Well, it’s Thursday!
Hey did you know, hey did you know: It’s TVQ’s 50th anniversary of news you know…
Do you recall the thrill of it all, at the new century’s start: with journeyman Mark Suleau replacing Ray dealing with weather maps?
Or that break in June 2000 that ended just too early and we got to hear a studio conversation on max?
Marie Louise had to apologise for that… while the moment became viral to the max.
TVQ’s weather in the first decade without Ray, ultimately became a whose who to say: a return to the ideas of the early days: Claire Blake, Georgie Lewis were all given shots, while a young Tony Auden was auditioned on the spot.
Digital arrived but our news was slow to change it’s look if it tried: the ’04 set grew long in the tooth as everyone else got invested in, installed just as Geoff Mullins called it a career. Bill McDonald followed the Rob Readings route, elevated to the weeknight newsreading shoot (while Michael Voss tried to emulate Wally Lewis too), Marie Louise called a day in ’07, with the former weather presenter eventually becoming a newsreading legend…
Welcome to the fourth night of this special event. Last night was a very fallow night for 10's Brisbane news service, as shown by the Ray Robinson Number being zero, and a serious length of time being given to of all things: politicians beds.
Now, let's get on with 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 penultimate night, of a very special Content Survey Live event...
We open tonight's news, with a story about a NRL player being investigated for a sexual assault, and a general piece concerning the kickoff of Magic Round (counted as a sports piece here), a live report utilizing QLD Police pooled footage about the Tuesday raid on a Brendale storage unit, a live report about a escalation of protests at UQ, a overhaul of planning regulations concerning parking spaces in the inner city (although, in our opinion it needs to be significantly wider), a overnight V/O'd piece about a police officer arrest on the Sunshine Coast, whilst the QLD police graduation made the bulletin, and a hospital porter with a incredible memory bank.
Meanwhile, the sports break tonight consisted of a live report on Womens SOO's Suncorp debut, Magic Round leadup and Lions training.
The scores:
Four full stories, and two live reports.
One overnight V/O piece, giving us a Ray Robinson Number of 1.
Four sports stories inc. one in the main window, including the first mug of a sports reporter in this event as part of a live report.
Local weather at 5:24 and pre-6pm.
A Flood of Memories: 1974 revisited:
(thanks to some Brisbane Telegraph and Sunday Sun microfiche over at SLQ)
The front page on this day fifty years ago is dominated by a striking parallel to today: a flashpoint in the Middle East (fresh off the Yom Kippur War the previous year: that caused panic at the petrol pumps in Australia and other countries), with a massacre in the Israeli city of Ma’alot after a hostage situation inside a school turned hot.
At this time, the afternoon daily newspaper still had a huge advantage over television news (especially in a market like Brisbane, where the old airport was a common meeting ground for TV journos waiting for interstate and overseas stories to insert into news bulletins: a tradition that ultimately died out when each station got a full-time bearer line to Sydney) where the pictures of Ma’alot and words from a Tel Aviv-based reporter through a newsagency such as AAP were able to be delivered near instantly (in a pre-satellite age) to a print newsroom via a teleprinter (for words) and a wirephoto machine (for photos) and were shaped into a story worth reading.
It would ultimately take until the mid-1980’s for television news in the evening to match the afternoon paper’s immediacy with overseas news: right before the Brisbane Telegraph was shuttered in early 1988: months before a potential boom for a afternoon newspaper happened: with Expo 88.
Well, we have only one night left of this event. Tomorrow night 50yrs ago: Australia was around twenty four hours away from having to go to the polls, for a double dissolution federal election.
Tomorrow night, in 2024: is going to be far different.
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