The Kyle & Jackie O Show will return to the airwaves next Tuesday, with a time delay in place, Austereo has announced.

The pair’s 2Day FM show – which also appears as highlights on the rest of the Austereo network – has been suspended since a few days after a 14-year-old girl taking part in a lie detector segment said live on air that she had been raped.

A growing public, media and advertiser backlash led to the show – Sydney’s best rating FM breakfast programme – being taken off air. Kyle Sandilands was also removed as a judge on Ten’s Australian Idol.

Austereo said in a statement today:

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