$12m for Sandilands: ARN Media’s expensive get-out-of-jail card

June 17, 2026 — 1:54pm

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Radio broadcaster ARN Media has done a settle-now-pay-later deal with its once-biggest star and latter-day nemesis, Kyle Sandilands. The company called it as a commercial success, but nothing could be further from the truth. It is a narrowly avoided disaster.

The legal settlement was a practical way to avoid a horror financial outcome for the media group, which had made the scandalous commercial error of signing up the popular but risky and controversial radio jocks Sandilands and Jackie “O” Henderson for its KIIS FM morning show for the onerously profligate sum of $200 million over 10 years.

As everyone will be aware, this all ended in tears earlier this year. Sandilands ridiculed Henderson on air, she walked out of the studio and ARN seized on their clash to attempt to void the expensive contract. The duo lost........

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