Editing Restricted Service Licence (section)

==Radio==
Short-term RSLs are typically broadcast on low-power FM (1 W–25 W) or AM (1 W) and can generally last a maximum of 28 consecutive days and can only be applied for twice in twelve months with four complete months separating the two broadcast periods (and only once in twelve months inside [[Greater London]]) by the same applicant/group.

They are generally used for special events, sporting events, religious festivals, [[student radio]], [[hospital radio]] or to trial a radio project in preparation for an application for a permanent licence. Long-term RSLs (typically broadcast on low-power AM, but more recently in remote areas on low-power FM as well) are used for radio stations broadcasting to closed areas of private land such as university campuses and hospitals. They can be compared with the [[low-power broadcasting]] movement in the United States. [[Channel Travel Radio]] broadcast a travel news service using a Long-term RSL licence along part of the M20 motorway in East Kent. The service operated on 107.6MHz from 1995 to 2000.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Stone Farm - Channel Travel Radio base station |url=http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/gallerypage.php?txid=2643}}</ref>

A number of stations that ran several RSL broadcasts in the 1990s and early 2000s have since gone on to run full-time radio stations. The first FM RSL license was issued on 5th July 1988 to Radio Thamesmead (south-east London) for the Thamesmead Town show on the weekend of 23–24 July 1988. The license fee was £700 for the transmission on 104.3MHz at 1W ERP.  The station later obtained a full-time license operating as [[Time 106.8|RTM Radio]].

===Radio stations broadcasting under a Restricted Service Licence===

Some example stations broadcast with RSLs (with more than a single appearance)

*[[Worthy FM]] ([[Glastonbury Festival]])
*[[103 The Eye]], previously TWCFM, awarded the first full-time community radio licence in UK 1.11.2005 for Melton Mowbray by Ofcom
*[[Radio Caroline]], former offshore "pirate" radio station now available on satellite and Internet Radio
*[[Phoenix FM]], community radio station in Brentwood which broadcast 12 RSLs before being awarded a full-time licence by Ofcom
*[[Don FM]], London [[pirate radio]] station
*[[Blink FM]], a youth radio station operating at selected times annually in south Buckinghamshire
*[[Takeover Radio]], [[children's radio]] service in [[Leicester]]
*[[XFM]] (London)
*[[KMFM Maidstone]], previously CTR 105.6 and 20/20FM
*[[Huntingdon Community Radio]] (Huntingdon), now awarded a full-time licence by Ofcom and known as HCRfm
*[[Waves FM]], previously Waves AM. Broadcasting from Peterhead, in the North East of Scotland
*[[GLOSS FM]], previously Thornbury FM. Broadcasts to South Gloucestershire, England.
*[[Moorlands Radio]], broadcasts now on 103.7fm to the Staffordshire Moorlands
*[[BigglesFM]] (Biggleswade), now awarded a full-time licence by Ofcom
*[[Chaine FM]], Christmas radio station, broadcasting each December in Larne, Northern Ireland