Premier Technical Services Group Ltd (PTSG), via constituent company NSS Group, has completed a mobile elevating work platforms project to support the media in broadcasting the Glastonbury Festival. The event took place between 26 and 30 June.
Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset stages the world-renowned festival. The three headlining acts were Dua Lipa, Coldplay and SZA, with Shania Twain performing in the traditional Sunday Legends slot. This year, 210,000 people attended the event.
Over 90 hours of television and radio coverage of the festival was broadcast. They broadcast over 90 hours of television and radio coverage of the festival. Jo Whiley, Lauren Laverne, Jack Saunders, and Clara Amfo hosted the main television coverage. Additional online-only coverage was provided by Huw Stephens and Deb Grant, and aired on BBC iPlayer. Several BBC channels, including the newly-created “Glastonbury II” channel livestreamed from each of the five main stages.
NSS Hire, which forms an integral part of PTSG Building Access Specialists Ltd, delivered mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs), known informally as cherry pickers, to enable broadcasters to capture a wide range of footage from some spectacular positions and heights.
NSS Hire is having a busy year in 2024. It recently hired out specialist powered access platforms to the Wimbledon Championships. They next utilized its services at the 152nd Open Golf Championship at Royal Troon. On Saturday 15 June, it supplied truck-mounted access systems to assist with the broadcast of the Trooping the Colour ceremony in The Mall.
