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.
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 Adelaide.
We begin tonight's news, with a live cross, as Adelaide's weather really turns it on for the new financial year (inc. a kid paddling his EOFYS present down the street) (2pts), a fire/siege at Bowden (3pts), a newsroom live cross re. a bodycam-caught road incident (2pts), a crash at Murray Bridge (1pt), a fire at Morphettvale (1pt), a truck crash at Stonyfell (1pt), Breaking news: a car on the O-Bahn (where else but Adelaide) (1pt), Aldinga murder trial (3pts), a really boring event: South Road tunnelling kicks off (3pts), petrol price rises (1pt), a rampage at a OTR outlet (1pt), Tour Down Under's 2027 route is revealed (along with the move to run both mens and womens pelotons on the same course) (3pts), elephants get ready to go on show at Monarto Zoo (1pt)
The body of the bulletin had as follows:
Seven voiced over pieces for a score of seven.
Two live crosses for a score of four.
Four full stories for a score of twelve.
This added up to a local story runtime of 11 minutes and 32 seconds, converted numerically to 11 and 1/2.
The total score for the body of the bulletin, was 34 and 1/2.
And, now we leap into sport:
Beginning with the Maya Joint story for the body of the bulletin (2pts), a SA-specific AFL wrap (2pts), Was Corey Durdin a bargain for the Power? (1pt), Socceroos round of 32 (2pts)...
Next, we have a World Cup wrap (0pts), a Maya Joint redux/Wimbledon wrap (2pts), Womens T20 World Cup (1pt), Kawhi Leonard trade (0pts), and Basebrawl at Fenway Park (0pts)
The score for sport:
two voiced over pieces (for two points)
four full stories (for eight points), for a total of ten points.
Overall, Adelaide scored for it's July 1 bulletin: a remarkable 44 and 1/2.
This puts Adelaide in the hotseat for this event... that is until Perth comes up for survey.
Well, that’s it for the third 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.
See you tomorrow at six, for the final part of this event... that we know of: featuring a Perth without a midnight run for a change.
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