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ABC connected Wednesday nighttime pulled the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" late-night amusement disconnected the aerial "indefinitely" aft arguable comments by its big astir the slain blimpish activistic Charlie Kirk, and hours aft the caput of the Federal Communications Commission suggested ABC's broadcast licence was astatine risk
Jimmy Kimmel, during his opening monologue for Monday night's show, had suggested that Tyler Robinson, the antheral accused of sidesplitting Kirk past week astatine a Utah university, was aligned with President Donald Trump's MAGA — Make America Great Again — movement.
"The MAGA Gang desperately trying to qualify this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk arsenic thing different than 1 of them and doing everything they tin to people governmental points from it," Kimmel said.
"In betwixt the finger-pointing, determination was grieving," helium added.
" 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' volition beryllium pre-empted indefinitely," an ABC spokesperson told NBC News connected Wednedsday.
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ABC's announcement came soon aft Nexstar Media Group said its company-owned and "partner tv stations affiliated with the ABC Television Network volition preempt 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' for the foreseeable aboriginal opening with tonight's show."
Hours earlier, FCC Chair Brendan Carr told blimpish podcaster Benny Johnson that Kimmel's comments were "truly sick," and that determination was a "strong case" for enactment against ABC and Disney.
"This is simply a very, precise superior contented close present for Disney. We tin bash this the casual mode oregon the hard way," Carr said. "These companies tin find ways to instrumentality enactment connected Kimmel oregon determination is going to beryllium further enactment for the FCC ahead."
"They person a licence granted by america astatine the FCC, and that comes with it an work to run successful the nationalist interest," Carr said.
Nexstar, which is seeking FCC support for a $6.2 cardinal merger with Tegna, successful its connection said, "Nexstar powerfully objects to caller comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the sidesplitting of Charlie Kirk and volition regenerate the amusement with different programming successful its ABC-affiliated markets," Nextstar said.
Andrew Alford, the president of Nexstar's broadcasting division, said, "Mr. Kimmel's comments astir the decease of Mr. Kirk are violative and insensitive astatine a captious clip successful our nationalist governmental discourse, and we bash not judge they bespeak the spectrum of opinions, views, oregon values of the section communities successful which we are located."
"Continuing to springiness Mr. Kimmel a broadcast level successful the communities we service is simply not successful the nationalist involvement astatine the existent time, and we person made the hard determination to preempt his amusement successful an effort to fto cooler heads prevail arsenic we determination toward the resumption of respectful, constructive dialogue," Alford said.
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