The survey, with the longest road distance between them begins tonight....
Welcome to the third night of survey for this round of Content Survey Live: Season Mode. Monday night produced a shock result, in which Adelaide pipped last year's champs at the post and now seem like they have one hand on the Content Survey Live trophy come next week.
Tonight and tomorrow are a tale of extremes, one stuck to Brisbane's news like glue, and one that stands on it's own two feet amongst it's network. But, first: let's take a good look at the ground rules.
Tonight and tomorrow are a tale of extremes, one stuck to Brisbane's news like glue, and one that stands on it's own two feet amongst it's network. But, first: let's take a good 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 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:
Sydney, this year has had two losses, and one win in this game: that win was against this week's bye holder back in Feburary on night one of this marathon event. Tonight is also the final night for Sydney in this game: as it somehow drew the last bye of the season, meaning they are hitting the showers: although parts of Sydney's news will end up showing up next week in Brisbane's final survey for the season.
We open up the Sydney window with, a story on the extension of life for Eraring Power Plant on the Central Coast, a local spin on the SQ321 turbulence story, a NSW/VIC joint bikie sting, a murder in Auburn and two politicians arguing in court over a defamation case. We get voiced over pieces on a Goulburn earthquake, a fire at Narraweena, the rebuild of the Riverside Theatres in Parramatta, and a piece pre-sport on Sandra getting her OAM earlier today.
We also get a solitary live cross hyping up Vivid Sydney's start tomorrow night.
Sport consisted of your typical generic NRL piece and a V/O'd piece on Cats V Giants. The lack of depth in the Sydney newsroom these days concerning sports presentation (pretty much Matt Burke or nothing) is being shown outright, as Lachlan Kennedy drew the short straw to present sport tonight.
Overall: all the depth for Sydney is in the first 20 minutes (unlike Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth)... but will not be able to save them tonight. Sydney may well go out on a low... and hit the damn showers.
The scores:
Five full local stories.
One live cross.
Three voiced over stories and one televised backslapping exercise for Sandra (who, by the way is now a turn-off factor in Queensland.)
Two sports stories, but has exposed the lack of depth a under-resourced Sydney newsroom has once again.
On April 8: Sydney scored 1.3/10
Tonight: Sydney scored 2/10.
The overall score for Sydney this season: 11.8/40
Well below passable, although the effectively standalone bulletins in summer were far better than those that have run post DST switch. Sydney needs to be divested of the Brisbane problem (now becoming a ratings liability) and reforged into a news service that stands alone, with the resources to match.
THE TALE OF THE TAPE:
Sydney, this year has had two losses, and one win in this game: that win was against this week's bye holder back in Feburary on night one of this marathon event. Tonight is also the final night for Sydney in this game: as it somehow drew the last bye of the season, meaning they are hitting the showers: although parts of Sydney's news will end up showing up next week in Brisbane's final survey for the season.
We open up the Sydney window with, a story on the extension of life for Eraring Power Plant on the Central Coast, a local spin on the SQ321 turbulence story, a NSW/VIC joint bikie sting, a murder in Auburn and two politicians arguing in court over a defamation case. We get voiced over pieces on a Goulburn earthquake, a fire at Narraweena, the rebuild of the Riverside Theatres in Parramatta, and a piece pre-sport on Sandra getting her OAM earlier today.
We also get a solitary live cross hyping up Vivid Sydney's start tomorrow night.
Sport consisted of your typical generic NRL piece and a V/O'd piece on Cats V Giants. The lack of depth in the Sydney newsroom these days concerning sports presentation (pretty much Matt Burke or nothing) is being shown outright, as Lachlan Kennedy drew the short straw to present sport tonight.
Overall: all the depth for Sydney is in the first 20 minutes (unlike Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth)... but will not be able to save them tonight. Sydney may well go out on a low... and hit the damn showers.
The scores:
Five full local stories.
One live cross.
Three voiced over stories and one televised backslapping exercise for Sandra (who, by the way is now a turn-off factor in Queensland.)
Two sports stories, but has exposed the lack of depth a under-resourced Sydney newsroom has once again.
On April 8: Sydney scored 1.3/10
Tonight: Sydney scored 2/10.
The overall score for Sydney this season: 11.8/40
Well below passable, although the effectively standalone bulletins in summer were far better than those that have run post DST switch. Sydney needs to be divested of the Brisbane problem (now becoming a ratings liability) and reforged into a news service that stands alone, with the resources to match.
A Flood Of Memories: 1974 Revisited.
(thanks to some Brisbane Telegraph and Sunday Sun microfiche over at SLQ)
We open up the time machine again, as we have done on most Thursdays of this event, with a twofer.
The front page on Wednesday May 22, reveals a push for a Brisbane-based minister to be in the Whitlam cabinet to boost QLD vote numbers for Labor, a strategy that was originally dependent on Brisbane Lord Mayor Clem Jones winning Griffith in Brisbane's inner suburbs, toppling the long-term Liberal MP Don Cameron (who ultimately retained the seat by a slim margin).
Don Cameron's political future, post 1974 election would be as stormy as hell: retaining Griffith post-Whitlam dismissal, shifting to Fadden in 1977 (after a particularly major federal redistribution killed his chances of retaining Griffith), before losing Fadden to Labor in 1983's federal election, before running for Moreton in a by-election after Sir James Killen retired in late 1983, serving until 1990.
(Brisbane Telegraph front page 22/5/1974)
Meanwhile, we have this significant piece looking at 1974 flood victims almost four months on from the Australia Day tragedy, particularly around the Goodna-Ipswich area.
(The flood: 4 months on 22/5/1974)
The next day's big story, was about a youth gang bashing a 50yr old in Woolloongabba and robbing him of $500 in 1974 money (today, thanks to inflation, it's equal to $5000) near the Australian National Hotel (just down from the greyhound track that ringed the Gabba for twenty years).
The people responsible: 17-20yr olds with long hair and a couple of getaway cars.
(Front page Brisbane Telegraph 23/5/1974)
Well, that's it for tonight. Join us tomorrow for another Midnight Run...
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We open up the time machine again, as we have done on most Thursdays of this event, with a twofer.
The front page on Wednesday May 22, reveals a push for a Brisbane-based minister to be in the Whitlam cabinet to boost QLD vote numbers for Labor, a strategy that was originally dependent on Brisbane Lord Mayor Clem Jones winning Griffith in Brisbane's inner suburbs, toppling the long-term Liberal MP Don Cameron (who ultimately retained the seat by a slim margin).
Don Cameron's political future, post 1974 election would be as stormy as hell: retaining Griffith post-Whitlam dismissal, shifting to Fadden in 1977 (after a particularly major federal redistribution killed his chances of retaining Griffith), before losing Fadden to Labor in 1983's federal election, before running for Moreton in a by-election after Sir James Killen retired in late 1983, serving until 1990.
Meanwhile, we have this significant piece looking at 1974 flood victims almost four months on from the Australia Day tragedy, particularly around the Goodna-Ipswich area.
The next day's big story, was about a youth gang bashing a 50yr old in Woolloongabba and robbing him of $500 in 1974 money (today, thanks to inflation, it's equal to $5000) near the Australian National Hotel (just down from the greyhound track that ringed the Gabba for twenty years).
The people responsible: 17-20yr olds with long hair and a couple of getaway cars.
Well, that's it for tonight. Join us tomorrow for another Midnight Run...
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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