A01 Glastonbury - History of the Live Coverage

Glastonbury Festival, formerly known as the 'Pilton Pop, Folk and Blues, Festival,' was created in 1970. At this time, new crews were interested in the festival, but it wasn't until 1994 when it became a major feature of UK Television. The festival in 1994 was broadcast live on Channel 4, and MTV also had a camera crew for their channel in 1994 and 1995. It was 1996 when BBC 2 took over the coverage of the popular festival. The first ever online highlights from the festival where broadcast in 2000 on playlouder.com, it featured highlights from the infamous Pyramid Stage, Other Stage and the New Bands Tent. This website also allowed Glastonbury to be the first 'virtual festival,' where people who we not able to go to the festival could sit and watch coverage and join in on chat rooms, message boards, photo library's and also see footage from previous festivals. BBC Choice (now known as BBC Three) ran 6 hour long specials from 1994, 95, 97, 98, 99 and 2000. Glastonbury has had a number of media partners, and if you needed to know anything about the festival you could watch or listen to BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 4, playlouder.com and also HTV. Since 2002 Glastonbury has been licensed to be aired outside of the UK in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Holland, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, South America (via satellite), USA, Canada and also Japan. Highlights from the festival have been shown internationally by NBDTV.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrDIOVXx-y8 - Footage of Jay-Z at Glastonbury 2008.

More detailed information can be found at:
http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/_assets/pdf/educational-resources/26Broadcasting.pdf