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Content Survey Live USA: will arrive here at the start of May sweeps in 2026 (it is unknown which date we are going for)… but we first are proud to announce our significant move for the 2026 season: a first for us.
You will have to expect twenty six mentions at least of… Surfshark during the 2026 content survey season, most likely preceding every survey next year.
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Welcome, to the 2026 edition of the kwNetworkSelect, our version of upfronts designed to be viewed while eating leftovers from Christmas lunch yesterday.
That intro, was designed to introduce you to our plans for Content Survey Live’s US season next year.
May Sweeps is used as a tentative date: we are in reality watching out whether CBS ultimately gives us a final on-air date for the Colbert Late Show well ahead of time, so we can change plans accordingly.
But, now: the moment you’ve waited six months for…
Content Survey Live: World Championships.
Unlike, the USA season, this year, we can give you a secure date for this first time event.
That date will be the 14th to 26th of September in 2026: a fitting celebration of seventy years of Australian TV… of which we hope our industry doesn’t end up forgetting, like they did for umpteen sixtieth milestones in the last decade.
And, now: from first times… to last times.
Lexicon News: Goes Fourth.
Lexicon News’s final outing, will now occur as a single week event on March 2 to 6 in 2026.
We made this decision upon reviewing the original planned last hurrah, for August this year and realising that it’d be better to stick with our knitting.
Now, as we approach a significant milestone, we now look at us coming of age…
Kuttsywood's Couch Comes Of Age:
At 14 minutes to 1am on New Year's Day 2026, Kuttsywood’s Couch comes of age. This website if it were a physical person would be old enough to drink a beer, be able to vote and legally gamble. How far have we come?
For starters, when we were starting out on this road in 2008, TV ratings were a closely held secret, David Knox's TV Tonight hadn't blown up into the stratosphere, we still had actual drama and childrens content on commercial television, and "Mister Brisbane" was still working for the Courier-Mail, along with many others.
We were doing well initially: the sheer fact that our yearly posting record from 2009 stood alone until 2024, and we are proud to announce that we've smashed our 17yr old duck in 2025, with this year being our highest posting year ever. Especially as, this year was a year where Content Survey Live, Yesterday's Hero was almost derailed eight surveys in (with a two week delay for mourning a lost grandparent), Veritas on KW: On Sunday at Patreon taking a extended break... is a microcosm of the fires of the past.
After 2013, and digital switchover we ended up falling into a crutch, where every year until 2019, we ended up with with a yearly pattern: pump out a Kuttsy's Pitch piece, pump out the DST Guide, and a couple of other pieces a year, while we have files of stillborn pieces out of this crutch: that some are nearly complete, (a Lost TVQ spinoff post (Expo Fever) for 2018 that never ultimately got posted, 2015 pieces on The Hypermarket War in Queensland, a countdown of advertising to celebrate 60yrs of TV in Australia, hell even a attempt to talk about 1985 in Queensland, using the techniques later used for Content Survey Live's 2024 edition, describing 1974 in day by day form, and of course the 2019 promised 6:30 War and Main Line Evolution: which MLE was ultimately reborn, this time for One Queensland as QR2075, released earlier this month), while others were dumped at the wayside: the fourth Kuttsy's Pitch spinoff for 2019 being one, and another being a Kuttsy's Fare Pitch sequel for 2020.
At our lowest point of our crutch... we somehow found a way to turn it around: beginning with a obituary, just before our tenth birthday: before aiming to end our longest yearly tradition: Kuttsy's Pitch in August 2019, by simply stating... the party's over.
Out of the body that was Kuttsy's Pitch XI: posted six days prior to Queensland TV's sixtieth: arose a phoenix: content survey, this time standing alone and triggering, alongside a global pandemic: a significant rebirth, one I had been needing to do for a long time. Content Survey Live: became our crutch... but not a stable once a year one, like Kuttsy's Pitch: having to do surveys every night reinvigorated our image, along with the steps we've made since: going from next day releases, to same night releases, and most significantly in April 2025: our first ever live Perth survey, due to the growing papal death news story on Easter Monday, slamming our midnight run reputation for WA into the ground. The crutch... no longer was a crutch, it instead became a important recorder of life in the 2020's, and I ended up starting to treat it that way.
Most importantly, it triggered something: Kuttsywood's Couch was suddenly back in the groove like it was in the late 2000's, early 2010's... and it felt fun doing stuff again.
