kwNetworkSelect: 2023

 In 2023, Content Survey Live… goes tribal.

Are you ready… to celebrate ten years of counting content?

Welcome to the second annual KWNetwork Select, a Boxing Day tradition: akin to bargain sales, test cricket at the MCG and the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race.

2028: Queensland's "Year of Flight".

Picture this moment.

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum: Sunday July 30, 2028. A hot summer evening in the “City of Angels”. This night, is the closing ceremony of the 2028 Olympics, and the handover of the Olympic Flag to the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, is followed by the raising of the Australian flag, as a massed marching band plays Advance Australia Fair. After the flag is raised, the crowd (nearly 80,000 strong inside the LA Coliseum) simply looks skyward.

Queenslanders watching at home (on a late Monday afternoon: July 31, 2028) is hoping their gamble pays off: after all, they remember the kangaroos Sydney sent to Atlanta in 1996, Vanessa Amarosi getting rained on at the 2002 Commonwealth Games closer in Manchester (and her redemption in Birmingham in 2022… that got overshadowed by the passing of Olivia Newton-John), and even our effort at Hampden Park in 2014 to sell the world on the Gold Coast’s Commonwealth Games four years later.

For Queensland, this is more than a handover. It’s the beginning of the most important period for tourism promotion in our state’s history: one that had it’s seeds sown as the world recovered from a pandemic.

2028, has already been a year with our eyes on the sky in the Sunshine State.

The handover in LA… is just icing on the cake.

Fifteen for 15: Extraordinary in Every Way.

Well, we’ve made it.

279 days after we said we had a challenge to face (in the inaugural KWnetwork Select on Boxing Day last year), we have done so.

But, we have a long way to go with this.

As we stated, in the DST Guide last week: today we will unveil the first five of fifteen initiatives we call, “Fifteen for 15” that will guide us in a year which is a significant anniversary for this site, and for the KW Network as a whole.

The next five of these initiatives will be revealed exclusively over social media, between October 1 and Boxing Day, while the final five initiatives will be revealed back here at Kuttsywood’s Couch, in the Boxing Day KWNetwork Select.

Those final five initiatives revealed on Boxing Day include some very significant ideas I want to work toward in the long haul.

Let us begin now, with initiative number 1.

The 15th annual Kuttsywood's Couch guide to DST delays

 Welcome, to the fifteenth anniversary of a concept, that has served as a reminder for almost a score, about the delays you will get in Queensland once the clocks in the southern states flip into daylight saving mode on October 2.

This is your DST Guide for 2022/23.

Content Survey Live 2022: Night Ten: Ten Out Of Ten For Mediocrity.

 Welcome to the tenth and final night, of the ten best nights of 2022 in our books: the third edition of Content Survey Live. This year's changes are significant, but the ground rules always stay the same here.

The Ground Rules:

Our focus, in Content Survey Live traditionally has been monitoring Ten’s five capital city news services (a benefit of technological change, now allowing us to watch interstate bulletins on delay), in order of their ratings position within the network (with each market covered once) over a week, using the same criteria we used in the “Great Local News Study” from Kuttsy's Pitch XI in August, 2019.

-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 is not counted.
-Sport is not counted if it’s done by obviously freelance journos, or voiced over pieces: you gotta have dedicated reporters there, with their mug on air reporting a sports story for it to count.
-And finally: Ten Brisbane will have it’s Gold Coast content tracked again during it’s nights: something that has become a tradition in itself.

However in 2022, we have expanded to a two week format, with a entirely new way to rank bulletins
The first week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with 2021 figures.
The second week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with pre-pandemic and pre-centralization figures sourced from 2019.

A reminder now of this week's seedings:
Monday (29/8) Sydney.
Tuesday (30/8) Perth.
Wednesday (31/8) Melbourne.
Thursday (1/9) Brisbane.
Friday (2/9) Adelaide.

Now, let's begin today's final heaping bowl of broadcast news mediocrity.

And, a reminder: to purchase merchandise related to Content Survey Live 2022, head on over to our shop over at Redbubble.

Content Survey Live 2022: Night Nine: Spring Fever, With A Side of Mediocrity

 Welcome to the ninth night, of the ten best nights of 2022 in our books: the third edition of Content Survey Live. This year's changes are significant, but the ground rules always stay the same here.

