HIS FRUSTRATION AS HIS NEW $99 SUBSCRIBER-ONLY RADIO SHOW GOT OFF TO A CHAOTIC START.
Chaotic start to Kyle Sandilands Live’s opening show
“Seems to be failing”: Kyle Sandilands couldn’t hide his frustration as his $99 subscriber-only radio show got off to a chaotic start.
Kyle Sandilands’ subscription radio show Kyle Sandilands Live got off to a shambolic start on Monday morning, plagued by tech issues – and with one member of Sandilands’ team dropping the C-bomb six minutes into the show.
Sandilands was visibly frustrated as his on-air team struggled to get the show up and running, with persistent audio issues.
“When I ask a question, am I supposed to hear her answer? Why do you not understand how to use the microphone?” the host fumed at one point early in the show.
Kyle gets frustrated as his team iron out the audio issues.
Amid the tech issues, Sandilands did drop some gossip about his dramatic exit from ARN, revealing that Kyle and Jackie O’s newsreader, Brooklyn Ross, had only left his job at the station last Friday, and required immediate intervention from his old boss to ensure he could appear on-air with Sandilands just three days later.
“Guess what, I made that happen with one phone call,” Sandilands told Ross.
“Forget your CEOs, your heads of content – they’re peasants. Above them are the chairmen. I hang out in that world,” Sandilands said.
Tech issues persisted as the show threw to a listener.
“Did anyone test anything that seems to be failing today?”
He claimed he told Ross’ former employers that if they didn’t allow him to appear on the show, “I’ll sit him behind me with an ARN sticker over his mouth and tell everyone that’s KIIS FM not allowing him to broadcast.”
Elsewhere, Sandilands and team were clearly revelling in being free from the commercial radio censors – the first half-hour of the show saw references to “arse plugs,” “bottoming” and, just six minutes in, one member of the team calling another “c**ty.”
38 minutes in to the show, Sandilands welcomed a listener as a guest, joining via FaceTime – but there was initially no audio, prompting the host to rail against his team once more.
“Remember last week, when you guys were in here 24/7, testing everything? Did anyone test anything that seems to be failing today?” he asked them.
Kyle’s longtime newsreader Brooklyn Ross is part of the on-air team for the new show.
A few minutes later, with NSW Premier Chris Minns in the building and waiting to be interviewed on the show, one member of Sandilands’ on-air team advised Sandilands to try something in the bedroom if his wife Tegan Kynaston is willing: “A mouth on one nipple and a finger up the bum.”
Shortly after, as the talk turned to mental health, another member of Sandilands’ team claimed that they were hiding their own mental health issues in an attempt to gain a firearms license.
“And you wonder why things like Bondi happen,” Sandilands said, a reference to last year’s gun massacre at Bondi Beach.
52 minutes into the show, Sandilands played the first song, explaining that he would now be free to play music based on his own tastes, no longer forced to play “unlistenable music record companies shove down our throats.”
His first pick? Producer Josh Fawaz’s recent dance remix of the 80s hit Like A Prayer, a song currently dominating commercial radio that has been exposed as having been made with AI.
Kyle and Jackie O’s decades-long partnership imploded earlier this year.
10 minutes later came the second song: A dance remix of the 80s hit Summer of ‘69, another viral TikTok song that some online have claimed was made with AI.
The tech issues persisted as the show entered its second hour, with Sandilands repeatedly asking his team why the problems hadn’t been ironed out before the show went to air.
“It’s a bit rough. Do we have to have them sound like robots, or can we have normal phones?” he asked after they threw to two more guests.
“We’re going to test our phone lines. Why this wasn’t done last week I don’t know…”
Listeners – and those trying to listen – flooded the comment section of the show’s Instagram account to raise the issues.
“Bruno’s mic connection to Kyle is cooked, massive echoes,” one listener wrote.
“Trouble with the sound system Kyle, couldn’t hear you sometimes when someone else was talking,” another complained.
“Gotta fix the sound levels,” said another, while another said the “audio levels are terrible.”
Others reported another issue entirely: That despite paying for a subscription, they were unable to successfully log in to watch the show.
“Can’t sign in to the app. Link to sign in isn’t being sent to me, I’ve tried on my phone, laptop and tablet,” one person commented.
Several people chimed in to say they were suffering the same issue.
At around 8:30am, politician Pauline Hanson called in for a discussion with Sandilands about Indigenous issues. 180 minutes into the show, the audio problems persisted, with Hanson’s voice loudly echoing as she and Sandilands railed against the Welcome to Country and both claimed that the Australian legal system is rigged in favour of Indigenous people.
Sandilands told Ms Hanson that, should she become Prime Minister, she should make Ben Roberts-Smith her Minister for Defence.
Kyle Sandilands speaks to Pauline Hanson.
As the show entered its fourth and final hour for the day, Sandilands welcomed two guests to the studio: A woman who broke up with her partner to date his son, 18 years her junior.
19-year-old Lorenzo confirmed that he lost his virginity to his stepmother.
“What were you thinking when you first put Lorenzo’s penis in your mouth?” Sandilands asked the woman.
“Holy s**t, it’s the same size as his dad’s,” she responded.
“By the way, the Prime Minister will be on soon,” Sandilands teased as the X-rated chat continued.
Those who want to tune in to Kyle Sandilands Live must part with $99 per year for an annual membership. There is no monthly subscription option available at launch.
Meanwhile, over on Sandilands’ former station, they were this morning offering an incentive to listeners not to make the switch to the new subscription service: Offering every caller who made it to air $1000.
The new venture comes after Sandilands’ longtime on-air partnership with Jackie “O” Henderson spectacularly imploded earlier this year, with Sandilands losing his $100m contract after claiming his former co-host was “off with the fairies” and “unfocused” on-air.
That prompted a feud between the pair that has still not healed.
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In a recent interview with Sunrise, Sandilands said he and Henderson would often “overstep the mark” on and off the air, prompting Sandilands to apologise afterwards.
“I’d sent Jackie a message that night on the Friday. It was just saying, ‘Hey, if I overstepped the mark at all today, sorry. You know, if I hit a raw nerve…’,” he said.
“I didn’t hear back from her for a few days, which was strange because we (are) usually pretty communicative,” he said on Sunrise.