Mansfield 103.2 FM

Mansfield 103.2

Broadcast area	North Nottinghamshire
Slogan	The Home of Great Music
Frequency	103.2FM
First air date	1 February 1999
Format	Contemporary
Audience share	12% (September 2011, [1])
Transmitter coordinates	53°08′26″N 1°13′59″W / 53.1405°N 1.2330°W / 53.1405; -1.2330Coordinates: 53°08′26″N 1°13′59″W / 53.1405°N 1.2330°W / 53.1405; -1.2330
Owner	Murfin Music International
Website	Mansfield103.co.uk

Mansfield 103.2 FM - The Home of Great Music 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.

Schedule & Presenters

Daytime Schedule

• 'Wake up with Watko' on Breakfast(6am-10am)
• Mid-Mornings with Norman Cox (10am-2pm)
• John B Tannen - The Big Drive Home (2pm-6pm)
• Tony Delahunty - The Monday Mouthpiece (Monday's 1pm-2pm)

Evenings/Weekend & Specialist Presenters

Martyn Littlewood (The Evening Show) Si Gilmore (Saturday Breakfast) Stewart Nicholson (The Saturday Show) Joe Alan (Saturday Evenings) James Hilton (Sunday Afternoon Show) Ron Coles (Jukebox Giants) Jason Harrison (The Friday Night Football Forum)

Terry Hurst (In-Control) Rev. David Fudger (Morning Song) Matt Edwards (Chequered Flag) DC Annie Wallace (The Cop Slot) Cameron Ward (Friday Late Show)

News & Sport coverage

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..

Outside Broadcasts

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.

Sales Team

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.

Alleged ghost incident

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.

The Gooseberry Pork Pie

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.

References

• Rajar Listening Figures [2]
• Mansfield FM [3]
• Radio Today [4]

See Also

• That Friday Feeling
• Mansfield Town FC
• Mansfield CHAD

External links

• Mansfield 103.2
• Audio of the 'ghost' incident.