TRENT FM

Public File

Trent FM's Public File
Each local commercial radio station in the UK has requirements in respect of its music and local content, such as news, speech levels etc. These requirements are set out in the station "Format", a document issued by Ofcom, the UK's radio regulator.

This Public File contains details of the elements that Ofcom regulate, such as music tracks, local news etc. It is intended to give you a better understanding of our output and what we are doing for our local community.

1. News
Trent FM broadcasts news bulletins on the half-hour between 0600 and 0900 and hourly from 0900 and 1900 on weekdays. These bulletins contain a mix of local, national and world stories, along with local and national sport, weather and entertainment news.

There are extended news programmes at 1700 on weekdays.

At the weekend, bulletins containing local, national and world news and sport are broadcast on Trent FM between 0700 and 1300 on Saturday, and 0800 and 1300 on Sunday. Additionally, national bulletins are broadcast from 2200 through until 0500 seven days a week.

Trent FM provide local travel bulletins every 15 minutes from 0645 until 0900 and an additional travel bulletin at 0930. There are then local travel bulletins every 15 minutes on Trent FM between 1600 and 1830.

Click here for the latest travel information

2. Recent News stories
Click here for news currently featured on Trent FM.

3. Contact details for the News team
Lewis Scrimshaw, Head of News - 0115 873 1515
Charlie Girling, Journalist - 0115 873 1520
Stuart Bailey, Journalist - 0115 873 1520
Kristina Newbury, Field Reporter - 0115 873 1520


4. The programme schedule
Trent FM's programme schedule can be found by clicking the link at the bottom of the page

5. The average number of hours of automated programming within weekday daytimes and within daytimes on Saturdays and Sundays. On occasion 6-6.30 am is automated Monday to Friday, no other automated output is broadcast on Trent FM

6. The amount of local programming per day produced by the station
All of Trent FM's weekday daytime output (0600-1000 and 1300-1900) and peak time weekend (0800-1200,- Saturday and Sunday) output is produced and presented from our studios in Nottingham.

All other programming is produced from Trent FM’s studios in Nottingham and shared with the following stations: Ram FM, Leicester Sound, Mercia, Beacon Radio (West Midlands), Mercury FM (Crawley). Hit 40UK on Sunday 1600-1900 is produced for the commercial radio industry by Trent FM's parent company GCap Media plc and broadcast from Leicester Square in London.

Click here to visit our Presenter Homepage

7. Ofcom Localness Guidelines and how to complain to Ofcom
Ofcom, the government regulator with responsibilities for local radio, has produced localness guidelines that this station adheres to. These guidelines can be read by following the link at the bottom of the page.
In addition all local radio stations have written 'formats' that they must follow at all times. You can read ours by clicking on the link below. If you have a complaint to make about this station, in the first instance you should contact the programme controller at the address below. If you are unhappy with the response you have received, you can complain directly to the regulator, Ofcom. Their website has full details about how to do this and can be found by clicking here.

8. Station Contact details
Trent FM's Managing Director is Howard Bradley, Programme Director is Dick Stone, Sales Centre Manager is Mel Booth, marketing Manager is Nicci Ryan, Online Content Editor is Dean Anthony Roberts-Lowe and our address is:

Trent FM
Chapel Quarter,
Maid Marian Way
Nottingham
NG1 6JR

Contact Numbers
Switchboard: 0115 873 1500
Studio phone-in: 0115 873 96 96
Trent FM News: 0115 873 1520
Trent FM Traffic & Travel: 0115 873 1456
Trent FM Studio text number: 8 21 22

Email your events to the Trent FM Reception below or click here to visit our Events Calendar

9. Events/charities support or coverage

Once again in 2008, Trent FM became the media partner for the Cancer Research UK Race For Life which is a 5km women only charity race designed to raise funds for research into women’s cancer. In 2006 Trent FM received an award from cancer Research UK for our help in promoting their events in Nottinghamshire. In 2007 Trent FM was the chosen media partner to publicise the 3 Cancer Research UK events.

