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Jimmy Kimmel's show is returning to ABC on Tuesday, but not all stations will air it
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Sinclair runs our local ABC station and I fully expect violent protests. We'll have to see how that works out.
I really hope it's true that they asked him to apologize and he told them to pound sand.
Break down the statement that was "OMG SOOOO OFFENSIVE!"
"We hit some new lows over the weekend (TRUE) with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them (TRUE - they were calling it an act of "the violent left" before we even knew who the kid was) and doing everything they can to score political points from it." (TRUE - like getting people fired from their jobs).
Been saying it since yesterday...
It all depends on Jimmy's monologue.
We all know what he said wasn't a big deal. If he comes out and offers any type of apology, fuck him and fuck the mouse.
If he comes out and goes harder on trump and flat out says how big of a first amendment issue this was, and Disney doesn't yank him again. Then I have zero issues restarting my subscription.
But we got a wait a couple days and see how it goes.
I'll cancel and resubscribe every week if that's what it takes to show Disney where the line is, it takes zero fucking effort and is an immediate quantifiable metric for the corpos
The sad thing is, a lot of people aren't even going to see his return until it hits YouTube because of the Sinclair bullshit. :( Probably including me.
So Disney says "Come on back!" and Sinclair can still block that, even in ultra liberal cities like Portland and Seattle?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stations_owned_or_operated_by_Sinclair_Broadcast_Group
I mean...
I don't think I know anyone who watches OTA TV...
I just legit don't watch Kimmel, but Colbert and Daily show I watch the next day on streaming.
I imagine a lot of Kimmel's views come from Hulu the next day, the ones Disney cares about anyways. The clips on YouTube aren't really making Disney money, Hulu subscribers are.
Isn’t that how most people watch it? On YT with ublock origin providing and ad free environment?
you'd be surprised how many people refuse to use ad blockers lmao.
You could just never resub? Disney will never be and has never been a "good" company.
There's times and ways they've been alright
Same - seriously considering buying an antenna this afternoon so I can see which advertisers I need to boycott and let know Sinclair is bad for business.
I have my tin foil hat on, but I'm wondering if the Sinclair owners are willing to take a loss on their media front in order to have the social influence of the local TV stations. The influence may be more valuable to them than the revenue.
Look at how long Faux was in the red. I don't think you are wearing a tin foil hat. The wingnut welfare set saw all those years as an investment, not a loss.
I was driving around in Utah not too long ago, and until you drive through the real hinterlands of this country, you just don't realize what a wasteland most of terrestrial radio is once you get beyond metro areas. When flipping around, I'm pretty sure one of the strongest signals was Hannity - but he was on three, maybe four (?), different bands. On FM. This shit - all the Limbaugh clones - used to be all over the dial on AM since at least the mid-90s, but I guess they are now creeping into the FM bands.
I would not be surprised at all if most of hate radio is propped up by wingnut welfare, too.
That's been their plan the whole time. Any surplus money they earn is just an accelerant toward their goals of subjugating Americans
Probably. I still don’t want to give their advertisers money.
Do it anyway. Stop paying for what you can get for free.
Don’t worry - I’m not paying for it.
To me my biggest hope is that he takes their calls to donate to TurningPointUSA... and flips them.
"So, some asked me to donate to TurningPointUSA as an apology, I've decided it's more appropriate to donate to (pick a gun control charity here),
nah, we need guns right now, pick another anti fascist charity lol
I mean lets be real, none of these charities are pushing to ban guns, more like simple things like universal background checks etc... Point is if the goal is to give a middle finger to conservatives while describing it as honoring kirk, gun control would be the ideal, as that's litterally the cause of his death.
ACLU or something would be better and more effective
I actually saw that segment. Had they argued that he disparaged the US government it still would've been none of their business, but at least it would've been the truth.
They asked him not only to apologize on CK's behalf but also to donate to TP USA.
Violent protest by who
It's Portland, so...