Jimmy Kimmel is going back on air, but not every station will carry it.
Disney Corp who owns ABC released the following statement: “Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country,” ABC parent The Walt Disney Company said in a statement Monday. It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.”
Both Nexstar Media and Sinclair Media are refusing to permit the ABC affiliate broadcast of the Jimmy Kimmel show.
Nexstar saying: “We made a decision last week to preempt “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” following what ABC referred to as Mr. Kimmel’s “ill-timed and insensitive” comments at a critical time in our national discourse. We stand by that decision pending assurance that all parties are committed to fostering an environment of respectful, constructive dialogue in the markets we serve. In the meantime, we note that “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” will be available nationwide on multiple Disney-owned streaming products, while our stations will focus on continuing to produce local news and other programming relevant to their respective markets.”
Sinclair saying: “Beginning Tuesday night, Sinclair will be preempting ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ across our ABC affiliate stations and replacing it with news programming. Discussions with ABC are ongoing as we evaluate the show’s potential return,” Sinclair said in a statement.
Sinclair and Nexstar represent about 60 ABC affiliates, approximately one-third of the broadcast audience.
I am still convinced that the ratings people have a couple million TV’s tuned to whatever they want.
Wouldn’t that give kimmel a negative 300,000 viewer rating? Maybe it is only 1.5 million robo-TVs.
All those sim’s they found.
Connected to Kimmel broadcast?
Nobody watches the slime ball, ok? Sinclair and Nexstar are hard press to sell the rotten show. Pedo Kimmy cucumber is pampered and obnoxious maggot.
Now, tell us what you really think. LOL
Here is a list of his previous advertisers
Allstate, McDonalds and Starbucks are the top 3 for spending.
Kraft Heinz
Progressive
Capital one
Pfizer
Johnson & Johnson
Ely Lilly
Proctor & Gamble
Unilever
General Mills
Look at all the pharmacia. I repeat myself but still maintain when big pharma is out of advertising; we might get honest journalism. MAHA is aware of the problem.
Such a good point.
Interesting choice for the Pharma target audience .. guess fruits and nuts do make sense..
By Pharma educating the Boomers, it gives them confidence when they talk to their elderly parents about their meds. “Well mom, I don’t know why you’re always tired and slouching more everytime I see you and have difficulty going to the bathroom and have panic attacks…but you’re on all the right meds.”
A doctor in every house.
Thank you So Much Big Phlegm. Pharm.
Well, with the big announcement yesterday, I was actually hoping he was going to take Pharma ads off of TV. What is it, we and Australia are the only two countries that air them?
Something is really wrong there……….
Perfect! A really good starting point for advertisers boycotts
I’ll have to look into P&G, but aside of some brands of theirs I’m unaware of, I doubt I have anybody on that list I wasn’t already boycotting.
Name one P&G product that actually works? I’ll wait…
Bounty paper towels, Head and Shoulders, Gillette razor blades, Crest tooth paste, dawn dishwashing, pampers………
Well, you asked and I have used all of these at one time or another.
Just commodities
Let the boycotts begin!!!!!
I don’t knowingly use any of them.
Ohhhh….now I get it. 😂
If Sinclair and Nexstar stay out, maybe some of these advertisers will pull out, since they’ll be playing to a much smaller audience?
If paying me to watch slime ball Jimmy I still won’t him,never and never,
what a gift to conservatives to put this Godless degenerate back on the air….he will never apologize for the Charlie Kirk assassin falsehood and the left’s free speech claims r now dead. Drama anyone? His ratings have been in the tank 4ever and ABC can’t admit they’ve been throwing millions on the fire just to keep him on air. Is he shagging someone behind the cameras???
As the Charlie Kirk movement gets stronger every day, the left is circling the toilet bowl…
WHATEVER IT TAKES
“Is he shagging someone behind the cameras???”
Yeah, his little, and possibly illegal, sidekick.
Disney hasn’t learned the lesson of FAFO.
Let’s continue to teach it to them.
Bob Iger is going to want to quit.
No, actually they haven’t at all………
Disney has a history of hiring pedos. Lots of children actors and actress became addicts, psychos and damage. Most famous are Britney and Byrnes. Time to clean house.
Annndddd, no one really cares.
It would be funny if there was a huge audience for whatever the replacement programming is.
