ABC Cancels Jimmy Kimmel’s Show Indefinitely After Kimmel Lied About Charlie Kirk’s Assassin Being a MAGA Conservative

i didn't say it was losing money. his rating dropped nearly 50 percent from the beginning of the year



btw Colbert got axed .. because it was losing money Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

If Kimmel's show had ratings as low as "The Aprentice" , the execs at Walt Disney would not put it back on the air.


Colbert got axed because of politics, he was anti Trump. The company that owns CBS wants to do a big merger that has to be approved by a Trump appointee. Waco, you are slipping a little. Have a nice day.

If Kimmel's show had ratings as low as "The Aprentice" , the execs at Walt Disney would not put it back on the air.


Colbert got axed because of politics, he was anti Trump. The company that owns CBS wants to do a big merger that has to be approved by a Trump appointee. Waco, you are slipping a little. Have a nice day. Originally Posted by adav8s28

CBS merger was well under way and the deal finished in July 2025 Colbert was axed the same month July 17, 2025
The merger between Skydance and Paramount Global was announced on July 7, 2024


Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS, was acquired by Skydance Media in a deal approved by the FCC in July 2025 and finalized on August 7, 2025. The merger was approved 2-1 by the FCC after Skydance and Paramount provided assurances about their commitment to unbiased journalism at CBS, including the appointment of an ombudsman to address bias concerns.


they axed Colbert because he was bleeding cash and he was a money loser, that is called .. cutting costs

Colbert is not a news show. his show getting cancelled had nothing to do with the merger.


Disney owns ABC. the merger is between one of their affiliates, which Disney/ABC DOES NOT own.


Nexstar Media Group agreed to acquire TEGNA Inc. in a $6.2 billion deal announced in August 2025, which awaits Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval. This transaction, which would give Nexstar even more ownership of local television stations in the U.S., has faced opposition, including from conservative groups and some Democrats, but the FCC chair has expressed openness to changing the rules limiting station ownership


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexstar_Media_Group



Kimmel getting suspended had nothing to do with Nexstar's merger it was about complains to Sinclair and Nexstar by their viewers.



i did slip once. i broke my pinkie. i was 12.


bahahahhaaaaa

If Kimmel's show had ratings as low as "The Aprentice" , the execs at Walt Disney would not put it back on the air... Originally Posted by adav8s28

The Apprentice blew Kimmel's rating out of the water. Disney in no bastion of prowess. They pretty much lick the underwear of the far left commies and it shows in their many and repeated failures.

As to the ratings of the late night shows:


It doesn't take someone with a degree from the Wharton school to read the value proposition of that chart.

they axed Colbert because he was bleeding cash and he was a money loser, that is called .. cutting costs

Colbert is not a news show. his show getting cancelled had nothing to do with the merger.



Kimmel getting suspended had nothing to do with Nexstar's merger it was about complains to Sinclair and Nexstar by their viewers.


Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

Waco , we will have to agree to disagree. CBS had two sources of programming that constantly took shots at Trump. They were 60 minutes and Steven Colbert. For sixty minutes they had the wife of the late Summer Redstone sit in on 60 minutes production meetings to limit criticism of Trump. That is well documented. They could not control Colbert, so they cut his show. Look at the ratings chart below (posted by WYID #108) Colbert's show had better ratings than Kimmel's. Higher ratings means more advertising revenue hitting the company ledger.


Colbert's show was cut because of politics. He took too many shots at Trump. Kimmel's show was cut/suspended for political reasons as well. He made those statements about Kirk. I never wrote that Kimmel's show was canceled because of a merger.


Kimmel's show was put back on the air because it get's enough ratings to make the show profitable (even.though Kimmel's show does not do as well as Colbert's or "The Late Show" with Jimmy Fallon. If Kimmel's show had ratings like the shows on MSNBC it would have been canceled already. This would be similar to what happens to other shows when people stop watching them.

several ABC network affiliate franchise stations are refusing to broadcast Kimmel's show


Originally Posted by CG2014

As is their right.

Regardless at what happened in the past Kimmel is now seen as the victim of the president's bullying and a protector of free speech. Originally Posted by txdot-guy

Public reaction, from all political leanings, supports your statement.

to you. to me and Nexstar and Sinclair he made an ill advised inference that the facts had already shown not true. facts put out Sunday before Kimmel ran his libtard mouth off.



"anything but their own" should be on Jimmy gravestone



bahahahhaaa Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

So, will there be an apology for their "ill advised inference"? Ima still waiting for someone to point out where Kimmble bent the knee and apologized.

Could someone also link where he *donated* to CK thing?

Waco, do you think the folks running Walt Disney would put Kimmel's show back on the air if his show was LOSING money? I don't think so. They take shows off the air when they no longer can make a profit. Originally Posted by adav8s28

i didn't say it was losing money. his rating dropped nearly 50 percent from the beginning of the year



btw Colbert got axed .. because it was losing money Originally Posted by The_Waco_Kid

Demographic for late night is probably a changing thing. But with this debacle that ABC did kowtowing to FCC strawman, it shows Big Media is more about the $$$$ than Freedom of Speech. And the public illuminated that point.

If Kimmel's show had ratings as low as "The Aprentice" , the execs at Walt Disney would not put it back on the air.


Colbert got axed because of politics, he was anti Trump. The company that owns CBS wants to do a big merger that has to be approved by a Trump appointee. Waco, you are slipping a little. Have a nice day. Originally Posted by adav8s28

Da maggies are still in denial about that. You know they won't own up to a fact pointed out to them that breaks the little narrative they sing about.