NEW YORK (AP) — ABC will reinstate Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show in the wake of criticism over his comments about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, officials with the network said Monday.

“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,” said a statement from the network.

All that was just ABC saving face. It was the plan all along to cover for his mouth.

I'll continue to not watch his show.

(Were any of the people who would "boycott" his show even watching it to begin with?)

Supposedly Disney what's losing money like water through a sieve.
That's the reason he's being reinstated.

He shouldn't be

Probably not.
Kimmel sucks, but this is at the bottom of my list of things to be outraged about.

How long has he been on the air. I never watched him, that gives you an idea how long it has been since I watched TV.

Sinclair, the affiliate that owns the bulk of the local stations, says that they will not air the show regardless of what ABC does.

Same

Ratings are down 37 % from 2015. Numbers are from before this mess. Jimmy sucks.

Yep!

"Sinclair also calls upon Mr. Kimmel to issue a direct apology to the Kirk family. Furthermore, we ask Mr. Kimmel to make a meaningful personal donation to the Kirk family and Turning Point USA," the company stated. "Regardless of ABC’s plans for the future of the program, Sinclair intends not to return ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ to our air until we are confident that appropriate steps have been taken to uphold the standards expected of a national broadcast platform."

Who really cares?
Nobody will be watching him, any sponsors will be wasting their money.
Let them throw good money after bad and continue to dig their hole deeper.

Yep don’t care to watch him. Never have , but now never will. I’m a sinner I hold grudges and always will.

wws

Another distraction. Look here so you you pay attention over there.

Why don't they just move his show to CNN? It wouldn't hurt their ratings any.

His first show will have a larger audience wanting to hear what’s he has to say but then it will go back to being at the bottom of the tank especially since he, as of now, lost 68 markets from Sinclair and Nexstar.

Most his shows had lots of empty seats. They used that automated laughing system. I'm not saying that in a sarcastic way. His show was really dropping in ratings over the last ten years. Look it up if you don't believe me.

This!!

The 2 large affiliates refuse to air Jimmy’s show even if he’s reinstated.

Only the ones being paid to watch it.

At least I had heard of him. I may have watch some part of his show over the last 20 years. Only Kirk I was aware of was James Tiberius Kirk.

You watched Kimmel when he hosted The Man Show didn't you?

Never heard of it? Was it like Red Green Show?

Girls on trampolines is the only thing anyone remembers about The Man show

It should be good and I'm looking forward to it.

The Constitution won a little battle here and I hope Kimmel flips the double bird at Brendan Carr and his master. Every else should too if they give a flip about free speech.

lol

The Constitution speaks about private employers?

What do you think about Google's admission that it deplatformed conservatives from YouTube at the behest of the Biden administration?

If Kimmel speaks and no one is listening does it make a sound?

The constitution? Tell us you know little about the constitution in your own words.

Chris

Let them air it. They will continue to lose money. Free speech. Its a win.

If they would have had scantily clad women at possum lodge then, yeah, just like that.

Pretty much. LOL

Brennan Carr is not a private employer. Read up on him and Kimmel.

I just read about Google and Biden. Clearly wrong.

I apply the same dang standard to both sides.

You weren't happy when Twitter threw Trump off?

If I stay awake and listen closely??? Will I hear conservative heads exploding???
LOL! Asking for a friend..

Maybe they should take some Tylenol so that doesn't happen.


Mac

Doubtful Mac,
Not dumb enough to watch him.

I apply the same dang standard to both sides.[/quote]


And it should be that simple. Yet for most on here that's beyond their mental capabilities.....

And another one I bet was happy when Trump was silenced shows up, lol.

Ps,
Don't you have perfectly legal crossbows to protest about?

Why do people who don't watch care what he says??
IS that the same as if I don't like a post here I should click past??
Life so confusing..

Mac

Probably because we know the gullible will believe his lies and regurgitate them here like we see all to often.

But you know dang well that is not what happened. I also disagree with Carr's comments, and yes I've been reading about this all week. Carr did not cause the firing of Kimmel, Disney did. A private company chose to no longer air a television show they had been airing. THAT is the free market... and that is not covered by constitutional protection as you well know.

…. Why are you even arguing with that hippie ? Lol

because I like to argue lol

… he’s probably massaging another man’s feet right now …. But he’ll be back

… just be patient

I didn't think a company firing u for ur actions at work had anything to do with free speech. Let's play a game here and put our thinking caps on please.

If you want to make this a constitutional issue, you can't make it based on what Carr/FCC threatens ABC regarding the licences. The argument to make is abolishing the FCC. Then again almost every regulatory agency should be abolished as most of them should not have any power to create there own rules . They should only be allowed to enforce laws passed by Congress, not assume the jobs of all three branches of the government.

Now that 2 major affiliates say they won’t carry the show and the shows not a money maker to begin with maybe just maybe capitalism will out do the constitution this time. Jimmys a liability no matter what he does a little fuse let it play out. I never watched him before and won’t start now even if it was the only thing on the tube.

Did you hear about You Tube .. admitting today,that they silenced conservative you tube posts

And even edited and altered content. ..per order by the Biden Regime ..

Where's your out cry about that violation of free speech ??

Did anybody read the letter of admission sent by alphabet inc besides BC?

Alot of Trump haters, let me use that phrase again, Trump haters, love Jimmy. I know a gun owning, hunter, trapper, who hates Trump. Loves Jimmy! Hangs with a bunch of similar Minnesota Trump haters!

Who in the heck watches Kimmel? Besides dbc

Who watches tv except for a movie?

I think this is the best take.

Here is the monolouge from last night. You can watch it--it won't turn you libtard.

Kimmel says something that annoyed me about guns but was otherwise great on the 1A. Heck, Kimmel and I would probably disagree on most things. That's life--rationale people don't always agree on everything. They can still coexist and I can laugh when he says something funny.

https://youtu.be/aTZjo42xRH4?si=s7tVT1XrEA2sY1GX

No doubt you'd overlook the anti-gun advocate to support him.

I addressed the gun issue right above your post. You should read it.

Why watch a libtard ????

I did read your post, and you are ok overlooking it even tho you didn't care for it.

BC...did you buy Kamalas book yet ???

What does that mean? I heard it. I disagreed with it. That happens to normal, thinking people everyday in life.

Do you want me to write Kimmel.a stern letter on the 2A?

No no,
Just finding out that being anti gun isn't a deal breaker with you.....as long as you're an anti Trumper, lol

So did those other affiliates not show any of his show like they said they would do?

No clue....Aftah my 11:00 news was ovah at 11:30 ....I change the channel ..because that

Libtard operative follows my news channel.

Isn't that exactly what truely makes America Great?
Someone can enjoy some of the same things you enjoy. Dislike somethings you like or enjoy.
You are totally free to not understand how that can be..
That is American..

Mac

In case you missed it...Jimmy's first guest

Unlike you and your pals, I don't swear allegiance to any man. There is no "deal" to break. Kimmel is a comedian. His entire purpose (at least for me) is to occasionally entertain. Although, this.last week.he also stood up for the 1A.

Stop being so tribal.

I really do not understand how a lawyer can believe that a private company's decision regarding whether or not to air a program can be considered a violation of first amendment rights.

In previous posts he referenced Carr, chair of the FCC as though the FCC had made the decision to pull the show. But, that is not what happened.

BC, you are hypocrite. You constantly admonish anyone in the current administration when something positive is reported by countering with Trump, Bondi, etal. is soft on the 2nd. It's been your go to and end all argument since I can remember. Yet, you're only annoyed by Kimmel being anti 2nd, but otherwise it's ok to agree to disagree and we all get along?

Anyone else see this with him?

ol' dad

I'd say that sums it pretty well.
Super critical of the right
And super passive of the left

Funny how Lawfare was not a problem when it lacked due process and all the manipulation of the statutes that was no big deal to the trump haters. Excuses were made to look the other way you it’s all hypocrisy.

