NTS Radio

NTS Radio (also known as NTS Live or simply NTS) is a music radio platform which was founded in 2011 in Hackney, East London by Femi Adeyemi "for an international community of music lovers". NTS was built as a platform to celebrate the eclectic, where niche music takes centre stage. It’s where passionate people, not algorithms, play exceptional music that is hard to find anywhere else. All without on-air advertising. Every month over 700 artists and DJs from 80 cities across the globe broadcast their music shows via NTS. NTS also attracts 270,000 attendees to its global music events every year. The platform's tagline is "Don't Assume".

In 2023 The Times described NTS as “The greatest radio station ever. It’s music. All music. It has the best country and western show, the most eclectic jazz programming, it has grime, it has techno, it has rap, folk, death metal, psychedelia, retro Japanese pop. If it spies a gap it seeks to cover it. And every show can be streamed online.” The Guardian has described NTS as "redefining radio" and The New Yorker described it as a radio "which reshaped how musicians and fans around the world saw and heard one another".

In 2024, The New York Times reported that the station had an average of 360,000 daily listeners during March of that year. The same article reported that "around 40 percent of the music played on NTS is not available on Spotify". In the same year, The London Standard reported that NTS had over 3 million unique monthly listeners.

According to the Institute of Contemporary Arts, "NTS Radio is a family of like-minded and passionate individuals, dedicated to supporting exciting music and culture through online radio and events. NTS uncovers the best of the musical past, celebrates the present and cultivates the future of the underground music scene, and prides itself on being open-minded and experimental".