No mud but all the music: fans flock to watch festivals online
by Tess Reidy from Technology | The Guardian on (#1QDX7)
Now viewers around the world can join in the fun as summer events are streamed live
Back in the days when a live televised football match was a rarity, it was widely believed that the more football was shown live on TV, the fewer people would bother to go to a match. The opposite turned out to be true. Live coverage boomed and so did match attendances. Now a similar phenomenon seems to be happening with another British institution, the summer music festival.
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