[6] Roy Waller presented a weekday afternoon show from the early 1980s until 2009,[7] which led to his being one of the best-known and most popular voices in the county,[8] described by the Eastern Daily Press as "a household name.

"[9] Waller also hosted a Saturday morning country music programme, Rodeo Norfolk, which he continued to present following his departure from the weekday show, until ill health forced him to step down.

[10] From the early days of Radio Norfolk until 2007, Waller was the station's commentator for Norwich City matches, known as "the voice of Carrow Road".

[7] The station devotes extensive coverage to Norwich City, the county's only professional football team, providing live coverage of all league and cup matches, as well as a post-match phone-in show Canary Call and fanzine show The Scrimmage, both of which are regarded as amongst the station's most popular programmes.

[12] The Norfolk Airline, presented by David Clayton and Neil Walker, was the station's first mid-morning programme, launched in 1983.

[14][15] The programme also made the news itself, when James Prior announced his resignation as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland live during a show.

[19] The show gained a strong reputation for solving listeners' consumer problems, and in 2000 was given the British Insurance Brokers' Association Media Award for its work in this area.

[23] Chaney had previously been working on the Today programme at BBC Radio 4, but lost his role there during a behind-the-scenes shake-up.

[28] Immediately prior to becoming the managing editor of BBC Radio Norfolk, Bishop had been the Education Correspondent for Look East.

[28] He subsequently returned to the television side of BBC East's operations, and then became the Head of Regional and Local Programmes for the area in 2002.

[31][32][33] Figures from the radio audience measuring body RAJAR have regularly shown that over 200,000 people in Norfolk listen to some part of the station's output in any given week.

[17] In 2010, wildlife expert Chris Skinner was runner-up in the Best Specialist Contributor category for his broadcasts as part of Matthew Gudgin's programme.

In 2010, the station's Sophie Price won the Original Journalism category for a documentary she had made about teenage pregnancy in Norfolk.

[47] Keith Skipper, a former presenter on the station until he left in 1995, has criticised Radio Norfolk for a lack of local focus to some of its programming.

[48] In an article published in the Eastern Daily Press in February 2012, Norwich City Independent Supporters Club chairman Robin Sainty described the station's post-match phone-in programme Canary Call as "audio surrealism", criticising the quality of callers phoning in with their views.

[49] In the early 1980s, BBC Radio Norfolk had a small office for the district reporter based in Great Yarmouth, situated in the premises of the Port and Haven Commissioners on the town's South Quay.

In January 2020, the BBC announced that Radio Norfolk's medium wave (AM) service from Postwick on 855 kHz covering the eastern part of the county, would close later in the year.