Trent TV

Trent TV is the student television station of Nottingham Trent University's Student's Union. Originally founded in 2006, the station was rebranded and relaunched in September 2010. It broadcasts live and recorded programs on-line through its website. It is part of the Trent Media family along with Fly FM and Platform Magazine. It is run entirely by volunteers and is a member of National Student Television Association.

Programming

When it relaunched Trent TV established four main areas of programming: Entertainment, Arts & Music, News & Sport.

Current Programming

Trent TV now broadcasts a variety of programmes across those different genres.

Entertainment

News


Music

Sport

Previous programming highlights

Trent TV's most popular video to date, has been a viral advert called "Milking Trent" which has received over 21,000 hits on YouTube.[1]

A second video went viral in late 2013 of rapper Wretch 32 falling over at the NTSU Freshers Ball, gaining over 7,000 views in a few days. The video can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNVYOaNQlWs

Awards

Trent TV has received a number of awards at the National Student Television Awards (NaSTAs). Having relaunched at the start of the 2010/11 academic year the first awards ceremony it attended was the 2011 NaSTAs in Loughborough. (A new system, first used at the NaSTA 40 awards ceremony in 2013, introduced a short-list system highlighting the best station entries.[2])

2015

Best News & Current Affairs - Winner: Trent TV News

Best Sport - Highly Commended: Trent TV Sport

Best Ident - Highly Commended: Trent TV

Best Station Marketing - Highly Commended: Trent TV

Light Entertainment - Highly Commended: The Panel (Joint entry with NSTV)

Trent TV were also nominated for everything that they entered for.

2014

Best News & Current Affairs - Highly Commended: Trent TV News

Best Freshers Coverage - Trent TV received the Highly Commended award

Best Ident - Winner: Trent TV

Best Station Marketing - Winner: Trent TV

Trent TV were also nominated for everything that they entered for.

2013

Best Freshers Coverage Winner: Good Morning NTU

Best Station Marketing Winner: Trent TV

Best Title Sequence Highly Commended: Varsity Ice Hockey Live 2013

Best Sport Shortlisted & special mention: Varsity Ice Hockey Live 2013 with Nuts TV

Best On-screen Female Shortlisted: Paige Haydon

Best Light Entertainment Shortlisted: NTU Nights

2012

Best Music Winner: Trent TV Base

Best Sport Winner: Varsity Ice Hockey Live

Best News & Current Affairs Highly Commended: Trent TV News

2011

Best News & Current Affairs Winner: Trent TV News

Partnership with NSTV (formally known as NUTS)

Trent TV works closely with Nottingham Student Television (NSTV) formally known as NUTS (Nottingham University Television Station). The partnership, which is unique in student television, began in 2011 with the joint live broadcast of the 2011 Varsity Ice Hockey match between Nottingham Trent University and the University of Nottingham from the Capital FM Arena. The coverage would receive a combined total of over 500 viewers on both station's websites. Trent TV also combined in 2011 with NUTS to produce 'Inter Campus Cupids' which would receive a National Student Television Award for 'Best Light Entertainment' program.

In 2012, the two television stations would combine again for the joint broadcast of the 2012 Varsity Ice Hockey match from the Capital FM Arena. The coverage would receive 1,564 viewers - a record for both Trent TV and NUTS and the highest audience for a live broadcast in student television history. The broadcast was jointly submitted by both stations into the Best Sport category at the 2012 National Student Television Awards. It would go onto win and Trent TV and NUTS would make history again - with it being the first joint submission to win a NaSTA.

This relationship continued into 2013 with both Trent TV and (the now) NUTS TV jointly broadcasting "Varsity Ice Hockey Live 2013". This programme was short-listed in the Best Sport category at the 2013 National Student Television Awards.[3]

In 2014 Trent TV and NUTS TV once again collaborated at the Varsity Charity Series jointly broadcasting "Varsity Ice Hockey Live 2014" as well as "Varsity Basketball Live 2014".

At the beginning of the 2014/2015 year NUTS went through a rebrand transforming into NSTV (Nottingham Student Television). There were rumours circulating that the two stations were set to collaborate again in the 2014/2015 but on more than just live sport programming. On the 19th November 2014, the new collaboration breakfast show show 'The Panel' was announced and launched via a promotional video. The show promised to give students "the lowdown on everything student life in Nottingham" [4] The program has since aired three episodes including the first live 'Panel' episode on the 13th May with Joshua Rom and Becca Avill as the main presenters. The Panel was entered and received the Highly commended Award in the Light Entertainment category at the NaSTA Awards 2015 held in Preston and hosted by PSTV

The Panel partnership continued into the 2015/2016 academic year. Joshua Rom remained as the main NSTV presenter and was joined by Lydia Meredith from Trent TV. The series continues to make significant advancements in student television. The series 2 launch video was released on October 22nd 2015 where the executive producer team composed of Joshua Rom, Billy Taylor and Lydia Meredith make the exclusive announcement that the series' content will be expanded where the show will be broadcast live every month of term on the dedicated NSTV and Trent TV joint youtube channel (which was introduced in 2015 for the charity varsity series live broadcasts of basketball and ice hockey). This makes NSTV and Trent TV not only the first student television stations to share a youtube channel (that has received over 10,000 views), but The Panel marks the first full series live collaboration by two television stations in the UK. The stations also expanded the amount panel broadcasts, so far with 6 episodes being broadcast in the months of October, November, December, January, February, March with the summer series finale currently planned for June. The stations are taking a brief break in May in order to focus on their long-established live varsity broadcast partnership. The programmes content has also been expanded this year with the expansion of the food recipe items, lifestyle segments, the introduction of the full time agony aunt (Alice Scott), news bulletins and reviews of the mornings papers as well as showbiz interviews, fashion reviews and topical features. Popular features such as the Panel Varsity competition were continued, this time presented by Harley Baptiste and Lauren Day.

Trent TV Committee 2015/2016

The Trent TV Committee for the 2015/2016 academic year is as follows:

Station Manager: Billy Taylor

Deputy Station Manager (Treasurer): Tommy Taylor

Deputy Station Manager/Head of Production: Joshua Taylor

Head of News: Alice Scott

Assistant Head of News: Anthony Sinclair

Head of Music: Sofia Sinnott Montero

Assistant Head of Music: Alice Dale

Head of Entertainment: Nii Lartey

Assistant Head of Entertainment: Creea Sharma

Head of Sport: Dominic Simms

Assistant Head of Sport: James Knuckey

Head of Marketing (Social Sec): Harley Baptiste

Assistant head of Marketing (Social Sec): Daniel Mburu

Head of Design: Ellie Moss

Assistant Head of Design: Ben Alexander

Links

References

  1. ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZliw56lPH4
  2. ↑ http://www.nasta40.com
  3. ↑ http://www.nasta40.com/best-sport
  4. ↑ http://www.impactnottingham.com/2014/11/nstv-and-trent-tv-to-collaborate/
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