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I'm left wondering why the streams weren't being passed through an EVS* with about five minutes' delay or so in case this sort of thing occurred, so it could be bypassed?

*A brand of rather excellent multi-channel disk recorders that could do this (and much more) with ease, m'lud.

Abernathy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 01, 2025 2:32 pm I had never even heard of “Bob Vylan” before,

Sometime last week I clocked his name on a list of acts appearing and, without clicking the link, assumed he was a Bob Dylan tribute act.
In my defence The Bootleg Beatles were on the list, so it didn't seem unreasonable.

The BBC's own take on this ammo for its detractors;

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgjgg25v0q9o

In that field on Saturday, it felt to me that the BBC had spent so much energy on how it would deal with Kneecap at Glastonbury, that it had missed Bob Vylan's potential to cause it problems. Sometimes, when you are focused on one potential controversy, another one arrives to bite you.

It could not have known exactly what Bob Vylan would say or do on stage. There are questions whether due diligence was done in the run up. I'm told it was. It's the BBC's reaction as the set unfolded, and the perception it was too slow to act, that is a bigger problem.

I've covered quite a lot of BBC 'scandals' in my time as media editor at BBC News and as I look at the headlines across the media, and the bashing the BBC is getting, I keep in mind that stories about the BBC are often used by other media organisations as a stick to hit the corporation. And sometimes, there are other corporate interests at play for those who want to see a weaker BBC for their own benefit.

While this "controversy" rages, I shall sing along to "Rawlplugs Of Yesteryear" instead