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Just read that entire article. Something interesting here.
And of course, the final point there about a competition where they got female staff to record themselves urinating, and then the boys had to figure out whose bits were contributing to that urine.
That’s a fair bit of yuck content there on the show! They haven’t turned down the sex content at all from what I’ve read! Looks like The Kyle & Jackie O Show has turned into a porno show…
How can this crap be allowed on the FM airwaves? Thank goodness for The Fox and Nova, who don’t carry this sort of yuck content! That explains it all…
Apparently the Greens senator challenged the ACMA boss to read transcripts of the K&J show in parliament but she refused! Finally the Greens do something I’m onboard with! Hanson-Young grilled her on why the ACMA haven’t taken action.
Pedro himself though has mentioned multiple times in his podcast that he chose to step down himself. An episode released today mentions exactly what happened for him to make this decision and publicly slammed ARN bosses in his podcast.
This highlights a loooong held failure of media policy - moving to the self-regulation model has made it hard for ACMA to interject without following due process.
That’s actually a point made by Hanson-Young at the Senate estimates. The ACMA chair refused to read out a transcript of the show saying she didn’t think it was suitable parliamentary content! Hanson-Young fired back and said “Do you think it’s suitable content for public broadcast at 6 - 10AM?”.