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.
Amazing how many idiotic concepts you can squeeze into into such a short post.
Plenty of non-Boomers watch cable. In fact, MOST cable watchers are NOT Boomers.
Jimmy Kimmel is on a broadcast network, not cable. Cable has NOTHING to do with this situation. Cable does not require an FCC license, so Carr’s “easy way or hard way” threat would carry no power with a cable station.
Jimmy Kimmel is not a Boomer, and isn’t particularly liked by Boomers. Putting him on the air is not “catering to their clientele.”
The only thing you got right was telling all of them to Go Fuck Themselves.