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Urban Telegraph - Where Aussie Culture Gets Urbanised

 
Want to know how well Aussie culture is doing at the moment? Want to know some interesting things about our past? Think Aussie culture needs to start updating itself for a more relevant future? Then this is the place for you. Welcome to The Urban Telegraph.

Catch up report- October 8th - 16th

November 15th 2006 00:18
This tiny report is part of my attempts to get The Urban Tele up to date. It’s about a month old.

ARIA Album Chart Report- 16th October
Local Content Score- 6 of top 20

For the second week in a row Jet was in at third to lead the locals. Marcia Hines was again the second local but had fallen to ninth.

Eskimo Joe was in at tenth, Wolfmother at thirteenth, Ms McIntosh at nineteenth and The Rogue Traders at twentieth.

Pretty quiet week really.



Top 20 Weekend Cinema Box Office Takings October 12th - 15th
Local Content Score- 2 of Top 20


Two locals in the Twenty this week but it was still Kenny leading the charge with yet another increase in its weekly box office. This week it was a more modest 6% to get $359,215 but in the box office business any gain is pretty impressive. Kenny did, however, slip to twelfth after some big import results. Still, it broke through the $5 million mark for $5,078,806, which puts it in fairly esteemed company- local films that are a box office success.

The second local film was Irresistible, a movie with big name actors but very little impact at the cinema. It made $122,489 in its debut from a screen count of 47, giving it a fairly respectable $2,606 screen average, but there wasn’t much more expected from this one. Another waste of tax payer money in the name of ‘art’. Sigh.


Aussie..Movies............Box..Office......C.S.......AVG.......WOC….... %.........…...Total

#12...Kenny..................$359,215.....124......$2,897..........9...........6...........$5,078,806

#16..Irresistible.............$112,489......47......$2,606...........1.........na..............$123,820




(C.S. = Cinema Screens, WOC = Weeks On Chart, % = % change since last week)



Top 20 Metropolitan TV Ratings 8th - 14th October
Local Content Score- 14 of top 20

Tamer week this one with Aussie Idol taking the number one spot with 1.891 million viewers. Dancing with the Stars was the next local in at third, followed by Thank God You’re Here at fifth with 1.77 and 1.673 million viewers each.
The Real Sea Change had a pretty good debut in at ninth while behind it in tenth was the Bathurst coverage for a very handy 1.436 million viewers. Not bad for a frantic drive in the country.

Home and Away was in at twelfth while Medical Emergency proved it needed Medical Emergency to make it really successful, only making it to seventeenth. Better Homes and Gardens and All Saints rounded out The Twenty at nineteenth and twentieth.

If you want to check out the charts for any of this week’s stuff just get in contact and I’ll email you a copy.
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Catch up report- October 1st-9th

November 14th 2006 00:15
This tiny report is part of my attempts to get The Urban Tele up to date. It’s about a month old.

ARIA Album Chart Report- 9th October
Local Content Score- 8 of top 20

Bigger week in ARIA land with eight locals in The Twenty.

There was a new top local with Jet’s debut in at third, going straight to platinum. It was followed in at third with another debut from Idol judge Marcia Hines in at sixth. That one didn’t even reach gold status.

Eskimo Joe was in at ninth, Stephanie McIntosh was in at thirteenth, Rogue Traders was at fourteenth and Wolfmother at fifteenth.

The last two locals in The Twenty were Kasey Chambers at nineteenth and Evermore at twenty to finish out an impressive week.



Top 20 Weekend Cinema Box Office Takings October 5th - 8th
Local Content Score- 1 of Top 20

The week that propelled Kenny into the ‘okay, I give up’ category of box office watching. After a 33% drop the week before Kenny turned around and increased by 30% for a weekly haul of $338,993. It was amazing stuff and helped Kenny reach tenth spot and $4,564,970, off an average of $3,054 a screen.

From here the question was just much higher could Kenny’s box office go? At this stage it looked like $6 million.


