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Glastonbury coverage on the BBC

(July 2009)

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MA
maiden666
Was wondering if anyone saw the recent coverage of the Edinburgh Film Festival on the BBC? Clearly an important event in the UK's cultural calender. No you probably didn't. There wasn't the time/resources/manpower apparently. The BBC however did have the resources to send over 400 personnel to the Glastonbury festival last weekend (the same as they sent to the Beijing Olympics last year).
JC
JonathanC
BBC were the host broadcaster of Glastonbury, and weren't at the Olympics. Don't bother with the number comparison, it's pointless.

Also, coverage across multiple TV channels, red button, online, Radio 1/2/6music... for some reason, the amount of stuff and quality of it, no wonder it took a lot of people.
MA
maiden666
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jun/30/bbc.olympicsandthemedia
JC
JonathanC
Well done, you've posted a link, despite me already discussing the pointlessness of the comparison. Let's give you a round of applause.
MA
maiden666
Why is the comparison pointless? Surely the expense involved is difficulty to justify. As large and important as the Glastonbury Festival is, the Edinburgh Film festival surely warranted some coverage.
DV
DVB Cornwall
1. Glastonbury has a vast array of broadcastable content, whereas Edinburgh would simply have been discussion and much less appealing.
2. Music content is appreciated by many more people than an 'art' based event.
3. The diversity of acts performing at Glastonbury (and it's ease of availability) provides many hours of entertainment during and after the event.
MA
maiden666
I'm not arguing Glastonbury shouldn't have been widely covered, far from it. As a relative youngster I certainly enjoy 'pop' music. Very Happy Especially Iron Maiden, Opeth, Rush etc. Glastonbury's not my cuppa but yes it should be widely covered. But nothing from Edinburgh? Most people to some degree are interested in cinema, and it's not only 'arthouse' films.
JC
JonathanC
5Live did some stuff from the festival, and did live video streaming of it. And then stuck it on the red button.
NG
noggin Founding member
Why is the comparison pointless? Surely the expense involved is difficulty to justify. As large and important as the Glastonbury Festival is, the Edinburgh Film festival surely warranted some coverage.


As has already been pointed out - the BBC is host broadcaster for the Glastonbury event - it isn't for the Edinburgh Festival.

As host broadcaster for Glastonbury the BBC has a duty to cover multiple-stages in high quality. The BBC was only host broadcaster for a couple of events at the Olympics (rowing, open-water kayaking and open-water swimming I think) - so the comparison you are making is between an event the BBC host broadcasts in its entireity (Glastonbury) and one which it mainly provided presentation facilities for (Olympics).

However whether the BBC gets a deal on Glastonbury (i.e. reduced rights costs for provision of production facilities) I don't know...

If you want to compare like-with-like - pull out all the coverage crew and staff from Glastonbury and just leave in the relatively small number of people who provided the BBC presentation facilities and production.
JO
Joe
So you're just feeling bitter that Scotland was ignored?
PT
Put The Telly On
So you're just feeling bitter that Scotland was ignored?


It seems to be ignored a lot though, given the trend on this forum of late.
MA
maiden666
So you're just feeling bitter that Scotland was ignored?


Not bitter, just disappointed. It seems that raising this particular issue generally illicits an unsavoury response from some. To quote from another thread "Scots whingeing".
Last edited by maiden666 on 2 July 2009 7:21pm

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