Who is off, to the five days in July...
Welcome, to the final night of the Four Quarter Blitz. Tonight, we see Melbourne take the stage to see if they can get across the line for a Grand Final spot.
Last night, Perth missed a opportunity, and wasted a live cross on cat adoption for weather, instead of the Matildas friendly at HBF Park, and yet scored 6.2/10.
Tonight, Melbourne has to score above 6.2/10, to consign Perth... to third place and the bronze medal for Content Survey Live in 2025, despite Perth having the advantage in the preliminary final.
Last night, Perth missed a opportunity, and wasted a live cross on cat adoption for weather, instead of the Matildas friendly at HBF Park, and yet scored 6.2/10.
Tonight, Melbourne has to score above 6.2/10, to consign Perth... to third place and the bronze medal for Content Survey Live in 2025, despite Perth having the advantage in the preliminary final.
As usual... here is 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.
-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.
We open up tonight on the skids: a significant pileup near Ballarat... all because of black ice, a double dose of overnight fire in Hallam and Campbellfield (2pts for the Ray Robinson Number), a piece on drills at the new Western Plains Prison, and a piece on a man at the Lara bowls club thanking paramedics, after a defibrillator saved his life.
We only get one voiced over piece tonight, searching for a missing Geelong man.
We also get three live crosses (300% more than Perth), at Morwell at a significant trial we cannot say more about, from the newsroom (concerning the Pessuto affair's latest developments) and most interestingly:
..from The Hague: which Perth got as a prerecorded piece!
Sport is pretty much a Melbourne standard bearer now, and strangely...
it's gotten even Max Burford wanting to trade his pie floaters for lattes for every single day of the year... as Carlton prepare for their match with Port Adelaide at Adelaide Oval of which Carlton were whipped convincingly, and is now set to light more fires under Michael Voss.
Overall, Melbourne got there in the end, and may have secured a Grand Final berth...
The Scores:
Four local stories.
Three live crosses.
A single voiced over story.
Sport with a mug, and far better choice than Perth.
A Ray Robinson Number...
(Due to popular demand: tonight's Ray Robinson Number is presented by Gold Coast Suns coach, Damian Hardwick)
...of 2.
Every score matters in the Four Quarter Blitz.
Melbourne, tonight scored 6.7/10.
The scores for the preliminary final are as follows.
Perth: 6.2/10.
Melbourne: 6.7/10.
Melbourne, wins the preliminary final, and is off to face Brisbane from June 30 in a five match series, while Perth... is headed to third place and a bronze medal for the 2025 season, despite having the advantage going into this fixture.
And, now as we enter the endgame of the 2025 season of Content Survey Live... a step beyond 2025.
In 2026 Content Survey Live will cross boundaries like no-one else can.
The vision for Content Survey Live: U.S.A. next year is simple and to the point.
Sixteen cities: one shot, to become the inaugural American champion of Content Survey Live.
Our tentative date for this adventure through American late night local news, will be the historic May sweeps period (late April-late May) in 2026.
Posts for Content Survey Live: U.S.A. will go live in Australian primetime, ready to rustle up the next morning US time.
It is due to this, we make today three significant announcements.
The first of these: will be the announcement of the pools for Content Survey Live U.S.A. on October 5, in our first "Night Zero" post in two years. The CSL U.S.A. pools will also be available to Kuttsywood's Couch One Patreon users on the 27th of September, a week before publication here.
The second significant announcement is, that there will be no Australian edition of Content Survey Live in 2026. We alluded to this move in last year's KWNetwork Select, and it is because our focus next year will be on the American CSL event, and also concerning the third significant announcement...
The final significant announcement will concern the winner of the Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero grand final... and the ultimate winner of CSL U.S.A.
The winner of this season's Content Survey Live, will go on to represent Australia in a best of five night event (akin to the Grand Final this year), in late 2026 up against the winner of Content Survey Live U.S.A. to crown the first ever world champion... of Content Survey Live.
The world is calling. And next week, Brisbane and Melbourne will face off to claim their place in history... awaiting the American winner next year... to set the stage for a moment in time.
Enjoy the weekend. The Grand Final kicks off on June 30... with Brisbane having the advantage: on the week of it's sixtieth birthday no less... something that did no favours this week to either Adelaide or Perth.
We only get one voiced over piece tonight, searching for a missing Geelong man.
We also get three live crosses (300% more than Perth), at Morwell at a significant trial we cannot say more about, from the newsroom (concerning the Pessuto affair's latest developments) and most interestingly:
Sport is pretty much a Melbourne standard bearer now, and strangely...
Overall, Melbourne got there in the end, and may have secured a Grand Final berth...
The Scores:
Four local stories.
Three live crosses.
A single voiced over story.
Sport with a mug, and far better choice than Perth.
A Ray Robinson Number...
(Due to popular demand: tonight's Ray Robinson Number is presented by Gold Coast Suns coach, Damian Hardwick)
Every score matters in the Four Quarter Blitz.
Melbourne, tonight scored 6.7/10.
The scores for the preliminary final are as follows.
Perth: 6.2/10.
Melbourne: 6.7/10.
Melbourne, wins the preliminary final, and is off to face Brisbane from June 30 in a five match series, while Perth... is headed to third place and a bronze medal for the 2025 season, despite having the advantage going into this fixture.
And, now as we enter the endgame of the 2025 season of Content Survey Live... a step beyond 2025.
In 2026 Content Survey Live will cross boundaries like no-one else can.
The vision for Content Survey Live: U.S.A. next year is simple and to the point.
Sixteen cities: one shot, to become the inaugural American champion of Content Survey Live.
Our tentative date for this adventure through American late night local news, will be the historic May sweeps period (late April-late May) in 2026.
Posts for Content Survey Live: U.S.A. will go live in Australian primetime, ready to rustle up the next morning US time.
It is due to this, we make today three significant announcements.
The first of these: will be the announcement of the pools for Content Survey Live U.S.A. on October 5, in our first "Night Zero" post in two years. The CSL U.S.A. pools will also be available to Kuttsywood's Couch One Patreon users on the 27th of September, a week before publication here.
The second significant announcement is, that there will be no Australian edition of Content Survey Live in 2026. We alluded to this move in last year's KWNetwork Select, and it is because our focus next year will be on the American CSL event, and also concerning the third significant announcement...
The final significant announcement will concern the winner of the Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero grand final... and the ultimate winner of CSL U.S.A.
The winner of this season's Content Survey Live, will go on to represent Australia in a best of five night event (akin to the Grand Final this year), in late 2026 up against the winner of Content Survey Live U.S.A. to crown the first ever world champion... of Content Survey Live.
The world is calling. And next week, Brisbane and Melbourne will face off to claim their place in history... awaiting the American winner next year... to set the stage for a moment in time.
Enjoy the weekend. The Grand Final kicks off on June 30... with Brisbane having the advantage: on the week of it's sixtieth birthday no less... something that did no favours this week to either Adelaide or Perth.
But, as we leave: it's another song, for the sheer fact that the end of this fixture, also marks the end of the 10 News First brand and how we've signaled it's lows and highs since the pandemic.
May the 10 News Last joke die a speedy death.
Or can we get it in for one last time...
A reminder of our socials: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kuttsywoods.couch
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/veritasonkw.bsky.social
May the 10 News Last joke die a speedy death.
Or can we get it in for one last time...
Because, on Monday, it's all about pluses at six, not plushes at six.
A reminder of our socials: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kuttsywoods.couch
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/veritasonkw.bsky.social
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