I don't know if it'll sell any cabins?
Welcome to the second night of Content Survey Live: Season Mode's final week. Last night's midnight run for Perth was fruitful. But will Melbourne steal the spotlight tonight?
Now, 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 Sydney (effectively ending their season last Thursday night, becoming the first city to get a total score)
This week, the city observing a bye: is Sydney (effectively ending their season last Thursday night, becoming the first city to get a total score)
THE TALE OF THE TAPE:
Melbourne, last week went into Survey of Origin with a strong record and hopes of defending their title. Tonight, they are playing for a silver medal: after Adelaide romped home, and beat their rival for the first time ever, in a Content Survey Live survey. Because of how time zones in Australia work: Melbourne may well have been surveyed first... but Perth will outright get posted first.
And, now for the final time this season...
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 bulletin with a exclusive: coverage of Ricky Nixon, back at court over a postie assault, trial continues into a Dargo double murder in 2020, Mt Scopus Memorial College, hit with anti-semitic graffiti, A failed robbery at the Rex Hotel in Port Melbourne, becomes a national story just because of the police's reaction to the footage, and more on that great stalemate: Melbourne Airport rail!
A single live cross, about landlords being notified about a tobacco turf war (that has seen numerous stores torched), and three voiced over pieces: a stolen car in Abbotsford, the Hawthorn racism case with the Human Rights commission being terminated in favour of potential federal court action and a missing 74yr old at Heathcote.
Tonight's sport was tight, led by the Collingwood injury crisis (which also ran third in Perth) and a post-Dreamtime at the G wrap.
Although, everything Melbourne did tonight was better than Perth: the AFL coverage in WA was slightly better.
Weather tonight from Scienceworks, with the first weather cross somehow got it's vision crossed with a weather photo promo.
Overall, another great night from the champs, potentially in the final days of their reign on top: with a Adelaide victory nearly assured later this week.
The scores:
Five local stories
One live cross, and three voiced over stories
Two sports stories (could have deserved a couple more)
Last Monday's score: 7.1/10
Tonight's score: 7/10.
The overall score for Melbourne this year: 28.1/40
The sheer fact that Melbourne has settled into a average of 7/10 for all four surveys this year, is something that should be applauded. Melbourne has the highest depth of sports presenting talent within it's network, meaning that Quarters can take a week or two off here or there, and still have quality every night. Melbourne, since the separation of Adelaide's news eighteen months ago has outright blossomed back into it's own product. And it's something that both Sydney and Brisbane need to learn outright.
The results for this fixture:
Perth: 6.8/10
Melbourne: 7/10.
Melbourne takes home the two points for the second last fixture of Content Survey Live in 2024.
A Flood Of Memories: 1974 Revisited.
(thanks to some Brisbane Telegraph and Sunday Sun microfiche over at SLQ)
Fifty years ago today, the big front page story was a speech made by William Knox, then QLD Justice Minister at a convention at Brisbane's Crest Hotel (today the Pullman King George Square) of Four Square store owners, pushing the line about putting the brakes on inflation (using a example relating to the hyperinflation crisis in Weimar Germany post-WW1).
(Brisbane Telegraph front page, 28/5/1974)
Meanwhile: fifty years tomorrow: the front page is dominated by a child gone missing, from Sydney St in New Farm.
(Brisbane Telegraph front page, 29/5/1974)
Meanwhile, a article that likely slept past many Queenslanders for a decade: the first National Party branches were being established in urban Brisbane: something that would ultimately come to a head when Joh cut the QLD Liberals out of a coalition agreement in 1983.
A interesting prediction here too: talk of amalgamation between the QLD Liberals and Nationals: which ultimately happened in 2009.
(Nats Brisbane expansion 29/5/1974)
Well, we are halfway there, two more surveys until the end of this series. See you on Thursday, for Adelaide's final survey, and Friday for Brisbane's final outing.
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Fifty years ago today, the big front page story was a speech made by William Knox, then QLD Justice Minister at a convention at Brisbane's Crest Hotel (today the Pullman King George Square) of Four Square store owners, pushing the line about putting the brakes on inflation (using a example relating to the hyperinflation crisis in Weimar Germany post-WW1).
Meanwhile: fifty years tomorrow: the front page is dominated by a child gone missing, from Sydney St in New Farm.
Meanwhile, a article that likely slept past many Queenslanders for a decade: the first National Party branches were being established in urban Brisbane: something that would ultimately come to a head when Joh cut the QLD Liberals out of a coalition agreement in 1983.
A interesting prediction here too: talk of amalgamation between the QLD Liberals and Nationals: which ultimately happened in 2009.
Well, we are halfway there, two more surveys until the end of this series. See you on Thursday, for Adelaide's final survey, and Friday for Brisbane's final outing.
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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