RWSfm 103.3

Broadcast area	Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, and surrounding area
Frequency	103.3 MHz
RDS	RWS103.3
Programming
Format	Community radio
Ownership
Owner	Radio West Suffolk Limited
History
First air date	13 August 2010
Links
Website	www.rwsfm.co.uk

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 license 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 the growing number of Community Radio Stations in the UK and currently broadcasts around 70 hours of live programming each week, including Bury's Big Breakfast with Sean Driscoll from 7am, and 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. During evenings and weekends, there is a selection of specialist music shows including rock, world music, and country.

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 Hard wick 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 – 5:30pm. This followed a warning from the broadcast regulator, Ofcom, who found the station in breach of failing to adhere to its key commitments and subsequently was put on notice.

In December 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 license.^{[citation needed]}