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Adam Schiff Questions FCC Over Its 'Political Retribution Against Media Outlets' After Kimmel Returns to Air
His letter suggests chairman Brendan Carr and Trump are conducting "the most blatant and coordinated attack on the free press in American history."
www.thewrap.com
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Celebrates TV Stations That Won't Air 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' Ahead of Show's Return
Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), broke his silence after Disney announced it would return 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' to air and broadcast companies like Sinclair vowed to continue preempting it from local stations.
Here is Senator Adam Schiff of California responding to Chairman Carrs decision on the Kimmel Situation. Keep in mind when Adam Schiff was in the US House his district included areas where the headquarters of Disney is located.
Reportedly the perp was in a relationship with a trans person and Kirk was anti-trans.
Also reportedly the perp thought Kirk wasn’t conservative enough.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Perhaps, but I only have broadband service from Spectrum, and from what I understand from many previous discussions about such content "sharing" there is a first time "pop up" requiring login with the initial provider. I have no such login with Spectrum, so that's not the answer here. If the access was automatic based on the website "knowing", I could access content on Hulu and Disney+. And I cannot.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
That is precisely what I meant. Pre-emptions for local breaking news is likely allowed in the affiliate contracts without it counting against the limits.
And sometimes they will time shift the programming.
One more time (because I've said it twice and it keeps coming up):
Pre-emptions for things like sports commitments, breaking news, etc. are a separate category from what I call "because we feel like it" pre-emptions.
"Because we feel like it" pre-emptions are things like an infomercial, whatever the 2025 equivalent of the Billy Graham Revival is, a local non-news show and what these guys are doing now.
Those are the limited number of pre-empts specified in their affiliation contracts (we don't know what that number is, and it can vary, but it's not a lot) that, as soon as they exceed it, they're in breach of their contract.
Pre-emptions for things like sports commitments, breaking news, etc. are a separate category from what I call "because we feel like it" pre-emptions.
"Because we feel like it" pre-emptions are things like an infomercial, whatever the 2025 equivalent of the Billy Graham Revival is, a local non-news show and what these guys are doing now.
Those are the limited number of pre-empts specified in their affiliation contracts (we don't know what that number is, and it can vary, but it's not a lot) that, as soon as they exceed it, they're in breach of their contract.
Trump: “He has no ratings…”
Kimmel: “I do now!”
variety.com
Kimmel: “I do now!”
‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Returns With 6.3 Million Viewers, Its Most-Watched Regular Episode Ever
Jimmy Kimmel's first broadcast after his suspension brought 6.3 million viewers to ABC on Tuesday.
variety.com
Tell me you've never been to the Deep South without telling me you've never been to the Deep South.
(and yes, that's a joke. sorta.)
Trump: “He has no ratings…”
Kimmel: “I do now!”
‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Returns With 6.3 Million Viewers, Its Most-Watched Regular Episode Ever
Jimmy Kimmel's first broadcast after his suspension brought 6.3 million viewers to ABC on Tuesday.
That's live, and as the headline notes, with only 77% of the country able to watch. It does not count Live+1, Live+3 and Live+7 day DVR replays (I haven't seen the show yet---my wife and I play them back the following evening), it does not count streaming, and it does not count ABC.com or YouTube replays.
Here's a map of where Kimmel was not broadcast last night (via "Brilliant Maps" and "Terrible Maps" on Facebook):
(Apologies to those with visual impairments; this is a map of the US showing markets where the ABC affiliates are owned either by Sinclair or Nexstar. Notable cities with such affiliates include Seattle, Portland, Salt Lake City, Tulsa, Little Rock, New Orleans, St. Louis, Nashville, Birmingham, Richmond, Washington,Columbia Columbus, Burlington (VT), Hartford (CT) - also excluded were much of west Texas, far northern California, central Nebraska, a big chunk of Montana, areas of eastern Kansas including Topeka, much of Michigan outside Detroit, central Illinois, a substantial part of upstate New York, etc.)
