‘They didn’t like it and had to pay anyway’: Sandilands details ARN contract negotiations
"I earn more than the prime minister, a brain surgeon, a CEO" - Sandilands and Henderson (pictured at ARN's 2026 upfront) spilled the beans on their big payday
Kyle Sandilands has admitted that he and Jackie ‘O’ Henderson aren’t worth the ten-year, $200 million contract they are currently on at ARN, but says the network had no choice but to pay them.
On the Kyle and Jackie O Show on Tuesday morning, the pair segued out of a ‘super kid challenge’ where a smart child is pitted against an adult in a quiz. After telling the contestant to “keep educating herself” and that “only the very best” educated people earn top money, he quickly admitted to Henderson this wasn’t true, “cos you and I weren’t that smart”.
After conceding it’s “not great” to tell children you can earn big money without being educated, Henderson noted, “for those kids who struggle in school, it’s good for them to know.”
What a knob
Simply vile. ARN’s (so-called) talent openly disrespecting the hand that feeds them… It was bad enough reading this article, let alone having to listen to their foul content. How this behaviour continues is beyond me & quite depressing for the industry as a whole.
What a glowing endorsement of ARN management – Again.
ARN should have let SCA pick them up and instead spent $100m over ten years on good, local, cap city teams – adhering to their once spruiked ‘Live & Local’ mantra.
ARN would have lost the ‘top spot’ in Sydney (Likely still remaining profitable there) and not had to deal with the KIIS National networking debacle everywhere else.
Vision is 20/20 in hindsight..