A stormy arrival for Content Survey Live in summer...
What's coming tonight?
Welcome to Night 2, of the first round of Content Survey Live for 2024.
Last night, Brisbane's Monday night turned out to stink, thanks to just one story. However, tonight we make history in the hybrid stakes. With a storm hitting Sydney at midday, we know there may be a chance that the Sydney side of the Sydney/Brisbane hybrid may well be the winner of the first fixture of this round.
Let's go over the ground rules for Content Survey Live:
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.
-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.
-And finally: Some special rules will apply to certain events, e.g. Monday Night's "Hometown Rule" (where the city listed first, is obliged to be surveyed first), Brisbane's GC content count, and one for tomorrow night: analysis of story order from tonight's Sydney bulletin after the local window, and whether it is different from Brisbane's story order in the same time period.
Now, let's hear the tale of the tape for Sydney leading into 2024.
A Flood of Memories, 1974 Revisited
(thanks to some Brisbane Telegraph and Sunday Sun microfiche at SLQ)
Today, we look back at Feburary 19, 1974
The big front page story that afternoon, was of a significant landslip that occurred as a side-effect of the weather conditions that caused the 1974 flood event, in the southwestern suburb of Corinda. It ultimately severed Cliveden Street (once a through link that bypassed the Oxley Station business centre) into two sections: east, from the the site of the landslide to Oxley Road and ultimately the Corinda Golf Club, and west, toward the QCL cement wharf at 17 Mile Rocks (today, Rocks Riverside Park), while only a bicycle path now links the two halves of Cliveden Street.
(Telegraph's front page 19/2/1974 concerning the Corinda landslip)
Well, that's it for the first two Content Survey Live survey's of round 1. On Thursday, we have Adelaide's turn at the plate and on Friday: we'll have Perth's only appearance in the summer Content Survey Live survey rounds (due to their Round 2 bye next week). Enjoy the mid week break, we'll see you on Thursday night.
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Last night, Brisbane's Monday night turned out to stink, thanks to just one story. However, tonight we make history in the hybrid stakes. With a storm hitting Sydney at midday, we know there may be a chance that the Sydney side of the Sydney/Brisbane hybrid may well be the winner of the first fixture of this round.
Let's go over the ground rules for Content Survey Live:
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.
-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.
-And finally: Some special rules will apply to certain events, e.g. Monday Night's "Hometown Rule" (where the city listed first, is obliged to be surveyed first), Brisbane's GC content count, and one for tomorrow night: analysis of story order from tonight's Sydney bulletin after the local window, and whether it is different from Brisbane's story order in the same time period.
Now, let's hear the tale of the tape for Sydney leading into 2024.
SYDNEY:
The performance by Sydney, in last year’s second semi-final was marginally better than Brisbane: but as we all know from yesterday, the game can change with thirty less minutes to play with. Thus, we collected some additional data during Brisbane’s news last night: that concerning the order national stories after the local window were run. We believe, if the order has not changed: it could mean one thing, parts of 10’s news are still pre-recorded (much like they will have to be come April unless the Gilding rumors turn up to be correct) for the Brisbane market.
A standalone news service for Sydney, is a must... no matter the cost.
We open tonights survey (Whenever we say "Tonight" of course, we are looking back on Monday night's news, mind you not Tuesday's bulletin) with the storm and Botanic Gardens lightning strike leading the bulletin, followed by a sentencing for a 92yr old after a fatal Carlingford crash in 2022, the continuing debacle concerning mulch laced with asbestos, the Taylor Swift story that got shunted to the post-local window slot in Brisbane (complete with a Sydney-specific intro), and a announcement on new preschools funded by the state government.
A standalone news service for Sydney, is a must... no matter the cost.
We open tonights survey (Whenever we say "Tonight" of course, we are looking back on Monday night's news, mind you not Tuesday's bulletin) with the storm and Botanic Gardens lightning strike leading the bulletin, followed by a sentencing for a 92yr old after a fatal Carlingford crash in 2022, the continuing debacle concerning mulch laced with asbestos, the Taylor Swift story that got shunted to the post-local window slot in Brisbane (complete with a Sydney-specific intro), and a announcement on new preschools funded by the state government.
No live crosses, but two voiced over pieces in the local window (another Star Sydney inquiry, and someone keying cars in a NW Sydney carpark), and one in the last segment before sport: another sentencing, this time concerning a fiery accident on the Harbour Bridge in 2022.
Traffic in Sydney tonight is indoors due to the weather conditions.
One sports story tonight: with the headline, "Outbound Bunnies", also revealing the encouragement for South Sydney to play well and be good: no sightseeing until after the Vegas game, while a V/O'd omnibus of Sydney A-League results is 100% better than the ignorance the Roar received in the Brisbane version of the bulletin.
Although this...
... makes it look like someone's going to come out at Optus Stadium in Perth on Saturday night for WWE Elimination Chamber armed with a cricket bat.
