Posted: December 8th, 2011 | Author: Michael Courtenay | Filed under: Cult of Celebrity, Media, Socially Engineerd | Tags: A Night With The Stars, Alison Stephenson, American Express, Blackberry, Blackmores, Bunnings, Channel 7, Coles, Fantastic Furniture, Ford Australia, Harvey Norman, Holiday Inn, Kyle Sandilands, Lexus, Magda Szubanski, McDonalds, Seven Network, Southern Cross Austereo, Target, Telstra, The Kyle and Jackie O Show, Vodafone, Volkswagen | 1 Comment »
It seems the exodus of money has finally quietened Kyle Sandilands? The enormous mouth of the kiwi radio personality has churned out some rubbish in it’s time. Sandilands has been pulled from the air more than once in his radio career, after several absolutely shameful tongue lashings: ”Magda Szubanski would lose more weight in a concentration camp” and then of course there was the moral high Sandilands reached when a 14 year old girl who he’d had hooked up to a lie detector revealed she was raped when she was 12. Sandilands latest on-air rant against journalist Alison Stephenson has perhaps woken the impresario? His rant in November triggered an online petition calling for major sponsors to withdraw their support for his radio show, owned and run by Southern Cross Austereo. Coles, Bunnings, Vodafone, McDonald’s, Ford and others were among the first to announce their decision to boycott the 2DayFM host. Sandilands said he regretted that his staff had to “bear the brunt” of his actions. READ MORE
Posted: December 4th, 2011 | Author: Michael Courtenay | Filed under: Cult of Celebrity, Media, Socially Engineerd, They Said What? | Tags: A Night With The Stars, Alison Stephenson, American Express, Blackberry, Blackmores, Bunnings, Channel 7, Coles, Fantastic Furniture, Ford Australia, Harvey Norman, Holiday Inn, Kyle Sandilands, Lexus, Magda Szubanski, McDonalds, Seven Network, Southern Cross Austereo, Target, Telstra, The Kyle and Jackie O Show, Vodafone, Volkswagen | Comments Off
It seems even without Sandilands around the exodus of money hasn’t slowed at radio network Austrereo? That beast that is Kyle Sandilands, may be on his summer break, but it hasn’t stopped advertisers from extending their boycott of his breakfast radio show. In a new blow to Southern Cross Austereo, at least 15 major brands have pledged to not advertise on any of Sandilands’s programs in 2012. Some of big brand names including Coles, Bunnings, Vodafone, McDonald’s, Ford and Blackmores said their boycott of the 2Day FM host would extend into next year. The Sandilands debacle started after a female journalist wrote a review of Seven’s Kyle and Jackie O television show which aired on November 21. The following morning Sandilands launched into an on-air attack of the News Ltd journalist. A statement released by Australian grocery behemoth Coles, on the Change.org website Tuesday said: “Our very clear position in relation to the offensive and inappropriate comments made by Kyle Sandilands remains that we are not and will not advertise on programs hosted by him.” The gorgeous Jackie O must be wondering who she’s going to be sat next to in the new year? READ MORE
