‘The Bottom Line’ panelists focus on the widespread fallout from ‘horrific’ feedback about Charlie Kirk and extra.
ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” received’t be accessible to all viewers even after The Walt Disney Co. reversed course and moved to convey the present again following a short suspension.
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Nexstar Media Group Inc., introduced on Tuesday that it’ll be part of Sinclair in persevering with to preempt Kimmel’s present.
Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night present was pulled off the air by Disney Sept. 17, 2025. (Randy Holmes/Disney / Getty Pictures)
Sinclair’s submit got here inside hours of Disney asserting its plans to convey again the late-night host whose present was pulled final week within the wake of feedback he made in regards to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Kirk was shot and killed Sept. 10 whereas talking at an occasion at Utah Valley College.
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Present host Jimmy Kimmel delivers his opening monologue on the 96th Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, March 10, 2024. (Reuters/Mike Blake / Reuters)
What to learn about Sinclair:
The corporate owns, operates or supplies service to 185 tv stations in 85 markets affiliated with all the most important broadcast networks, based on its web site. It additionally owns the Tennis Channel and multicast networks reminiscent of Comet, Cost! and The Nest. Its content material is delivered via a number of platforms.
Sinclair’s roots date again to 1971 when Julian Sinclair Smith based Sinclair Broadcast Group.
His legacy of entrepreneurship started after launching radio station WFMM on 93.1 on the FM band in Baltimore in 1960, based on the corporate’s web site. By the Seventies, he started exploring tv and ultimately began one of many first UHF tv stations, its flagship station in Baltimore, WBFF-TV. That station signed on the air April 11, 1971, as a single TV station and ultimately grew into at the moment’s Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc.
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It is second station, WPTT-TV, went stay in 1978.
By 1986, Smith and his 4 sons mixed the operations of their three impartial UHF tv stations below the Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. entity. They appointed their long-term associate, Robert “Bob” Simmons, as Sinclair’s first CEO.
The corporate owns, operates or supplies service to 185 tv stations in 85 markets affiliated with all the most important broadcast networks. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)
One in every of Smith’s sons, David, grew to become CEO in 1988, and the corporate grew from three tv stations to 59 stations in 39 markets and 51 radio stations in 10 markets. The corporate claims it grew to become the biggest tv broadcaster within the nation on the time.
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By 1999, the corporate offloaded its radio group to strengthen its stability sheet and to concentrate on its tv platform and the roll-out of digital tv.
Nevertheless, the corporate stated the radio group sale had a historic worth of about 19 occasions broadcast money circulation.
Christopher Ripley, the corporate’s present CEO, took over in January 2017, succeeding David Smith.
