{"id":232175,"date":"2026-01-14T05:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T05:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/232175\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T05:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T05:32:12","slug":"ben-and-liam-unlikely-to-start-kiis-adelaide-breakfast-show-until-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/232175\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben and Liam unlikely to start KIIS Adelaide breakfast show until April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                <a href=\"https:\/\/radiotoday.com.au\/category\/whats-new\/\" class=\"tag color-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What&#8217;s New<\/a> January 14, 2026                                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                                    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Ben-and-Liam-1-e1768341554645.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Nova has enforced a non-compete clause in Ben and Liam\u2018s contract that prevents them from going to air on the KIIS Adelaide breakfast show until after the exclusion period, believed to expire in April.<\/p>\n<p>Ben and Liam, along with co-host Belle, were told by Nova last year that their contracts to present Late Drive on the Nova network would not be renewed for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>It was thought they would remain on air until the end of the 2025 radio year in December, but they were ditched early from the show in October after Nova heard they might be snapped up by a rival network when news of the non-renewal became known.<\/p>\n<p>Despite being ditched by Nova, Radio Today understands that their contract\u2019s restraint clause, believed to be for 6 months from the contract end date, remains valid and that Nova has enforced it.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New January 14, 2026 Nova has enforced a non-compete clause in Ben and Liam\u2018s contract that prevents&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[137817,137818,156,102009,157,111,139,40727,69],"class_list":["post-232175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ben-and-liam","tag-ben-liam-and-belle","tag-entertainment","tag-kiis","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nova","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}