The transmitter power, and hence the transmission area, was at the maximum allowed by OFCOM for the licence and covers around 30 square miles (78 km2) from the centre of Oundle.

The name was originally an acronym for "Oundle School Community and Action Radio", although today OSCAR is accepted as a stand-alone identity.

Located on North Street in Oundle, the 18th Century "Old Dryden" building hosts a fully equipped broadcast studio featuring a computer playout system, a separate newsroom, DJ booth, an archive area and 8 production workstations, capable of functioning as a copy of a current small-scale UK radio station.

Sir Howard Stringer, an old boy of the school and chairman of the Board of Sony Corporation, opened the newly built studio complex on 14 November, that year.

[5] During the Summer of 2014, OSCAR Radio moved again to the newly renovated 2nd floor of the Gascoigne Building, a site it now shares with Oundle School's Music Technology and Recording facilities.