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KIIS breakfast goes backwards in Sydney, gains in Melbourne amid Kyle & Jackie O blow-up

The Sydney Morning Herald·Calum Jaspan·about 1 month ago
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Updated April 23, 2026 — 10:20am , first published April 23, 2026 — 9:32am The breakfast show on KIIS FM enjoyed a minor ratings bump in Melbourne after The Kyle & Jackie O Show’ s disintegration, while dropping share in Kyle Sandilands and Jackie ‘O’ Henderson’s home market of Sydney. The second ratings survey of the year, released on Thursday morning, captured a period spanning February 8 to April 4, meaning the majority of it fell after the pair’s final show in mid-February and Sandilands’ suspension on March 3. Kyle and Jackie O won lucrative contracts on the hope that their show could become a national success, which did not work. Sandilands and Henderson received $100 million, 10-year contracts each in 2023 on the hopes that their show would become a national success, beginning in Melbourne. But it struggled in the southern city, where the pair’s coarse, sexualised content turned off listeners.…

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