Lexicon News Goes Fourth: Part 5: Aloha 'Oe... or is it Good-bye-ee!

"Farewell Lexicon News..." (breaks ukulele), is that really the way to go for us?
Not said by Aunty Jack to Thin Arthur.

Lexicon News Goes Fourth: Night 4: General Edits Made.

Lexicon News with AI... Nahh.

Lexicon News Goes Fourth: Night 3: Major News Breaking

Lexicon News is about to be Humphried... Where's that glass of milk? Empty.

Lexicon News Goes Fourth: Night 2: Corporal Edit Suite.

Lexicon News is indeed a strange universe.

Lexicon News Goes Fourth: Night 1: Captain and Greenhalgh.

Baldrick, why the hell is Lexicon News back... Going Fourth, sounds like a funny farewell.
Words not said by a Blackadder descendent...

Lexicon News The Third: Night Five: Tram and Trampier

 A reminder: The best solution to the Olympics problem is layed out in the Big Q, not with our politicians.

Lexicon News The Third: Night 4: Rain and Raising

 A reminder: if you do too many burnouts on sand, you'll be digging your own hole.

Lexicon News The Third: Night Three: Orca and Orchideous

Ancient journo proverb (especially if you watched 7's 4pm news in QLD this arvo): don't screw up a story intro live on air, especially this close to Christmas.

Lexicon News The Third: Night Two: Pitch and Pithy

 "We surveyed 100 people about the new set... and we got nothing?"

Welcome to the second night of the third edition of Lexicon News. Last night, Seven hit it out of the ballpark at 6, yet faltered at 6:30 in SEQ. Tonight is set to be interesting indeed.

Let's again go over the ground rules for Lexicon News:

The Ground Rules:

The ground rules, for the Lexicon News event, are taken from a promo, in 1987: that compared Seven's second attempt at 1hr news in Brisbane, with Nine's 1/2hr product that became dominant at the exact same time.

As it described:

"If you are watching a half-hour news, take out the weather, sport, opening music, hello's and goodbyes and the commercials, and you could only get about 12 minutes of real news each night."

Thus the ground rules for the Lexicon News challenge are for five nights:

-Time the length of the bulletin, from the moment the first story intro begins at 6, to the time the throw to sport begins, on both bulletins.

-Write down every story on the 1hr version, and compare with the half hour version to see how much content is removed.

-Subtract the BNE timing from the regional timing to get the amount of time lost to regional QLD viewers each night by simply trimming the BTQ news bulletin.

-Ultimately: add up all the figures, and come up with a final set of numbers at the end of the week.

In addition, we will be tracking how many coverups of live cross timings (usually seen as giant "LIVE" graphics superimposed) are made by Seven on the 10 minute edit during this period.

Tonight's tale...

What aired in regional QLD, will be bolded and in red.

We open tonights bulletin up with storms in SEQ (a weather cross was excised from the regional QLD cut), more from a notable defamation trial, then a break-in at Beerwah, maternity issues in QLD, the search continuing for a missing person off the Sunshine Coast, the ongoing saline solution recall, upcoming national disposable vape ban (if you do not know what a vape is, ask your kids), refugee detention issues, a inquiry into the recent Optus mass outage, Gaza hostage families visiting Australia, a update on the Toondah Harbour development, Schoolies car with a branch through it on K'gari (a story that at this point is four days old, with the incident occurring on Saturday, and reported locally in the Wide Bay area on Monday night), the redirected P&O cruise finally makes landfall, Inland freight route funding stoush heads to Canberra tomorrow, Mark Richardson thanking Lifeflight team that did a emergency evac from Bali a few months back, SEQ rental costs and the suburbs where it's cheaper to buy than rent that somehow crashed into a story about a freeway fire, Adrian Beck's new program to tackle dyslexia in our youth, a new mobile wildlife hospital, figures about dog attacks on postal workers, Shane Warne's family's new cause: more heart checks for Australians, royal secrets book due for a Aussie release and finally, a kid stealing a forklift in Michigan. 

