The AM station has a Class A clear-channel allocation under NARBA and its nighttime signal can be heard throughout the Bahamas, most of Cuba, and southeastern Florida.

[1] The Broadcasting Corporation of The Bahamas (BCB) was created as a state-owned radio broadcast service in 1936, out of a primary concern of providing accurate hurricane warnings to all of the islands of the Bahamas.

A callsign of ZNS (standing for "Zephyr Nassau Sunshine") was chosen and the first broadcast was held for the coronation of Britain's King George VI and his wife on May 12, 1937.

[6] Radio Bahamas (ZNS-1) operates from its premises on Third Terrace, Centreville in Nassau (the station's home since 1959).

[7] Today programming is a mix of news, cultural affairs,[8] and music, and is described as being "the national voice of the Bahamas".