BCFM
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BCFM or Bristol Community FM is a community
Community radio in the United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, Community Radio refers to a system of licensing small, micro-local, non-profit radio stations, which started in 2002. In its early days, the pilot scheme was known as Access Radio.-History:...

  radio station
Radio station
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 broadcasting to the City of Bristol in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 on 93.2 FM. BCfm started broadcasting on 26 March 2007. This followed many years of community development and radio projects in Bristol, such as radio19 (the New Deal for Communities), Commonwealth fm and B200fm (Celebration of Brunel’s life).

During the summer period of 2009, BCFM used funding provided by the Youth Opportunities Fund
YouthBank UK
YouthBank UK is a national grant scheme in the United Kingdom, providing small 'Opportunity' grants from £250 to £5,000 from the Youth Opportunity Fund and Larger grants from £5,000 to £25,000 from the Youth Capital Fund grants for young people to help individuals and groups fund projects to...

 to build a brand new studio to cater for the growing number of presenters working at the station. Studio 2, also known as "Blue Studio" was built next to the current Studio 1 and allows live presenting from either studio with both having the ability to pre-record shows.

BCfm broadcasts in nine different languages and aims to represent the whole of Bristol and Bristol life. A significant amount of local music is played. broadcasts are webcast and a number of podcasts are available on the website. Broadcasts to the local Somali, Polish and Spanish speaking communities amongst others also feature. In addition, BCfm programming is carried by BBC Radio Bristol
BBC Radio Bristol
BBC Radio Bristol is the BBC Local Radio service for the English city of Bristol and the surrounding former Avon area. Launched in September 1970, it broadcasts from Broadcasting House in Bristol on FM frequencies 94.9 MHz , 104.6 MHz , 103.6 MHz , on AM 1548 kHz and on DAB.The...

overnight at weekends.
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