About 4CLG 106.5 FM Salt 106.5

4CLG 106.5 FM Salt 106.5

Overview

Salt 106.5 (ACMA callsign 4CLG) is a Christian community radio station broadcasting on 106.5 MHz FM from Nambour to Queensland's Sunshine Coast. Owned and operated by Sunshine Coast Christian Broadcasters, the station broadcasts twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, with a family-friendly format of Christian music, teaching and talk programs, news, interviews and listener interaction. It describes itself as "the Sunshine Coast's positive choice for families", and its website carries the succinct tagline "Music, News, Jesus".

The station's stated aim, in its own words, is to provide a positive radio environment with support and practical advice to help every local Sunshine Coast family experience a "fresh full life" through a personal relationship with God. Salt 106.5 promotes its faith openly while aiming to remain accessible to a general family audience, mixing Christian songs with carefully selected mainstream hits considered safe for children. Listeners quoted by the station describe it as "life changing radio".

History

The station began broadcasting in 1993 under the name Rhema FM 106.5. It was one of the many Australian Christian stations established under the Rhema banner — stations that were set up with the assistance of United Christian Broadcasters and carry the name derived from UCB's New Zealand network — although, like the other Rhema stations, it was locally owned and programmed by its Sunshine Coast association rather than run from a central network.

The station later traded under the simplified name 106five before undergoing a full relaunch: the new Salt 106.5 brand and format were introduced on 1 December 2016. The rebrand repositioned the station around a contemporary, family-focused Christian format and the "Salt" identity it still uses today, a reference drawn from the biblical "salt and light" imagery of Matthew 5. Through each identity — Rhema FM, 106five and Salt 106.5 — the licence has remained in the hands of the same local broadcasting association, giving the station more than three decades of continuous Christian broadcasting on the Sunshine Coast.

Nambour, the station's home, is the historic administrative centre of the Sunshine Coast hinterland, and a long-standing media base for the region: several Sunshine Coast radio services are based in or associated with the town. Salt 106.5's studios and offices on McKenzie Road place it in the middle of the community it serves, rather than in a metropolitan media hub, and its postal address in nearby Woombye reflects the same local footprint. Stations that began under the Rhema name remain connected to the wider Christian media sector through its peak body, Christian Media & Arts Australia, even though each — Salt 106.5 included — is independently owned and programmed locally.

Programming and Content

Salt 106.5's on-air mix combines music with a substantial layer of spoken-word content. Announced programs on its website include The Morning Wake-Up with Nato at breakfast and The Home Run with Steve D in the drive slot, along with Weekends with Salt 106.5 and Real Hope devotions. Across the week the station airs instructional teaching programs, supportive family programs, news, interviews and a high level of listener interaction by phone and text.

The station's website extends the same mix into digital content under Faith, Entertainment and Life sections: articles on parenting and family life, Christian living and money, film and streaming recommendations (including coverage of series such as The Chosen), local news and community stories. Its faith coverage is practical as well as devotional — a recent feature walked listeners through Alpha, the free course run by local churches for people exploring Christianity, including an online version for people who cannot attend every week. The station also runs competitions and promotions, maintains a community events diary and a guide to local churches, offers prayer requests, and conducts listener surveys — one recent station report on survey feedback noted listeners asking for a greater balance of music in some parts of the day, and the station committing to more fresh contemporary Christian music each hour and to stronger local community partnerships, including around homelessness and cost-of-living pressures. In its own reflection on the value of community radio, the station quotes Monash University research describing community radio as vital infrastructure for local voices — and argues that behind every hour of Salt 106.5 are volunteers who give their time because they believe in the ministry.

Audience and Reach

Salt 106.5's 106.5 FM signal covers Nambour and the wider Sunshine Coast, from the hinterland to the coastal strip, and its stream reaches listeners anywhere. Its intended audience is Sunshine Coast families — Christian listeners seeking faith-based content, and general listeners drawn by the station's positive, family-safe music policy. The station is community-supported rather than ratings-driven and does not publish official audience figures; the clearest evidence of its local engagement is the steady stream of small donations from listeners across Sunshine Coast suburbs that the station publicly thanks donors for on its website — in mid-October 2026, for example, its donor roll acknowledged gifts of $25 to $50 from listeners in Woombye, Marcoola and Tewantin within a single day. Fundraising is woven into the station's calendar, from on-air appeals to a "spring into summer" sponsorship sale for the 2026–27 season, reflecting how directly the service depends on the community it broadcasts to.

Digital Presence

The station's website, salt1065.com, offers live listening, program and presenter information, news and faith articles, competitions, community event listings and donation facilities. It introduces the station as "your home to uplifting music, stories, news and faith messages", and its menus reflect the breadth of the service beyond the FM signal: listeners can find community events and a local church, request prayer, browse the station's sponsors, enter competitions and donate, all from the one site. Listeners can also hear Salt 106.5 through the Community Radio Plus app — including via Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, as the station itself promotes — and follow the station on Facebook and Instagram under the handle @salt1065. The site is active and current, carrying recent local stories, seasonal sponsorship promotions and donor acknowledgements dated October 2026.

Ownership and Organisation

Salt 106.5 is owned and operated by Sunshine Coast Christian Broadcasters — identified in station information as the Sunshine Coast Christian Broadcasters Association Inc, while the station's website now carries copyright in the name Sunshine Coast Christian Broadcasters Ltd (ABN 88 280 613 828). It is a not-for-profit Christian media ministry funded by listener donations, memberships and business sponsorships (sold on air as sponsorship under community broadcasting rules), and it describes everyone involved — presenters, producers and supporters — as part of the team that keeps the ministry on air. The station frames its work explicitly as ministry rather than purely as broadcasting: as it puts it, "we're not just a radio station… media can carry something deeper than entertainment. It can carry hope."

Contact and Availability

Salt 106.5 broadcasts on 106.5 MHz FM across the Sunshine Coast and streams live at salt1065.com and via the Community Radio Plus app. The station is located at 2A McKenzie Road, Nambour QLD 4560, with postal address PO Box 200, Woombye QLD 4559. Its office telephone number is (07) 5442 2833, the on-air studio line is (07) 5442 1065, the studio SMS line is 0439 781 117, and email contact is info@salt1065.com.