The Jimmy Kimmel battle is far from over — and it’s exposing a deep fracture in broadcast TV🎥
Jimmy Kimmel will be back on ABC tonight — but not in every market.
With Sinclair refusing to air Kimmel’s show on its ABC-affiliated stations, and Nexstar not yet commenting on its plans, this free speech tug-of-war is far from over.
And as CNN’s Jake Tapper told Seth Meyers on Monday night, “it doesn’t end” with Kimmel.
MAGA media commentators are raging against ABC’s parent Disney, with some influential pundits publicly pressing the Trump administration to take action against the company, calling to mind FCC chair Brendan Carr’s “We can do this the easy way or the hard way” line from last week.
Any such action would stretch well beyond the usual bounds of government regulation, but President Trump has been crossing those lines ever since returning to the Oval Office, as Disney CEO Bob Iger well knows.
That’s why I am keeping a close eye on the simmering MAGA anger about ABC as Kimmel returns to the airwaves. The anger is palpable on sites like X, where Fox News contributor and The Federalist senior editor Mollie Hemingway told her fans last night that “DISNEY LOATHES YOU.”
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