With the early 2020’s being our renaissance, with more posts this decade so far than we had produced between the start of 2008 and the end of 2018: and, it seems like the talk we laid out on Boxing Day 2020 (the moment where we launched a slogan, “The Team For The Twenties” that we only ever anticipated a use for two years, as a statement of hope amidst a pandemic that locked the world out of Australia, yet it has remained a constant for five years, despite the evolution of looks and ideas for both Veritas on KW and One Queensland from their original 2020 ideals) is reaping rewards.
But, it’s also showing that the “Team for The Twenties” tagline will eventually have a use-by date. Much like May 21, 2016, when we announced the “Project Ether” evolution of this site for it’s 10th birthday: a project what ultimately gave us the now iconic “kw” logo, we are preparing you for another project, that will not just shape our future like Ether did in 2018… but celebrate the fact we are going to achieve a significant milestone ourselves, at the same time the Queensland TV industry (or what’s left of it) celebrates it’s seventieth birthday.
This project is simply: “Project Blackjack”
Project Blackjack will not just be about redefining looks. Project Blackjack, is also designed to deliver a significant asset in the final days of the decade. We will begin work in the new year, to archive Content Survey Live posts, from 2020-25 (minus video links), alongside our ’74 microfiche file for the 2024 season and all Lexicon News posts, onto a document series we call the “Twenties Time Capsule” (which will contain, going forward, as of the start of Content Survey Live U.S.A) all surveys when complete), something we intend to inter in a significant QLD institution for it’s preservation. Project Blackjack will continue our hunt for significant items from our TV industry’s history to preserve in addition to other documents from various fields, while speaking up about the need to heritage list the three Brisbane commercial TV buildings on Mt Coot-tha (to join a very exclusive club: currently only consisting of the Queens Hotel in Townsville: the former home of NQTV from the late seventies onward, of heritage listed television facilities in Australia).
Project Blackjack will also remind people, that as the times have changed… so have we. And the first of these reminders will launch in April 2026.
CouchBox:
Meet the next evolution of TV, radio and entertainment talk.
Coming to Discord in April 2026, will be a new server that has one aim: not to be stuck in the slow lane.
Taking the best of places like Mediaspy and providing a more accessible format: CouchBox is designed to be more responsive on threads and most critically: weed out riffraff, back to the way it used to be.
Couchbox is designed to be the exclusive Discord home for Kuttsywood’s Couch/Veritas on KW (with the existing kwNetwork server transitioning to being exclusive for Patreon)… alongside other websites we hope to get on board (TV Blackbox, we are looking at you, amongst others who aren’t on the Discord bandwagon currently) to create a unified ecosystem for media discussion, that is not held back by server crashes at the slightest smell of a relaunch!
Veritas on KW: On Su…bstack?
Veritas on KW: On Sunday, will
take it’s next bold leap in 2026. After almost three years as a paid piece for subscribers (with occasional public freebies) at Kuttsywood’s Couch One on Patreon, the Sunday column will arrive at a new home (or should we say:
graduate from the farm league at Patreon), with wider access, over at
Substack.
The most critical move we will make with the Substack arrival: the Veritas on KW Substack will be free for all: with the Veritas on KW on Sunday pieces posted there being open to the world.
The long term plan, will be to make Substack, our new weekly home, with “Veritas on KW Specials” available on Patreon for subscribers.
There will be simultaneous posting to Patreon and Substack of the weekly columns, for the first six months of the Substack move.
The startup date for Substack will be announced: on January 11, 2026: the fifth birthday of the Veritas on KW brand.
Veritas on KW: on Substack and Couchbox are designed to work alongside each other in their own ecosystem.Patreon Games: Part 2.
In preparation for Veritas on KW on Sunday’s “graduation”, there will be a major retool again of our Patreon options. Our three tiers will be reduced down to… two (with the Ride.KW tier terminated) with very significant changes made to the Veritas on KW: One (to reflect the Substack move and include access to member-only role channels for CouchBox) and the rebranding of KW:360 as kwLongformOne (representing One Queensland and Kuttsywood’s Couch's philosophy of longform content, and recurring series).
In addition, One Queensland content, will be pre-released on Patreon from next year, and the Doug Murray Memorial Melbourne Cup Tip (that we’ve gone out of our way to make free for all on Patreon), will also be available on Veritas On KW on Substack, with a rumored new addition for next year’s lineup: Kuttsy’s Seven, a seven race special... I’m letting you make your pick for, opposed to dragging a Dougie printout to your local lucky shop.
