The 14th annual Kuttsywood's Couch guide to DST delays.

Our Ode to the 2020's
 
The 2020’s are ours to savour.
A decade of exciting change, 
and many things worth looking forward to.
A bicentennial, and many centennials for a state,
that has always looked to the sky.
A capital reshaped by urban renewal, 
and welcoming the world back to our door.
Seeing how sixteen days, eleven years away… 
counts down ever closer with every passing moment.
A decade where television and the internet will blend ever closer.
A decade where those who grew up watching Goss, Borbidge and Beattie,
will start to make their mark on Queensland’s political landscape.

The 2020’s can be Queensland’s golden decade.

And, the “Team for the Twenties” will be able to bring it to you, when it happens.

Welcome, to the 14th annual Daylight Saving guide, here at Kuttsywood’s Couch.

Significant, as we launch this site’s newest incarnation (including a slight change to the right… text alignment-wise, with our titles and widgets now centre aligned for your convenience): but with some news on the side.

With the successful launch of our Twitter expansion, over the first six months of 2021, we are making a major decision as of today. Our original brand extensions, on Tumblr: Kuttsywood’s Couchcushion and Knight Kleaner will be warehoused (a roundabout way to say, they will no longer be updated), and will no longer be accessible from this site directly.

This decision was made, at the early stages of planning for the Veritas on KW/One Queensland launch (done in late 2020), but we have waited until now (partially because this site has been undergoing tuning since the end of Content Survey Live in August), to put this into action.

What the hell was that? This year’s DST guide has undergone a significant facelift. For the first time ever: images will divide the sections up, a major improvement. And to make sure this works: this guide is being worked on for the first time, as early as late July (in the midst of Sydney’s lockdown and the Tokyo Olympics).  

In addition, the DST guide is undergoing it’s first major shakeup since the introduction of radio coverage in 2015, with a revamped layout for television (no longer based off LCNs: but instead, off the primary channel’s position on a Foxtel iQ PVR: that is, instead of 10’s channels coming first, it’ll be Nine’s, followed by the ABC/SBS (now combined), Seven, then 10).

With this, we now introduce our new and improved zonal system for television channels.

SEQ (Metro): Referring to Brisbane and the Gold Coast, served by metropolitan television stations.

GC (Regional): Referring to the Northern NSW regional stations airing on the Gold Coast.

SC (Regional): A Seven-exclusive zone, for the southern half of RegionalTAM’s Maryborough ratings market (consisting of the Sunshine Coast) that operates with regional rather than metro LCN’s.

Rest of QLD: Aggregated Queensland as covered by RegionalTAM that uses regional LCN’s for 9/10 and metro LCN’s for Seven (outside the Sunshine Coast)

Foxtel: Channel as allocated by a Foxtel iQ3/iQ4/iQ5 to a free to air station.

The reference to Nine also means something else significant.

“However: I personally don’t want to extend the ban on Nine’s television assets from this institution into 2022.”

(From last year’s DST guide.)

Why the blue hell, am I still asking the question that Nine has failed outright to answer for 771 days as of today.

By rights, Nine should be out of the guide this year on that fact alone (not to mention the pittance given by the network to viewers concerning the departure from Willoughby last year.)

Yet I am bringing Nine’s content back: no thanks to a Nine that has lost the art of celebrating it’s history, but thanks to one person: who is sitting in Bermuda waiting for Nine to make a offer for his regional stations, so they, much like Fairfax, Stan and Macquarie Radio can become part of the Nine machine.

That person, is Bruce Gordon*

*May appear older than this photo.

Now, that’s out of the way: it’s now time to start asking questions of Nine themselves on a completely different topic.

Mt Coot-tha Memories.

Twice this year, Nine’s Brisbane GM has been outright in the media about one thing: Nine wanting to get off Mount Coot-tha.

First, with the “Brisbane Olympic Bid newsletter” aka the Courier-Mail aka the Courier-Mail-Times-Daily-Chronicle-NewsMail-Herald-Observer-Mercury-Daily Bulletin-News-Daily News-Star.

