Nexstar ABC Stations Dropping Kimmel

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1 hour ago, Reweivvt88 said:

I don't see how that's possible. He refused to "apologize" (apologizing would be absurd as he has nothing to apologize for) and he has no reason to apologize in the future because he doesn't need the job. He has tons of money and an amazing family he loves to spend time with, there are tons of other things he can make money doing, and since he has no reason to apologize, bringing the show back would just put Disney in the exact same position they are now. Disney is terrified of upsetting trump and they know bringing the show back would just make him furious. The ABC sources talking to deadline seem out of touch with reality of what just happened here. It's not like ABC just cancelled tonight's taping and put Jimmy Kimmel Live in repeats for the rest of the week for the situation to die down, his show was yanked from the schedule immediately & indefinitely. When Megyn Kelly & Sharon Osborne made racist comments on Megyn Kelly Today & The Talk, NBC and CBS still aired repeats of both shows until they both departed the network. Disney's actual decisions don't imply this is temporary at all and it seems like the ABC sources are trying to make it seem like it will be up to Jimmy Kimmel when the reality is Disney & ABC caved to MAGA. 

Yet at this moment there’s no word that Kimmel’s Millionaire show is scrapped…indicating that there’s still a door open? 

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3 hours ago, mre29 said:

Also, Kimmel can make a personal donation to the Kirk family, but he is under no obligation to donate to TPUSA.

 

Sinclair demanding that is nuts… so there not gonna air Jimmy until he’s donate to TPUSA how can a private business even… I’m at a loss for words. MAGA can’t be this powerful.

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7 hours ago, Reweivvt88 said:

The story is nowhere to be found on abcnews.com.

They eventually put up an article, but it is very sparse.

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1 hour ago, GraphicsMan said:

Sinclair demanding that is nuts… so there not gonna air Jimmy until he’s donate to TPUSA how can a private business even… I’m at a loss for words. MAGA can’t be this powerful.

But they are. This has been building for a long, long time. And those who saw it coming were dismissed as overreacting. 
 

It’s not just one party controlling every aspect of the government, it’s one philosophy. The governing party has largely been purged of any dissenting voices. Where once there was a diversity of views on many topics, all you have now is a couple of outliers on one or two issues who ultimately make no meaningful difference. It’s performative at most. 

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9 hours ago, Reweivvt88 said:

 

 

I'm wondering if they will even mention the topic. The story is nowhere to be found on abcnews.com. It was the lead story on the hearst owned ABC station WCVB Boston's 11:00pm newscast, yet the story is missing entirely from ABC owned stations websites in LA and New York.

 

I'm wondering if ABC even had any say in the matter or if it was just a order from Disney. 

 

The far right was not watching Jimmy Kimmel Live. Kimmel had been going after Trump and republicans for years, and I remember reading interview from years ago with him saying ABC told him to stop and he refused. He didn't need the show, ABC needed him, they kept signing new contracts giving him things like the entire summer off with his kids to get him to stay. By cancelling Jimmy Kimmel Live, they are hurting the ABC brand with its actual audience. It's not like ratings crashed and advertisers were pulling their ads, yes some far right station groups pulled the show but it still would have aired in major markets and on hulu. Now they have upset their audience, ruined any ratings success in late night, and will likely have to pay Jimmy Kimmel the rest of his contract. I don't see how upsetting your audience and paying someone millions to not be on TV is good for the ABC network, but Disney doesn't want Trump to come after its more important assets so they don't care if ABC is harmed in this. 

https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/abc-pulls-jimmy-kimmels-late-night-show-indefinitely-following-charlie-kirk-comments/amp/

 

Yeah, and it looks like ABC nextar affiliates are side stepping the issue too. I saw an article in WSYR which was a copy and paste from the AP. It didn't even mention that WSYR is a Nexstar owned ABC affiliate for transparency purposes.

 

Wether or not you perceive what Jimmy Kimmel said as insensitive, did he not just reiterate what Utah's Trump supporting governor said:

The irony in all of this is that the right is now perpetrating the same cancel culture that the left has been rightfully and constantly called out for. But this isn't new.

 

Left leaning media like MSNBC (and to a lesser degree) CBS and ABC have been talking about holding Trump to account for years yet bowed to him the moment he applied pressure on them.

