Content Survey Live's only March outing this year is tonight.
Can Feburary March? No, April May.
Welcome to the final night of the second round of Content Survey Live for 2024. Last night Brisbane failed to make a outright impression to score points, tonight it's the sole summer season appearance for last year's winner's Melbourne in this game.
For the last time until April... Let's look at the ground rules.
For the last time until April... Let's look at the ground rules.
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, something we ran last Monday: analysis of story order from Sydney bulletin's 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 Melbourne.
MELBOURNE:
Last year's Content Survey Live champions pulled off their task without their biggest hitter being onboard. Jennifer Keyte is easily 10's biggest asset, and the return of the 2023 champions to this series is set to be one to watch, whether or not Keyte is there tonight. The challenge tonight is vastly different than what has laid before. The pre-season coverage by Perth and Adelaide has been stellar, but it is now time to see if Melbourne's take on pre-season: with the AFL season about to kick off in just six days, is up to snuff: Content Survey Live titles aren't won on the first night: they are won on the last night.
Let's get ready to survey... Melbourne.
And, yes, tonight, the queen of the news beat, Jennnnifer Keeeyte is back.
(We so need to have Steve Vizard do that intro)
Tonight, we open up with a full story on a death in Fitzroy after the Telstra OOO network went down early this morning, a shooting in Fawkner, a live cross/story on the Dunkley by-election in Frankston that lasted less time than the average Frankston joke: followed by voiced over pieces on arson arrests, a vigil for Celeste Manno, a raid on a South Yarra compounding pharmacy by the TGA and a seal rescue on Port Phillp Bay.
We also get stories on the price of coffee in Melbourne, the HMAS Cerberus open day this weekend and the now ubiquitous "Must Do Melbourne", now in the final window of Friday's news before the weather (previously being post-6pm in 2023)
Melbourne's sports coverage again A1, with a live cross from a AFL practice match, a piece on St Kilda's lead-up to the season (where I think the reporter lost a bet in the office, concerning running a story where the word injury is not mentioned once (esp. with two calf injuries to the St Kilda lineup pre-season) blended in with two practice matches on the opposite side of the Barassi memorial line, as well as a NBL story.
Melbourne's weather, is being presented still in a space, the size of a room in Josh Holt's house.
Overall, Melbourne tonight has come into this season with a clear reminder why they went all the way last season: although, now they have Adelaide nipping their feet going into the April round.
The scores:
Five local stories (equal to Adelaide on Monday night)
Five voiced over stories (equal to Sydney on Monday night)
Two live crosses (thankfully not wasted on Las Vegas)
A meaty sports presentation... again without Quarters.
Last year's championship run by Melbourne: SF1: 9/10, 8/10 PF: 5.4/10, 6/10, GF 7/10, 7/10.
Tonight: Melbourne scored: 7/10 (matching their GF numbers last year)
Melbourne only needed to score above 1/10 tonight to get the two points for this fixture and a share of the lead for this year. It has sent a message to any challenger, and has put it's stamp on this year's competition... hard and fast, with the best score of the week overall, with Adelaide on Monday night only 1.2/10 behind.
MELBOURNE:
Last year's Content Survey Live champions pulled off their task without their biggest hitter being onboard. Jennifer Keyte is easily 10's biggest asset, and the return of the 2023 champions to this series is set to be one to watch, whether or not Keyte is there tonight. The challenge tonight is vastly different than what has laid before. The pre-season coverage by Perth and Adelaide has been stellar, but it is now time to see if Melbourne's take on pre-season: with the AFL season about to kick off in just six days, is up to snuff: Content Survey Live titles aren't won on the first night: they are won on the last night.
Let's get ready to survey... Melbourne.
And, yes, tonight, the queen of the news beat, Jennnnifer Keeeyte is back.
(We so need to have Steve Vizard do that intro)
Tonight, we open up with a full story on a death in Fitzroy after the Telstra OOO network went down early this morning, a shooting in Fawkner, a live cross/story on the Dunkley by-election in Frankston that lasted less time than the average Frankston joke: followed by voiced over pieces on arson arrests, a vigil for Celeste Manno, a raid on a South Yarra compounding pharmacy by the TGA and a seal rescue on Port Phillp Bay.
We also get stories on the price of coffee in Melbourne, the HMAS Cerberus open day this weekend and the now ubiquitous "Must Do Melbourne", now in the final window of Friday's news before the weather (previously being post-6pm in 2023)
Melbourne's sports coverage again A1, with a live cross from a AFL practice match, a piece on St Kilda's lead-up to the season (where I think the reporter lost a bet in the office, concerning running a story where the word injury is not mentioned once (esp. with two calf injuries to the St Kilda lineup pre-season) blended in with two practice matches on the opposite side of the Barassi memorial line, as well as a NBL story.
