In this articleFOXACMCSAPSKYDISA sign is seen outside of the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" show outside the El Capitan Entertainment Centre on Hollywood Boulevard, from where the show is broadcast in Hollywood, California on Sept. 18, 2025.Frederic J. Brown | AFP | Getty ImagesDisney's decision this week to pull "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" from its broadcast network ABC is shining a light on a part of the media business in which the federal government has control. On Thursday, President Donald Trump suggested his administr ...

ToplineJimmy Kimmel’s late-night show was pulled earlier this week by Nexstar Media, the largest television station owner and operator in the U.S., founded by Perry Sook, who has remained largely out of the spotlight over nearly four decades as chairman of the local media giant. Nexstar executives announced the late-night show would be pulled after Kimmel’s “offensive and insensitive” comments about Charlie Kirk.Associated PressKey FactsSook, an alumnus of Ohio University in 1980, founded Nexstar in 1996 af ...

President Donald Trump suggested that US broadcast networks should face scrutiny over their licenses if their content is overwhelmingly critical of him, and defended ABC’s decision to suspend late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s show indefinitely over remarks about the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.“That’s something that should be talked about for licensing, too. When you have a network and you have evening shows, and all they do is hit Trump,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. “They’re lic ...

Jimmy Kimmel could have saved his job with a simple apology for his tone—and he still could. Instead, he seems determined to continue to mix the murder and the MAGA in his monologues. The Hollywood trades are reporting that many people, from Disney corporate to ABC affiliates around the country, were begging Jimmy to apologize, as viewership and advertising were plummeting, and he just wouldn’t listen. We strongly believe that Disney CEO Bob Iger and Disney were concerned about real, lasting damage to the D ...

Nexstar said that it made the decision to pre-empt Jimmy Kimmel’s show from its ABC stations “unilaterally,” without communication with members of the FCC or other government agencies. The company, the largest station group in the country, said in a statement, “The decision to preempt Jimmy Kimmel Live! was made unilaterally by the senior executive team at Nexstar, and they had no communication with the FCC or any government agency prior to making that decision.” Nexstar has issued the statement in respons ...

ABC停播事件 - ABC无限期停播Jimmy Kimmel的深夜脱口秀节目 因其对保守派活动家Charlie Kirk遇刺事件发表争议性评论[1] - 停播决定源于主要广播合作伙伴Nexstar Media Group宣布将停播该节目[1] Nexstar Media Group行动 - Nexstar作为拥有32家ABC附属电视台的媒体集团 强烈反对Kimmel的评论并决定在可预见的未来停播其节目[2] - 公司广播部门总裁Andrew Alford声明称该评论在政治敏感时期具有冒犯性 且不符合当地社区价值观[4] - 停播决策旨在促进建设性对话 认为继续提供广播平台不符合当前公共利益[5] 公司业务规模 - Nexstar是美国最大的地方电视广播集团 拥有或合作超过200个电视台 覆盖116个美国市场的2.2亿人口[6] - 公司拥有美国第五大广播网络The CW的75%股权 覆盖全美所有家庭[6] - 旗下资产包括新闻媒体NewsNation、数字政治新闻The Hill及多个多媒体网络[6] 市场表现 - Nexstar Media Group(NXST)股价报206.40美元 上涨0.48美元(涨幅0.23%)[7] - 迪士尼(DIS)股价报114.86美元 下跌1.24美元(跌幅1.07%)[7] 战略收购 - Nexstar于上月宣布以62亿美元收购广播媒体公司Tegna 旨在增强地方新闻和节目的可持续性[8] - 收购将使公司在Tegna51个市场区域中的35个实现业务重叠 并加强关键选举市场的附属网络[9] - 该交易需获得美国联邦通信委员会(FCC)批准[9] 监管层反应 - FCC专员Brendan Carr支持Nexstar的停播决定 认为广播公司应抵制不符合社区价值观的迪士尼节目[11] - Carr表示此事对迪士尼构成严重问题 并鼓励持牌电台声明此类内容不符合当地社区需求[14] 言论自由争议 - 自由言论倡导组织FIRE批评Carr的言论 强调FCC无权管制电视主持人言论 且第一修正案保护对时事推测的权利[15] - FIRE警告若因网络言论错误就对广播公司施加监管责任 将使FCC成为真相仲裁者并造成不可容忍的言论压制[15]

The pace at which this happened is remarkable. Just take us through the timeline. Never look, Jimmy's comments or Kimmel comments were on his show Monday.We go through Tuesday without anything happening. There is some online outrage, of course, but but no comments from Disney or stations or anything like that. But then Wednesday, Brendan Carr, the chair of the Federal Communications Commission, went on Barry Johnson's podcast.Carr has been kind of have openly antagonized a lot of media companies, said that ...

(Bloomberg) -- Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said Jimmy Kimmel’s comments about the shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk “appeared to mislead the public about a significant fact.” Speaking on CNBC on Thursday, Carr said: “Jimmy Kimmel is not Johnny Carson. It was not making fun of or pillorying me or the administration or the president. It was appearing to directly mislead the American public about a significant fact” about the assassination. Walt Disney Co.’s ABC netw ...

ABC’s suspension of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” over the host’s comments about slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk has ignited a fierce backlash as left-leaning social media users and influencers are now calling for boycotts of the network and its parent company, Disney.Hashtags like #BoycottDisney and #BoycottABCNetwork trended on X and Bluesky, where users posted screenshots canceling Disney+ subscriptions, citing Kimmel’s removal as the reason.“Boycott everything affiliated with ABC and Disney. Pass it on, ...

President Donald Trump's pressure on media companies appears to be mounting.On Wednesday, the Walt Disney Company pulled "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" off the air "indefinitely" from its ABC network after the host made comments linking the alleged killer of conservative activist Charlie Kirk to Trump's MAGA movement.The move is drawing comparisons to CBS's cancellation of "The Late Show With Stephen Colbert" in July and raising questions about the protection of free speech in a Trump-era broadcast environment. "We h ...