“Committee for Brisbane vice president and Nine Queensland managing director Kylie Blucher said the mountain could be handed back to the public.

“Changes to the industry have seen the end of most local production and those buildings are no longer fit for purpose,” Ms Blucher said.

“They are tired and expensive to maintain and, from a technical point of view, the stations do not need to be there.

“Channel Nine would happily leave the mountain and hand its lease back. I believe 7 and 10 would do the same.”

Excerpt from Courier-Mail article, ($) 30/5/2021.

And, then with Nine’s Brisbane Times on July 29:

“Nine Queensland managing director and Committee for Brisbane vice-president Kylie Blucher said television networks should shift from Mt Coot-tha to a Brisbane CBD office space.

Ms Blucher said Nine and the other commercial television networks had signed 99-year leases at Mt Coot-tha.

She said the recent catalyst for a shift off the mountain was the decision that Brisbane should host the 2032 Olympics.

She said a working group to discuss a move had been formed.

“With all of those conversations going on, and with such a big focus that will be on Brisbane, surely there is a better use for the mountain,” Ms Blucher said.

“From all of the networks’ perspectives, these are ageing facilities, they are not fit for purpose any more,” she said.”

Excerpt from Brisbane Times article, ($) 29/7/2021.

The first thing’s first: If I were the “Committee For Brisbane”, I’d be more worried that a thinktank if left unchecked, could end up being a backdoor consultancy firm for Nine to plead their case concerning getting off Mount Coot-tha, with a government handout, if the right appointments happen.

Besides: No other commercial television station relocation in this country (whether it was the first: Broadcom moving Ten Sydney to Glebe from North Ryde (which eventually moved to Pyrmont after Canwest took over 10 post-1990 recievership) or the most recent: Nine’s massive relocation from Willoughby to North Sydney last year) has been done using taxpayers money. Only the relocations of ABC state HQ’s from first generation facilities (including Brisbane’s relocation from Toowong to South Bank: after a cancer cluster at Toowong split the ABC over various facilities for five years while new facilities were built) and SBS have warranted money from government at any level.

What I believe needs to happen:

-Consensus needs to be critical, not just on studios leaving Mt Coot-tha, but the future for them. The best option should rightly be: two-thirds preservation if all three commercials leave, total preservation if only one or two leave Mount Coot-tha.

Two-thirds preservation means, what it says: two thirds of the three commercial station sites would be preserved insitu, as examples of their kind: something that can be a selling point to tourism in Brisbane, and those wanting to preserve our broadcast history (especially as some stations like GTV’s Richmond backlot (aka Television City) are now housing with little remnants of their past showing).

Total preservation, means the retention of all three studio facilities on Mount Coot-tha with limited space for other uses. This also would allow for modernization of studios, to attract programming away from Sydney and Melbourne, as well as being a gigantic asset for the 2032 Olympic Games: perfect for the setups NBC and their ilk bring to these events: as opposed to taking up space in the IBC.

-There needs to be no government money involved in the relocation process: that is, George Street can’t simply write a blank cheque for the Brisbane commercials to relocate off the hill: it needs to be pushed hard, that if a commercial network moves off Mount Coot-tha: that it not only has to pay for the move itself, but pay for the remainder of their lease (or flip their lease to a company in the television production sector: e.g NEP) as well as any remediation works after departure.

-News Corp’s site at Bowen Hills needs to be explicitly ruled out as a relocation option, simply because such a move would stoke a possible investigation into any collusion News Corp had with the QLD 2032 bid team in exchange for possible favours concerning the Bowen Hills site: especially with the way the Courier-Mail so lovingly pushed for Queensland’s Olympic bid: not because it was patriotic, but because it wants to make a healthy profit for News Corp (enough to prop up a slowly dying print medium) from the inevitable sale of their land at Bowen Hills (which is within two kilometres radius of four venues (hosting four sports: Cycling (freestyle BMX) at Victoria Park, hockey at Ballymore, basketball (at a new venue near Albion) and equestrian (cross country at Victoria Park, other disciplines at the RNA Showgrounds ) in the QLD Govt/SEQ Mayors master plan submitted to the IOC) allowing them to downsize even further at that location.

