The network pulled the show after the Federal Communications Commission chair threatened regulatory action after the host’s comments about Charlie Kirk’s death.
Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show will return to ABC’s airwaves on Tuesday, nearly a week after it was suspended amid criticism of the host’s remarks about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
But many households across the U.S. still may not see the show. Sinclair, a company that operates more than 35 ABC affiliates across the U.S., said that it would replace Kimmel with news programming.
“Beginning Tuesday night, Sinclair will be preempting ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ across our ABC affiliate stations and replacing it with news programming. Discussions with ABC are ongoing as we evaluate the show’s potential return,” Sinclair said in a statement.
Sinclair runs our local ABC station and I fully expect violent protests. We’ll have to see how that works out.
I really hope it’s true that they asked him to apologize and he told them to pound sand.
Break down the statement that was “OMG SOOOO OFFENSIVE!”
“We hit some new lows over the weekend (TRUE) with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them (TRUE - they were calling it an act of “the violent left” before we even knew who the kid was) and doing everything they can to score political points from it.” (TRUE - like getting people fired from their jobs).
Been saying it since yesterday…
It all depends on Jimmy’s monologue.
We all know what he said wasn’t a big deal. If he comes out and offers any type of apology, fuck him and fuck the mouse.
If he comes out and goes harder on trump and flat out says how big of a first amendment issue this was, and Disney doesn’t yank him again. Then I have zero issues restarting my subscription.
But we got a wait a couple days and see how it goes.
I’ll cancel and resubscribe every week if that’s what it takes to show Disney where the line is, it takes zero fucking effort and is an immediate quantifiable metric for the corpos
The sad thing is, a lot of people aren’t even going to see his return until it hits YouTube because of the Sinclair bullshit. :( Probably including me.
So Disney says “Come on back!” and Sinclair can still block that, even in ultra liberal cities like Portland and Seattle?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stations_owned_or_operated_by_Sinclair_Broadcast_Group
I mean…
I don’t think I know anyone who watches OTA TV…
I just legit don’t watch Kimmel, but Colbert and Daily show I watch the next day on streaming.
I imagine a lot of Kimmel’s views come from Hulu the next day, the ones Disney cares about anyways. The clips on YouTube aren’t really making Disney money, Hulu subscribers are.
Sinclair runs our local ABC station
Same - seriously considering buying an antenna this afternoon so I can see which advertisers I need to boycott and let know Sinclair is bad for business.
Do it anyway. Stop paying for what you can get for free.
Don’t worry - I’m not paying for it.
Disney needs to yank affiliate status from Sinclair and Nexstar.
You would need some way to inform the public how that even works to motivate it to happen.
…why?
Because no regular person understands the business model, so it would be hard to make a pressure campaign if people don’t understand why.
OK, I understand what you were trying to say now, thanks.
Oh please piss off the mouse
They should put it on Disney+, it might regain some subscribers. Wouldn’t be the first ABC show to also be on Disney+ the next day
