Southern Cross Austereo is reportedly surveying its listeners to ask them whether Kyle Sandilands should be sacked, after his recent on-air spray about a journalist sparked an exodus of advertisers and an online furore.
Listeners have been asked if the radio host should be fired and whether they had stopped tuning in to 2DayFM or had boycotted advertisers after Sandilands verbally attacked a News Ltd journalist, The Australian's website reported.
A spokeswoman for Austereo, which owns 2DayFM, confirmed the company had been conducting a survey.
"We're doing a lot to gauge the reaction of our clients and listeners," she said.
"We're doing it as due diligence for our stakeholders."
The spokeswoman did not return a call by smh.com.au about the reported survey.
The news comes a day after major Australian companies, including Coles, Bunnings, Vodafone, McDonald's, Ford and Blackmores, said their boycott of Sandilands' show would continue into 2012.
A raft of companies pulled their advertising support from the Kyle and Jackie O Show in the days after Sandilands called entertainment journalist Alison Stephenson a "piece of shit" and threatened to "hunt her down" when she wrote a critical article about his Channel Seven television special late last month.
But the show went on, with Sandilands defending his comments as "freedom of speech".
A campaign to get him off the airwaves swept Twitter, with the hashtag #vilekyle, along with a petition at Change.org.
Source http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/should-kyle-be-sacked-austereo-canvas-listeners-20111207-1oik6.html
Listeners have been asked if the radio host should be fired and whether they had stopped tuning in to 2DayFM or had boycotted advertisers after Sandilands verbally attacked a News Ltd journalist, The Australian's website reported.
A spokeswoman for Austereo, which owns 2DayFM, confirmed the company had been conducting a survey.
"We're doing a lot to gauge the reaction of our clients and listeners," she said.
"We're doing it as due diligence for our stakeholders."
The spokeswoman did not return a call by smh.com.au about the reported survey.
The news comes a day after major Australian companies, including Coles, Bunnings, Vodafone, McDonald's, Ford and Blackmores, said their boycott of Sandilands' show would continue into 2012.
A raft of companies pulled their advertising support from the Kyle and Jackie O Show in the days after Sandilands called entertainment journalist Alison Stephenson a "piece of shit" and threatened to "hunt her down" when she wrote a critical article about his Channel Seven television special late last month.
But the show went on, with Sandilands defending his comments as "freedom of speech".
A campaign to get him off the airwaves swept Twitter, with the hashtag #vilekyle, along with a petition at Change.org.
Source http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/should-kyle-be-sacked-austereo-canvas-listeners-20111207-1oik6.html
