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Thankfully ABC doesn’t seem to be as feckless as you believe they should be. If Jimmy can’t make the joke about their age gap, then why did Trump make a similar remark about the age gap just yesterday? This ridiculous capitulation and self-censoring is frankly a very idiotic suggestion.

Seriously? The president of the United States can do anything with no limits of evil but a late night host joking about his death should never be acceptable and that's non negotiable no matter what? Yes I know his corrupt supreme court gave him total immunity but what if he followed through on his threat to end civilization in Iran? What if he decides to do what he has always wanted to do and drop a nuclear bomb somewhere? We are talking about a joke here, he's not calling for people to assassinate anyone, and yet even a joke about him dying should never be accepted because he's the "president". Jimmy Kimmel has nothing to do with the country being divided. The country is extremely divided because one half of the country is terrorizing the other half. Could you imagine in the 1930s someone saying "The jews and the nazis are so divided right now and they are never going to be united if we keep talking bad about Hitler". That's what you sound like. Donald Trump posts about killing public figures all the time. He has millions of cult like loyal followers who are mentally unstable with military style machine guns and he still posts about how his enemies should be killed by firing squad. Even republicans who turn on him like MTG get death threats from his supporters. The fact that you think a late night talk show host should be held to a higher standard than the president of the United States when all he is doing is a silly joke and the president constantly puts peoples actual safety in danger with actual death threats is stunning.

Five more states are now joining in on the bipartisan lawsuit. You read that right. Indiana and Vermont are two of the five joining in and they have Republican governors. https://www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthedesk.net%2F2026%2F04%2Ffive-states-added-to-antitrust-lawsuit-against-nexstar-over-tegna-deal%2F&urlhash=nYYk&mt=1bo3E9OQnzdhNC0dKhy12ougIWpPSsFiiBQcZxG59cFmeHlUgKXRrRe0oiFAChEW28ArcVEnZhLZXKmHURoPMZwJm75rPvMitgSOTMCpxsDEXqJSsx1kw18hDg&isSdui=true

The Ohio AG says an agreement with Nexstar was made so WKYC and WBNS would maintain independent newsrooms: https://www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov/Media/News-Releases/April-2026/Yost-Reaches-Agreement-with-Nexstar-to-Preserve-Lo#:~:text=(COLUMBUS%2C Ohio) — Ohio,our democracy%2C” Yost said.

Basically we're under a dictatorship right now. No one will call it that but that's basically what it is. It is all to appease dear leader and his whims. So therefore, anything he says is bullshit. He lies and breaks the law in virtually everything he does so nothing that comes out of our government is legitimate anymore. And even if it is, It's a lone act hidden under hundreds and even thousands of illegal actions. As soon as he is out of power, a whole bunch of people are going to prison. Hopefully him if he's still alive when it all ends.

Our best wishes are off to Sara Gore. She announced today during New York Live that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXw3dq-OIxz/?igsh=dHFjaHp2dmZiOXBh

Annnnnnnnnd, let's all cool down for a bit. Maybe we should all let the dust settle on this thread until we get actual headlines, because some of us can debate back and forth til blue in the face. Not restricting posting, not locking the thread, so I don't want to hear anything about censorship. I'm just suggesting that everyone has well-established their points, by now.

I do not think it is the least bit wise of Kimmel to joke about the death of the President - how ever implied or mild the joke may purport to be. Even though Kimmel denied wrongdoing in his later monologue, he knew better than to make such a joke especially after last year's fiasco. I don't care who is the President or which political party he is part of. Jokes that hint at the death of the incumbent President should not be on television. Period. And that should be non-negotiable. Our society has never been more divided and making jokes about a President's death does nothing to unify the viewing audience on common ground and should never be accepted as part of our discourse in society. ABC management can fix this mess by talking to Kimmel behind the scenes and ensure he steers clear of such jokes in the future. And provided that a clear agreement is reached, then Kimmel should be given another chance. That said, this is bad for business at ABC and management will have to make some difficult decisions in the coming days.

CBS Evening News Keeps Hemorrhaging Viewers | Chart "The Dokoupil-led “Evening News” hit its lowest-rated month in total viewers since the anchor took over, averaging less than 3.9 million viewers throughout April. In the advertiser-coveted 25-54 age demographic, the show is averaging 497,000 viewers, its lowest April in the demo this century. But the show is up 2% in total viewers from April 2025, which remains its lowest-rated April in total viewers this century." "The show averaged 4.279 million viewers in its first quarter, down 7% from the same period last year, while its 25-54 audience was at 535,000 viewers, down nearly 20%." " It comes as competitors such as ABC News’ “World News Tonight” averaged 8.54 million viewers and roughly 1.1 million in the demo —more than double CBS News’ numbers" "Weiss told staffers in January that ratings were not her ultimate measure of success." It's not just CBS Evening News. CBS News is hitting ratings low from morning to night The New CBS News Drives New Ratings Lows | Charts "while “CBS Mornings” is also on track to hit its lowest total-viewer numbers since October after a steady decline throughout the year’s first quarter"

Don't buy it at all.

