The conversation eight months in the making...
The fixture results on Easter Monday stand at:
Perth: 7/10
A result, that gave Perth a victory by a narrow margin over Adelaide on a night where the time zone difference between the east and west coasts of Australia played perfectly, when big news broke: where both Adelaide and Perth slid in breaking news from halfway across the world into their 5pm bulletins at a breakneck pace.
The first round for Sydney sees them on the bottom of the table, as Brisbane rocketed to the top.
And now, the ground rules for the 2025 season.
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.
-(NEW in 2025) Local overnight news: Handled via a system we call collectively, the “Ray Robinson Number”: 1pt for V/O’d overnight news, 2pts for a full story, the total is reported at each survey’s end. A special prize will be given for the regular season’s Ray Robinson Number leader.
-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
-(NEW in 2025) The “Hometown Rule” now applies to both Monday and Thursday night in the regular season as well as in the three Four Quarter Blitz finals (where the highest ranked participant goes first) outside of the Grand Final.
- (NEW in 2025) No 2nd survey (i.e. Tuesday/Friday) can be posted until 12hrs have elapsed after the live survey (Monday/Thursday) in the main season and the three Four Quarter Blitz finals outside the Grand Final. It can be worked on however, and scheduled.
-(NEW in 2025) Ties on the table, at the end of the season, have their seeding for finals decided by countback of fixture scores excluding byes (out of 40)
We open tonight's news, with a extensive piece on the Bar Beach drive murder in Newcastle (2 points for the Ray Robinson Number), various incidents at polling booths, a sentencing for a person who locked their girlfriend on a balcony (only for her to fall to her death) at the Hyatt Regency Sydney in 2020 as part of a greater DV incident, and changes concerning Anzac Day retail trade this year.
A lot of buzz in the first segment about the return of the Bears, potentially Perth-based: where their away games from WA will be home games for the North Sydney faithful.
While we have a voiced over package on the Audrey Griffin vigil in Terrigal, while we have two live crosses: to police HQ in Surry Hills, and to Rome, where the time is shown for all to see.
Sport tonight is a healthy product, but no mention whatsoever of tonight's Broncos/Bulldogs clash in Brisbane.
Overall, tonight: Sydney have been very responsive, and may well have recovered from last week akin to Perth on Monday night.
But first, here's the national pieces in running order:
-Segment 1: Election 3rd, Pope lying in state 4th, Bears return 6th.
Segment 3: US baby bonus 2nd, Weinstein trial 3rd.
Segment 4: Cape Melville rescue 1, Prince Louis 2, Gerard Kennedy death, 3rd.
The Scores:
Four local stories,
The first sports reporter's mug of the season on the Bears return story
One voiced over story,
Two live crosses,
A Ray Robinson Number of 2.
Last week: Sydney got a 4.5/10.
Tonight, Sydney got a 5.2/10.
Just over average, but Sydney faces it's fate tomorrow afternoon when Brisbane's results from tonight go live.
The 6:00 Sunday Night Sound.
We begin this Anzac Day eve, with a look back on one band… Redgum.
In 1984, Redgum as a band was almost at the end of a successful era. You’ve just come off the biggest year of your life: with something, that significantly changed people’s thinking on Australia’s Vietnam veterans at the same time, we elected Bob Hawke as prime minister for the first time, and the Franklin Dam story in Tasmania was making national headlines, with it’s seeds of a green movement.
Surely… it deserves a holiday… thus, the lead track of the Frontline album… was this surprisingly poppy number (especially for a folk band): that brings us to happy memories of Bali in a era before low cost airlines saturated the market between Australia and Denpasar, allowing anyone with half a brain and some dough to go there… You can’t impress me…
Some things have changed over the years (QF20 for example, is no longer used for Melbourne to Denpasar (QF45 is used today for Qantas’s five day a week full service offering between those cities): but QF20 is utilized for Sydney (Kingsford Smith) to Manila in the Philippines instead), while the happy go lucky Bali image was shattered forever in 2002 after a terrorist attack, alongside significant issues with travellers being caught importing illegal drugs into Indonesia or exporting them into Australia via Bali, as well as the traditional end of season footy trip increasingly steering away from Bali, as low cost flight saturation has dramatically made it easier for Australians to visit this Indonesian island paradise (with eight Australian cities now having direct flights to Denpasar, thanks to low cost airlines, and package holidays), than it is to visit their own country.
But, this song also ended up having a clever parody done by Brisbane radio station FM104 come 1988: when the success of World Expo 88 was ripe for such a track, that was ultimately sold as a Expo 88 souvenir by the station itself.
Tomorrow night. Anzac Day, as we approach two significant Vietnam War-related anniversaries... Cold Chisel's Khe Sanh (which was too vulgar for commercial radio, let alone be used to become a calling cry for Vietnam veterans facing significant fights at the time), and the song that made Redgum famous… and is ultimately the audio call that brought a generation of Australian veterans and their plight to the forefront of peoples minds after a decade of silence.
A reminder from us concerning timing for the Brisbane survey tomorrow, which is running with tonight's news. It will be available after midday on Friday, out of respect for the fallen.
See you then.
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