RWSfm 103.3

RWSfm 103.3 is the community radio station for Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk and the surrounding areas offering music and local information. The station was awarded a community radio licence by Ofcom in 2010 and began broadcasting on 13 August 2010.[1] Community Radio stations in the UK are required to provide a social gain to the community they serve.[1] RWSfm 103.3 is one of a growing number of such community stations in the UK and currently broadcasts around 70 hours of live programming each week, including Bury's Big Breakfast with Julie MacLeod from 7am, Bury's Big Drive Home With Ryan McClean from 4pm. During the day the station plays a mixture of popular music with local news, sport, interviews, information, traffic and travel and weather. At evenings and weekends there is a selection of specialist music shows including a rock, world music and country.

RWSfm 103.3
Broadcast areaBury St Edmunds, Suffolk, and surrounding area
Frequency103.3 MHz
RDS: RWS103.3
SloganLocal Radio for Bury and Beyond
Programming
FormatMixture
Ownership
OwnerRadio West Suffolk Limited
History
First air date13 August 2010
Links
Websitewww.rwsfm.co.uk

History

Launched in August 2010, RWSfm 103.3 started broadcasting to Bury St Edmunds and surrounding villages on 103.3fm from its studios just off Hardwick Lane, having previously broadcast in various other methods for decades.

From the summer of 2015, RWSfm 103.3 launched its own local news bulletin broadcasting local news stories at half past each hour 7 days a week, 7:30am – 6:30pm. This followed a warning from the broadcast regulator Ofcom who found the station in breach of failing to adhere to its key commitments and was put on notice subsequently.

In December of 2019 the station was awarded, by Ofcom, extra power to broadcast further in to the community in West Suffolk. In August 2020 the regulator then granted the station a second five year extension to its licence.

References
  1. "Ofcom Radio Broadcast Update August 2010". Ofcom. 7 September 2010. Retrieved 2011-02-18.

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