Kyle Sandilands\u2019 barrister says \u201cif you buy Kyle, you get Kyle\u201d as the radio shock jock fights to be reinstated on air.<\/p>\n
Mr Sandilands took a dig at his former network as he entered a Sydney court on Friday, telling executives to put him back on the air so he could \u201cget the share price back up\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mr Sandilands and his former Kyle & Jackie O co-host, Jackie Henderson are suing ARN in the wake of their sacking earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Both matters will come before the Federal Court on Friday for a case management hearing.<\/p>\n
They both had their 10-year, $100m contracts torn up following an on-air argument in February during which Mr Sandilands accused his co-host of being \u201coff with the fairies\u201d and made critical comments about her interest in astrology.<\/p>\n
After Mr Sandilands\u2019 contract was terminated he sued ARN, and its subsidiary Commonwealth Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), in an attempt to be reinstated.<\/p>\n
Mr Sandilands arrived at court in a black Rolls Royce on Friday morning and was met by a massive media throng.<\/p>\n
Asked if he had a message for ARN, Mr Sandilands said outside court: \u201cPut me back on the radio, let\u2019s get the share price back up.\u201d<\/p>\n
The court was told that Mr Sandilands\u2019 side was pushing for his case to be heard as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
Justice Angus Stewart previously reserved five days, starting on June 22, for a possible hearing.<\/p>\n
The matters were heard in court on Friday to decide whether both cases should be heard together.<\/p>\n
Mr Sandilands\u2019 barrister, Scott Robertson SC, argued that they could be heard consecutively as long as it didn\u2019t delay his client\u2019s case going to trial.<\/p>\n
Mr Robertson told the court that his client was \u201chighly likely\u201d to admit to have engaged in the \u201ccore conduct\u201d that was at the centre of the case.<\/p>\n
But he would argue that it amounted to serious misconduct because of the nature of Mr Sandilands\u2019 contract.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, our short position in relation to the series misconduct question, generally, is to put it bluntly \u2013 if you buy Kyle, you get Kyle,\u201d Mr Robertson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe kind of conduct in which he engaged was conduct that was desired, contractually designed and indeed was monetised.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Sandilands has argued he often played the role of the \u201cdominant and abrasive personality\u201d on the Kyle and Jackie O Show, and that his comments to his co-host were \u201ccongruent\u201d with the \u201crobust character that CBC desired.\u201d<\/p>\n
He claims his sacking was invalid as there was no act of serious misconduct or contract breach.<\/p>\n
Court documents have revealed that in a complaint letter sent to ARN, Henderson alleged she was \u201cattacked and bullied on live prime time radio\u201d and she had been left \u201cpsychologically unwell\u201d after being \u201cdefamed and humiliated\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe simple fact is that our client has been attacked and bullied on live prime time radio,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is evidence that she has endured persistent and relentless bullying by Mr Sandilands well before the 20 February 2026 incident which despite numerous opportunities, the Group has failed to adequately address both at law and ethically.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms Henderson has meanwhile argued that she was owed $82m relating to the remainder of her contract.<\/p>\n
In court documents, Ms Henderson has claimed that she twice complained to ARN Media \u2013 KIIS FM\u2019s parent company \u2013 in the months leading up to their on-air bust-up.<\/p>\n
According to court documents, Henderson sent a \u201ccomplaint letter\u201d to KIIS\u2019s parent company saying she could not continue to work with Mr Sandilands.<\/p>\n
In its defence filed with the court, CBC, said that it entered into a contract with Henderson\u2019s company, Henderson Media, for her to present the Kyle & Jackie O Show.<\/p>\n
ARN argues that Henderson Media and Sandilands\u2019 company, Quasar, were \u201csolely responsible for controlling the manner in which it provides Program Services\u201d for the Kyle and Jackie O Show.<\/p>\n
\u201cConsequently, once any broadcast began, CBC had no ability or power to contemporaneously prevent Mr Sandilands from engaging in bullying or other unwanted conduct towards Ms Henderson,\u201d the company said in its defence filed with the Federal Court.<\/p>\n
CBC is also countersuing Mr Sandilands and Ms Henderson seeking damages for breach of contract and loss of advertising revenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Sandilands\u2019 barrister says \u201cif you buy Kyle, you get Kyle\u201d as the radio shock jock fights to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[303970,64,63,689,303976,447,21871,290681,303973,73397,303969,134,2456,70,795,257948,303974,53493,303972,673,185009,677,154791,92599,303977,147261,2293,303971,226454,670,303975],"class_list":["post-627101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-advertising-revenue","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-case-management-hearing","tag-celebrities","tag-cheeky-dig","tag-complaint-letter","tag-contract-breach","tag-court-documents","tag-court-steps","tag-entertainment","tag-facebook","tag-federal-court","tag-inc","tag-jackie-henderson","tag-kyle-ampampamp-jackie-o","tag-kyle-sandilands","tag-massive-media-throng","tag-new-south-wales","tag-newswire-court","tag-oceania","tag-parent-company","tag-rolls-royce","tag-sandiland","tag-seeking-damages","tag-share-price","tag-societe-radio-canada","tag-steve-zemek","tag-sydney","tag-time-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627101","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=627101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}