The Ground Rules:

Our focus, in Content Survey Live traditionally has been monitoring Ten’s five capital city news services (a benefit of technological change, now allowing us to watch interstate bulletins on delay), in order of their ratings position within the network (with each market covered once) over a week, using the same criteria we used in the “Great Local News Study” from Kuttsy's Pitch XI in August, 2019.

-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 is not counted.
-Sport is not counted if it’s done by obviously freelance journos, or voiced over pieces: you gotta have dedicated reporters there, with their mug on air reporting a sports story for it to count.
-And finally: Ten Brisbane will have it’s Gold Coast content tracked again during it’s nights: something that has become a tradition in itself.

However in 2022, we have expanded to a two week format, with a entirely new way to rank bulletins
The first week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with 2021 figures.
The second week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with pre-pandemic and pre-centralization figures sourced from 2019.

A reminder now of this week's seedings:
Monday (29/8) Sydney.
Tuesday (30/8) Perth.
Wednesday (31/8) Melbourne.
Thursday (1/9) Brisbane.
Friday (2/9) Adelaide.

Now, let's begin today's heaping bowl of broadcast news mediocrity.

And, a reminder: to purchase merchandise related to Content Survey Live 2022, head on over to our shop over at Redbubble.

Content Survey Live 2022: Night Eight: Another Load Of Mediocrity Cliches.

 Welcome to the eighth night, of the ten best nights of 2022 in our books: the third edition of Content Survey Live. This year's changes are significant, but the ground rules always stay the same here.

The Ground Rules:

Our focus, in Content Survey Live traditionally has been monitoring Ten’s five capital city news services (a benefit of technological change, now allowing us to watch interstate bulletins on delay), in order of their ratings position within the network (with each market covered once) over a week, using the same criteria we used in the “Great Local News Study” from Kuttsy's Pitch XI in August, 2019.

-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 is not counted.
-Sport is not counted if it’s done by obviously freelance journos, or voiced over pieces: you gotta have dedicated reporters there, with their mug on air reporting a sports story for it to count.
-And finally: Ten Brisbane will have it’s Gold Coast content tracked again during it’s nights: something that has become a tradition in itself.

However in 2022, we have expanded to a two week format, with a entirely new way to rank bulletins
The first week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with 2021 figures.
The second week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with pre-pandemic and pre-centralization figures sourced from 2019.

A reminder now of this week's seedings:
Monday (29/8) Sydney.
Tuesday (30/8) Perth.
Wednesday (31/8) Melbourne.
Thursday (1/9) Brisbane.
Friday (2/9) Adelaide.

Now, let's begin today's heaping bowl of broadcast news mediocrity.

And, a reminder: to purchase merchandise related to Content Survey Live 2022, head on over to our shop over at Redbubble.

Content Survey Live 2022: Night Seven: Anything Other Than Mediocrity Is Too Civilized.

 Welcome to the seventh night, of the ten best nights of 2022 in our books: the third edition of Content Survey Live. This year's changes are significant, but the ground rules always stay the same here.

The Ground Rules:

Our focus, in Content Survey Live traditionally has been monitoring Ten’s five capital city news services (a benefit of technological change, now allowing us to watch interstate bulletins on delay), in order of their ratings position within the network (with each market covered once) over a week, using the same criteria we used in the “Great Local News Study” from Kuttsy's Pitch XI in August, 2019.

-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 is not counted.
-Sport is not counted if it’s done by obviously freelance journos, or voiced over pieces: you gotta have dedicated reporters there, with their mug on air reporting a sports story for it to count.
-And finally: Ten Brisbane will have it’s Gold Coast content tracked again during it’s nights: something that has become a tradition in itself.

However in 2022, we have expanded to a two week format, with a entirely new way to rank bulletins
The first week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with 2021 figures.
The second week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with pre-pandemic and pre-centralization figures sourced from 2019.

A reminder now of this week's seedings:
Monday (29/8) Sydney.
Tuesday (30/8) Perth.
Wednesday (31/8) Melbourne.
Thursday (1/9) Brisbane.
Friday (2/9) Adelaide.

