'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' Replaced With Charlie Kirk Tribute on Sinclair's ABC Stations; Company Demands Kimmel Apologize and
Source: Variety
Media conglomerate Sinclair will replace the Friday timeslot of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” with a Charlie Kirk tribute special on its ABC affiliate stations — and is offering the special to all other ABC stations across the country.
In addition, the company is demanding that Kimmel apologize to Kirk’s family and send “a meaningful personal donation” to them as well as Turning Point USA, the organization Kirk founded that advocates for conservative politics in high schools and colleges. Sinclair, one of the U.S.’s large TV station owners, has long had a reputation for having a politically conservative tilt.
Sinclair’s announcement came after the company and Nexstar Media Group, another major ABC affiliate owner, both pulled the late night show from its ABC stations in response to Kimmel’s recent comments about Kirk’s killing. Shortly after those decisions, ABC suspended production on the show indefinitely. . .
Sinclair has vowed to “not lift the suspension of ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ on our stations until formal discussions are held with ABC regarding the network’s commitment to professionalism and accountability,” the company said in a press release. Even if ABC opts to restart production on the series, “Sinclair intends not to return ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ to our air until we are confident that appropriate steps have been taken to uphold the standards expected of a national broadcast platform.”
Read more: https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/jimmy-kimmel-live-replaced-charlie-kirk-tribute-sinclair-apology-1236522789/
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D. Spaulding
(441 posts)He never said one negative thing about Kirk or his family. And who the hell is Sinclair and how are they tied to Trump?
PSPS
(15,195 posts)oldmanlynn
(770 posts)If we had a few left leaning media conglomerate that were out there pushing a message all the time like these right wingers are maybe we could start changing the narrative out there
BeyondGeography
(40,793 posts)Life is too short. They will be torturing your every syllable. These people are drunk and they are turning network TV into a desert. Nature abhors a vacuum; opportunity will knock elsewhere
wolfie001
(6,965 posts)Silent Type
(12,412 posts)
Meadowoak
(6,605 posts)
Bengus81
(9,758 posts)or some such shit. Fuck em Kimmel,move on and watch them lose their ASS revenue wise on that hour. Let em run Kirk tear jerking shit that even MAGOTS will get tired of.
Omaha Steve
(108,316 posts)Excuse my language!
OS
LeftInTX
(34,013 posts)sheshe2
(95,584 posts)
Ocelot II
(128,846 posts)Blues Heron
(8,255 posts)Oeditpus Rex
(43,094 posts)Is Comgress coming after you for posting that? Is anyone?
Blues Heron
(8,255 posts)Get woke.
Oeditpus Rex
(43,094 posts)on these pages and others on social media? Have any of the people who've done that been imprisoned or "disappeared"?
I got kicked off Fascistbook permanently a few months ago. They didn't tell me why. I should be saying "Free speech is dead," but I deal in reality. You and hundreds of others here deal in doom and gloom.
sheshe2
(95,584 posts)DJ Synikus Makisimus
(1,163 posts)bought Pat Robertson's Christian National Broadcasting Network and renamed it "Freeform?" They were still broadcasting the "700 Club" (encouraging people to donate $700 to Christian Nationalism), last I checked; but I "cut the cord" and don't have cable any longer (don't miss it either). The bigger surprise is that it's only on Sinclair's stations.
More to the point, do folks here really think that any corporation is on your side?
pstokely
(10,847 posts)DJ Synikus Makisimus
(1,163 posts)Religion truly is the greatest con ever invented.
moonshinegnomie
(3,826 posts)maybe pickup him,cobert,john oliver and john stewart into a 4 night a week show with each host getting a night.
iemanja
(57,314 posts)Cook supplicates Trump.
moonshinegnomie
(3,826 posts)i know what hes done before but i wouldnt be so sure that apple wouldnt do it to boost apple tv. but anyways reed hastings of netflix would have no qualms about sticking it to trump
iemanja
(57,314 posts)But at the moment, Trump is threatening Apple with 25% tariffs.
Bengus81
(9,758 posts)pstokely
(10,847 posts)the current format is dying on network TV and hasn't worked on streaming
PSPS
(15,195 posts)iemanja
(57,314 posts)
doc03
(38,787 posts)News Nation tonight.
SouthBayDem
(33,096 posts)The decision means viewers in eight cities, including St. Louis, Jacksonville, Fla., and Columbus, Ohio, will not see "Nightline."
ABC News disputed that the program carried a political message, calling it in a statement "an expression of respect which simply seeks to honor those who have laid down their lives for their country."
NY Times archive link (no paywall)
Even John McCain wrote to Sinclair in defense of Nightline.
LeftInTX
(34,013 posts)SouthBayDem
(33,096 posts)with the fines on stations carrying Howard Stern and the Super Bowl halftime show.
