You have to be the town square for your community: Spencer Howson CBAA Conference 2024

20 October 2024 Have you had your life flash before your eyes? Heading to Coolangatta airport after the CBAA Conference 2024, with my niece Elizabeth driving, a teenage boy...

Kyle Sandilands: Enjoying the joust

20 September 2024 One of the most polarising characters in the UK is Jeremy Clarkson. He has been cancelled (more than once), voted sexiest man and in recent...

Why isn’t radio talent saying goodbye on air to their listeners?

11 August 2024 If you don’t work in radio, or live in Melbourne, on November 22 last year KIIS 1065 Sydney breakfast hosts Kyle Sandilands and Jackie Henderson...

ACRA finalists for 2024 have been announced

25 July 2024 The finalists for the 35th Australian Commercial Radio & Audio (ACRA) Awards have been revealed, with the winners announced this year at The Star in...

Vale Ron E Sparks

13 July 2024 Ron E Sparks, the legendary TV and radio voiceover artist and broadcaster has died aged 72. Sparks first made a name for himself in the...

Kyle and Jackie O ask Melbourne to make up their own minds

1 May 2024 Less that 48 hours after radio and TV presenter Steve Price launched into Kyle Sandilands on Network Ten's The Project, KIIS 101.1 have turned the negativity...

Kyle and Jackie O launch on Melbourne radio

29 April 2024 Kyle and Jackie O launched on Melbourne's KIIS 101.1 this morning after a long build up and much hype. It was business as...

Jackie O gifts Kyle more bang for a bus

19 April 2024 With the Melbourne KIIS 101.1 launch date just over a week away, KIIS 106.5's Jackie O has gifted Kyle Sandilands their very own tour bus...

Australian Talent Index releases top broadcast personalities for 2024

21 March 2024 Hamish Blake and Andy Lee are the two radio hosts in this year’s top ten most popular broadcast personalities list, according to the Australian Talent...

What’s Kyle’s pay have to do with the price of tea in China – or the fees paid to record companies?

11 March 2024 Comment from Peter Saxon - In her keynote address at BIGSOUND 2023 last September, as reported in The Music, the CEO of the Australian Recording Industry...

Jackie O: Worth radio’s investment

7 March 2024 When Wendy Harmer left 2Day FM twenty years ago she was the highest paid woman in radio, apparently earning more than $2 million a year....

Half a million donation to KIIS 106.5’s listeners in need

5 March 2024 On KIIS 106.5's Kyle & Jackie O breakfast program this morning John and Joanne Navarra visited announcing that they will personally donate $500,000 to listeners...

ARN celebrates 10 years of KIIS

15 January 2024 At 5:54am on the 20th of January 2014, Kyle Sandilands and Jackie ‘O’ Henderson launched KIIS 1065 in Sydney. To celebrate the 10th anniversary ARN...

Kyle and Jackie O and Christian O’Connell extend contracts with ARN

22 November 2023 ARN have renewed Christian O’Connell’s contract for an additional five years and Kyle Sandilands and Jackie Henderson have inked their deal with the network until...

Kyle Sandlands donates $20K to fund a neonatal incubator

17 October 2023 Kyle Sandilands couldn’t make the weekend’s ACRAs where he and KIIS1065 won a swag of awards. He did happen to catch Paul Murray on Sky...

Radio salaries – how much is too much and how much isn’t a living wage?

18 September 2023 Speculation is again mounting that there is some sort of bidding war going on between the Australian Radio Network (ARN) and Southern Cross Austereo (SCA)...

ACMA investigation finds Kyle and Jackie O have broken decency rules

10 August 2023 An Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) investigation has found comments made during a segment on the Kyle & Jackie O program has breached decency rules...

Exclusive: Now married with child, Kyle mellows – just a bit

2 May 2023 Dave Charles chats with Kyle Sandilands With your success and notoriety in radio and tv, have you achieved all of your personal goals in the...

The new CRA is not just a pretty logo

31 October 2022 Comment from Peter Saxon. The newly appointed CEO of CRA, Ford Ennals, has wasted no time putting his own stamp on commercial radio’s peak body...

I want to be real and to bring real people on air: Kyle Sandilands #AudioUnlimited conference

28 October 2022 What was it about radio that connected you with it? Kate Langbroek asked Kyle Sandilands at today's Audio Unlimited conference. "My first contact with radio...

Advertisers and broadcasters get together at #AudioUnlimited Conference

28 October 2022 Advertising agencies and clients reunited in person with radio leaders and personalities in the first CRA conference for three years. The post covid event in...

Hey Kyle, while you’re busy calling out “losers,” take a moment to look in a mirror

4 October 2022 Comment from Peter Saxon. Kyle Sandilands is, in my opinion, the most gifted radio presenter on or off the air in Australia today.

AGE is the new radio reality

14 July 2022 Comment by Dave Charles, President of Media RESULTS Inc. There are many experienced executives and exceptional radio professionals on the sidelines because the young newcomers...

Kyle Sandilands named as Australia’s most controversial broadcaster

15 November 2021 Kyle Sandilands heads the list of the most controversial broadcasters according to The Australian Talent Index. The survey was commissioned by media and marketing agency...

Kyle slags off 2Day FM’s new breakfast show

19 February 2021 As the first ratings survey of the year underway, Kyle Sandilands has wasted no time before getting stuck into his new rivals on 2Day FM,...

Kyle wins UnAustralian of the Year Award

24 January 2021 For this Australia Day, the SMH released The Private Sydney Australia Day Dishonours list. Atop the D list is KIIS 106.5 fm's Kyle Sandilands for Services...

Liam Stapleton takes up the Dreams Challenge

18 October 2020 The Dreams Challenge was born, after US skateboarer Nathan Apodaca uploaded a video of himself skateboarding to Dreams by Fleetwood Mac, while drinking cranberry juice. As...

Ben, Rob & Robbo celebrate 100 episodes

7 October 2020 They said they would never make it, but considering they’re on the internet and no-one can stop them, it’s probably not that surprising The Ben,...

My friends aren’t the sort you ask R U OK: Kyle Sandilands

4 June 2020 This week on the Ben Rob and Robbo show, Kyle Sandilands crashed a regular spot with his manager Bruno Bouchet and stayed for the whole...

I’m hard to get on with, I just want want want: Kyle Sandilands on 60 Minutes

24 May 2020 “They warn you in breakfast radio that 5 years is the maximum… the fact that we’ve made it to 20 is unbelievable,” Jackie Henderson told...