Upon the examination of the galaxies of space, images begin to appear: images of strange and powerful forces, but of all the forces: two titans of two different worlds of content survey finally collide. The spirit of ’76 that still lives in the blood of Boston and Massachusetts, the spirit that tossed tea overboard and sparked a revolution on one side of the world. On the other: a spirit forged from convict sweat and blood, a little rough around the edges: who deserves it’s day with democracy concerning a event it had no say on at all: a moment that should equal to Boston’s “Tea Party” in political folklore. Long the laughingstock, Brisbane stepped up in 2025 to win… and now faces the world.
Title versus title. The inaugural Content Survey Live champion of the US… faces off against the reigning Content Survey Live champion of Australia for the first time in history. The loser will be in ashes. The winner will proudly claim themselves as a world champion.
Welcome to the first ever world championship… in content survey.
Welcome, to Night 1 of a best of five night series, where the winner of Content Survey Live U.S.A. faces off against the winner of 2025’s Australian Content Survey Live season. Due to issues concerning timezones: the average night in this survey event, stretches for almost twenty four hours, always kicking off in Australia at dinnertime, and inevitably ending with America’s late night news (about 18 hours after the Australian bulletin ends). You won’t know the result fully for each night… until the US checks in their survey.
Last night, Brisbane brought their A-game to this series opener, with a 7/10, a David Hill Number of 4 for a combined score of 11. Boston needs to beat the David Hill Number at minimum to go up 1-0 in this series.
Last night, Brisbane brought their A-game to this series opener, with a 7/10, a David Hill Number of 4 for a combined score of 11. Boston needs to beat the David Hill Number at minimum to go up 1-0 in this series.
We now must remind you (and in the case of Brisbane: explain) the ground rules for the 2026 Content Survey Live season.
THE GROUND RULES
Our focus, in Content Survey Live will be monitoring multiple news services over a significant timespan (a benefit of technological change, now allowing us to watch American news bulletins here in Australia), using the a slight modification of the same criteria we used in the “Great Local News Study” from Kuttsy's Pitch XI in August, 2019 and in Content Survey Live between 2020 and 2024.
-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.
-Weather and traffic reports are not counted.
-Sport stories are counted for one point if it’s a voiced over piece: but… if you have a reporter on the scene reporting on the event, it counts for two points. This sports reporting scoring system is a modified version of the “Ray Robinson Number” from the 2024 special event, and the 2025 edition of Content Survey Live, which was utilized to examine overnight news, and will be counted up at the end of the regular season as a special secondary achievement going to the market who has the highest sports score.
This number, is known as the David Hill Number: in commemoration of the role Hill played in revolutionizing sports coverage in Australia (as VP for sport for Nine in the mid eighties), the United Kingdom (launching UK cable powerhouse Sky Sports) and in the US (the founding father of Fox Sports, whose innovations reshaped NFL and other sport coverage for the better).
In addition, all scores in 2026 will be reported in a new format: a ranking out of 10: David Hill Number (e.g. 5.8/10 and a David Hill Number of 3) rather than separating these figures out.
Now let’s look at the tale of the tape for the American Content Survey Live champion:
(*entries open only to Massachusetts residents, i.e. have to prove they say "chowder" as "chow-duh").
Which now brings us onto sport.
If there was a Emmy for finding many uses for one trip to Foxboro, WBZ would win it in spades: with no less than four voiced over stories from that one trip (five if you count the Macklemore story), while we had two different versions of the same graphic air:
We also get a story for potential playoff tickets for the Red Sox, a wrap of a fundraiser in the name of former Red Sox player Tim Wakefield (got 2pts for the David Hill Number)... but we finally end this Monday night in Boston... Are you ready for some football?
We get a brief glimpse of the first MNF of the 2026 season, with the Chiefs making the Broncos pay dearly, 31-10.
TALE OF THE TAPE: BOSTON.
The overall winner of Content Survey Live U.S.A, Boston has proven it’s worth in both a pool setting (easily winning it’s pool: one it wasn’t expected to win prior to the 2026 Content Survey Live season: defeating the highly fancied Los Angeles product), and in the final week: where Boston outlasted all the other pool winners to come out first. The Boston format is a throwback to those days, when two anchors in Australia could get a 30min news service finished, and still have time to make a steak dinner afterward. Tonight’s challenge is to prove the value of brevity over length: quality over quantity while making a example of a Australian Content Survey Live veteran: at the very game they only finished learning in June (under the shade of the Tartan Army and bars running out of beer). Will Yankee ingenuity end up creating their own Australia II moment at the Content Survey Live World Championships?