Now, let's begin today's heaping bowl of broadcast news mediocrity.

And, a reminder: to purchase merchandise related to Content Survey Live 2022, head on over to our shop over at Redbubble.

Content Survey Live 2022: Night Six: Come On Up To Mediocrity (Part Two)

 Welcome to the sixth night, of the ten best nights of 2022 in our books: the third edition of Content Survey Live. This year's changes are significant, but the ground rules always stay the same here.

The Ground Rules:

Our focus, in Content Survey Live traditionally has been monitoring Ten’s five capital city news services (a benefit of technological change, now allowing us to watch interstate bulletins on delay), in order of their ratings position within the network (with each market covered once) over a week, using the same criteria we used in the “Great Local News Study” from Kuttsy's Pitch XI in August, 2019.

-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 is not counted.
-Sport is not counted if it’s done by obviously freelance journos, or voiced over pieces: you gotta have dedicated reporters there, with their mug on air reporting a sports story for it to count.
-And finally: Ten Brisbane will have it’s Gold Coast content tracked again during it’s nights: something that has become a tradition in itself.

However in 2022, we have expanded to a two week format, with a entirely new way to rank bulletins
The first week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with 2021 figures.
The second week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with pre-pandemic and pre-centralization figures sourced from 2019.

A reminder now of this week's seedings:
Monday (29/8) Sydney.
Tuesday (30/8) Perth.
Wednesday (31/8) Melbourne.
Thursday (1/9) Brisbane.
Friday (2/9) Adelaide.

Now, let's begin today's heaping bowl of broadcast news mediocrity.

And, a reminder: to purchase merchandise related to Content Survey Live 2022, head on over to our shop over at Redbubble.

Content Survey Live 2022: Night Five: Come On Up To Mediocrity (Part One)

 

Welcome to the fifth night, of the ten best nights of 2022 in our books: the third edition of Content Survey Live. This year's changes are significant, but the ground rules always stay the same here.

The Ground Rules:

Our focus, in Content Survey Live traditionally has been monitoring Ten’s five capital city news services (a benefit of technological change, now allowing us to watch interstate bulletins on delay), in order of their ratings position within the network (with each market covered once) over a week, using the same criteria we used in the “Great Local News Study” from Kuttsy's Pitch XI in August, 2019.

-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 is not counted.
-Sport is not counted if it’s done by obviously freelance journos, or voiced over pieces: you gotta have dedicated reporters there, with their mug on air reporting a sports story for it to count.
-And finally: Ten Brisbane will have it’s Gold Coast content tracked again during it’s nights: something that has become a tradition in itself.

However in 2022, we have expanded to a two week format, with a entirely new way to rank bulletins
The first week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with 2021 figures.
The second week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with pre-pandemic and pre-centralization figures sourced from 2019.

A reminder now of this week's seedings:
Monday (22/8) Adelaide.
Tuesday (23/8) Brisbane.
Wednesday (24/8) Perth (Kuttsywood's Couch's 150th post).
Thursday (25/8) Melbourne.
Friday (26/8) Sydney.

Now, let's begin today's heaping bowl of broadcast news mediocrity.

And, a reminder: to purchase merchandise related to Content Survey Live 2022, head on over to our shop over at Redbubble.

Content Survey Live 2022: Night Four: Mediocrity, My Old Friend.

 

Welcome to the fourth night, of the ten best nights of 2022 in our books: the third edition of Content Survey Live. This year's changes are significant, but the ground rules always stay the same here.

The Ground Rules:

Our focus, in Content Survey Live traditionally has been monitoring Ten’s five capital city news services (a benefit of technological change, now allowing us to watch interstate bulletins on delay), in order of their ratings position within the network (with each market covered once) over a week, using the same criteria we used in the “Great Local News Study” from Kuttsy's Pitch XI in August, 2019.

-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 is not counted.
-Sport is not counted if it’s done by obviously freelance journos, or voiced over pieces: you gotta have dedicated reporters there, with their mug on air reporting a sports story for it to count.
-And finally: Ten Brisbane will have it’s Gold Coast content tracked again during it’s nights: something that has become a tradition in itself.

