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Denis Muller, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne

Regulator slaps restrictions on Kyle and Jackie O if they ever return to radio. Will it make any difference?

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.

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