This month we’re spotlighting Zed Games as our 102.1FM and Zed Digital Highlight! Tune in on 102.1FM every Thursday night from 6-7PM and on Zed Digital on Fridays 6-7PM.

Zed Games brings you the best in gaming news, reviews, community and culture. As an independent voice in the gaming media space, it means listeners can trust the program to deliver news, reviews, and opinions that are completely free from bias or commercial influence.

The team host a free showcase in collaboration with Netherworld every 2-3 months. They source 7-9 games developed within SEQ and invite the developers to share their projects with the public, while curious gamers can play games made right in our backyard and connect with the people behind them.

It is a program that takes many hours to put together each week and is always an interesting listen.

This month, we’re highlighting our amazing reception coordinator, Shane Doidge as volunteer of the month!

Shane has been a part of the Zed family since the 70s and 80s! In the past two years, he started coming into the station to volunteer: packing and posting in Radiothon, then helping with Hot 100 voting and now is our reception coordinator!

Shane dedicated so much time to make sure our reception doors stay open 6 days a week, our 4ZZZ subscriptions and merch orders are processed and brings so much warm inner glow to our hallways.

In April, we had so many volunteer opportunities pop up from working door, merch, social media, and artist liaison at 4ZZZ events including the From The Roots Carpark Gig and 4ZZZ Youth Week Show. We also had a callout to join the Live Reviews team. If writing about local gigs is something you dig, it was a perfect opportunity.

If any of those opportunities caught your fancy and you’re not a volunteer at 4ZZZ, consider signing up and doing a volunteer induction! Click here to learn more about volunteering at 4ZZZ.

Thank you Shane and all our 4ZZZ volunteers. 

Lost and Found (Tuesdays 12-2am) is celebrating their 1 year anniversary on the 102.1FM ariwaves! Hosted by George, the program has been rejecting modernity and embracing weird since 2025! 

Come celebrate at the PFR Lounge on Friday July 17th from 7PM with local legendary bands Super Death, Gudgeon & Leaker. 

Get your tickets here!

BYO your own mask! Let’s get weird! 

4zzz Acknowledges the traditional owners of the land of which we broadcast from - The Turrabal, Yuggera and Jagera People.

We pay our respects to the elders past, present and emerging & extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait island people. Sovereignty was never ceded - always was, always will be aboriginal land.

In exciting news! We're looking for a part-time First Nations Community Engagement Coordinator. 

This would be a broad role whose duties range from The role would include organising outreach events to assisting in increasing First Nations voices across all of the station’s platforms. 

It is a developing role, which has flexibility, that is expected to evolve with time and grow with each individual in the role. 

If you are interested you can apply through Ethical Jobs or click here...

Our amazing show, Tranzmission, turned 4 years old this week! Started by Ez, the show is now hosted by a diverse crew of professional trans and genders. It is such an important program on our grid to amplify the trans and gender diverse voices of Magandjin/Brisbane and beyond, bringing you trans community news, events and discussion. Here are some words from the Tranzmission team:

"Four years ago, Tranzmission carved out a space on the dial that didn’t exist in this country before, a space for trans and gender‑diverse communities to speak loudly, proudly, and without apology.

This week, we celebrate not just a show, but a movement. Tranzmission has become a lifeline, a megaphone, a warm hug, and a rallying cry powered by voices who refuse to be erased and the listeners who show up week after week in solidarity.

Every episode has carried stories that matter. Every guest has brought courage. Every listener has helped weave a community stitched together with care, solidarity, and fierce love.

In a world that still tries to legislate us out of existence, Tranzmission reminds us that joy is resistance, storytelling is activism, and community is unstoppable.

Here’s to four years of truth‑telling, boundary‑breaking radio.
Here’s to the next four louder, braver, and even more unapologetically us.

Agitate, Educate, Organise - Because when trans voices are heard, the world listens."

We’re so excited that Dr. Heather Anderson's highly sought after book 'People Powered Radio - Fifty Years of Community Radio Station 4ZZZ' is back in (very limited) stock and available for sale at reception and online! These beautiful books are too precious to post, so we're offering a pick up only special price of $55 for subscribers and $60 for non-subscribers!

From the publisher - "For fifty years, 4ZZZ has been more than just a broadcaster - it’s been a movement, a megaphone, and a meeting place for radicals, musicians, punks and radio nerds alike. People Powered Radio captures the oral and archival histories of one of Australia’s oldest and most unique community radio stations.

“From the station’s subversive roots in the 1970s to its present-day digital renaissance, this rich and deeply researched book documents the lasting contributions made by 4ZZZ; promoting independent music, producing alternative news and fostering authentic community collaborations. 

“People Powered Radio is not just a story about radio. It’s an insider’s perspective on what happens when people build something together and refuse to let it go. It’s a celebration of everything that 4ZZZ has offered over the last half a century and what the future might hold for the station."

Reception is open Monday to Friday from 10am-4pm and Saturdays from 10am-2pm to purchase one! Otherwise, purchase online here and pick up at reception in those hours. 

We’ve wrapped up our April Atonement festivities so we wanted to say a massive thank you to everyone who subscribed during the campaign. Your support goes directly to keeping us alive, broadcasting the voices of our community and platforming local bands and issues that don’t get heard anywhere else. 

We are proudly independent media, which we’re only able to achieve because of the direct support of subscribers. 40% of 4ZZZ’s income is subscriptions yet 5% of total listeners are subscribers. Therefore, we truly rely on the support of our listeners to continue broadcasting. 

Thank you so much to everyone that subscribed and may your warm inner glow shine bright!

The Workers Power team conducted a broadcast live from the heart of the Labour Day rally on May 4th from 10am-12pm.

Throughout the rally they had some really important interviews and conversations with marchers in the crowd which touched on the importance of Labour Day as a celebration of workers achievements and the labour movement. They also spoke on the cost of living crisis, Justice for Palestine and other continued struggles that workers are facing. 

Listen back to hear the whole broadcast on the Workers Power. 

4ZZZ won the Lifetime Achievement Award at the QMA for 2026!

It's hard to put 4ZZZ and our lifetime into a couple minute speech, but Dr. Heather Anderson, our 4ZZZ historian and community radio expert, more than did it justice. Shining a light to how 4ZZZ has remained unapologetic for 50 years in platforming local music, reporting matters that mainstream media don't touch and how important it is to give ordinary people access to the airwaves.

The award doesn't belong to any one person. 4ZZZ has remained alive through countless hours of countless volunteers over decades. Anyone that has walked through the doors of 4ZZZ to playlist a show, write a news story or input music, this award belongs to them. 

The 50th of the station last year was a huge milestone in the station journey. So many people from volunteers to announcers and 4ZZZ staff gave up hours and days to make sure all the events happened. It was no small feat and their work truly made the 50th anniversary one to remember. 

A special shoutout to Screamfeeder who performed the QMA’s wearing all 4ZZZ shirts and Ball Park Music dedicating their Album of the Year win to 4ZZZ Radio.

Thank you Heather for such a beautiful speech and thank you Queensland Music Awards for the recognition of 4ZZZ. 

The Banana Logo Tee is back in a new colour! Sage green colour printed on a AS staple cotton tee. Sub price: $35 | Non-sub: $40. 

We've got another tee with a brand new design coming in hot. The 4ZZZ Grid in Vibrant Neon which has already been super popular.  Printed on a black AS block cotton tee. Sub price: $40 | Non-sub: $45.

Last but not least, new tea towels are in! With a vast collection of zed logos on a black cotton tea towel, this is one to have in a 4ZZZ household. Sub price: $20 | Non-sub: $25.