Air TV has been named as officially one of the best places to work in TV for 2025. This is the fifth year in a row that Air TV has made the list.

Managing Director Matt Richards attended the prestigious 2025 awards run by Broadcast magazine in London today and was also asked to take part in a panel discussion about the best ways for companies to achieve a great work-life balance.

For the award, Air TV was reviewed and rated on criteria such as staff satisfaction and rewards, training, fairness and work environment. The judges particularly noted the company’s highly acclaimed internal mentoring scheme, overall staff satisfaction and a wide range of additional benefits such as free electric vehicle charging for all staff and visitors to their production offices at Leeds East Airport.

Here, Matt Richards answers some of the key questions asked as part of the survey:

What makes you a Best Places to Work company?
With a large core team working across numerous different programmes, Air has managed to forge a way where talented programme-makers can have an exciting, varied and rewarding career in TV without needing to have a precarious and unpredictable freelance lifestyle. The majority of Air’s team are on long-term or permanent contracts, working across several of the company’s returning shows. This offers great stability, reassurance and flexibility, which in turn is rewarded with genuine loyalty and commitment.

What fun activities do you offer?
Regular team nights out, launch parties for all of our shows and an annual Air TV summer party with free bar, live bands, Air TV DJs and bouncy castle.

What is your strategy for recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce?
We are always striving for our team to be as diverse as possible and actively recruit from under-represented groups. Some of our most successful recent hires have been people who had no previous TV experience and joined us directly from other professions, such as construction or teaching. Some come to us straight from school. We also work closely with diversity schemes such as Screen Yorkshire’s diversity programme and Creative Access.

How do you keep your remote workforce engaged?
Our team are all treated equally whether in the office, working remotely, on a full-time staff contract or a part-time freelancer. Everyone is included in regular communications about key company news, regardless of which programme or series they are working on. We have regular meetings and social events, which include every individual in every role.