Quay FM serves the Channel Island of Alderney with a local radio service of popular music, news, weather, sea conditions, competitions, island information and chat. The station has pace and is fun to listen to. The information and chat are particularly intimate to Alderney which results in a strong and loyal bond between the broadcasters and listeners.

Alderney is the most northerly of the three British Channel Islands and is, in fact, the only one actually in the English Channel. The island is just seven miles from France and guards the western approaches to the English Channel. Alderney is an independent, self governing, British island which is not part of the United Kingdom, nor a member of the EU.

Spanning just three miles by one and a half miles, the island of Alderney is host to the small town of St Anne. Its smallness is its quaintness. The small scale of the economy has shaped the nature of Quay FM and its operational schedule. The presenters and the management are all volunteers and the station restricts its broadcast periods to high summer and the run-up to Christmas. Quay FM is a commercial radio station and despite the smallness of the economy enjoys the patronage of around sixty business clients on and off the island.

The radio station en joys a custom built studio centre - popularly known as 'the Radio Shack'- and is furnished with fully professional broadcast equipment including a computer-based digital audio playout and automation system. Quay FM operates twenty-four hours a day.