Sinclair Agrees to Stop Preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live! After Failing to Get Disney to Budge

[CatWoman]

Sinclair has agreed to stop preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live! and will allow the show to resume airing on its ABC affiliates, the company announced Friday afternoon.

Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show was indefinitely suspended by ABC after comments the comedian made about Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old charged with the murder of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.

“We hit some new lows over the weekend, with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” said Kimmel on the Sept. 15 episode.

https://www.mediaite.com/media/entertainment/just-in-sinclair-agrees-to-stop-preempting-jimmy-kimmel-live-after-failing-to-get-disney-to-budge/

[Trueblue1968]

1. Havha ha

[onenote]

6. Link?

Under the FCC's rules, it would be difficult for ABC to fine Sinclair for preempting Kimmel.

[Tree Lady]

8. It must have been made up

I will delete comment.

[newdeal2]

3. Excellent

I wonder if Trump will punish them even though they are a conservative outlet.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

4. Sinclair blinked!

[underpants]

14. Some people are saying 👀......for Sinclair, this would be THE HARD WAY!!

[CatWoman]

17. the lesson here, boys and girls

is always stand up to bullies, especially loud mouthed, orange, flabby ones

[underpants]

5. #17 Alabama at #5 Georgia Saturday night at 8:00 on ABC

ABC can withhold programming too. Sinclair stations in the south crave SEC football. Maybe they didn’t threaten it THIS WEEK but losing big games later in the season could be a revenue shock to the local stations.

[TheProle]

11. Pfft... Howsabout #4 LSU and #13 Ole Miss

Geaux Tigers.

[underpants]

13. Yes but that's at 3:30

They’d hurt not getting that too.

[TheProle]

15. I know, I was just looking for a way to insert my team

didn't mean to derail discussion

[onenote]

12. The FCC rules make it difficult for ABC to retaliate against Sinclair for preempting Kimmel

and even if ABC could withhold the Alabama v GA game, doing so would cost ABC ad dollars, not just Sinclair.

[NCDem47]

7. Why any informed viewer in a Sinclair market watches their local programming is beyond me.

I hope they are a distant third or fourth in local news ratings.

[Tree Lady]

10. My ABC is with them and I stopped

Watching local news when they took over.

[Cha]

16. TY! It must have been a "business decision"...

Jimmy Kimmel and Show must be over the Moon!

There was a skit on last night I saw on our Liberal youtubes that had some guy telling traitor to "GFY.. and Epstein files".

How mad is fuckhead?

[CatWoman]

18. i know I am

especially since they tried to play a Trump and demanded money from Jimmy

[Cha]

19. Yeah, that demanding money

from an Extortionist was so Mob style... in essence Jimmy told them to take their demands and Shove it up their collective A$$.

This is such a Huge Win for Freedom of Speech and Democracy!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

20. Sinclair FOLDS and ends its preemption of Jimmy Kimmel Live! The show will return tonight on Sinclair's ABC affiliates

No donation to Turning Point was needed

Link to tweet

[mdbl]

21. Most likely no one was watching their shitty preempt

Why didn't they recruit Mike Lindell to do a spot? That would have drawn a lot of deplorables.

[JoseBalow]

22. Happy to take the W on this one!

[Paladin]

23. Assholes. (nt)

[Liberal In Texas]

24. Deathstar caving in too.

[B.See]

25. Yeah, also because sponsors don't buy ad-space

to be run during bullshit broadcasting NO ONE IS WATCHING.

[Jacson6]

26. This was bound to happen.

ABC could have simply said, "That is a nice TV station system you have. It would be a shame if you had no programming."