More recently the station has produced a string of household names in South African television, radio and journalism including former CNN sports presenter Graeme Joffe, 5FM DJs Nicole Fox, Jon Savage and Mlungisi Dikulu, SABC news and talk presenter Sherwin Bryce-Pease, SuperSport presenter Leigh-Ann Paulick, Talk Radio 702 and Daily Maverick reporter Stephen Grootes.
1991, June: RMR granted permission to broadcast in conjunction with Radio 5 at the Grahamstown Festival of Arts (10-day temporary licence for a station named "Festival-FM").
Broadcasting took place on 89.7 MHz FM for a 15-kilometer radius, with the target audience being visitors to the Festival as well as Grahamstown residents.
The licence was the first of its kind in South Africa and broke the SABC's half century long monopoly on legal broadcasting.
1993, March: RMR broadcasts the last nine days of a marathon record breaking attempt in aid of Child Welfare.
Breaking the record set by RMR in 1990, 5 presenters broadcast around the clock for a total of 17 days (394 hours).
2005, September: RMR receives the Best Provincial Performer for 2004/2005 from the Department of Communications of South Africa in respect of the community radio Programme Production Project.
2006, June: RMR, in part sponsored by the university and the Government Department of Communications, spends R750,000 on a facilities upgrade.
[1] The next month, as part of the 25th birthday celebrations, RMR breakfast DJ Robin Vember attempted to beat the Guinness World Record for the longest continuous radio broadcast.