ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” returns Tuesday night, but Nexstar and Sinclair are keeping the show off their affiliate stations.
Four Democratic lawmakers are opening a probe into Nexstar and Sinclair, two major TV station owners that are refusing to air Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show amid criticism of his on-air comments about the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
In a letter, first obtained by NBC News, the lawmakers asked the corporate heads of both companies for more information about their decisions to pre-empt airings of ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and “how those decisions may relate to regulatory issues pending with the Trump administration.”
“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,” the lawmakers wrote.
Democratic law makers do fucking nothing as usual.
What exactly should they be doing besides opening official investigations into 1A violations? Are you expecting them to go kill the Sinclair C-suite?
I mean, that would be a start.
Investigate their takeover of American broadcasting. We have anti-monopoly laws for exactly these situations. Their company should be broken up.
Maybe do what Republicans always did when they were in the minority and hold the government hostage? I mean surely they’ve seen the move often enough by now to at least give it the ol’ college try…
They’re currently doing that with the stop gap spending bill.
You don’t believe in the power of a strongly worded letter?
Maybe if we ask real nice they will start an intensive leaflet campaign.