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SHOWDOWN: Sinclair Broadcast Group Announces They Won’t Broadcast Jimmy Kimmel’s Show After ABC Caves
The Gateway Pundit ^ | September 22, 2025 | Cristina Laila

Posted on 09/22/2025 5:07:42 PM PDT by mbrfl

Sinclair Broadcast Group on Monday evening announced they won’t broadcast Jimmy Kimmel Live! across its ABC affiliate stations after ABC caved.

Earlier Monday, ABC announced Jimmy Kimmel would be returning to the airwaves just six days after suspending him for lying about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk was assassinated at an event at Utah Valley University earlier this month.

Jimmy Kimmel lied to millions of people and claimed Kirk was assassinated by a MAGA conservative.

“We hit 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 doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel told his audience.

This is, of course, a lie. Charlie Kirk was gunned down by a far-left, pro-transgender radical who hated him for his conservative political views.

The assassin, Tyler Robinson, lived with his transgender lover and said that if he had the opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk, he would.

“I’ve had enough of his hatred. Some hate can’t be negotiated out,” Robinson told his transgender lover about Kirk.

The Sinclair Group pushed back on ABC and announced Jimmy Kimmel’s show will be pulled from their ABC affiliates ‘indefinitely.’

“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 on Monday evening.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abcsinclair; goldfish; jimmykimmel; kimmel; kirk; showdown; sinclair
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1 posted on 09/22/2025 5:07:42 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: mbrfl

Tell them Thanks!

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2 posted on 09/22/2025 5:10:05 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: mbrfl

GOOD!


3 posted on 09/22/2025 5:10:44 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: mbrfl

They should play Johnny Carson reruns.


4 posted on 09/22/2025 5:12:45 PM PDT by logitech
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To: mbrfl

“Discussions with ABC are ongoing as we evaluate the show’s potential return,” Sinclair said on Monday evening.”
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Unfortunately I suspect Sinclair will relent as well......it’s just a matter of time.


5 posted on 09/22/2025 5:14:25 PM PDT by V_TWIN (RIP Charlie Kirk)
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To: mbrfl

So it’s television’s Fort Sumter.

Onward pagan soldiers 🎼
marching as to war.🎺
As ABC surrenders,🎺
still a ratings whore.🪕

Gunshots at a station,
pride goes out the door.
Wokesters all took up their arms
and shouted with a roar.


6 posted on 09/22/2025 5:14:55 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: logitech

Already on AntennaTV Network in that timeslot.


7 posted on 09/22/2025 5:18:01 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: mbrfl

Stations showing alternate to Kimmel, “Memories of a Life In Music: The Wayne Newton Documentary, Part I.” Three hours. 📺


8 posted on 09/22/2025 5:18:24 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: logitech

Naaahhh. Then people would know what late night comedy looked like.

George Burns could always leave me in stitches!


9 posted on 09/22/2025 5:19:11 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: frank ballenger

Reply:

Come, we that love the Lord
And let our joys be known
Join in a song with sweet accord
Join in a song with sweet accord
And thus surround the throne
And thus surround the throne

We’re marching to Zion
Beautiful, beautiful Zion
We’re marching upward to Zion
The beautiful city of God

Let those refuse to sing
Who never knew our God
But children of the heavenly King
But children of the heavenly King
May speak their joys abroad
May speak their joys abroad
We’re marching to Zion...

Then let our songs abound
And every tear be dry
We’re marching through Immanuel’s ground
We’re marching through Immanuel’s ground
To fairer worlds on high
To fairer worlds on high
We’re marching to Zion...


10 posted on 09/22/2025 5:19:32 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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“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 on Monday evening.

Why even more news? Just have them air whatever is on a subchannel in that timeslot if they can't come up with something else.

11 posted on 09/22/2025 5:19:34 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: logitech

Yes. The Rodney Dangerfield ones alone are sure to please people.


12 posted on 09/22/2025 5:19:41 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: chajin

Yes, better than my version.


13 posted on 09/22/2025 5:21:10 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: mbrfl

Talk about not being able to read the room!!! ABC totally ignored the tidal wave of revival that enveloped the nation with the memorial service Sunday to return this vile human to their schedule. Good on Sinclair for their decision!!


14 posted on 09/22/2025 5:21:12 PM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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RE: Why even more news?

On the version of the series Ellery Queen Mysteries set in the 1940s and 50s (Jim Hutton and the great David Wayne as his father) they had the elder Inspector Queen reading a newspaper item:
“This is terrible. One of the three television networks tonight is going to experiment with the idea of a nightly news program for a half hour at 6:30-—every weeknight. That’s wrong. The news for people to hear at the dinner hour? Why, they’ll get dyspepsia.”


15 posted on 09/22/2025 5:25:35 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: V_TWIN

>>”Unfortunately I suspect Sinclair will relent as well......it’s just a matter of time.”

Unless Kimmel self immolates first, which is very possible, even likely. Does anyone think Kimmel’s going to stop with the controversial, anti-MAGA, anti-Trump statements? I doubt he’ll even give a sincere-sounding apology, and his behavior will only get worse from there. My prediction is he’ll continue to alienate affiliates, and more and more of them will join Sinclair in not carrying the show.

In fact, if you want to consider a 3D chess explanation, maybe this is ABC’s plan all along - their way of taking some of the heat off of themselves. When more and more affiliates cancel the show, ABC can cancel Kimmel again and blame the decision squarely on the affiliates.


16 posted on 09/22/2025 5:27:23 PM PDT by mbrfl
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To: mbrfl

How can I feel smug about not watching Kimmel when my local station isn’t carrying him?


17 posted on 09/22/2025 5:29:40 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (I pray that the sleeping giant has finally awakened and been filled with a terrible resolve.)
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To: mbrfl

Makes sense. Let him blow up his career on his own.


18 posted on 09/22/2025 5:29:57 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: logitech
They should play Johnny Carson reruns.

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19 posted on 09/22/2025 5:29:58 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: mbrfl
Smart move by Disney.

They know Sinclair doesn't want kimmel back on air so Disney says he can go back on air knowing Sinclair will say no.

Sinclair comes out the bad guy.

20 posted on 09/22/2025 5:31:45 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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