NTU not seeking to renew its licence for Notts TV from November 2025
After over ten years of bringing local news to the city and county, Nottingham Trent University (NTU) will not be seeking to renew its licence from Ofcom to run Notts TV after November 2025 when the current licence expires.
By Sarah McLeod | Published on 17 February 2025
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Notts TV is an independent broadcaster, entirely owned and mostly funded by Nottingham Trent University. In November 2025 Notts TV’s broadcasting licence will be up for renewal. This has provided NTU with an opportunity to consider if Notts TV delivers sufficient benefit to its students at a time when all organisations in and around the public sector are operating with constrained budgets.
Whilst students who have had placements with Notts TV have gained significant real work experience, the numbers involved have been too small to warrant continued investment.
NTU hopes that other organisations will step forward to submit proposals to Ofcom to continue focused local broadcasting and pick up the baton that NTU has been holding aloft since May 2014. In the meantime, it is NTU's intention that Notts TV will continue to broadcast for the duration of its remaining licence period at which point it will close down.
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About Nottingham Trent University
Nottingham Trent University (NTU) has been named UK ‘University of the Year’ five times in six years, (Times Higher Education Awards 2017, The Guardian University Awards 2019, The Times and Sunday Times 2018 and 2023, Whatuni Student Choice Awards 2023) and is consistently one of the top performing modern universities in the UK.
It is the 3rd best modern university in the UK (The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023). Students have voted NTU 1st in the UK for student employability (Uni Compare 2025)
NTU is the 5th largest UK institution by student numbers, with over 40,000 students and more than 4,400 staff located across six campuses. It has an international student population of almost 7,000 and an NTU community representing over 160 countries.
NTU owns two Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for outstanding achievements in research (2015, 2021). The first recognises NTU’s research on the safety and security of global citizens. The second was awarded for research in science, engineering, arts and humanities to investigate and restore cultural objects, buildings and heritage. The Research Excellence Framework (2021) classed 83% of NTU’s research activity as either world-leading or internationally excellent.
NTU was awarded GOLD in the national 2023 Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) assessment, as it was in 2019.
NTU is a top 10 for sport (British Universities and Colleges Sport league table 2023).
NTU is the most environmentally sustainable university in the UK and second in the world (UI Green Metric University World Rankings, 2023).