The toughest media job in the world is husbanding 2DayFm and Austero through to the end of the two current ACMA inquiries into talkback radio, one involving Kyle and Jacki O.
Austereo
Could 2GB poach Sandilands to be the new Stan Zemanek?
In all the frothing and hissing about Kyle Sandilands, did anyone notice that it’s a non-ratings fortnight for Sydney radio?
The Kyle and Jackie O Code of Contrition
In commercial radio, if you grossly offend the nation’s sensibilities, you simply suspend yourself for two weeks and move on, writes Andrew Dodd.
Cash for cockheads: the empty economics of commercial radio
Commercial radio is based on the economics of attention, says Mel Campbell: a sick culture where scandal always equals success an ethics are completely ephemeral.
Kyle’s contract and the crew he took along for the ride
The Daily Telegraph has long been a willing fan, reporter and exploiter of the Kyle and Jackie O style of shock jocking, but is now running a holier-than-thou campaign against the pair without a shred of embarrassment.
Putting a price on the Sandilands saga
American Express and Optus have joined Qantas and Channel Ten in pulling advertising dollars from the Austereo network in the wake of the Kyle and Jackie O lie-detector saga, while documents reveal Sandilands’ lavish lifestyle has left him $2.2 million in debt — and now unemployed.
There is a God Dept: Sandilands dumped from Idol
Kyle Sandilands has lost his judging job on Australian Idol. Meanwhile, his absence from radio today has been interpreted as a suspension — but apparently that may not be the case.
How “people power” dethroned King Kyle
Austereo has removed shock jocks Kyle and Jackie O from the airwaves indefinitely, following last week’s on-air rape revelation debacle. The move is a triumph for the power of public opinion on radio and the web, says David Penberthy.
Crikey Says: A tale of two media incidents
Both The Chaser and Austereo’s Kyle and Jackie O show have stepped outside acceptable public standards recently. One dealt well with the fallout, the other, not so much.
Kyle and Jackie O’s live lie detector test goes very wrong
A 14-year-old girl disclosed live on air this morning that she was raped at the age of 12, during 2Day FM’s Kyle and Jackie O breakfast show.
Media magnates split the bill on political donations
Australia’s media proprietors have given the major political parties around $1.6m in donations in the last two years.
