BBC Coverage

[G1T]

Indeed. It pained me to see John having to sit with Wiley in his last few years. He was the only presenter (bar Mark Radcliffe) who seemed to actually leave backstage.

[JoeBananass]

Shhh, its a secret! you don't want everyone to know what the rest of Glasto is really like. It's been hard enough to get tickets over the last few years as it is.

I vote for absolutely no TV coverage!

Glasto was more fun back in the early 90's when it wasn't on TV.

And lets face it, if Glasto wasn't on TV, those flag twats wouldn't have a reason to hoist their stupid flags to obscure everyone's view! That's why they do it at the end of the day, so they can go home, watch it back on TV and point at the screen and say 'That's me that is'

Rant over...

[Alcatraz]

Shhh, its a secret! you don't want everyone to know what the rest of Glasto is really like. It's been hard enough to get tickets over the last few years as it is.

I vote for absolutely no TV coverage!

Glasto was more fun back in the early 90's when it wasn't on TV.

And lets face it, if Glasto wasn't on TV, those flag twats wouldn't have a reason to hoist their stupid flags to obscure everyone's view! That's why they do it at the end of the day, so they can go home, watch it back on TV and point at the screen and say 'That's me that is'

Rant over...

[Chimps in Balaclavas]

Yeah, they should get Mark back doing it, 1995's coverage on C4 was what got me into Glasto in the first place, and was awesome. They were off over the greenfields the whole time, even the tracking shots during bands were from there, the co-presenter (forget her name) was clearly stoned a fair bit, and the whole thing captured the real festival. Remember seeing the Rinky Dink getting a good 5 minutes of interview in a serious yet jovial way at one point.

The BBC coverage though seems to be designed to make out that glastonbury is just another festival where you go to see big name bands. I do wonder if it in part is responsible for the change in the people going there nowadays, and their focus on who's playing rather than on the parts of the festival that make it different from all the others.

Zane Low is unspeakably, insufferably bad. Bring back the Jools Holland backstage performance area!

[TaylorT]

Shhh, its a secret! you don't want everyone to know what the rest of Glasto is really like.

[dwukky]

I have "no love of the BBC" but on this occasion someone has to have something slightly good to say about them but first the balance :

The BBC for all above does not do any part of Glasto justice, but in their limited coverage they do one thing extremely well - they keep the flag idiots in one area for the weekend - keeping the rest of the site reasonably free well free-er - yes thats double-edged for the above reason.... but it helps

It also comes down to the way that GFL themselves "carve up the media pie" - BBC has the exclusive to the Pyramid, Peel, Other and Introducing (they may have another one or two but I haven't yet seen the full pre-nuptials for those with press passes this year) but as I understand it (based on previous history) - they have that exclusive right on the understanding they cover in preference to other areas of the event.

Simply put if the band is playing one of the BBC-exclusive stages, they will be much much more likely to get coverage on the BBC.

Add to this that the BBC Trust sold all the Outside Broadcast equipment to SIS (Sports Information Service - those ppl that have significant rights to horse racing in the UK in their portfolio) and the BBC now buy the equipment and resources back for all "their" events with the addition of a an "encouragement" from the government to "reduce BBC costs" and it gets more unlikely that the BBC can afford to "put voxpops / cameras and mini reviews " etc out for their "production shows" to show Glasto in its wider sense

incidentally as a News Gathering Org, BBC News has the same Press rights as any other press member (even they have to "buy" the exclusive coverage back from the BBC, just as Sky, ITN, AP etc do) which is subject to the previously mentioned pre-nups.....

I have never worked or been paid by any BBC money, my views of the BBC are my own and influenced by what I see hear and read, not by any grudge

I don't therefor think the BBC is totally to blame on this one, it doesn't help that its a special event and most special events are sporting in nature, so the format is tried and trusted and not really right IMHO for the event.

If anything the events media exposure needs to be re-worked to ensure its shown in a more accurate light - but thats only going to happen if the management and PR teams think the exposure isn't helping them sell the event - which presently its not harming the event as again its a sell out, so why meddle with something that *may* cause a loss of revenue??

- the media - an odd way of presenting free speech

[dwukky]

Shhh, its a secret! you don't want everyone to know what the rest of Glasto is really like. It's been hard enough to get tickets over the last few years as it is.

I vote for absolutely no TV coverage!

Glasto was more fun back in the early 90's when it wasn't on TV.