This also brings us to the possibility that our Patreon will change it’s brand in time as well: to the kwNetwork One name which was part of the proposal we developed many moons ago for Mastodon, to take pride of place.
Supporting us on Patreon, means we can explore new visions (for instance, upgraded access to Bluesky client, can give us the power to schedule posts) and make our Patreon our ideas hub, where new ideas are developed and are brought across.
Project: Union Jack.
More will be revealed about what Project Union Jack (tentatively scheduled for 2027) is at the end of the 2026 Content Survey Live World Championship.
Fun fact: Content Survey Live U.S.A. ran under the name Project Diamond for it’s first month prior to announcement, a allusion to the fact it was announced using Neil Diamond’s “America”.The One Queensland wrap for 2026… begins with a piece releasing today. We’ve been building this piece for almost two years. Finally, you’ll get to see it.
Plan R: is not just designed to be a exploration of a referendum we need to have: but also the ideas we need to explore afterward. It needs to become a movement we need to all get behind… because a Olympics referendum can lead to so many great things for Queensland, and to help drive this, we’ve launched a Facebook group that intends to convince Queenslanders that the only right plan for the Olympics… is Plan R: a referendum, that sees us reject the 2032 Games (while bolting into our constitution the right to call one if significant major events are offered to Queensland), and ultimately deliver the reform required to rewire Queensland politics as a whole into a working 21st century democracy: and if our existing political parties don’t step out of the way to let this reform happen… they may well find they’ll have no place at the table when it happens.
But, as a side effect of QR2075… we are going to dive into the rail connection question… with the help of four decades of rail memorabilia next year.
We are going to explore if it’s still possible in this day and age to travel from parts of Queensland to Sydney by rail in just over 24 hours… and how far we’ve fallen from the days where a cross-town transfer was critical concerning interstate rail travel in Queensland.
Next year’s DST Guide will be available on September 27, 2026 (Yes, a Sunday: likely to be the day after a potential Game 5 of the Content Survey Live World Championships), with a Patreon release on September 13 (just before the Content Survey Live World Championships).
But, with all the focus on Brisbane and our sixteen American guests this year: what will the other four cities that usually will be part of the Content Survey Live machine in Australia be doing this year?
24/7: Four Ways To Heartbreak.
Inspired by Kuttsy’s Pitch X-2’s 24/7 segment in 2024, this time we will be running 24/7 rules across the markets that finished 2-5 in Content Survey Live last year. Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide and Sydney will be all dealing with the same day’s news (most likely to be chosen as a Tuesday, so all four are on a level pegging), with the winning city being given a significant opportunity in 2027.
The rules for 24/7 will be revealed at the end of Content Survey Live U.S.A.
Something Extra…
We are going to announce something very bold, today. Something we hope to secure by year’s end in 2026.
We are going to secure… the Extra Online web domain Nine let lapse many moons ago, not just as a statement: but as a significant commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Rick Burnett’s departure from Extra.
When the time comes, that the Extra Online domain has been acquired by us (along with some cheap hosting for the short term), there will be a press release from us announcing it, calling out Nine to join us, to make a near 20 year archive become relevant once more.
And, finally: as we close this year…
V.E.E: is Veritas on KW’s next big evolution for the age we live in. The Veritas Expression Engine, is a AI voiceover controlled by our words… and will have a symbolic image to represent it by the time the Content Survey Live World Championships arrive in September next year. The Expression Engine project will lead to another ground-breaking development: the possibility of of similar video styles to channels like Bob The Fish on Youtube… with one clear difference: it’ll be the V.E.E. talking, not just us.
Well, that's it for the kwNetwork Select for the 2026 season. It is only fitting, that this post, that includes the plans on how we lay the road into
our third decade, is a milestone in itself. This is post 250 for this site, and while it took us fifteen years to get to 150 posts, a milestone chalked up with the third post for
2022's Content Survey Live... it only has taken us
three years, four months and one day to get to 250, and I know we may well reach the big 300, sometime in 2027.
Even Content Survey Live: has a big milestone coming up: a American survey next year (our calculations are currently expecting it to be Houston in week two) will be the format's
100th standalone edition, just two years after hitting the big 5-0.
2026 for this site and for a significantly widening kwNetwork, looks to be a groundbreaker.
And, we hope to make next year... as groundbreaking as we've sold it here.
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