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HomerJS

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FelixDeCat said:
Indefinitely...

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ABC Pulls ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Indefinitely After Host’s Charlie Kirk Comments

Nexstar, one of the biggest owners of US TV stations, said will preempt Jimmy Kimmel's late night show due to the host's Charlie Kirk remarks.
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His show was mediocre at best and was occasionally funny.

...but its over now.
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Don't you think it would have been more appropriate to take the Fox News show off the air where host said mentally ill homeless people should just all be killed?
 
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FelixDeCat

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Jaskalas said:
These companies fear the Nazis more than they fear us.
We need to change that.
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I support all voices being heard. How else do you know what they are thinking? ;)

While I didnt always like the things they said they are otherwise harmless entertainment. I suspect both will carry on via Youtube and be successful but they need new channels as the current ones are company probably owned and trademarked.
 
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Apparently Nexstar wants a merger and in order to approve it, the FCC pushed them to not carry Kimmel's show. That is country we live in now.

As always though, aquiring money and power dictate all decision making, even at the expense of the first amendment and democracy.
 
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HomerJS

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Franz316 said:
Apparently Nexstar wants a merger and in order to approve it, the FCC pushed them to not carry Kimmel's show. That is country we live in now.

As always though, aquiring money and power dictate all decision making, even at the expense of the first amendment and democracy.
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Like you said. Once again the dictator strikes.
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Was any of the comments of Kirk? All the quotes I saw was his take of the reaction from the right of his death.
 
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JTsyo said:
Was any of the comments of Kirk? All the quotes I saw was his take of the reaction from the right of his death.
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Of course it was politically motivated. They just needed the slightest hint of a reason, and with Kimmel's benign words they had it. Look at the GIF the FCC Chair Brendan Carr sent to a reporter asking for any comments on the situation. Free speech means absolutely nothing to these people.

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What a country we've become, and this is only 9 months of 4 years in. I predict by the end of his term there will be no televised media outlets left that say anything negative about Trump. And it's not if I agree or disagree with what Kimmel said, but free speech should afford him the right to speak without getting shitcanned. What he said wasn't bad enough to warrant his show being taken off the air.

It sucks that Trump's yet again getting one of his wishes granted.
 
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Sinclair Broadcasting which is a puppet of the administration is basically extorting Kimmel for using his free speech rights now. Not only that, they are airing a Charlie Kirk remembrance show in Kimmel's time slot on Friday. Is the end goal to be like North Korea or Russia here?

Sinclair Says Kimmel Suspension is Not Enough, Calls on FCC and ABC to Take Additional Action - Sinclair, Inc

Sinclair’s ABC stations to air a special in remembrance of Charlie Kirk during Jimmy Kimmel Live timeslot on Friday BALTIMORE – Sinclair, the nation’s largest ABC affiliate group, objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the assassination of Charlie Kirk. As discussed with ABC...
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QueBert said:
What a country we've become, and this is only 9 months of 4 years in. I predict by the end of his term there will be no televised media outlets left that say anything negative about Trump. And it's not if I agree or disagree with what Kimmel said, but free speech should afford him the right to speak without getting shitcanned. What he said wasn't bad enough to warrant his show being taken off the air.

It sucks that Trump's yet again getting one of his wishes granted.
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Actually it's been a few days shy of 8 months. Disgusting.
 
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FelixDeCat said:
Indefinitely...

variety.com

ABC Pulls ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Indefinitely After Host’s Charlie Kirk Comments

Nexstar, one of the biggest owners of US TV stations, said will preempt Jimmy Kimmel's late night show due to the host's Charlie Kirk remarks.
variety.com variety.com

His show was mediocre at best and was occasionally funny.

...but its over now.
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you're a mediocre parasite. there are better parasites in this world, but you try very hard to best them. alas, you are just mediocre at being useless.
 
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Another reason I don't subscribe to Disney streaming service. They've long been in the GOP camp, I think. I don't want to watch their supposedly entertaining drivel.
 
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If anything good ever comes from this shit, I hope we end up with an admin that will use all of the same tricks but for actual good.

Libs are so concerned with going back to "Normal" that they are never willing to do what is needed to actually get there.

Maybe one day we'll have an FCC chair that pulls Fox News et al license for the good of the country.
 
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