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bbc coverage anounced


Guest drewsstrat

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Yes Zoe Ball is on Sky Arts, they seem to be getting pretty serious about this channel and music. Although the BBC does have very good internet coverage but I'm quite sure sky could soon sort out this. And for anyone who wants to moan about Murdoch just watch sport on BBC and then on Sky and then say who has the better coverage.

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BBC every time.

I love my rugby and the Beeb's 6 Nations coverage PISSES on Stuart c**tING Barnes from a great height.

And if a game of football is shit, the BBC will tell me - this game of football is shit.

Not

SUPER SUNDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*Wigan and West Brom badges fly through space, colliding with one another in a giant explosion*

They're literally on fire

Personally I don't think it would ever go to Sky. I couldn't see Michael or Emily giving the rights to a channel that wasn't free to air.

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I'm biased on this one, but I think the BBC does a cracking job of covering Glasto.

Clearly it can't delight everyone on these boards, but a decent number seem to think it passes muster, which is pretty good really (especially when you consider that it's 100% not aimed to please the likes of us)

I'm not saying it's prefect, but there's loads of coverage.

Sky would LOVE to have the Glasto rights. I honestly can't see it happening though - for one thing the BBC coverage can be a great selling point for some of the bigger acts (though some like Leonard Cohen insist they don't broadcast them, so they can sell DVDs/tour tickets etc)

On this point the good relationship between U2 and the Beeb probably explains why that set is being broadcast in full (I would be surprised if U2 would let Sky show them)

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I'm biased on this one, but I think the BBC does a cracking job of covering Glasto.

Clearly it can't delight everyone on these boards, but a decent number seem to think it passes muster, which is pretty good really (especially when you consider that it's 100% not aimed to please the likes of us)

I'm not saying it's prefect, but there's loads of coverage.

Sky would LOVE to have the Glasto rights. I honestly can't see it happening though - for one thing the BBC coverage can be a great selling point for some of the bigger acts (though some like Leonard Cohen insist they don't broadcast them, so they can sell DVDs/tour tickets etc)

On this point the good relationship between U2 and the Beeb probably explains why that set is being broadcast in full (I would be surprised if U2 would let Sky show them)

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BBC every time.

I love my rugby and the Beeb's 6 Nations coverage PISSES on Stuart c**tING Barnes from a great height.

And if a game of football is shit, the BBC will tell me - this game of football is shit.

Not

SUPER SUNDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*Wigan and West Brom badges fly through space, colliding with one another in a giant explosion*

They're literally on fire

Personally I don't think it would ever go to Sky. I couldn't see Michael or Emily giving the rights to a channel that wasn't free to air.

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dunno if this has been posted yet, apologies if it has. it goes a bit techy, but i know there's a few on here who like that stuff. :)

http://radiotoday.co.uk/2011/06/parfitt-defends-glastonbury-staffing/

As the BBC announces its coverage for this year’s Glastonbury Festival later this month, Radio 1 Controller Andy Parfitt has defended the number of people from the corporation working on the event.

BBC Radio 6 Music leads the radio coverage with non-stop broadcasts from the site over a number of days, with plenty more content due to air on Radio 1, 1Xtra, Radio 2 and Radio 4. There’ll also be TV coverage on BBC 2, BBC 3 and BBC 4.

6 Music’s coverage will be presented by Steve Lamacq, Lauren Laverne, Shaun Keaveny, Cerys Matthews, Mark Radcliffe, Stuart Maconie, Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish and will include live performances from across the stages, interviews with performers, regular festival news updates from the station’s expert music news team plus a voyage into the weird and wonderful far reaches of the festival.

Paul Rodgers, Editor, Radio 6 Music, says: “6 Music’s coverage of Glastonbury has gone from strength to strength over the past few years and I’m very proud of what we’ve been able to achieve from a small studio in a very big field. This year will be no exception and I know that we’ll be able to bring the best of the festival to our listeners.”

Most years the BBC faces criticism from parts of the press, keen to highlight the vast number of staff and freelancers sent to work on the festival. Last year there were 274 in the BBC team and we’re told this year the number will be lower at 263.

Writing on the BBC Blog, Andy Parfitt – the BBC’s Controller of Radio 1, 1Xtra and Popular Music – said: “Last year our coverage reached nearly 16 million people, was listened to by 5.7 million individuals and the website featured around 170 hours of video.”

He added: “As a former sound engineer, I’m going to tell you about the main Pyramid Stage sound for the Radio, TV and on-demand. We’re talking about delivering some of the world’s greatest artists (this year there’s U2, Coldplay and Beyoncé) to your TV, radio and computer in super quality. I can tell you that mixing the hundreds of sound feeds does not happen on mobile disco equipment – Sound II is the BBC’s big digital mobile music studio – a truck crammed with the highest possible quality mixing desk, monitoring and FX systems. Inside, our very best sound engineers work on a shift system to deliver great sound day and night; there are stage technicians who lay the cables and set the mics; and production assistants who log, time, quality check and upload hundreds of tracks so that the BBC Radio stations can play out live music in their Glastonbury specials.

“This is only one stage and only the sound – across a sprawling site which is bigger than Bath. There’s also the John Peel Stage, West Holts Stage, The Park Stage, Other Stage and BBC Introducing Stage with each one having dedicated technical points. And there are dozens more stages, tents and areas where music and comedy acts are doing their thing – so getting around the site with equipment and artists can be a real challenge. All this, even before we get to the multi hi-def camera points, the vision mixers, directors, vision control engineers, producers, the website techs and the fact that tons of kit has to be installed in a fairly remote valley in Somerset and taken down days later by riggers and drivers. I hope you’ll appreciate that this is why it takes the number of people it does to deliver the BBC’s high quality multi-platform content. I should add that as the broadcast partner, the BBC’s pictures are beamed across the world with BBC WorldWide selling rights to coverage overseas and generating funds to be invested back into the BBC for making programmes.”

He concluded: “And this is certainly no ‘junket’. There’s no BBC corporate hospitality and any BBC executives attending will also be working. Every member of staff onsite has a clear and accountable role – working hard and extremely long hours to offer unparalleled coverage. The people who work at the festival are some of the most dedicated, talented hard-working and professional crew I have come across in my career – and I have been around a long time!”

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Probably because they are irrelevant to a target Radio 1 audience and not big enough to warrant BBC TV time.

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When I'd not been able to get tickets for the festival I loved watching the coverage on the beeb - especially when John Peel was presenting and you got to see more of the none mainstream acts and some acts from the non music areas of the festival

In recent years they seem to show more of the main stages which I can understand as audiences like the big acts, just hope they show a bit of the otherside of the festival too.

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In recent years they seem to show more of the main stages which I can understand as audiences like the big acts, just hope they show a bit of the otherside of the festival too.

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I have a spare Humax { blank 500gb} that I set to record in chunks as many times they will run over so far easier just recording the whole output which I will then edit down using a DVD/HD Recorder.

so it will be all of BBC3 and a split between BBC2/BBC4

The Humax had a FF speed of 64 so dead easy to whizz though.

it would be great if the accurate recording signal was 100% dependable but its not.

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