Kyle Sandilands’ former boss Craig Bruce has shared a telling interesting observation after the shock jock’s shock axing from ARN.
Speaking on his Game Changers Radio podcast, Bruce shared why he thinks listeners are hearing so many ads at the moment on the KIIS airwaves now The Kyle and Jackie O Show has been pulled.
”From what I understand, the amount of ads that are running on 1065 in Sydney since Kyle and Jac have been off the air have increased by threefold,” he claimed.
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“They are probably ‘make goods’, when I say make good [I mean] a client they haven’t been able to put into the show now can go back into the show as Kyle isn’t there any more.
“It’s a revenue issue … All media, radio, TV, YouTube, Facebook, all of it is the acquisition and monestisation of attention, that’s all it is.
“Kyle is brilliant at acquisition. There’s no one better, he has an audience … and they’re upset. But it’s a friendship you’ve had with this guy and his amazing partner Jackie Henderson for a long time.”
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Sandilands released a statement on Wednesday confirming his termination from ARN.
“ARN has just announced that they’ve terminated my contract. I don’t accept it. My lawyers told them last week this would be invalid. And guess what? It is,” he claimed.
“Let me tell you what actually happened here. Jackie and I had a blue on air. That’s it. The kind of thing we’ve done a hundred times in 25 years. And ARN took the situation and decided to try and burn the place down.”
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“They sacked Jackie. They suspended me. They wouldn’t even let me pick up the phone to call her or anyone else on the show.
“Then – and this is the bit that gets me – once they’d made it impossible for the show to go on, they turn around and say, ‘You didn’t fix it. You’re fired!’
“They didn’t want to fix this. They thought they saw a chance to get out of the contract they signed with me a year ago, and they ran with it.”
Sandilands said he’s leaving things in the hands of his lawyers.
“I’ve got a contract until 2034. I’ve got rights under that contract. And ARN hasn’t honoured the contract. So, it’s over to my lawyers.”
ARN issued a statement to the ASX.
Sandilands was stood down following an on-air clash with Henderson, after she read from Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s astrology birth chart.
Previously, Henderson, 51, broke her silence in a statement claiming she “did not quit or resign” from The Kyle and Jackie O Show, after their show was pulled from the KIIS FM airwaves.
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Henderson said in her recent statement: “I want to make one important point very clear: I did not quit or resign…
“I am deeply saddened by the events of the past week and the possibility of the show ending. This has come as a shock to me, as it has to everyone else.
“It has been truly heartbreaking to see how this has unfolded. At this stage, I am unable to say anything further, as I am addressing this through the appropriate legal channels.”
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