Yesterday, it was TVQ’s 50th: Today, it’s Content Survey Live’s 50th edition.
Hey did you know, hey did you know, It’s TVQ’s 50th anniversary of news you know…
Do you recall, the big story of mid-1980? When TVQ chose Haydn Sargent for a third current affairs product at 6:30… and it only lasted six months, you see?
While the other members of it’s network began to own the hour outright,
TVQ was stuck in a huge rut and tried hard to make it right…
Joining in the local late news fight, with excess content it couldn’t show at 6pm at night,
Experimenting with Jacki Mac reading at 6, while a bevy of talent was making a buzzworthy sprint.
But one duo finally worked: and was all because Jacki chose Daryl over Brissie.
Kay McGrath rose from the ranks and was finally paired with Des at weeknights, made waves in places people dared, while the station changed hands just before the LA Olympics… and Qintex dared…
“Too good to be true…”
Skase’s run shouldn’t be discounted, it started with TVQ’s news moving to a hour in early ’85, storming on home like the horse could thrive, along with recruiting from the BOM, their head Ray Wilkie.
Technology got even better and as a result: Des anchored the news from Vancouver and Lausanne via a satellite’s bolt. Skase signed up the station to the Expo 88 dream, adapted Gari’s newest product for his star news team: The Bonj’s Walkley run led him to the network’s Canberra scene, and Qintex bought the competition clean, forcing a sale to Toowoomba, and two countdowns were on: Kay left the building, Des headed elsewhere, Expo’s output was the highlight of the world’s fair… and a conversion to 10, and ultimately new owners again: who would see the station and network it’d acquired become a slippery fish at end of the eighties...
Tonight, we look at TVQ's news the night after probably, the best bulletin it's had for at least two years. Tonight, federal budget night: is also our fiftieth Content Survey Live-branded survey since 2020 here on Kuttsywood's Couch.
And, now the ground rules.
The ground rules in “The City with A Golden Anniversary” event are as follows:
-Local packaged stories count as marks: Those produced in Brisbane with a national angle do not count.
-If it was sourced overnight in Brisbane (replacing the “Live Cross”) by either a news crew or a pool, it will be marked once if it is a voiced over piece, and marked twice if a full story has resulted from it. We call this specific number each night, the "Ray Robinson Number".
-Local sports stories count regardless of whether the sports reporter shows their face.
-And, a encouragement for 10 to return their bulletin home to Queensland. Weather will count in this Content Survey Live event.
In addition, all marks will be totalled, and local stories, sport and voiced over content will be compared with the Great Local News Study results of 2019 at the end of the week.
As well: For the first time ever for a Content Survey Live series entry: our paper surveys will also be available to peruse.
Let us begin the second night, of a very special Content Survey Live event...
Tonight's bulletin opens with a national story about the federal budget, and a awkward request by the QLD premier about migration, followed by a full story on the Totai Kefu break-in verdict that happened 24hrs ago, a live report at Fernberg for a bravery award ceremony: highlighted by Steven Bradbury receiving a bravery medal for rescuing four people from the surf at Caloundra in 2022, a two point overnight story (first time for this event), for a fire in Mango Hill, a voiced over piece about the end of the state government supermarket inquiry, and a piece on the recovery of basketballer Grace George from a serious injury.
Meanwhile, local sports stories on the NRL and AFL beats, and the appointment of Johan Botha to the Queensland Bulls as new coach.
The score:
Four local packaged stories (one was a live report).
One V/O'd piece, and a two point overnight story giving us a Ray Robinson Number of three.
Local Weather at 5.24 and pre-6pm
Three sports stories.
Tomorrow night will be interesting: the post budget washup.
A Flood of Memories: 1974 revisited:
(thanks to some Brisbane Telegraph and Sunday Sun microfiche over at SLQ)
Today we pick up the Telegraph on the second night of TVQ’s news in 1974, with a big lead story: potential firefighter industrial action in Queensland, alongside a preview for the then outskirt Brookfield Show (which was a two day event in 1974: and somehow couldn’t move away from the federal election that year, while this year: Brookfield is holding a three day event.)
Meanwhile, again: Seven shone their credentials to try and get commuters stuck in their Telegraph’s away from the new option at 6:30 at night, and promoting a pre-election special with David Frost interviewing both Opposition leader Billy Snedden and Country Party leader Doug Anthony (today more remembered for being the naming inspiration for comedy troupe, The Doug Anthony Allstars (i.e. DAAS).
Well, that’s it for the fiftieth Content Survey Live survey… Join us tomorrow for #51: the only time this year where Wednesday will be a day for survey.
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