101 FM is a community radio

Community radio

Community radio is a type of radio service, that offers a third model of radio broadcasting beyond commercial broadcasting and public broadcasting. Community stations can serve geographic communities and communities of interest...

 station broadcasting from Logan City, Queensland

Queensland

Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

, with regular transmissions starting from November 1988. Their programs are based around two genres, easy listening

Easy listening

Easy listening is a broad style of popular music and radio format that emerged in the 1950s, evolving out of big band music, and related to MOR music as played on many AM radio stations. It encompasses the exotica, beautiful music, light music, lounge music, ambient music, and space age pop genres...

 and country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

, though the programs vary, including jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...

, big band

Big band

A big band is a type of musical ensemble associated with jazz and the Swing Era typically consisting of rhythm, brass, and woodwind instruments totaling approximately twelve to twenty-five musicians...

 and light classics. The stations transmitter is situated at Springwood and their coverage area includes the Sunshine Coast

Sunshine Coast, Queensland

The Sunshine Coast is an urban area in South East Queensland, north of the state capital of Brisbane on the Pacific Ocean coastline. Although it does not have a central business district, by population it ranks as the 10th largest metropolis in Australia and the third largest in...

 and Gold Coast

Gold Coast, Queensland

Gold Coast is a coastal city of Australia located in South East Queensland, 94km south of the state capital Brisbane. With a population approximately 540,000 in 2010, it is the second most populous city in the state, the sixth most populous city in the country, and also the most populous...

.

One of the most popular programs is "Ted's Memories" with Ted Thirkill hosting three hours of "the best of the 50s 60s &70s every Saturday morning 11am till 2pm

Another program with a rapidly growing listenership is "The Sports Lounge" hosted by Karen Mitchell, Wednesday nights between 8 and 9 p.m. Karen is joined each week by her panel of alleged local experts: the legend, Mark Tookey, Robert "Blanchy" Blanch and the saintly Jeff Leeming. The show also air's guests which include members of local sports teams and clubs trying to lift the profile of their particular sports and to announce upcoming events.

Karen and the panel do a weekly update of the "Lounges" NRL tipping competition and finish off with a section called "Looking out the window" which encourages comment and analysis of current sporting stories from around the world.

As part of the programs community ties, the "Big Red Sports Lounge" an actual red three seater lounge supplied by IKEA travels around to local sporting events and is placed on the halfway mark for special guests and phone in winners who are fed and watered by the hosting clubs.