KIIS Breakfast, post K & J: The road ahead for ARN

As Kyle Sandilands lawyers up, Jackie O Henderson bunkers down and ARN positions itself in the trenches, Mike E is back hosting KIIS Breakfast in Sydney and Melbourne this week, and, it would appear, for the foreseeable future.

ARN has now settled on its KIIS line-up, with Mike E, Brooklyn Ross, Intern Pete hosting the show alongside producer and fellow on-air contributor Nat Penfold, according to former SCA Content boss Craig Bruce.

“This could be two years,” Bruce says on the latest episode of the Game Changers Radio podcast.

And – unlike the mega-budgets for Kyle & Jackie O – Bruce can’t see ARN doing any marketing for the show.

“I think for ARN, this will be about doing the best possible show for the smallest possible outlay.”

Elsewhere in the company, this week sees the departure of award-winning Kyle & Jackie O Show publicist Kiana Harvey.

Harvey will finish up with ARN on Friday, after nearly two years in the role.

ARN’s former Chief Audience and Content Officer Lauren Joyce, meanwhile, has reinvented herself as a ‘gun for hire.’

Joyce, whose position was made redundant less than a year into the job, posted to LinkedIn “This summer I had the most glorious summer since becoming a responsible adult. I had no one over the age of 11 to answer to, my schedule was mine to own and I stopped wearing ten hats at once (Except for sunhats. I wore all the sunhats).”

“This is what freedom feels like. And I quite like it actually. So much so, that I have decided to make it my business full-time.”

“I’ve worked in media and creative agencies. I’ve managed clients and I’ve been a client. I’ve led little teams and teams of 350+ people. I’ve been at the coal face of more comms crises than I’ve had dinner parties to tell the tales at, and for my sins I’ve managed some of Australia’s most recognisable names.”

“I’ve been locally and internationally recognised for my work and leadership capabilities. I’ve been a Non-Executive Board Director, an Executive, a team leader and a team player.”

“I’ve done this for 25 years (which, I know… is almost unbelievable because I only look 27).”

“What all of this shows is that I am as pliable as playdough. I bring perspective to problems and see opportunities that other people miss.”

“I am a catalyst for positive momentum because of my skills + my experience x how I show up.”

“I am a gun. And, I’m for hire. On projects, part-time, fractionally or contractually.”

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