Content Survey Live: Yesterday's Hero: Round 1: Night 1: Content Survey Spells Magic

Content Survey Live in 2025 kicking off on a Friday night… We are going to have a good time tonight.

Dedicated, to Harry Vanda (still with us, at 78), and George Young (who passed away in 2017), who shaped the Australian sound of the sixties and seventies as ARIA Hall of Fame songwriting pair, Vanda and Young: responsible for John Paul Young’s hits from 1975 onward, “Friday on My Mind” for the Easybeats (of which Vanda and Young were members, alongside lead singer Stevie Wright (who passed away in 2015) and all three parts of Evie, sung by Stevie Wright, as his biggest solo hit.

We salute the team that gave us JPY’s hits, especially as this year’s tagline is named after one of them.

kwNetwork Select: 2025

Welcome, to Boxing Day, welcome to the KW Network Select for 2025.

A reminder: of our Hugh Cornish obit, we posted to Kuttsywood's Couch late on Monday night (23/12/2024, if reading this in the new year).

Vale: Hugh Cornish AM

 Hubert Kestell Cornish, known to many as Hugh Cornish: the first face on television in Queensland, and ultimately Queensland's last living link to the genesis of our TV industry in the late 1950's and early 1960's sadly passed away on December 11, 2024 at the age of 90.

Hugh's career in the television medium was one that began, with the introduction of the first filmed news footage for Queensland television (Princess Alexandria on her way from Canberra to Brisbane for Queensland's centennial celebrations), and ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, both in on-air and off-air roles, before exploring new frontiers in the arts sector throughout the 1990's, before becoming the elder statesman of Queensland's TV industry for twenty years until his passing.

But like every great story, Hugh's has it's beginnings somewhere.

(Thanks to Hugh's autobiography "Funny You Should Ask", for the help about transcribing his life up until 1996. If you ever stumble on it at Brisbane's Lifeline Bookfest or somewhere else, it is a great read.)

Kuttsy's Pitch X-Two

The Pitch is Back.

23 years to the date: a TV newsroom in Townsville found out their bulletin would be made history and ultimately put on the ultimate signoff as local loyalty was flushed down the toilet in favour of noodle updates from Canberra, a messy product from Brisbane and more noodle updates this time from Tasmania. All this while, what ultimately became the only QLD-produced and presented regional news service continues to be dominant (which began when it swooped in to Townsville and Cairns 20yrs ago to add to their thriving heritage products in the Wide Bay, Sunshine Coast and Mackay), and misinformation and a botched move by a metropolitan station concerning local news is now bleeding that same regional station that cut their FNQ links in 2001 dry.

Today is November 21, 2024.

This is Kuttsy’s Pitch X-2.

The 17th annual Kuttsywood's Couch guide to DST delays

Welcome to this year’s DST Guide live, and in living colour this September 28.

A Flood of Memories: The Bonus Content Part 2: We'll Shop Again

Welcome back, to the second of two standalone posts from the post-show series for both editions of Content Survey Live in 2024, A Flood of Memories.

The success of this post-show snapshot of life after the '74 flood, led us to bring more from the microfiche, and into the light: hence this is going to be a two part series: the first part being focused on the post-flood recovery and was released on August 16, the second that you are seeing today is giving you a wider look at food and other goods which we only touched on briefly on Feburary 22, and 29.

A Flood of Memories: The Bonus Content Part 1: Films, Fire and Flood.

Welcome to the first of two bonus standalone posts from the post-show series for both editions of Content Survey Live in 2024, A Flood of Memories.

The success of this post-show snapshot of life after the '74 flood, led us to bring more from the microfiche, and into the light: hence this is going to be a two part series: the first being focused on the post-flood recovery, the second giving you a wider look at food and other goods which we only touched on briefly on Feburary 22, and 29.

And, finally some breaking news in the last twenty four hours: thank you to 10, to finally listening to the viewers that are still there watching their product, and taking on the significant criticism of the hybrid Sydney/Brisbane product we have laid out on this site since centralization of Brisbane's news to Sydney just under four years ago.

Brisbane's news on 10... is coming home in September.

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 5: Night 4: Everyone's Making It But Brisbane.

 It's the final countdown. The end of Content Survey Live's longest adventure.

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 5: Night 3: Are There Actually Strings Attached?

 This event has not been sponsored by MIX Adelaide.

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 5: Night 2: Final Call for Moorabbin.

 I don't know if it'll sell any cabins?

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 5: Night 1: Monday Night Midnight Run.

 Perth back to back: as the final week of Season Mode... begins to crack.

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 4: Night 4: Better Than West Coast Pops?

 Well, here we are at the end of the week... a Midnight Run, again making history. And, if you look out the window of QF10 out of Heathrow bound for Perth: you'll see the queue for Hyperia at Thorpe Park...

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 4: Night 3: Are East Coast Pops...

 The survey, with the longest road distance between them begins tonight....

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 4: Night 2: Survey of Origin: Adelaide.

 Melbourne's come up to the test: tonight... it's Adelaide's shot: to enter the Survey of Origin ring.

