Reports this week that troubled radio stars Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O had lost 20% of their audience were way off the mark. Is Vile Kyle just trying to get himself fired?
Kyle Sandilands
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?
Riled by Kyle: fatties fight back
So Kyle Sandilands is overweight people and concentration camps. And Susie O’Brien is bagging larger models as bad role models. Folks, we’ve heard it all before, says fatty Bri King.
Andrew Bolt: what I’ve learned in 50 years
Warning: this isn’t your typical Bolt diatribe. Andrew Bolt reflects on 50 years of life, conceding that there are many things he knows nothing about and that love and family mark as deeper than we’d like to admit.
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.
Wankley Awards: And the Wankley goes to … ACA and The Hun
It’s an embarrassment of riches down here at the Department of Wankley Deliberation this morning.
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.
Invasion of privacy is not okay — even if it’s Kyle Sandilands’
Kyle Sandilands may have been one of the most repulsively cruel broadcasters in recent memory, but that doesn’t justify News Ltd tracking down and publishing the private financial arrangements between him and his banks, says Jeremy Sear
The Media Monitors' Top 20: Costello keeps himself in the news
Peter Costello and Anna Bligh are among the most talked about politicians this week, with Anna Bligh up to third spot, thanks to her anti-corruption reforms this week.
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.
Godwin Grech at the Jim Hacker Memorial Hospital
The true truth about the email, the lie detector and Mrs Slocum’s pussy!
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.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Sandilands stunt and satire leave a bad taste
Crikey readers hated Kyle Sandiland’s radio stunt — but they may have hated Ben Pobjie’s satirical article on it more. Plus: Queensland politics goes to the dogs, know your Procol Harum trivia, and more.
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.
Leave Kyle and Jackie alone!
Why the relentlessly vicious attacks on poor Kyle Sandilands? wonders Ben Pobje. After all, he was only protecting freedom of speech, children and entertainment.
ALSO: This week’s Wankley goes to … do we even need write it?
