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Originally posted by Vgex:
I'm just disappointed he's still blinded by his personal relationship with Kimmel, and giving him undue grace.

Kimmel is a degenerate worm who should've had his show cancelled years ago if it was meant to be anything other that political propaganda. I wish him the worst.

Did you really expect Carolla to publicly excoriate his friend of 30-40+ years?
Sure he could've publicly dumped on him and scored a mountain of points with the non-Lefty crowd but, that would also reveal him to be a publicity hound willing to toss friendships onto the pyre of public point scoring. I have no doubt that Carolla in private told Kimmel he's a fucking idiot and he fucked-up; Disney didn't make Kimmel jerk-out those tears, it was those close to him that told him he fucked-up and his antics have put them into a bad position in having to answer for his behavior.

I expected him to say nothing and just move on.

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Originally posted by corsair:
Anybody have a listing or knowledge of which stations/regions Nexstar and Sinclair have their stations?

Are they the largest owner of ABC affiliate stations in the country or, just the two loudest? Knowing this along with the other major television station owners, has opened peoples eyes to where and how the strings of network programing and broadcast work.

Both list their stations on their corporate websites. KRON 4 in the Bay Area is owned by one of them.

Here in St. Louis, Sinclair owns the ABC affiliate KDNL

https://sbgi.net/tv-stations/

The Free Market May Sack Kimmel Again

Authored by Alex Rosado via RealClearPolitics.com,

Last month, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel and “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” reemerged from cancellation with a ratings jump and social momentum. His midnight honeymoon, however, is already over.

Kimmel made incendiary comments over free speech champion Charlie Kirk’s assassination in September, slamming President Trump’s leadership and comparing his grief to “a four-year-old mourning a goldfish.” With his ratings nosediving for months, what little audience remained turned off their TV sets, prompting Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair Broadcasting to pull him from ABC station affiliates. Jimmy raged and threatened to cut ties with ABC forever. But just days later, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” returned, and the late-night host issued an apology that attracted over 6 million viewers, the most in series history, even if many felt it was insincere.

Kimmel had renewed interest and lightning in a bottle. But he squandered it by refusing to change the same act that got him booted in the first place.

By continuing to politicize every current event, Kimmel has impressively lost 85% of his post-suspension bounce in just a few weeks among key demographics. With ratings hovering around 1.7 million viewers, his collapse in viewership is now lower than it was pre-suspension.

“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” wasn’t cancelled because of government “crackdowns” on free speech, as some proclaimed, but because consumers stopped valuing Kimmel’s program. His show was incongruous with their viewing habits and the national conversation, and it may face similar and necessary repercussions again.

American politics has long been fused with entertainment, and people are getting tired of it. The abundance of television shows like “South Park,” popular music, and celebrities lampooning or critiquing current events has made politics inescapable. Pew Research Center (PRC) found that almost two-thirds of Americans feel exhausted when thinking about politics. More in Common’s Hidden Tribe report found that most Americans are frustrated by division and tribalism, wanting officials to heal, not inflame, culture wars.

Yet, there’s political incentive among news outlets and commentary shows to feed viewers ideologically driven content. In 2024, Stanford University found that consumers, regardless of their educational or political background, are more likely to engage with media that aligns with their ideology rather than factual reporting. Ten percent of Americans got their news from “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.” Twenty-one percent of young Americans got it from “The Daily Show.”

Viewers may say they want these programs’ priorities to change, but traditional media thrives on the mass confirmation bias they ingrain in consumers.

It’s a vicious cycle that polarized the American populace while leaving elitist and leftist “comedians” untouched – until recently.

In July, Stephen Colbert announced his tenured and politically charged show would leave the airwaves in 2026. CBS explained that production expenses were costing the company tens of millions of dollars annually, and competition from social media and streaming has pulled customer bases away from television. Kimmel and Hollywood dashed these claims, but the evidence counters their disbelief.

Deloitte’s 2025 media consumption survey revealed only 49% of consumers have cable or satellite TV subscriptions – down from 63% three years ago – a mass departure partially driven by a market oversaturated with political content. An observed desire for hosts to separate politics from programming has skyrocketed the demand and consumption for alternative media, which they find more trustworthy. After being infested with grievance and division for years, the media consumer base shifted its preferences, and Colbert’s rating consequently tanked. Nixing Colbert was a business response to a format and an ideology that failed to captivate audiences.

Kimmel has no respect for the new public sentiment and is doubling down on a losing formula. Quickly reprising his role as an instigator, he’s bashing the president’s intelligence, blasting Trump’s hardline approach to crime and Antifa, and blaming critics for “mischaractiz[ing]” his Kirk comments. He hailed himself as “more popular than the president of the United States” after the release of a recent YouGov poll, turning an earnest compliment into another desperate zinger. Kimmel has no interest in comforting the public interest or maintaining the illusion that his show is political entertainment, and the general consensus is that he hasn’t changed. No wonder audiences are fleeing.