The timing in Brisbane added up tonight to 27mins 33secs.
The regional cut added up to 9mins 18secs.
Seven lexiconed out of their news tonight for regional Queenslanders: 18mins 15secs.
The amount of lexiconed content this week so far by Seven: 36mins 24secs

Once again, a relatively big news story relevant to regional Queensland (inland freight route proposal) is being left on the cutting room floor at Lexicon Central.

Tomorrow night, is the halfway point of this week's campaign, and a update on last night's bulletin's plug for a Heartkids fundraiser: their total is now over $1000 raised.

And, finally another reminder: OneQueensland's "Big Q" is being launched wider: the link to the survey is available here.

A reminder, if you want to support us here at Kuttsywood's Couch, please visit our Patreon page: and become a paid supporter, and a reminder: to see you tomorrow night... but first, a teaser for Boxing Day.

Lexicon News The Third: Night 1: Set and Setiferous

 And, by the way: surprise!

Lexicon News 2: Night 5

Welcome, to the final night of Lexicon News 2. 

The final night has arrived... of a tumultuous event, one where night one got rained out, and we ended up unexpectedly counting political news stories. So, before we hit the road, we say the following: will there be a trilogy of television news lexiconed to hell? You will find out for yourself, at the end of this post. Let's go over once more, the ground rules.

The Ground Rules:

The ground rules, for the Lexicon News event, are taken from a promo, in 1987: that compared Seven's second attempt at 1hr news in Brisbane, with Nine's 1/2hr product that became dominant at the exact same time.

As it described:

"If you are watching a half-hour news, take out the weather, sport, opening music, hello's and goodbyes and the commercials, and you could only get about 12 minutes of real news each night."

Thus the ground rules for the Lexicon News challenge are for four nights:

-Time the length of the bulletin, from the moment the first story intro begins at 6, to the time the throw to sport begins, on both bulletins.

-Write down every story on the 1hr version, and compare with the half hour version to see how much content is removed.

-Subtract the BNE timing from the regional timing to get the amount of time lost to regional QLD viewers each night by simply trimming the BTQ news bulletin.

-Ultimately: add up all the figures, and come up with a final set of numbers at the end of the week.

In addition, we will be tracking how many coverups of live cross timings (usually seen as giant "LIVE" graphics superimposed) are made by Seven on the 10 minute edit during this period.

And, one more thing. Enjoying Lexicon News 2? Come on over and buy the merchandise for this event over at our Redbubble store.

Also, we have now "something extra" on sale: our "Day 4" coffee mug and travel mug.

Another day, another chance for the ratings to tell the story. Seven in Brisbane, last night took the 6-7pm hour with 183,000 viewers over the hour, compared to Nine's paltry 142,000 (incidentally, the same figures Nine received for the 6-7pm hour in Brisbane... on August 16, 2019: I dare the folks at OzTam to fight the folks at archive.org, concerning old ratings data... I reckon the ratings provider may end up losing).

Another missed milestone in a station's life for QTQ: and resultingly getting punished for it, just as badly as they were when their 60th only got two minutes mention 24 months ago. Amanda Patterson: especially, as you are ex-Extra, look at why Seven's Sunday flashback segment still rates after 17 and a half years, and why Nine has not attempted to counter it, with their own, or make your heritage more visible
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With last night's loss by Nine, the game for this week is tied 2-2, with Friday set to make or break the first week of 2022.

Today, Friday Feburary 11 2022: has seen the federal cruise ship ban extended into April (potentially seeing the cruise industry being a huge factor in election advertising), more money thrown around by QLD at overseas airlines, and by Canberra concerning Paradise Dam near Bundaberg.

Now it's time for Lexicon News 2: Night 5.

Now, we have a chronological overview of the BTQ bulletin as it aired in Brisbane tonight, between the opener and sport. Stories shared with the regional cut, are marked in bold and red.

