| Broadcast area | North Nottinghamshire |
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| Slogan | The Home of Great Music |
| Frequency | 103.2FM |
| First air date | 1 February 1999 |
| Format | Contemporary |
| Audience share | 12% (September 2011, [1]) |
| Owner | Murfin Music International |
| Website | Mansfield103.co.uk |
Mansfield 103.2 FM is an Independent Local Radio station in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. It is based at the Brunts Business Centre in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire and has a transmitter on Fishponds Hill between Sutton-in-Ashfield and Mansfield. Mansfield 103.2's Managing Director is Tony Delahunty and the Managing Editor is Ian Watkins. The station is Mansfield's only local radio station and is one of the town's major sources of news and sports coverage. With the Global Radio launch of Capital FM in the East Midlands, the station's Mid-Morning show is the only locally broadcast daytime show in the area.
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Mansfield 103.2 has a dedicated News & Sport team based at Samuel Brunts Way, staffed by Managing Editor Ian Watkins, broadcast journalists Jason Harrison, Lyssa Allison, Alex Dye & Dave Rhodes. Each Saturday in the football season, Mansfield 103.2 have regular updates on the local games in the area including Mansfield Town, Chesterfield F.C. Derby County, Nottingham Forest, Notts County, South Normanton Athletic F.C., Glapwell F.C., Shirebrook Town F.C. and Sutton Town F.C..
Mansfield 103.2 has an outside broadcast unit nicknamed The West Notts College Street Crusader. The vehicle is manned by Commercial Producer & Engineer Matt Duffill & an OB team and visits local charities, businesses and services.
Mansfield 103.2 have a dedicated sales team, led by Sales Director Peter Topley, with Paul Chadbourne - the Sales Consultant, followed by Dave Plowright and Dale Dickinson, both Advertising Executives.
On 28 July 2008 during the John B Tannen breakfast show, newsreader Ian Watkins was alone in the studio preparing for the 8am news. At 8:00 precisely, just after the news jingle was played, a voice was clearly heard on air whispering "time". Watkins had heard the voice through his headset and prevented him from starting the bulletin. Nobody else was in the studio at the time.
Most Haunted presenter Richard Felix appeared on the show the following day to discuss the incident: It sounds like a man's voice - almost like an old Head Master that may have been here - I mean this is a former school that has been here since the 1890's so we've had a lot of emotion here.
In July 2010, Mansfield 103.2 revived a 70 year old Mansfield Tradition of a Gooseberry Pork Pie. Years ago in Mansfield, the town would celebrate with a giant Pork Pie filled with Gooseberrys. The pie wasn't made since the end of the second world war, but in July 2010 The Breakfast Show brought back the tradition, by creating a batch of small gooseberry filled pies with the help of local butchers.
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