However in 2022, we have expanded to a two week format, with a entirely new way to rank bulletins
The first week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with 2021 figures.
The second week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with pre-pandemic and pre-centralization figures sourced from 2019.

A reminder now of this week's seedings:
Monday (22/8) Adelaide.
Tuesday (23/8) Brisbane.
Wednesday (24/8) Perth (which marked this site's 150th post).
Thursday (25/8) Melbourne.
Friday (26/8) Sydney.

Now, let's begin today's heaping bowl of broadcast news mediocrity.

And, a reminder: to purchase merchandise related to Content Survey Live 2022, head on over to our shop over at Redbubble.

Content Survey Live 2022: Night Three: A Mediocre Way To Mark 150 Posts.

 Welcome to the third night, of the ten best nights of 2022 in our books: the third edition of Content Survey Live. This year's changes are significant, but the ground rules always stay the same here.

The Ground Rules:

Our focus, in Content Survey Live traditionally has been monitoring Ten’s five capital city news services (a benefit of technological change, now allowing us to watch interstate bulletins on delay), in order of their ratings position within the network (with each market covered once) over a week, using the same criteria we used in the “Great Local News Study” from Kuttsy's Pitch XI in August, 2019.

-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 is not counted.
-Sport is not counted if it’s done by obviously freelance journos, or voiced over pieces: you gotta have dedicated reporters there, with their mug on air reporting a sports story for it to count.
-And finally: Ten Brisbane will have it’s Gold Coast content tracked again during it’s nights: something that has become a tradition in itself.

However in 2022, we have expanded to a two week format, with a entirely new way to rank bulletins
The first week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with 2021 figures.
The second week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with pre-pandemic and pre-centralization figures sourced from 2019.

A reminder now of this week's seedings:
Monday (22/8) Adelaide.
Tuesday (23/8) Brisbane.
Wednesday (24/8) Perth (which will also mark a significant milestone for Kuttsywood's Couch).
Thursday (25/8) Melbourne.
Friday (26/8) Sydney.

Now, let's begin today's heaping bowl of broadcast news mediocrity.

And, a reminder: to purchase merchandise related to Content Survey Live 2022, head on over to our shop over at Redbubble.

Content Survey Live 2022: Night Two: Mediocrity, Brisbane Style.

 

Welcome to the second night, of the ten best nights of 2022 in our books: the third edition of Content Survey Live. This year's changes are significant, but the ground rules always stay the same here.

The Ground Rules:

Our focus, in Content Survey Live traditionally has been monitoring Ten’s five capital city news services (a benefit of technological change, now allowing us to watch interstate bulletins on delay), in order of their ratings position within the network (with each market covered once) over a week, using the same criteria we used in the “Great Local News Study” from Kuttsy's Pitch XI in August, 2019.

-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 is not counted.
-Sport is not counted if it’s done by obviously freelance journos, or voiced over pieces: you gotta have dedicated reporters there, with their mug on air reporting a sports story for it to count.
-And finally: Ten Brisbane will have it’s Gold Coast content tracked again during it’s nights: something that has become a tradition in itself.

However in 2022, we have expanded to a two week format, with a entirely new way to rank bulletins
The first week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with 2021 figures.
The second week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with pre-pandemic and pre-centralization figures sourced from 2019.

A reminder now of this week's seedings:
Monday (22/8) Adelaide.
Tuesday (23/8) Brisbane.
Wednesday (24/8) Perth (which will also mark a significant milestone for Kuttsywood's Couch).
Thursday (25/8) Melbourne.
Friday (26/8) Sydney.

Now, let's begin today's heaping bowl of broadcast news mediocrity.

And, a reminder: to purchase merchandise related to Content Survey Live 2022, head on over to our shop over at Redbubble.

Content Survey Live 2022: Night One: You Can't Buy Mediocrity From Johnnies.

Welcome to the first night, of the ten best nights of 2022 in our books: the third edition of Content Survey Live. This year's changes are significant, but the ground rules always stay the same here.

The Ground Rules:

Our focus, in Content Survey Live traditionally has been monitoring Ten’s five capital city news services (a benefit of technological change, now allowing us to watch interstate bulletins on delay), in order of their ratings position within the network (with each market covered once) over a week, using the same criteria we used in the “Great Local News Study” from Kuttsy's Pitch XI in August, 2019.

