Iman FM (103.1 MHz) was a British community radio station based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire.
Broadcast from a transmitter site at Wincobank, to the east of the city of Sheffield,[1] its programming was primarily religious in nature and focused on the Muslim community.
[3] The station came to the attention of media regulator Ofcom in July 2017 after a listener complained of hearing several hours of lectures by Anwar al-Awlaki during the month of Ramadan, leading Ofcom to take the unusual step of suspending the station's licence to broadcast for a period of three weeks from 4 July 2017, pending investigation.
[4] Ofcom's subsequent investigation revealed that Iman FM had broadcast over 25 hours of material featuring al-Awlaki, in place of the station's usual morning programming during Ramadan.
[5] Responding to Ofcom, the operators of Iman FM said that they were unaware of the background of al-Awlaki, that they had obtained the "freely available" lectures from YouTube to replace scheduled morning programming, that they believed the content consisted of uncontroversial historical descriptions of the life of the Prophet Muhammad, and that monitoring of output had not been performed as management were "probably catching up on sleep" during early mornings in the month of Ramadan.