ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night TV show
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"We don't know anything," the unidentified employee tells PEOPLE exclusively on Friday, Sept. 19, just two days after ABC made the decision to "indefinitely" pull Jimmy Kimmel 's show off the air after the host's recent remarks about the late right-wing commentator Charlie Kirk. "We're all on standby."
President Donald Trump celebrated ABC pulling Jimmy Kimmel off the air over Charlie Kirk comments and urged NBC to cancel its late-night hosts.
M ichael Eisner, an ex-CEO of The Walt Disney Company, the parent company of ABC, on Thursday condemned the controversial decision of the network’s leadership to pull Jimmy Kimmel’s show off the air “indefinitely” following threats by the Trump administration, asking: “Where has all the leadership gone?”
Will ABC bring Jimmy Kimmel back -- or will it kick him off the air for good? The network faces a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't situation.
FCC Chair Brendan Carr told Hannity that ABC affiliates were right to drop Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday, saying broadcasters must serve the public interest and not politics.
Sources told the Daily Mail that the comedian is eager to “break his relationship with [the network] forever” after his talk show was suspended indefinitely.
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ABC Suspends Jimmy Kimmel: Reactions and Analysis
On Wednesday, ABC indefinitely suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show after two prominent affiliate owners vowed to preempt airings of the program following comments Kimmel made in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
ABC has indefinitely pulled "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" from its network following comments made by the host. The decision is part of a much larger picture of the business of local and national TV.
After FCC chairman Brendan Carr threatened to take action against Kimmel—and Nexstar Media said it would preempt Kimmel’s show—ABC announced that ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ “will be preempted indefinitely.”
ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel reportedly refused to apologize for controversial remarks about the alleged killer of Charlie Kirk before he was taken off the air.