-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 is not counted.
-Sport is not counted if it’s done by obviously freelance journos, or voiced over pieces: you gotta have dedicated reporters there, with their mug on air reporting a sports story for it to count.
-And finally: Ten Brisbane will have it’s Gold Coast content tracked again during it’s nights: something that has become a tradition in itself.

However in 2022, we have expanded to a two week format, with a entirely new way to rank bulletins
The first week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with 2021 figures.
The second week, will seed bulletins based on comparisons with pre-pandemic and pre-centralization figures sourced from 2019.

A reminder now of this week's seedings:
Monday (22/8) Adelaide.
Tuesday (23/8) Brisbane.
Wednesday (24/8) Perth (which will also mark a significant milestone for Kuttsywood's Couch).
Thursday (25/8) Melbourne.
Friday (26/8) Sydney.

Now, let's begin today's heaping bowl of broadcast news mediocrity.

And, a reminder: to purchase merchandise related to Content Survey Live 2022, head on over to our shop over at Redbubble.

Content Survey Live 2022: Night Zero: Mediocrity Means Everything.

“They gather together, hundreds and hundreds,

To watch a news service where too many have been punted,

As quality slides, their opinion much like a deer is hunted,

Does local news matter, in a 18 minute span,

Does 10 realise the product’s poor with no locals handling the plan,

Their news service is in very bad health,

In desperate need for increased wealth,

Until such time as 10 ends this austerity monstrosity…

You’ll have Content Survey Live… to celebrate mediocrity.” 

The poem from Boxing Day, is just as apt as ever.
Welcome, to Content Survey Live 2022: Celebrate Mediocrity.

This, is Night Zero.

Lexicon News 2: Night 5

Welcome, to the final night of Lexicon News 2. 

The final night has arrived... of a tumultuous event, one where night one got rained out, and we ended up unexpectedly counting political news stories. So, before we hit the road, we say the following: will there be a trilogy of television news lexiconed to hell? You will find out for yourself, at the end of this post. Let's go over once more, 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 four 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.

And, one more thing. Enjoying Lexicon News 2? Come on over and buy the merchandise for this event over at our Redbubble store.

Also, we have now "something extra" on sale: our "Day 4" coffee mug and travel mug.

Another day, another chance for the ratings to tell the story. Seven in Brisbane, last night took the 6-7pm hour with 183,000 viewers over the hour, compared to Nine's paltry 142,000 (incidentally, the same figures Nine received for the 6-7pm hour in Brisbane... on August 16, 2019: I dare the folks at OzTam to fight the folks at archive.org, concerning old ratings data... I reckon the ratings provider may end up losing).

Another missed milestone in a station's life for QTQ: and resultingly getting punished for it, just as badly as they were when their 60th only got two minutes mention 24 months ago. Amanda Patterson: especially, as you are ex-Extra, look at why Seven's Sunday flashback segment still rates after 17 and a half years, and why Nine has not attempted to counter it, with their own, or make your heritage more visible
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With last night's loss by Nine, the game for this week is tied 2-2, with Friday set to make or break the first week of 2022.

Today, Friday Feburary 11 2022: has seen the federal cruise ship ban extended into April (potentially seeing the cruise industry being a huge factor in election advertising), more money thrown around by QLD at overseas airlines, and by Canberra concerning Paradise Dam near Bundaberg.

Now it's time for Lexicon News 2: Night 5.

Now, we have a chronological overview of the BTQ bulletin as it aired in Brisbane tonight, between the opener and sport. Stories shared with the regional cut, are marked in bold and red.