Who knows how long “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” will stay on air. He survived what many believe was a top-down political mandate, but one thing is certain: Local broadcasters and network owners are responsive to community standards, tastes, and free-market realities. The potent and corrective capacity of everyday consumers is what drives TV. Creators can offer their content, but nobody is entitled to consumers. In an industry of communication and credibility, Kimmel willingly strayed from both, and that’s at least part of what cost him his job the first time. The free market may strike twice if Kimmel’s convictions continue to define his program.

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...ay-sack-kimmel-again

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Originally posted by chellim1:
The Free Market May Sack Kimmel Again

We can hope. Good riddance to another lefist shill.

Propaganda Puppet Kimmel: Trump Is "Pretending There's Chaos" For "A Military Takeover"

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,

Democrat mouthpiece talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has dismissed reports of unrest in major U.S. cities, claiming there is “no chaos” and that it is all being manufactured by the Trump Administration in order to justify a “military takeover.”

Kimmel, back on air despite having abysmal ratings, stated “There’s no chaos in Portland. None. There is no chaos in Chicago. There was no chaos in Los Angeles. They’re pretending there’s chaos as a pretense for a military takeover.”

Kimmel’s show has basically become the television presentation of whacked out BlueAnon leftists’ fever dreams. He’s passing off their unhinged BlueSky rants as his own monologue.

The comments fly in the face of documented repeated ambushes, assaults, and coordinated threats against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, particularly in Portland and Chicago.

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...os-military-takeover

....annnnnd it sounds like Kimmel is busy lefting himself into an even earlier ratings death.

[Nelson voice] Ha ha! [/Nelson voice]

A bit older thread, but considering what dip-shit Kimmel said about Melania Trump being a widow, the FCC should start threatening ABC with a full license removal of all affiliates that run his show...

Plus that will get the leftards really going!

https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2049166795592827145

I can't say how I really feel about that piece of shit online.

Fuck that guy, his apology was anything but an actual apology.

As tough as it may be, the best course of action is to ignore this low life troll. He wants the attention, that’s all that’s keeping his and the other “late night” shows alive. Their ratings are at essentially all time lows after years of steady declines. But somehow people keep taking the bait and feigning outrage over silly remarks.

Yes, what he said about Melania was trashy, but at the same time it’s playing a dangerous game to have the government (FCC) go after station licenses over this. For one it just makes him seem like a victim and a martyr, but more importantly it crosses a clear line in a country that supposedly places a very high value on free speech. Even when that speech is distasteful and tacky.

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I completely agree, Puckpilot.

Don't you have to be a comedian to use "it's just comedy" as an excuse?

If a real comedian said something like that, I might be able to give them a pass. Kimmel? Not a chance. Like Colbert, he has been nothing but a hateful unAmerican propaganda piece for years now.

Be gone with him. Yesterday.

^^^^
I completely agree, Gustofer.
at Pipe Smoker.

When Conservative entities do or say something the Radical Lefties don't like, they protest or boycott those they don't like.

Perhaps it is way past time for Conservatives to grow a (figurative) pair of balls and protest ABC outlets, boycott ABC advertisers until ABC bends to the will of "The People".

Buh bye..

To say something like that on stage about a First Lady, much less, any lady.

It's like he knows people on the right aren't the crazies who would retaliate and threaten such things towards his wife or child.

I have plenty to say about Michelle O and his wife but I don't use an ABC pulpit.

I don't know how much juice this has, but it's something.

https://www.breitbart.com/ente...dy-to-pull-the-plug/

Melania Trump Supporters Organize Grassroots Boycott of ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Advertisers as Report Says Disney ‘Ready to Pull’ the Plug

First Lady Melania Trump’s supporters are organizing a grassroots boycott of advertisers for ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! amid a report saying that Disney is “ready to pull” the plug following the left-wing TV host’s comments fantasizing about President Donald Trump’s death just days before the third documented assassination attempt on his life.

Kimmel is facing intense backlash from scores of fed-up Melania Trump fans after he called the First Lady an “expectant widow” before a gunman attempted to assassinate President Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday evening.

“Starting today, I won’t buy any products advertised on the @jimmykimmel Show,” one X user declared, sharing a screenshot of “top current advertisers,” which included Allstate, McDonald’s, and Starbucks, among others.

The social media user was responding to a Monday morning X post from Melania Trump, which read, “Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country.”

“His monologue about my family isn’t comedy – his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America,” the First Lady continued.

“People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate,” she added. “A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him.”

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