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Listeners desert KIIS FM after Kyle & Jackie O exit · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest News from the Australian Unclair Harvey with the
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  Speaker 1: Front's afternoon headlines. The first full radio ratings since the
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  Speaker 1: implosion of the Kyle and Jackie oh Show are in
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  Speaker 1: and its bad news for Kiss FM and its parent
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  Speaker 1: network ARN. Just over one hundred and thirty thousand listeners,
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  Speaker 1: or about twenty percent of the total audience, have tuned
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  Speaker 1: out of the coveted and highly competitive breakfast slot since
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  Speaker 1: ARN tore up the contracts of Kyle Sandalan's and Jackie
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  Speaker 1: Henderson in February. The parties are still locked in litigation
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  Speaker 1: over that, with Henderson saying AARN dismissed her unfairly, Sandaland's
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  Speaker 1: claiming he remains willing to provide the services for which
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  Speaker 1: he was contracted, and ARN caught in the middle and
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  Speaker 1: facing the prospect of paying both of them tens of
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  Speaker 1: millions of dollars, a prospector that would probably send the
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  Speaker 1: whole company under The numbers suggest listeners have jumped to
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  Speaker 1: FM radio rivals Gold one oh one point seven, Triple M,
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  Speaker 1: Nova and Smooth FM. Australians aren't not on board with
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  Speaker 1: the data center boom. That's according to the Commercial Real
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  Speaker 1: estate giant JLL. They say communities around Australia are worried
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  Speaker 1: about environmental and noise pollution from the centers which power
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  Speaker 1: large language models like Chat, GPT and Claude, and that
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  Speaker 1: they'll push energy prices even higher. JL is worried about
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  Speaker 1: this because they're in the business of selling property and
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  Speaker 1: data centers are looking for land where they can build
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  Speaker 1: giant tech sheds with reliable power supply. Jll's National director
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  Speaker 1: for Data Centers says social media community campaigns are spooking
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  Speaker 1: AI companies away from investing here. It's one of the
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  Speaker 1: biggest stories in our economy right now. The AI giants
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  Speaker 1: say they'd be busy building many more data centers here
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  Speaker 1: in Australia and letting us get in on the Artificial
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  Speaker 1: Intelligence Act, but in return they want the federal government
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  Speaker 1: to rejig copyright laws so they don't have to pay
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  Speaker 1: creators of music, journalism and literature for everything they're hoovering up. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: the government says AI data centers put so much pressure
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  Speaker 1: on the electricity grid they must reinvest in renewable power
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  Speaker 1: sources if they want approval. Tim Ayre's the Minister for
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  Speaker 1: Industry told the conference on Thursday. Data centers are often
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  Speaker 1: hyped as the new gold rush, but just like every
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  Speaker 1: other resources boom, they have huge potential to distort the
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  Speaker 1: economy with quote labor shortages, capital misallocation, and pressures on
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  Speaker 1: social cohesion. Check out those stories live right now at
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  Speaker 1: the Australian dot com dot a U and come back
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  Speaker 1: to the front first thing in the morning for our
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  Speaker 1: look at a spectacular legal brawl, this time between sitting judges.
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  Speaker 1: That's right here, Friday morning,