Content Survey Live U.S.A: Pool 1, Night 4: There's Only One...

 The last night of the first pool... and we are going to say... good evening Baltimore.

Content Survey Live U.S.A: Pool 1: Night 3: Lighting Up The Bay

 Will tonight's survey be as reliable as BART? (No, seriously: comparing ourselves with a transit system... that's new.)

Content Survey Live: U.S.A: Pool 1: Night 2: Three Rivers... One Dream.

 Three rivers, one shot at Content Survey Live glory.

Content Survey Live: U.S.A. Pool 1, Night 1: A Content Survey... State Of Mind.

This post, is dedicated to New York news legend, Ernie Anastos: who passed away on the 12th of March, at the age of 82.

America: your survey is ready.

History beckons for a series that has made kept a track record of Australian television news history for half a decade. Because it’s history, we are bound to record.

Content Survey Live, has had it’s share of midnight rides, and a record that would put Paul Revere himself to the test. The signals that kicked off the ride by Paul Revere at the start of the Revolutionary War 251 years ago were simple. One if by land, two if by sea, lanterns at top of Boston’s Old North Church, to start the fateful ride.

Today, it’s 0s and 1’s down a underwater fibre cable or up in a satellite, and they show up on the other side of the world at the same time, perhaps faster than a single movement of Revere’s horse so long ago.

But the most important thing such a series like ours, has done and will do for as long as we do so, is to honour the right of a free press: something that Thomas Jefferson implored for, most famously in a letter to John Jay in January, 1786.

“It is really to be lamented that after a public servant has passed a life in important and faithful services, after having given the most plenary satisfaction in every station, it should yet be in the power of every individual to disturb his quiet, by arraigning him in a gazette and by obliging him to act as if he needed a defence, an obligation imposed on him by unthinking minds which never give themselves the trouble of seeking a reflection unless it be presented to them. However it is a part of the price we pay for our liberty, which cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press, nor that be limited without danger of losing it.”

Excerpt from “Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 25 January 1786,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-09-02-0190. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 9, 1 November 1785 – 22 June 1786, ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1954, p. 215.]

America, this year marked 240 years since that letter was written… with little more than a glance: the focus being on July 4: and a nation’s 250th birthday.

For the next month or so, we will be capturing the spirit of America, through a content survey journey wending in and out of sixteen different cities, as we lead into that milestone on July the 4th, and perhaps capture the mood at these CBS stations about to lose their most important thing they have: their late news leadout.

America: your survey is ready. And we are about to kick it off real big. Monday Night in the Big Apple. Because, if we are going to make it there… we’ll make it anywhere.

It’s up to you, New York, New York.

Content Survey Live: U.S.A: Full-Time Fallout.

A Hawaiian eye on US sport's biggest night.

This is Full-Time Fallout.

Welcome, to the first ever American survey for Content Survey Live (the first competitive one however,
is next month, when New York stakes it's claim) a event, that has had more changes than hot dinners.

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...

kwNetwork Select: 2026

 America… are you ready for some content survey…

Content Survey Live USA: will arrive here at the start of May sweeps in 2026 (it is unknown which date we are going for)… but we first are proud to announce our significant move for the 2026 season: a first for us.

You will have to expect twenty six mentions at least of… Surfshark during the 2026 content survey season, most likely preceding every survey next year. 

Because, we believe that a VPN is more than a gateway to watching geoblocked content… it’s a vital part of our digital lives, especially if it can help keep you safe online. Follow our link, and it helps us deliver better content.

Content Survey Live: U.S.A. Night Zero.

 America, your survey is almost ready.

Welcome, to Night Zero: for Content Survey Live: U.S.A.

The 18th annual Kuttsywood's Couch guide to DST delays

Welcome to this year’s DST Guide live, and in living colour this September 27.

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Grand Final: Game 3, Part 2

 Halftime, of Game 3...

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Grand Final: Game 3, Part 1

 A new game cometh.

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Grand Final: Game 2, Part 2

 Halftime, has arrived for Game 2.

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Grand Final: Game 2, Part 1

 A new game, a new day.

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Grand Final: Game 1, Part 2

 Halftime has arrived for Game 1...

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Grand Final: Game 1, Part 1

 You've made it to the final...

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Four Quarter Blitz: Quarter 4.

 Who is off, to the five days in July...

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Four Quarter Blitz: Quarter 3.

 The premiership quarter cometh...

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Four Quarter Blitz: Quarter 2.

 The halftime hooter is about to sound for finals week...

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Four Quarter Blitz: Quarter 1.

 Welcome to finals season...

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Round 5, Night 4: The Australian Nightmare.

Adrenaline, in my soul, will Sydney lose four in a row?

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Round 5, Night 3: The Last Run For The Midnight Rider.

 Ain’t going to catch me though…

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…

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Round 5, Night 1: Survey of Origin 2: Part 1.

 It’s that time of year. State V State… oh wait.

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Round 4: Night 4: The Fremantle Doctor is: IN

The wind is blowing the last of round 4 into view…

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Round 4: Night 3: The Ripponlea Demolition Blues

 RIP: ABC Ripponlea Studios, home of Countdown, 1956-2025.