It is now time, for Boston to take their place as the first American Content Survey Live champion, to stand up for their country. Please now all rise, for the alternative, new wave version of the American national anthem and America The Beautiful.
It is now time, for Boston to take their place as the first American Content Survey Live champion, to stand up for their country. Please now all rise, for the alternative, new wave version of the American national anthem and America The Beautiful.
Monday night in New England... and we have some interference leading the bulletin by the New England Patriots owner ahead of a Ed Sheeran concert, with the warmup act, Macklemore being axed over hate speech issues, a story on a cyberattack in Everett and a ex-state trooper in court.
Meanwhile, on the voiced over side, this is extensive: with pieces on a gas station attack in Kingston, a significant local legal case involving a adult and photography of minors for the wrong reasons, mail ballot restrictions proposed by the US Government for mid-terms find a roadblock, a school reopens after a cyber attack in Springfield, a attempted kidnapping with a side of grand theft auto, A off-duty Sandwich police officer is off to rehab after a DUI...
Meanwhile, on the voiced over side, this is extensive: with pieces on a gas station attack in Kingston, a significant local legal case involving a adult and photography of minors for the wrong reasons, mail ballot restrictions proposed by the US Government for mid-terms find a roadblock, a school reopens after a cyber attack in Springfield, a attempted kidnapping with a side of grand theft auto, A off-duty Sandwich police officer is off to rehab after a DUI...
Significant concerns for the jury in the Clancy case (which has actually ended up on the news in Australia), Mitch McConnell returns to Washington: while a slice of yesterday's piece on AI from CBS Sunday Morning is replayed, some relief for the MBTA: no, they haven't found Charlie, but the Orange Line reopens after maintenance, a brief wrap concerning the Emmys earlier tonight (with a New England connection, no less: although are the local Emmys also still a thing?), a Utah estate where the streets have Red Sox players names and as we close the bulletin: Logan Airport is searching for a new voice*...
Which now brings us onto sport.
If there was a Emmy for finding many uses for one trip to Foxboro, WBZ would win it in spades: with no less than four voiced over stories from that one trip (five if you count the Macklemore story), while we had two different versions of the same graphic air:
We also get a story for potential playoff tickets for the Red Sox, a wrap of a fundraiser in the name of former Red Sox player Tim Wakefield (got 2pts for the David Hill Number)... but we finally end this Monday night in Boston... Are you ready for some football?
We get a brief glimpse of the first MNF of the 2026 season, with the Chiefs making the Broncos pay dearly, 31-10.
Overall, a very good night for Boston, again proving that quality again outshines quantity.
THE SCORES:
Three local stories,
No live crosses,
A significant 12 local voiced over stories in a 35min bulletin (Brisbane last night, got just four voiced over stories over ninety minutes: critically meaning every story Brisbane had voiced over, Boston got two more, in half the time!)
A significant sports segment, with a David Hill number of 8.
The score for Game 1 for Boston, is 7.2/10, with a David Hill Number of 8, for a combined score of 15.2:
The winner of Game 1, of the Content Survey Live World Championships... is Boston, going ahead 1-0 in the series while delivering to Brisbane it's first head to head Content Survey Live loss since 2024.
The scores for Game 1:
Brisbane: 11 (7/10 and David Hill Number of 4)
Boston 15.2 (7.2/10 and David Hill Number of 8)
And that's it for Game 1. We hope to see you tomorrow night for the kick off of Game 2.
THE SCORES:
Three local stories,
No live crosses,
A significant 12 local voiced over stories in a 35min bulletin (Brisbane last night, got just four voiced over stories over ninety minutes: critically meaning every story Brisbane had voiced over, Boston got two more, in half the time!)
A significant sports segment, with a David Hill number of 8.
The score for Game 1 for Boston, is 7.2/10, with a David Hill Number of 8, for a combined score of 15.2:
The winner of Game 1, of the Content Survey Live World Championships... is Boston, going ahead 1-0 in the series while delivering to Brisbane it's first head to head Content Survey Live loss since 2024.
The scores for Game 1:
Brisbane: 11 (7/10 and David Hill Number of 4)
Boston 15.2 (7.2/10 and David Hill Number of 8)
And that's it for Game 1. We hope to see you tomorrow night for the kick off of Game 2.
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