Greatest Hits Radio Cumbria & South West Scotland

[1] The station was launched by its original owners, Border Television at 8am on 14 April 1993 when managing director and breakfast show host John Myers played "The Best" by Tina Turner as its first song.

From its launch, the station broadcast from premises adjacent to the ITV Border studios in Durranhill, Carlisle.

In May 2013, CFM became the first radio station to broadcast from a nuclear reprocessing site at Sellafield, West Cumbria.

However, in May 2019, Ofcom announced plans to advertise three local multiplexes in Cumbria & South West Scotland.

It was also expressed that Bauer may reduce CFM's local programming to the minimum legal requirement of 3 hours per day.

[2] On 21 April 2022, Bauer announced that local programming outside weekday breakfast would be replaced with further networked output from Hits Radio.

[1] Networked programming originates from Bauer's studios in Manchester, Liverpool, London, Birmingham and Glasgow.