In today’s Media Briefs: Famous? Love pav? Be more famous! … Front Page of the Day … The Department of Corrections … Jenny Craig cancels Kyle & Jackie O sponsorship and more …
Kyle Sandilands
Crikey Says: The good, the bad, and the sexy
It’s the winners of the Crikey Readers’ Choice awards! Lyn White of Animals Australia wins the Crikey Readers’ Choice Person of the Year for 2011. Plus the sexiest pollies.
Media briefs: Pagemasters cuts … Leveson latest … Kyle’s new shocker …
In today’s Media Briefs: wut with the old, in with new at Pagemasters … Front page of the Day. …Leveson inquiry: NotW’s Neville Thurlbeck to give evidence …Austereo asks: should we sack Kyle? and more …
Harmer: Kyle Sandilands? A misogynist? Too easy
To brand Kyle Sandilands as a “woman-hater” overlooks the fact that he is an equal-opportunity bully, writes Wendy Harmer.
Denmore: the déjà vu of radio’s elephant men
Radio shock jock Kyle Sandilands has whipped up controversy this week but the narrative arc for how to achieve it and where it leads — greater publicity — remains ever the same, writes Bob Denmore.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: MRRT: this is the economy, not the Melbourne Cup
Crikey readers have their say.
Media briefs: Leveson Inquiry latest … Kyle Sandilands saga …
In today’s Media Briefs: latest from the Leveson Inquiry … Kyle Sandilands sorry but not really … NoTW whistleblower died of natural causes … Southern Cross Media announces buyback and more …
Crikey Says: Three golden radio moments
Three golden moments from radio that have hit the news in the past 24 hours. Take a bow Kyle Sandilands, Ray Hadley and Alan Jones.
Sandilands to ‘hunt down’ ‘piece of shit’ News editor
Controversy machine Kyle Sandilands has taken his token schtick as a shock job to shocking extremes with an abusive tirade sent to a news.com.au editor, reports mUmBRELLA.
The 2009 Crikey Arsehat Awards
From Vegemite’s iSnack 2.0 to Andrew Bolt to the overuse of the phrase “A great big tax”, Crikey readers vote on the biggest Arsehats of 2009.
Wankley Awards: The Most Wankiest of Wankleys for 2009
From a tough field of nominees, this year’s Wankiest of all Wankleys goes to Richard Wilkins and his Goldblum gaff, writes Elly Keating, but Sam the Koala, Daryl Somers and Kyle Sandilands all deserve honourable mentions.
Crikey Says: Hey Hey it’s the internet
With Hey Hey’s blackface scandal, it’s not so much that community standards have changed in 20 years, it’s that thanks to technology it’s easier for the audience to make its feelings and displeasure heard.
Well, how would you like to be Sandilands’ boss?
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.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: King Kyle out-ranks Rudd
Kyle Sandilands rated 50% more mentions than the PM on the people’s medium this week, further confirming commercial TV’s place as a politics-free zone.
Kyle and Jackie Oh no: ratings plummet
In the wake of the Kyle Sandilands concentration camp debacle, Crikey asked whether it was the tipping point for the Kyle and Jackie O show. Would the tactics that brought in listeners also make the tune out? The answer seems to be yes.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Kyle and the meeja
Crikey readers continue to weigh in on Steve Fielding’s spelling issues and whether Godwin’s Law will bring down vile Kyle Sandilands.
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?
Crikey Says: Can’t we just turn them off?
As we have seen again this week in the troubled world of professional attention seeker Kyle Sandilands, media regulation in this country packs all the punch of a wilted shard of rocket.
Will Godwin’s Law finally bring down Kyle Sandilands?
Sorry Kyle, it’s Godwin’s Law. The minute you invoke the Nazis, your salad days as a shock jock are over.
Sandilands and scandal: is this the tipping point?
Kyle Sandilands has hit the airwaves — and headlines — again with another attention-grabbing stunt. Will the provocative tactics that have made his career also break it?
Are we witnessing the death of the shock jock?
Crikey / Tuesday, 27 October 2009
The position of the shock jock on our airwaves is becoming increasingly precarious, writes Luke Williams. Is radio heading towards a younger, user-generated and more democratic style of broadcast?