October
Inside ARN’s Melbourne gamble on The Kyle and Jackie O Show
Kyle Sandilands and Jackie Henderson have failed to translate their success in Sydney, where they trade on celebrity access and lewd jokes, to Melbourne’s market.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
Hamish McLennan’s hammer can’t find a nail
The last 12 months for the REA and ARN chairman have rattled his dealmaking brand.
- Mark Di Stefano
April
Melbourne rivals hope Kyle and Jackie O’s sins haunt advertiser demand
Kyle Sandilands and Jackie Henderson signed a 10-year, $200 million contract late last year. Now they’re taking on Melbourne’s $220 million radio market.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
November 2023
- Exclusive
- Media & marketing
Kyle & Jackie O’s new 10-year deal nets them millions in shares
ARN will spend big promoting the controversial show in Melbourne next year – and the city’s GOLD 1043 host, Christian O’Connell, has signed for a further five years.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
October 2023
Southern Cross trades Grant Samuel for UBS amid takeover
Sources said UBS has taken the reins as pressure mounts on the SCA board to engage with ARN Media and Anchorage Capital Partners.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Kyle Sandilands’ personal firm quietly advised Labor on its ad spend
The top-rating Sydney FM radio host’s personal business, King Kyle Group, was hired by the NSW party.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
‘There is no line’: how Kyle Sandilands thrives in the cancel culture era
The radio host on his record-breaking contract, expanding business empire and what the PM did at his wedding.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
ARN, Anchorage to table ACMA solution with Southern Cross bid
Street Talk understands the duo have baked in a pre-pack Australian Communications and Media Authority solution into their control bid.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Kyle and Jackie O to take on Melbourne in new $200m KIIS FM contract
Kyle Sandilands and Jackie Henderson are two of the country’s most powerful broadcasters. Their platform will soon get bigger.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
July 2023
‘Sports rights for radio’: Kyle & Jackie O open to offers from rivals
With their contract ending at the end of 2024, rivals are eyeing whether they can lure Australia’s top-rating radio hosts away from ARN’s KIIS FM.
- Sam Buckingham-Jones
May 2023
ARN chiefs not at King Kyle’s wedding
Guess the radio network’s golden goose is way past managing up.
- Myriam Robin
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Anthony Albanese, the ill-advised wedding guest
There is something beneath the dignity of his office about Mr Albanese’s ill-advised attendance at such a gathering.
- The AFR View
April 2023
Albanese will attend Kyle Sandilands’ wedding, along with ex-crim
The Prime Minister has been criticised for sticking by his decision to attend the wedding of radio shock jock Kyle Sandilands, after previously promising to DJ at the event.
- Georgie Moore
June 2022
Child genius turned trader makes $10.7m debut on prestige market
At 13, Ebon Bokody became the youngest person to pass the advanced maths exam for the HSC. Now, Exponential Trading’s founder has bought in Sydney’s Greenwich.
- Lucy Macken
August 2021
Celebrity lockdown escapees getting on with life in Queensland
Former Geelong Mayor Darryn Lyons, broadcaster Kyle Sandilands and musician Paul Kelly are just some of the people avoiding lockdowns to keep the show on the road.
- Patrick Durkin
November 2019
Vitamin king and radio star on board for H2's push into California
Health drinks maker H2, backed by Toby Browne and Kyle Sandilands, wants to raise $5 million to take its "pink" coconut water to the US.
- Simon Evans