Bianca Dye opens up about accepting her ‘devastating’ axing from 97.3FM’s breakfast show
As Bianca Dye makes her return to Gold Coast radio, the veteran broadcaster opens up about her blindside axing from 97.3FM’s breakfast show, admitting her ego was ‘bruised’
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Bianca Dye has opened up about her blindside axing from 97.3FM’s breakfast show, as she makes a return to radio in her dream job.
The broadcaster has returned home to the Gold Coast to join Hit 90.9’s breakfast show with Dan Anstey and Ben Hannant in a last-minute reshuffle after she finally parted ways amicably with her former employer, ARN, on July 1.
Dye had been in discussions to join Triple M’s Gold Coast drive show until she received the call up from Hit 90.9 after Lise Carlaw and Sarah Wills decided to leave the show this month.
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“They (ARN) wanted to keep me in the family but there wasn’t really anything for me to do and they sort of realised that and released me,” Dye said. “This was a last minute curve ball and it’s the cream on the cake for me.
“This breakfast show was on my vision board. It is my dream gig since I was 13 years old. To get this gig after everything that happened last year I’m pinching myself.”
Dye left the Gold Coast’s 92.5FM in 2016 to replace Robin Bailey on 97.3 in Brisbane, but late last year she and co-host Mike van Acker were dumped from the breakfast show following poor ratings results.
Dye admits she was blindsided by the decision, with ARN choosing to reinstate Terry Hansen and Bailey, who they had brought her in to replace.
“It’s not easy. It’s so public and your ego gets bruised,” she said. “Although I was kind of devastated by the decision, I didn’t see it coming, there were no hard feelings for me really because this is showbiz.
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“Once you agree to be part of this world you have to accept this is a business and they make business decisions, you can’t take it personally.”
“At first it felt personal but after you take time to reflect you see they did what they had to do.”
Having never been off the microphone for six months, and with her partner Jay Sandtner losing his job in tourism due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Dye said time at home together had helped change her perspective.
“There are times when you question your talent and if you’re doing the right thing,” Dye said.
“You really attach so much of you to your job and it’s so unhealthy. Not my best self came out sometimes because, who am I if I’m not that girl on the radio?”
“Then you realise there’s a whole world out there who don’t care about radio.”
Prior to the job offer, Dye and Sandtner had decided as a family to move from Brisbane to the Gold Coast, where both their families live as well as the mother of Sandtner’s daughter, Maddie.
“This has just worked out really well,” she said. “Some things that feel like a negative thing actually turn out to be the best thing that can happen.”
“I love breakfast radio, I love waking people up and Dan and Ben are two of the biggest legends.”
