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Earlier on Wednesday, ABC pulled the show off the air following remarks the host made about Kirk’s assassination<\/p>\n
\n\tSinclair will replace the Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em> time slot on Friday with a tribute special to Charlie Kirk. The company has also demanded that Kimmel apologize to Kirk\u2019s family, and donate to them and Turning Point USA, which was co-founded by Kirk.<\/p>\n \n\tThe announcement was made shortly after ABC said is was suspending the late-night show \u201cindefinitely\u201d after both Sinclair and Nexstar kicked it off its U.S. stations following Kimmel\u2019s comments about Kirk\u2019s assassination\u00a0during a Monday monologue.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cMr. Kimmel\u2019s remarks were inappropriate and deeply insensitive at a critical moment for our country,\u201d said Sinclair\u2019s Vice Chairman Jason Smith in a statement. \u201cWe believe broadcasters have a responsibility to educate and elevate respectful, constructive dialogue in our communities. We appreciate FCC Chairman Carr\u2019s remarks today and this incident highlights the critical need for the FCC to take immediate regulatory action to address control held over local broadcasters by the big national networks.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe company also stated that it will not lift the suspension on Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em> \u201cuntil formal discussions are held with ABC regarding the network\u2019s commitment to professionalism and accountability,\u201d and called on Kimmel to apologize to Kirk\u2019s family, as well as make \u201ca meaningful personal donation to the Kirk Family and Turning Point USA.\u201d<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n \n\tEarlier on Wednesday, Trump\u2019s Federal Communications Commission chairman, Brendan Carr, publicly\u00a0demanded\u00a0licensed broadcasters to stop airing Kimmel\u2019s show. \u201cI think that it\u2019s really sort of past time that a lot of these licensed broadcasters themselves push back on Comcast and Disney and say, \u2018Listen, we are going to preempt, we are not going to run\u00a0Kimmel<\/em>\u00a0anymore, until you straighten this out because we, we licensed broadcaster, are running the possibility of fines or license revocation from the FCC if we continue to run content that ends up being a pattern of news distortion,\u2019\u201d Carr said when speaking with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson.<\/p>\n \n\tKimmel is the latest late-night host to be yanked from a major network. In July, CBS announced its decision to abruptly end Stephen Colbert\u2019s The Late Show<\/em> in 2026. In a previous statement, the network claimed the cancellation was financial. However, the decision to end Colbert\u2019s show garnered criticism, since the announcement came days after he criticized Paramount, CBS\u2019 parent company, over its decision to agree to a settlement with President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Earlier on Wednesday, ABC pulled the show off the air following remarks the host made about Kirk’s assassination Sinclair will replace the Jimmy Kimmel Live! time slot on Friday with a tribute special to Charlie Kirk. The company has also demanded that Kimmel apologize to Kirk\u2019s family, and donate to them and Turning Point USA,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[2055,361,7176,441,12560,13561,13562,286,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-22112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-abc","9":"tag-air","10":"tag-charlie","11":"tag-kimmel","12":"tag-kirk","13":"tag-sinclairs","14":"tag-stations","15":"tag-time","16":"tag-tribute"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n