60 Years of QLD TV

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Thursday, November 21, 2024

Kuttsy's Pitch X-Two

The Pitch is Back.

23 years to the date: a TV newsroom in Townsville found out their bulletin would be made history and ultimately put on the ultimate signoff as local loyalty was flushed down the toilet in favour of noodle updates from Canberra, a messy product from Brisbane and more noodle updates this time from Tasmania. All this while, what ultimately became the only QLD-produced and presented regional news service continues to be dominant (which began when it swooped in to Townsville and Cairns 20yrs ago to add to their thriving heritage products in the Wide Bay, Sunshine Coast and Mackay), and misinformation and a botched move by a metropolitan station concerning local news is now bleeding that same regional station that cut their FNQ links in 2001 dry.

Today is November 21, 2024.

This is Kuttsy’s Pitch X-2.

Saturday, September 28, 2024

Saturday, August 31, 2024

A Flood of Memories: The Bonus Content Part 2: We'll Shop Again

Welcome back, to the second of two standalone posts from the post-show series for both editions of Content Survey Live in 2024, A Flood of Memories.

The success of this post-show snapshot of life after the '74 flood, led us to bring more from the microfiche, and into the light: hence this is going to be a two part series: the first part being focused on the post-flood recovery and was released on August 16, the second that you are seeing today is giving you a wider look at food and other goods which we only touched on briefly on Feburary 22, and 29.

Friday, August 16, 2024

A Flood of Memories: The Bonus Content Part 1: Films, Fire and Flood.


Welcome to the first of two bonus standalone posts from the post-show series for both editions of Content Survey Live in 2024, A Flood of Memories.

The success of this post-show snapshot of life after the '74 flood, led us to bring more from the microfiche, and into the light: hence this is going to be a two part series: the first being focused on the post-flood recovery, the second giving you a wider look at food and other goods which we only touched on briefly on Feburary 22, and 29.

And, finally some breaking news in the last twenty four hours: thank you to 10, to finally listening to the viewers that are still there watching their product, and taking on the significant criticism of the hybrid Sydney/Brisbane product we have laid out on this site since centralization of Brisbane's news to Sydney just under four years ago.

Brisbane's news on 10... is coming home in September.

Friday, May 24, 2024

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 4: Night 4: Better Than West Coast Pops?

 Well, here we are at the end of the week... a Midnight Run, again making history. And, if you look out the window of QF10 out of Heathrow bound for Perth: you'll see the queue for Hyperia at Thorpe Park...

Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Monday, May 20, 2024

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 4: Night 1: Survey of Origin: Melbourne.

 So here we are: the final two weeks of this year's Content Survey Live competition... kicking off with a winner takes all battle on Monday night. This is no normal survey: This is Survey of Origin...

Monday, May 13, 2024

Friday, April 12, 2024

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 3: Night 4: Think, Before You Watch 10's News at 5.

 What do we do with a hybrid bulletin,
What do we do with a hybrid bulletin,
What do we do with a hybrid bulletin...
10's at 5 o'clock.


Thursday, April 11, 2024

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 3: Night 3: The WA Blue Plate Special.

 Tonight's serving at the Content Survey Live restaurant.
A bowl of WA's finest... with a midnight run to boot.
Order up!


Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 3: Night 2: Stephen Quartermain Holds His Own

 "The adventures of the man they call "Quarters",
Presenting sports coverage that knows no borders,
Fresh from South Yarra smelling of liniment,
Makes his old workmate McAvaney look twice for a minute.
The sports presenter that Sydney can only envy,
Introducing: Stephen Quartermain, aplenty."

"bonk" Sorry, Smacka!

Friday, March 1, 2024

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 2: Night 3: Added a Day to Your Year.

Thirty days hath September, April, June and November.
All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February alone,
And that has twenty-eight days clear and twenty-nine in each leap year.

Well, happy February 29...


Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Monday, February 26, 2024

Friday, February 23, 2024

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 1: Night 4: No Way Out of Western Australia

 Whaddya mean there's no eight man tag tonight...
Although, it's 24hrs until WWE Elimination Chamber (also known as WWE No Escape for the German market) packs Optus Stadium with less people than a Taylor Swift concert...

Thursday, February 22, 2024

Monday, February 19, 2024

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 1: Night 1: The Waiting Game.

This post is dedicated to Queensland broadcasting legend, former reporter for the ABC's This Day Tonight, one of the founding members of the Tripod TV collective that produced for Nine Brisbane, Today Tonight between Feburary 1979 and June 1985 (a program he'd ultimately host after the departure of founding compare Glenn Taylor to Seven to start State Affair and the brief run of Andrew Carroll hosting TT post-Taylor departure), a former executive producer for 10's Good Morning Australia, presenter for Business Week, and founding presenter for Seven's TVAM (alongside Kay McGrath), John Barton: who passed away on Saturday (17/2/2024) at the age of 73.

We send our condolences to John's family (including his sons: Sam, Fraser and Hugh, who announced their father's passing this morning on the RATS Facebook page).

Content Survey Live in Feburary…
Welcome to Season Mode.

Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Friday, December 1, 2023

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.

Thursday, November 30, 2023

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

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.


Tuesday, November 28, 2023

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 additionwe 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.

Saturday, September 23, 2023

The 16th annual Kuttsywood's Couch guide to DST delays

Welcome to the 2023/24 DST Guide: a tradition we’ve held dear since 2008: and will continue to hold dear until our politicians get the message that any politician who still believes that the 1992 QLD DST referendum results should still be utilized as a basis for mid-21(st) century political policy in Queensland is not a good politician: especially as we head toward a political generation that will either not have been born or were very young when the 1992 referendum happened who will fight a hell of a lot harder to eliminate the DST borderline than previous generations.

This year, we’ve been preparing this guide since prior to Nine’s upfronts on September 6, and have achieved a significant first: with this guide being published a week early on our Patreon platform: Kuttsywood’s Couch One. In addition, our DST Update service from 2011-2014 over at our former Tumblr presence, will be revived as part of our weekly Veritas on KW: On Sunday product from October 2 (with a two week break over Christmas/New Year).

To support us: visit our Patreon and become a patron.

In addition: we have a update concerning Content Survey Live in 2024.

“Due to reasons within our control, Content Survey Live will not be seen in August 2024. More details are available, on Boxing Day.”

Friday, August 25, 2023

Content Survey Live 2023: The Call of The Tribes: Grand Final: Melbourne V Perth: Night 4 (Melbourne)

 The winner takes all, it's the thrill...


Who will come up with the goods, and assure themselves a sweet, sweet victory?
This is the finale of Content Survey Live for 2023.

Content Survey Live 2023: The Call of The Tribes: Grand Final: Melbourne V Perth Night 3 (Perth)

Well, we are hitting the home straight.
Two nights left... two more impressions.

Friday, August 18, 2023

Content Survey Live 2023: The Call of The Tribes: Preliminary Final Adelaide V Melbourne: Night 3 (Melbourne)

The Lionesses are just 90 minutes away from finally bringing football home.
Will tonight's survey give us a great look at the washup from the Matildas semi final loss?