It broadcast to Tendring and Essex from studios in Colchester and Ipswich, airing the same music programming as sister station Town 102.

The station was folded into Greatest Hits Radio East, as part of a rebrand and merger, on 1 September 2020.

[3][4] Despite this name change, the holding company of the radio station was still known as Mellow 1557 Limited, just as it was until it was dissolved in August 2021.

[5] Former pirate radio DJ Bill Rollins had been at the Tendring station through its various evolutions, from day 1 in 1990.

Programmes between 0600 and 1900 Monday to Friday and between 0800 and 1200 on Saturday and Sunday were then produced in the Town 102 studios near Ipswich for broadcast on Dream 100.