Opener, Kirra heckler at tourism press conference/COVID numbers, desk live cross concerning Novavax/ATAGI decision, School COVID reporting issues, Kallangur motel death, Live cross from Caboolture watchhouse (6:06), Ben Roberts-Smith court case (is Reason watching Apocalypse Now this weekend?), Live cross 6:09 at CBD police station concerning a police officer suspension, Archivist report released, AMA having issues with a trial of pharmacists doing some medical treatment, US Secretary of State visiting Australia, Winter Olympics story. (end of segment one)

(Start of segment two) Lady Musgrave rescue, R.A.T thefts in Oxenford, Royal COVID scare, US thin ice rescue (end of segment two)

(Start of segment three) QLD Tourism warchest (the reason why the press conference happened in Kirra), Coomera fire victim's friends respond, Koalas declared endangered in Queensland, New get fit initiatives. (end of segment 3)

(Start of segment four) Live cross about a stolen car 6:37, from the same location as the one done at 6:09, Andrew O'Keefe court case, Crane crash in a undisclosed location, Frozen at QPAC, new croc fossils at Winton. (intro to sport)

The timing in Brisbane added up to  30 minutes,  5 seconds.

The regional cut added up to  10 minutes, 25 seconds.

The amount of content Seven lexiconed out, of their Brisbane newshour in regional QLD tonight:   19 minutes, 40  seconds.

The amount of lexiconed content this (4 night) week by Seven:  79 minutes,  40 seconds.

The wrap.

Overall, this week was a challenge. Yet, had we recorded Monday's figures... we would have been two minutes off 2021 figures. The attempt at cutting live crosses out from the regional cut tonight to counter the coverups that we've seen all week is hilarious at best.

Overall, we've seen a product that has lexiconed content that shouldn't have hit the cutting room floor this week. Imagine watching the piece tonight from Seven's George St team, if you haven't seen a piece on the integrity issues in parliament on Seven all week, like the regional QLD cut produced for three nights straight. The big ticket item about international tourism funding... buried in the third segment just because a heckler turned up at Kirra. We are still wondering how many takes for Blowers with the koala though.

The common thread still exists though from August last year:

The only window that is used by Seven for the regional cut is the first window: one that is often eighteen minutes in length.

-Anything worthwhile in later segments prior to 6:30 is simply ignored.

-The turnaround for Segment 1's editing is likely a mere 10 minutes, before it airs in regional Queensland.

And, it's something Seven should not be proud of... especially if these techniques arrive in regional NSW/VIC later this year. Time for Seven to choose a condensed national/state bulletin filmed for regional QLD like Prime did for their local news markets, instead of  chopping up the Brisbane 6pm news's opening segment.

As we leave, Lexicon News 2: You'll ask... will there be a Lexicon News 3?
To borrow from the late Frank Warrick: "not in the short term."

"Can we roll Ubu now?"

Yes, we can.

(From Sage Antone on Youtube)

But we leave with a song tied to night 4.

The final track, that ended Extra in 2009, will also end the Lexicon News sequel.

"Proud", Heather Small (from Old School Tunes on Youtube)

Lexicon News 2: Night 4

Welcome to night four, of Lexicon News 2.

The 10th of Feburary, 2022 is a milestone not just for the second edition of Lexicon News. On this day, in 1992, the first episode of Brisbane Extra premiered.

(Extra press ad, Feburary 10, 1992: from SLQ microfiche)

Our tribute, to the eighteen year run of Extra (a program that many critics in the nineties thought it wouldn't last the distance) that began on this day thirty years ago, is not just in this post. After Lexicon News Night 4, is posted: we will be releasing a commemorative coffee mug and travel mug over at Redbubble, to highlight the milestone that the 10th of Feburary will mark.

Let's reiterate 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 four 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.

And, one more thing. Enjoying Lexicon News 2? Come on over and buy the merchandise for this event over at our Redbubble store.

And now, let us begin night four of Lexicon News.

Wait... let's get a image befitting of this significant anniversary.

Lexicon News 2: Night 3

Welcome, one and all to the third night of Lexicon News 2. Let's go over once again, the ground rules of our experiment.


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 four 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.

And, one more thing. Enjoying Lexicon News 2? Come on over and buy the merchandise for this event over at our Redbubble store.

Lexicon News 2: Night 2

 Is this the wrong time of the year for a content survey?

Making it's way to the ring,
A series whose first outing in 2021 recorded how much news you lose.
It's sequel, stands alone today, unlike the first outing (tagged to a five day content survey.)
And after a false start yesterday...
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Lexicon News 2.

Welcome back, to Lexicon News.

Lexicon News 2: Night 1.

Welcome to what would have been, night one of Lexicon News 2.

