2500km round trip and I only watched Sandra once… before tonight.
Welcome, to the final night of Round 3 for Content Survey Live for 2025.
Last night, Adelaide showed it's mettle in it's second survey for 2025.
Sydney tonight has to escape the cellar, with all it’s strength, going into it’s bye next round, especially as it literally has Perth breathing down it’s neck in round five. It’s balls to the wall, and hoping it can make it’s way until the end with some pride left.
It has one big story tonight: Mid-North Coast flooding, occurring in areas I only passed through a week ago, on the trip back to Queensland. How it delivers it will be the difference between barely making fourth... or staying in the cellar.
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 the Mid North Coast flood story, complete with a live cross from Taree and from Sydney's CBD (for a very wet night indeed), a arrest in Edmondson Park, a shooting in Mt Lewis (two points for the Ray Robinson Number) and a inquiry in NSW's upper house into the Dural caravan plot from earlier this year.
Only a solitary voiced over piece: a drug bust in Sydney's suburbs.
Sport tonight heavily focused on both State of Origin and tomorrow's game at Brookvale: with absolutely zero interest by 10 (a common thread) in the game being played that night (Bulldogs V Dolphins at Accor Stadium)
Sydney's sport did one thing right however: actually identifying this Tottenham Hotspur player correctly.
The Scores
Four local stories.
Two live crosses.
Sport: blink, you'll miss it.
V/O'd news: applies less than you think.
A Ray Robinson Number of 2.
Last round, Sydney drew a 5.2/10
This round, Sydney drew a 5.8/10.
This means, the second fixture of Round 3, again goes to the wire.
Adelaide: 6/10
Sydney: 5.8/10
Adelaide barely escapes this week, with the two points, and sets up a almighty logjam for places 2-4, with Adelaide having the hardest road: Brisbane next week, and a Survey of Origin rematch from last year in round 5, while Sydney may well have unknowingly walked into the cellar.
Let's take a look at the scoreboard, going into Round 4 on the first week of June.
Meanwhile, in the Ray Robinson Number race for 2025, Melbourne, is now in the clear lead, with six points, Sydney now rocketing to second (thanks to tonight's full story) on five, Perth on four, Adelaide on one and Brisbane stuck on the bottom.
THE 6:00 SUNDAY NIGHT SOUND.
At this time 40 years ago two AFL giants were trying to stake a claim on the music charts. These same two greats also deserve to be paraded around the SCG in a open topped car with their hits blazing out of the PA when Geelong come down to face the Swans on August 17.
Tonight, we talk about the giant that got his success musically… thanks to a cash injection from a doctor more used to having grand pianos in his medical centres.
The flipside to every Jacko story, is Warrick Capper, a prodigy that came out of South Melbourne’s recruitment pathways in it’s last days in Melbourne, before becoming the image of the VFL’s major push into Sydney itself. At this time, in 1985, the Sydney Swans are about to make it’s own history: becoming the first privately owned VFL side, and bring Warrick Capper into the sphere of the most famous medical centre operator of his day… Dr Geoffrey Edelsten.
The first big move Edelsten made was to make Capper the face of the Swans… with a song.
The good times, for Warrick ended in footballing terms in 1991 (after a move to Brisbane (and Carrara) in 1988), while his life since then has been more akin to living on past glory, to try and retain the fame he had in the Edelsten era of the Swans: effectively becoming a walking news story, or a cheap pun for newsrooms short of stories, whether it be working as a stop/go operator, or even a failed political tilt in the late 2000’s.
Today, Warrick Capper is more remembered for being a walking stereotype of what could have been… had the eighties crash never happened in his post-VFL career, than his footballing skills: which won him the Mark of The Year in 1987 no less.
However, Capper and Jacko walked so others could run.
In particular, you'd have to mention in this: Ryan Fitzgerald, who went from a shortlived AFL career, to Big Brother in 2004, found a following, to just miss out on the final three, and then into the fire of a media career that didn't involve punditry on a game he had very little experience with: ultimately leading to radio experience in Adelaide on Nova, before breaking into the biggest radio market in the country in the early 2010's, again with Nova and remaining there to this day, and Brendan Fevola, whose 200+ game career, (whilst doing things off the field that would have made Jacko blush) ended suddenly, and decided to rehabilitate his image, in a similar fashion to Fitzgerald, by way of a trip to Africa (as part of the second Australian season of I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, which he ultimately won): steering away from AFL punditry (after drinking it in during his playing career), ultimately leading to a move to radio in Melbourne, where he has spent almost a decade waking people up on Fox FM, and is a significant turnaround from what were many expecting of Fev post-football before he went to rehabilitate himself: likely ending up in the same traps Warwick Capper fell into.
Next Round: From Countdown to... touchdowns: The Seventies peak of Mark Holden, alongside Marcia Hines: a literal OG Australian Idol judge round.
Well, that’s it for the third round of Content Survey Live for 2025. We can now tentatively say to you when the Grand Final will be scheduled: July 1-11 (over five days, in a best of five series).
Next round, will see Adelaide and Brisbane, head to head on Monday Night, and Melbourne and Perth head to head on Thursday night, with Sydney getting a bye.
See you again, on June 2, they said.
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