Sheffield’s first fulltime community radio station celebrates its first birthday today. In just one year Sheffield Live! 93.2fm has made its mark on the UK’s fourth largest city by introducing a new brand of radio that celebrates Sheffield’s rich diversity.  With a strong commitment to local people, issues, music and culture the station has created a truly inclusive soundscape of modern day Sheffield, broadcast everyday on FM to a potential audience of 350,000 people.

Sheffield City Council Leader and regular Sheffield Live! listener Paul Scriven said: “It gives me great pleasure to congratulate Sheffield Live! on its first year of fulltime broadcasting.  The station has made a positive impact on the city’s cultural life, by offering a powerful platform to local people for debate, political engagement, creative expression and community celebration.”

A wide range of Sheffield Live’s programmes have become household names like the ‘Indie Hour’ which features tracks from the now legendary Sheffield Indie scene.  ‘Sheffield in Focus’, a magazine programme for local visually impaired people is produced and presented by a seasoned team of broadcasters who are themselves visually impaired.  Produced and presented by two of the city’s top scientists ‘The Sound of Science’ is a world class science, engineering and technology programme, delivered in an accessible and entertaining format.  ‘Sabrang’, a discussion programme in Urdu has a vibrant phone-in that gets the community talking every week whilst ‘Siteen Daqiqa be Alarabi’ and ‘Luisheng Sheffield’ provide Sheffield’s only radio programmes in Arabic, Cantonese and Mandarin.  In addition the station hosts a wide variety of youth orientated, cutting edge music programmes featuring Alternative, RnB, Hip Hop, House and Baseline, presented by some of Sheffield’s best known club DJs.

Sangita Basudev, Chief Executive of Sheffield Live! said: “We are one year old! What a great opportunity to celebrate the hard work, commitment and creative enthusiasm of the 100’s of volunteers that are Sheffield Live! 93.2fm.  Sheffield Live! provides a high quality, eclectic service 24 hours a day.  We take pride in the creative input the station has made to Sheffield and the investment we have made in a new generation of home grown broadcasters of all ages, backgrounds and abilities.”