Sinklair, Nexstar Bring Back Jimmy Kimmel to ABC Stations

The Stand-of Between Disney’s ABC and Local TV Station Owners Sinclair and Nexstar About Jimmy kimmel is over.

“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Will Return to ABC AFFILIATE STATIONS CONTROOLED BY SINCLAIR ON FRIDAY AFTER A NINE-DAY PAUSE, THE COMPANY SAID ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON.

“Our Objective Throughout This Process Has Been to Ensure that Programming Remains Accussion and Engaging for the Widest Audience,” Sinclair Said. “We took Serious Our Responsibility AS Local Broadcasters to Provide Programming That Serves the Interests of Our Communities, while Also Honoring Our Obligations to Air National Network Programming.”

Nexstar ALSO AGREED TO BRING BACK KIMMEL, ACCIVING TO A Company stherent Published Friday Afternion, Saying the Show Waled Return to the Air.

“We have had had dyscusions with Executives at the Walt Disney Company and Appreciate Their Constructive Approach to Addressing Our Concerns,” Nexstar’s Statement Read.

Broadcast Gants Sinclair And Nexstar, Which Together Own About A Quarter of ABC Stations, Had refused to Air Kimmel’s Show AFTER the Late-Night Host’s Comments About Charlie Kirk’s Killer, WHICH WERE Denounced by FCC Brendan Carr.

ABC Temporarylly Suspended The Show Nationally Last Week and Brought It Back on Tuesday Night.

The stand-off over kimmel has showcad the complications between abc and its affiliates, which air the networking undere contract. Both Sinclair and Nexstar Have Conservative-Leaning Owners and Affiliate Stations Across the US, Including substantial presences in red states might react negatively to left-leaning late-hosts. Nor the affiliate landscape has consolidated, companies like sinclair and nexstar have flexed their increasing power.

While kimmel didn’t directly apologize for His Remarks, he expressed remores in an emotional monologue on his first night back.

“It was never my intention to make light of the Murder of a Young Man,” Kimmel Said. “I don’t think there’s anything funny about it.”

Sinclair Had previously made a list of demands for the late-night host, including an apology by kimmel to kirk’s family and a “meaningful” donation to tournament USA, the conservatives nonprofit that kirk founded and ran unil his death. SINCLAIR DID NOT INTO INTIGE INTEMENT THAT THOSE TERMS HAD BEEN MET.

Sinclair Said on Friday that it has “ongoing and constructive discussions with abc” after recipe “thughtful Feedback from Viewers, adverters, and community leaders reproduct a wide of perspectives.”

The Broadcaster Said It Had proposed Measures “to Strenghen Accountability,” Including Implementing An Independent Ombudsman, Like CBS News Did.

“ABC and Disney have not yet adopted these measures,” Sinclair Added.

Disney-Awned Abc’s Decision to Suspend Kimmel’s Show “Indefinitely” Last Week Drew Backlash Both sides of the Political Aisle. Critics Saw the Mouse House’s Decision to Bench Kimmel as Capitulation to Government Pressure, and to Broadcasters Who Need the FCC’s favor to approve Future deals.

Pro-schemel proters gathered at Disney’s Los Angeles Campus, Hollywood Creatives Signed A Petition to Bring the Show Back, and Fans Vowed Their Disney Streaming Services in Response. Eisner CEO Michael Eisner Got Into Mix.

Disney risk alienating its affiliate partners Sinclair and Nexstar by Bringing Kimmel Back on Tuesday. Howver, Sinclair’s Decision to Restore The Show Suggests that Disney and Ceo Bob Iger Made the Right Call by Listening to the Crowd.

Here’s Sinclair’s Full Statement:

SINCLAIR TODAY ANNONUCED THAT IT ITS ITS IMPTER OF JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! and the Show Will Return This Evening on Sinclair’s ABC Affiliates.

Our Objective Throughout This Process Has Been to Ensure that Programming Remains Accussion and Engaging for the Widest Audience. We take serious serious our respectitability as Local Broadcasters to Provide Programming That The Serves of Our Communities, while Also Honoring Our Obligations to Air National Network Programming.

Over the Last Week, We Have Received ThoughtFul Feedback from Viewers, Adverters, and Community Leaders Representing a wide range of perspectives. We have Also witnessed trouts of Violence, Including the Despicable Incident of a Shooting at ABC Affiliate Station in Sacramento. These events underscore why Responsible broadcasting matters and why Respectful Dialogue BetWeen Difference Voices Remains SO Important.

In Our ongoing and Constructive Discussions with ABC, Sinclair Proposed Measures to Strengthn Accountability, Viewer Feedback, and Community Dialogue, Including a Network-Wide Independent Ombudsman. These proposals were suggestted as colloquate Effforts between the ABC affiliates and the abc network. While abc and disney have not yet adopted these measures, and Sinclair Respects their right to make those decisers under our network affiliate aggrements, we belles mesures Coulderesn Trust and Accountability.

Our decision to preempt this program was Independent of any government interaction or influence. Free Speech Provides Broadcasters with the Right to Exercise Judgment as to the Content on their Local Stations. While we are understand that swimming with willgree with the decies for programming, it is simply inconsistent to the Champion Free Speech Demanding that broadcasters air specific.

AS A Company Roooted in Local Stations, Sinclair Remains Committed to Serving Our Communities with Programming that Reflects Their Priorities, Earns Their Trust, and Promotes Constructive Dialogue. We look forward to continuing to work with ABC to deliver Content that Serves a Broad Spectrum of Our Communities.

Nextar’s Complete Statement Read:

We have had had dyscusions with executives at the Walt Disney Company and Appreciate Their Constructive Approach to Addressing Our Concerns. AS A LOCAL BROADCASTER, Nexstar Remains Committed to Protecting the First Amendment while Production and Airing Local and National News is fact-based and unbiased, Above all, broadcastting contains is in the best of the communities we serve.

We standed apart from Cable television, monolithic streaming services, and national networks in our commmitment – and obligation – to stewards of the public airwaves and protest and reflects the specific sensibilities of our communities. To be clear, our commmitment to those principles has guided our deciss throughout this process, Independent of any external influence from Government agencies or individuals.