Opener, Kirra heckler at tourism press conference/COVID numbers, desk live cross concerning Novavax/ATAGI decision, School COVID reporting issues, Kallangur motel death, Live cross from Caboolture watchhouse (6:06), Ben Roberts-Smith court case (is Reason watching Apocalypse Now this weekend?), Live cross 6:09 at CBD police station concerning a police officer suspension, Archivist report released, AMA having issues with a trial of pharmacists doing some medical treatment, US Secretary of State visiting Australia, Winter Olympics story. (end of segment one)

(Start of segment two) Lady Musgrave rescue, R.A.T thefts in Oxenford, Royal COVID scare, US thin ice rescue (end of segment two)

(Start of segment three) QLD Tourism warchest (the reason why the press conference happened in Kirra), Coomera fire victim's friends respond, Koalas declared endangered in Queensland, New get fit initiatives. (end of segment 3)

(Start of segment four) Live cross about a stolen car 6:37, from the same location as the one done at 6:09, Andrew O'Keefe court case, Crane crash in a undisclosed location, Frozen at QPAC, new croc fossils at Winton. (intro to sport)

The timing in Brisbane added up to  30 minutes,  5 seconds.

The regional cut added up to  10 minutes, 25 seconds.

The amount of content Seven lexiconed out, of their Brisbane newshour in regional QLD tonight:   19 minutes, 40  seconds.

The amount of lexiconed content this (4 night) week by Seven:  79 minutes,  40 seconds.

The wrap.

Overall, this week was a challenge. Yet, had we recorded Monday's figures... we would have been two minutes off 2021 figures. The attempt at cutting live crosses out from the regional cut tonight to counter the coverups that we've seen all week is hilarious at best.

Overall, we've seen a product that has lexiconed content that shouldn't have hit the cutting room floor this week. Imagine watching the piece tonight from Seven's George St team, if you haven't seen a piece on the integrity issues in parliament on Seven all week, like the regional QLD cut produced for three nights straight. The big ticket item about international tourism funding... buried in the third segment just because a heckler turned up at Kirra. We are still wondering how many takes for Blowers with the koala though.

The common thread still exists though from August last year:

The only window that is used by Seven for the regional cut is the first window: one that is often eighteen minutes in length.

-Anything worthwhile in later segments prior to 6:30 is simply ignored.

-The turnaround for Segment 1's editing is likely a mere 10 minutes, before it airs in regional Queensland.

And, it's something Seven should not be proud of... especially if these techniques arrive in regional NSW/VIC later this year. Time for Seven to choose a condensed national/state bulletin filmed for regional QLD like Prime did for their local news markets, instead of  chopping up the Brisbane 6pm news's opening segment.

As we leave, Lexicon News 2: You'll ask... will there be a Lexicon News 3?
To borrow from the late Frank Warrick: "not in the short term."

"Can we roll Ubu now?"

Yes, we can.

(From Sage Antone on Youtube)

But we leave with a song tied to night 4.

The final track, that ended Extra in 2009, will also end the Lexicon News sequel.

"Proud", Heather Small (from Old School Tunes on Youtube)

Lexicon News 2: Night 4

Welcome to night four, of Lexicon News 2.

The 10th of Feburary, 2022 is a milestone not just for the second edition of Lexicon News. On this day, in 1992, the first episode of Brisbane Extra premiered.

(Extra press ad, Feburary 10, 1992: from SLQ microfiche)

Our tribute, to the eighteen year run of Extra (a program that many critics in the nineties thought it wouldn't last the distance) that began on this day thirty years ago, is not just in this post. After Lexicon News Night 4, is posted: we will be releasing a commemorative coffee mug and travel mug over at Redbubble, to highlight the milestone that the 10th of Feburary will mark.

Let's reiterate the ground rules.

The Ground Rules:

The ground rules, for the Lexicon News event, are taken from a promo, in 1987: that compared Seven's second attempt at 1hr news in Brisbane, with Nine's 1/2hr product that became dominant at the exact same time.

