Jay Lane (radio presenter)
Jason "Jay" Lane (born 11 March 1969 in Brisbane) is an Australian radio and television presenter and actor.
He is currently best known as the "traffic guy" on Brisbane's morning radio, working for the ATN broadcasting to the listeners of Triple M and 4KQ as well as on the Gold Coast for Gold FM and Radio 97, Sea FM of the Sunshine Coast and New FM in Newcastle. More recently, Jay is now also presenting the nations traffic reports for ABC News Radio. He is also a regular on Channel Seven's Sunrise morning program reporting from the traffic chopper. He has previously been a traffic reporter for 612 ABC Brisbane and community stations 96Five, 98.9 and 99.7 FM. Jay is also a regular contributor to Brisbane's courier mail providing on the spot traffic information for traffic news.
Lane is also known for his work as an actor, in early 2007 picking up a principal role in the Australian production of [...] Boys Singing at Brisbane's "Stagedoor Dinner Theatre", featured on the Nine Network]]'s Brisbane Extra Program. Lane has provided his versatility as several different background characters in the US mini series The Starter Wife as well as the Australian Movie Kokoda.
In 2000, Lane was a news reader on Australia's Optus Television Network, anchoring next to Lisa Ridgley. They also both hosted "Midweek Madness", a popular nightly program of Brisbane's Switch FM (now known as Switch 1197).