dollars) to get into the stadium with a disco record) after a box of disco records was blown up at centre field.
This was nothing more than likely inspiration for the man Sydney would ultimately, call “Uncle” Doug Mulray: in the late 70’s, trying early parts of his schtick on 2JJ, before FM called in the early 1980’s. Mulray’s big ticket in Sydney was parody (something Steve Dahl also was great at) and patter (something Mulray made his own: in a era when Benny Hill’s patter songs were on TV regularly), and had gotten two albums out before this surprising 1986 track (that got to #34 nationally).
A music video, with no less than the late Rex Mossop, the late Richie Benaud, John Laws, Ross Symonds and culminating in the late Bob Rogers switching off a boom box.
The title itself, is a classic example of Mulray patter: You Are Soul (a smarter way to say “you ar*ehole”, and easier to get around censors, especially if you want wider air play.)
Sadly, we lost Uncle Doug in 2023.
Thursday and Friday: the 1985 VFL Single Fight.
Well, that’s it for Tuesday. Thursday and Friday see Sydney fighting for it’s season against Adelaide. See you then.
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