So here we are: the final two weeks of this year's Content Survey Live competition... kicking off with a winner takes all battle on Monday night. This is no normal survey: This is Survey of Origin...
Welcome to the first night: of the fourth round of Content Survey Live: Season Mode. We have just come off the TVQ 50th anniversary event, and back into the fire. Tonight, the joint leaders of this competition face off, not only for one city to keep it's unblemished record for this year... but potentially set themselves up for ultimate victory. If Melbourne wins this tonight, they have a hard task next week: backing up for a Monday night with Perth next week in a grand final rematch from 2023... If Adelaide wins this tonight, it could well win the competition: especially if next week's opponents: Brisbane, duplicate their poor performance a month ago.
Will night 13, be unlucky for some?
Let's get down to 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 etc.
This week, the city observing a bye: is Brisbane (way at the back of the pack: finally earning it's first points for this season.)
THE TALE OF THE TAPE:
Melbourne, tonight is coming in with a point to prove, against it's former hybrid partner. The semi-final last year came down to the wire, with only .1 separating Melbourne and Adelaide. This year: there is a aim to: borrowing from the late Teddy Whitten, not let the Big V down. Tonight's clash has all the hallmarks of a classic AFL State of Origin match. It's up to Melbourne tonight to not play follow the leader: but lead from the front.
This week, the city observing a bye: is Brisbane (way at the back of the pack: finally earning it's first points for this season.)
THE TALE OF THE TAPE:
Melbourne, tonight is coming in with a point to prove, against it's former hybrid partner. The semi-final last year came down to the wire, with only .1 separating Melbourne and Adelaide. This year: there is a aim to: borrowing from the late Teddy Whitten, not let the Big V down. Tonight's clash has all the hallmarks of a classic AFL State of Origin match. It's up to Melbourne tonight to not play follow the leader: but lead from the front.
And, yes, tonight, the queen of the news beat, Jennnnifer Keeeyte is back.
(Steve Vizard, we still want you to do that intro one more time...)
We open tonight's news with a live cross to the ongoing sit-in at Melbourne University, followed by a full piece on newly released Maribyrnong River flood mapping, a rise in daytime drink-drivers...
That was promoted as a alarming trend... sadly the opener graphics writers missed the memo.
We have a very refreshing spread of V/O'd pieces throughout the bulletin tonight: with almost every window before sport had at least one local VO'd story (in order: Ivanhoe East driveby shooting arrest, Victorian midwives rejecting the latest pay offer from the government, a SES protest and a rescue of a owl stuck in Bunnings at Tarneit for a week)
Weather for Melbourne braved the cold tonight: anything's better than the small screen inside,
while tonight's sport's coverage (despite the lack of Quarters) is not doing things by halves. No less than four AFL pieces tonight, alongside mentions for upcoming A-League Men V Newcastle United on Friday night and even the injury for Melbourne Storm's Cameron Munster, that has thrown him out of State of Origin contention.
Overall, Melbourne has brought the goods tonight.
The scores:
2 full local stories.
One live cross (again, showing everyone else how to do it)
4 V/O'd pieces (with the best spread within a bulletin in years)
And, no less than six sports pieces.
On April 8 (following on Sydney on Monday): Melbourne got 7/10.
Tonight: Melbourne got 7.1/10.
Melbourne has set a gigantic mark for Adelaide to aim for concerning Monday night's news. It's up to the Croweaters to come back firing tomorrow.
Weather for Melbourne braved the cold tonight: anything's better than the small screen inside,
while tonight's sport's coverage (despite the lack of Quarters) is not doing things by halves. No less than four AFL pieces tonight, alongside mentions for upcoming A-League Men V Newcastle United on Friday night and even the injury for Melbourne Storm's Cameron Munster, that has thrown him out of State of Origin contention.
Overall, Melbourne has brought the goods tonight.
The scores:
2 full local stories.
One live cross (again, showing everyone else how to do it)
4 V/O'd pieces (with the best spread within a bulletin in years)
And, no less than six sports pieces.
On April 8 (following on Sydney on Monday): Melbourne got 7/10.
Tonight: Melbourne got 7.1/10.
Melbourne has set a gigantic mark for Adelaide to aim for concerning Monday night's news. It's up to the Croweaters to come back firing tomorrow.
A Flood Of Memories: 1974 Revisited.
(thanks to some Brisbane Telegraph and Sunday Sun microfiche over at SLQ)
The washup from the 1974 double dissolution federal election continues to make front page news, as postal and absentee votes finally start to be counted, with possible risks of some seats falling.
(Telegraph front page 20/5/74)
The big ad at the bottom: another news service worried about it's future in a three cornered race (although not as much as Seven was last week), and a mention of a line, you'll be getting used to concerning Nine in the months leading up to the big colour switch in 1975 "Living Colour", although the network would curiously go for the American spelling of the word: Color, when the big day finally came.
Meanwhile: a celebration sale at Chermside Shopping Centre: turning 17 on May 31 1974, with a interesting look at how the centre had evolved (at that stage, work was occurring after a fire in late 1972 in one tenancy, to develop a replacement for part of the 1957-vintage Myer store that would be built for the 70's in mind (following Indooroopilly and Brookside's lead: with a new three story Myer outlet, that ultimately opened in late September 1977.)
(Remember Chermside Shopping Centre as it was, 67, and 50 years ago)
That's it for part one of the Survey of Origin... Tomorrow night, we'll find out the gripping final result, that could outright make or break both Adelaide and Melbourne's seasons.
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The washup from the 1974 double dissolution federal election continues to make front page news, as postal and absentee votes finally start to be counted, with possible risks of some seats falling.
(Telegraph front page 20/5/74)
The big ad at the bottom: another news service worried about it's future in a three cornered race (although not as much as Seven was last week), and a mention of a line, you'll be getting used to concerning Nine in the months leading up to the big colour switch in 1975 "Living Colour", although the network would curiously go for the American spelling of the word: Color, when the big day finally came.
Meanwhile: a celebration sale at Chermside Shopping Centre: turning 17 on May 31 1974, with a interesting look at how the centre had evolved (at that stage, work was occurring after a fire in late 1972 in one tenancy, to develop a replacement for part of the 1957-vintage Myer store that would be built for the 70's in mind (following Indooroopilly and Brookside's lead: with a new three story Myer outlet, that ultimately opened in late September 1977.)
(Chermside 17th Birthday Sale)
That's it for part one of the Survey of Origin... Tomorrow night, we'll find out the gripping final result, that could outright make or break both Adelaide and Melbourne's seasons.
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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