Yesterday
ARN may demand Kyle Sandilands repay cash from doomed $100m deal
Kyle Sandilands’ barrister said there was no need for a royal commission into the 54-year-old’s career. Kiis FM owner ARN Media may want one.
This Month
Kiis wanted me to be ‘provocative’ then sacked me: Sandilands
Documents filed with the Federal Court detail the richest contract in broadcasting, and suggest ARN Media encouraged its former star’s “abrasive” behaviour.
Jackie O’s Kiis FM ultimatum emerges as key evidence in contract brawl
ARN told Kyle Sandilands it was tearing up his $100 million contract just after midnight on Tuesday. His lawsuit could pit him against his long-time co-host.
‘I don’t accept it’: Sandilands fires back as $100m contract torn up
The veteran FM presenter will launch a blockbuster legal case against ARN Media and accused it of never wanting to find a solution to their two-week stand-off.
Kyle and Jackie O implosion opens up Sydney’s $200m radio market
The end of Kiis FM’s ratings juggernaut has placed the lucrative breakfast slot up for grabs for the first time in decades. Pity its major rivals have been axed.
Jackie O threatens ARN Media with wrongful termination lawsuit
The co-host of the controversial Kyle and Jackie O Show alleged the Kiis FM network owner misled investors by telling them she had been offered another show.
Kyle and Jackie O: Inside media’s biggest public split
Media reporter Sam Buckingham-Jones on the radio stars’ falling-out and whether ARN can use it to exit one of the worst deals in Australian media history.
Kyle Sandilands fires back at ARN: ‘I am not in breach’
The high-profile radio personality says his employer denied him due process after it accused him of serious misconduct and cut up a $200 million contract.
New ARN boss bets the house on blowing up the Kyle and Jackie O Show
Michael Stephenson has spent his entire career in sales, and ex-rivals and colleagues say he is brave. Now he’s betting the house on blowing up his biggest show.
Jackie O declares: ‘I did not quit’ radio show
In a statement on Friday Jackie Henderson said she was “deeply saddened by the events of the past week” after her radio partnership with Kyle Sandilands ended.
Jackie O killed radio star Kyle – and cancelled herself too
Like many unfortunate dating app encounters, the two-decade union between Sandilands and Henderson appears to have ended in an argument about astrology.
Kyle and Jackie O’s radio rift was about more than star power
The pair’s two-decade run atop broadcasting with the most expensive show of its kind has come to a sudden and acrimonious end. We look inside the implosion.
Kyle Sandilands accused of breaching $200m radio contract
One half of the top-rating Kyle and Jackie O Show, Jackie Henderson, has walked away from the radio program.
January
Laundys hope to turn ‘pub test’ nous into radio empire gold
The billionaire family told staff at Sydney’s 2GB and Melbourne’s 3AW that they were “long-time listeners, first time owners” after acquiring Nine Radio.
November 2025
John Laws remembered by political, cultural elite
Hundreds gathered in person – and thousands more online – to mark the radio star’s ground-breaking 70-year career.
Kyle and Jackie O’s $200m contract faces scrutiny after breaches
The regulator has demanded ARN Media hire an external expert to review KIIS FM’s governance – including its contracts with its controversial shock jocks.
Is Kyle and Jackie O’s $200m contract Australia’s worst media deal?
Since it was signed, KIIS FM’s owner has lost its CEO, CFO and embarked on a deep cost-cutting program as the government steps in. And the pain is continuing.
New Nine executive to cut 50 jobs in broadcast efficiency drive
Amanda Laing joined Nine Entertainment in January to lead its biggest division: television, Stan and radio. She is making her first big cuts.
John Laws, talkback radio giant with the ‘golden tonsils’, dead at 90
The veteran announcer started his career more than seven decades ago and went on to command enormous audiences prosecuting political and social issues.
From polio to poetry, ‘Lawsie’ ruled talkback for decades
John Laws was born in PNG, survived childhood polio, was a jackaroo, a farmer and a sometime poet before ruling Australia’s airwaves for decades.
