{"id":333875,"date":"2026-03-17T11:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/333875\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T11:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T11:41:10","slug":"kyle-sandilands-says-he-hopes-arn-media-contract-will-be-honoured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/333875\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Sandilands says he hopes ARN Media contract will be honoured"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shock jock Kyle Sandilands says he expects ARN Media to honour his $100 million contract, but is considering “many options”.<\/p>\n

ARN Media took The Kyle and Jackie O Show off-air after Sandilands lashed his KIIS FM co-host Jackie “O” Henderson in an on-air tirade on February 20<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The network suspended Sandilands on March 3 and gave him two weeks to respond to misconduct and breach of contract findings, allegations which he has denied.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Kyle Sandilands says he’s considering “many options” when asked about his future with ARN outside his home in Sydney. (ABC News)<\/p>\n

With the two-week deadline expiring on Tuesday, Sandilands said outside his Sydney home that he hoped ARN would honour the remainder of his contract, which does not finish until 2034.<\/p>\n

“I still want to do the show, the listeners want me back on there doing the show,” he said.<\/p>\n

“At the end of the day I’ve got a contract with ARN, I expect for them to honour that, and I do have some options if they don’t.”<\/p>\n

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Kyle Sandilands was taken off the air after he insulted co-host Jackie “O” Henderson on their popular radio show.\u00a0 (Supplied)<\/p>\n

When asked what options he was considering and if his time with KIIS FM was over, Sandilands said he was “still waiting”.<\/p>\n

“I can’t predict anything just yet\u2026still waiting,” he said.<\/p>\n

ARN Media, which owns KIIS FM, announced in an ASX statement on March 3 that Henderson said she “cannot continue to work with Mr Kyle Sandilands” and would no longer present the program.<\/p>\n

Sandilands was suspended, with the network giving him two weeks to respond to misconduct and breach of contract findings.<\/p>\n

At the centre of their falling out was an on-air argument on February 20, in which Sandilands claimed Henderson’s fixation with horoscopes and astrology made her “almost unworkable”.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

Sandilands and Henderson have worked together for two decades. (Facebook: The Kyle and Jackie O Show)<\/p>\n

Sandilands has previously refuted claims he breached his ARN Media contract and accepted Henderson had been hurt by his comments.<\/p>\n

“I said things I wish I had said differently,” he said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“That same evening, I sent Jackie a message telling her I was sorry for anything I said that didn’t go down well, that I love her and care for her, and that I could have handled it better.”<\/p>\n

Henderson took leave from the show before it was taken off the air, with Sandilands addressing her absence while poking fun at media reports which suggested their feud had escalated.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think it’s escalated. I obviously upset her and maybe in hindsight I shouldn’t have said it on the air,” he told The Kyle and Jackie O Show last month.<\/p>\n

“We say a lot of things on the air here. It’s never meant to hurt her feelings.<\/p>\n

“Obviously it did, and I regret hurting her feelings.”<\/p>\n

Henderson rejected claims she had quit or resigned from the show, and said the incident had left her in shock.<\/p>\n

“This has come as a shock to me, as it has to everyone else,” she said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“At this stage, I am unable to say anything further, as I am addressing this through the appropriate legal avenues.”<\/p>\n

The duo had been expected to remain on air until at least 2034 as part of a $200 million contract with ARN Media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shock jock Kyle Sandilands says he expects ARN Media to honour his $100 million contract, but is considering…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[75733,430,156,179029,179028,179034,169308,169678,179032,179031,145184,179036,179033,111,139,3655,69,1734,179030,179035],"class_list":["post-333875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-arn","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-jackie-henderson","tag-jackie-o","tag-jackie-o-radio","tag-kiis-fm","tag-kyle-and-jackie-o","tag-kyle-and-jackie-o-contract","tag-kyle-and-jackie-o-fight","tag-kyle-sandilands","tag-kyle-sandilands-comments","tag-kyle-sandilands-statement","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nsw","tag-nz","tag-sydney","tag-sydney-radio","tag-what-did-kyle-say-to-jackie-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333875","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=333875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}