72 hours after Disney announced the Jimmy Kimmel would get his show back, Sinclair Broadcast Group and Nexstar Media said on Sept. 26 that they would resume airing "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" after initially refusing to do so. Jimmy Kimmel attends the 28th Annual UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation's "Taste for a Cure" event at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif., on May 2, 2025. Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images for UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center FoundationSinclair, the nation's largest ABC station operato ...

Nexstar Media Group (NASDAQ:NXST) on Friday said “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” will return to the company’s owned and partner television stations affiliated with the ABC Television Network. This comes just three days after media and entertainment giant Disney (DIS) revoked ...

IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nexstar Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXST), today announced that "Jimmy Kimmel Live!†will return to the company's owned and partner television stations affiliated with the ABC Television Network beginning tonight. We have had discussions with executives at The Walt Disney Company and appreciate their constructive approach to addressing our concerns. As a local broadcaster, Nexstar remains committed to protecting the First Amendment while producing and airing local. ...

Nexstar Media Group will restore Jimmy Kimmel Live! to its 24 ABC affiliates beginning tonight, ending a preemption of the show over a comment by the host about the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The decision, announced Friday afternoon, followed a similar decision by Sinclair on Friday. Between the two station groups, about one-quarter of ABC’s total footprint was left without access to Kimmel. His show had also been sidelined by ABC for five days amid the firestorm stemming from the tossed- ...

Local TV conglomerate Sinclair Broadcast Group said its ABC-affiliate stations will start airing Jimmy Kimmy Live! again on Friday night, ending its preempting of the show.Sinclair, along with fellow station owner Nexstar Media Group, continued to preempt Kimmel’s late-night talkshow even after ABC had put Kimmel back on air.Together, Sinclair and Nexstar’s preemption of the show left about 25% of TV viewers in the US unable to watch it, with the two companies owning 70 ABC-affiliate stations combined.The t ...

Local-television giant Sinclair Inc. said Friday that it was ending its boycott of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel's program on the company's ABC affiliates, leaving Nexstar Media Group Inc. as the last ... ...

High-profile defense attorney Alan Jackson said he would choose to represent ABC and Nexstar Media Group over Jimmy Kimmel if the late-night host’s suspension ever turned into a courtroom battle. Jackson, who recently helped secure Karen Read’s acquittal in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend, joined Billy Bush on "Hot Mics with Billy Bush," where he was asked who he’d prefer to represent following the controversy over "Jimmy Kimmel Live!""ABC and Nexstar, without a question," Jackson said. "… ...

Nexstar Media’s throttling of Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show is a massive headache for Disney CEO Bob Iger – but it won’t necessarily be enough to convince regulators to greenlight the local TV giant’s controversial, megabuck merger, On The Money has learned.The Irving, Texas-based broadcaster – which said Wednesday it will continue to suspend broadcasts of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” following the comedian’s return late Tuesday to ABC – faces major hurdles in getting White House approval for its $6.2 billion deal ...

Jimmy Kimmel's return to host his flagship late-night show turned out to be his biggest ever, with millions of people viewing it on Tuesday, Bloomberg reported.Jimmy Kimmel Live! logged its highest-ever viewers at 6.26 million as the host returned to air following the suspension of the programme by ABC. That figure is significantly higher than the show's usual 1.55 million viewers this year, according to Nielsen data.ABC had suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live! on September 17 following the host's comments made two ...

Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show will continue to be blacked out in dozens of cities nationwide after one of the largest owners of ABC affiliates appeared unconvinced by his teary-eyed monologue from Tuesday.Nexstar Media Group will continue to preempt “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on its ABC stations, extending a blackout that began after the late-night host’s controversial remarks about conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s killing.“Nexstar is continuing to evaluate the status of ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ on our ABC- ...