| 101.8 WCR FM Wolverhampton Community Radio | |
| City: | Wolverhampton |
| Frequency: | 101.8 FM |
| Rds: | WCR FM |
| Webcast: | Listen Live https://www.wcrfm.com/player/ |
101.8 WCR FM is a community radio station that broadcasts to the city of Wolverhampton, England, on the VHF frequency of 101.8 under an Ofcom - Community Radio licence, at 6:00 a.m. on 30 March 2007 originally from studios in the Newhampton Arts Centre. WCR FM aims to be a vibrant, informative and hyperlocal station providing the city with an alternative service with a mix of speech, specialist and niche programming. The station's licence states it must broadcast a speech content of no less than 30% of its total output and this is achieved primarily by a weekday lunchtime magazine show and a heavier, local news/current affairs series with the station's Community Director, Chris Allen. Other programmes offer additional speech content to cover the requirement.
It operates from a purpose developed three-studio broadcast, production and training complex on the second floor of the Mander Centre following a move from their launch studios at Newhampton Arts Centre in April 2022.
Programme content is primarily produced in-house with a degree of syndicated programming from external sources. Wolverhampton has a mixed-race population of approximately 260,000 and although primarily an English-language station, WCR FM also offers a broadcasting platform for various ethnic and community groups.
WCR FM is related to Wolverhampton Campus Radio, WCR AM,[2] which broadcast to the Wulfrun campus of Wolverhampton College.[3] [4] [5]
In March 2023, WCR FM were found in breach by OFCOM in March 2023 after playing a song that contained offensive language. WCR FM were found in breach of Rules 1.14 and 2.3 after playing a song during its Drivetime programme on 2 November 2022 that contained the "F" word.
The full response can be seen at: https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0033/254796/Ofcom-Decision-Drive-Time-with-James-Levett,-WCR-FM.pdf