The Kyle and Jackie O Show


The Kyle and Jackie O Show is an Australian breakfast radio show hosted by Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O on KIIS 106.5 in Sydney. The show is syndicated in the late drive slot on the KIIS Network following Will & Woody across Australia, and is a station on iHeartRadio.

History

The Kyle and Jackie O Show commenced on 16 January 2005 on 2Day FM. Kyle and Jackie O replaced former 2Day FM breakfast hosts Judith Lucy, Peter Helliar and Kaz Cooke.
The show has been Sydney's top-rated FM radio breakfast show for four consecutive years, and the program is a [|9-time winner and 36-time finalist] of the Australian Commercial Radio Awards. From November 2009 until December 2011, Kyle and Jackie O were also broadcast nationally on Saturdays between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. during the syndicated Take 40 Australia show.
On 1 November 2013, it was announced the radio show will end on 2Day FM in December 2013 and move to rival station, KIIS 106.5 from January 2014.
The Kyle and Jackie O Show began on new station KIIS 106.5 on 20 January 2014 with a nightly "best bits" program networked on the KIIS Network and regional radio stations. The show on KIIS 106.5 instantly went to number 1 in the first radio survey for 2014 with the former radio station 2Day FM failing in the ratings.
In 2014, Kyle and Jackie O started a new show, The A-List with Kyle and Jackie O which also airs on KIIS 106.5, in Sydney, and exported globally. A weekly 3-hour entertainment show featuring the biggest stars and the hottest music in the world, co-produced with Bowserland.

Time

The Kyle and Jackie O Show airs weekdays in the breakfast radio time-slot from 6 am to 9:30 am on KIIS 106.5.
The syndicated show, The Kyle and Jackie O Hour of Power, airs in metro markets from 6 p.m to 7 p.m each weeknight on the KIIS Network in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth, plus in regional areas on a number of FM stations on the Ace Radio and Super Radio networks.

Regular features

Jackie's O News

Presented every hour, Jackie's O News features Jackie delivering the morning's celebrity gossip and news. Due to the popularity and longevity of this feature, Jackie's O News will often "break" local and international celebrity news stories.
Notable breaking stories have included the revealing of the names of finalists for the Gold Logie.
Spoilers and leaks are also aired during the segment. In November 2010, the name of a dying character in the hit TV show Packed to the Rafters was revealed.

The $10,000 Pop Quiz

Every morning at 7 a.m. a listener is selected to answer 10 questions correctly within 60 seconds. The listener wins $100 for each correct answer, but is eligible for the top prize only if all 10 are answered correctly. Late in 2012, the $10,000 Pop Quiz eventually changed format to become the $50,000 Pop Quiz every weekday, which was won on 26 November 2012. The Pop Quiz varies from $5000, $10,000, $12,000, $15,000 or $20,000
For the first 3 years at KIIS, the Pop Quiz was played at 8 a.m. In its history, the Pop Quiz has given away in excess of $1 million, making it Sydney's "richest" cash radio contest.

Power Pick

Every morning at 6:30 a.m., a listener who is celebrating their birthday receives a prize, which is determined spinning the "Birthday Wheel". This was originally a small wooden wheel, but in January 2011 a new wheel was commissioned that includes hundreds of LED lights. The listener then picks a song to be played on-air. They have the choice of Kyle or Jackie O's song

First Calls & Last Calls

Every weekday morning at 6:10 a.m. and 9:50 a.m., listeners can call 13 1065 to talk about anything directly with Kyle and Jackie O.

Other games and segments

KIIS STARS

Kyle and Jackie sometimes play KIIS STARS. At 7am, listeners call up to successfully identify 5 Artists saying "KIIS" $106 is won if 1 is identified, if all 5 are identified, listeners can win $10000

What's in Jackie's Mouth?

Just after 6am, Jackie places an item in her mouth. Listeners are given clues to what the object is. The listener who correctly identifies the object wins a prize, usually concert tickets. This game is alternating between others.

5-in-10

Just after 6am, listeners phone in to play 5-in-10. The team give out a broad category and listeners must identify 5 specific items of that area in 10 seconds. This game is alternating between others.

