Has Brisbane hit the plateau… or is there a new hero in town?
Welcome to the second night of the fourth round of Content Survey Live in 2025.
Last night, Adelaide showed up and scored a 6.49/10 for it's penultimate survey for the season.
Brisbane tonight has to take Adelaide to task. Everything rides on this one night, and getting it right. If Brisbane wins this fixture… it will not only go undefeated for the season, into it’s bye next week (a remnant of it’s past poor performance), but also comfortably assures itself of a grand final slot. And, it’s come a long way indeed from it’s sub 1/10 it performed on the final night of Content Survey Live last year.
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)
Brisbane's final survey of the regular season kicks off with a live cross concerning a significant death in custody, a woman who was charged with murdering a child near Bundaberg last week.
We get four stories, Cyclone Alfred's bill for the Gold Coast keeps going up, A study into e-scooter injuries at RBWH, Brisbane's median house price is approaching a million dollars (we'll be talking about two million dollar medians in 2032, unless Queensland's parliamentarians show some balls and calls for a Olympics referendum due to the significant changes made to the original bid) and the Destination 2045 tourism strategy (or how to screen test a QLD premier for his NSW tourism ad he'll have to shoot after Queensland lose Game 2 in Perth.)
Three voiced over pieces, a teen killer appeals their sentence (given before the waste of time for minor's crime legislation was enacted late last year), while in Cairns, you can't even keep a adult in for time, as a prisoner used a tractor to bust out of a low security prison, and a significant speeding incident in Forest Glen involving a motorcycle.
We have a decent sports run tonight with plenty of bases covered.
Overall, Brisbane matching it with the best.
But, there was one other issue we'll deal with in the scores.
The scores:
Four local stories,
Three voiced over stories.
A solitary live cross.
Sport covering all bases.
A Ray Robinson Number... of -1.
(The negative Ray Robinson number was awarded for the non-coverage of a significant Brisbane story early on Monday morning: a fatal train/bicycle accident in the Brisbane suburb of Runcorn).
We will also dock Brisbane .5pts off tonight's overall ranking.
Last round, Brisbane scored: 6.65/10.
Tonight, Brisbane scored before the .5pts were docked for the non-appearance of the Runcorn accident story: 7/10.
The actual score for Brisbane tonight: 6.5/10.
This fixture, went down right to the wire.
Brisbane 6.5/10.
Adelaide 6.49/10.
Brisbane finishes the regular season with a clean sheet, and the two points from this fixture, as it goes into next week's bye round... as the first participant in the 2025 Content Survey Live grand final.
Adelaide's fate to get to the Grand Final is all dependent on other results at this point, especially with the Four Quarter Blitz finals just three weeks away.
THE 6:00 SUNDAY NIGHT SOUND.
This fixture, is all about one survivor from the early days of Countdown (who first made her name as part of the two biggest musicals to tour early seventies Australia: brought in from the US to star in Hair, followed by a run as part of the inaugural Australian run of Jesus Christ Superstar), taking a break away from the stage/music business to bring up daughter Deni (born during the first run performing in Hair in 1970, and ended up pursuing a music career in her own image), who became a naturalized citizen of Australia in the 1990’s, and ended up becoming such a ear for talent, she was recruited to judge Australian Idol in it’s peak years, between 2003 and 2009.
Of course, we are talking about none other… than Marcia Hines.
Tonight, we look at a 1981 episode of Countdown, guest hosted by Marcia no less: with a bonafide banger in, “Your Love Still Brings Me To My Knees”:
But, we leave you tonight with another piece of public awareness gold (much like we found with Jacko last week), this time with Marcia encouraging New Zealanders… to save energy in the late 1970’s.
On Thursday and Friday… we are scoring… a touchdown.
Well, that’s it for the first half of Round 4. On Thursday and Friday, we are set to see Melbourne, facing off against Perth. See you then.
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