Edited September 18, 2025 by MediaZone4K

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19 minutes ago, MediaZone4K said:

https://www.localsyr.com/news/national/abc-pulls-jimmy-kimmels-late-night-show-indefinitely-following-charlie-kirk-comments/amp/

 

Yeah, and it looks like ABC nextar affiliates are side stepping the issue too. I saw an article in WSYR which was a copy and paste from the AP. It didn't even mention that WSYR is a Nexstar owned ABC affiliate for transparency purposes.

 

Wether or not you perceive what Jimmy Kimmel said as insensitive, did he not just reiterate what Utah's Trump supporting governor said:

The irony in all of this is that the right is now perpetrating the same cancel culture that the left has been rightfully and constantly called out for. But this isn't new.

 

Left leaning media like MSNBC (and to a lesser degree) CBS and ABC have been talking about holding Trump to account for years yet bowed to him the moment he applied pressure on them.

Except that “the left” didn’t have government agencies use Sopranos-level extortion (we can do this the easy way or the hard way). 
 

The boycotts from all sides get to be a bit confusing to track, but that’s basic freedom at work. Don’t want to buy/watch/patronize whoever, great. This is a whole different level. 

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GMA covered the story on both hours today; take notice of George Stephanopoulos’s words at the end: 

 

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He’s exactly right.

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Make no mistake: this isn’t just the cancellation of a late-night talk show. This is a neon-lit symptom of America’s degenerative attention span, corporate cowardice, and our collective descent into curated stupidity. And don’t you dare try to convince me it was just about ratings.

 

This is what happens when a culture trades character for content, when it silences the jesters because the kings got tired of being mocked. It’s what happens when we stop laughing at power and start laughing with it.

 

ABC didn’t cancel Jimmy Kimmel.

America did. And it should be ashamed.

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12 minutes ago, abric said:

 

 

America did. And it should be ashamed.

I am. 

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I fear this is the end of late night television as we know it. First it was Colbert. Now it's Kimmel. You know Trump and his goons will now come for Fallon and Meyers. It's truly sad. 

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The View did not talk about the Kimmel suspension on today’s episode.

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1 hour ago, Glimmer said:

GMA covered the story on both hours today; take notice of George Stephanopoulos’s words at the end: 

 

The video is now private, so what did he say?

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Along the lines of independent media continually being attacked by the FCC, Trump and his appointees. 

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Am I reading too much into the GMA video from this morning now being listed as private? 

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https://abcnews.go.com/US/abc-preempts-jimmy-kimmel-live/story?id=125690074

 

It's on the GMA website. I guess they want to be very delicate with this story only because they are the face of it. So they don't want it easily accessible.

 

Nonetheless, the decision to pull the plug on Jimmy Kimmel for that particular reason was egregious to me, but it's not shocking that all the shows he's done leading up to today couldn't mean that he was not under the radar already. What he said about the shooter, in my opinoin was very wreckless on his part. Especially since the situation has just occurred, and people are still mourning. ABC is playing it safe, especially since they have been under the radar lately with the administration already given what has happened. They just settled a defamation suit, so the least they need now is another lawsuit. 

 

Still, I'm willing to bet that it probably wasn't that particular statement alone on Monday night. He was probably in hot water the entire time, and they (the FCC, nextstar and etc) used this moment to take action and set a precedent for everyone else. The media does have a role to play in all of this words can be damaging. Lately, Jimmy Kimmel's shows have been mostly bashing the administration and their antics, while he is free to say what he wants to say, but when you "poke the bear" enough, the bear will eventually attack back, and it seems like this is what is playing out. Yes, while we are in a country that promotes free speech, free speech is not necessarily a protected right. There are consequences for it. 

 

But, I do hope that the show returns, maybe some sort of apology or compromise can be done to unify the sides together. Maybe Kimmel could invite Trump on his show lol. Late night, talk shows need not be so heavily focused on the government and politics; Do some light commentary and a little political satire, but he kept going on and on all the time, it's a bit annoying find some other things to poke fun at, in my opinion. 

Edited September 18, 2025 by Vlad

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1 hour ago, Vlad said:

Nonetheless, the decision to pull the plug on Jimmy Kimmel for that particular reason was egregious to me, but it's not shocking that all the shows he's done leading up to today couldn't mean that he was not under the radar already. What he said about the shooter, in my opinoin was very wreckless on his part.

 

If Kimmel saying the shooter is MAGA is reckless, then so is all the right-wingers saying the shooter is from the left.

 

 

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1 hour ago, Vlad said:

ABC is playing it safe, especially since they have been under the radar lately with the administration already given what has happened. They just settled a defamation suit, so the least they need now is another lawsuit.  

