Kuttsywood's Couch: 24/7 July 1, 2026: Take Four: Wednesdays in The West... Without The Midnight Run.

Welcome, to 24/7.

This is indeed the second coming of a concept originally explored in Kuttsy’s Pitch X-Two in November 2024. This time round, it’s four metropolitan news bulletins: the four that traditionally would have been part of a Australian Content Survey Live season, alongside Brisbane (who is currently awaiting it’s date with Boston in September’s inaugural Content Survey Live World Championships, and will not be part of this event).

The plan for 24/7 is as follows:

The city order in this event is in reverse finishing order from Content Survey Live: Yesterday’s Hero last year.

This means:

Night 1: Sydney which scored 39 and 3/4 for it's July 1.

Night 2: Melbourne which scored 37 for it's July 1.

Night 3: Adelaide which scored 44 and 1/2 for it's July 1.

Night 4: Perth.

The day, they have all been chosen to cover, is the first day of the new financial year: July 1, in the middle of the week, with no interference from local skewing factors (team lists, State of Origin and the like)

The rules are simple.

-Intros to stories don’t count.

-Locally sourced stories in the body of the bulletin (defined, as from after the first intro post-opener, to the sports preview) not only grab points (1pt for a voiced over story, 2pts for a live cross, and 3 points for a full story), but must also be timed.

-National stories, traffic and weather reports do not count toward the total.

-Meanwhile the following applies here for sports stories: 0 points for overseas sports news, 1pt for Australian-relevant voiced over sports news and 2pts for Australian-relevant full sports news stories (that can be doubled if a sports reporter gets their mug on the box on a market-sourced/relevant story). These stories do not need to be timed.

The total numbers will be tallied (local story points total+total time of stories+sports story points) to give a final number, the highest one wins this event, and becomes the Australian reserve for a event in 2027, if Brisbane loses the Content Survey Live World Championships.

Let the games begin… with Perth.

Our view, is that 10 has quietly installed a VR/AR sandbox set at 10's Subiaco facility: but is only using it at the moment for weather presentation.

We now begin tonight's news: with a update on a Perth man missing in Mexico (3pts), the continuing story about a Perth man committing murder in Thailand (3pts), while WA's road toll is soaring (3pts), a Perth doctor faces a bail hearing about significant charges (1pt), while the WA government kicks off it's scheme to give $100 to every drivers license holder in the state (3pts).

The scores for the body are as follows.
Four full stories, earning twelve points.
zero live crosses, earning zero points.
A solitary voiced over piece, earning one point.

All this added up to a running time of 6 minutes and 45 seconds: converted to numbers, it's 6 and 3/4, with the total score for the body adding up to 19 and 3/4.

We now go into sport, beginning with a body piece on the Maya Joint victory at Wimbledon (2pts), a major preview for the Fremantle trip to Canberra this weekend (2pts), confirmation of James Hird's interest in the Essendon coaching role (1pt), Luke Beverage's spray about Auskick concussion rules (2pts), Socceroos Round of 32 (2pts)...

Lachy, you read the graphic, just like your compatriots in Sydney and Melbourne. That specific graphic, only means one thing: especially after the penalty shootout thriller that it ultimately led to...

Hit it, Jimmy.

World cup wrap follows (0pts), a Maya Joint redux (2pts), T20 Womens World Cup (1pt), Kawhi Leonard trade (0pts), and Basebrawl at Fenway Park (0pts)

The overall sports scores are:

Two voiced over pieces for two points.
Five full stories for 10 points.
A total sports score of 12.

The overall score for Perth on July 1... 31 and 3/4.

It is sadly, not enough to take the W at this time... with Adelaide winning the first ever 24/7 challenge with a score of 44 and 1/2.

Adelaide now goes on to be the first reserve for Australia, to take up the mantle in 2027 if Brisbane doesn't win the Content Survey Live World Championships.

Well, that’s it for the final night of 24/7.

We leave you with the anthem of EOFYS… thanks to three drunk monkeys... wait, that’s the name of the agency that got tasked with it all those years ago.