If the ARN radio network’s KIISFM stations want to resurrect Kyle Sandilands or Jackie “O” Henderson, either together, singly or in partnership with someone else, they will face significant new conditions on their broadcasting licence.

The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has produced a report reciting a litany of horrors committed by the show, and setting out the basis for these new conditions.

It comes a fortnight after the Kyle and Jackie O show imploded, but it could turn out to be a preemptive strike that discourages ARN from getting either or both of them back on air.

The unfortunate timing is not a reflection on the ACMA’s personnel, who have been wringing their hands over this program for years, but on the deliberate hamstringing of the regulator by politicians either in thrall to, or frightened of, the commercial broadcasting sector.

Between June and December 2024, the ACMA conducted five investigations into the show. One of those five episodes alone contained discussions and descriptions of explicit sexual acts and references to sexually related hygiene.

As a result of these investigations, the ACMA found the network had........

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