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Round 4: Night 2: Brisbane: Headed 2.T.h.e. Grand Final?

 Has Brisbane hit the plateau… or is there a new hero in town?

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Round 4: Night 1: Last Year’s Champ: Their Last Stand?

 The downhill stretch to a blitz and grand final begins now.

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Round 3: Night 4: Crowing For Survival, Part 2

 2500km round trip and I only watched Sandra once… before tonight.

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Round 3: Night 3: Crowing For Survival, Part 1

 A reminder, this post is not sponsored by Slovakia's premier lens manufacturer, Feckarse Industries…

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Round 3: Night 2: The Second Quarter Tango

Halfway through another fixture…

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Round 3: Night 1: A 2500km Round Trip Just To Get To Round 3

 Round 3 of Content Survey Live 2025, has finally arrived.

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Round 2: Night 4: The Post-Sharyn Conversation Part 2.

 The conversation continues... as we remember, this Anzac Day with the most powerful part of Laurence Binyon's 1914 poem "For The Fallen":

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning.
We will remember them.

Lest we forget.

The final night of the second round of Content Survey Live in 2025, is dedicated to the journalists and war correspondents who put their lives on the line on the battlefield to give us the story from the frontline, as well as to the memory of the Balibo Five (Greg Shackleton, Tony Stewart, Gary Cunningham, Brian Peters and Malcolm Rennie), and the Australian journalist who went to East Timor (just before the Indonesian invasion) to find out about the Balibo Five's fate, only to not come home himself: Roger East.

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Round 2: Night 3: The Post-Sharyn Conversation: Part 1.

 The conversation eight months in the making...

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Round 2: Night 2: Max Burford's Day Off.

 What, do you mean we couldn't afford Ferris Bueller?

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Round 2: Night 1: Pope Francis Steals The Show.

 Don't you just love public holiday Mondays... and then big news breaks a hour before airtime?

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Round 1: Night 4: So, We All Have To Deal With Basil Now?

 This post is not sponsored by West Coast Cooler…

Welcome to the final survey of the first week of 2025’s Content Survey Live.

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Round 1: Night 3: Bloody Alf(red)

 Content Survey Live, at this time pays tribute to the people who have worked their guts out concerning Cyclone Alfred, and it’s recovery over the last month. You are all the real heroes of this unprecedented event for SE Queensland, the Fraser Coast and Northern NSW, and deserve the praise.

Welcome, to the second half of the first week of survey for Content Survey Live in 2025. Tonight, Brisbane, steps up to the plate, for the first time this year.

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Round 1: Night 2: This Is It… Night Two That Is

 Hey look us over, now we are here: second night of Content Survey Live in 2025, with no commercials here…

This, is it: Night 2 of Content Survey Live for 2025… the first ever weekend publication of a CSL survey, and tonight it’s Melbourne’s turn to turn up the fight.

Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Round 1: Night 1: Content Survey Spells Magic

Content Survey Live in 2025 kicking off on a Friday night… We are going to have a good time tonight.

Dedicated, to Harry Vanda (still with us, at 78), and George Young (who passed away in 2017), who shaped the Australian sound of the sixties and seventies as ARIA Hall of Fame songwriting pair, Vanda and Young: responsible for John Paul Young’s hits from 1975 onward, “Friday on My Mind” for the Easybeats (of which Vanda and Young were members, alongside lead singer Stevie Wright (who passed away in 2015) and all three parts of Evie, sung by Stevie Wright, as his biggest solo hit.

We salute the team that gave us JPY’s hits, especially as this year’s tagline is named after one of them.

kwNetwork Select: 2025

Welcome, to Boxing Day, welcome to the KW Network Select for 2025.

A reminder: of our Hugh Cornish obit, we posted to Kuttsywood's Couch late on Monday night (23/12/2024, if reading this in the new year).

Vale: Hugh Cornish AM

 Hubert Kestell Cornish, known to many as Hugh Cornish: the first face on television in Queensland, and ultimately Queensland's last living link to the genesis of our TV industry in the late 1950's and early 1960's sadly passed away on December 11, 2024 at the age of 90.

Hugh's career in the television medium was one that began, with the introduction of the first filmed news footage for Queensland television (Princess Alexandria on her way from Canberra to Brisbane for Queensland's centennial celebrations), and ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, both in on-air and off-air roles, before exploring new frontiers in the arts sector throughout the 1990's, before becoming the elder statesman of Queensland's TV industry for twenty years until his passing.

But like every great story, Hugh's has it's beginnings somewhere.

(Thanks to Hugh's autobiography "Funny You Should Ask", for the help about transcribing his life up until 1996. If you ever stumble on it at Brisbane's Lifeline Bookfest or somewhere else, it is a great read.)

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.

The 17th annual Kuttsywood's Couch guide to DST delays

Welcome to this year’s DST Guide live, and in living colour this September 28.

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.

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.

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 5: Night 4: Everyone's Making It But Brisbane.

 It's the final countdown. The end of Content Survey Live's longest adventure.