Glastonbury Television was set up in 1994 to help the Glastonbury Festival produce live coverage of the Festival for British television. In 1994 and 1995 Channel 4 paved the way with over 10 hours of live coverage from each Festival - and with over 1 million armchair fans watching the programmes each day.

After a Festival break in 1996, BBC Television took over the coverage and had to contend with the legendary mud baths of 1997 and 1998. By 1999, The Pyramid Stage, The Other Stage and the Jazz World Stage all enjoyed high profile coverage on BBC2 and BBC Choice, noiw BBC3. As the years went by coverage was extended and has reached into the Dance Tent and to the new Bands Tent (now the John Peel Tent). The programmes hope to capture some of the flavour of the Festival and apart from the excellent music slots, roving reporters scour the site for fun, frolics and festival feedback. The BBC's coverage now includes comprehensive coverage on BBC2 and BBC3, special programmes on BBC4, live webstreams on bbc.co.uk and an interactive channel (the 'red button' on digital TV). The BBC also covers the festival on radio with Radio 1 being the Festival's main radio partner. 6Music, Radio 4 and the BBC Asian Network all at Glastonbury in 2005.

In 2005 a special DVD called Glastonbury Anthems was released by EMI featuring tracks from some of the legendary performances at Glastonbury including Paul McCartney, Franz Ferdinand, Faithless, Robbie, Coldplay and many more. In April 2006 a special fetaure film about the festival directed by Julien Temple and simple titled Glastonbury was released. It will be released as a DVD in July 2006 by Pathe. A number of p[eformances form the festival have alreday been released on DVD (Moby and Muse's classic 2004 blistering out set being just two) and a new record label, the Glastonbury Phonographic Society, plan to release a number of full performances from the Festival's archive on CD and DVD in the future.

Special television programmes are distributed each year internationally by NBD Television (+44 171 243 3646) and can be seen as far afield as New Zealand, China, Brazil, Canada and the USA. In 2004 we started filming in high definition TV (HDTV) for Japan. China and the USA. The archive is managed by Glastonbury Television (ben@glastonburyfestivals.co.uk).  BBC Radio International sends special radio programmes all around the world.

The profits from television go towards the Festival's charitable aims: At the moment these ate Greenpeace, Oxfam and WaterAid. The Festivals's official website is at www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk.