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WE WON! DISNEY IS BRINGING BACK KIMMEL…
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SINCLAIR AND NEXTSTAR ARE CONTINUING NOT TO AIR JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE. IT’S TIME FOR PHASE 2..
On September 17th, Disney-ABC yanked Jimmy Kimmel Live off the air—just hours after FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatened the company over Kimmel’s comments about Charlie Kirk’s murderer. Make no mistake: this is creeping fascism—media silenced for daring to dissent. Only months ago The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was cancelled at the president’s request, and now Trump is publicly calling for Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers to be “next.”
On Sept. 23, Disney reinstated the show. But that same day Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair Broadcast—together controlling 70+ ABC affiliates (about 25% of stations, ~23% of U.S. households)—said they will keep preempting Kimmel. Both groups are also before the FCC on major deals, including Nexstar’s proposed $6.2B acquisition of Tegna.
Trump threatened ABC on Truth Social: “I can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back… I think we’re going to test ABC out on this … Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative.”
We must continue to voice our consumer concerns and exert pressure to ALL of their advertisers, and ALL of their local stations.
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