I may be brilliant at research and typing up stuff, but there's no point trying to research and write up the history BBC SCR from scratch when they have done all the hard work for me already! The rest of this page has been taken from the station's website.

BBC Local Radio first came to the Southern Counties in 1968 in the form of BBC Radio Brighton. Some of the BBC's best-known names cut their broadcasting teeth at the station including Kate Adie, Des Lynam, and Jeremy Paxman.

The station was still being built close to the centre of Brighton when the blizzards hit, threatening to bring the town to a standstill. The then manager, Bob Gunnell, decided to open the station ahead of schedule. Rumour has it he "borrowed" a transmitter from one of the BBC networks taking the network off the air and replacing it with a local service. It was broadcast from a rapidly constructed studio in a small room at the Dome. The station progressed quickly, earning a place in listeners hearts as a friend and companion, but also as a provider of local news and information. It had a reputation for coverage of not only very local stories, but also major stories of national importance.

In 1992 Radio Surrey was launched from our current Guildford studio HQ, broadcasting Radio Sussex programmes between their own local output. The stations were brought firmly together as BBC Sussex and Surrey in 1993, and then renamed BBC Southern Counties Radio in September 1994. In February 2002 the Brighton team moved into new studios in Queens road in Brighton. The Guildford studios were refurbished and modernised in April 2003.

In the summer of 2004, BBC Southern Counties Radio became one of the BBC's local radio stations to be made available to hear via the internet. Great news to all Southern Counties ex-pats!

The radio station website pages have sister pages called "Where I Live" which covers the Surrey and Sussex areas and went live in October 2001. Staff based at the BBC radio studios in Guildford have responsibility for updating the radio station site as well as the "Where I Live site" site.