Corey Layton AKA Captain Turntable (born 19 July 1979 in

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, Australia) is a commercial radio broadcaster. He started his career at youth radio station 89.9

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as Captain Turntable before hosting the night show at

's TTFM with

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and Mixmaster Mikey. In 2000 he won a RAWARD for Best Newcomer On-Air. Later, Corey moved to Sydney to be a founding member of Nova 96.9 where he also hosted the late night show, dropping the name Captain Turntable. When

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launched in

Corey moved back to host the night show where he interviewed

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and many more. Around this same time Corey was in the

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film,

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. Layton moved behind the scenes at

in 2003 working as the Promotions Manager and later as Breakfast Producer for

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(formerly Hughesy, Kate & Dave). In 2006, he travelled around South America before moving to London to work at

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as the Commercial Programme Controller for the

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and Gold Radio Networks. In 2008, Corey became the voice of the IRB's Total Rugby TV show broadcast to 154 countries worldwide. In 2009, Layton returned to Melbourne to work for

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where he served as Head of Response & Activation. He is also a voice over artist with RMK. As of May 2019, he began to work for ARN in Melbourne.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Layton, Corey 1979 births Living people Radio personalities from Melbourne