Radio 2 in the Park 2024

[Jono]

The Radio 1 Big Weekend in Maidstone cost £1.4 million, the BBC has revealed.

The free, two-day event at Mote Park, last month featured musicians including Madonna, The Kooks and Fatboy Slim.

In answers to Freedom of Information requests from KOS Media, the BBC said this week that the event cost £900,000 to stage and broadcast and £500,000 to televise.

But the BBC refused to say what special requests were made by stars appearing at the mini-festival.

The corporation stressed that the event was a big success. It generated 75 hours of television programming, which was watched by seven million viewers of BBC1, BBC2 and BBC3, it said.

The BBC said most of Radio 1’s 13.4 million listeners each week will have heard some content from the May 10-11 event, which also generated 59 hours of radio programming,

More than 127,000 viewers tuned into online videos shot at Mote Park on the BBC’s iPlayer site, while there were an estimated 1.16 million users of the Red Button TV service.

On top of that, there were more than 200,000 unique users to the BBC’s Radio 1 Big Weekend website in the week after the event.

Amanda Ashton, the BBC’s head of audio and music business unit, said: “In addition, there was a substantial amount of online content, including 1,700 photos, an estimated five hours of DJ videos and 20 hours of band performance videos.

“In the circumstances, we believe that the Big Weekend is an extremely cost-effective event.”

The BBC confirmed that none of the artists were paid for performing at Radio 1’s Big Weekend.

However, they would not answer a question about what special requests were made by musicians.

Ms Ashton said: “The BBC will not be providing you with this information, as we consider that it is not covered by the Freedom of Information Act 2000.”

She added: “Even if the information was covered by the Act, it would be exempt from disclosure.”

http://www.kentnews.co.uk/kent-news/Radio-1-Big-Weekend-show-in-Mote-Park-cost-%C2%A31-4m-newsinkent13773.aspx?news=local

[YoppaDo]

So £500,000 for Madonna then?

That actually doesn't seem much more than I thought, it's not like it was a small event.

[dstrkzn]

I think thats pretty good value 75 hours of television for 1.4 Million.

[Jessica Lares]

Wow, that's pretty cheap!

[Chippy]

1.4 is about the yearly wage of Chris Moyles (I'm pretty sure), so think about it.

But yea, it all seems quite cheap (Not that I could afford one) but in TV terms, why don't they do more!

[The Stig]

1.4 is about the yearly wage of Chris Moyles (I'm pretty sure), so think about it.But yea, it all seems quite cheap (Not that I could afford one) but in TV terms, why don't they do more!

I don't think it's that much. It's been reported in 630,000.

[Guest CancerForTheCure]

I don't think it's that much. It's been reported in 630,000.

I think that's enough to live fairly comfortably Imagine what you could do with it...