To me, Rather was fine, flaws and all--- Somebody had to be in third place , and that was him. Dan Rather is no Cronkite but his tenure was the most stable era of the evening news since ole uncle Walter's departure. The broadcast reamins no better without Rather.

And that's the way it is.

This seems fair. These kinds of things are not one-offs. This represents yet another means by which the government is trying to coerce companies by threat of dragging them through the litigation process should they not capitulate.

At this point, should the FCC premature revenge motivated early review of ABC/Disney licenses be a separate thread, since, Nexstar, at least publicly, with its own problems, is not chiming in? If trump did not want satirical jokes about the age difference with his wife, including jokes made for years similar to Kimmel's, then he should never entered public life. He, his actions, his life, his looks, his speech all become fair game. That's the way it's always been. Saturday Night went to town on Ford stumbling on stairs. Comedians have always mocked public figures and leaders. Let's not forget he gives them lots of material to work with. Sadly, he can't take it and now has ordered this review which Carr was all too giddy to comply in an abuse of regulatory power.

So some interesting changes happening from this Monday (May 4th). It looks like Early Start is being axed, and replaced with Headline Express (this was first flagged by @EastCoaston another forum). Interestingly it also looks like the 4am ET hour of CNNI Newsroom is returning. I wonder if Headline Express moving to 5am is to accommodate that? Presumably HE is produced by a different team, so it’s no extra workload for the CNNI overnight team. Wonder who will anchor this extra hour? I’d love it if they gave Christina Macfarlane that hour back, but I suspect (at least for now) it’ll be Becky Anderson and/or whoever anchored the previous hours of Newsroom (so probably Rosemary Church).

Jimmy Kimmel didn't say anything wrong. There is no real public backlash, it's all MAGA garbage and the only people upset are republicans who will attack Jimmy Kimmel no matter what he says. ABC caved to MAGA last fall and it was such a disaster they had to backtrack and reverse their decision. trump and the people in his government/army/ice/police/etc.. are actually doing evil actions and are responsible for the murder and torture of thousands of innocent people and you are claiming stuff some Democrats are saying makes "both sides abhorrent"? Nobody is publicly wishing death on trump because of something Kimmel said. Trying to tie the two together is ridiculous. People are wishing death on trump because of what trump and his government is actually doing. Since when has wishing death on a evil person who is a threat to the lives of others been broadly condemned? It is NOT controversial for people to publicly wish death on terrorists, evil dictators, etc.. It happens all the time. If you go over social media you will find comments of people wishing death on multiple terrible groups of people. Everyone from terrorists to evil dictators to murders to child predators. Republicans are the biggest supporters of the death penalty and our Government murders people all the time when there are non-lethal alternatives. I say this as someone who actually wants Trump to stay alive because Trump dying will change nothing, the people in his government are more evil and dangerous than he is, but when he dies his death will be publicly celebrated by a huge part of America and it will be very interesting to see how the U.S. news media handles this.

WXMI has switched as of this evening

History is being made in Portland. For the first time ever, we're getting a women's sports-focused RSN and Gray is making it happen. KPDX is being converted from FOX 12 Plus into Rose City SportsNet, the home of Portland Thorns FC (NWSL) and the new Portland Fire (WNBA). It will still be OTA on Channel 49 and Cable 13 (next to KPTV itself). https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.kptv.com/2026/04/27/gray-media-raj-sports-launch-rose-city-sportsnet/%3foutputType=amp

Respectfully, if you think ABC (News) has become the equivalent of state-run media, then you're not quite familiar with true, legitimate, state-run media.

KJRH has been running promos for two months and hasn’t swapped yet when I asked they said it was coming but didn’t have a definitive date as to when it would be done. So don’t get hopes up on WTKR getting them right away.

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I really don't think it's necessary to make new topics just because X station introduces a new voiceover...

I can't take that open seriously, I don't know how to say it but it's... offensively bland.

Yes sometimes someone like George Stephanopoulos will point out a lie or ask a tough question, and yes ABC News hasn't fired him for doing so, but they did fire Terry Moran. if ABC News was your only source of media, or even worse if you only watched ABC World News Tonight as your source of news, you would be totally unaware of most horrible evil things this administration is doing. The ICE raids for example get almost no coverage. On September 30 when ICE agents in Chicago zip-tied children with no clothes, it was not even mentioned on ABC World News Tonight even though this would normally be the type of story ABC News would be all over (the local ABC Chicago station did cover it). The kids being tortured in ICE "detention" get almost no coverage. Yes they cover things like ICE agents shooting Americans in public but just like state TV in other authoritarian countries most of the terrorizing by the Government goes unreported or downplayed. That's what makes them appear like state TV in my opinion, there are 2 types of state TV, ones like RT that justifies and defends whatever the Government is doing, and ones like CGTN that ignores and downplays what the Government is doing and focuses on other news, and that's what ABC News looks like to me. The trump admin still does interviews with ABC News, and ABC News is rarely criticized by trump, the fact that the FCC is trying to take ABC off the air because of Jimmy Kimmel and not ABC News coverage kind of speaks for itself. Disney has ensured that ABC News is no threat to trump, but he's coming after them anyway because of Kimmel.