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Broadcasters throw within the towel on censoring Jimmy Kimmel

Editorial Board Published September 27, 2025
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Nicely, properly, properly … seems to be like Sinclair and Nexstar are bringing again “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” starting Friday. The broadcasters had yanked the late-night present final week over Jimmy Kimmel’s feedback concerning the alleged assassin of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and the MAGA motion.

The Sept. 26 airing can be a rerun of Tuesday’s present, which marked Kimmel’s official return after ABC’s personal short-term suspension.


Protesters picket in response to ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night present.

“While we understand that not everyone will agree with our decisions about programming, it is simply inconsistent to champion free speech while demanding that broadcasters air specific content,” Sinclair stated Friday.

In its assertion, the Baltimore-based firm emphasised its position as a neighborhood broadcaster.

“Our objective throughout this process has been to ensure that programming remains accurate and engaging for the widest possible audience,” Sinclair’s assertion reads. “We take seriously our responsibility as local broadcasters to provide programming that serves the interests of our communities, while also honoring our obligations to air national network programming.”

In the meantime, Nexstar defended its determination as rooted in its responsibility to serve native audiences and insisted it acted independently of presidency strain.

“We have had discussions with executives at The Walt Disney Company and appreciate their constructive approach to addressing our concerns,” its assertion reads. “To be clear, our commitment to those principles has guided our decisions throughout this process, independent of any external influence from government agencies or individuals.”

The transfer is a fast reversal from simply days in the past, when Sinclair and Nexstar introduced that they might hold Kimmel off the air indefinitely, leaving roughly 20% of the nation unable to look at stay whereas talks with Disney had been ongoing.

FILE - Jimmy Kimmel appears at the Walt Disney Television upfront in New York on May 14, 2019. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel

So what modified? 

For Sinclair, at the least, the corporate says its determination adopted “thoughtful feedback from viewers, advertisers, and community leaders” and pointed to “troubling acts of violence”—together with a taking pictures at an ABC affiliate in Sacramento—as a reminder of why “responsible broadcasting matters.”

However the timing is difficult to overlook: Kimmel’s Tuesday evening monologue racked up greater than 9 million YouTube views within the first 10 hours—properly above common—suggesting that there’s loads of demand for the present, no matter stations blacking it out.

Each Sinclair and Nexstar, in fact, insist that scores weren’t the rationale. In its assertion, Sinclair says it pushed for  “measures to strengthen accountability, viewer feedback, and community dialogue, including a network-wide independent ombudsman,” although Disney hasn’t adopted them.

Kimmel addressed the preemptions throughout his Tuesday monologue.

“We are still on the air in most of the country, except, ironically, from Washington, D.C., where we have been preempted,” he stated. “After almost 23 years on the air, we’re suddenly not being broadcast in 20% of the country, which is not a situation we relish.”

Sinclair initially stated that Kimmel wanted to apologize to Kirk’s household and make a “meaningful personal donation” to them and to Turning Level USA—calls for that appeared unlikely to be met. Possibly Sinclair determined that the headache wasn’t price it. Or perhaps viewers made their level by tuning in on-line.

Both method, Kimmel is again. And Nexstar and Sinclair’s about-face is a reminder that within the battle between company gatekeeping and public demand, the viewers nonetheless has some energy.

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