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You’d be surprised how many people are needed for a small link. 

You also don’t have any nearby hotels allowed to be open and also nowhere to eat. 
 

Even if there’s only 4 people on camera in total you’ll need more operating cameras, sound lighting. Then you have hair and make up plus director and other staff. 
 

All these people need feeding and accommodation. The people serving the food also need somewhere to sleep. They have to be a completely self contained unit for the duration of the festival. 

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16 minutes ago, squirrelarmy said:

You’d be surprised how many people are needed for a small link. 

You also don’t have any nearby hotels allowed to be open and also nowhere to eat. 
 

Even if there’s only 4 people on camera in total you’ll need more operating cameras, sound lighting. Then you have hair and make up plus director and other staff. 
 

All these people need feeding and accommodation. The people serving the food also need somewhere to sleep. They have to be a completely self contained unit for the duration of the festival. 

Then the question is would they bother? Seems like a lot of unnecessary use of licence payer money just to film a few links, some of the lockdown TV being broadcast at the moment is seriously budget.

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2 minutes ago, Deaf Nobby Burton said:

Then the question is would they bother? Seems like a lot of unnecessary use of licence payer money just to film a few links, some of the lockdown TV being broadcast at the moment is seriously budget.

BBC Music are going to have a certain budget for the year for content - makes sense to spend some on what is probably their biggest event of the year. I'm sure it's a tiny percentage of how much it'd normally cost doing the proper event coverage.

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3 minutes ago, Deaf Nobby Burton said:

Then the question is would they bother? Seems like a lot of unnecessary use of licence payer money just to film a few links, some of the lockdown TV being broadcast at the moment is seriously budget.

A lot of that money will have already been spent. The outside broadcast units will have been booked, sub contractors will already been paid. 
 

The alternative would be finding studio space which would actually put more people at risk. Why not use the staff and equipment that otherwise would be gathering dust in a BBC warehouse. 

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28 minutes ago, crazyfool1 said:

haven't we also had articles about 500 bbc staff at Glastonbury wasting our licence fee before ... this won't be anything close to that ..

If you worked for the bbc wouldn’t you be desperate to get on the crew for a normal Glastonbury ? You can imagine the scramble for places on that team😁.  

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2 minutes ago, Tommy101 said:

I guess they will be thinking that the viewing figures will be higher this year than a normal one as there are 250,000 extra people who are normally on site wondering what to do with themselves?

It will probably be the most viewed tv this weekend. At least it’s original programming that’s not presenters introducing old repeats. Even though technically it’s what will be happening 😂

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4 minutes ago, squirrelarmy said:

It will probably be the most viewed tv this weekend. At least it’s original programming that’s not presenters introducing old repeats. Even though technically it’s what will be happening 😂

I've been wondering who on Earth is watching these old football reruns, but wouldn't judge anyone in the slightest for watching old festival footage. Perhaps I need to check my hypocrisy there!

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41 minutes ago, Ayrshire Chris said:

If you worked for the bbc wouldn’t you be desperate to get on the crew for a normal Glastonbury ? You can imagine the scramble for places on that team😁.  

No. In all honesty I'd avoid it like the plague.

The amount of content they produce, with the comparatively limited number of people they have available to do it with, will mean that there'll be no time to stop and enjoy the festival unless you're a presenter. From what I remember, the real number is approximately 300 on site, which regardless of what the Daily Mail says, is tiny.

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1 hour ago, incident said:

No. In all honesty I'd avoid it like the plague.

The amount of content they produce, with the comparatively limited number of people they have available to do it with, will mean that there'll be no time to stop and enjoy the festival unless you're a presenter. From what I remember, the real number is approximately 300 on site, which regardless of what the Daily Mail says, is tiny.

I’d clean out Mark  Radcliffe’s portaloo with a tooth brush after he had gorged on a goat curry just to get site access😁

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