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.
So, uh, why aren’t they going after the @#$! government corruption?
Or the asshole who just said we should bomb/gas the UN?
Or Pakled Tom Holman, whom the FBI recorded accepting a $50K cash bribe from an undercover FBI agent in 2024, and the MAGA DoJ just closed the case.
They need to see it’ll be worth it with the citizens; if not enough people complain, they’ll let it slide.
I can do this too!
Democrats bad. Don’t vote.
The definition of the Democratic party. Spending all its time doing “strategic” politics with the right wing. They’re so use to it now they’re moving perfectly into their phase of “we need to work with the fascist guys. Come on! Bipartisan compromise! We can totally get healthcare passed. But just healthcare for the people in the concentration camps. Clearly we still need to do means testing. How could we afford it otherwise?”
Goddamn Vichy collaborators
They should be investigated under anti-monopoly laws, and their companies broken up.
federal anti-corruption laws
lol
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.
Yeah that’s crazy, now how about those Epstein files?
Well, he acknowledged reality and showed a video of Trump. You can’t do that.
Anyone who watches cable TV is most likely a boomer. They’re catering to their clientele. Fuck all of them
They are talking about local network TV broadcast here, not cable.
A cable connects the antenna to the TV. Checkmate!
Sorry… BROADCAST TV
Shit… same bullshit
Yes, but the FCC does not regulate cable in the way it does broadcast. Which is why it’s an important distinction in this case.
Amazing how many idiotic concepts you can squeeze into into such a short post.
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Plenty of non-Boomers watch cable. In fact, MOST cable watchers are NOT Boomers.
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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.
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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.
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