The programme is presented by Steve Harris from a studio complex in Dorchester and also broadcasts county-wide on DAB.

Since 2003, the station has also been broadcast on DAB Digital Radio from the NOW South Hampshire and NOW Bournemouth networks from thirteen transmitters between them.

From launch until 2020,[5] BBC Radio Solent broadcast on medium wave, with the main AM transmitter on 999 kHz from Fareham covering most of the coverage area and a secondary transmitter covering Bournemouth and Poole on 1359 kHz from Fern Barrow, Bournemouth.

As of 2023, local programming was produced and broadcast from the BBC's Southampton studios from 6 am to 6 pm each Monday to Friday and for sports coverage.

[11] The show helped discover and launch the careers of Wet Leg[12] and has featured artists such as Natives[13] and Echotape.