Jimmy Kimmel Says James Talarico Interview Won't Air After FCC Threats
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Jimmy Kimmel says that his interview with James Talarico will not air on TV after the FCC threatened his show, ABC, and local stations.

The late night host announced that his interview with the Texas Senate candidate will only air on YouTube

Jimmy Kimmel says that his interview with Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico will not air on TV after President Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission (FCC) threatened Jimmy Kimmel Live!, ABC, their affiliates, and local stations.

During his Wednesday monologue, Kimmel said that while Talarico would stop by the show for an interview on Thursday, viewers at home won’t be able to watch it on broadcast television. Instead, the interview with the Democratic nominee has been relegated to YouTube.

“Tomorrow night, I’ll be interviewing James Talarico — tomorrow night, under unusual circumstances,” Kimmel began. “You know, for a lot of years, for the whole 20-plus years of our show, in fact, I’ve been interviewing Americans who are running for office with no problem at all, just like Letterman did, Leno did, Arsenio, et cetera, et cetera. I’ve interviewed a lot of political candidates from Hillary Clinton to Ted Cruz to Donald Trump himself.”

  • Pyr@lemmy.ca
    51·
    2 hours ago

    It’s ridiculous that they will consider Jimmy Kimmel a news program but then go call Fox News an entertain ment program.

    • mkwt@lemmy.world
      3·
      53 minutes ago

      A few points here:

      • Fox News is a cable channel, so it isn’t subject to this rule. The rule only applies over the air.
      • Fox News argued in a legal case that one of its talk shows (I think Tucker Carlson) was not news and no one should believe it. I don’t think they were talking about their actual news programs on Fox News.
      • The current FCC of this president is arguing that Kimmel is not a news program. Previous FCCs took the opposite view.