Content Survey Live's only March outing this year is tonight.
Can Feburary March? No, April May.
60 Years of QLD TV
Days elapsed since Local Edition's end.
Friday, March 1, 2024
Thursday, February 29, 2024
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...
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Monday, February 26, 2024
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...
Friday, February 23, 2024
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...
Thursday, February 22, 2024
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...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Monday, February 19, 2024
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.
Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Friday, December 1, 2023
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.
Thursday, November 30, 2023
Wednesday, November 29, 2023
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.
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Lexicon News The Third: Night Two: Pitch and Pithy
"We surveyed 100 people about the new set... and we got nothing?"
Let's again go over the ground rules for Lexicon News:
Tonight's tale...
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.
Monday, November 27, 2023
Saturday, September 23, 2023
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.”
Friday, August 25, 2023
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...
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
Monday, August 21, 2023
Saturday, August 19, 2023
Friday, August 18, 2023
Content Survey Live 2023: The Call of The Tribes: Preliminary Final Adelaide V Melbourne: Night 3 (Melbourne)
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
Saturday, August 12, 2023
Thursday, August 10, 2023
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Monday, August 7, 2023
Friday, August 4, 2023
Thursday, August 3, 2023
Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Monday, July 31, 2023
Monday, June 19, 2023
Content Survey Live 2023-The Call of The Tribe: Night Zero.
The countdown begins to the fourth edition of Content Survey Live: one that celebrates ten years of counting content. Welcome to Night Zero of Content Survey Live: The Call of The Tribe.
But not in the format as you have known it since 2020.
(Chris Doheny's iconic More Than A Game (used to open the AFL Footy Show): from MartinL on Youtube)
Monday, April 3, 2023
#Project_KC24: The Arrival of Kuttsywood's Couch One.
We'd love to welcome you all, on the first step toward, our dynamic future.
As we speak, Kuttsywood's Couch, is proud to launch our brand new product, that will undoubtedly change the way you see this site, and will also help fund our roadmap to the future.
Welcome, to the dawn of Kuttsywood's Couch One, our new Patreon subscription service.
Monday, December 26, 2022
kwNetworkSelect: 2023
Saturday, October 29, 2022
2028: Queensland's "Year of Flight".
Picture this moment.
Saturday, October 1, 2022
Fifteen for 15: Extraordinary in Every Way.
Sunday, September 25, 2022
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.
Saturday, September 3, 2022
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.
Friday, September 2, 2022
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.
Thursday, September 1, 2022
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.
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Content Survey Live 2022: Night Seven: Anything Other Than Mediocrity Is Too Civilized.
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.
Tuesday, August 30, 2022
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.
Saturday, August 27, 2022
Content Survey Live 2022: Night Five: Come On Up To Mediocrity (Part One)
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.
Friday, August 26, 2022
Content Survey Live 2022: Night Four: Mediocrity, My Old Friend.
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.
Thursday, August 25, 2022
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.
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Content Survey Live 2022: Night Two: Mediocrity, Brisbane Style.
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.