I see KIIS almost as a refugee camp for disposed-of talent at this point. Keep hammering those nails into that coffin, ARN..
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âDisposed of talentâ?
I donât think KIIS can afford anymore talent without culling 50 more off-air staff. Thatâs probably how theyâll afford Smallzy.
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Rebecca Morse will be filling in for Hayley Pearson on Mix 102.3âs Hayley and Max for the next 2 days
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Does Adelaide have more than 10x FM breakfast announcers to choose from?
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KIIS FMâs Kyle & Jackie O show hit by mass staff exodus
While KIIS torchbearers Kyle Sandilands and Jackie âOâ Henderson continue to enjoy the lavish rewards of their $100-million 10-year radio contracts, behind the scenes the turnover of staff on the breakfast show is contributing to the pressure cooker environment.
The staff turnover sees a younger and greener team driving Sandilands and Hendersonâs much-vaunted and ambitious dreams to expand their audience by networking their program nationally.
In the past year, the Kyle & Jackie O radio show, has shed up to a dozen key staff associated with the breakfast show radio insiders have told news.com.au.
Although the Kyle & Jackie O program is renowned for having a steady turnover of staff, (former Kyle & Jackie O EP Pedro) Vitola would pin the failure of the showâs Melbourne launch on KIIS management which, he claimed, had failed to hire enough âexperienced, innovative program producers to match the workloadâ.
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The latest one who resigned was Ella or nickname âLingusâ. She is moving to the Morning Show next year.
Hereâs what strikes me as being quite odd about this article: itâs making the claim that the K&J Show has lost up to a dozen âproduction staff,â yet it goes on to list several people and departments who arenât production staff, i.e.: CEO, Chief Content Officer, KIIS1065 Content Director, KIIS network promotions staff and ARNâs Finance, Sales Support and Tech Force teams.
To bolster its claims that this âmass exodusâ occured in the past year, the article features a photo of Kyle, Jackie and their team, with big red crosses put over the faces of those who are part of this âmass staff exodusâ in the past year. See below.
There are two issues here.
1. The image isnât from the past 12 months, itâs from the 6th of June 2023.
2. News.com.auâs version of the image crops out the showâs newsreader Brooklyn Ross. This was done, presumedly, because Brooklynâs still on the show, and thus itâs inconvenient to the articleâs narrative that a big red X canât be stamped on his face. Rather than showing the original image, news.com.au made the call to crop Brooklyn out of it and make its readers believe that this part of the image doesnât exist.
The article then makes a number of claims that a simple Google search debunks:
That the âprogramâs audio producer Thomas Martinâ departed in 2024. LinkedIn indicates that his replacement started in 2023.
That in July 2024, âKIIS promotions co-ordinator Mel Maltby left.â LinkedIn and her own WordPress site indicate that Mel was, in fact, the promotions co-ordinator for The Night Show and âThe Pick Up,â not the K&J Show.
Splitting hairs here, but yet another example of the article making claims that arenât correct. The article is referring to the past 12-months, yet goes on to state that Pedro Vitola left the EPâs role in August of 2024.
Iâve been told that the K&J Show has around 20 to 25 production staff ranging from audio, digital and imaging to tech, PR and news. I can only see 4 production staff from the K&J Show who have actually left in the past year, not quite the âup to a dozenâ mark the article claims. The average annual turnover in the Australian media industry is at around the 20% mark, so for the K&J team the average would be 4-5 staff, AKA the actual number of production staff who have left the show in the past 12 months.
Thereâs plenty of things you can rightly smash the K&J Show for, so I canât quite understand why news.com.au would fabricate this story about the show being hit by a recent âmass staff exodus.â
Sloppy journalism.
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Whaaaa? Thatâs a lot of people for a crappy radio show. Itâs not just K&J themselves that are costing ARN $$$ in salaries.
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Smallzy for new morning program in 2026
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ARN throwing away even more money there to run a radio retirement home.
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They mean KIIS right?
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Not so subtle hint this was then.
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Will it just be a music shift? Or more interactive with guest interviews, etc?
And what does this mean for Gordie? Will he be 12-3pm?
Seems like Smallzy was picked up to be groomed for Breakfast when Kyle quits or dies.
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And pigs will fly before Kyle calls it quits
ARN says not happening.
https://radiotoday.com.au/arn-sets-the-record-straight-on-smallzy/
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Probably because this has to materialize, which isnât a good look.
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But ARN has confirmed he has not been recruited for the key daytime slot on KIIS.
Interesting that itâs not a flat out denial from ARN that Smallzyâs joining KIIS, rather itâs a denial about the specific time slot. Itâs a guarantee heâll be at KIIS next year, you can bet the house on it.
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