Well, I think a concert should be broadcast as live as possible if you know what I mean and it's near impossible what with all the swearing. Plus it doesn't particularly fit into BBC Four's genre.
I'm guessing five, who are showing the concert, have the rights for mainstream television coverage, so the beeb can only show it on interactive rather than an 'actual' channel?
As I said when details were announced, if it was in London I'm sure the BBC would have screened it uninterupted throughout the night.
Yes, S4C did a great job - but this is on a channel only available in Wales and to Sky Digital viewers - and a channel most Sky Digital viewers would skip past!
A couple of hours on BBC2, a couple more hours on five with an extra 100 minutes on BBC 1 Wales didn't do it justice! As for it being on the interactive stream - I came across this by accident about 10pm!
There was nothing on BBC1 last night that couldn't have been postponed. BBC Three also had a schedule full of repeats - it wouldn't have been perfect, but airing it from 7-11pm on BBC3 would have given it a higher profile than on BBCi.
It's a shame - what I caught of it was absolutely brilliant, something millions of viewers missed out on probably due to it's location!
The BBC's reaction to the Tsunami hasn't been brilliant. Although a commercial radio initiative, there was no reason why the BBC couldn't have played out Radioaid and given the appeal millions more listeners.
As for their news coverage - their first news special was 48 hours after ITV's, with a follow up special screened around 9am one week on - while ITV dedicated an hour of primetime to a news special - and the viewers watched it!
