Electric Picnic - no RTE coverage. BBC are all over Glastonbury

worded

Is the Picnic Ireland's Glastonbury?

RTE get € from the Govt + Licence fee + advertising ....

Is the cost too high to put a show in the road and RTE are not arsed ?

Its a shame I would like to see it on TV

https://www.thejournal.ie/rte-electric-picnic-6749211-Jul2025/

Former Former Former

The cost would be massive relative to the audience it would bring in.

This would not be not good value for the licence fee payer.

worded

Bloom got full coverage and has 100K attending approx

Electric Picnic - approx 80K

RTE needs to appeal to it's new customers the younger demographic even if it costs are higher than jumping in a car and going to the phoenix park and cherry picking the cheap to cover events.

Electric Picnic, held in Stradbally, County Laois, expects to have 75,000 festival-goers attending over the weekend. This makes it Ireland's largest and most popular music and arts festival. 

Strumms

It’s sells out every year so not like the festival need the publicity or exposure…

RTÉ don’t really have the experience of broadcasting big gigs on TV…I’d imagine a festival on that scale the number of people from RTÉ needing to be involved would be significant. Probably cost prohibitive too.

I know the BBC do Glastonbury but the BBC have over 21,000 staff and a colossal budget..RTÉ have about 1,700 staff in comparison…. I stand to be corrected but I can’t ever recall them ever covering anything live on that scale, music-wise ever on TV…

geographica

imagine the presenters they’d have 😬😬😫

Hamsterchops

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058418586/electric-picnic-no-rte-coverage-bbc-are-all-over-glastonbury

Yes, it probably is Ireland's Glastonbury, meaning it's very small, like a boutique festival by comparison.

Glastonbury is now a monster of epic proportions, with a very large army of people to run the thing, highly financed and covered by the BBC. It's a very slick, well organised & professional operation.

OnlyWayIsUp

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123597431#Comment_123597431

Self-Aid.

worded

It has nothing to do with promoting the event itself. it's to experience the buzz from home or bar or where ever.

Could RTE not farm it out the coverage to someone else if cost is a factor. Give it some budget.

Music is part of our culture and live music is the best.

For our heavily subsidised national broadcaster to have 0 coverage of such an important event is a cop out.

con747

It might not be on television but RTE are covering it on radio along with other concerts on 2FM so if listening to it isn't good enough then buy a ticket and go to it. https://about.rte.ie/2025/05/29/2fm-go-live-at-major-music-festivals-across-summer-2025/

worded

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123597481#Comment_123597481

No you buy a ticket ! Ah just joking

Thats good it's on the radio.

con747

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123597483#Comment_123597483

Well if you read the article in you're OP it say's it's being covered by 2FM. Ah just joking OP.

worded

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123597485#Comment_123597485

Everyone having a go at me now :-)

Ah love the atmosphere is all, TV more immersive than radio but will get by with it

fish fingers

I remember Rte were at Feile in Cork in 95, there was a serious line up at that.

Royale with Cheese

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123597434#Comment_123597434

Couldn't be any worse than this prick

Montage of Feck

TG4 can cover the fleadh live, although since COVID it's been significantly scaled back. So not beyond a small broadcaster to cover such events but RTE is now on holidays until the rose of Tralee.

Allinall

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123597618#Comment_123597618

Ah feck.

I was really looking forward to the hurling at the weekend.

Badly Drunk Boy

Years ago (and possibly twice), RTÉ did have coverage of the Electric Picnic over the weekend it was on. I was at the festival on those occasions so I didn't see it, but others told me about acts they saw.

It might have only been highlights of the days performances but it would have been better than nothing. And from that experience, RTÉ might have decided that it wasn't worth covering it. Maybe the viewing figures weren't great.

AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123597415#Comment_123597415

'Full coverage'? Bloom gets a few mentions on the news and some nice fluffy chats on Nationwide. And they are heavily sponsored by the food industry.

That's a totally different animal to live music from a bunch of different stages. The costs of doing any kind of half-decent job would be very large, and RTE is going through massive cutbacks and restrictions at present.

Snowballs in hell.

fatherted1969

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123597434#Comment_123597434

Why was my first thought Angus McAnally ? 😭

kneemos

RTE have no concept of catering for an audience that isn't over 60. Dunno what the viewership would be,but there's certainly some big acts playing.

As a public service broadcaster it should be airing these types of events. Couple of cameras in the stage and one on the audience would cost no more than your average GAA match that gets covered.

Ray Palmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123598018#Comment_123598018

All those over 60s watch kids TV

kneemos

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123598046#Comment_123598046

Yeah over 60 and under 12. Anybody else there's nothing to interest them outside the odd sporting event.

argentum

Maybe the promoter doesn't want them near the place as its runs smoothly as it is.

Lemsiper

To put it into perspective, even if you just included the Special Guest (those not included on the festival poster) acts playing Glastonbury it's a far stronger than EP.

Feisar

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123597930#Comment_123597930

That music based gameshow from thirty years ago?

JVince

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058418586/electric-picnic-no-rte-coverage-bbc-are-all-over-glastonbury

Not sure if you know, but the UK where BBC broadcasts has almost 70 MILLION people

Ireland, where RTE broadcasts, has a population of 5.3m

Electric picnic, whilst good, could never be in the same league as Glastonbury. Nothing is. Reading & Leeds festivals are probably in the same zone as electric picnic and barely get a mention on BBC (or ITV or Chanel 4 or SKY)

BBC pays MILLIONS in rights to broadcast Glastonbury AND send about 500 staff. They have worldwide rights to it and sell on parts/all of it to other broadcasters as it is attractive to a WORLD audience.

With respect to EP - it is not something that is attractive to a worldwide audience let alone the vast majority of people in Ireland. If it was, SKY and Virgin would take the opportunity

kneemos

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123598077#Comment_123598077

That's like comparing Bohs and Shels to the World Cup. It's a big national event.

ctrl-alt-delete

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123598077#Comment_123598077

I dont know if they plan to this year (i am assuming they will) , but the BBC did cover Reading/Leeds last year, albeit on the iplayer.

The OP was asking is Electric Picnic Ireland's Glastonbury, which it probably is.

Did rte used to cover some of Witnness/Oxegen back in the day or am I imagining that?

Ray Palmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123598051#Comment_123598051

Cheap Houses, is for which group?

High Road, Low Road?

I think you might be wrong

kneemos

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123598157#Comment_123598157

I'm sure the "young people" are glued.

Ray Palmer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123598168#Comment_123598168

20s and 30s are young people kid