Daily broadcasting started in January 2002, once again sharing the waves of a commercial station (City Radio).

After the bankruptcy of «Objektwerbung GmbH» (owner of City Radio) in October 2003 Radiofabrik obtained the full broadcast licence and has been on air 24/7 ever since.In the early days the studio was located in a prefabricated container.

In 2005 Radiofabrik headquarters were relocated inside the ARGE-Kultur Salzburg, a self-standing cultural centre, where professional infrastructure and equipment (office, studio, production and workshop rooms) were set up.

From children to elder people, from homeless to professors, from classical music to heavy metal, from politics to trash you can hear almost anything on Radiofabrik – except commercials.

As a non-commercial, independent Community Radio Radiofabrik is intended for everyone, individuals and groups, especially for those, who tend to be underrepresented in both private and public media.

For the show "Magazin um 5", an employed chief editor engaged an additional team of editorial interns.

[1] With the support of the city of Salzburg, a course of journalistic basics for radio editors was launched in autumn 2018.

Upon the successful completion of the course, they can participate in production of the regional news for the local newsroom unerhört!

According to their own statements, they offer the largest range of courses and workshops among all non-commercial broadcasters in Austria.

Until 2009 the organization of Radiofabrik was based on two pillars: The „Verein Freier Rundfunk Salzburg“ is a registered association, in which all programme creators and supporters are members on institutional level.

The association owned a corporation in charge of the infrastructure (Sendeanlagen GesmbH), who also did hold the broadcasting licence.

One example was the Interreg-IIIA-Project "EuRegio Medienzentrum" (2006 - 2009), where the “Aktion Film Salzburg” and the District Office of Traunstein were involved.

[6] Radiofabrik is officially partnered with BBC world service and broadcasts English news 8 times a day between 1 AM and 7 PM.