As it described:

"If you are watching a half-hour news, take out the weather, sport, opening music, hello's and goodbyes and the commercials, and you could only get about 12 minutes of real news each night."

Thus the ground rules for the Lexicon News challenge are for four nights:

-Time the length of the bulletin, from the moment the first story intro begins at 6, to the time the throw to sport begins, on both bulletins.

-Write down every story on the 1hr version, and compare with the half hour version to see how much content is removed.

-Subtract the BNE timing from the regional timing to get the amount of time lost to regional QLD viewers each night by simply trimming the BTQ news bulletin.

-Ultimately: add up all the figures, and come up with a final set of numbers at the end of the week.

In addition, we will be tracking how many coverups of live cross timings (usually seen as giant "LIVE" graphics superimposed) are made by Seven on the 10 minute edit during this period.

And, one more thing. Enjoying Lexicon News 2? Come on over and buy the merchandise for this event over at our Redbubble store.

And now, let us begin night four of Lexicon News.

Wait... let's get a image befitting of this significant anniversary.

Lexicon News 2: Night 3

Welcome, one and all to the third night of Lexicon News 2. Let's go over once again, the ground rules of our experiment.


The Ground Rules:

The ground rules, for the Lexicon News event, are taken from a promo, in 1987: that compared Seven's second attempt at 1hr news in Brisbane, with Nine's 1/2hr product that became dominant at the exact same time.

As it described:

"If you are watching a half-hour news, take out the weather, sport, opening music, hello's and goodbyes and the commercials, and you could only get about 12 minutes of real news each night."

Thus the ground rules for the Lexicon News challenge are for four nights:

-Time the length of the bulletin, from the moment the first story intro begins at 6, to the time the throw to sport begins, on both bulletins.

-Write down every story on the 1hr version, and compare with the half hour version to see how much content is removed.

-Subtract the BNE timing from the regional timing to get the amount of time lost to regional QLD viewers each night by simply trimming the BTQ news bulletin.

-Ultimately: add up all the figures, and come up with a final set of numbers at the end of the week.

In addition, we will be tracking how many coverups of live cross timings (usually seen as giant "LIVE" graphics superimposed) are made by Seven on the 10 minute edit during this period.

And, one more thing. Enjoying Lexicon News 2? Come on over and buy the merchandise for this event over at our Redbubble store.

Lexicon News 2: Night 2

 Is this the wrong time of the year for a content survey?

Making it's way to the ring,
A series whose first outing in 2021 recorded how much news you lose.
It's sequel, stands alone today, unlike the first outing (tagged to a five day content survey.)
And after a false start yesterday...
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Lexicon News 2.

Welcome back, to Lexicon News.

Lexicon News 2: Night 1.

Welcome to what would have been, night one of Lexicon News 2.

Instead, we've been hit with a case of the gremlins in the process of recording the regional cut of Seven's Brisbane bulletin tonight!

The only thing we can say now: It's on with the show, night two tomorrow night: of a now 4 day event, which will retain all numbering for reasons that will be explained on Thursday.

And, a reminder, you can buy a Lexicon News 2 shirt, hat or even a facemask, over at Redbubble!

"We couldn't salvage much, but that's life for the first rain delay in 8 years of running content surveys. Please enjoy this highlight of 1990's vintage."

(From MissBeavis10 on Youtube.)

kwNetwork Select: 2022.

“I’m talking to the wall…”

On the very first week of ratings in 2022, Content Survey Live’s big addition in 2021, stands alone.

“Sit Ubu, Sit Ubu, Sit Ubu, Sit Ubu, Sit.”

Veritas on KW, proudly presents on Kuttsywood’s Couch…

“About 12 minutes of real news each night”

This, is Lexicon News 2.

So, welcome to our new year ahead format: KW Network Select: where we give you a select look at what the year ahead has for this site, and the social media family that is the KWNetwork.