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The network pulled the show after the Federal Communications Commission chair threatened regulatory action after the host's comments about Charlie Kirk's death.

Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show will return to ABC’s airwaves on Tuesday, nearly a week after it was suspended amid criticism of the host’s remarks about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

But many households across the U.S. still may not see the show. Sinclair, a company that operates more than 35 ABC affiliates across the U.S., said that it would replace Kimmel with news programming.

“Beginning Tuesday night, Sinclair will be preempting 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' across our ABC affiliate stations and replacing it with news programming. Discussions with ABC are ongoing as we evaluate the show’s potential return,” Sinclair said in a statement.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 84 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (21 children)

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).

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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),

[–] JandroDelSol@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

nah, we need guns right now, pick another anti fascist charity lol

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

ACLU or something would be better and more effective

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