Was “free speech” as outlined by our Founding Fathers meant for all the pure hate-filled rants that seemingly incite violence (#maxinewaters)… for the shouting that applauds defamation of character…not to mention the bombardment on the airways with obsenities, evil rhetoric and just plain mean-ass lies as now being perpetuated across the media and by so many politicians (#ilhanomar #rashidatlaib #jasminecrockett and others)? I know that’s a run on sentence, but you get my point. Am I wrong or was the First Amendment meant mainly for governmental constraints? And as for Nexstar and Sinclair: WELL PLAYED, stand firm…they have every right to editorial control as a private company, i.e., it’s their choice to limit certain content. That is not a violation of free speech. Kimmel, Colbert and even Fallon have carried their diatribes too far and for too long…as has most of the far left. (And I’m STILL waiting for SOMEONE to explain to me how Charlie Kirk “spewed hate” and mysogyny, and what did he say that intimated he disliked blacks and women or anyone else for that matter…? I’ll wait.) Where has common sense AND common courtesy gone??? …”Stupid is as stupid does”…
If your local ABC affiliate carries Kimmel on this return, make sure you file an FCC complaint saying that the affiliate is not living up to it’s license agreement in broadcasting for the good of your local community.
Jimmy, like Fredo, Lemon, Stelter, Anderson, Jussie, Barack & Kevin Durant appears to have a little “sugar in his tank”.
Somebody needs to tell Kimmel to stop getting his eyebrows manicured. Bad job. Looks like a woman’s.
Who?
Hopefully Sinclair and Nexstar can run reruns of Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? In Kimmel’s case, the answer is H-E-Double hockey sticks-NO!!
How about the 1966 movie “The Naked Prey” starring Michael Caine?
https://counter-currents.com/2012/09/the-naked-prey/
Jasmine Crockett could narrate the movie explaining how the main character was racist because he wouldn’t let the Blacks kill him. Kimmel’s audience should eat that up! (sarc)
Somehow, I have the impression that ABC pulled a ‘New-Coke’ stunt. Remember when Coca Cola introduced the ‘new’ Coke and they then reintroduced the ‘old’ Coke, and by doing that, their market share increased. You have to wonder if they did that on purpose, just like I wonder if ABC just stirred the waters to get better ratings and advertising revenue.
The Mouse is gonna notice the pain of losing “60 ABC affiliates, approximately one-third of the broadcast audience” BECAUSE of Jimmy Kimmel!
The only on-air Kimmel event should be him getting the beating he’s earned.
Disney just keeps burying themselves. They need to fire everyone and start over.
For Disney, the hits just keep coming….
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2025/09/23/kimmels-collapse-empty-parks-another-streaming-price-hike-disneys-disastrous-week-keeps-getting-worse/
The money section:
“But this mess is not Disney’s only worry over the last week. Some reports claim that attendance at Disney’s massive theme parks is crashing. One report noted that a Tiktoker recorded video of a nearly empty Disney World and called the place “deserted.”
“I’m at Magic Kingdom right now, and this place is a tomb. There is literally nobody here. There is no wait time for anything. Space Mountain – walk on. Haunted Mansion – walk on,” the Tiktoker said in the video. “It’s Labor Day weekend – should be crowded, should be packed normally – this place is empty.”
“What’s going on? Why is there nobody here? I have never seen it like this. It’s been years since I’ve seen it this empty, especially on a holiday weekend. I don’t know,” he said.” ”
Here’s a clue, TikToker: People got very, very tired of having the woke agenda shoved down their throats, both a the theme-park and through their media productions.
Conservatives have been boycotting Disney in ever-increasing numbers over the last few years. Next, the economy under Biden made it too expensive for the average family to go, and families are just now recovering enough under President Trump to consider putting such vacays back on the schedule.
Now, with the Kimmel debacle, Leftists are now boycotting Disney for the past week. Even they are slashing their streaming subscriptions.
If Labor Day weekend was a graveyard before the Kimmel debacle, the Disney theme parks have lost its only remaining supporters. Their media outlets are bleeding.
Circling the drain….
These late night shows have become like the 2 minutes of hate sessions that were talked about in 1984. People go there to get their dopamine fill. It makes them feel like they’ve made an achievement. I remember a woman I worked with that said she thought Colbert should run for president.
Goodness gracious.
These shows are all propaganda sessions. Craig Ferguson and Leno were the only tolerable people I could take.
