Jones ads return

ADS have resumed on Alan Jones’s radio show but major sponsors continue to steer clear of the controversial broadcaster as an online campaign against him gains momentum.

Jones’s 2GB breakfast show carried advertisements again yesterday morning following an eight-day suspension.

The Macquarie Radio Network suspended advertising after more than 60 companies pulled their ads over Jones’s comment about Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s late father.

Sydney student Nic Lochner, who started a petition on Change.org to promote an advertising boycott of Jones’s show, said yesterday the big brands were still finding Jones ‘‘just too toxic to touch’’.

He said major brands such as Woolworths, Coles, Telstra, McDonald’s and Medibank continued to stay away.

The resumption of ads sparked a resurgence of an online campaign by the Facebook group, Destroy the Joint, also urging companies to boycott Jones’s show.

The group took its name from the broadcaster’s comment that female politicians were ‘‘destroying the joint’’.