Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Round 4: Night 4: The Fremantle Doctor is: IN

The wind is blowing the last of round 4 into view…

Welcome to the final night of round 4 of Content Survey Live, for 2025.

Last night, Melbourne pushed it's case forward. Will tonight in Perth (a big night for 10's WA bulletin, Socceroos in town no less for a World Cup qualifier) match or better them?

We now arrive at Perth’s third survey for the season, after a bye last round. Tonight is make or break, especially as it has wooden spooners Sydney next round to deal with, along with possible placings for the Four Quarter Blitz finals riding on it.

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, with the suspension of e-scooter services in Perth's CBD after a recent fatality, a local spin on the Bali ship capsizing yesterday, a fire in Spearwood overnight (two points for the Ray Robinson Number), and the scrapping of plans for a centralized dog register in WA... just months prior to it's launch.

We've got two live crosses tonight to Perth Stadium in Burswood, in preparation for the Socceroos World Cup qualifier once in the body of the news, and a extremely lengthy one during sport.

In addition, two voiced over pieces both legal in nature, first with a bikie pleading not guilty, and a deeper investigation into a doctor who had been doing his fair share of dangerous driving.

And one for those playing along with the rumored shaky future for The Project: the Project didn't air tonight in WA due to the game airing in it's normal first run timeslot in the West...

Sport tonight for WA, was pretty much on par with their previous performances, inc. a piece about the rumored move west for the Perth Bears coaching job by Mal Meninga (a tip for the NRL: push for a better rectangular venue for the Bears: and it will not just benefit them, but all other rectangular pitch codes (i.e. not just league, but football and rugby union as well) all wanting a piece of the WA sporting pie).

Overall, a solid night for Perth.

The scores.

Four local stories.

Two live crosses.

Two voiced over stories.

Sports segment again showing why Perth is the best in that field.

A Ray Robinson Number of 2.

Last round (all the way back on Easter Monday!) Perth scored: 7/10.

Tonight, Perth scored: 6.85/10.

Overall, for this fixture: Perth has upset Melbourne tonight, and taken home the two points, and has put a significant spanner into the works concerning the Four Quarter Blitz in three weeks time.

Melbourne: 6.8/10

Perth: 6.85/10

Let's take a look at the scoreboard, for this round, as we enter round five, the final round of the regular season on June 16.

Brisbane, with it's bye next week has guaranteed itself into the Grand Final.

For Melbourne and Perth, everything depends on whether Perth wins the last fixture of the season, as a loss for Perth likely means a tie for second, and a tie for fourth.

Meanwhile, in the Ray Robinson Number race for 2025: Perth and Melbourne are tied on first,  Adelaide and Sydney tied for third, while Brisbane is on the bottom, with a negative Ray Robinson Number of -1.

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.

Tonight, we look at the Mark Holden that emerged in 1983: with a self titled album, recorded in the US, that was a attempt to do for himself: career renewal and reinvention (away from the seventies loverboy image), what Whispering Jack would do successfully for John Farnham three years later.

The self-titled album failed for Mark, but led to a songwriting career in the US until the mid 1990’s, his back catalogue becoming useful songs for many artists, along with a very interesting pickup in 1992: David Hasselhoff (who was probably looking for (musical) freedom (after a surprise success in the wake of the Berlin Wall falling), and turned to Mark Holden to manage and devise his mid-90’s European musical output, whilst the Hoff was still doing Baywatch no less: with the Hasselhoff-Holden professional relationship celebrated, when the big red book of "This Is Your Life" came knocking for Mark Holden in 2002.

But to promote the career revival attempt of the “Mark Holden” album, Mark returned to Australia in August 1983… and guest hosted Countdown.

Next round: Two doses of Yesterday’s Hero, how Barnesy’s first major solo foray was sold to Americans, and quite simply the most famous music video ever produced by Countdown.

Well, that’s it for the fourth round of Content Survey Live in 2025.

Brisbane, next round has a bye leading into it's grand final berth in four weeks time, while we return to Survey of Origin, between the Big V and the Croweaters, and the grand finale of the regular season: Sydney V Perth.

We hope to see you again soon.

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