It’s that time of year. State V State… oh wait.
Welcome to the first night of the final round of the regular season for Content Survey Live: Yesterday’s Hero.
After last round, Brisbane is off on a bye, and straight into a grand final, while Adelaide and Melbourne tonight fight it out for who will likely get the Hometown Rule for the first fixture of the finals series beginning next week: while Perth and cellar dweller Sydney go at each other to either guarantee Perth a spot in the final playoff next Thursday up against either Adelaide or Melbourne, or Sydney a last ditch chance to play spoiler, and force countbacks for all playoff places: a maneuver that it stands to lose…
Next week’s first part of the finals, we call the “Four Quarter Blitz”, will be exciting and tinged with a bit of sadness: as 10 will say farewell to The Project on June 26. We will also be awarding, this Friday: the winner of the Ray Robinson Number competition for the regular season.
All to play for and very little time to play for it… as the Content Survey Live season for 2025 winds down.
In addition: at the end of the first part of the “Four Quarter Blitz” next week (when the GF qualifier to face Brisbane will be decided), we will reveal more details about next year’s Content Survey Live: USA, and what it means for Content Survey Live for Australia next year, as well as the prize that is being played for in the Content Survey Live GF this 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)
We open tonight, with a live cross concerning a Tasmanian fatal police shooting, followed by a story on the crescendo of a notable trial (of which we will not name),
The Big Freeze... Pollies edition, in the backyard of Victoria's Parliament House (deserves a wider audience, I reckon!)
And, a free Porsche Boxster, with a apartment in Melbourne's Albert Park... with a pricetag to match!
Voiced over stories include, a bus strike, the launch of a build to rent project in Victoria Gardens, and the continuing search for Josh Bishop.
Sport, was pretty much a AFL injury wrap, with slight highlights of yesterday's matches.
We have the perfect video for that...
The scores:
Three local stories.
Three voiced over stories.
One live cross.
Sports segment feeling more like the emergency ward at the hospital...
A Ray Robinson Number of 0.
Last round: Melbourne scored a 6.8/10.
Tonight: Melbourne scored... a 6.4/10
The lowest result for the season so far for Melbourne... on a night where it needed to push itself hard. It all comes down to Adelaide's results tomorrow as to whether the near inevitable rematch between these cities in the Four Quarter Blitz next week will be in Adelaide's favour... or Melbourne's.
THE 6:00 SUNDAY NIGHT SOUND.
We kick off the final week, of this series (we won’t be running this during the finals series this year) with some of the best music video sell jobs of the Countdown era, and a cover nobody saw coming.
We begin with the birth of Jimmy Barnes: solo artist.
1984, saw the release of the first Jimmy Barnes solo album after his initial Cold Chisel run, Bodyswerve, with the first track to make it big: a tribute to two Cold Chisel roadies who passed while driving a truck, that was originally meant to be recorded by Cold Chisel itself: No Second Prize.
That track ranked just outside the top ten in 1984.
But it was the second solo studio album, that broke doors down: “For The Working Class Man”
And the near title track: Working Class Man, ended up getting a cult following as the beginning of the rise of Barnsey as a solo act, and ultimately became his signature song.
But, it almost was a launchpad to the US, for Barnsey. “For The Working Class Man” was re-released in the US under a new name: a self titled album: as a introduction to Americans that had their fill of INXS, and Men at Work to a Australian solo artist who could hang with the best of them.
Remember: this was less than three years, after Mark Holden tried to shoot for America… and ended up writing songs for a living after he failed.
Ron Howard, back then, a budding film producer, not the experienced hand he is today: took a gamble on the Barnesy track for a film he was producing, a comedy based on a pre-bubble burst Japanese takeover of a US car production plant.
That film, was entitled… Gung Ho: later to be released in Australia/NZ with the name of “Working Class Man” after the track… that closed the film, and got a American music video produced… that’s right, we give you how the US tried to sell curious listeners to buy “Working Class Man” in the wake of seeing Gung Ho.
Tomorrow: Yesterday’s Hero… from the Bay City Rollers.
Well, that’s it for the first half of Survey of Origin 2.
Adelaide is up tomorrow night…
See you then.
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