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Kyle's contract and the crew he took along for the ride

Glenn Dyer writes:

Sydney's Daily Telegraph continues its holier than thou campaign against Kyle Sandilands and his sidekick, Jackie O without a shred of embarrassment.

The Tele, after all - with its Confidential gossip pages and salacious website content - has long been a willing fan, reporter and exploiter of the Kyle and Jackie style of shock jocking.

For News Ltd, tapping into the Kyle and Jackie audience gave access to the single largest media audience in Sydney: the 500,000-plus people who listened to the 2DayFM program Monday to Friday (565,000 in ratings survey four for this year). Each day well over 100,000 people listen to them, making them third behind Alan Jones on 2GB and Adam Spencer on ABC 702, but their cumulative audience is much, much bigger.

Those half million listeners would mostly not be Telegraph readers, nor would they be readers of any other paper. Some would read gossip mags or women's magazines, but mostly they would listen to Kyle and Jackie, watch Channel Ten, especially Idol if Kyle was judging. However they didn't support the pair when they hosted Big Brother in its death throes last year.

For advertisers the huge 2DayFM audience was a rolled-gold opportunity to market into the hard to reach demographics of young men and women in Sydney from around 15 up to 30. That's why Optus became a sponsor, why American Express one as well, Qantas and the Ten Network.

It also explains the clout Sandilands had in his contract negotiations. According to one Sydney radio insider, the Austereo management agreed to Kyle's demand that he be able to broadcast from any remote location - which explains why the offending lie detector test saw Sandilands on-air from New Zealand. He contract also stipulated that he work without a "dump" or "kill" button, and with no seven-second delay.

It is understood that a belated demand from 2DayFM management that the program work in delay was behind Kyle's "inability' to work his shift this week. Austereo in effect asked Kyle to breach the terms of his contract.

And there are suggestions that his contract calls for him to be paid according to ratings success, with a top payment of $100,000 per survey (there are eight surveys a year). If that's the situation, Kyle and Jackie would have had a financial inducement to ramp up promotions and stunts to attract and hold more viewers.

Someone, way back when, created a monster, and a lot of people were happy enough to tag along for the ride.

of success and syndicated sadism...

For those who missed it, here the Media Watch segment on the Kyle and Jackie O...

publicising vice...

Saudi Arabia has closed the Jeddah office of a Lebanon-based television network after it aired an interview with a Saudi man speaking about his sexual escapades, a government spokesman said on Sunday.

Mazen Abdul-Jawad, 32, was arrested last month in the Red Sea city of Jeddah after shocking Saudi Arabia, one of the most conservative countries in the world, by recounting details of his sexual exploits on Lebanese channel LBC.

The divorced father of four spoke to camera from his bedroom in Jeddah about how couples can spice up their sex lives.

"Everything happens in this room," he said on an episode of the salacious show "Ahmar Bilkhat al-Areed" (Wide Red Lines), before launching into descriptions of foreplay techniques and tricks for cruising women on the streets of Jeddah.

A spokesman for the ministry of culture and information in Riyadh said a committee had decided to close the Jeddah office of LBC because of the interview.

The daily al-Watan newspaper said authorities also closed other offices of LBC, which is mainly owned by Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, in the kingdom.

Abdul-Jawad has been charged with publicising vice and lawyers say he may face the death penalty.

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Saudi Arabia could be the most conservative country in the world. Sure.

It seems to be one of the most undemocratic, one of the most brutal, one of the less enlightened country despite the powerful sunlight. It is ruled by tea-and-coffee-sipping family despots disguised as white-robed benevolent tyrants masquerading as kings and princes — always men, always ready with the lashes, the eye-for-an-eye and the magnanimous death penalty... A bit like George Bush's America, mind you? Not even a beer to fix a racist punch-up.

One must say that sex in the USA is not such an extreme hypocritical taboo as in Saudi Arabia... The rules are more relaxed, more enjoyable and fairer for all, with entertaining values to boot.

Nonetheless, US officials or politicians, under stringent christian ethics, have to get their salacious bit on the side. Mind you, these devoted christians don't have the luxury of several (many) wives (and official mistresses) like the rulers of Saud who are loaded with pocket money that could buy the moon... The male rulers can thus afford to be the country's benevolent "protectors" of women, by being their enslavers, their virtual jailers and executioners under the rule of their male cherished barbaric laws.

Here, in this girt continent, we have low-life infantile shock jocks making a low-fizz buzz by mentioning tits, fannies and willies, at breakfast... — and we have women magazines regularly giving all the erogenous tips one needs to "get perfect sex", perfect figure, perfect men ... No need for the death penalty for all this. The rules are clearly defined between minors and adults, although the processes and development of the mind can be fuzzy...

The goddess created men and men have resented this ever since — in some countries more than others.