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BBC Glasto spending scrutinised BBC events spending scrutinised
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The National Audit Office (NAO) is due to publish a report looking at how much the BBC spends on covering major sporting and music events. The BBC is not doing enough to show it provides the "best possible value for money" when covering major sports and music events, a report says.
The corporation reportedly spent £1.5m sending 407 reporters and technical staff to cover the Glastonbury music festival last year. The National Audit Office (NAO) looked at how much the corporation spent at six events including the 2008 Olympic Games, Wimbledon and Glastonbury.
In 2008, it sent 437 staff to cover the Beijing Olympics. The NAO said the BBC needed to tighten up the way it budgeted for such events.
The NAO said the report would look at whether the BBC provides value for money with its coverage. However it added that viewers generally valued and enjoyed the coverage provided by the BBC.
The NAO found that the BBC spent £111 million covering sporting and music events between 2008-9, and £246 million securing the associated rights to broadcast these events.
Of the events investigated - which also included The BBC Proms, Euro 2008 and Radio 1's Big Weekend - the NAO found that five out of the six finished under budget, or no more than 1% over budget. Radio 1's Big Weekend went 5% over budget.
But the NAO criticised the BBC for not having "a clear view" of its total expenditure, as individual budgets were drawn up for separate media platforms.
It also said the corporation did not explore other cost options properly which limited "its ability to make informed judgements about its use of funds".