Posted on 09/19/2025 6:42:14 AM PDT by Red Badger
Disney’s crumbling empire just hit another disaster, this time thanks to late-night clown Jimmy Kimmel.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney’s top brass, CEO Bob Iger and co-chair Dana Walden, made the decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel Live! after the disgraced host refused to apologize for falsely pinning the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk on Trump supporters.
Instead of showing an ounce of humility, Kimmel doubled down and prepared a fiery, anti-MAGA tirade that executives feared would “fan the flames.”
ABC insiders revealed that affiliate owners and advertisers were in open revolt.
By Wednesday, 66 of the 200 affiliate stations had already threatened to black out Kimmel’s program, while corporate sponsors jammed the phone lines with demands for accountability. Nexstar and Sinclair, two of the largest affiliate groups, told Disney flat out: pull Kimmel, or we will.
His team reportedly prepped a “very hot monologue” targeting MAGA directly, not an apology.
Disney executives realized that letting him go on-air would ignite an even bigger firestorm, especially as FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr blasted Kimmel’s lies during a podcast appearance earlier in the week.
The Hollywood Reporter reported:
Inside of ABC, “multiple conversations” with Kimmel were had at the “executive level,” the first person says, though the talks had not yet reached Bob Iger or TV head Dana Walden. The execs wanted to know: How was Kimmel going to address the situation on Wednesday night’s show?
The answer was not satisfactory to management, sources say. Meanwhile, the advertiser calls began to roll in and then the big affiliate conglomerates, Nexstar and Sinclair, threatened to preempt the show. The second source says that the blowback was snowballing enough that had ABC not acted, Kimmel’s show would have been dark in a large swath of the country, even beyond the Sinclair and Nexstar territories (including in the Washington, D.C., metro area).
The situation became a safety issue as Disney employees saw their emails doxxed, per the first source — some even received death threats. Disney wanted Kimmel to address the situation in a way that “would take down the temperature,” but what he had planned was “going to fan the flames with the MAGA fan base,” the source says.
A source at Jimmy Kimmel Live! counters to THR that Kimmel’s planned on-air address was not “making it worse,” but that he simply “wasn’t kowtowing” to the outrage.
Kimmel was “defending what he said [as] being grossly mischaracterized by a certain group of people,” the show source says.
Fox News host Jesse Watters delivered a blistering takedown of the scandal.
Watters: “Little Jimmy Kimmel thought he was bigger than Disney—bigger than Mickey Mouse. Charlie Kirk’s body isn’t even buried, and ABC affiliates are refusing to air his show. They’re on the brink of an advertiser boycott, and this guy’s not even in first place.
And he says, “Let’s go another round.” So the boss said, “Take a breather, Jimmy. You’re costing us a fortune and making us look like we don’t have a conscience.”
After the biggest assassination since Martin Luther King, the face of your network can’t lie about the shooting and pin it on MAGA. Sounds like an easy call to me. But the left thinks America, as a country, is finished. This is a major moment in American history.”
It’s all a cover for abc not renewing his contract....get fired, be a defiant troublemaker, get a job on another network.
He is talentless. Abc told him.
“Kimmel is already demanding that his Disney financed security detail be doubled and it continue for another ten years as part of his severance agreement.”
Eliminate his security agreement and tell him you’ll deal with his estate!
I’m sure that his agreement had a clause that allowed him to be fired due to cause without paying out the contract.
Severance = clean out your desk.
Yes. That is the money quote. Quite literally
Unprintable
Perhaps they finally understood the numbers behind Bud Light, Cracker Barrel and American Eagle Jeans.
and kimmel arrogantly said all of this to the face of his boss’s boss’s boss, bob iger, the most powerful entertainment executive in the world ... minutes later, bob personally pulled the plug on the show ...
They did!................
Anddddd.....they blame it on President Trump. Of course they do.
Now they are claiming that the government is blocking free speech. For 10 years, they literally cancelled free speech in this country for anyone who did not tow their twisted morals.
Let’s all be real here. Disney isn’t doing this because they disagree with Kimmel. They are doing it because of money
His show already costs them money. They are losing around 4-50 million a year.
Next, over a third of the stations are refusing to air the show. And advertisers are pulling out.
This isn’t about free speech. His money losing show finally crossed a line and no one wants to go down the toilet with him when it is flushed.
T. D. S.
A lot of them are losing money on his show. I am sure there are moral clauses in the contract that lets them out.
Disney knows terrestrial TV and entertainment is in a death spiral. They can’t allow a late night talk show host do collateral damage to the properties that have a future. I’m surprised they didn’t take start winding it down after Colbert was essentially fired.
Hey Jimmy ... " When you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are"
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