Aussie..Movies............Box..Office......C.S.......AVG.......WOC….... %.........…...Total

#10...Kenny..................$338,993.....111......$3,054..........8........30...........$4,564,970



(C.S. = Cinema Screens, WOC = Weeks On Chart, % = % change since last week)


The footy season is upon us, and with it some big figures.

Top 20 Metropolitan TV Ratings 1st - 7th October
Local Content Score- 17 of top 20

This week it was Rugby League’s turn to be the number one show with 2.552 million viewers in the metropolitan area, a figure which was the same as last years. The big difference of course was the fact that there were more Melbourne viewers than Sydney viewers. Bizarre.
Another final show was also in at third with 1.826 million.

Second this week was Dancing with the Stars with a very healthy 1.858 million viewers and Thank God You’re Here in at fourth, which had 1.751 million.

From there it was Aussie Idol at seventh, a very impressive eighth spot for All Saints, and Home and Away in at tenth. Eighth and tenth- they’re huge figures for Aussie drama. Go Aussie drama go.

At twelfth was 20 to 1, Forensic Investigators at fourteenth and Spicks and Specks doing it for public broadcasting at fifteenth. Jamie’s Kitchen and Better Homes and Gardens rounded out the locals at sixteenth and eighteenth, and that was the week that was.

Again, if you want to check out the charts for any of this week’s stuff just get in contact and I’ll email you a copy of each.
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Catch up reports- 24th Sep- 2nd Oct

November 13th 2006 02:12
This tiny report is part of my attempts to get The Urban Tele up to date. It’s about a month old.

ARIA Album Chart Report- 2nd October
Local Content Score- 6 of top 20

At the dawn of October Eskimo Joe was still in at number four, closely followed by Ms Stephanie McIntosh of Neighbours soapie fame in at fifth.

From fifth it was down to fifteenth with Evermore’s Real Life, then Wolfmother’s self titled in at sixteenth on three platinum wall decorators.

Sixteenth was Rogue Traders and, to round out the locals in the Top Twenty, there was Kasey Chambers in at eighteenth with her Carnival Album.


Top 20 Weekend Cinema Box Office Takings September 28th- October 1st
Local Content Score- 1 of Top 20

Quiet week with only one local, Kenny, in the Top Twenty. But then again, if you wanted one movie in The Twenty Kenny would be it.

Kenny was in at twelfth with a long weekend take of $314,253 off 98 cinema screens. It wasn’t a bad effort with an average of $2,653 per screen but the total was down 33% on the week before. This took Kenny’s total to $4,135,681.

There was another Aussie film released, children’s drama Opal Dream, but this failed to make it into The Twenty after an abysmal $9,149 from 34 screens. Not pretty at all.


Aussie..Movies............Box..Office......C.S.......AVG.......WOC….... %.........…...Total

#12...Kenny..................$314,253......98......$2,653..........7........-33...........$4,135,681



(C.S. = Cinema Screens, WOC = Weeks On Chart, % = % change since last week)


The footy season is upon us, and with it some big figures.

Top 20 Metropolitan TV Ratings 24th - 30th September
Local Content Score- 15 of top 20

Big week of footy results with the AFL final dominating. Top was of course the final with 3.145 million viewers across the metros, which is a few hundred thousand down on last year. Other final shows were also in at third, fourth and eleventh with 2.5, 2.27 and 1.49 million viewers respectively.

Also on this week was the Terri Irwin exclusive which came in at second with 2.516 million viewers, making it a massive week of television.

In at fifth was Dancing with the Stars, sixth was Thank God You’re Here, Aussie Idol at eighth and the AFL Footy Show in at tenth.

From there it was down to the bottom five which had All Saints and Home and Away, the rest being news and current affairs shows.

If you’d like to see the full charts just get in touch and I’ll email you copies.
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Okay. Enough is enough....

November 8th 2006 02:33
I've had enough. After an eternal hiatus its time to get the Telegraph kicking over again. Unfortunately I'm still suffering from a lack of internet connection, so things are still going to be a bit dodgy, but I've discovered my local library and its bank of internet connected typing machines so at least something will make it out into blog land.

So, a quick reprisal of what's been happening since I've been offline


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