C Moon
(13,428 posts)CentralMass
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lostincalifornia
(4,887 posts)Bengus81
(9,758 posts)lostincalifornia
(4,887 posts)independent network.
As for those of us who are angry with this garbage, boycott ABC, Disney, and HULU.
Bengus81
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sinkingfeeling
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BidenRocks
(2,699 posts)Every Sci Fi fan knows what that is.
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MrWowWow
(1,461 posts)twodogsbarking
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William Seger
(12,166 posts)Yes, American "conservatism" has "tilted" into mandatory respect and tribute to a racist, misogynist, homophobe, xenophobe, and "Christian" fascist, and punishment for anyone who points that out.
wolfie001
(6,965 posts)Just never wore his white hood publicly. 
Javaman
(65,055 posts)twodogsbarking
(17,496 posts)According to the Gun Violence Archive (GVA), there have been 10,650 gun deaths in the U.S. as of September 18, 2025. As of September 16, 2025, the GVA reported an average of about 40 gun deaths per day this year
Gary 50
(477 posts)"I'm sorry I said mean things about the racist, fascist piece of shit and upset the cowardly traitors at ABC." If Trump sues ABC for fifty million dollars they will pay up and thank him for ending this ridiculous system of Democracy and finally giving us the dictator we need to make the country great again. Any guesses when Trump will suspend elections?
keroro gunsou
(2,304 posts)kimmel should take notes...
mdbl
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RainCaster
(13,367 posts)The Mrs and I are agreed, we will no longer watch the local Sinclair station. We are ready to pull our DirecTV satellite feed as well.
mdbl
(8,022 posts)Same with Cable companies.
Initech
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Danmel
(5,673 posts)And can't produce the kirk memorial film.
The Triumph of the Racist Asshole.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,496 posts)Winston invents a person named Comrade Ogilvy and substitutes him for Comrade Withers in the records. Comrade Ogilvy, though a product of Winston’s imagination, is an ideal Party man, opposed to sex and suspicious of everyone. Comrade Withers has become an “unperson”: he has ceased to exist. Watching a man named Comrade Tillotson in the cubicle across the way, Winston reflects on the activity in the Ministry of Truth, where thousands of workers correct the flow of history to make it match party ideology and churn out endless drivel—even pornography—to pacify the brutally destitute proletariat.
https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/1984/section3/
He might turn the speech into the usual denunciation of traitors and thought-criminals, but that was a little too obvious, while to invent a victory at the front, or some triumph of over-production in the Ninth Three-Year Plan, might complicate the records too much. What was needed was a piece of pure fantasy. Suddenly there sprang into his mind, ready made as it were, the image of a certain Comrade Ogilvy, who had recently died in battle, in heroic circumstances. There were occasions when Big Brother devoted his Order for the Day to commemorating some humble, rank-and-file Party member whose life and death he held up as an example worthy to be followed. Today he should commemorate Comrade Ogilvy. It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Ogilvy, but a few lines of print and a couple of faked photographs would soon bring him into existence.
Winston thought for a moment, then pulled the speakwrite towards him and began dictating in Big Brother's familiar style: a style at once military and pedantic, and, because of a trick of asking questions and then promptly answering them ('What lessons do we learn from this fact, comrades? The lesson -- which is also one of the fundamental principles of Ingsoc -- that,' etc., etc.), easy to imitate.
At the age of three Comrade Ogilvy had refused all toys except a drum, a sub-machine gun, and a model helicopter. At six -- a year early, by a special relaxation of the rules -- he had joined the Spies, at nine he had been a troop leader. At eleven he had denounced his uncle to the Thought Police after overhearing a conversation which appeared to him to have criminal tendencies. At seventeen he had been a district organizer of the Junior Anti-Sex League. At nine teen he had designed a hand-grenade which had been adopted by the Ministry of Peace and which, at its first trial, had killed thirty-one Eurasian prisoners in one burst. At twenty-three he had perished in action. Pursued by enemy jet planes while flying over the Indian Ocean with important despatches, he had weighted his body with his machine gun and leapt out of the helicopter into deep water, despatches and all -- an end, said Big Brother, which it was impossible to contemplate without feelings of envy. Big Brother added a few remarks on the purity and single-mindedness of Comrade Ogilvy's life. He was a total abstainer and a nonsmoker, had no recreations except a daily hour in the gymnasium, and had taken a vow of celibacy, believing marriage and the care of a family to be incompatible with a twenty-four-hour-a-day devotion to duty. He had no subjects of conversation except the principles of Ingsoc, and no aim in life except the defeat of the Eurasian enemy and the hunting-down of spies, saboteurs, thoughtcriminals, and traitors generally.
https://www.abhafoundation.org/assets/books/html/1984/31.html