Disney, which owns ABC, issued a statement on the return, which seems a bit disingenuous, but insists there was no political pressure. 

“Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country.

“It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive. We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.”

Thoughtful conversations, my ass.  More likely "our stock is tanking!" 🤨

This is bloody huge news.
The good part of it is is the people who have showed that tRump can be defeated by the people when they have the guts to rise up and say no.
As of stock closing time Monday Disney had lost close to four billion dollars from people selling their stock.
Disney knows that was only going to get worse.
No doubt tRump will no longer call Disney "courageous" for firing Kimmel.
I bet he won't say a word unless confronted by reporters.


 

newsguy1 wrote:

This is bloody huge news.
The good part of it is is the people who have showed that tRump can be defeated by the people when they have the guts to rise up and say no.
As of stock closing time Monday Disney had lost close to four billion dollars from people selling their stock.
Disney knows that was only going to get worse.
No doubt tRump will no longer call Disney "courageous" for firing Kimmel.
I bet he won't say a word unless confronted by reporters.
 

The cowardice within the so-called "greatest country on Earth" is profound.

It. All. Boils. Down. To. Money...or, as in this case, the loss of it. Pathetic. Obviously, for a great many reasons, the media conglomerates are a very bad thing, as is becoming ever more obvious.
 

RadioActive wrote:

The network made the announcement Monday afternoon, and you can be sure the audience will be huge. 

No word yet on who the guests might be or whether the Nexstar and Sinclair stations that started all this in the first place by refusing to run the show will pick up the episode. 

Jimmy Kimmel Is Back: ABC Returning Late-Night Show On Tuesday

I'm glad to see my cancellation of Disney+ worked.

Not sure about CBS, but both ABC and NBC led their newscasts with this story. I wonder what it must be like for NBC to essentially do a 2 minute promo for their competition's late night talk show, even if it is a big story. Not sure I've ever seen a situation quite like this one before. 

If Kimmel was fired for "low ratings", as claimed by tRump, why would ABC / Disney bring him back?

The president wouldn't lie, would he? 🤔

I remember reading about how Sinclair runs its shops. Access to office supplies requiring two managers to turn the keys to the locked cabinet like some deranged nuke launch procedure. They sound like a real Christian joy to work for. If things go as planned they'll get raptured today so we won't have to deal with them anymore. 

Here's one of the images that Hansa tried to post...

Binson Echorec wrote:

Enough time has passed that Mr. Kimmel should be allowed to recycle the following Jack Paar quip:

"As I was saying before I was interrupted..."

Haha! Prescient. There's a TV writer gig somewhere for you!

Binson Echorec wrote:

Enough time has passed that Mr. Kimmel should be allowed to recycle the following Jack Paar quip:

"As I was saying before I was interrupted..."

Which he DID do, albeit not in those exact words.
 

Hansa wrote:

I hope ABC starts dropping Sinclair and Nexstar affiliates over their refusal to carry network shows. There must be NBC and Fox and strong independent affiliates in many of those markets who'd would be happy to switch to the #2 network. 

ABC certainly has the right to drop affiliates if the Nexstar & Sinclair affilates are breaking their contracts with the network.

For those who missed this during tRump 1.0, here are anchors at Sinclair-owned local news stations parroting a script pushing tRump talking-points and the "troubling trend of irresponsible, one-sided news stories plaguing our country".

Perhaps some here, who appear so angry about so-called 'fake news', would offer some explanation for this obvious corporate-news-speak on hard-right media?



No? No comment?

TomTV wrote:

From: https://x.com/Colonel_Myway/status/1970704600157299080

Disney drops the hammer and goes nuclear telling renegade broadcaster Sinclair. Dont broadcast Jimmy Kimmel Live.
You don't get to broadcast Monday Night Football & ABC News.
This is a developing story

Can't believing I'm actually rooting for Disney for a change.
 

hmmm .. but isn't Monday Night Football on ESPN, not ABC? .. 

maybe best to wait for a more reliable, traditional news source for accuracy.

*edit* oops .. it appears MNF is simulcast ESPN/ABC .. my mistake : ((  .. lesson learned, don't trust the internet .. triple check ..  

Last edited by g121 (September 25, 2025 2:31 pm)

The full ABC network carries Cincinnati/Denver. ESPN has NYJ/Miami. The game is also carried locally on WWOR and WFOR.