The BBC and Glastonbury

[anonymous-user]

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[Bugeyeandy]

Hmm, article starts off saying the BBC have secured 200 hotel rooms, then quote a local hoteliers guestimation of 400 rooms. Next paragraph complains about need for 400 staff to attend.

Article concludes with BBC saying the sent 274 last year and hope to send less this year.

Conclusion - Daily Mail is full of st

The BBC always have great coverage of music events and sporting events. I'd rather they spent the money on this and the F1 than a lot of the other crap they show.

[carmonk]

Another reason I won't be paying my licence fee on renewal. I used to be able to qualify my dislike of the BBC by saying at least the news was good, but even that's st now. In fact, they now provide the worst coverage of all the networks. "Hey, someone's having a press conference or giving a speech about some non event that nobody gives a st about. How about instead of reporting the conclusoin, we cover it live and not only that, show up three hours early and cover that bit live too!" "Yeah, yeah, and also, if we accidentally find we're giving air time to a valid news story we'll interrupt it with live coverage of some fking Scottish losing at tennis again! Brilliant!"

[DWP]

carmonk said:

Another reason I won't be paying my licence fee on renewal. I used to be able to qualify my dislike of the BBC by saying at least the news was good, but even that's st now. In fact, they now provide the worst coverage of all the networks. "Hey, someone's having a press conference or giving a speech about some non event that nobody gives a st about. How about instead of reporting the conclusoin, we cover it live and not only that, show up three hours early and cover that bit live too!" "Yeah, yeah, and also, if we accidentally find we're giving air time to a valid news story we'll interrupt it with live coverage of some fking Scottish losing at tennis again! Brilliant!"

Rare that such a reasoned and balanced argument is made.

[Puggit]

DWP said:

carmonk said:

Another reason I won't be paying my licence fee on renewal. I used to be able to qualify my dislike of the BBC by saying at least the news was good, but even that's st now. In fact, they now provide the worst coverage of all the networks. "Hey, someone's having a press conference or giving a speech about some non event that nobody gives a st about. How about instead of reporting the conclusoin, we cover it live and not only that, show up three hours early and cover that bit live too!" "Yeah, yeah, and also, if we accidentally find we're giving air time to a valid news story we'll interrupt it with live coverage of some fking Scottish losing at tennis again! Brilliant!"

Rare that such a reasoned and balanced argument is made.

I'm confused, he's talking about Sky -but he's labelled it about the BBC

[Ozzie Osmond]

carmonk said:

Another reason I won't be paying my licence fee on renewal. I used to be able to qualify my dislike of the BBC by saying at least the news was good, but even that's st now. In fact, they now provide the worst coverage of all the networks.

Have you seen "Grumpy old Men"? Are you in it?

I'm sure the Beeb make a small fortune selling their Glasto coverage around the world.

Muse have a great live DVD which mainly comprises, wait for it wait for it, their Glastonbury headline performance as recorded by the BBC. And that's just one small example.

[bexVN]

Well I for one will be watching the coverage. It's a huge venue so not surprising the numbers.

There is a lot I'm not keen on but I still watch the BBC channels far more than itv, ch4 and ch5.

[Mr. Potato Head]

Enormous live OB at the countries' largest music festival, 5 music stages to cover, temporary studio base, lots of other places of interest.
Watched and enjoyed by millions.
Yeah only needs 20 people

[Marf]

How much would it cost me to go to Glastonbury? Lots

How much out of my TV license does the coverage I enjoy cost? Not much.

[neil_bolton]

Mr. Potato Head said:

Enormous live OB at the countries' largest music festival, 5 music stages to cover, temporary studio base, lots of other places of interest.
Watched and enjoyed by millions.
Yeah only needs 20 people

Indeed. From what I know of it, even the smallest OB requires huge amounts to give the quality that we come to expect.

To cover a site of the size of Glastonbury, to drive it there, to set it up, to maintain it, to produce the content, to present it, to pack it down, well, then I guess you could probably say 280 people is about right.

After all, we'd only be bhing if we didn't get decent coverage for our pretty paltry license fee (of which most of us will happily spend away on a nice meal of an evening).

Jeez. 'Spending my license fee' my arse.

[Jackleman]

To me the license fee is worth it just for Radio 4 alone! then you have the excellent F1 coverage, programmes like Planet Earth and the great events like Glastonbury.

Can't see the problem personally.

[Cyder]

The Glastonbury coverage is one of the few things that I am quite happy for the BBC to spend my licence fee on.

Others include.

Top Gear
Planet Earth
Louis Theroux
F1
MotoGP

[Mr Gear]

They probably have about 100 staff on Springwatch.

[fathomfive]

How many does it take to cover F1?

[scenario8]

fathomfive said:

How many does it take to cover F1?

Lots and lots. And it costs a lot. They also receive a feed for the track stuff, so you might want to factor that in when concluding whether or not it represents good or bad value - and how that value compares to the coverage of Glastonbury over BBC1 and 2, 3, red button, internet, BBC Radios 1, 2 and 7, plus all the repeats that may appear on other BBC outputs.

This story appears in the Mail (and other media) every year. Personally I think the BBC coverage is extraordinary. No doubt it could be made worse by reducing the budget. I'd be surprised if it could be much improved following the same route.

[mikR]

I am in Australia for work and the tv here is diabolical. I never thought I would say this but I really mis the BBC.

[GregE240]

That nice Jake Humphreys on the F1 has an iPad as well.

They aren't cheap.

[Eric Mc]

mikR said:

I am in Australia for work and the tv here is diabolical. I never thought I would say this but I really mis the BBC.

Says it all.

[scenario8]

mikR said:

I am in Australia for work and the tv here is diabolical. I never thought I would say this but I really mis the BBC.

I watched the Australian coverage of the Australian Grand Prix last year. Remarkably dreadfull. Truly appalli ng. And brief. And peppered with adverts.

I have a family member living in Australia and he cannot complain enough about how bad their tv is. In my experience and those of friends abroad (in various countries) tv in the UK is very good. Not that it will stop the great unwashed constantly banging on about how rubbish it is.

[anonymous-user]

I need the BBC to be there and provide the coverage, so when I get home from Glastonbury I can use the Sky plussed coverage to try and piece back together some memories of said event

Go Beeb!!!