In the summer of 1986 a special event radio station for the Stoke-on-Trent national garden festival occupied the 1017 kHz frequency.
It was to be 12 months before Sunshine was heard again The Government once again announced plans for community radio licences in 1988.
South Shropshire Communications Ltd applied and won the licence finally taking to the air on 18 October 1992 as Sunshine 855.
In 2013 Sunshine Radio won a broadcasting licence to take the Ludlow version of the station onto the FM band.
The station ended transmissions on MW on 19 January 2024, after permission was granted by Ofcom on the grounds of the expensive cost of maintaining the transmitters and the small number of listeners who listen on mediumwave.