Sinclair to Resume Airing Jimmy Kimmel Live

pussies

They caved because they public told them in no uncertain terms they were wrong. Bravo.

The problem with these schmucks is they think the American people will just stand by and let them impose their political beliefs on everyone else.

We won’t.

Who's a Good Boy?

So it was just up to the companies involved and not the government?

I sure hope that means the tide is beginning to turn.

This last thing -- labeling "the Left" as terrorists -- has me pretty freaked out. Maybe some MAGAts will start to pay attention. For a change.

Well done to everyone here who made their voices heard. Also of interest, the timing of Sinclair's reinstatement means it will have to air Kimmel's return episode after all. From Variety:

[quote]Sinclair said in a statement Friday that it will end its preemption of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and the show will return Friday evening on Sinclair’s ABC affiliates. The Sept. 26 airing of the show is a rerun of Tuesday’s show, featuring Kimmel’s return after ABC temporarily suspended him.

I don't remember the exact quote, but I read that ABC/Disney threatened Nextar and Sinclair and were told that if they didn't resume broadcasting Kimmel, weren't getting ESPN and other sports programming.

So, it was all for nothing....the FCC may rethink decisions in the future.

Translation: We've determined that we are at risk of losing our network affiliation with ABC and we don't want it to go to a competitor in our markets.

Disney wants people to come back to Disney+ now that they just hiked the price.

[quote] So it was just up to the companies involved and not the government?

Don’t be an idiot. Trump and the FCC threatened them, but the economic power of the viewers is a bigger threat. It’s not that the government wasn’t involved.

Sinclair is controlled by MAGA true believers so their instincts aligned with what Trump was trying to get them to do. They were just looking for an excuse to take a liberal voice off the air and the fake outrage over his Kirk comments gave them an excuse. In addition, they need an FCC waiver to allow them to take over even more stations which the law currently prohibits, so they thought they’d hit the jackpot—make Trump happy and silence the liberal on their stations. Ooops.

[quote]They caved because they public told them in no uncertain terms they were wrong.

I suspect they also caved because their sales department informed them that no one is interested in advertising on a 2021 Celebrity Family Feud at midnight.

[quote]Sinclair said that it would end its preemption of the late night show Friday night after “thoughtful feedback from viewers...

Oh, it was *thoughtful*, all right!

Release the Epstein File!

Release the Homan File!

It's encouraging to see that we, the common people, still have some influence on political events by economic protests and boycotting.

There were boycotts being organized of any company that advertised on the substitute programming so Sinclair could not sell ads.

"thoughtful feedback from viewers"

Heh.

I'm glad he fought back. The rest of these tv networks were pussies and caved into trump

The local stations probably were complaining about the local ad revenue they stood to lose as well, since those advertisers weren't about to pay for ads no one would see.

Well that makes sense. It’s not like they only own stations in Bumfuckistan. Most of their market does not need or want Sinclair to pre-censor the content they choose to watch or not watch.

Now let’s make Paramount/Skydance restore Colbert. They needed Trump’s blessing to merge, but that’s done.

This was an enormous failure for MAGA.

"Thoughtful feedback." That's a funny way of saying "losing money and viewers in large numbers pisses off our advertisers."

Who is that at R4?

Thoughtful, indeed.

[quote] There were boycotts being organized of any company that advertised on the substitute programming so Sinclair could not sell ads.

It’s surprising that conservatives didn’t organize a boycott of advertisers on Kimmel’s show now that its returned. I wonder why they didn’t do that.

Sinclair will likely look to dropping network affiliation in the future, so it can produce its own news and game shows.

Gray, the biggest TV news conglomerate, already tried to distance itself from networks and failed hard. Its CEO is a little MAGA troll as well.

Just goes to show: when fake patriotism and even faker Christianity are on the line, the MAGAts will always be on the side of M-O-N-E-Y. Guaranteed.

Is it any wonder a transactional asshole like Trump is their spiritual leader?

What shocked me about this saga were the Disney adults. People I always thought were losers for being obsessed with Disney. Well, jokes on me, so many Disney adults, from here and abroad, openly cancelled their submission to Disney+ and even trips to the park. They addressed it head on as a little (need) community.

I have mass respect for them and need to work on my judgement. Won’t see me making fun of them anymore.

FCC chairman Carr has gone radio silent for the past few days LOL

Sinclair was wrong, and the people told the company it hates Trump--and many don't give a shit about Charlie Kirk either.

Any news from Nexstar on Kimmel? They have their merger with more liberal Tegna still pending approval...

R31 He was roasted and skewered on South Park. It was so humiliating, I felt second-hand embarrassment for him for a minute, but then I got over it.

[quote] It’s surprising that conservatives didn’t organize a boycott of advertisers on Kimmel’s show now that its returned. I wonder why they didn’t do that.

Maybe because Kimmel didn’t actually do anything wrong?

Also, a good chunk of the right split with Trump over this on First Amendment grounds.

The audience angry over censorship is much bigger than the audience offended by his relatively anodyne remarks.

Money talks.

The longer Kimmel stayed suspended and off the air, the more time canceled subscribers had to explore alternatives and realize they didn’t really need Hulu or Disney+. Disney had to resolve the issue quickly to stop the subscriber bleed and win people back before they moved on for good.

Nexstar just ended its boycott of Kimmel as well.

I live in one of the markets where his show wasn't on. I prefer watching it on YouTube anyway.

I'm so glad Kimmel beat them, it's the only bit of good news this week.

[quote]Translation: We've determined that we are at risk of losing our network affiliation with ABC and we don't want it to go to a competitor in our markets.

Is network affiliation really such a big deal anymore?

Jimmy Kimmel should be canceled for awful comedy alone.

But what about the heartfelt apology, unconditional retraction and personal donation to the Charlie Kirk Memorial Hate Fund?

Sinclair and Nexstar blew it. They revealed themselves to be a conglomerate of local stations who WANTED to submit to Trump.

The Little Foxes.

Now they have proved that their monopolies need to be broken up.

I once worked for Sinclair. They are evil SOBs. After they refused to renew my contract at one of their affiliates, they tried hard to deny me unemployment compensation. I was scheduled to participate in a conference call with Sinclair and a local judge. At the appointed time, the judge said he hadn't heard from the company's attorneys. He told me he'd give them ten more minutes. After ten minutes, the judge said, "Okay, they're done. Go and have a nice life."

My agent at the time told me Sinclair has an entire slate of attorneys who do nothing but try to deny fired employees unemployment. Thing is, he said, they've lost every case.

It’s interesting that Nexstar is revealed to be right wing. . I thought our local news broadcast was the most unbiased reporting and informing about everything local. I never saw them with any sort of slant or agenda.

I just thought they were a Texas company.

Sadly, there are two fucking Sinclair operated channels here plus that NBC affiliate from Nextstar. I guess that means that the ABC affiliate is the only agenda-free local news channel.

Damn, this fucking sucks.

R40 Even network affiliations, especially in the days of dying broadcast tv, cannot live by MAGA money alone. There are not enough people in the MAGA percentage of the population.

^^

They were so eager to try out this new method of censorship, that they blew their wad on something completely anodyne.