Broadcaster ARN Media has issued a notice of termination of contract to Kyle Sandilands and his company Quasar Media Services.
“As a result, the Kyle and Jackie O show will no longer be presented,” the company said in a notice to the ASX.
This decision follows written notice stating that Sandilands’ behaviour constitutes “serious misconduct” and a breach of the services agreement.
From March 3, Sandilands was given 14 days to remedy the breach.
Jacqueline Henderson, the other half of the show, had given notice that she “cannot continue to work with Mr Kyle Sandilands”.
ARN has terminated the services agreement with Henderson Media, under which Henderson presents the Kyle and Jackie O show.
However, the company has offered her the possibility of an alternative show on the ARN network.
Sandilands insists he is not in breach of contract.
“ARN has just announced that they’ve terminated my contract,’’ he said.
“I don’t accept it. My lawyers told them last week this would be invalid. And guess what? It is.
“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.
“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'.”
The Australian Communications and Media Authority has imposed additional licence conditions on ARN Media following breaches of the decency provision of the Commercial Radio Code of Practice nine times in 2025 over the Kyle and Jackie O Show.
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