The station broadcasts programs in English, Afrikaans and isiXhosa from Salt River, Cape Town[1] on 89.5 MHz FM, with a music and talk format aimed at the 18 to 39 age group.

Bush Radio started out as a project of the Cassette Education Trust during the last stages of the struggle against apartheid.

[2] Many of its volunteers and programmers were students from the University of the Western Cape, which did not at the time have its own campus radio station.

[2] Station volunteer Lumko Mtimde was also tapped to head the National Community Radio Forum, an organization which helped to establish a legislative and collaborative framework for the establishment and expansion of community radio in South Africa,[3] and later became a member of South Africa's new broadcast regulator, the Independent Broadcasting Authority.

[3] In 2000 Bush Radio received one of the Prince Claus Awards in the theme "Urban Heroes".