Countdown to a showdown: Sandilands and ARN on the clock
Sandilands and Henderson at the ARN upfront in 2025 (Mumbrella)
The dispute between Kyle Sandilands, Jackie Henderson, and ARN is shaping up to be Australia’s second biggest media-legal battle of all time.
The largest remains the C7 pay TV litigation unsuccessfully pursued by Kerry Stokes in which he tried to sue News Ltd, the AFL, the NRL, Channel Ten and Austar for $480m. And that was 20 years ago, when half a billion dollars was a lot of money. This time round a mere $200m is at stake.
We are early in the timeline for the case. It’s worth setting out the key dates.
January 2014: Sandilands and Henderson switch from Southern Cross Austereo’s 2Day FM to launch ARN’s Kiis FM in a coup engineered by CEO Ciaran Davis. It kicks off a decade of dominance of the Sydney FM radio market.
