On 11 December 2014, the station launched on Freeview channel 711, on the PSB 1 multiplex from the Mendip transmitter and its TV relays.

Kate Adie and Michael Buerk produced and presented programmes for BBC Radio Bristol as part of the station's launch team in the 1970s.

[6] Other past presenters include Susan Osman, who also co-presented Points West for 14 years, and John Turner, who worked on the station between 1978 and 2007.

In November 2008, BBC Radio Bristol presenter Sam Mason was dismissed following an incident in which it was alleged that she had made racist remarks in an off-air phone conversation during a weekday afternoon show.

[9] Presenter James Hanson was eventually found to have breached BBC editorial guidelines by broadcasting a “comedy” song called “Hartcliffe Lass”.

The lyric, to the tune of Blondie’s “ Heart Of Glass” depicted the story of a woman from the Bristol suburb of Hartcliffe engaging in the practice of “ dogging” with a man who later turned out to be her nephew.

However, the BBC central editorial complaints decision was upheld as inappropriate for the time of broadcast, Saturday afternoon.