Oh so the lefties pissing and moaning about him being targeted by the government were wrong? Gee. Why am I not surprised that they are all lying sacks of human poo!?
Same as always – no one watches Kimmel
The two companies were supposedly still in talks with ABC and Kimmel a few hours ago.
Just heard Fox say that ABC caved to Kimmel because there were some A listers on the letter signed by 400 actors.
They said DeNiro, Aniston, Hanks,
My thoughts: First, these are not actors on tv shows.
Second, ABC should look at how poorly DeNiro’s last movie has done on Netflicks. People like me will not watch any movie with the despicable DeNiro and I understand his movie felt flat because MAGA won’t watch it on Netflix.
Aniston? They’ll watch re-runs of Friends, but those don’t bring large dollars to anyone. They are fill spots put on in the wee hours of the morning. The day Jennifer Aniston actually pulls people in to see MOVIES is long gone, if it EVER was.
Hanks? When’s the last time he was an actual star in a great film? Nope.
ABC will not lose money with these folks. The reason they buckled is to retain their “WE HATE MAGA RIGHT ALONG WITH YOU” street cred. It’s a social thing.
DeNiro’s movie was also garbage. That helps too. The premise was insane.
When Colbert announced that he wasn’t gonna be renewed- his ratings went up. Normally I would think the same would happen for Jimmy, but if Sinclair and Nexstar don’t air the show- then Jimmy’s ratings could be the same as before he cancelled at best, but only the first week or 2. Lmaooooo. Literally 100,000 in the key demo watched him and that’s it.
On Seattle Reddit, a protest against KOMO , a Sinclair owned station that won’t be airing Kimmel.
The photo shows a small “crowd” of, once again, older people. Everybody has white and gray hair! A comment from someone in CA.saying same is happening there.
Young people not showing up for *any* of these Lefty protests.
The crowds at the Charlie Kirk memorials were *full* of young people.
Boise had a big long diatribe on the local news leading into the “GREAT KIMMEL COMEBACK” describing why we MUST carry this drivel in our network. SofaKing NOT convincing.
Yippee dee yuh yah!!! I can’t wait to still not watch it.
Still not funny. Even more NOT funny watching his tearful non-apology.
Rhymes with “TRUCKER”
Sounds like tail between the legs knows he’s not got much longer.
Bullsh!T apology.
@WEschenbach
Kimmel then: “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.
” Kimmel tonight: “… nor was it my intention to blame any specific group for the actions of what was obviously a deeply disturbed individual.”
Clearly, he thinks the rest of us are as stupid as his audience.
That was EXACTLY his intention, to blame the specific group that he called “the MAGA gang” for the actions of the assassin.
He said it loud and clear, and if you don’t believe me, read his words again.
Now, he’s flat-out lying to our faces, and the bad news? His followers believe him 100%.
They cheered and clapped wildly when he said that.
We are not the same.
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That’s the left! Same crap, different day.
Lie, get caught, and then try to cover it up with another ‘you just didn’t understand me’ or ‘I didn’t say that’ lie, which they say is an “apology” when any literate person knows it’s no such thing.
I hope Nextar and Sinclair never put him back on. Let ABC flush Disney revenue down the toilet day after day, year after year.
Given that Disney’s girl-bossed Star Wars and Indiana Jones into the ditch (and don’t forget the delightful Snow White remake), as soon as it pulled the plug on Kimmel, I knew they’d put him back on. It’s so far down the woke/dei rabbit hole, there’s just no going back.
Okay…..so ABC thinks the degenerate Kimmel can weather this storm even though 1/3 of his audience will be cut. And that’s one third of the dismal ratings and viewership that he was getting. This actually sets him up for an even bigger fall…kicking it down the road and little more.
Interesting how when DOGE cut the USAID whore funding they were providing to all the progressive rot around the world and in this country…including progressive rot like Colbert and Kimmel on TV shows and stations………
That we find out these ugly, rotten and evil creatures were actually losing big money for years……but our tax dollars were being funneled to this kind of rot and then we were being forced fed it.
These rot filled shows….like Kimmel and the View……are on life support!
THERE HAS BEEN A TURNING POINT!
Even the blind are waking up…and that’s the normie democrats.
It will be like Colbert, Kimmel will get a show death from a thousand cuts. Advertising, USAID and simply losing sponsors and audience. He won’t be on for much longer.
The maggot is back? I wonder what a “thoughtful conversation” with the maggot sounds like.