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 4: Night 1: Survey of Origin: Melbourne.

 So here we are: the final two weeks of this year's Content Survey Live competition... kicking off with a winner takes all battle on Monday night. This is no normal survey: This is Survey of Origin...

Content Survey Live: The City With A Golden Anniversary: Night 5: Is The Carnival Over?

The final day of a golden anniversary spectacular.

Content Survey Live: The City With A Golden Anniversary: Night 4: Why Was Our Bedroom Argument On TV?

Well, it’s Thursday!

Content Survey Live: The City With A Golden Anniversary: Night 3: Wednesday Survey Wednesday

 What’s this thing called again, a Wednesday?

Content Survey Live: The City With A Golden Anniversary: Night 2: This Tuesday Via Satellite.

 Yesterday, it was TVQ’s 50th: Today, it’s Content Survey Live’s 50th edition.

Content Survey Live: The City With A Golden Anniversary: Night 1: May 13, 2024.

 50 years in the making: this is Content Survey Live: City with A Golden Anniversary.

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 3: Night 4: Think, Before You Watch 10's News at 5.

 What do we do with a hybrid bulletin,
What do we do with a hybrid bulletin,
What do we do with a hybrid bulletin...
10's at 5 o'clock.

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 3: Night 3: The WA Blue Plate Special.

 Tonight's serving at the Content Survey Live restaurant.
A bowl of WA's finest... with a midnight run to boot.
Order up!

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 3: Night 2: Stephen Quartermain Holds His Own

 "The adventures of the man they call "Quarters",
Presenting sports coverage that knows no borders,
Fresh from South Yarra smelling of liniment,
Makes his old workmate McAvaney look twice for a minute.
The sports presenter that Sydney can only envy,
Introducing: Stephen Quartermain, aplenty."

"bonk" Sorry, Smacka!

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 3: Night 1: Dalts Is On The Other Channel

 Content Survey Live in April: Who wants it?

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 2: Night 4: Remember the Time Melbourne Got It Right

 Content Survey Live's only March outing this year is tonight.
Can Feburary March? No, April May.

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 2: Night 3: Added a Day to Your Year.

Thirty days hath September, April, June and November.
All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February alone,
And that has twenty-eight days clear and twenty-nine in each leap year.

Well, happy February 29...

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 2: Night 2: Whaddya Mean It's Been Only A Week.

 Back to a second straight Sydney Monday...
Hopefully with less Taylor Swift though!

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 2: Night 1: All My Rowdy Friends Want To Watch Burford On Monday Night.

 It's Monday night before midnight, and it's time for Boots 'N All...
Wait: not Boots 'N All: but the Hometown Rule...

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 1: Night 4: No Way Out of Western Australia

 Whaddya mean there's no eight man tag tonight...
Although, it's 24hrs until WWE Elimination Chamber (also known as WWE No Escape for the German market) packs Optus Stadium with less people than a Taylor Swift concert...

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 1: Night 3: It Was The Best of Times, It Was The Burford of Times.

 So, here we are at the start of the second match of Round 1...
Last year's bronze, versus last year's silver...

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 1: Night 2: There Are No Showbags Here

 A stormy arrival for Content Survey Live in summer...
What's coming tonight?

Content Survey Live: Season Mode: Round 1: Night 1: The Waiting Game.

This post is dedicated to Queensland broadcasting legend, former reporter for the ABC's This Day Tonight, one of the founding members of the Tripod TV collective that produced for Nine Brisbane, Today Tonight between Feburary 1979 and June 1985 (a program he'd ultimately host after the departure of founding compare Glenn Taylor to Seven to start State Affair and the brief run of Andrew Carroll hosting TT post-Taylor departure), a former executive producer for 10's Good Morning Australia, presenter for Business Week, and founding presenter for Seven's TVAM (alongside Kay McGrath), John Barton: who passed away on Saturday (17/2/2024) at the age of 73.

We send our condolences to John's family (including his sons: Sam, Fraser and Hugh, who announced their father's passing this morning on the RATS Facebook page).

Content Survey Live in Feburary…
Welcome to Season Mode.

kwNetwork Select: 2024

 

Happy Boxing Day, and welcome to the KW Network Select for 2024.

Lexicon News The Third: Night Five: Tram and Trampier

 A reminder: The best solution to the Olympics problem is layed out in the Big Q, not with our politicians.

Lexicon News The Third: Night 4: Rain and Raising

 A reminder: if you do too many burnouts on sand, you'll be digging your own hole.

Lexicon News The Third: Night Three: Orca and Orchideous

Ancient journo proverb (especially if you watched 7's 4pm news in QLD this arvo): don't screw up a story intro live on air, especially this close to Christmas.

Lexicon News The Third: Night Two: Pitch and Pithy

 "We surveyed 100 people about the new set... and we got nothing?"

Welcome to the second night of the third edition of Lexicon News. Last night, Seven hit it out of the ballpark at 6, yet faltered at 6:30 in SEQ. Tonight is set to be interesting indeed.

Let's again go over the ground rules for 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.

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...

What aired in regional QLD, will be bolded and in red.

