Category: Wales;
Factual
& Arts TV
Date: 14.01.2005
Printable version
Live
concert to be broadcast to Wales and the rest of the UK
Web coverage will take concert to the world
The sell-out Tsunami Relief Cardiff concert to be held
at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday 22 January is set to be
broadcast live throughout Wales, the UK and - via the worldwide web
- to the whole world following a unique agreement between BBC Wales
and the concert organisers.
The concert features top stars such as Eric Clapton,
Jools Holland, Manic Street Preachers, Aled Jones,
Charlotte Church, Stereophonics frontman Kelly Jones,
Keane, Snow Patrol and Feeder.
BBC TWO will join the concert from 6.00 to 7.00pm taking
live coverage to other digital and terrestrial television viewers across
the whole of the UK.
BBC ONE Wales will carry the concert live from 9.00
to 10.00pm and will return after the Ten O'clock News until the end
of the event.
BBC TWO will show further network television coverage
from 11.00pm onwards.
The entire concert will be shown live by BBC Wales on
S4C from 3.00pm until its late night finish.
Coverage on S4C digidol will enable Digital Satellite viewers all over
the UK to join the whole event.
In addition, BBC 2W will broadcast a special preview
of the concert on Friday 21 January and a documentary programme about
the whole event on Monday 24 January.
"With all tickets for the event having sold out
within days, we are delighted to be able to bring the concert into the
homes of those who would otherwise have missed out," said Clare
Hudson, BBC Wales Head of English Language Programmes.
"The BBC has been talking to the Millennium Stadium since the concert
was announced and we have managed to reach an agreement that will take
full coverage of this momentous event to the whole of Wales, the UK
and beyond."
As host broadcaster BBC Wales has also offered to give
access to its pictures from 7.00 to 9.00pm to enable the Millennium
Stadium to make the television coverage available to other broadcasters
in the UK and beyond.
There will be live coverage of the whole concert on
BBC Radio Wales as well as extensive broadcasts on BBC Radio 2 with
the BBC's radio feed also being made available to other radio stations.
In a special deal, BBC Wales has also agreed to make an audio-visual
feed available to BT to enable the whole concert to be broadcast around
the world on broadband via the worldwide web.
"As host broadcaster, BBC Wales wants to help the
Millennium Stadium to make this one of the biggest events ever staged
in Wales and, most importantly, we want to enable the Disaster Emergency
Committee to get its fund-raising message across to the widest possible
audience," said Keith Jones, BBC Wales Head of Welsh Language Programmes.
"The negotiations have been complex, but we have
been able to arrive at a solution that will see this thrilling event
carried on Digital Satellite, Freeview, cable and terrestrial TV as
well as on radio and online. There will be no excuse for not joining
the excitement."
