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Commercial radio in the UK is regulated by Ofcom, which awards licences and ensures that broadcasters meet their responsibilities under the Communications Act. Each local commercial radio station in the UK has obligations in respect of its music and local content which are set out in the station "Format", a document issued by Ofcom. You can find out more about Ofcom at their website, www.ofcom.org.uk, which includes infomation about the context of Formats here and  2CR FM’s Format here.

To give you a better understanding of our output and the work we are doing for our local community, the following Public File gives more information about 2CR FM.

2CR FM works to operate within all of the conditions of its licence and the Ofcom Broadcasting Code, which is legally binding. We welcome comments about our output from listeners and advertisers.

If you want to complain, please contact the Acting Programme Controller on 01202 234900, or email at james.lloyd@gcapmedia.com. We will respond to your comments promptly and investigate where necessary.

2CR FM broadcasts to Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch, Dorchester, Weymouth, Swanage and the surrounding area on 102.3 FM, online at www.2crfm.co.uk and on the Bournemouth DAB Digital Radio multiplex.

You can write to us at 2CR FM, 5-7 Southcote Road, Bournemouth, BH1 3LR. You can e-mail us via the “Contact Us” section of the website, or you can phone the main switchboard on 01202 234000.

To contact an on-air presenter, call us on 01202 23 4000, or if you’d like to speak to a member of our Sales Team, they are on 01202 234910.

More detailed information about 2CR FM is provided below:

1. News Bulletin Schedule. 2CR FM broadcasts news bulletins on the hour from 0600 to 1900 on weekdays. The bulletins contain a full mix of Dorset, West Hampshire, national and world stories, along with sport, weather and entertainment news. At the weekend, bulletins containing local, national and world news are broadcast on 2CR FM from 0700 to 1300 on Saturdays, and from 0800 to 1300 on Sundays. Additional national bulletins are broadcast from 2200 until 0500, seven days a week. During weekday breakfast hours (0600 - 0900) we also broadcast news headlines at half-past the hour.

2. You can see examples of some of the news stories we have recently covered on air here.

3. You can find infomation about our news team here

4. The programme schedule. 2CR FM's programme schedule can be found here.

5. Information about automated programming on 2CR FM:

In an average week 7.5 hours of 2CR FM's weekday day time programming is automated. None of our programming is automated at the weekend.

6. Information about the daily amount of our local programming on 2CR FM:

2CR FM's weekday daytime programming is produced and presented from our studios in Bournemouth between 0600 and 1000, and between 1400 and 1900. Our weekend programming is produced and presented from Bournemouth between 0800 and 1200 on Saturdays and Sundays.

Outside of these times, our programmes are produced at various studios owned and operated by 2CR FM's parent company GCap Media plc.

7. Ofcom’s guidelines on localness for commercial radio stations are here.

8. If you’re not happy about something you hear on 2CR FM, please get in touch with us first, using the contact details above. If you’re not satisfied with the response you receive, you can complain directly to Ofcom. Their website has full details about how to do this.

9. 2CR FM is proud to operate and support it's own registered charity, Help a Local Child. You can find out more about the work we do with this charity here.

We also support many other charities in our area by attending charitable fairs, open days and fetes with our Black Thunder promotional vehicles.

10. 2CR FM is part of The One Network, a group of stations across the UK owned by our parent company, GCap Media. You can find out more about the music we play on The One Network here, and our current playlist is here.