2032 Olympics venues (plotted from the masterplan submitted to the IOC in early 2021 by the QLD Government) that are within 2km radius from News Corp's Bowen Hills facility (produced via Google Earth)

-There also needs to be a mandate, that if you move, you must commit to producing more programming in Brisbane, along with a iron clad contract with the state (effectively replacing the Mt Coot-tha lease which would expire at the end of the Mt Coot-tha lease term) that news production (from journalism right up to the bulletins themselves) remains in Queensland: that is, no centralization: and in 10’s case, they’ll be forced to bring news presentation back home. This is to counter the fear in some people’s minds (that a tame media has outright ignored) that downsizing from Mt Coot-tha is the first step towards doing what 10 did this time last year: seeing Brisbane local news read in Sydney with a barely skeleton staff putting the bulletin together in Brisbane itself, which would not be a good look for Australia’s third largest city, let alone a city that is about to host the Olympics in eleven years.

And, then there is the Olympic opportunity. A retained studio facility on Mt Coot-tha (while stations relocate to the inner-city) could be a huge asset for 2032 and beyond. One has to look at what NBC did in Tokyo (8000sqm at the IBC, and a dedicated hotel with presenting position) to see what Mt Coot-tha could be utilized for if post departure when combined with the Screen Queensland facilities at Murrarie: especially if Murrarie could be used as large scale presentation facilities for international rightsholders in addition to Mount Coot-tha and the IBC as well being used as a pre-Games base for OBS (the IOC-run “host broadcaster” for the Olympics and Paralympics).

This would also allow productions that are currently fighting for space in Sydney/Melbourne (especially if Sydney’s Fox Studios gains more major film opps in the longterm: locking out television production), to take a trip to the Sunshine State, especially if they are looking for sites for programs that won’t require much of a audience.

The answer for Blucher, from us thus, is quite simple: If you relocate to the CBD: the station sites on the hill must be retained for television and heritage purposes: because I want future generations to see that television in this country was once a business not run out of floorplates in office towers, but in studio complexes like what once existed in Willoughby and Richmond for Nine, Seven’s Mobbs Lane Epping site, 10’s facility that existed until 2007 at Strangways Terrace in Adelaide (which had a heritage listed house out front (that was retained) with a studio lot behind (that was demolished) and of course: the Dianella commercial trio in Perth (sadly, now all gone for houses).

Thus, the time has come to heritage list our trio of commercial station studios on Mt Coot-tha… before (as the Deen Bros once used as their calling card) all that’s left, are the memories.

And, it’s something our industry in Queensland need to face up to… before they start measuring the floorplan elsewhere.

9Gem (SEQ (Metro): 92 (95 HD), GC (regional): 82 (85 HD): Rest of QLD: 81 (no HD), Foxtel 164 (264 HD, metro only)

This service will be airing on Queensland time.

9GO: (SEQ (Metro): 93/99, GC (regional): 83/88, Rest of QLD: 82, Foxtel 162)

This service will be airing on Queensland time.

9Life: (SEQ (Metro): 94, GC (regional): 84, Rest of QLD: 83, Foxtel: 163 (unavailable to regional subscribers as of posting)

This service will be airing on Queensland time.

9Rush: (SEQ (Metro): 96, unavailable to GC (regional), Rest of QLD and on Foxtel)

This service will be airing on Queensland time.

9 Main channel (SEQ (Metro): 9 (90 HD), GC (regional): 8 (80 HD), Rest of QLD: 8 (80 HD), Foxtel 100 (209 HD)

-News/Public Affairs:

Nine’s locally produced 4pm, 6pm and 5:30 Gold Coast bulletins, will air live into Queensland, however ACA, Today/Today Extra and late night news programming will be delayed by one hour unless major news breaks.

