The local Notts TV station in Nottingham will be closed in November more than a decade unless the license is seized.
Nottingham Trent University, which owns and supports NotTs TV, decided that the channel’s operation no longer benefits its students enough to ensure investment.
The university said that the numbers of students who take places on Notts TV for their funding are now “very small” and the license will not be renewed when it ends in November.
The only one in TV comes from NotTs of local ads, care and a PBC local democracy.
Notts TV was the fourth launch of local TV in 2014 under a policy led by then Culture Minister Jeremy Hunt.
It is available on FreeView, BT and Virgin Media and in 2022 he claimed that she had 200,000 viewers per month.
The channel puts a direct local news program for an hour in addition to weekends, discussion programs and direct broadcasting from the main local events.
“After more than ten years of bringing local news to the city and the boycott, Nottingham Trent University (NTU) will not be renewed to renew its license from Offcom to run the Notts TV after November 2025 when the current ends.
“Notts TV is an independent broadcaster, fully owned and often funded by the University of Nutingham Trent. In November 2025, the Notts TV License for renewal will be for renew All institutions work in the public sector and around them with limited budgets.
“While students who have notions tv have gained great experience at work, the numbers concerned were very small so that they did not guarantee continuous investment.
“NTU hopes that other organizations will move forward to submit proposals to Offcom to continue to focus on local broadcast and pick up the NTU stick since May 2014.
“Meanwhile, the NTU intention is to continue to broadcast for the remainder of its remaining license at this point will be closed.”
Responding to the Digital General Committee, Culture, Media and Sports Committee Investigation of the sustainability of local press in 2022Chris Berise, the director of the NotTs channel, called on the government to ensure that local TV grants certainty.
“Nowadays, there are no provisions in the new local TV license law when the current validity of that ends. This now creates uncertainty in the harmful business of our channels and the network as a whole. Multiple news is in a severe danger in many cities.”
OFcom later said that the license holders will be It is allowed to extend until November 2026 Then renew until December 2034 if they choose to do so. The deadline for this license to be extended is March 31.
By preparing with NTU, Breese said in the same written response: “One of the challenges facing the press is to employ quality employees, and this arrangement is vital to maintaining an experienced working power in the industry as a whole.”
Breese wrote that Notts TV is evidence that the mixed financing model is required: “Our structure confirms that commercial revenues alone cannot support high -quality service even in big cities.”
He called on other universities to develop similar models “to help maintain the news service and provide the need for it.”
Notts TV is currently holding a contract to employ three local correspondents for democracy from the British Broadcasting Corporation, with its journalist for free use by other local news means such as Nottinghamshire Live. The contracts are up to the employment of 75 LDRS around the United Kingdom. Notts TV became the first local TV channel contract to hold LDR in 2021.
Brez called on the government to ensure the BBC committed the future discovery of the LDR scheme, describing it as “a vital column of the channel’s strategy to provide multiple service and professional service”, and said that the service should also expand in covering “other reporting” “areas such as criminal courts and investigations.
Breese has also argued that the application operations for public financing and subsidies from social media companies “look biased” for local TV.
In debt to the Notts TV 765,000 pounds as a creditor, according to the latest accounts of its companies for the year until July 31, 2023. The channel achieved revenues of 44,536 pounds, an increase of 3 % in the previous year. It achieved a loss of 13,049 pounds, compared to the profit of 1,345 pounds in 2022.
Notts TV had nine employees on average in the year until July 2023. BREESE has reported that the daily news program is run by four full -time journalists.
The news comes less than a month after the closure of London Live, which was the third channel to open in 2014, with a license to be purchased by David Montgomery Local TV LTD. , Cardiff, Leeds, Liverpool, North Wales, Tyside and Tin and wearing.
At the conclusion of my conclusion, the Vice President of News and Londers in London Live James Dikman described that local news reports revolve around “Support of Life” and said, “You can remind us of small stories, perhaps more than visible things only in a larger form of what they are, be a human being and what is faith in something bigger From yourself – something is now more than ever required in these difficult times. “
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