mm-news-@dmin Jimmy Kimmel announced that his talk show will air on Sept 23.
Disney recently announced that it is reinstating Jimmy Kimmel Live on air, but Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair Broadcast Group will not air it, they claim.
These companies, together, own at most 70 local ABC affiliate stations, which account for almost a quarter of the network’s stations.
“We made a decision last week to pre-empt ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ following what ABC referred to as Mr. Kimmel’s’ ill-timed and insensitive’ comments at a critical time in our national discourse,” an official from the firm said.
The statement added, “We will stand by that decision until all parties assure us of their commitment to fostering respectful, constructive dialogue in the markets we serve.”
The firms, meanwhile, say they will air news programming in the place of Jimmy’s late-night show.
Earlier, Disney, which owns ABC, in a statement said, “Last Wednesday, we decided 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,” it said.
“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,” the statement concluded.
Jimmy’s brief suspension comes after he suggested the shooter of the activist Charlie Kirk was a MAGA supporter.