Instead, we've been hit with a case of the gremlins in the process of recording the regional cut of Seven's Brisbane bulletin tonight!

The only thing we can say now: It's on with the show, night two tomorrow night: of a now 4 day event, which will retain all numbering for reasons that will be explained on Thursday.

And, a reminder, you can buy a Lexicon News 2 shirt, hat or even a facemask, over at Redbubble!

"We couldn't salvage much, but that's life for the first rain delay in 8 years of running content surveys. Please enjoy this highlight of 1990's vintage."

(From MissBeavis10 on Youtube.)

kwNetwork Select: 2022.

“I’m talking to the wall…”

On the very first week of ratings in 2022, Content Survey Live’s big addition in 2021, stands alone.

“Sit Ubu, Sit Ubu, Sit Ubu, Sit Ubu, Sit.”

Veritas on KW, proudly presents on Kuttsywood’s Couch…

“About 12 minutes of real news each night”

This, is Lexicon News 2.

So, welcome to our new year ahead format: KW Network Select: where we give you a select look at what the year ahead has for this site, and the social media family that is the KWNetwork.

Vale: Bert Newton AM, MBE

 

"A icon has passed".

To understand how deeply the loss of Bert Newton will be felt by Australia, is to understand Australian television's heritage as a whole.

Bert was there when television pretty much began in Australia: and is the last of the three pillars in television variety forged in our industry's early years (the other two being the "King of Television" Graham Kennedy (who passed away in 2005) and American-born Morton Issacson: who performed under the stage name, Don Lane (who passed away in 2009) that shot to long-term popularity with Australian viewers to leave us.

It is fitting to look back at the Bert Newton life story as a tale of three mediums.

100 Years On: A Road to Upper House Revival.

Honorable Gentlemen: hear, hear !

Question put and passed.

The (Legislative) Council adjourned at 8.37 pm.

The final words, of Queensland’s original upper house: as reported by Hansard on October 27, 1921, which is available for all to peruse, at QLD Parliament's website.

100 years on, on October 27, 2021 at 8.37 pm, we look to a future where a upper house can rightfully return.

The 14th annual Kuttsywood's Couch guide to DST delays.

Our Ode to the 2020's
 
The 2020’s are ours to savour.
A decade of exciting change, 
and many things worth looking forward to.
A bicentennial, and many centennials for a state,
that has always looked to the sky.
A capital reshaped by urban renewal, 
and welcoming the world back to our door.
Seeing how sixteen days, eleven years away… 
counts down ever closer with every passing moment.
A decade where television and the internet will blend ever closer.
A decade where those who grew up watching Goss, Borbidge and Beattie,
will start to make their mark on Queensland’s political landscape.

The 2020’s can be Queensland’s golden decade.

And, the “Team for the Twenties” will be able to bring it to you, when it happens.

Welcome, to the 14th annual Daylight Saving guide, here at Kuttsywood’s Couch.

Significant, as we launch this site’s newest incarnation (including a slight change to the right… text alignment-wise, with our titles and widgets now centre aligned for your convenience): but with some news on the side.

With the successful launch of our Twitter expansion, over the first six months of 2021, we are making a major decision as of today. Our original brand extensions, on Tumblr: Kuttsywood’s Couchcushion and Knight Kleaner will be warehoused (a roundabout way to say, they will no longer be updated), and will no longer be accessible from this site directly.

This decision was made, at the early stages of planning for the Veritas on KW/One Queensland launch (done in late 2020), but we have waited until now (partially because this site has been undergoing tuning since the end of Content Survey Live in August), to put this into action.

Content Survey Live 2021: Lexicon News Night 5

  10 Week:

Brisbane-Sydney-Perth-Melbourne-Adelaide

Just when you thought it was safe to turn off the content survey for another year, here we are again together for a second week, albeit one with a difference.

This, is the fifth and final night of Lexicon News.

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.

Now, lets get stepping towards tonight's look at news you can use... that won't ultimately make the final cut.

Content Survey Live 2021: Lexicon News: Night 4.

 10 Week:

Brisbane-Sydney-Perth-Melbourne-Adelaide

Just when you thought it was safe to turn off the content survey for another year, here we are again together for a second week, albeit one with a difference.