Let's now look at the post-local window in Sydney:
Barely changed from Brisbane (the Minneapolis story is omitted) the order is as follows.
A story on new Navy ships (that ran in the local window in Brisbane) the death of 2021 Melbourne Cup winner Verry Elleegant, a story from a survivor of "that" mushroom story from last year, piece on Israel situation, protests against Putin, sandstorms in China (although a Chinese blizzard was also added to the Sydney version), a fire at a recycling plant for batteries in France, latest on King Charles, afore mentioned V/O piece on the Harbour Bridge 2022 crash sentencing, the mankini horserider, and a piece on the BAFTAs.
Traffic in Sydney tonight is indoors due to the weather conditions.
One sports story tonight: with the headline, "Outbound Bunnies", also revealing the encouragement for South Sydney to play well and be good: no sightseeing until after the Vegas game, while a V/O'd omnibus of Sydney A-League results is 100% better than the ignorance the Roar received in the Brisbane version of the bulletin.
Although this...
Let's now look at the post-local window in Sydney:
Barely changed from Brisbane (the Minneapolis story is omitted) the order is as follows.
A story on new Navy ships (that ran in the local window in Brisbane) the death of 2021 Melbourne Cup winner Verry Elleegant, a story from a survivor of "that" mushroom story from last year, piece on Israel situation, protests against Putin, sandstorms in China (although a Chinese blizzard was also added to the Sydney version), a fire at a recycling plant for batteries in France, latest on King Charles, afore mentioned V/O piece on the Harbour Bridge 2022 crash sentencing, the mankini horserider, and a piece on the BAFTAs.
Overall: Sydney has played their A-game tonight... at the cost of a exhausted Sandra by the time the Brisbane bulletin ends at 7pm Sydney time. The first ever same night comparison between Sydney and Brisbane, as a hybrid bulletin has revealed itself as a situation of haves and have nots.
Sydney has the resources to stand alone... Brisbane has not, and it shows entirely in both this and the Brisbane survey yesterday.
The Scores:
Five local stories: two more than Brisbane tonight.
Four voiced over pieces: three more than Brisbane tonight.
No live crosses (the only metric Brisbane beat Sydney in tonight)
One sports piece (dead even with Brisbane)
Last year the Sydney bulletin scored 2/10 and 2.25/10
Tonight in round 1, Sydney's bulletin scored a 5/10:
a figure, again: slightly better than the combined figures from last year.
This now means, we can announce a winner for the first "fixture" of this year's Content Survey Live.
Brisbane, recieved a 2/10.
Sydney recieved a 5/10.
Sydney wins the first fixture of Content Survey Live: and is awarded two points, and is now sharing the lead this year with Melbourne (who got two points for their bye this week). The full ladder will be revealed on Veritas on KW: On Sunday later this week once all results are in.
Sydney has the resources to stand alone... Brisbane has not, and it shows entirely in both this and the Brisbane survey yesterday.
The Scores:
Five local stories: two more than Brisbane tonight.
Four voiced over pieces: three more than Brisbane tonight.
No live crosses (the only metric Brisbane beat Sydney in tonight)
One sports piece (dead even with Brisbane)
Last year the Sydney bulletin scored 2/10 and 2.25/10
Tonight in round 1, Sydney's bulletin scored a 5/10:
a figure, again: slightly better than the combined figures from last year.
This now means, we can announce a winner for the first "fixture" of this year's Content Survey Live.
Brisbane, recieved a 2/10.
Sydney recieved a 5/10.
Sydney wins the first fixture of Content Survey Live: and is awarded two points, and is now sharing the lead this year with Melbourne (who got two points for their bye this week). The full ladder will be revealed on Veritas on KW: On Sunday later this week once all results are in.
A Flood of Memories, 1974 Revisited
(thanks to some Brisbane Telegraph and Sunday Sun microfiche at SLQ)
Today, we look back at Feburary 19, 1974
The big front page story that afternoon, was of a significant landslip that occurred as a side-effect of the weather conditions that caused the 1974 flood event, in the southwestern suburb of Corinda. It ultimately severed Cliveden Street (once a through link that bypassed the Oxley Station business centre) into two sections: east, from the the site of the landslide to Oxley Road and ultimately the Corinda Golf Club, and west, toward the QCL cement wharf at 17 Mile Rocks (today, Rocks Riverside Park), while only a bicycle path now links the two halves of Cliveden Street.
(Telegraph's front page 19/2/1974 concerning the Corinda landslip)
Well, that's it for the first two Content Survey Live survey's of round 1. On Thursday, we have Adelaide's turn at the plate and on Friday: we'll have Perth's only appearance in the summer Content Survey Live survey rounds (due to their Round 2 bye next week). Enjoy the mid week break, we'll see you on Thursday night.
A reminder: if you enjoyed this, follow us on Patreon (and perhaps become one of our patrons: helping us build our way to a dynamic future), or our socials: on X, Bluesky, and Mastodon, as well as our official Facebook page.
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