-Sport:

It's absolutely given, that the 2022 Australian Open will be airing live into Queensland in January 2022. There may not be however, the traditional warmup tournaments leading into the two week event at Melbourne Park.

-Programming:

Christmas fare (Lego Masters Celebrity special, The Hundred Xmas special and Carols by Candlelight) will be airing one hour behind the southern states.

Stripped out programming such as the climax for the 2021 season of The Block, Love Island Australia and the 2022 edition of Married at First Sight will also be airing in Queensland one hour behind the southern states, for the entire DST period.

ABC News Channel (Statewide FTA: 24, Foxtel: 642)

This service will be airing on Sydney time for all platforms.

ABC ME: (Statewide FTA: 23, Foxtel: 723)

This service will be airing on Queensland time, unless you have a pre-iQ3 Foxtel setup or a iQ3/iQ4/iQ5 that is not connected to a FTA antenna: where it will run on NSW time.

ABC Kids/ABC TV Plus (i.e. the Bluey channel): (Statewide FTA: 22, Foxtel: 152)

This service will be airing on Queensland time, unless you have a pre-iQ3 Foxtel setup or a iQ3/iQ4/iQ5 that is not connected to a FTA antenna: where it will run on NSW time.

ABC TV (Statewide FTA: 2 (21 HD), Foxtel: 102 (202 HD)

This service will be airing on Queensland time with Queensland content (local ABC News at 7pm), unless you have a pre-iQ3 Foxtel setup or a iQ3/iQ4/iQ5 that is not connected to a FTA antenna: where it will run on NSW time and with a NSW 7pm ABC bulletin (airing at 6pm QLD time).

Sydney NYE:
Tune into Sydney City Council and Veritas on KW on Twitter for updates as we get closer to the end of 2021.

SBS World Movies: (Statewide FTA: 32 (MPEG-4 HD), Foxtel: 432 (HD), 433 (SD)

This service will be airing on Queensland time, unless you have a pre-iQ3 Foxtel setup or a iQ3/iQ4/iQ5 that is not connected to a FTA antenna: where it will run on NSW time and with NSW advertising.

SBS Viceland: (Statewide FTA: 31 (MPEG-4 HD), Foxtel: 170 (SD) 270 (HD)

This service will be airing on Queensland time, unless you have a pre-iQ3 Foxtel setup or a iQ3/iQ4/iQ5 that is not connected to a FTA antenna: where it will run on NSW time and with NSW advertising.

SBS Food: (Statewide FTA: 33, Foxtel: 171)

This service will be airing on Queensland time, unless you have a pre-iQ3 Foxtel setup or a iQ3/iQ4/iQ5 that is not connected to a FTA antenna: where it will run on NSW time and with NSW advertising.

NITV: (Statewide FTA: 34, Foxtel: 172)

This service will be airing on Queensland time, unless you have a pre-iQ3 Foxtel setup or a iQ3/iQ4/iQ5 that is not connected to a FTA antenna: where it will run on NSW time and with NSW advertising.

SBS: (Statewide FTA: 3 (30 HD), Foxtel: 104 (204 HD)

This service will be airing on Queensland time, unless you have a pre-iQ3 Foxtel setup or a iQ3/iQ4/iQ5 that is not connected to a FTA antenna: where it will run on NSW time and with NSW advertising.

7Flix (SEQ (Metro): 76, GC (Regional): 66 , SC (Regional): 66, Rest of QLD: 77, Foxtel: 158)

This service will be airing on Queensland time.

7Mate (SEQ (Metro): 73 (74 HD), GC (Regional): 63 (No HD) , SC (Regional): 63 (64 HD), Rest of QLD: 73 (74 HD), Foxtel: 157 (257 HD).

This service will be airing on Queensland time.

7Two (SEQ (Metro): 72, GC (Regional): 62, SC (Regional): 62, Rest of QLD: 72 , Foxtel: 156)

This service will be airing on Queensland time.

