It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios at The Great Hall in Royal Tunbridge Wells.

It broadcast from studios at 30 High Street in Rochester, a former newspaper office which was subsequently named Media House.

The station became well known in the early 1980s for its early Friday evening soul music show presented by DJ Dave Brown, becoming one of the most listened to soul shows in the UK before DJ Robbie Vincent earned that achievement with the national broadcaster BBC Radio 1 in 1983.

In 2001, the station moved to The Great Hall in Royal Tunbridge Wells, to combine with new television studios for the BBC South East region covering Kent and Sussex.

BBC Radio Kent broadcasts on 96.7 FM for North and West Kent from the Wrotham transmitting station on the North Downs, close to the village of Wrotham, 97.6 FM for Folkstone and surrounding areas from the Creteway Down transmitting station situated north east of the town [2] and 104.2 FM from the Swingate transmitting station located at the village of Swingate, near Dover covering Canterbury, south and east Kent.