{"id":1235,"date":"2025-03-28T00:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T00:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radioindustrynews.com.au\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2025-03-28T00:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T00:30:10","slug":"kyle-jackie-o-show-breaches-decency-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/kyle-jackie-o-show-breaches-decency-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle & Jackie O Show breaches decency standards"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has found comments made during broadcasts of the Kyle & Jackie O Show<\/em> breached decency rules under the\u00a0Commercial Radio Code of Practice<\/a> (the Code).<\/p>\n

Following a listener complaint relating to a 7 June 2024 broadcast of the program, the ACMA opened investigations into\u00a0Commonwealth Broadcasting Corporation Pty Ltd (KIIS 1065) and Double T Radio Pty Ltd (KIIS 1011), the licensees that air the program in Sydney and Melbourne respectively.<\/p>\n

The investigations<\/a> found that the two segments referred to in the complaint included explicit sexual content and content that included sustained and vulgar graphic sexualised descriptions.<\/p>\n

ACMA Chair Nerida O\u2019Loughlin said the segments would be considered offensive to any reasonable person listening to the broadcast and were not in line with broader community standards.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis content went beyond the bounds of decency expected by the community and was done so deliberately and provocatively,\u201d Ms O\u2019Loughlin said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven having two program censors employed by the broadcaster in place following previous ACMA enforcement action, this has not stopped occurrences of unsuitable content going to air,\u201d Ms O\u2019Loughlin said.<\/p>\n

Double T Radio has also been found to have breached the Code for not responding to a listener complaint within 30 days of receipt.<\/p>\n

\u201cComplaints are an essential part of Australia\u2019s co-regulatory broadcasting system as they provide a reliable avenue for the public to put their concerns directly to the broadcaster,\u201d Ms O\u2019Loughlin said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFailing to respond to complaints in the required timeframe undermines the effectiveness of the co-regulatory system.\u201d<\/p>\n

On 7 February 2025 the ACMA opened two further investigations<\/a> into concerns around a range of content brought to the ACMA\u2019s attention\u00a0into the program\u2019s compliance with the\u00a0Code. These\u00a0investigations\u00a0will consider possible systemic issues in relation to the decency and complaint handling provisions.<\/p>\n

The ACMA will consider enforcement action for breaches found in the 7 June<\/span> broadcast once those additional investigations are finalised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has found comments made during broadcasts of the Kyle & Jackie O Show breached decency rules under the\u00a0Commercial Radio Code of Practice (the Code). Following a listener complaint relating to a 7 June 2024 broadcast of the program, the ACMA opened investigations into\u00a0Commonwealth Broadcasting Corporation Pty Ltd (KIIS … Continue reading “Kyle & Jackie O Show breaches decency standards”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioindustrynews.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}