Seven (SEQ (Metro): 7 (70 HD), GC (Regional): 6 (60 HD), SC (Regional): 6 (60 HD), Rest of QLD: 7 (70 HD), Foxtel: 107 (207HD, Brisbane only)

News/Public Affairs:

Seven’s Brisbane-produced 4pm and 6pm news services (of which the Brisbane 6pm bulletin is edited drastically in regional Queensland), Gold Coast-produced 5:30 news service and Maroochydore produced 6pm local news services for regional QLD will air live. The Latest, Sunrise and the Morning Show, will be delayed into Queensland… unless major news breaks.

Sport:

The summer of cricket (Home Ashes + BBL), as well as the 2022 Winter Olympics, Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race, final stages of the V8 Supercar season (with the traditional Mt Panorama 1000k race shifted into December due to NSW issues) and early 2022 AFLW season, will be airing live into Queensland.

Programming:

Big Brother VIP, will be airing delayed into Queensland. 

Programming on 7 for early 2022 that will be affected by DST-related delays, will be communicated via Veritas on KW on Twitter after Seven’s 2022 upfronts on October 12.

10 Shake (SEQ (Metro): 13, GC (Regional): unavailable as of posting, Rest of QLD: 54, Foxtel: Likely to be 168, unavailable as of posting)

This service will be airing on Queensland time.

10 Peach (SEQ (Metro): 11, GC (Regional): 52, Rest of QLD: 52, Foxtel: 167)

This service will be airing on Queensland time.

10 Bold (SEQ (Metro): 12 (MPEG-4 HD), GC (Regional): 51 (SD), Rest of QLD: 53 (SD), Foxtel: 166(SD)

This service will be airing on Queensland time.

However: W-League coverage will most likely be live.

10 (SEQ (Metro): 10 (1/15 HD), GC (Regional): 5 (50 HD), Rest of QLD: 5 (50 HD), Foxtel 110 (210 HD)

News/Public Affairs:

10’s sole Brisbane news bulletin will again be prerecorded (all 18 minutes of it) this year, while Studio 10, The Project and Sunday Project will be delayed into Queensland.

Sport:

Melbourne Cup will be live, along with A-League coverage.

Programming:

Making It, Celebrity Masterchef, The Bachelorette Australia and I’m A Celebrity Australia 2022, will be will be airing in Queensland one hour behind the southern states during the DST period.

Information on programming beyond I’m A Celebrity 2022, will be communicated via Veritas on KW on Twitter after ViacomCBS Australia’s 2022 upfronts on October 20.

Sky News Regional: (GC (regional): 53 , Rest of QLD: 56 , Foxtel (which is actual Sky News) 103)

This service will be airing on Sydney time for all platforms.

The 2001 Federal Cabinet Papers release, will also be on Sydney time (glasses chinking in a house in Sunnybank Hills).

Ray Hadley Morning Show (from 2GB)

A full relay is taken by the following stations:

-4BC Brisbane (part of Nine’s radio division and headed for a frequency swap with sister station 4BH on Friday October 8 from 1116AM to 882AM) 8am-11am during DST and is live into Brisbane. (Significant note: as of October 4, 2GB afternoons will no longer be relayed into Brisbane, with the return of a local afternoon shift.

-4K1G Townsville (indigenous community station) Most likely takes Hadley live.

-4RO Rockhampton (Grant Broadcasting-owned AM talkback station) It is unknown at this time if they will switch to Brisbane-based afternoon radio come October 4… or if whether or not they take Hadley live or on delay.

