Well, here we are at the end of the week... a Midnight Run, again making history. And, if you look out the window of QF10 out of Heathrow bound for Perth: you'll see the queue for Hyperia at Thorpe Park...
Welcome, to the final night of Round 4 of Content Survey Live: Season Mode.
Last night... Sydney exited this competition with a whimper. Tonight, Perth is on a midnight run marathon... and it isn't due to stop until Monday night.
Let's get onto the ground rules:
Last night... Sydney exited this competition with a whimper. Tonight, Perth is on a midnight run marathon... and it isn't due to stop until Monday night.
Let's get onto 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:
Perth this season, has been playing in the middle of the pack, with one win, and one loss to it's name, along with a February bye. Tonight is the beginning of a history-making weekend for Perth: it will become the third city, in the history of Content Survey Live to do a Friday-Monday pair of surveys (after Sydney, in 2022 and Adelaide in 2023).
We kick off tonight's survey, with a live cross about a significant development in a historic sexual assault case concerning a former AFL Hall of Famer, then a barrage of voiced over pieces (capture of a criminal that cut off a ankle bracelet, a drug haul in imported vans, a sentencing delay for a support worker who left someone in a hot car at Joondalup in January and a jackknife on the Mount's Bay offramp on the Mitchell Freeway.
We finally get three full stories: A humpback whale rescue, Rex announcing it's long awaited expansion of jet service to Perth (beginning with Tullamarine-Perth in late June) and a news piece on the HoopsFest launch (NBL equivalent to Magic Round).
Outside 5pm, we get a live cross to a Carlisle bike/car accident, and some breaking news about a Floreat shooting.
Sport tonight, is very heavy on the Fremantle/Collingwood blockbuster at Optus Stadium (to the point sport was presented outside the stadium), alongside a interview with a Fremantle player, a preview for West Coast V Adelaide on Sunday and more promo work for HoopsFest.
Tonight, Perth has lots of meat, and has likely outperformed Sydney last night in every metric possible.
The scores:
Three local stories,
Five voiced over pieces, that were meatier than what Sydney delivered last night.
Two live crosses.
Sports segment that hammered home a hot night at Optus Stadium.
On April 11, Perth brought home: a 6.5/10.
Tonight, Perth brought home: a 7/10.
The results of this fixture:
Sydney: 2/10
Perth: 7/10
Perth handily takes home the two points, and goes into the grand final rematch with Melbourne on Monday almost matching the reigning champion.
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:
Perth this season, has been playing in the middle of the pack, with one win, and one loss to it's name, along with a February bye. Tonight is the beginning of a history-making weekend for Perth: it will become the third city, in the history of Content Survey Live to do a Friday-Monday pair of surveys (after Sydney, in 2022 and Adelaide in 2023).
We kick off tonight's survey, with a live cross about a significant development in a historic sexual assault case concerning a former AFL Hall of Famer, then a barrage of voiced over pieces (capture of a criminal that cut off a ankle bracelet, a drug haul in imported vans, a sentencing delay for a support worker who left someone in a hot car at Joondalup in January and a jackknife on the Mount's Bay offramp on the Mitchell Freeway.
We finally get three full stories: A humpback whale rescue, Rex announcing it's long awaited expansion of jet service to Perth (beginning with Tullamarine-Perth in late June) and a news piece on the HoopsFest launch (NBL equivalent to Magic Round).
Outside 5pm, we get a live cross to a Carlisle bike/car accident, and some breaking news about a Floreat shooting.
Sport tonight, is very heavy on the Fremantle/Collingwood blockbuster at Optus Stadium (to the point sport was presented outside the stadium), alongside a interview with a Fremantle player, a preview for West Coast V Adelaide on Sunday and more promo work for HoopsFest.
Tonight, Perth has lots of meat, and has likely outperformed Sydney last night in every metric possible.
The scores:
Three local stories,
Five voiced over pieces, that were meatier than what Sydney delivered last night.
Two live crosses.
Sports segment that hammered home a hot night at Optus Stadium.
On April 11, Perth brought home: a 6.5/10.
Tonight, Perth brought home: a 7/10.
The results of this fixture:
Sydney: 2/10
Perth: 7/10
Perth handily takes home the two points, and goes into the grand final rematch with Melbourne on Monday almost matching the reigning champion.
A Flood Of Memories: 1974 Revisited.
(thanks to some Brisbane Telegraph and Sunday Sun microfiche over at SLQ)
Today, we look at a big story on this day 50 years ago: interest rates for building societies (e.g. Metropolitan Permanent Building Society, SGIO Building Society), and how the acting QLD premier Sir Gordon Chalk (Sir Joh, was somehow on holiday after a tight federal election), was going to push Canberra concerning the issue.
At that time in 1974: building society interest rates were 9.5% for borrowers (significant then, especially if loans for flood repair work were taken out to make up for insurance deficits), and 8.25% for depositors.
(Front page Brisbane Telegraph, 24/5/1974)
But, Gordon Chalk also raised this point: a striking parallel to today: quite simply: young people (i.e. the first baby boomers coming of age) were finding it unaffordable to buy homes.
The average price of a decent family home in 1974: $25,000 (today with inflation: $250,000).
The average wage of a Queenslander in June 1974 (sourced from a ABS document from late 1974): $123.70 a week (today, with inflation: that weekly wage: $1259)
The more time changes, the more the struggles stay the same.
Well, that is it for another week. The grand finale of Content Survey Live: Season Mode is on it's way next week, kicking off with the grand final rematch from last year in Perth V Melbourne on Monday night, before the last fixture of Season Mode arrives in Adelaide V Brisbane (a match many are expecting will be nothing more than a crowning of a perfect 4-0-1 season for Adelaide), while Sydney is set to serve out the final bye of the season.
See you again on Monday, for a Monday Night Midnight Run!
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Today, we look at a big story on this day 50 years ago: interest rates for building societies (e.g. Metropolitan Permanent Building Society, SGIO Building Society), and how the acting QLD premier Sir Gordon Chalk (Sir Joh, was somehow on holiday after a tight federal election), was going to push Canberra concerning the issue.
At that time in 1974: building society interest rates were 9.5% for borrowers (significant then, especially if loans for flood repair work were taken out to make up for insurance deficits), and 8.25% for depositors.
But, Gordon Chalk also raised this point: a striking parallel to today: quite simply: young people (i.e. the first baby boomers coming of age) were finding it unaffordable to buy homes.
The average price of a decent family home in 1974: $25,000 (today with inflation: $250,000).
The average wage of a Queenslander in June 1974 (sourced from a ABS document from late 1974): $123.70 a week (today, with inflation: that weekly wage: $1259)
The more time changes, the more the struggles stay the same.
Well, that is it for another week. The grand finale of Content Survey Live: Season Mode is on it's way next week, kicking off with the grand final rematch from last year in Perth V Melbourne on Monday night, before the last fixture of Season Mode arrives in Adelaide V Brisbane (a match many are expecting will be nothing more than a crowning of a perfect 4-0-1 season for Adelaide), while Sydney is set to serve out the final bye of the season.
See you again on Monday, for a Monday Night 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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