ARN employing entire team to police Kyle and Jackie O
Kyle Sandilands and Jackie Henderson at the 2025 ARN upfront event
ARN has begun hiring a team of censors to make sure the Kyle and Jackie O show doesn’t break the no-sex content rule imposed on it as a licence condition.
Earlier this month, regulator ACMA gave notice it intends to impose an additional condition on ARN’s station licenses for KIIS 1065 in Sydney and KIIS 1011 in Melbourne, which will ban the Kyle and Jackie O Show from referencing sexual activity or sexual descriptions.
The ACMA filing defines sexual references as any “spoken words, innuendo and/or sound effects that would be understood by the ordinary reasonable listener as having a sexual meaning.”
The ‘investment’ that just keeps on giving.. 🙄
I’m sure ARNs investors are over the moon with how this is playing out.
What a vile show.
To think these two 50 year olds need a team of censors.
Disgusing.
So K&J are losing audience and revenue, still taking their over-the-top salaries and are now adding to their costs with a censor squad to enforce basic broadcast standards. At what point does ARN concede this is a dud deal made in haste to keep K& J jumping ship without any real thought about the financial implications?