Sandilands continued: \u201cThen we, being good staff members here at KIIS, ran straight to our boss. \u2018Oh boss. They\u2019ve offered us 10 years and $100 million to go back. And that\u2019d be like rooting an ex-girlfriend and we\u2019d rather stay here rooting you guys, but you\u2019re gonna have to pay. Them the rules\u2019. And then they didn\u2019t like it and had to pay anyway.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo are we worth it? No. Was it the perfect storm? Yeah. And that\u2019s how it is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Henderson seemed unimpressed with Sandilands\u2019 blunt appraisal, sarcastically adding \u201cgood share\u201d and \u201clove sharing all those intimate details \u2013 it\u2019s really nice that you can do that\u201d.<\/p>\n
Sandilands then continued to lay the boot into their network, and the media outlets who have opined the duo weren\u2019t worth the money.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ll read some articles like saying [parent company] \u2018ARN\u2019s made a terrible decision\u2019. No, no, no. They had no choice to make that decision or we would\u2019ve gone back to the other network. [At this point, Henderson interjects with \u2018Guy Sebastian is coming up next\u2019] It would be at the AMs, if it wasn\u2019t the AMs, we\u2019d be off doing our own podcast.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kyle and Jackie O each earn more than 16 Prime Ministers, based on Albanese\u2019s pay<\/p>\n In July 2023<\/a>, it was reported that Sandilands and Henderson were mulling over a move back to their previous station 2DayFM, owned by Southern Cross Austereo, when the pair\u2019s previous ten-year contract, which saw them each earn $5 million a year, expired at the end of 2024.<\/p>\n It was widely reported at the time that SCA were \u201cpretty aggressive\u201d in their pursuit of the duo. By September 2023<\/a>, it was the industry\u2019s worst-kept secret that Sandilands and Henderson were close to re-signing to ARN with a ten-year, $200 million contract that would effectively double their yearly salaries. By November 2023, the pair had signed on for that amount.<\/a><\/p>\n At this point, Sandilands had been complaining on-air about being undervalued by the ARN network for years. In 2021, he complained: \u201cWe make them hundreds of millions of dollars and they barely even recognise our existence, after first warning that \u201cone day, we\u2019re just going to not be there.\u201d<\/p>\n In 2013, when the pair jumped shipped from 2DayFM to the newly-launched KIIS station in Sydney, they proved they were capable of bringing their large audience across to an untested network \u2014 which would have no doubt been in the minds of ARN executives ten years later, as they signed the pair to the historic deal.<\/p>\n They had held the number one FM show in the Sydney breakfast timeslot since 2005 for 2DayFM, then immediately tied at #1 (with WSFM) in the pair\u2019s first survey for 2014, watching their old slot at 2DayFM slip from first to fourth.<\/p>\n The Kyle and Jackie O Show moved KIIS 1065\u2019s breakfast ratings from a 3.3% to a 9.3%, while 2Day dropped from 10.4% to 3.8%. The pair have held the top FM slot in Sydney breakfast ever since.<\/p>\n As Sandilands said, it was the perfect storm.<\/p>\n \u201cMaybe Guy\u2019s got detailed questions about the contract negotiation,\u201d he joked, as Henderson cut to a Guy Sebastian song.<\/p>\n After the break, Sebastian failed to ask the pair any probing contractual questions, opting instead to promote his new single.<\/p>\n \t\t\tSUBSCRIBE<\/p>\n \t\t\tSign up to our free daily update to get the latest in media and marketing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Sandilands has admitted that he and Jackie \u2018O\u2019 Henderson aren\u2019t worth the ten-year, $200 million contract they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[168390,33024,64,63,447,134,72254,53493,15079],"class_list":{"0":"post-293116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-2dayfm","9":"tag-arn","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-celebrities","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-kiis","15":"tag-kyle-sandilands","16":"tag-sca"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/mumbrella.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/5a73732d-865d-4e50-9749-ad465ffc7f71_470-e1761702599466.jpeg?w=568&h=320&crop=1\")
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