Gravity FM is a

community radio Community radio is a radio service offering a third model of radio broadcasting in addition to commercial and public broadcasting. Community stations serve geographic communities and communities of interest. They broadcast content that is popular ...

station based in

Grantham Grantham () is a market and industrial town in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England, situated on the banks of the River Witham and bounded to the west by the A1 road. It lies some 23 miles (37 km) south of the Lincoln and ...

Lincolnshire Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs.) is a county in the East Midlands of England, with a long coastline on the North Sea to the east. It borders Norfolk to the south-east, Cambridgeshire to the south, Rutland to the south-west, Leicestershire ...

. Broadcasting full-time since 1 December 2008 on 97.2FM and online, the station has completed its first licence period and, as a result, has obtained a further five year extension from

OFCOM The Office of Communications, commonly known as Ofcom, is the government-approved regulatory and competition authority for the broadcasting, telecommunications and postal industries of the United Kingdom. Ofcom has wide-ranging powers acros ...

, the industry regulator, with similar Key Commitments.

Broadcast content

Gravity FM broadcasts content produced by volunteers from the local community. Mainstream daytime programming is music led and includes news, traffic, travel and local information. During the evenings the station broadcasts a variety of more specialist programs and features.

Funding and awards

Gravity FM has so far been successful in securing funding to maintain its service provision. Like all community radio stations in the UK, it is capped in only being allowed to raise half its income annually from advertising and on-air commercial arrangements. The remainder is found in the form of grants, off-air sponsorship and fundraising. The Friends of Gravity FM is a charity (registered for tax purposes in the UK) established in 2012 to support the provision of community broadcasting services in the Grantham area. The station has benefited greatly from the donations they have made towards new equipment.

References

External links

Main Website - gravityfm.net

Gravity FM on Facebook

Gravity FM on SoundCloud

Gravity FM on Twitter

Gravity FM on YouTube
{{Authority control 2008 establishments in England Community radio stations in the United Kingdom Grantham Radio stations established in 2008 Radio stations in Lincolnshire