Golden chance for colourful Bianca Dye to shine on Hit90.9

After more than 25 years in the radio industry, bubbly broadcaster Bianca Dye finally has the freedom to be herself on-air.

Radio star Bianca Dye is delighted to be back on the Gold Coast in her new role as breakfast co-host with FM station Hit90.9. Picture: Russell Shakespeare

After more than 25 years in the radio industry, bubbly broadcaster Bianca Dye finally has the freedom to be herself on-air.

The rambunctious blonde, who was fired from ARN’s Brisbane breakfast show last December, is now part of the breakfast show on Gold Coast’s Hit90.9, alongside co-hosts Dan Anstey and Ben Hannant.

Dye says the breakfast show’s style is laid-back, adding that management are letting the trio do their own thing.

“I just thought I want to be able to talk on the radio and be myself; be me, be funny and have no ­filter,” Dye says.

“I’m finally in a gig where I’m totally myself. I can just have fun. It’s a bit loose, but you know it’s a really great environment.”

Dye says there’s a “really chilled environment” at the station since joining last month. “They’re not choking the show, they’re letting us be ourselves and breathe, which I’m not really used to so it’s nice.”

The radio host notes that she’s used to planning a show “within an inch of its life”.

“Look, both ways of doing a show work but not in the beginning. You’ve got to let people get to know each other and like each other before you choke a show,” she says.

“Any good shows that you hear is because of the chemistry of the hosts.”

Dye fondly remembers listening to radio queen Suki Mead on Sea FM, as the station was called when she was a teenager, after moving with her family to the Gold Coast from Melbourne and thinking she wanted that job.

The breakfast gig is Dye’s third shot on Gold Coast radio, having previously worked on a late night program as well as on the afternoon show.

She got her big break when she was hired in 2001 by then new radio entrant NOVA 96.9FM to work as an announcer, alongside Merrick Watts and Tim Ross on their breakfast show in Sydney.

“This is my third time doing radio on the Gold Coast, so third time lucky. I’ve finally come back to do the fun gig.”

Dye had been contemplating her future after being dropped from ARN’s Brisbane breakfast show 97.3FM, along with her co-host Mike Van Acker, at the end of last year following disappointing radio ratings.

Dye spent most of this year waiting for her next hosting role with ARN, but the radio group let her go last month.

She has no hard feelings about the axing of her Brisbane breakfast show. “It was awesome. I really enjoyed that but it’s showbiz and sometimes things don’t last, and it didn’t,” Dye says.

While awaiting her next role with ARN, Dye, 46, spent her free time meditating, doing yoga and puzzles as well as helping co-­parent her partner Jay’s six year-old daughter.

Dye — who has been very public about her struggle to have a baby after spending $60,000 on IVF — plans to look for an egg donor since she has settled into her new show and home on the Gold Coast.

She recently had a 29 year-old woman on Instagram reach out and offer her eggs.