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Nexstar Says It Will Drop Jimmy Kimmel’s Show From Its ABC Stations “For The Foreseeable Future” Following Charlie Kirk Comments
Deadline ^ | September 17, 2025 | Ted Johnson

Posted on 09/17/2025 3:48:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Nexstar says that it will pre-empt Jimmy Kimmel’s show from its ABC stations “for the foreseeable future” following his remarks about the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

The company said, “Nexstar’s owned and partner television stations affiliated with the ABC Television Network will preempt Jimmy Kimmel Live! for the foreseeable future beginning with tonight’s show. Nexstar strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming in its ABC-affiliated markets.”

Kimmel said on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday, “We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and with everything they can to score political points from it.”

On Tuesday, authorities charged Tyler Robinson, 22, in Kirk’s killing, along with a series of other charges. Utah County Attorney Jeffrey Gray said that Robinson’s mother said her son “had become more political and had started to lean more to the left, becoming more pro-gay and trans rights oriented.” Gray said that when Robinson’s father asked his son why he did it, Robinson “explained that there was too much evil, and the guy, referring to Charlie Kirk, spreads too much hate.”


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abc; charliekirk; jimmykimmel; lgbt; lgbtq; maga; nexstar; ohnoanyway; trump; tylerrobinson; usu; utahstate; utahstateprofessor; utahstateuniversity
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1 posted on 09/17/2025 3:48:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: All

Yeah......winning is great.


2 posted on 09/17/2025 3:50:27 PM PDT by Liz (May you be in Heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead (Irish blessing))
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To: nickcarraway

He has been cancelled.


3 posted on 09/17/2025 3:50:57 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: nickcarraway

While I wholeheartedly agree with the decision, the left will demand twice as many removals of Trump’s people and the Right.

The media will be happy to oblige.


4 posted on 09/17/2025 3:51:31 PM PDT by theyreallthesame
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To: nickcarraway

GOT HIM!!!


5 posted on 09/17/2025 3:51:31 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: nickcarraway

Culling the heard.

FAFO!


6 posted on 09/17/2025 3:51:55 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: nickcarraway

23 stations out of the 200+ owned by Nexstar are ABC affiliates.


7 posted on 09/17/2025 3:52:16 PM PDT by bigbob (We are all Charlie Kirk now)
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To: nickcarraway

Hope this is the beginning of the end for the sniveling little weasel’s show.


8 posted on 09/17/2025 3:52:23 PM PDT by DarrellZero
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To: TornadoAlley3

“Nexstar Media Group is set to own or operate 265 television stations in 44 states and Washington D.C. after its acquisition of Tegna closes. As the largest local television and digital media company in the U.S., Nexstar’s expanded portfolio will reach approximately 80% of U.S. television households.”

Adios, Jimmy. Don’t go away mad. Just go away.

L


9 posted on 09/17/2025 3:54:01 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.l)
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To: unixfox

They were the f aroundest of times, they were the find outtest of times.


10 posted on 09/17/2025 3:55:25 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Liz
Yeah......winning is great.

I know this is a "win"...
...but I'd trade having Charlie Kirk alive and the turd Kimmel still being on the air, for the present reality, in a heartbeat.

11 posted on 09/17/2025 3:55:41 PM PDT by Yossarian
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To: nickcarraway

Gee... that sure is too bad.


12 posted on 09/17/2025 3:56:12 PM PDT by OKSooner (XX XY)
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To: Lurker
Now, the ABC network has announced Jimmy Kimmel show is indefinitely cancelled.

Sayonara!

13 posted on 09/17/2025 3:58:08 PM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: Flycatcher

Good riddance!


14 posted on 09/17/2025 3:59:36 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: nickcarraway
door meet butt
15 posted on 09/17/2025 4:00:32 PM PDT by chief lee runamok ( Le Flâneur @Large)
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To: nickcarraway

This is just an excuse - his ratings were poor and he was on borrowed time after Colbert got cancelled. but they don’t want to pay out the contract so they find a loophole to cancel him. Either way it works for me.


16 posted on 09/17/2025 4:01:23 PM PDT by KingofZion
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Soros and company will probably pay him to write a book about how he is now the victim.


17 posted on 09/17/2025 4:02:43 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try )
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Nexstar did the right thing. There are lines that should not be crossed in broadcast tv.


18 posted on 09/17/2025 4:02:54 PM PDT by griswold3 (Truth Beauty and Goodness)
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To: theyreallthesame

It may lead to further censoring and debanking of the right. Even though, let’ be clear, the right did not do this. Their own side did.


19 posted on 09/17/2025 4:05:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Yossarian

I know this is a “win”......but I’d trade having Charlie Kirk alive and the
turd Kimmel still being on the air, for the present reality, in a heartbeat.


Let’s take our wins when and wherever they occur, for now.


20 posted on 09/17/2025 4:06:03 PM PDT by Liz (May you be in Heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead (Irish blessing))
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