Shock jocks Kyle Sandilands & Jackie O Henderson have found themselves in hot water once again after two segments from their radio show were in breach of broadcasting standards.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) concluded that two segments played on KISS 1011 and KISS 1065 in Melbourne and Sydney, respectively, contained “sustained and vulgar graphic sexualised descriptions” that were not in line with the standards.
The investigation was sparked after a listener in Melbourne — a new territory for the radio duo — complained.
“I was sitting in my car at 6am at the time this breakfast show started,” the complaint read. “In the first ten minutes they mentioned (and these were the exact words) ‘sucking cock’ ‘licking vagina’ and ‘eating each other out’.”
ARN Media — the licensee of the show — told ACMA that “the core audience of the program is a broad-minded adult demographic” that wouldn’t be offended by the jokes.
“The style and format of the program is intended to include robust, uninhibited, real life comedic discussions, and this does include sexual references and descriptions of sexual activities,” ARN said in a statement.
However, the ACMA chair Nerida O’Loughlin disagreed, noting that the content went “beyond the bounds of decency expected by the community and was done so deliberately and provocatively.”
“Even having two program censors employed by the broadcaster in place following previous ACMA enforcement action, this has not stopped occurrences of unsuitable content going to air,” she said.
It is worth noting that the show runs in the breakfast radio timeslot from 6am til 10am on weekdays, a time during which listeners of all ages tune into the radio.
Interestingly, the two recent breaches come after the show’s broadcaster ARN Media implemented a number of preventative measures including sensitivity training and the employment of a second censor after a separate, unrelated breach in September 2021.
Other breaches throughout the show’s long and controversial history include a 2022 segment about the mpox virus that stereotyped gay men, and a 2009 incident in which Sandilands asked a 14-year-old girl about her sexual experience live on air while attached to a lie detector.
The child in question alleged she was raped at age 12, and the segment received so much backlash that the show was taken off the air for three weeks and the broadcaster at the time — 2Day FM — having a condition imposed on its broadcast license as a result.
The controversial radio duo are currently contracted with ARN until the end of 2034 as part of the longest and most expensive contract extension in Australian radio history — a deal worth a reported $200 million over 10 years.
“Love us or loathe us, Jackie and I will be continuing with our politically incorrect nonsense for a long, long time,” Sandilands said at the time of the contract renewal.
Sadly, he was correct and the politically incorrect nonsense has, in fact, continued for a long, long time.
The ACMA recently opened two new investigations into the show, confirming that 59 complaints had been made about the programme between July and November last year. In total, 45 percent of all radio decency complaints were made about the Kyle & Jackie O show last year.
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