And lets face it, if Glasto wasn't on TV, those flag twats wouldn't have a reason to hoist their stupid flags to obscure everyone's view! That's why they do it at the end of the day, so they can go home, watch it back on TV and point at the screen and say 'That's me that is'

Rant over...

[kyjenni]

Maybe we should try and get lots more of our own videos this year of classic moments on You Tube? I'm going to be trying to get more this year myself as they're priceless. If everyone is worried about things being massively broadcasted, label the videos on You Tube with obscure names that only we forum folk would know to search for - so then providing everyone here with some fantastic moments to look back, reminisce on and say "I was there, I must have been standing right behind you!" without every Tom Dick and Harry being able to find them, see how fantastic Glastonbury is and pile in for tickets next year (which lets face it are going to be V hard to secure next year).

Screw the BBC, let's do our own Glastonbury coverage this year!

[karlpowell]

My Dad rang me while she was playing and said the same thing... 'I can't see you!'

Edited May 14, 2009 by karlpowell

[jamin12]

Maybe we should try and get lots more of our own videos this year of classic moments on You Tube? I'm going to be trying to get more this year myself as they're priceless. If everyone is worried about things being massively broadcasted, label the videos on You Tube with obscure names that only we forum folk would know to search for - so then providing everyone here with some fantastic moments to look back, reminisce on and say "I was there, I must have been standing right behind you!" without every Tom Dick and Harry being able to find them, see how fantastic Glastonbury is and pile in for tickets next year (which lets face it are going to be V hard to secure next year).

Screw the BBC, let's do our own Glastonbury coverage this year!

[harper11]

definately no Jo Whiley

she hates music and people so not sure why she is there

[Yokel Again]

There 's only one thing worse than the BBC TV coverage of glasto, and that's the coverage on R1.

bring back C4!

[tazzyb]

And lets face it, if Glasto wasn't on TV, those flag twats wouldn't have a reason to hoist their stupid flags to obscure everyone's view! That's why they do it at the end of the day, so they can go home, watch it back on TV and point at the screen and say 'That's me that is'

Rant over...

[airds]

• 'Exclusive' backstage performances that nobody who actually went to Glastonbury would have seen,

[Detective McNulty]

I like the BBC coverage of Glasto. It gets me sufficiently jealous that i'm not there anyway.

Last year i watched Jay Z live and then they went into the crowd to gage some reaction, and some ledge getting interviewed tried to maintain cool by saying, 'hmm yeah, nice to have a bit of hip hop', but then half way through just arrogantly dismissed the interviewer by saying he was really f**ked and couldn't really continue the interview and then sprinted off.

bonza.

[spikytom]

I can predict exactly what the BBC coverage will be like this year... lady ga ga, the ting tings, maximo park and a few other wet indie bands, and if we’re lucky we might get 5 minutes of someone walking about in the green fields. I’ll still watch it for the aerial shots of the site though, love those!

Its good being able to fast-forward through the coverage, but it does mean that an hour long glasto ‘highlights’ show is over in about 10 minutes.

[Storm_NL]

There 's only one thing worse than the BBC TV coverage of glasto, and that's the coverage on R1.

bring back C4!

[Storm_NL]

I can predict exactly what the BBC coverage will be like this year... lady ga ga, the ting tings, maximo park and a few other wet indie bands,

[The Nal]

Did anyone find their old Videos of the CH4 coverage?

I'd love to see that again...

[Storm_NL]

One or two yeah, tucked away with some dodgy "blues".

[spikytom]

Well, I predict that you're quite obviously way off the mark.

[Storm_NL]

Really? I'd (metaphorically) bet you a million billion pounds that lady ga ga, the ting tings & maximo park will all feature heavily in the BBCs coverage, along with some other wet indie bands. There's usually a bit of good stuff, but its mostly cack.

[William of Walworth]

Huw Stephens and Steve Lamacq should present it

They should have footage from people camping and more interviews with grass roots bands and do mini documentaries within the festival.

[pedmills]

Well, you're way off the mark for starters by labelling them as "wet indie bands", that coupled with the fact that BBC obviously won't favour those bands, destroys your credibility for me.

[William of Walworth]

Yeah, they should get Mark back doing it, 1995's coverage on C4 was what got me into Glasto in the first place, and was awesome. They were off over the greenfields the whole time, even the tracking shots during bands were from there, the co-presenter (forget her name) was clearly stoned a fair bit, and the whole thing captured the real festival. Remember seeing the Rinky Dink getting a good 5 minutes of interview in a serious yet jovial way at one point.