Google Predicts

A listener calls up and Jackie plays on behalf of the caller. Kyle will give the first half of a sentence from Google and Jackie must correctly guess the top search

ABC's

Jackie will ask listeners questions, but they have to answer with a specific letter of the alphabet. Listeners have 12.5 seconds to answer all five questions

Who Do You Believe

Kyle and Jackie are each told of a separate item that they must convince the listener is in studio, only one item is in studio whilst the other has to lie. If the listener correctly guesses who is telling the truth about the actual item that is in studio they win.

Only Lying

A listener has to try to convince a friend/relative they know of, is that what they’ve done is the truth, in which Kyle & Jackie would end the call by saying, "Only Lying" before it goes too far. That listener would then be rewarded with $1000.

Gibberish

Based on the infamous game on Instagram, two listeners call up & Jackie & Brooklyn plays on the callers behalf. Kyle will give the phrase/sentence that’s in gibberish and Jackie & Brooklyn must correctly identify what the phrase/sentence is actually saying.

2Q's for 20K

Listener calls up and Jackie & Kyle play on behalf of the caller. Jackie is placed with the listener in the Cone of Silence first, to which Brooklyn gives the two words. Kyle names the first thing that comes to mind relating to those two words, then he goes into the cone of silence and Jackie comes out with the listener does the same. If both Kyle and Jackie's answers end up matching, then that listener wins $20K.

Ratings

As of March 2015, The Kyle and Jackie O Show had a 10.6% market share in the breakfast shift in Sydney, with a higher cumulative audience than any other show in Sydney. The show is the most successful FM breakfast show in its time-slot, clearing the competition by 3.3 points.
The syndicated Kyle and Jackie O Show: Hour of Power airs nationally on a multitude of regional radio stations, reaching 5.3 million Australians on the KIIS Network and an additional 6.4 million Australians on Ace Radio's regional stations.
Kyle and Jackie O's global show, Alist with Kyle and Jackie O, co-produced with Bowserland attracts an audience of more than 1.2 million listeners from radio stations in Australia and across the globe. After the show commenced in the Sydney breakfast market in January 2005, it needed only 12 months to claim the top spot in the FM ratings.

Complaints

In August 2009, Kyle and Jackie O were suspended following a segment in which they put a 14-year-old girl on a lie-detector and then asked her about her sexual history. After the girl revealed that she had been a victim of rape, Sandilands asked "Right... is that the only experience you’ve had?" Following this incident, a full-time censor was brought on board. Despite the suspension, Kyle and Jackie O maintained their number-one position in the market, and the show actually grew 0.6 percentage points.
In September 2009, Sandilands apologised after making an on-air remark about how actor Magda Szubanski could lose a lot more weight if she had spent time in a concentration camp. Although Szubanski indicated that it was a "beat up" and that she "couldn't care less," Sandilands was still suspended.
In July 2011, Sandilands made headlines after stating that Australian model Megan Gale was a "phony" and that he "never liked her". Gale's management responded by cancelling Gale's upcoming interview on the show. Later that week, model Charlotte Dawson hit out at Sandilands on her Twitter account, saying that he could "f*** off".
In August 2011, Sandilands faced criticism from the Indian community over comments he made on the show about the cleanliness of the Ganges River. The Universal Society of Hinduism later admitted that there was no malice behind Sandilands's comments and accepted his reasoning.
In November 2011, Sandilands used his radio show to launch abuse at Daily Telegraph columnist Alison Henderson, for her negative review of the Kyle & Jackie O TV show. Sandilands called Henderson a "fat slag" and a "piece of shit", accused the columnist of bias because "she just hates us and has always hated us", before making more derogatory comments about her body. The ACMA investigation into the show imposed further restrictions on 2DayFM, meaning that the radio station would be in breach if any broadcast made statements to demean women or girls.
In May 2016, legal action was launched against Jackie O and the Australian Radio Network, after Jackie O questioned the parentage of NRL player Kieran Foran's son on air. Jackie O made the claim in late April, after it was revealed that Foran had checked into a mental health clinic, and had been granted indefinite leave from his club. Rugby league writer, Danny Weidler responded at the time "The suggestion from Jackie O on Kiis1065 that Kieran Foran's baby boy is not his is false and offensive to all concerned". The legal demand instructed the show to make a full retraction of the defamatory allegation against Foran and his ex-partner, and issue an unreserved apology.