I think that is whataboutism? Pretty common on here.

I'm pretty sure that is how biden got drug into this post.
"What about when biden did something that was not even what he did ?" Anybody read the letter of admission?

Again, Jimmy Kimmel is a comedian. He is not President or Attorney General. He cannot affect my 2A rights. I can simply turn off the television.

That was a statement to mislead from the truth a statement of fact not comedy quit lying about what he said!

I watched maybe a half dozen man show episodes. Seen one seen em all. Was entertaining for the first few. Then repetition bored me. I rarely watch TV and had no interest in his talk show. Never watched one.

Freedom of speech and press are real important. Worth fighting for.

Like my original post I still dont think government shut it down. Trump has a bad habit of running off at the mouth. Its the New York city native in him is my opinion.

My GUESS is in spite of the show losing money his fans made a big enough stink the financiers were afraid of a bigger money bleed. Probably hoping all this attention will increase viewership. Which it probably will.

I understand how someone who has never ran a business or advised a business is missing the pretty obvious point. Let me explain.

If a government official threatens to do something, even if just implied, to a private business, it affects decision making and behavior at that private business.

The threat may be lawful or unlawful.

When talking about Kimmel and ABC, Carr made threats about licenses--among other things.

FCC licenses and other approvals are important to ABC and its affiliates.

Trump and Carr do not like Kimmel because he makes fun of Trump every night. Hence the threats.

Threats about licenses were made to affect the way ABC (or its affiliates) behave in regard to Kimmel.

The threats are a violation of the 1A because those threats could, and did, affect the behavior of ABC--it suspended Kimmel.

In suspending Kimmel, ABC did not violate the 1A. I never said it did.

It is not what I do, but I expect for the threats to be actionable, the FCC would have to actually take some action beyond Carr yapping on a podcast. Regardless, Carr still stepped all over the 1A with his comments. So did Trump with his comments.

"The COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented time in which online platforms had to reach decisions about how best to balance freedom of expression with responsibility, including responsibility with respect to the moderation of user-generated content that could result in real world harm.

Senior Biden Administration officials, including White House officials, conducted repeated and sustained outreach to Alphabet and pressed the Company regarding certain user-generated content related to the COVID-19 pandemic that did not violate its policies.

While the Company continued to develop and enforce its policies independently, Biden Administration officials continued to press the Company to remove non-violative user-generated content.

As online platforms, including Alphabet, grappled with these decisions, the Administration's officials, including President Biden, created a political atmosphere that sought to influence the actions of platforms based on their concerns regarding misinformation.

It is unacceptable and wrong when any government, including the Biden Administration, attempts to dictate how the Company moderates content, and the Company has consistently fought against those efforts on First Amendment grounds."

The admission.

You will find this true in everything that’s on the MSM the same shows every time just the players are different often they are the same it’s all about SJW, racism, immigration all promoting the Lefts agendas/narratives.

Oh yeah.

You're way off base, what he said is ok...its where he said it and how his employers also took it.

On broadcast tv For instance they....
cannot swear
Broadcast porn
Guts and gore.

Obviously his employers don't like lying about half the country. (MAGA)


But keep digging, everyone here knows your true intent in backing this anti gun advocate.

That was a whole lot of typing to say that I was right... and that while we both agree that Carr's comments were concerning, there was no infringement of first amendment rights that took place anywhere.

Another shooting.

Texas this time by an anti-ice nut.

Maybe tonight Kimmel will say this nut is MAGA too and put the last nail to his employment.

Copycat, wrote "anti-ice" on bullets he left behind.

I typed it simply for you but you missed the point again.

Are you a "Charlie Kirk" of the left, here to continually argue/debate, hoping to switch us from right to left?

You're way off base, what he said is ok...its where he said it and how his employers also took it.

On broadcast tv For instance they....
cannot swear
Broadcast porn
Guts and gore.

