‘It’s a slow road back’: Toning down the Kyle and Jackie O show

“It’s a slow road back for us there,” ARN’s chief content officer Duncan Campbell says of winning a Melbourne breakfast audience turned off by Kyle and Jackie O’s ungraceful entry in the market last year. “We’re well aware of that now.”

Campbell spoke to Mumbrella on the same morning the media and communications watchdog slapped the show for breaching commercial radio decency standards.

The incident in question happened last June, and although the ruling didn’t come up in our conversation, Campbell was eager to stress that the Kyle and Jackie O show that breached those standards — the same program that copped 59 complaints between last July and November — is a thing of the past.