{"id":5756,"date":"2025-09-19T21:01:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T21:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=5756"},"modified":"2025-09-19T21:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T21:01:15","slug":"donald-trump-praises-decision-to-take-jimmy-kimmel-off-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=5756","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump praises decision to take Jimmy Kimmel off air"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABC\u2019s late-night lineup just took a jolt\u2014one that\u2019s rippling through TV \u00a0<\/a>politics, and free-speech circles. On Wednesday, Nexstar Media Group said its ABC-affiliated stations will preempt \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d \u201cfor the foreseeable future,\u201d beginning that night, after Kimmel\u2019s on-air remarks about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The move effectively removes Kimmel in a swath of U.S. markets where Nexstar controls the late-night ABC feed, even as ABC\u2019s network schedule technically still lists the show.<\/p>\n

In broadcast terms, a preemption isn\u2019t a cancellation; it\u2019s a local affiliate choosing not to air a scheduled network program and substituting something else. Because Nexstar owns or operates dozens of ABC affiliates, the decision instantly pulls the show from many homes\u2014potentially millions of viewers\u2014while ABC\u2019s owned-and-operated stations in cities like New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago may still carry it. Practically, that fragments the audience and ad impressions enough to feel like a shutdown in large parts of the country. Affiliates routinely preempt for breaking news, storm coverage, or sports runovers. Doing so \u201cfor the foreseeable future\u201d over editorial content is unusual, and that\u2019s why this has drawn so much attention<\/p>\n

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For viewers in affected markets, the post-news slot will fill with alternate programming\u2014classic sitcoms, syndicated talk, or local specials. Many will catch Kimmel\u2019s bits the next morning on YouTube and social apps; others will simply change habits. The longer this lasts, the more likely those habits stick, and habit is late night\u2019s oxygen.<\/p>\n

Kimmel has options. He can deliver the monologue he intended and push it digitally, letting the internet judge. He can stay the course and let corporate diplomacy work. ABC and Nexstar could quietly map a return with a time-limited d\u00e9tente, no public mea culpa. A pivot to a softer political edge seems unlikely; it would placate some affiliates but risk alienating his core audience.<\/p>\n

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This isn\u2019t just about a comedian. It\u2019s about who holds the remote to America\u2019s 11:35 p.m. conversation: network HQ in New York or the station group in your city. In streaming, a host and a platform settle that instantly. In broadcast, the triangle\u2014network, affiliate, regulator\u2014still matters, and moments like this expose the fault lines. For now, \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d is dark in a patchwork of markets, lit in others, and loud everywhere online. Whether it returns uniformly will depend less on Washington than on boardrooms\u2014and on whether viewers care enough to demand it back where it\u2019s gone missing.<\/p>\n

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ABC\u2019s late-night lineup just took a jolt\u2014one that\u2019s rippling through TV \u00a0politics, and free-speech circles. On Wednesday, Nexstar Media Group said its ABC-affiliated stations will preempt \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d \u201cfor the foreseeable future,\u201d beginning...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5757,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5756\/revisions\/5757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}