Student television in the United Kingdom

Content is not generally output across traditional media, as a broadcast licence may be prohibitively expensive to small non-profit organisations.

Most student television stations use the Internet as a primary method of distributing content; either on a dedicated website, via their university's pages or on video sharing sites such as YouTube.

[1] The association holds an awards ceremony once a year to reward the best work submitted by the member stations across a number of categories.

Some student television stations in the United Kingdom pre-date the founding of national broadcasters like Channel 4 (1982) and Five (1997).

[8] YSTV from its foundation in 1967 had a twice-weekly news show aimed at students, named Newsround, that pre-dated the BBC show of the same name[9] In 2006, An animation called Badgered by Sharon Colman who was a student at the National Film and Television School[10] was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

The National Student Television Association (NaSTA) was believed to be formed in 1970,[13] and comprises over forty affiliated stations from all over the United Kingdom.

[14][dubious – discuss] It runs an annual awards ceremony in which eligible stations submit examples of their programming for appraisal by judges drawn from the wider broadcast industry.