ABC has withdrawn his suspension – but some partner channels do not participate.
Jimmy Kimmel is back: The ABC broadcaster has withdrawn its suspension. The show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” will be broadcast again from September 23.
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“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Back at the start: the explanation of ABC
Disney justified the suspension of Kimmel and the subsequent withdrawal of the decision in a press release with the words: “Last Wednesday we decided to interrupt the production of the series in order to avoid further tightening the tense situation in an emotional moment for our country. Jimmy led and after these conversations came to the decision to bring the series back on the air on Tuesday. ”
Not all partner channels pull along
But not all ABC partner transmitters will show Kimmels comeback. Sinclair, one of the largest local television channels in the United States, explained that its ABC partners would handle the show “from Tuesday evening”. Sinclair announced that you send news programs instead. “We are currently conducting talks with ABC to check the possible return of the show,” a Sinclair spokesman told CNN.
Sinclairs conservative owners had contributed to the decision of the ABC mother company Disney to temporarily take the show out of the program.
Kimmel plans to address the controversy in his monologue on Tuesday evening, according to a source of CNN that is familiar with Kimmel’s plans.
Retakation follows massive wave of criticism
On September 17, the Disney subsidiary ABC suspended the late night show Kimmels on the statements about the death of the right activist Charlie Kirk. According to media reports, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Trump supporter Brendan Carr had put pressure on ABC to punish Jimmy Kimmel. As an objection to Kimmel’s comments, the Nexstar Media Group then announced that its ABC subsidiaries “Jimmy Kimmel live!” would put on hold indefinitely.
In the past few days there had been massive criticism of the suspension decision from ABC. Celebrities and politicians: Inside, including Olivia Rodrigo, U2 and also the former President Barack Obama, described the step as political censorship and in contradiction to the spirit of American constitution.