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.
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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
- The Morning After
- Freshers Nights
- The Big Screen
- The Panel
- Trent Kitchen
- The Digest
News
- Trent Today
- The Big Campus Question
Music
- Nottingjam
- Trent TV On Tour
Sport
- BUCS Highlights
- Varsity
Previous programming highlights
- Trent Mates
- Trent TV Base
- It's My Birthday
- Varsity Ice Hockey Live
- GMNTU
- "The Remedy"
- NTU Nights/NTU After Dark
- Earache
- Pitchside
- Sport Shorts
- University Sessions
- Trent TV Meets...
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])
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 daytime talk 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 a live episode on the 13th May.
Trent TV Committee 2014/2015
The Trent TV Committee for the 2014/2015 academic year is as follows:
Station Manager: Becca Avill
Deputy Station Manager (Treasurer): Tommy Taylor
Deputy Station Manager (Secretary): Charlotte Helme
Head of Production: Joshua Taylor
Head of News: Billy Taylor
Head of News: Laura Clarke
Head of Music: Lydia Meredith
Assistant Head of Music: Mark Spencer
Head of Entertainment: Sofia Sinnott Montero
Assistant Head of Entertainment: Joe Morgan
Head of Sport: Dominic Simms
Assistant Head of Sport: Ryan Beake
Head of Marketing: Andrew Adega
Assistant Head of Marketing (Social Sec): Fiona McKeith
Head of Design: Aaron Kelwick
