Radio star Dan Anstey to anchor Triple M Brisbane’s breakfast show

After trailing in the radio ratings in 2022, Triple M Brisbane have recruited a new talent to sit alongside Margaux Parker and Greg Martin on the breakfast show from Monday.

Gold Coast radio star Dan Anstey will switch to Brisbane to anchor Triple M Brisbane’s breakfast show alongside Margaux Parker and Greg “Marto” Martin.

Anstey, who has presented on Sea FM on the Gold Coast for six years, announced on air on Friday morning that he would finish his tenure at the station in order to move his young family to Brisbane.

He will begin on air on Triple M from Monday in a return to the three-host format for the first time since comedian Nick Cody left the show in late 2020

Triple M Brisbane's Marto and Margaux, now with Dan Anstey (left) as anchor. Photo: Peter Wallis

The show has struggled to fire this year, sitting behind their three FM rivals in the first two radio surveys of 2022, and began advertising for a new anchor back in March.

“We searched the whole country to find the perfect Triple M Brisbane Breakfast anchor and it turned out he was sitting just down the road on the Goldie the whole time,” said Triple M Brisbane content director Jamie Angel.

“Dan’s dynamic, funny and a wonderful human being. He’s already worked on some of the Australia’s most successful radio shows, and we can’t wait for him to join the Triple M Brisbane family and settle in with Marto and Margaux for Breakfast.”

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Before co-hosting Sea FM’s breakfast show with Bianca Dye and Ben Hannant, Anstey, a qualified electrical engineer, held on-air roles with The Fox in Melbourne and is a regular TV and event host who is well connected around Brisbane.

Dan and Clare Anstey with their children Halle and Augie. Photo: Instagram

He is married to successful fashion stylist Clare Anstey and the pair share two young children – daughter Halle and son Augie.

“I spent some of the best years of my life in Brisbane. Mainly in the beer garden of the RE watching the mighty Lions, Broncos and Maroons, when I probably should have been studying,” Anstey said.

“I arrived on the GC in 2016 with a packed lunch and a girlfriend.”

“I honestly couldn’t be happier to be returning home after a decade, with my wife and two kids in tow. Standing atop Kangaroo Point to show them the sprawling beauty of the great brown snake will truly be a life goal achieved.”

Meanwhile his shift north leaves one of the hottest radio jobs in the country up for grabs on the Gold Coast, with Dye and Hannant holding fort at Sea FM until their new co-host is named.

The next radio survey is due to be released on Tuesday.

Originally published as Radio star Dan Anstey to anchor Triple M Brisbane’s breakfast show