We also regularly visit and open charitable fairs, open days and fetes with the Trent FM Thunder Crew. In the last twelve months, we have attended approximately 200 such events in the Nottinghamshire area.

In December 2006 we joined national charity When You Wish Upon A Star to take 100 terminally ill children to Lapland, and regularly support the charity in their fundraising efforts. When You Wish Upon A Star are based in Nottingham. We once again lent support to the charity by creating a fundraising ale for sale in the run up to Christmas 2007, as well as promoting the Great Nottingham Santa Run. Our programming team join the charity on December 12th to report on their annual flight to Lapland.

In December 2006, Trent FM launched the Jo & Twiggy Tower Of Toys Appeal, hoping to collect over 30 thousand toys for local disadvantaged children, also for CLIC Sargent charity. As part of the appeal Trent FM built a giant tower in the centre of Nottingham for 7 days highlighting the appeal and raising awareness of the charities involved.

In the Autumn of 2007 Trent FM launched a campaign to re-address the negative publicity from the Channel 4 programme placing Nottingham as the fourth worst place to live in the UK. The station gathered local people into the Old Market Square to demonstrate with a giant placard promoting the positive message from Nottingham.

November/December 2007 saw Trent FM lend its support to a lottery funding bid for Sherwood Forest Visitors Centre, which had been shortlisted with 3 other national sites to receive £50 million of funding. The celebrity backed campaign saw Trent FM teaming up with Robin Hood stars Brian Blessed and Jonas Armstrong to gain public support.

10. Recent programme and/or news highlights
Trent FM have spearheaded a campaign to re-install pride in Nottingham following a period of press negativity. Teaming up with Experience Nottinghamshire and Nottingham Building Society Trent FM's "Proud of Nottingham" campaign aims to make people feel proud about the city in which they live and to make people see that there is more to Nottingham than the press portray.

As part of our Proud of Nottingham campaign we successfully helped raise the England flag over Nottingham Castle after petitioning Nottingham City Council to support England in their World Cup campaign.

During June ‘07 we embarked on a programming initiative to find Nottinghamshire's brainiest business in what we entitled the "Nottinghamshire Work Cup". Hourly we pitted company against company asking them general knowledge, music, local based questions. Over a 4 week period we had over 200 local businesses taking part and online featured a profile of every single contestant. The contest culminated in the presentation of the "Work Cup" as well as giving the winning company a victory party for 50 and a family holiday abroad to the person representing the winning company.

At Trent FM we are part of the 'Child Rescue Alert (CRA)' initiative. This is an arrangement between media and the police when it's believed a child's been abducted and he/she will be seriously hurt.
A CRA would ask our listeners for their help in finding the whereabouts of the child as quickly as possible and so, maybe saving his/her life. The aim is that the kidnapper hears the appeal, realises that everyone is looking for the child and lets him/her go.

Trent FM's newsroom would be called by local police and asked to activate a CRA only under certain circumstances; these can be viewed by clicking the CRA link below.

Trent FM in February/March 2007 were chosen by Nottingham City Council as the media partner for the inaugural Nottingham’s Proud Of You Awards. The council chose Trent FM to spearhead the nomination and voting process in the city’s first ever awards programme which recognises and rewards the local community. This content was hosted on the radio stations website trentfm.co.uk.

Trent FM's Jo & Twiggy were awarded the Euradio Award for Best European Breakfast Show, while their production team of Mark Hitchings and Programme Controller Dick Stone were named as Best European Producers.

In 2008 Jo & Twiggy were nominated again for the annual Sony radio Awards in the category of Entertainment and Best Breakfast show. This is the 8th year Jo & twiggy have been nominated in the Sony Awards.

In June 2008 Jo & Twiggy were nominated as Best Presenters in the Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards.

11. Any other issues or areas of interest likely to impact on localness
There are no current issues that impact on the localness of Trent FM.

12. The station's playlist
Trent FM plays a music mix from the past three decades, and sometimes play popular current tracks more frequently than other songs. Details on our current playlist can be found here.