Don't forget that ESPN wants to buy those NFL assets and that does have to pass regulatory approval. So Disney is both avoiding a lawsuit and appeasing the regulators to get their deal pushed through.

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13 minutes ago, mre29 said:

 

If Kimmel saying the shooter is MAGA is reckless, then so is all the right-wingers saying the shooter is from the left.

 

 

This. The rules apply to thee, not to me.

 

Except that Kimmel’s statement actually has more to back it up at the time. Heck, it still does. 
 

Now, let’s be honest amongst ourselves. What he said was not about the victim. It was about the accused, alleged perpetrator. And those who were and are in mourning were not likely to be Kimmel viewers. It defies logic to assume that generally benign statement of opinion was reaching a large swath of the victim’s followers.

 

 

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With his contract with ABC reportedly ending in May 2026, my guess is that both he and ABC will decided to end the show. It's a question of when, not if at this point as I can't see a way forward.

 

Nexstar and Sinclair can now easily object to anything and everything he (and anyone else at ABC) says. Once that door is open, there is no shutting it.

 

As I have said before, whenever possible; people should do their own thing independently of having to answer to someone else.

 

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2 hours ago, HanSolo said:

Now, let’s be honest amongst ourselves. What he said was not about the victim. It was about the accused, alleged perpetrator. And those who were and are in mourning were not likely to be Kimmel viewers. It defies logic to assume that generally benign statement of opinion was reaching a large swath of the victim’s followers.

 

That right there may be the best post of the thread.

 

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4 hours ago, mre29 said:

 

If Kimmel saying the shooter is MAGA is reckless, then so is all the right-wingers saying the shooter is from the left.

 

 

 

no. The shooter is an obvious leftist. You have to be blind, deaf, dumb and a liar to claim otherwise.

 

We can all read that savage's text and discord messages. Even me, English as third language and having failed it at 8th grade in eastern europe, can read and understand

 

also "Charlie Kirk is a Nazi" totally something something on the right would say about Kirk

 

 

3 hours ago, HanSolo said:

This. The rules apply to thee, not to me.

 

Except that Kimmel’s statement actually has more to back it up at the time. Heck, it still does. 
 

Now, let’s be honest amongst ourselves. What he said was not about the victim. It was about the accused, alleged perpetrator. And those who were and are in mourning were not likely to be Kimmel viewers. It defies logic to assume that generally benign statement of opinion was reaching a large swath of the victim’s followers.

 

 

 

which part of lying on TV while holding an FCC license was hard for you to comprehend? I thought we were supposed to battle misinformation and disable those people's social media and everything else

 

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4 hours ago, mre29 said:

 

If Kimmel saying the shooter is MAGA is reckless, then so is all the right-wingers saying the shooter is from the left.

 

 

Important to note that Kimmel did NOT say that the shooter is MAGA.

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3 hours ago, Jase said:

With his contract with ABC reportedly ending in May 2026, my guess is that both he and ABC will decided to end the show. It's a question of when, not if at this point as I can't see a way forward.

 

Nexstar and Sinclair can now easily object to anything and everything he (and anyone else at ABC) says. Once that door is open, there is no shutting it.

 

As I have said before, whenever possible; people should do their own thing independently of having to answer to someone else.

 

 

local affiliates have been objecting to and refusing to air programming from the networks for as long as that relationship has existed. Many, at least the smart ones, have it written out in their contracts. 

 

WSVN would nuke FOX programming if it scraped into the newscast schedule, and still unilaterally decides to throw any sport that isn't an NFL game into whatever timeslot they can find, National Hot Rod Association being one of the more recent ones. 

And then there's WHDH, which to this day NBC blames for Jay Leno at 10pm failing, and one of the primary reasons NBC did what it did in Boston 

Edited September 18, 2025 by l_miro

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29 minutes ago, Geoffrey said:

Important to note that Kimmel did NOT say that the shooter is MAGA.

Exactly.  He said he grew up up in a MAGA household which is a fact.  Snowflakes don't like the facts.  In the end this is censorship with more threatened by Carr and trump.  We still have a Constitution and First Amendment. Those are at odds with each other. We have the right to praise, criticize, mock or whatever else as long as we don't make threats. That is illegal and crosses a line.  It is time broadcasters fight back and protect our freedoms.  The capitulation to trump only emboldens him to do mare, with ABC and CBS paving that way.