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We're the student Broadcaster of the Year, again.
For the third successive year, we were awarded the Best Broadcaster award at the National Student Television Association Awards 2024.
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We have Durham's largest video audience.
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2000+
Instagram Followers
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5000+
Public watch hours
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600,000+
All-time TikTok views
Our Story
Here's how PalTV came to be...
Many of the students who joined either worked at PalTV until they graduated or are still with us today!
These include reports about the incremental easing of social distancing measures, but branch into coverage of events like DUCFS, vox pops and an investigation into the challenges faced by the many international students who were still unable to return to Durham.
Content is broadcast across Instagram, Facebook and YouTube.
These include a program of workshops and shadowing opportunities, to train students with no prior experience to take on roles in areas like presenting, producing, editing and more.
This leads to a nomination for the Bright Network Impact on Campus Award in November for "going above and beyond to support … members and the wider university to achieve success, in terms of careers and development of new skills and personal growth”.
This ethos remains fundamental to our operations today.
“PalTV’s mentorship programme revolutionised my plans for the future and made me realise that a career in journalism was for me. Doing the mentorship programme gave me confidence in areas from presenting to production. Since graduating from the scheme I’ve held 4 different positions within PalTV and I’ve loved every minute of working with our amazing team.”
Lucy (Head of News), Graduate of PalTV's Mentorship Scheme
There is coverage of some of the biggest news stories of the term. Including, the surge in spiking at Durham nightclubs and the dramatic fallout following Rod Liddle’s controversial speech at a South College formal, where PalTV was first on the scene.
This is in addition to features about Lumiere – the UK’s largest light festival. By December the station reaches 1K followers on Instagram.
What happened at the South College formal?
PalTV also took home 5 other awards in categories from sports to technical innovation.
This includes filming an exclusive interview with the former President of the Supreme Court, Lady Hale and a guide to Durham for incoming students.
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"PalTV's regatta coverage represents one of the most ambitious livestreams undertaken by a student broadcaster in the UK so far. Both days feature commentary, competitions, interviews and creative segments receiving over 10K views."
Christian, Head of Marketing & Publicity (2022)
"Our livestream uses a powerful streaming and rendering server, which is capable of broadcasting 1080p and live content. We also use professional and enterprise consumer software, alongside proprietary software which was written exclusively for PalTV."
Chris Ray (Head of Broadcasting) 2023
"Palatidates has genuinely had a cultural impact on Durham, I still hear strangers talking about it when I'm out and about"
Palatidates Producer
"We capitalised upon PalTV’s remote operation experience built during the pandemic to teach Foreign Correspondents (FCs) how to make high quality content using just their mobile phones. In some cities, we benefit from multiple FCs who can pool resources and work together in mobile teams, whereas in other cities, we only have a single FC working independently. The common, enabling factor for the Foreign Correspondent programme is the extensive support provided by remote producers and editors, who all work together as part of a cohesive team to deliver content."
Rahim Hussain (Head of Foreign Correspondency) 2023
PalTV also won Gold awards in Best News and Current Affairs Coverage, The Tim Marshall Award for Special Recognition and Technical Innovation.
"We capitalised upon PalTV’s remote operation experience built during the pandemic to teach Foreign Correspondents (FCs) how to make high quality content using just their mobile phones. In some cities, we benefit from multiple FCs who can pool resources and work together in mobile teams, whereas in other cities, we only have a single FC working independently. The common, enabling factor for the Foreign Correspondent programme is the extensive support provided by remote producers and editors, who all work together as part of a cohesive team to deliver content."
Rahim Hussain (Head of Foreign Correspondency) 2023
That's our story so far. It's up to you to write the next chapter.
