Seahaven FM is a Community Radio Station which was set up in early 2008 to provide "Genuinely Local Radio" to the communities in the area in East Sussex known as Seahaven.
Seahaven FM was one of the 48 stations in the South East region of the UK that applied to Ofcom in November 2008 [1] for a full time Community Radio [2] licence in the second round of applications. The station was successfully awarded the community radio licence, it was announced on its Internet broadcasts at 09:09 on the 09/09/09. It took a further 16 months to complete the legal and practical work in order to launch the station full time on FM. The station started broadcasting on 96.3 FM on the 9th January at 12:00 noon and the full time schedule from 7am on Monday the 10th of January 2011.
The station started broadcasting 24 hours a day 7 days a week from the website on the 1st Feb 2008 and completed 2 short term Restricted Service Licence (RSL)[3] broadcasts in 2008 and provided facilities for 2 other RSL broadcasts by other groups.
Seahaven FM is the third of four community radio stations that were awarded licences in East Sussex, the others being Meridian FM (launched March 2010), Uckfield FM (Launched July 2010) and Rye FM who hoped to to launch in late 2011 but decided not to go ahead.