Kyle, Jackie O and the battle for commercial radio’s soul

August 13th, 2009 § 3 comments § permalink

The return of Kyle and Jackie O’s morning show on 2DayFM, to me, embodies everything that’s wrong with commercial radio.

Like many around the country (if the thousands of comments on news sites are any indication), I was shocked and appalled by the incident that left a 14 year old girl and her mother victims of what amounts to nothing more than commercial exploitation at the hands of a no-talent hack like Kyle Sandilands. I applauded Ten’s decision to dump him as a judge on Australian Idol, but was skeptical about Austereo’s suspension of the Kyle and Jackie O show, “pending review,” they said.

My suspicion, as it turned out, was justified.

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