RIP: ABC Ripponlea Studios, home of Countdown, 1956-2025.
Welcome to the third night of Round 4 of Content Survey Live in 2025.
The first fixture of this round resulted in a Brisbane win by the tightest of margins:
Brisbane 6.5/10.
Adelaide 6.49/10.
Tonight, Melbourne takes the field against a midnight running Perth, all to set up positioning for the Four Quarter Blitz finals, just three weeks away. After the results of last fixture this round, there is still plenty to play for.
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 begin tonight's news in Melbourne with what seems to have been the dominant story for weeks: a trial we cannot mention any more of, for legal reasons (we don't want Carbone knocking on our doors), live cross to the newsroom, for a story that is very relevant to another market airing 10 Melbourne's news nightly: Tasmania, on the SCA/WIN joint venture 10 (soon to be 7/WIN joint venture) a vote of no confidence in Tasmania's legislature (I'd leave it to Kevin Bonham to do the play by play here), while we have stories on the Metro Tunnel heading to estimates, a plea from doctors as we approach the Kings Birthday long weekend in Victoria, a story on Portarlington mussels, segueing into the weather, and masterpieces are arriving at the NGV for their winter season, all the way from Boston (for the second time, as the first was ditched during the pandemic)
Sport tonight, again showing the way, including something we don't even have in Sydney or Brisbane: mentions of the Thursday night game inc. a live cross to Marvel Stadium, and even has a little slice of Storm coach Bellamy staying on for another year.
Just before the pre-6pm weather, we get a breaking story about a Tarneit grassfire.
Overall, Melbourne again showing why it should be here, fighting it out.
The scores:
Five local stories.
1 voiced over story.
Two live crosses.
A sports segment worth watching.
A Ray Robinson Number of 0.
Last round, Melbourne scored a 6.5/10.
Tonight, Melbourne scored: a 6.8/10.
A performance fitting of a former champion... as next round, it heads into a Survey of Origin fixture against it's old hybrid foe: Adelaide... a match this year that (dependent on Perth's result) could be the difference between a two survey road to meeting Brisbane in the Grand Final... or having the hometown advantage in the final fixture of the Four Quarter Blitz.
THE 6:00 SUNDAY NIGHT SOUND.
This fixture, is about a male, who became a teen heartthrob in the seventies, made his name writing songs in the US in the eighties and nineties, before choosing to come home for his family’s safety and spearhead new talent, a role that sprung him onto the Australian Idol judges desk for five seasons, and made his fame all over again with one word… touchdown!
That male… is Mark Holden.
The mid-70’s was Mark Holden’s career peak as a singer, cleancut, known for carnations and dinner jackets.
We now look back at 1976’s I Wanna Make You My Lady.
Tomorrow night: Mark Holden returns to Countdown in 1983, to guest host.
Tomorrow night, also sees the final fixture of Round 4: Perth coming up to bat. See you then.
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