JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! “Jimmy Kimmel Stay!” airs each weeknight at 11:35 p.m. ET and contains a various lineup of visitors that embrace celebrities, athletes, musical acts, comedians and human curiosity topics, together with comedy bits and a home band.
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Nexstar Media Group stated Wednesday it’s persevering with to judge whether or not it would deliver “Jimmy Kimmel Stay!” again to its ABC-affiliate stations, a day after the late night time present returned to the Disney-owned community.
Nexstar’s broadcast TV stations affiliated with ABC didn’t air Kimmel’s return to late night time on Tuesday.
“Nexstar is constant to judge the standing of ‘Jimmy Kimmel Stay!’ on our ABC-affiliated native tv stations, and the present can be preempted whereas we accomplish that,” Nexstar stated in an announcement. “We’re engaged in productive discussions with executives at The Walt Disney Firm, with a concentrate on making certain this system displays and respects the varied pursuits of the communities we serve.”
Nexstar, together with fellow station proprietor Sinclair, stated it will preempt Kimmel when Disney returned the present to broadcast on Tuesday, leaving clients in lots of markets unable to observe the present on their native station.
A Sinclair consultant did not instantly remark Wednesday on the state of discussions between Sinclair and Disney, and whether or not it will equally proceed to preempt Kimmel.
Two of the biggest broadcast station homeowners, Nexstar and Sinclair collectively personal about 70 ABC affiliate stations within the U.S.
The comic addressed the state of affairs throughout his monologue Tuesday.
“We’re nonetheless on the air in a lot of the nation, besides, satirically, from Washington, D.C., the place now we have been preempted,” Kimmel stated after a industrial break. “After nearly 23 years on the air, we’re abruptly not being broadcast in 20% of the nation, which isn’t a state of affairs we relish.”
Final week, ABC mum or dad Disney stated it will quickly droop manufacturing on “Jimmy Kimmel Stay!” following feedback by host Kimmel that linked the alleged killer of conservative activist Charlie Kirk to President Donald Trump‘s MAGA motion.
Kimmel’s suspension got here shortly after an announcement from Nexstar that it will not air this system — in addition to feedback from Federal Communications Fee Chair Brendan Carr suggesting ABC affiliate stations might be prone to dropping broadcast licenses over Kimmel’s feedback.
“It was by no means my intention to make gentle of the homicide of a younger man,” Kimmel stated in Tuesday’s emotional monologue. “I do not assume there’s something humorous about it.”
