Lexicon News is about to be Humphried... Where's that glass of milk? Empty.
Welcome to the the third night of the final edition of Lexicon News, the hump night, if you will (damn Humphries took my milk). Last night saw a editors dream, when Seven edited to bits a perfectly good opening segment, including significant live crosses.
Now onto the ground rules.
The Ground Rules:
Now onto the ground rules.
The Ground Rules:
The ground rules, for the Lexicon News event, are taken from a promo, in 1987: that compared Seven's second attempt at 1hr news in Brisbane, with Nine's 1/2hr product that became dominant at the exact same time.
As it described:
"If you are watching a half-hour news, take out the weather, sport, opening music, hello's and goodbyes and the commercials, and you could only get about 12 minutes of real news each night."
Thus the ground rules for the Lexicon News challenge are for five nights:
-Time the length of the bulletin, from the moment the first story intro begins at 6, to the time the throw to sport begins, on both bulletins.
-Write down every story on the 1hr version, and compare with the half hour version to see how much content is removed.
-Subtract the BNE timing from the regional timing to get the amount of time lost to regional QLD viewers each night by simply trimming the BTQ news bulletin.
-Ultimately: add up all the figures, and come up with a final set of numbers at the end of the week.
In addition, we will be tracking how many coverups of live cross timings (usually seen as giant "LIVE" graphics superimposed) are made by Seven on the 10 minute edit during this period.
Tonight's tale...
Major News Breaking (Humphries on the march, known by distinctive slippers and pom poms).
Tonight's tale...
Major News Breaking (Humphries on the march, known by distinctive slippers and pom poms).
Stuff that aired in the regional QLD cut, is underlined.
SEGMENT 1: Sunshine Coast police drive by shooting, live cross Woombye, Iran war (knocked out of the lead for the first time this week), live cross Tel Aviv, live cross Washington, Washington update, live cross London, share price/food price fears, first Australians out of the Middle East, Womens Asian Cup Iranian press conference, Japanese snowmobile accident involving a Queenslander, and a centimetre perfect tribute to the late Dennis Cometti.
SEGMENT 1: Sunshine Coast police drive by shooting, live cross Woombye, Iran war (knocked out of the lead for the first time this week), live cross Tel Aviv, live cross Washington, Washington update, live cross London, share price/food price fears, first Australians out of the Middle East, Womens Asian Cup Iranian press conference, Japanese snowmobile accident involving a Queenslander, and a centimetre perfect tribute to the late Dennis Cometti.
Segment 1 length in Brisbane: 19 minutes 28 seconds.
SEGMENT 2: E-Bike age limit, GC murder inquest, CFMEU inquiry looking for Mick Gatto, Substation copper theft gone wrong.
Segment 2 length in Brisbane: 3 minutes 30 seconds.
SEGMENT 3: Petrol price hikes, Lane Calcutt interview with acting police commissioner that sounds like he's literally either chewing gum or chewing tobacco in the edit suite (the social cut at 7: cut comments off, not to protect the commissioner, I reckon but to prevent comments about Lane), a push for extra leave by unions and a Seven-owned radio station doing a event at Salisbury Bowls Club.
Segment 3 length in Brisbane: 4 minutes even.
SEGMENT 4: Business report, Hot air balloon rescue from a mobile tower in Texas, Long Island car crash, KIIS Sydney/Melbourne brekky axing, weightloss drugs examined for heart medication treatment.
Segment 4 length in Brisbane: 4 minutes 7 seconds
Well, that's it for Night 3 of the last time for Lexicon News.
See you again, tomorrow night.
P.S. The Humphries sent this to show their intent (just go and buy the damn extra pinta, already)
A reminder of our socials:
Segment 2 length in Brisbane: 3 minutes 30 seconds.
SEGMENT 3: Petrol price hikes, Lane Calcutt interview with acting police commissioner that sounds like he's literally either chewing gum or chewing tobacco in the edit suite (the social cut at 7: cut comments off, not to protect the commissioner, I reckon but to prevent comments about Lane), a push for extra leave by unions and a Seven-owned radio station doing a event at Salisbury Bowls Club.
Segment 3 length in Brisbane: 4 minutes even.
SEGMENT 4: Business report, Hot air balloon rescue from a mobile tower in Texas, Long Island car crash, KIIS Sydney/Melbourne brekky axing, weightloss drugs examined for heart medication treatment.
Segment 4 length in Brisbane: 4 minutes 7 seconds
Overall pre-sport length in Brisbane: 32 minutes 5 seconds.
Overall edit for regional Queensland viewers: 11 minutes 5 seconds
Overall content lexiconed tonight by Seven from the Brisbane 6pm news for regional viewers: 21 minutes even.
The amount of lexiconed content this week so far by Seven: 60 minutes, 30 seconds. This now stretches the lexiconed content gap to 5 minutes, 53 seconds between 2026, and the last survey done in 2023. Thankfully for regional QLD viewers, chewing gum Calcutt's interview was lexiconed out of the regional cut.
Well, that's it for Night 3 of the last time for Lexicon News.
See you again, tomorrow night.
P.S. The Humphries sent this to show their intent (just go and buy the damn extra pinta, already)
A reminder of our socials:
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