After more than 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.
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, NTU says 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.
