High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! NDtv, or Notre Dame Television is a student television station funded by the University of Notre Dame that airs on Notre Dame campus cable channel 53. It broadcasts 24 hours and is entirely student-run. NDtv was started in 2002 by then-student Lance Johnson as a biweekly cable access program known as New Dimension Television. In 2003, NDtv became an official student group and was able to adopt the name Notre Dame Television. In 2004, the program split in two, spawning NDtv News and The Mike Peterson Show, a talk and sketch comedy program. On September 20th, 2006, NDtv went on the air 24 hours on channel 53 as part of the new campus cable system. The number of shows has steadily increased over the years from one to its highest point at 11 in the fall of 2009.