[State Sponsored Cancel Culture] Disney cancels the Jimmy Kimmel Show after government pressure

Hey, we finally agree on something

 

Corporations are not your friend

 

Sounds very much like it is about protecting free speech.

https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsr...om-tv-broadcasters-after-pulling-kimmels-show

“If Nexstar or Sinclair traded the censorship of a critic of the administration for official acts by the Trump administration, your companies are not only complicit in an alarming trampling of free speech rights but also risk running afoul of anticorruption law”

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), along with Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Ed Markey (D-Mass.), and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), pressed broadcasters Nexstar and Sinclair for answers as to why Jimmy Kimmel was pulled off the air.

On September 15, 2025, Jimmy Kimmel made a series of comments in reaction to the assassination of Charlie Kirk that drew the ire of pro-Trump websites and Fox News. Two days later, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr implied on a podcast that he would consider regulatory repercussions for broadcasters who did not take action against Kimmel’s show. Hours after his comments, ABC, Nexstar, and Sinclair suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live!. ABC later announced that it would return Kimmel’s show to the network, but Nexstar and Sinclair are refusing to air the show on local ABC stations they own.

Nexstar’s and Sinclair’s decisions to preempt Kimmel’s show come as both companies have business pending before the Trump administration. Nexstar — the nation’s largest owner of local television stations and owner of dozens of ABC affiliates — needs the FCC’s approval of its attempted mega-merger. Sinclair — the nation’s second-largest broadcaster and largest owner of ABC affiliates — is also waiting on FCC authorization for a broadcast deal, and is planning larger upcoming deals.

“If you suspended a late-night comedian’s show in part to seek regulatory favors from the administration, you have not only assisted the administration in eroding First Amendment freedoms but also create the appearance of a possible quid-pro-quo arrangement that could implicate federal anti-corruption laws,” wrote the senators.

Notably, Nexstar’s plan to acquire rival broadcaster Tegna would expand its reach to U.S. households from 39% to an unprecedented 80% nationally.

“If Nexstar or Sinclair traded the censorship of a critic of the administration for official acts by the Trump administration, your companies are not only complicit in an alarming trampling of free speech rights but also risk running afoul of anticorruption law,” wrote the senators.

The senators requested more information as to the possible existence of a quid-pro-quo arrangement by October 7, 2025.

Senator Warren has fought against corporate media consolidation and the Trump administration’s disturbing efforts to silence free speech:

• On September 23, 2025, Senator Warren released a statement after Nexstar Media Group’s and Sinclair’s decisions to continue to preempt Jimmy Kimmel Live! on ABC affiliate stations.
• On August 1, 2025, Senator Warren released a statement following Paramount’s and Skydance’s responses to her recent letters.
• On July 24, 2025, Senator Warren responded to the Trump administration’s approval of the Paramount-Skydance megamerger, saying “bribery is illegal no matter who is president.”
• On July 23, 2025, Senator Warren published an op-ed in Variety: “Elizabeth Warren on Colbert 'Late Show' Cancellation: Is the Paramount Trump Payoff a Bribe?”
• On July 21, 2025, Senators Warren, Sanders (I-Vt.), and Wyden (D-Ore.) pressed David Ellison, CEO of Skydance, about reports of a secret deal between Skydance and President Trump — and how it may be related to Paramount’s recent multi-million-dollar settlement agreement with Trump.
• On July 17, 2025, Senators Warren and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), along with Representatives Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), and lawmakers in Congress, unveiled the Presidential Library Anti-Corruption Act to close loopholes that allow presidential libraries to be used as tools for corruption and bribery.
• On July 2, 2025, Senator Warren called for an investigation into Paramount’s settlement with Trump.
• On February 19, 2025, Senator Warren wrote to Omeed Assefi, acting DOJ assistant attorney general, asking the agency to look into, and potentially block, a Jan. 6 deal that would have Disney merge its Hulu+ Live TV business with Fubo.

 

Enjoy.

 

I wish they would call Carr in. His comments deserve some Congressional action. A committee in the House voted on subpoenaing him, but Republicans killed the move.

 

They (DEMs) said they would when they win back the House. Carr is already backpedaling. He knows he went too far and likely broke the law.

 

related

Brendan Carr Plans to Keep Going After the Media
While “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” returned to ABC on Tuesday, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has promised to continue his campaign against what he sees as liberal bias in broadcasts.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/...e_code=1.oU8.u-Lv.GWcdWVKomUa9&smid=url-share

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If he's not doing it while biting down on a hunting knife blade, is it really a threat at all?

 

I don't see anything wrong with the title of this thread. It's factual. The show returning doesn't negate the title in any way whatsoever. Nor does it negate the fact that government is obviously playing a tit-for-tat game with TV corporations trying to censor critics (which is against the law). ABC played the cards it was given the best way it could, but what gov-t did, in threatening them, is completely unacceptable & Carr should suffer consequences.

On a side note, anyone ever call you a bully? You have an avatar of Trump shouting "fight, fight, fight" to his followers. Your post is full of insults to more than one person. Your handle on here is of a gladiator. By these tokens you seem to value brawn over critical thinking.

Incidentally, Kimmel called Trump a bully on his return to broadcast I believe. Head honcho is a bully, so you follow suit?

 

Sinclair-owned ABC stations will bring ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ back to air Friday

 

“Over the last week, we have received thoughtful feedback from viewers, advertisers, and community leaders representing a wide range of perspectives,” Sinclair said.

at the end of the day, money talks

dumbass Disney and these morons just learned that the hard way

 

Nexstar just folded as well as per Variety.

Jimmy Kimmel Fully Back on the Air: Nexstar Joins Sinclair in Returning Late-Night Show to ABC Stations After Temporary Blackout

 

That Sinclair? I'd say no thanks to any future mergers but as long as this admin has their ego stroked they don't care.

 

"Oh, you don't want to air our programming? Enjoy Saturdays without football."

 

clearly they caved to government pressure from Bernie Sanders

 

May I refer you to a thread entitled “Dipshit morons”. We have a whole thread dedicated to Baghdad Bob aka astro123 for his boorish behavior such as insulting, bullying, gaslighting and most of all LYING.

BTW- there is no critical thinking in the D&D. This place is filled with woke clowns with serious TDS who gathered in a circle jerk to shout at the people they’re disagreeing with. LOL

 

Sinclair and Nexstar went full "cancel culture", just to turn on their heels and go full "snowflake".

Are Sinclair and Nexstar closet "liberal" organizations?

Or did they just make a business decision? They make more money, if Kimmel follows the late news.