Gold Coast radio’s Luke Bradnam back on Gold FM with Parker

Gold Coast broadcaster Luke Bradnam is back where he feels he belongs — on the city’s airwaves and working seven days a week.

Luke Bradnam and Margaux Parker who have started their new Rush Hour show on Gold FM for Gold Coast listeners after their Triple M drive show was axed late last year.

Gold Coast broadcaster Luke Bradnam is back where he feels he belongs — on the city’s airwaves and working seven days a week.

The part-time Channel 9 weather presenter who made his name in radio the past two decades started a new 92.5 Gold FM Rush Hour show this week.

Channel 9 presenter and 92.5 Gold FM Rush Hour show host Luke Bradnam.

It comes after his Triple M afternoon show broadcast into Brisbane and the Gold Coast was discontinued at the end of last year. It was replaced by a syndicated show out of Melbourne in a cost-cutting measure by Southern Cross Austereo, leaving him in radio limbo.

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Whilst gutted at the time, he had planned to take some time off and considered climbing Mt Everest after having worked seven days a week between his radio and TV commitments for five years straight.

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Luke Bradnam at Everest Base Camp — the keen mountaineer said he was considering trying to summit Mt Everest after his Triple M show was discontinued.

“It is taxing but I love it. Doing Channel 9 and radio Monday to Friday means working seven days a week. But I love live TV and I just always love radio,” a pumped Bradnam said after returning to the airwaves on Wednesday.

“When Triple M Brisbane decided they weren’t going to take our show, for the first time in adult life I was looking down barrel of not having radio gig.

Ben ‘Dobbo’ Dobbin will be part time on the new Gold FM Rush Hour show with Luke Bradnam (far right). This was back in their days on Triple M with former co-host Libby Trickett. (AAP Image/Mark Calleja)

“It would have left massive whole in life as I view myself as radio guy, it’s what I do, what I always done. I felt empty and felt without radio I would lose a big part of my identity,” he said.

“I was unbelievably grateful when Gold said we are not getting rid of it, we love your show, we love what you are doing, we want a local show.”

Bradnam is joined on Gold FM from 3pm-6pm on weekdays by co-host Margaux Parker, the partner of recently retired NRL star Corey Parker.

Bradnam’s longtime radio co-host Ben ‘Dobbo’ Dobbin will be on the Gold FM show part-time due to commitments in Brisbane with Channel 9 and Triple M.

Margaux Parker is back joining Luke Bradnam on Gold Coast airwaves this year after their drive show was axed from Triple M Brisbane. Parker will co-host drive on 92.5 Gold FM which started on Wednesday this week. Picture Glenn Hampson

“Dobbo’s still a part of it. He’s not going to be there every day but Dobbo is one of my best mates and I love working with him. Vice versa, we just get on so well.

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“He never got axed — he just literally couldn’t be in two places at once all the time,” Bradnam said.

“The group I have now with Dobbo and Margaux, we are true genuine friends, it makes for way better radio.”

Southern Cross Austereo also owns Gold FM and management have previously said it is investing in local content in the Gold Coast market.