We open tonights bulletin up with storms in SEQ (a weather cross was excised from the regional QLD cut), more from a notable defamation trial, then a break-in at Beerwah, maternity issues in QLD, the search continuing for a missing person off the Sunshine Coast, the ongoing saline solution recall, upcoming national disposable vape ban (if you do not know what a vape is, ask your kids), refugee detention issues, a inquiry into the recent Optus mass outage, Gaza hostage families visiting Australia, a update on the Toondah Harbour development, Schoolies car with a branch through it on K'gari (a story that at this point is four days old, with the incident occurring on Saturday, and reported locally in the Wide Bay area on Monday night), the redirected P&O cruise finally makes landfall, Inland freight route funding stoush heads to Canberra tomorrow, Mark Richardson thanking Lifeflight team that did a emergency evac from Bali a few months back, SEQ rental costs and the suburbs where it's cheaper to buy than rent that somehow crashed into a story about a freeway fire, Adrian Beck's new program to tackle dyslexia in our youth, a new mobile wildlife hospital, figures about dog attacks on postal workers, Shane Warne's family's new cause: more heart checks for Australians, royal secrets book due for a Aussie release and finally, a kid stealing a forklift in Michigan. 

The timing in Brisbane added up tonight to 27mins 33secs.
The regional cut added up to 9mins 18secs.
Seven lexiconed out of their news tonight for regional Queenslanders: 18mins 15secs.
The amount of lexiconed content this week so far by Seven: 36mins 24secs

Once again, a relatively big news story relevant to regional Queensland (inland freight route proposal) is being left on the cutting room floor at Lexicon Central.

Tomorrow night, is the halfway point of this week's campaign, and a update on last night's bulletin's plug for a Heartkids fundraiser: their total is now over $1000 raised.

And, finally another reminder: OneQueensland's "Big Q" is being launched wider: the link to the survey is available here.

A reminder, if you want to support us here at Kuttsywood's Couch, please visit our Patreon page: and become a paid supporter, and a reminder: to see you tomorrow night... but first, a teaser for Boxing Day.

Lexicon News The Third: Night 1: Set and Setiferous

 And, by the way: surprise!

The 16th annual Kuttsywood's Couch guide to DST delays

Welcome to the 2023/24 DST Guide: a tradition we’ve held dear since 2008: and will continue to hold dear until our politicians get the message that any politician who still believes that the 1992 QLD DST referendum results should still be utilized as a basis for mid-21(st) century political policy in Queensland is not a good politician: especially as we head toward a political generation that will either not have been born or were very young when the 1992 referendum happened who will fight a hell of a lot harder to eliminate the DST borderline than previous generations.

This year, we’ve been preparing this guide since prior to Nine’s upfronts on September 6, and have achieved a significant first: with this guide being published a week early on our Patreon platform: Kuttsywood’s Couch One. In addition, our DST Update service from 2011-2014 over at our former Tumblr presence, will be revived as part of our weekly Veritas on KW: On Sunday product from October 2 (with a two week break over Christmas/New Year).

To support us: visit our Patreon and become a patron.

In addition: we have a update concerning Content Survey Live in 2024.

“Due to reasons within our control, Content Survey Live will not be seen in August 2024. More details are available, on Boxing Day.”

Content Survey Live 2023: The Call of The Tribes: Grand Final: Melbourne V Perth: Night 4 (Melbourne)

 The winner takes all, it's the thrill...

Who will come up with the goods, and assure themselves a sweet, sweet victory?

This is the finale of Content Survey Live for 2023.

Content Survey Live 2023: The Call of The Tribes: Grand Final: Melbourne V Perth Night 3 (Perth)

Well, we are hitting the home straight.
Two nights left... two more impressions.

Content Survey Live 2023: The Call of The Tribes: Grand Final Melbourne V Perth Night 2 (Perth)

 Two night's in to the Grand Final...
Will one city try and set up to bring it home tonight?

Content Survey Live 2023: The Call of The Tribes: Grand Final: Melbourne V Perth Night 1 (Melbourne)

 Welcome to the beginning of the final week...
The final week... of the call of the tribes.

Content Survey Live 2023: The Call of The Tribes: Preliminary Final: Adelaide V Melbourne: Night 4 (Adelaide)

The end of a big week.
Who's going to bring it home against Perth next week?

Content Survey Live 2023: The Call of The Tribes: Preliminary Final Adelaide V Melbourne: Night 3 (Melbourne)

The Lionesses are just 90 minutes away from finally bringing football home.

Will tonight's survey give us a great look at the washup from the Matildas semi final loss?

Content Survey Live 2023: The Call of The Tribes: Preliminary Final Adelaide V Melbourne: Night 2 (Melbourne)

After last night...
Where to next for Prelim glory?

Content Survey Live 2023: The Call of The Tribes: Preliminary Final Adelaide V Melbourne: Night 1 (Adelaide)

The Preliminary Final has started:
It's all downhill from here.

Content Survey Live 2023: The Call of The Tribes: Semi Final 2: Sydney V Adelaide: Night 4 (Adelaide)

The halfway point of halfway points,

Still with plenty on the line.