| Broadcast area | Burngreave, Sheffield |
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| Frequency | 103.1 MHz |
| First air date | 2008 |
| Format | On line Internet Radio |
| Owner | Independent |
| Website | - Burngreave Community Radio |
Burngreave Community Radio, also known as BCR103.1FM or simply BCR is a community radio station based in Burngreave, Sheffield.The pre-decessor of BCR was Pure Community Music (PCM) broadcast around March-April 2001 on medium wave (1413AM KHz, through a Restricted Service Licence (RSL) broadcast. BCR is Sheffield's newest major radio station, and can be accessed in the local area[1] on 103.1FM or by streaming over the web. BCR plays a wide range of music, and also hosts news, sports, Breakfast shows, talkshows and religious programmes, and has shows in English, Arabic, Urdu and Kurdish. BCR has over 80 presenters, and dozens of members and volunteers who help the station. BCR is also active in the local community, going to events, advertising local shops and businesses, and working in close partnership with schools and charities. The founders of Burngreave Community Radio have over a total of 50 years of live radio broadcasting and Djing skills and experience throughout UK and Europe. The management team has skills and experience in the field of live radio broadcasting and are now being transferred onto to other younger generations to become radio broadcasters of the future. Currently, Burngreave Community Radio (BCR) stopped broadcasting on 103.1FM in September, following a request from OFCOM to cease transmission over the airwaves because the parent company was dissolved by Companies House for failing to submit accounts in January 2011.
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BCR has been involved with many projects in the local community:
Burngreave Community Radio is proposing the potential idea of organising a Sumfest UK, a music festival in Sheffield in summer 2012.[3] The name "Sumfest UK" was inspired by the annual Reggae Sumfest festival in Jamaica, but the event is planned to cater for as many musical tastes as possible, and will feature local, national and international artists playing from many different genres. The first Sumfest UK could have only taken place at the Don Valley Grass Bowl if the Sheffield International Venues (SIV) did not have a hold on the Bowl for the period of the Olympic Games for another event so it is not at present available on those dates.