Alex Dyson (born 22 June 1988) is an Australian radio presenter who, along with co-host Tom Ballard presents the breakfast show on Australian youth radio station Triple J.
Dyson grew up in Warrnambool and began his radio career on local community station 3WAY FM.[1] Dyson and Ballard began presenting mid-dawn shifts for Australian youth radio station in 2007. They made their transition to weekend radio in late 2008, taking over from Sam Simmons.
On 23 November 2009, Triple J announced that Tom Ballard and Dyson would take over as hosts of the 2010 Breakfast show.[2]
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In December 2008, live on Triple J radio, Dyson attempted to break the Guinness world record for the most Ferrero Rocher chocolates eaten in one minute, which stood at seven.[3] [4]
On Wednesday, 29th July 2011 Alex Dyson won the International Battle of the Bits which is a competition held by KLT (Commercial Rock station in Michigan) the competition consists of contestants writing parody songs, in this case the Americans wrote songs about Australia and vice versa, Alex did a parody using Eminem's song "Lose yourself" he won by a landslide by capturing the hearts of the Michigan audience. One of the funnier parody songs was by Dyson's breakfast radio producer, Ollie Wards, who currently is not famous enough to have his own wiki page. you can also hear this at the reference. -- reference: http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/media/s3273624.htm