Obviously his employers don't like lying about half the country. (MAGA)


But keep digging, everyone here knows your true intent in backing this anti gun advocate.

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This is extreme ignorance or more likely unwillingness to ceed that Trump has overstepped his bounds (again)
You can't simply ignore the fact that Carr threatened Disney ( we can do this the easy way or the hard way) There was/is two big mergers that needed FCC approval to happen. A reasonable person can conclude that since
Kimmel was suspended after these comments that they played a role. But aside from that, Trump said he wants the FCC to investigate further when he learned Kimmel was coming back. That's pretty black and white. You'll all be crying in your cheerios when the next president uses theFCC to shut down conservative voices. Or maybe they'll be mature enough not to feel threatened by a comedian making a joke about them, we'll see. Now, the fact that some affiliates won't air Kimmel is fine, that is the free market making decisions that they feel will benefit their viewers best

And before you decide to come back with tds because that's all you have.... take a look at all the conservative voices that are saying the exact same thing I just did.

So, PA and BC, if Disney was soooo intimidated by Carr's comments, then why did they reverse their decision?

I thought you had to be somewhat funny to be considered a comedian?

From what I’ve seen, all he does is spew hate towards Trump and the right in general?

Just to be clear... whether Disney pulled Kimmel or proceeded as normal has no bearing on the level of unconstitutional gov interference. The words were spoken... that's the problem.
To answer your question... I can't read minds so I can't say for sure. But the fact that both sides of the aisle cried foul certainly gave Disney some assurance that any further interference by the FCC would be seen for what is was and put the government in a liable position to them. Essentially having republicans and democrats alike condemn Carrs words put him back on his heels. He's in an indefensible position. And I'm sure money played a role in that decision to some extent. Just my opinion however

So... we're saying that one board chairman, of a federal agency.... "speaking words" is...... unconstitutional?

Kimmel is using his platform to be a left wing operative...period.

Johnny Carson said it best...look it up

I saw what Carson said and he's spot on, so are you.

When the words are a threat that the federal government will interfere if the results aren't what they want... then yes. What would you call it? I think you said that you agreed the remarks were "concerning "?
To follow that up the POTUS said he would like the FCC to further investigate because he wasn't happy Kimmel was coming back. Are the arms of the federal government's job to make Trump look good and follow his directive or do their job in a constitutional fashion as the laws written by Congress allow? I think you know the answer....

kimmel spews his political crap because he has an audience of rabid liberals that eat it up. I actually think they believe the stuff he says. And after what happened to Charlie Kirk, we really don't need folks like Kimmel firing up the hate and violence we all know the left is capable of.

But, that's his right to do if he wants to.

It's also his bosses' rights to can him if they choose.

One of the reasons we got the sub prime mortgage crisis was Clinton wt al threatening banks with investigation if they didnt give home loans to people that had no business borrowing 20 bucks let alone 200,000.

The difference between that and the FCC was that there was established rules that Kimmel was violating. The banks were just threatened with investigation just to be a nuisance.

Exactly what both ya have, but I don't need that as an argument...it's an obversation.
Broadcast tv has always been censored, the point you overlooked,,,and threats have been made in the history of it when the FCC thinks what they broadcast is not good for the audience/nation....

Shows have producers and lawyers for a reason. I had 2 people comment on YouTube that Jimmy did not say what he said they even cut and pasted it in their reply now that’s real cult minds there.

JIMMY WHO?

If trump said anything that outrageous the left would have 180 degree position on how it should play out. Roseanne was the perfect example of free speech and its consequences but then that was different.

I would call it the Chair of the FCC speaking out of turn. You do realize that the Carr cannot do anything alone, and that the FCC is a bipartisan agency, by law, right? That in order for them to do anything, the board must vote on it? So no... I do not believe that one person that has no legal authority speaking out is unconstitutional.

IMO there are far more concerning things going on currently than this!

Here is one plan to increase revenue

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment...ld-announcement-following-141924625.html