This, is the fourth night of Lexicon News.

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.

Now, lets get stepping towards tonight's look at news you can use... that won't ultimately make the final cut.

Content Survey Live 2021: Lexicon News, Night 3.

 

 For those who have missed last week's action:

10 Week:
Brisbane-Sydney-Perth-Melbourne-Adelaide

Just when you thought it was safe to turn off the content survey for another year, here we are again together for a second week, albeit one with a difference.

This, is the third night of Lexicon News.

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.

Now, lets get stepping towards tonight's look at news you can use... that won't ultimately make the final cut.

Content Survey Live 2021: Lexicon News, Night 2

 For those who have missed last week's action:

10 Week:
Brisbane-Sydney-Perth-Melbourne-Adelaide

Just when you thought it was safe to turn off the content survey for another year, here we are again together for a second week, albeit one with a difference.

This, is the second night of Lexicon News.

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.

Now, lets get stepping towards tonight's look at news you can use... that won't ultimately make the final cut.

Content Survey Live 2021: Lexicon News, Night 1.

 

For those who have missed last week's action:
10 Week:
Brisbane-Sydney-Perth-Melbourne-Adelaide

Just when you thought it was safe to turn off the content survey for another year, here we are again together for a second week, albeit one with a difference.

This, is Lexicon News.

But you all are asking: "What the hell is Lexicon News?"

Lexicon News's genesis

Lexicon News, came about as a way to extend the format into a second week, but it's catalyst, was a move I made twelve months ago: from Brisbane to regional Queensland, where 7's news service is not only omnipotent, but probably has been the most successful local news product in aggregated Australia for the last decade, as bulletins were added in markets that were once heartlands for WIN Television (Rockhampton in 2010, and Toowoomba in 2015) while the regional television sector played two games of musical chairs with Southern Cross and Win concerning the Nine chair in Victoria, Southern NSW and Queensland in 2016 and 2021: consigning Nine to a very deep ratings hole in our part of the world.

But it hasn't been without some growing pains, especially when Seven News in Brisbane expanded to one hour in 2014, which eventually (once Toowoomba gained a local news service in December 2015) resulted in Seven's 6pm hour in Brisbane being heavily edited into a 1/2hr service to air at 6:30, with Brisbane's sport/weather airing live statewide.

From this position (and a little help from a PVR recording the directors cut and 7+'s full bulletin), we will find out how much Queensland regional viewers don't see in the (news) directors cut of BTQ's 6pm news.

"Why the name, Lexicon News?"

The inspiration for the name: came from the most unusual source: a Christmas tape, someone uploaded to Youtube.
(There is nothing to be ashamed about people outside the industry watching TV Xmas tapes, broadcasters: especially, as even the BBC celebrated their own, back in 2018.)
This particular Christmas tape, came from BTQ in Brisbane, in 1986: and probably lines up with some of the best ever done by the Beeb (less titilation, but more of a cohesive story)
The story, is simply: parodying Bondy's Sky Channel, with their own idea... "The Lexicon Channel".

"The Lexicon 1200: unrivalled in it's performance, can time compress your favorite programs, so you the viewer can enjoy more programs in less time than any other network. Imagine Gone With The Wind being telecast in one hour, Imagine 26 minutes of commercials, and eight minutes of station promotion per hour, that's The Lexicon Channel's promise. A new generation of broadcasting has been born.
The Lexicon Channel: Taking on the challenge, taking entertainment to new... lengths.

Quote from the afore mentioned Christmas tape's intro.

The whole idea was, simply a channel that actively edited programs so as much programming could be screened as possible in as little time as possible: as famously explained by the eccentric idea of condensing the four hour epic, "Gone With The Wind", into a one hour slot... only to stick 34 minutes of non program content in, leaving only 24mins of the film.

Hence why this week is called "Lexicon News": where a hour news bulletin is condensed into a small time frame: in a small timeframe, so it can be gotten out of the way, because 7 doesn't want to move Home and Away.

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.

And, that's how a joke on a Christmas tape, married with a 1987 promo, to create a challenge that gives us clarity concerning how much news you actually miss on 7, just because you live outside of Brisbane.