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lets face it. He’ll try to interfere even if Disney fires Kimmel. Trump is a bully who likes to bully just because he can. You can be his biggest ass kisser and he’ll still treat you like shit

Sinclair's ABC stations didn't air the Charlie Kirk tribute tonight. Instead they stuck w/ ABC programming (Celebrity Family Feud reruns) and put the tribute on their youtube page. https://x.com/WeAreSinclair/status/1969241140219039979

Be on the look out, several Hearst stations will launch new graphics this week.

And neither of those cancellations came from pressure from the government.

Christ. Why does everyone just so happen to have a merger deal going on now??? Is the timing coincidence, or were some companies waiting for a conservative administration hoping they'd get laxed monopoly policies?

The article is almost entirely speculation that Trump will interfere in the ESPN-NFL Network merger.

Man this makes me so mad. I got off of social media because of this.

In Spain (specifically, in Catalonia), public service broadcaster CCMA (operating under the brand name 3Cat) has relaunched its news service last Wednesday (September 17th) under the 3CatInfo brand: radio station Catalunya Informació became 3CatInfo ràdio, and TV channel 3/24 is now 3CatInfo TV. TV3's newscasts, Telenotícies, were also relaunched: Here in Brazil, big news at TV Globo, our most-watched network: William Bonner, co-anchor of Jornal Nacional, its flagship newscast, is leaving the broadcast, both as presenter and as editor-in-chief, after 29 years behind the desk, this November. He will remain at the network, though, co-hosting (joining Sandra Annenberg) and producing select episodes of the weekly documentary series, Globo Repórter, starting next year. This is causing a game of musical chairs at Globo and its São Paulo-based newscasts: César Tralli, currently at midday newscast Jornal Hoje, will move to Rio de Janeiro (where the Globo headquarters are located) and replace Bonner at JN, joining Renata Vasconcellos, who will remain at the broadcast; replacing Tralli at JH is Roberto Kovalick, currently at early morning newscast Hora Um, which will be presented by Tiago Scheuer (currently doing traffic and weather updates at statewide morning newscast Bom Dia São Paulo, which will be done by Marcelo Pereira, currently at Hora Um and who will reprise his duo with anchor Sabina Simonato, they're both co-anchors of national Saturday morning newscast Bom Dia Sábado); Natuza Nery will take over the 6pm hour on the GloboNews channel (where she already hosts the weekly political debate program Central GloboNews).

Meanwhile, Ted Cruz doesn't like what Carr did...but not for the obvious First Amendment reason. Ted Cruz Compares FCC Chairman’s Jimmy Kimmel Comment To ‘Goodfellas,’ Calls It “Dangerous” To Use Government To Force Late-Night Host Off Air Later... Cruz apparently thinks Kimmel slandered Kirk and his family by saying the suspect was part of MAGA? I'm pretty sure that's not how slander works. I mean, it's like saying that someone slandered JFK and the Kennedy clan with a statement that was entirely about Lee Harvey Oswald.

Or from monopolistic station groups run by Conservative CEOs.

You are wrong about most stations still able to pre-empt programming whenever they want in their contracts. Network affiliate agreements have changed. There may be a few exceptions, but it's not the norm anymore, especially for a large group of weak underperforming stations like Sinclair. Most Sinclair stations are last place, with horrible quality newscasts. They are not a desirable station group to affiliate with. Even stations way more important than the ones owned by Sinclair and Nexstar who used to get away with airing programming at different times are now forced to air network programming at the correct time when their affiliate agreement is renewed. You are also making a ridiculous comparison. First, the examples you provided are not even true, WSVN rarely pre-empts FOX programming anymore, but pre-empting a rare sporting event once in awhile is not the same as pre-empting 5 hours of programming per week, and you are wrong about WHDH, WHDH never actually pre-empted The Jay Leno Show, they wanted to, but NBC wouldn't let them, so no NBC does not blame WHDH for Jay Leno failing, WHDH aired Jay Leno just like NBC wanted. Then there is the fact that "Local" affiliates didn't object to carrying Jimmy Kimmel Live. The "local" affiliates had nothing to do with the decision. Right wing conglomerates who own the stations made the decision. It was not made at the station level at all. There is nothing normal or justifiable about what Nexstar and Sinclair did. If Disney had a backbone they would pull their affiliations from both groups, but Disney is terrified of upsetting the far right authoritarian government and evil dictator in the white house.

Aside from a civil war, the best thing Americans can do right now is cancel their subscriptions en masse to these companies that are bowing down. Make it hurt to the point that the oppressors are the ones begging for mercy.

Sinclair is secondary here. The issue is the FCC threats. Proverbially “growing a backbone” over Sinclair et al simply further increases the likelihood of the US government putting its full weight behind those threats.

Another example of why media consolidation is not always a good thing. Considering in some markets, every commercial anglo TV station is owned by Nexstar and Sinclair, the danger is even worse. There are no independent voices other than Sinclair's unabashed far right slant or Nestar's corporate direction. Not sure how that's in the public interest.

If you look at WPIX's report last night at 10pm, their introduction to the story was very transparent: "ABC decided to pull the plug on the show after Nexstar, which is PIX11's parent company, announced that its ABC affiliates would pre-empt Jimmy Kimmel Live indefinitely over its Charlie Kirk comments"

This is never going to happen. The only ones who should be giving an apology is Disney, ABC, Nexstar, and Sinclair. Jimmy Kimmel Live's ratings surpassed NBC's The Tonight Show because he focused on politics. It might be annoying to MAGA, but MAGA has lots of other things to watch. The country is never going to unify, the right has gone way too extreme for that to ever happen.

What an awful thing to say. If you do not mean any “disrespect” and “think she’s great” then why qualify why you think she doesn’t have the look for a major market? This is no better than unwanted viewer letters that tear people down. And in case you didn’t notice, there have been a number of weather folks in major markets with the trait you listed, notably at WNBC and WGN. SMH.

She's a NewsNation National Correspondent. Blech. https://www.newsnationnow.com/press/philadelphia-anchor-jessica-kartalija-joins-newsnation-as-a-national-correspondent/