Adrenaline, in my soul, will Sydney lose four in a row?
Welcome to the final night of survey for the regular season.
Last night, Perth got in their final regular season tilt, a 7/10.
Tonight, Sydney has plenty to gain but not a lot of time to do it in. It’s finals fate is most likely sealed like a drum: although, even if it scores 10/10 tonight, the finals chances are getting slimmer… but will it get there tonight?
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 a breaking story: both voiced over and in a live cross: a shooting at a Camden siege, followed by a murder acquittal from 2022, a counterfeit goods ring caught, officials dodging a parliamentary inquiry, and a fire in Smithfield... this morning (outside of range for the Ray Robinson Number by two hours)
We get additional voiced over pieces concerning a constitutional challenge concerning protests, a Legionnaires disease alert for Potts Point, a fire at Marrickville (that did earn a point towards the Ray Robinson Number) and a Point Piper mansion is back on the market.
We also get a live cross about a northern Sydney investigation into a sensitive topic, seeing a mass mailout.
The SOO Game 2 coverage was fine, but heavily NSW skewed: note here that Perth took a TVQ-produced piece on SOO in sport, 10 Sydney produced their own, while a piece on the new Matildas coach and rugby warmup for Fiji test made the sports.
A rarity tonight: Josh Holt outside the studio... although we believe the cable is running from Pyrmont to White Bay.
Overall, Sydney probably saved the best until last... but didn't get there to pip the western defender.
The scores.
Four local stories.
Five voiced over stories.
Two live crosses.
One sports reporters mug, who had to sit in economy for the trip back to Perth.
A Ray Robinson Number of 1.
Last round (May 23) Sydney scored... 5.8/10.
Tonight, Sydney scored... 6/10.
The score, for the final regular season fixture is as follows.
Sydney: 6/10
Perth: 7/10.
Perth takes home, the last two points of this season, and sets it's course for a preliminary final next Thursday night... up against either Adelaide or Melbourne.
And, for Sydney... the wooden spoon is their sole prize this season.
For the final results of the regular season, see it below the final post-ender for this season.
THE 6:00 SUNDAY NIGHT SOUND.
Well, we’ve made it. Night 20. It is only fitting that we end this series, headed into finals with a fitting anthem for this moment.
AC-DC in 1976, got lucky with their timing (got in before ABBA’s Fernando took off) with what we believe is the most important music video Countdown ever produced. Picture this: a bright February day, in 1976, the centre of Melbourne (Swanston St to be precise) and a flatbed truck (with AC-DC, a solo cameraman and three bagpipers from a local pipe band on the flatbed, a OHS nightmare in the 21st century) starts to make it’s way down toward Flinders Street railway station. The rest they say is (rock ‘n roll) history.
The ”It’s A Long Way To The Top” video cost to produce in 1976, $380. That’s nearly $3100 (thanks to inflation) in today’s money, yet has been replayed millions, perhaps billions of times ever since.
The ABC and Countdown even got their values worth on that day: with a secondary video shot, on Melbourne’s City Square (currently in a significant rebuilding phase in the wake of the Melbourne Metro Tunnel Town Hall Station nearing completion)
The most significant thing It’s A Long Way To The Top achieved, is not what you hear at a AC-DC concert live, but what you don’t hear. It’s A Long Way To The Top, was retired from the live setlist for AC-DC, upon the death of lead singer Bon Scott in 1980, as a mark of respect for the lead singer who brought them from Swanston Street on the back of a truck, to a global breakthrough.
Meanwhile, numerous others have covered the track over the years, and most significantly: the ABC named their 2001 Australian rock documentary series, fittingly: “Long Way To The Top”, with the inevitable concerts after the success of the series being also branded with that name.
Glenn A Baker said it best, when 3XY closed down in 1991, who fittingly chose “It’s A Long Way To The Top” as the last sounds for a Melbourne AM station that became a rock and roll icon in the seventies. Bon, Angus, let it rip, and we don’t mean rest in peace.
The results, are now in for the regular season of Content Survey Live.
Coming in second for the regular season, and is set to have the advantage in the preliminary final next Thursday... Perth.
Coming in third for the regular season, and set to have the advantage in the qualifying final next Monday: last year's champs Adelaide.
Well, the finals are upon us. See you all, on Monday night for the first quarter of the “Four Quarter Blitz” as Adelaide and Melbourne are back at each others throats... for a second chance to potentially go against Brisbane in the Grand Final.
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