ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live

[michael hagerty]

Brendan Carr thinks he's cute:



(Brian Stelter is CNN's Media Correspondent, and yes---Carr sent that in response to a request for comment from a journalist.)

 

[Rusty Muck]

Jimmy Kimmel should just start a podcast I bet viewership would be through the roof!

He became a living political martyr. That's a really bad thing.

 

[Rusty Muck]

Brendan Carr thinks he's cute:

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(Brian Stelter is CNN's Media Correspondent, and yes---Carr sent that in response to a request for comment from a journalist.)

Stetler is also one of the few that called out both Carr and Nexstar on-air last night.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1968484448594231606

Nexstar already owns lots of TV stations. It wants to merge with Tegna, which owns lots of other stations. In order to do that, it needs Brandon Carr, the FCC Chair's, permission, and it actually needs the FCC to change the regulations entirely about how many stations an individual company can own.

 

[michael hagerty]

Now that you bring up South Park... it is interesting that the "next" episode has been postponed, and statements from the creators of the show are vague about the reasons.

Not sure how this is vague, and it had been public since at least 9:00 a.m. Pacific yesterday (Wednesday, September 17):

“Apparently when you do everything at the last minute sometimes you don’t get it done,” they said. “This one’s on us. We didn’t get it done in time. Thanks to Comedy Central and ‘South Park’ fans for being so understanding. Tune in next week!”

‘South Park’ Delays New Episode Hours Ahead of Airtime Because Creators ‘Didn’t Get It Done in Time’

Comedy Central will not air a new episode of 'South Park' on Wednesday due to a production delay. 'We didn't get it done on time,' the creators said.

variety.com

And while I'm at it, let's go back to this from last night:




We did this before on some other political issue a couple of months ago.

You either need to start reading and watching more reliable sources of information or you are deliberately trying to gaslight everyone on this board and hoping you don't get fact-checked.

Either way, lemme make this REAL clear: You WILL be fact-checked. If I do it over who did 9-noon on W-eatmyshorts in 1968, you damn well bet I'm doing it over this.

If it's an honest mistake, it's still important to correct it.

If you're gaslighting, just know it'll be done with the fury of 10,000 suns.

 

[AbrahamJSimpson]

Re: South Park…it’s been especially clear this season (not that it wasn’t already known) just how down-to-the-wire the show is. Their especially sharp focus in these first episodes is about as real-time as humanly possible for a program like that. Next to the late-night shows…or what remains of them…and SNL, they’re right up there doing their thing as-it-happens.

 

[ted chittenden]

Exactly. Nexstar "pulled the show" (depending on ones interpretation of events) because they are begging for Carr and Trusty to remove all ownership caps so they can get Tegna outright. This was simple craven political posturing on Perry Sook's part.

It also shows how untenable it is for ABC to continue to operate as a network. If Nexstar tomorrow wanted to drop World News Tonight on all of their ABC affiliates in favor of NewsNation simulcasts, that effectively cancels World News Tonight. What really died tonight was the network-affilate model that governed local television for decades.

And this is one *very* good reason why there should be market caps on station ownership.

 

[nomadcowatbk]

Re: South Park…it’s been especially clear this season (not that it wasn’t already known) just how down-to-the-wire the show is. Their especially sharp focus in these first episodes is about as real-time as humanly possible for a program like that. Next to the late-night shows…or what remains of them…and SNL, they’re right up there doing their thing as-it-happens.

South Park doesn't air on OTA TV like late night

 

[Rusty Muck]

And this is one *very* good reason why there should be market caps on station ownership.

Honestly, last night, we saw the death knell of the network-affiliate model.

It's only a matter of time before ABC leaves broadcast television altogether; as it currently stands, 2-3 companies can bully the entire ABC television network into doing their bidding for political reasons and/or favoritism.

 

[AbrahamJSimpson]

South Park doesn't air on OTA TV like late night

Did I say it did? No. It is an example of a program produced close to airtime.

 

[Time Warp]

Looks like Jimmy made a political statement on the air. And it was a lie.

 

[radiofan2023]

This may be a naive question, but why didn't ABC just threaten to pull their affiliation with the stations that said they weren't going to run Kimmel?

 

[TheBigA]

Looks like Jimmy made a political statement on the air. And it was a lie.

So what?

Why Fox News Lied to Its Viewers

The network’s hosts and leaders knew that Trump had lost the election, but feared the consequences of telling their audience the truth.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[Hyrum]

This may be a naive question, but why didn't ABC just threaten to pull their affiliation with the stations that said they weren't going to run Kimmel?

Economics. Sinclair has a fair number of affiliates and I don't see any value in making a war over a marginal and expensive late night program that only 12 people watched. Ok, more than 12, but not many more that a cheap to buy movie might generate.

 

[Don CT]

Looks like Jimmy made a political statement on the air. And it was a lie.

Fox News does it all the time.

 

[Rusty Muck]

This may be a naive question, but why didn't ABC just threaten to pull their affiliation with the stations that said they weren't going to run Kimmel?

Honestly, it looks like ABC was completely caught off guard.

That being said, I would not be surprised to see ABC cut ties with Nexstar and Sinclair when existing contracts run out (their groupwide affiliation deal with Sinclair runs out next year) and start winding down operations as a linear network.

 

[AbrahamJSimpson]

Economics. Sinclair has a fair number of affiliates and I don't see any value in making a war over a marginal and expensive late night program that only 12 people watched. Ok, more than 12, but not many more that a cheap to buy movie might generate.

And the problem is less Sinclair itself, though they are a problem. The FCC chair openly threatened them.

 

[Rusty Muck]

And the problem is less Sinclair itself, though they are a problem. The FCC chair openly threatened them.

Given Sinclair's history, a strong case can be made that they acted in full collusion with Carr. The threat was kayfabe to them. It was, however, an absolute threat to the smaller groups like Hearst, Hubbard, Rockfleet, the Manship family, and Graham.

 

[Don CT]

Given Sinclair's history, a strong case can be made that they acted in full collusion with Carr. The threat was kayfabe to them. It was, however, an absolute threat to the smaller groups like Hearst, Hubbard, Rockfleet, the Manship family, and Graham.

Would collision stand up in court anymore.

 

[Rusty Muck]

Would collision stand up in court anymore.

You have to prove it exists and there's a lot of plausible deniability here.

 

[Don CT]

You have to prove it exists and there's a lot of plausible deniability here.

The courts are corrupt now would they care.