QUOTE..Yes, it's as I suspected...Too much to do, too little time.
Obviously, at an award ceremony, you can hardly do re-takes!! and with several technical difficulties during the day, it was a case of winging it on the night...It happens sometimes.

SOOORREEEE! that does not cut it.. Beeb have been doing outside broadcast for donkey's years, and obviously have 'lost the plot'
I thought the telly was on the fritz, fiddled with treble bass stereo, nicam, loudness, even oiled the hamster's wheel... but to no avail. BEEB spooks, If you expect live acts, monitor the mix on a portable telly, then you can hear the balls up that you are making... perhaps the sound guys didn't appreciate the difference between blues, country, pipes, acoustic and vocal... for it was all there