Edit: Columbus, Ohio; not "Columbia". Usually the mistake is the other way around.
(Apologies to those with visual impairments; this is a map of the US showing markets where the ABC affiliates are owned either by Sinclair or Nexstar. Notable cities with such affiliates include Seattle, Portland, Salt Lake City, Tulsa, Little Rock, New Orleans, St. Louis, Nashville, Birmingham, Richmond, Washington,
Edit: Columbus, Ohio; not "Columbia". Usually the mistake is the other way around.
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Disney's legal department has a tube of lawsuits that will clear up those ugly red (and gray) blotches fast.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
If Sinclair has any sense, they will realize that they will lose any such lawsuit, for the reasons you previously outlined ... but they also need to understand that if they lose the ABC affiliation, they lose the network's loyal viewers and don't get to expose them to the partisan, one-sided views they espouse in their local news coverage. (It is a fairly well-documented fact that in markets where network affiliates are responsible for the bulk of the local news coverage, which stations' newscasts gets which viewers tends to depend on which network those households watch most outside of news.)
Think of it as a "forced" boycott where the viewers have to tune in a different station to watch the shows they want to. Every such choice of viewing is a virtual boycott of all other stations during those programs.
And there are no guarantees of them picking up another network affiliation if Disney signs a station in any of those markets that is presently an independent. In fact, the odds are largely against them doing so.
Watchdog files bar complaint against FCC Chairman Brendan Carr
A watchdog group has filed a bar complaint alleging FCC Chairman Brendan Carr improperly pressured ABC affiliates to drop “Jimmy Kimmel Live."
thedesk.net
Chairman Carr is this time the target of a complaint and its related to how the FCC handled the Jimmy Kimmel situation.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
Unfortunately, even if that effort is successful, disbarment or any other legal remedy would not remove him as FCC chair.
It's an opinion about something said on TV. This may be about politicians, but it is not about politics.
What Kimmel said was that the MAGA folks were trying to cover up that the shooter was one of them. A lie, broadcast on national TV. And a very good subject for discussion as, in fact, we have posters here who say that it's OK for a comedian to lie because it's not "in a newscast".
Yes and no. If one is neither Red nor Blue because they share some of the ideals of each side, it is very meaningful. On the other hand, that is politics.
This is not a theory. The shooter was not MAGA and Kimmel implied that he was.
Yet for days there were dozens of opinions from the farther Blue side that were not censored, deleted or
And part of that is an international awareness of news distortion, lies and exaggeration as well as the other side of censorship, imprisonment and even death for telling the truth.
We have to go back several decades or more to remember when All In the Family and N.Y.P.D. Blue were not carried by a number of stations that felt they were inappropriate for their markets. They did not lose their affiliate agreements.
Similarly, in the first decades of TV and before each market had at least 3 TV stations, stations often shared two or even three of the networks, meaning that a lot of shows did not run in those markets.
Wrong, and offensive.
Again, wrong and without substance. I had back surgery this week and am still recovering... but I should not have to tell you that.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
I don't know how much weight my opinion carries with either of you at the moment, but here goes.
The knowledge of radio which David has, which goes back farther than any of us -- myself, Mike Hagerty, and BigA included -- is indeed very much needed. There are too many people here who have misconceptions about the business, or have been misinformed in the past, or otherwise have little to no factual knowledge. And when one of us can answer that question in a direct manner, we improve the overall knowledge of everyone here.
But when the answer comes with philosophical comments, regardless of whether or not they have some tangential relevance, it does nothing other than inflame the discussion, which then inevitably spirals out of control and then Lance has to close the thread.
And I would imagine that every time he has to do so, he waits uneasily for the next thread to go down that path.
David, you and I have known each other for many years. We also have not judged each other on our different political views, for which I am grateful. But your frequent diversions into answers that do not directly relate to the question asked is at best a distraction and at worst inflammatory.
Please, mi amigo, stop.
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