Paul Campion
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| Born | November 10, 1969  Sarina, Queensland, Australia |
| Show | Campo Show The Paul “Campo” Campion Drive Show |
| Station(s) | B105, 97.3FM |
| Style | Drive-Time Show Host |
| Country | Australia |
| Website | 973fm.com.au |
Paul Campion (born November 10, 1969 in Sarina, Queensland) is an Australian radio host and a dual recipient of the Australian Commercial Radio Award for best music personality . He is currently the drive time presenter on 97.3 FM in Brisbane, Australia. Paul is the older brother of rugby league great Kevin Campion.
Campion started his career in 1987 at Radio 4MK Mackay alongside DMG Programmer Dan Bradley. He worked at a number of country and regional radio stations before coming to the attention in 1992 of then Sea FM Gold Coast programmers and future Austereo heads Jeff Allis and Guy Dobson doing late nights following Ugly Phil O'Neil.
In 1994 Campion joined 2Day FM Sydney as an on air presenter under the direction of future Austereo CEO Brad March and Brian Ford, he moved to Perth in 1996 as part of the MMM revival with Kyle Sandilands.
Campion then moved back to Queensland in 1997 where he worked at sister Austereo network station B105. At the time Campion achieved the highest ratings figures in Mackay history Austereo.
Campion left Austereo in 2000 for personal reasons and later that year joined 105.7 The River in Albury.
In 2001 Campion returned once again to Brisbane as the inaugural breakfast host of new DMG ARN partnership 97.3 FM. He has been in is current role as drive presenter since 2005 which allows him the time to look after his young son Samuel. In 2003 Paul graduated from AFTRS Radio programming with high distinction at Macquarie University Sydney and since that time has been a QUT mentor for media,communication and journalism students in Brisbane.
