Shame. It was great last year... that means I'm going to have to pay full price for a ticket this year!
http://www.mgeitf.co.uk/home/thefestival/registration/prices.aspx 2008/8/4 Ian Forrester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi All, > > I'm sorry to say there will be no Edinburgh TV Un-Festival this year. > > We wanted to build on the success of 2007 but the cost of running the event > at a venue closer to the EICC was going upwards of 10k. The university was > too far away and it didn't make sense to do the exact same event at the same > venue in my head. The Edinburgh TV festival also wanted to charge us to > enter the event on Saturday night and Sunday. It also wasn't a token amount > of money, so if you added that to the cost of travelling and overpriced > hotels. It just wasn't going to be worth it. > > Fear not however, we have exciting things coming to backstage on top of the > growing pile of APIs and linking data. > > Cheers > > Ian Forrester > > This e-mail is: [] private; [] ask first; [x] bloggable > > Senior Producer, BBC Backstage > Room 1044, BBC Manchester BH, Oxford Road, M60 1SJ > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > work: +44 (0)2080083965 > mob: +44 (0)7711913293 > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > -- Brian Butterworth http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover advice, since 2002
