Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Grand Final: Game 2, Part 1

 A new game, a new day.

Welcome, to the 2025 Grand Final for Content Survey Live.

This year's grand final, is a best of five game series, where the first city to win three games will be crowned the Australian champion of this game for 2025, and will go on in 2026 to face the winner of Content Survey Live U.S.A. (happening next year) in the first ever world championship in content survey.

Game 1, was all going to be a dominant Brisbane victory... until a story with some QLD interest was shown in Melbourne... which was outright shunned by the Brisbane bulletin, pushing the scores closer together, with a barely there victory for Brisbane.

Tonight, is Game 2: Melbourne is up first tonight... but will it use it's advantage wisely: to try and prevent the possibility of a Brisbane shutout... come Friday night, and extend the Grand Final into a Game 4 and potentially Game 5.

Now, let's go over 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.

-(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.

-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.

The Hometown Rule for the Grand Final, is as follows.

Brisbane: Game 1, Game 3, Game 5 (if required)
Melbourne: Game 2, Game 4 (if required)

We open tonight's survey, with the widening of a daycare scandal (which (a slight spoiler for Part 2) will make Brisbane's news third), the end of a coronial inquest into the death of Liz Membrey, a live cross to a tragic accident, where someone fell off a mobility scooter on the footpath in Yarraville only to be run over by a truck in greasy conditions, another live cross to Morwell (can't say any more), voiced over pieces on a overnight service station stealing spree (one point for the Ray Robinson Number) and a near botched arrest inside a Ballarat carwash on Sunday, as well as a full story from the Triple Zero Heroes ceremony honouring children who dialed 000 in a emergency.

Melbourne's sport tonight, feels more three dimensional than Brisbane's on Monday night.

Overall, Melbourne feels like it has nearly closed the gap. but is it playing too safe?

The scores:
Three local stories.
Two live crosses.
Two voiced over stories.
Sport with more dimension.
A Ray Robinson Number of 1.

The only number that matters tonight:

Melbourne scored 6.65/10.

Slight improvement on Monday night, but will it be enough to beat Brisbane in Game 2.

Well, that's it for the first part of Game 2. Join us shortly for part 2, where Brisbane responds...

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