A partial relay (10am-12pm) is taken by these following stations (all owned by Resonate Broadcasting): 4HI (Emerald 1143 AM and is further relayed to: Dysart 945 AM, Moranbah 1215 AM, Blair Athol 88.1 FM, BHP Blackwater Mine 103.7 FM, Clermont 102.1 FM, Peak Downs 106.9 FM, Goonyella North 92.5 FM, Goonyella Riverside 93.7 FM, Rolleston 100.1 FM, Minerva 104.9 FM), 4LG (Longreach 1098 AM), 4LM (Mt Isa 666 AM, Cloncurry 693 AM), 4SB (Kingaroy, 1071 AM), 4GC (Charters Towers 828 AM), 4VL (918 AM in Charleville and further relayed to 96.5 FM in Cunnamulla, 98.7 FM in Tambo, 93.9 FM in Wyandra, 104.5 FM in Quilpie and 106.1 FM in Augathella), 4ZR (1476 AM in Roma and is further relayed to 104.5 FM in Mitchell and 105.3 FM in St George) 4DB/4EM (branded as Hot Country QLD, 1629 AM in Kingaroy, 1611 AM in Dalby, Emerald, Goondiwindi, Roma and St George). This partial relay is most likely delayed during DST.

Australia Today (4hr program for SCA’s Listnr app: last two hours airs on 4GR Toowoomba and Triple M Fraser Coast 9-11am): Terrestrial radio will be on Queensland time: however Listnr feed will be live: unless you choose to listen on demand.

Hit Network Drive (4-6pm, airing on B105 Brisbane, SEA FM GC, Hit Fraser Coast, Mackay and The Whitsundays, Tablelands, South Burnett, Mt Isa, Maranoa, Townsville, Emerald, Darling Downs, Cairns and CQ and the Listnr app) Terrestrial radio will be on Queensland time: however Listnr feed will be live (if you choose to listen to a out of state Hit station): unless you choose to listen on demand.

Triple M Network Drive (4-6pm, airing on 4MMM Brisbane, Gold FM GC, Triple M Fraser Coast, Mackay and the Whitsundays, Townsville, CQ, Bundaberg and Cairns, 4GR Toowoomba and the Listnr app) Terrestrial radio will be on Queensland time: however Listnr feed will be live (if you choose to listen to a out of state MMM station): unless you choose to listen on demand.

Repackaged Fitzy and Wippa (5-6pm, airing on Zinc 96.1 (Sunshine Coast), 4-5pm, Hitz 93.9 (Bundaberg), Star 101.9 (Mackay), Star 106.3 (Townsville), Star 102.7 (Cairns), 6-7pm Nova 106.9 (Brisbane): due to the nature of it being a repackaged product: it won’t necessarily be live, as it consists of highlights of Nova Sydney breakfast.

Nova Network Drive (3-6pm Nova 106.9 (Brisbane), 5-7pm Hitz 93.9 (Bundaberg), Star 101.9 (Mackay), Star 106.3 (Townsville), Star 102.7 (Cairns) Terrestrial radio will be on Queensland time: however online feed will be live (if you choose to listen to a out of state Nova station): unless you choose to listen on demand.

KIIS/MIX Network Drive (4-6pm, 97.3fm, Brisbane)

Terrestrial radio will be on Queensland time: however iHeartRadio feed will be live (if you choose to listen to a out of state KIIS/MIX station): unless you choose to listen on demand.

That is it, for this year's DST Guide: a guide this year that is a symbol of rebirth.
Join us on this site on the night of October 27, for the first post this site will post under the OneQueensland brand, fittingly called: 100 Years On: A Road to Upper House Revival.

Marking the centenary of the abolition of Queensland's Legislative Council (thus referred to as the "upper house": as opposed to the "lower house" that is the Queensland Legislative Assembly), 100 Years On: A Road to Upper House Revival, will look at the problems facing a unicameral legislature for 5 million people, in the years to come (a potential to have the number of state electorates in Queensland hit triple figures), and the possibility we could avoid such a mess, with a simple act of redrawing the Queensland electoral map (to avoid a situation, where the Gold and Sunshine Coasts become a electoral bloc in itself) alongside the reintroduction of a upper house in Queensland (which would be held to the same standard as others interstate and add additional representation to regions currently lacking a voice).

Join us, won't you: on October 27?