Hello NaSTA! Here’s the final installment of October’s editions of NaSTA on Tour! Collaboration has been quite the buzzword with our exec. Having stations to work together to pool resources, increase opportunities or even just for fun seems like a brilliant idea to us! In the spirit of collaboration, I brought Rosie Cave, Station Manager [...]

Hello NaSTA! It’s time for our first even installment of NaSTA on Tour, the new vlog from your NaSTA exec! In the first leg of our tour, Dishy Development Dom and myself are at Kings’ College London at the launch of KCLTV, their brand new student television station. We have a chat with Sam Bucknall about Smoke [...]

Hello everyone, Its one week until the NaSTA Conference and a week until the Elections hustings where you will be able to question the candidates on their policies. We also have a couple of video manifestos to upload from some of the candidates. See below! Don’t forget voting is on Saturday 21st April!   Lawrence [...]

Its that time of year again, awards submissions are now open! All affiliated stations should now have received an email with their login and password to access the upload site. The official rules, regulations and submission requirements can be found in the following document. Please read it very carefully to ensure you meet all the [...]

Judging Panel: Graham Little – Freelance Broadcaster (BBC/RTE/SKYSPORTS) Mark Linsey – BBC, Controller, Entertainment Commissioning Stephen Mitchell – BBC, Deputy Director of News and Head of News Programmes Winner: LSTV Graham Little: Great graphics on introduction of show reel and big names interviewed. A wide range of issues covered and entertainment provided. Professionally shot and [...]

Judge: Tim Marshall – JANET(UK), CEO Winner: CUTV Click to View! CUTV has shown great initiative and persistence to grow over the past 4 years and based on that firm foundation, in that relatively short time, has established itself as a leading station with a broad range of programming and valuable partnerships. They have focused [...]

Judge: Ore Oduba – BBC Newsround & BBC Sport, Presenter and NaSTA Best On-Screen Male 2008 Winner: Chris Wells (Demon TV) I don’t want to say it, because Chris probably hears it too many times per week, but he’d give Jack Black a run for his money in a ‘Being Jack Black’ competition. But just [...]

Judge: Lisa Rogers – BBC Wales, Presenter Winner: Harriet Brampton (NUTS) Warm and likeable, needs to work on slowing down delivery, relaxed interview style. Highly Commended: Briony Lammas (LSUTV) Very warm and natural, she’s very good. Highly Commended: Danielle Bevan-Jones (NTV) Looks amazing…great style…could work on relaxing her voice.

Judge: Rowan de Pomerai – BBC Future Media & Technology, Engineer Winner: YSTV Click to View! The reason why this wins is that it seems like a real piece of engineering – building your own technical solution, involving both assembling hardware and writing software control code. You explained the problem you have and I understood [...]

Judge: Paul Ryan – ESPN, Head of Event Operations Winner: LSUTV I cannot fault this production. Every element has been carefully planned and executed, from the evocative, although slightly ponderous opener, to the both interested and interesting pundits in the studio, this was a thoroughly professional show. The commentator and co-commentator knew when to speak [...]