KIIS Network

[Tejas57]

@Brianc68

Must admit I don’t think I’ve ever watched more than snippets of Karl, but is he even the right demographic anymore for a station like KIIS? Would have thought he was already too old. I know Kyle is older but he had the legacy audience in Sydney. Wouldn’t they want younger for KIIS now, even if they were looking for personality talk?

karl is pretty right wing. when I heard his podcast I thought he was angling for a job on sky after dark. but who knows

[thesub1]

Ok ok… KIIS is becoming a laugh with these theories.

They cannot afford Karl. He won’t be coming across.

And am I reading that they’re thinking of the high-rating former 2DayFM breakfast co-host Erin Molan to join the team? (sarcasm here)

Please. It’ll be Mike E holding the fort until/if/when Kyle’s matter is sorted, or he (or Jackie) returns.

If ARN have enough cash to pay for Karl, they’d have enough cash to lure better radio talent across, or settle it with Kyle.

[Brianc68]

@Rob_Melb_AU

@Brianc68

They don’t even have a proper national FM network. With 97.3 and 102.3 aligned with KIIS and 96fm with Gold. So which one is going to be talk? Assume it’s KIIS, but who would really know. The whole strategy is a complete shambles.

Here’s my armchair expert thoughts as strategy:

• Gold becomes the main network. 97.3 Brisbane and 102.3 Adelaide are transferred into the Gold Network. Gold is primarily networked content.

• This leaves KIIS Melbourne and Sydney. I would run these as primarily local stations, as these cities are large enough to fund localism. I would ditch the KIIS name in Melbourne, for something like NRG/Energy or if you really wanted to emphasise that it is clearly local like 3MLB (and no I would not resurrect TTfm - too long gone), For Sydney, I would probably leave the name. Appreciating that there would be a need for agency sales across NRG/KIIS, a degree of positioning similarity would be required - and I would mimic that music format cross over with Triple J that Nova originally went for.

• Cruise Adelaide I would tweak the logo and pipe it nationally on DAB. Keep it a low cost older classic hits operation.

• CADA - relaunch as a pilot of TalkFM, then pipe it through DAB. I am not convinced there is a market, but it is worth trying. Consider moving Jonesy & Amanda from Gold drive to TalkFM breakfast. I wouldn’t however blow up KIIS to do so - downside risk too high.

That provides one national network (Gold), one younger focussed local brand (NRG/KIIS) and two niche options (Cruise and TalkFM). If TalkFM skyrockets, you could then flip it to NRG/KIIS.

Anyway, just thoughts, which are hopefully more coherent than what we have seen to date from ARN!

I think these are great ideas.

I think it’s obvious they should put Gold national on FM and have a younger format on 106.5 and 101.1, whatever they call them.

I think it’s a pity they’ve just rebranded Adelaide to KIIS. If they’d held off a couple of months that would it have made it easier to launch Gold 102.3

I don’t think it’s a problem in Brisbane, the KIIS brand has been around a while but nobody calls the station that anyway, it’s still just “97 three” to everyone. Gold 97.3 would be an easy rebrand, or just revert back to 97.3FM with Gold imagery. People would love it.

I’ve also always said they should roll out Cruise on DAB nationally as an older classic hits station.

96.1 would be a perfect toe in the water for FM talk.

All extremely sensible ideas that will surely be completely overlooked by the geniuses at ARN.

[thesub1]

Another bold idea is not only re-brand KIIS Brisbane & Adelaide to GOLD, but then re-brand KIIS1011 to CADA1011 (or EDGE1011) with a similar hip-hop/RnB format.

Then, that only leaves Sydney as the sore point of the network.

[Roman_Paolo_De_Manza]

If anyone looking for that 20 Aug KJ show where Jackie walked out and back few mins later. Its on the KJ podcast on spotify.

[Parex11]

How much lower can it go? Ouch

https://mumbrella.com.au/arn-medias-price-plunge-extends-into-second-day-919876

[Blake]

I was looking up the court documents and Kyle’s case is set for 22 to 26 June 2026

https://www.comcourts.gov.au/file/Federal/P/NSD442/2026/4051088/event/32791814/document/2734843

Nothing yet under Jackie’s case file CCP

[fireit]

The Age / SMH is reporting that Karl is heading to Gold and not KIIS as discussed above.

[TheGreatOne2]

I wonder if Karl is going to replace COC in the breakfast slot then

[Nathan_Kiamco]

And reunite with Alex Cullen

[r-h]

@TheGreatOne2

I wonder if Karl is going to replace COC in the breakfast slot then

There was an article today about it only being a weekly show.

[platinum]

@Brianc68

96.1 would be a perfect toe in the water for FM talk.

It would be a pretty jarring format change on a station where it mainly rotates Dance & RnB to then pivot towards Talkback, not sure where they would acquire audience from or track audience considering 96.1 isn’t included in survey.

[r-h]

Ben Fordham has little interest in becoming the new Kyle Sandilands as ARN scrambles to find a worthy replacement.

Fordham’s name has been thrown around alongside Karl Stefanovic to replace the shock jock in the highly-regarded breakfast slot, but the 2GB man is not tempted to jump ship.

“I highly doubt it,” he told news.com.au.

[Blake]

Kyle Sandilands reconsiders buying ARN as radio network’s value drops

ARN’s value has plummeted so rapidly after axing both Kyle and Jackie O - that even Kyle is wondering if the network is now a bad investment.

The source said Kyle was torn about whether to buy the broadcaster at the moment because of the plummeting share prices.

“He is concerned about the finances and management…it is not really a great company for him,” the source said.

The source explained that the broadcaster is a “ticking time bomb” due to the amount of debt they have.

The source added that if Kyle did take over ARN, that might be “good news” for investors, because at the very least, there would be a flagship show again.

[craigj77]

Forgive my ignorance on matters financial, but wouldn’t a potential buyer want the share price as low as possible? Swoop in and buy it at a bargain basement price and then get to work turning it around and driving the share price up?

[Blake]

If he buys it he might have to pay out Jackie’s contract

[TheGreatOne2]

If ARN is in debt where is ARN going to get the $80 million to pay Jackie and another $80 million to pay Kylie then?

[News727]

Very unusual action today for the stock.

There wasn’t any news about the company whatsoever.

Yet 7 million shares changed hands (most since Dec 3) and the stock hit 22.5 cents at day’s high, a spike of 25%.

But well, a small gain is better for ARN than a heavy loss.

[JBar]

@News727

Very unusual action today for the stock.

Kyle Sandilands bought a lot of shares.

[Blake]

Buy the dip, as they say.