Posted on 09/18/2025 11:20:17 AM PDT by DFG
Jimmy Kimmel’s comments on the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk weren’t just noxiously offensive and seemingly misleading — their timing was also incredibly bad: They threaten to derail Nexstar’s $6.2 billion takeover of rival broadcaster Tegna, telecom insiders tell On The Money.
The already controversial deal — which would combine two of the nation’s largest owners of local TV stations — poses significant antitrust questions and needs a close review by the Federal Communications Commission and its conservative firebrand chairman, Brendan Carr.
Kimmel’s comments made that approval even dicier. That’s why Nexstar publicly announced Thursday that its stations would no longer carry the show, telecom insiders tell On The Money. Ditto for ABC, which produces and distributes “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” to broadcasters like Nexstar — and likewise has business before the FCC.
Bob Iger, the CEO of its parent, Disney, was also quick to suspend the show indefinitely.
On Thursday, Sinclair Broadcasting — a rival local TV giant with a conservative bent — upped the ante even further, saying ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel was insufficient and announcing it will yank “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” from its stations until the host apologizes directly to Kirk’s family and donates to his political activist group.
The backdrop to all this is Carr, a longtime telecom lawyer who is the new sheriff of the broadcast industry. Carr has been warning networks large and small that he’s taking one of the most expansionary views of the agency’s regulatory edict to make sure programming is in the “public interest,” First Amendment concerns be damned.
His impact has been nothing short of dramatic: Paramount settled a suit with President Trump over CBS’s controversial interview with Kamala Harris during the 2024 campaign, fearing that the FCC wouldn’t approve its $8 billion sale to independent studio Skydance.
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top-down, DC central-planning and politics cuts both ways, libtards.
He has no audience... Or not much of one. If he did they would’ve kept him on.
abc should film little Jimmy’s tantrums. The boy can’t handle it.
When the left demanded Tucker Carlson get fired from fox news they flooded their affiliates got him fired and rejoiced. When the left demanded Roseanne get fired from the show SHE created with her own two hands, they rejoiced, now when people contacted the ABC affiliates and demanded Kimmels show not be shown and ABC had no choice in suspending the show, the left cries censorship, NO..ABC was looking for a reason to let the douche bag go, they were probably thinking to themselves “Give us a reason, give us one reason” and Kimmel gave it to them because he’s a MORON. He couldnt let Charlie Kirk go, he had to bring him up AGAIN to help his commie party pretend like his killer was not a leftist psychopath, he had to do it, next time Jimmy, dont utter Charlie’s name EVER again OK jerk
Jimmy boy became disposable.
He became disposable a long time ago, but only during Trump’s second term did ABC understand the time was right to dispose of him.
It’s all about the money.
If Kimmel had an audience and was making money, they wouldn’t be doing this. They see a way to cut a money losing operation and have cover to do it.
Unlike conservatives, as long as they are making money, they can get away with almost anything. How many times has Whoopi been suspended? Anywhere else and she would have been fired.
Late night TV ended for me when Craig Ferguson left The Late Late Show in December 2014.
Carr’s approach is simple, you can say whatever you want but it will cost you your broadcast license if the FCC concludes you are conducting and using public airwaves to broadcast a one-sided story line, which is not in the public interest. It has nothing to do with the First Amendment because you can go shout your dribble out on the street-corner, but not over taxpayer provided and controlled broadcast frequencies.
ABC should let Guillermo (Rodriguez) take over the show.
He’s not as radical, and is funnier.
I think we’ve seen the last of Jimmy and his show that I never watched. Apology or no apology, it would be stupid to put him back on the air now and try to act like it’s business as usual. He’s toast, and people will forget all about him in a couple weeks, his dumb show will be forgotten and he won’t be missed.
Besides they’re running Celebrity Family affair now instead.
LOL!
I told him I saw a clip of his appearance on CNN recently, and him saying that shutting down speech isn't what democracies do, it's what autocracies do, then reminded him that he's a Zelensky supporter. Zelensky shut down the news media in Ukraine by putting them all under his control. He also banned all opposition political parties...everything that Hitler did in Germany. I reminded him that Zelensky has signed 15 extensions to his martial law order every 90 days, just so the Ukraine people can't hold elections, and that Hitler banned elections too. My last words to him were that Zelensky's actions sounded an awful lot like an autocracy, and that he Schumer, was nothing but a lying hypocrite.
Politics? No.
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Steve Martin in The Jerk as he was told people in the carnival business had a goal of staying in business.
Oh, now I get it. Everybody, all over the place, is trying to get more money. It’s all a money thing.
I agree with you....his show was bleeding cash, and I think the corner office types were just chomping at the bit for an excuse to cut his ass and send him packing.
Exactly—leftist creeps can create their own podcast/videocast and broadcast their hate and lies as they wish...
But—on the public airways owned by the American people...
Nope.
He’s a horrible comedian, host, and human?
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