The station first aired on 15 March 1982, when it was opened by
George Howard, the then chairman of the BBC. The first voice to be heard was that of Peter Gore who was one of the four-person start-up team headed by Mike Warr. It launched from Broadcasting House, just off Rouge Bouillon in
St Helier, and moved to its present premises in Parade Road in March 1994. Roger Bara, a long-standing breakfast show presenter, retired in 2012. In recent years, local output has been reduced to eight hours on weekdays, coinciding with an increase in regional programming shared with sister station
BBC Radio Guernsey. Like other
BBC enterprises in
Jersey, funding comes primarily from
television licence fees collected in Jersey. In addition to its
FM frequency, the station also broadcasts on
Freeview TV channel 711 and streams online via
BBC Sounds. Transmissions on
DAB began on 1 August 2021 with the launch of the Channel Islands DAB multiplex, on which BBC Radio Guernsey also broadcasts, alongside
BBC Radio Jersey Xtra, a part-time stream carrying the station's former AM opt-out content (chiefly parliamentary coverage), and a similar opt-out for Radio Guernsey. The stations are the first BBC stations to use the DAB+ standard - at the time of launch, all stations on the BBC National DAB multiplex, and all other
BBC Local Radio stations on the UK mainland, used the earlier DAB format. ==Location==