Nexstar warns Jimmy Kimmel’s show over Kirk’s murder comments

The host of the talk show on ABC late night aside Jimmy Kimmel because of his controversial comments on the murder of a conservative activist Charlie Kirk After the Nexstar Media Group said it would prevent Kimel’s show.

ABC speaker, which is owned by Disney, said in a statement on Wednesday that “Jimmy Kimmel live It will be predisposed indefinitely, “after a message from one of its main broadcast partners, it will stop broadcasting Kimel’s show.

Nexstar, the owner of 32 ABC partner stations, said on Wednesday that he “strongly objects” to Kimmel’s comments and that this would warn his show “about the foreseeable future, starting from the show tonight.”

“The comments of the Kimmel about the death of G -n Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a critical moment in our national political discourse, and we do not believe that they reflect the spectrum of opinions, views or values ​​of the local communities in which we are,” the statement of the Andri Alford, the president of the departure, said.

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“Continuing to give a Kimmel broadcast platform in the communities we serve is simply not in the public interest at the moment, and we have made the difficult decision to prevent his show in an attempt to let the cool heads prevail as we move towards the resumption of a respectful, constructive dialogue,” Alford added.

What is Nexstar?

Nexstar Media Group is the largest local television group for broadcasting in the United States, with more than 200 owned or partner stations serving 220 million people in 116 markets in the United States.

The company owns 75% of CW, which is the fifth largest air network in the United States and is available in all US households. Nexstar also owns Newsnation, TV and Digital Information Bulletin, as well as digital political news, Hill and Multicast Networks Antenna TV, Rewind TV and WGN Radio in Chicago.

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DIS	The Walt Disney Co.	114.86	-1.24	-1.06%

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Last month, Nexstar announced a deal to acquire a TEGNA media company for $ 6.2 billion, which Nexstar said it would help to ensure the viability of local news and programming.

Nexstar noted that the imprint of his station overlaps with Tegna in 35 of the 51 market areas of Tegna, while enhancing its partner network in key election markets such as Phoenix, Atlanta, Toledo, Ohio and Portland, Maine, to increase the revenges to revenue revenues to revenue revenues to revenue revenues to revenue.

The acquisition of Nexstar by Tegna requires the approval of Federal Communication Commission (FCC).

Disney says

What did Kimmel say?

“We hit new low levels over the weekend, with the Mag’s gang is desperately trying to characterize this child who killed Charlie Kirk as something different from one of them, and to do our best to score political points from him,” Kimmel said during his manologist in the episode of Jimmy Kimel!

Kimmel also criticizes the president Donald Trump The answer to Kirk’s death, saying that “it’s not how adult grieves the murder of someone he called a friend. This is how a 4-year-old mourns a goldfish.”

He also said the FBI Director Kash Patel He managed to investigate Kirk’s murder “as a child who did not read the book by passing on his way through a verbal report.”

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr I praised NEXSTAR’s passage to warn Kimmel’s show and said “it’s important for television operators to go back to Disney’s programming, that they determine that they do not reach community values.”

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Prior to the announcement of Nexstar, Sinclair, another ABC branch broadcast group, chose to alert the Kimel Show.

Carr said in the podcast Benny Johnson show that Kimmel’s comments are “a very, very serious problem now for Disney. We can do this in the easy or difficult way.” He also encouraged licensed stations to say that this type of content does not serve their local communities.

Carr’s comments have encouraged criticism from freedom defenders, with the basis for the rights of individual rights and expression (fire) saying: “FCC has no right to control what a television host can say on a late night and the first amendment defends the right of Americans to speculate in current events, even if these speculation is incorrect.”

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“Subject to television regulatory operators when someone on their network gets something wrong, would turn the FCC into an arbitrator of truth and throw an unbearable cold over the air,” added Fire.