The team

The Kyle and Jackie O Show has a total of five content producers and two audio producers.
The show is overseen by KIIS 106.5's Head of Content, [|Derek "DB" Bargwanna].
According to Media Week Australia, The Kyle and Jackie O Show's content production team is one of Australia's most formidable production teams.
The show's producers reportedly work 12 hours a day or more in order to keep the show's ratings at number 1.
;Kyle Sandilands: Host, anchor, and panel operator of the show.
;Jackie O: Host of the show and presents "O News".
;Derek "DB" Bargwanna: KIIS 106.5 head of content. He has been the show's content director since August 2000 and was the show's executive producer.
;Brooklyn Ross: Newsreader - Started position in January 2015.
;Sonia Jahshan : Executive Producer - Started position in January 2019. She was previously a Senior Producer for two years prior.
;Peter Deppeler :Senior Producer & National Talent Manager - Started position in December 2013.
;Ashleigh Smith : Producer - Started position in April 2019.
;Jaimee Hassos : Producer & Guest Booker - Started position in June 2018.
;Tom Whitaker : Producer - Started position in January 2019.
;Adam Price :Studio Producer - Started position in March 2017.
;Mitchell Coombs :Video Producer - Started position in March 2018.
;Olivia Esveld :Web Producer - Started position in February 2018.
;Patrick Rice : Audio Producer - Started position in June 2019.
;Kian Oliver : Audio Producer - Started position in January 2018.
;John Nicholson : Show Barista and fill-in Phone Operator - Started position in January 2017.
;Richie Wright: KIIS 1065 Assistant Content Director - Started position in June 2016.

Former team/producers

KIIS 106.5

;Bruno Bouchet:Executive Producer, started position in January 2016, ended December 2018.
;Simon Greally
;James Weir : Entertainment Producer - Started position in January 2014, ended December 2014.
;Krista Thomas: Newsreader - Started position in December 2013, ended December 2014.
;Daniel Bozykowski : Audio Producer for The Kyle and Jackie O Show as well as KIIS 106.5 Sydney - Started position in January 2014, ended December 2014.
;Alisson Longhurst : Senior Producer - Started position in January 2014, ended Feb 2015.
;Ben Harlum : Senior Producer - Started position February 2015, ended June 2015..
;Andy Ruzgar : Entertainment Producer - Started position in January 2015, ended May 2015.
;Krystal Sanders
;Laura Cosgrove : Entertainment Producer - Started position in July 2015, ended December 2015.
;Pedro Cuccovillo Vitola : Content Producer - Started position in October 2016, ended May 2019.
;Rhys Messenger : Senior Imaging Producer - Started position in January 2018, ended June 2019.
;Olivia Mackinnon
;Bern Sokol : Social Media Producer - Started position in February 2015, ended December 2015.
;Jamie Travers: Creative Content Producer - Started position in January 2016, ended in March 2016.
;Whitney Plowman: Producer - Started position in April 2016, ended in July 2016.
;Nic McClure: Executive Producer - Started position in January 2015, ended in December 2016.
;Oscar Gordon : Executive Digital Content Producer - Started position in October 2014, ended December 2016.
;Abigail Benaud : Senior Producer - Started position in November 2013, ended February 2017.
;Luke James : Panel Op/Producer - Started position in November 2013, ended in January 2017.
;Daniel Hunt
;David Faires
;Rohan Edwards : Panel Op - Started position in Jan 2017, ended in March 2017.

2Day FM

;Geoff Field: Newsreader - Started position in 2003, ended 2010.

Fill-in hosts

2Day FM

KIIS FM confirmed media reports in April 2016 that the program, on occasion, compensates celebrities for appearing on the program.
Since 2004, The Kyle & Jackie O Show has been a 36-time finalist and a 9-time winner of the Australian Commercial Radio Awards.

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