Melbourne's weather, is being presented still in a space, the size of a room in Josh Holt's house.
Overall, Melbourne tonight has come into this season with a clear reminder why they went all the way last season: although, now they have Adelaide nipping their feet going into the April round.
The scores:
Five local stories (equal to Adelaide on Monday night)
Five voiced over stories (equal to Sydney on Monday night)
Two live crosses (thankfully not wasted on Las Vegas)
A meaty sports presentation... again without Quarters.
Last year's championship run by Melbourne: SF1: 9/10, 8/10 PF: 5.4/10, 6/10, GF 7/10, 7/10.
Tonight: Melbourne scored: 7/10 (matching their GF numbers last year)
Melbourne only needed to score above 1/10 tonight to get the two points for this fixture and a share of the lead for this year. It has sent a message to any challenger, and has put it's stamp on this year's competition... hard and fast, with the best score of the week overall, with Adelaide on Monday night only 1.2/10 behind.
A Flood Of Memories: 1974 Revisited.
(thanks to some Brisbane Telegraph and Sunday Sun microfiche over at SLQ)
With the timeskip, we are now at March 1, 1974.
That day, explains the shortness of the Queen's visit to Australia: with the first stories coming in about the first of two UK general elections in that year: a election used as a game of brinkmanship fresh off the 1973 oil crisis, and incidentally, the only big international story to make the front page in this first run of Flood of Memories.
(Brisbane Telegraph front page 1/3/1974)
The gamble by UK PM Ted Heath (part of a wider gamble, including the introduction of a three day week to conserve electricity supplies: just as winter started to bite, against the possibility of a coal workers strike, that ultimately happened) cost him his job as PM, and put in a minority Labour government that ultimately got a slim majority in the October 1974 UK general election, before being itself wiped out in 1979 after the Winter of Discontent.
A interesting statistic concerning today's British politics we can share here that is related to a 28th of Feburary UK federal election: Yesterday's Rochdale by-election, was the first UK by-election to be held on the 29th of Feburary for eighty years: the previous was the 1944 Bury St Edmonds by-election (held in the middle of the Second World War).
Meanwhile, a article was published that gave us the full rainfall statistics for summer in Brisbane that year.
(Brisbane rainfall article)
Well, that is it for the Feburary round of Content Survey Live: Season Mode, a summertime first. Melbourne and Adelaide are tied for the lead as we go into the sole week in April (with Adelaide set to sit out their bye) kicking off on April 8, with Sydney V Melbourne on Monday night with the Hometown Rule residing in the Harbour City that round, and Perth V Brisbane over Thursday/Friday of that week. After that, we have the five day Brisbane-only special, "City With A Golden Anniversary" from May 13-17 whose results will not count towards Season Mode rankings, and then: the final two weeks of Content Survey Live for 2024 from the 20th to the 31st of May.
And, remember: a current ladder will become available on Veritas on KW on Sunday, on Sunday morning.
Thank you again, and let's continue the season in April.
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.
That day, explains the shortness of the Queen's visit to Australia: with the first stories coming in about the first of two UK general elections in that year: a election used as a game of brinkmanship fresh off the 1973 oil crisis, and incidentally, the only big international story to make the front page in this first run of Flood of Memories.
The gamble by UK PM Ted Heath (part of a wider gamble, including the introduction of a three day week to conserve electricity supplies: just as winter started to bite, against the possibility of a coal workers strike, that ultimately happened) cost him his job as PM, and put in a minority Labour government that ultimately got a slim majority in the October 1974 UK general election, before being itself wiped out in 1979 after the Winter of Discontent.
A interesting statistic concerning today's British politics we can share here that is related to a 28th of Feburary UK federal election: Yesterday's Rochdale by-election, was the first UK by-election to be held on the 29th of Feburary for eighty years: the previous was the 1944 Bury St Edmonds by-election (held in the middle of the Second World War).
Meanwhile, a article was published that gave us the full rainfall statistics for summer in Brisbane that year.
(Brisbane rainfall article)
Well, that is it for the Feburary round of Content Survey Live: Season Mode, a summertime first. Melbourne and Adelaide are tied for the lead as we go into the sole week in April (with Adelaide set to sit out their bye) kicking off on April 8, with Sydney V Melbourne on Monday night with the Hometown Rule residing in the Harbour City that round, and Perth V Brisbane over Thursday/Friday of that week. After that, we have the five day Brisbane-only special, "City With A Golden Anniversary" from May 13-17 whose results will not count towards Season Mode rankings, and then: the final two weeks of Content Survey Live for 2024 from the 20th to the 31st of May.
And, remember: a current ladder will become available on Veritas on KW on Sunday, on Sunday morning.
Thank you again, and let's continue the season in April.
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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