Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Round 5, Night 2: Survey of Origin 2, Part 2

The regular season, is almost over, but will Adelaide put one over…

Welcome to the second night of the final round of the 2025 regular season for Content Survey Live. Last night, Melbourne came through with a subpar performance coming into finals...

Tonight: Adelaide heads up to the bat for the final time in the regular season, with many a hope in it’s mind, and a song in it’s heart.

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 a culmination of a long legal battle: the jailing of a former police officer, over domestic violence issues.
A reminder from them, about 1800 Respect (by the way)

Meanwhile, we get a story about a scooter speeder, from Ottoway with a molehill representing the RAA... Oh, wait his surname is Mountain.

We get two live crosses: one in sport about a Port Adelaide injury (didn't we have enough of that stuff last night?), and one aborted in the main bulletin concerning impending sale of Santos to Abu Dhabi interests (with audio issues a plenty: if it's bad enough where the guy reading the news is having problems, it's pretty serious)

Two voiced over pieces about: kids flu shots and Lenny Kravitz running Adelaide later this year (Lenny running Mildura would also be significant... if only they still had 1. a local news service and 2. a 10 affiliate)

Sport heavy on their strong local story, with less of a injury roundup than Melbourne.

The weather location timing (Robin Hood Hotel at Norwood in front of the fire) for this graphic, would be funny elsewhere.

Overall, Adelaide put on a night tonight that fired up the team headed for a likely finals rematch against Melbourne in just seven days from now.

The Scores:

Three local stories.

Two live crosses.

A strong sport story, with a mug doing the live cross.

Two voiced over stories.

A Ray Robinson Number of 0.

Last round, Adelaide scored: 6.49/10

This round, Adelaide scored: 6.6/10

The results of this fixture, are

Melbourne: 6.4/10.

Adelaide: 6.6/10.

Adelaide walk out of Survey of Origin 2, with the win, two points and dependent on results, the Hometown rule for next Monday night.

But, as we leave tonight: the first signs of change are beginning at 10. Social addresses are already changing in light of a upcoming rebrand as 10 News, with the launch of 10 News+ at 6pm in two weeks. We now include a few snapshots of Melbourne and Adelaide from Monday night showing the early seeds of changes afoot.

It very much seems, like the final night of the Four Quarter Blitz finals... will be the final time, 10 News First as a brand, will be part of this series. Dropping the "First" is something we've openly suggested for six years along with national news at 6, forcing hyperlocalizing of 5pm bulletins.

THE 6:00 SUNDAY NIGHT SOUND.

Tonight, we look at the covers of John Paul Young’s “Yesterday’s Hero”, particularly the one cover that ended up on Countdown.

Yesterday’s Hero, was not just a success for JPY, but also for writing team Vanda and Young, who ended up selling their pop hit to numerous people to cover. The most notable of these sales in the Countdown era, was to the Bay City Rollers, whose tartan-draped visit to Australia in late 1976 coincided with a solar eclipse. So, for the first time in eighteen months at that point, Yesterday’s Hero was being performed on the stage at Ripponlea… although with a five piece pop band, rather than JPL on his own.

Another one of these sales, was in the mid-1980’s, across the Iron Curtain in Yugoslavia, where new wave band, Laki Pingvini (Serbian for “The Easy Penguins”), recorded a cover of JPL’s track, as Ne, Nisam Tvoj Heroj (“No I’m Not Your Hero”).

And, then we have, the Ignatius Jones cover of JPL’s track… for the 1992 Australian movie that inexplicitly rebooted the career of John Paul Young (thanks to a remixed version of his 1978 hit Love Is In The Air being the theme for the movie), and kicked off the directorial career of one Baz Lurhmann, Strictly Ballroom.

Thursday and Friday: The end of the 6:00 Sunday Night Sound, with two of Countdown’s best self-produced music videos.

So, we are halfway through the final round of the regular season.

Perth and Sydney are up for their final surveys… and in the case of Sydney, it may just be waving bye bye to it’s finals chances.

See you on Thursday.

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