It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital television and via BBC Sounds from studios on Shoreham Street in Sheffield.

Until the mid-1980s, the station was generally on air from the morning until the early evening, with any programming after 6 pm devoted to specialist music and magazines aimed at minority interests and ethnic communities.

This was a weekend service of programmes for the county's ethnic minority communities and was broadcast on the station's MW frequency, hence the name of the strand.

[citation needed] This archiving followed a scheme by Radio Carlisle which covered the October 1957 Windscale nuclear accident.

The 88.6 FM signal is broadcast from the Crosspool transmitter[5] on Tapton Hill to serve Sheffield and parts of Rotherham.

The 94.7 FM signal is broadcast from the Chesterfield transmitter[8] and serves Derbyshire, parts of Nottinghamshire and the East of South Yorkshire.

The Emley Moor transmitter[13] broadcasts DTR for Freeview TV channel 716 for Yorkshire, Derbyshire and parts of Lincolnshire on UHF 47-682 MHz the BBCA multiplex.

Local programming is produced and broadcast from the BBC's Sheffield studios from 6 am to 2 pm each day and for sports coverage.